skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently doing this. I've been out for about 3 months, currently in Taipei, and hopefully I'll be out for a year. I did quit my job but I didn't quit working. There's contract work that I've done on and off for the last month. It's only part time though, which is good.

Since I make iOS and Android apps, it's fairly easy to get contracting work, and it's nice to not have to worry that much about money. I've happy that I can get private apartments and not have to stay in hostels. I'm not 19 anymore.

A lot of other commenters have hit the nail on the head about travel. Here are a few things that I totally agree with:

1. Traveling will not instantly make your life amazing. You will worry about money, you'll get lonely, and you'll probably really want some food that you don't have. Every city I go to I try to find coffee that's on par with Stumptown or Four Barrel. You'd be amazed what a Google search for "Hipster Coffee shops in xxxx" will turn up. However, many many times I have to settle for Nescafe, especially in Thailand.

2. Loneliness can be a big problem. I'm lucky enough to be traveling with my fiance so at least we have each other, but I've seen other travelers and digital nomads that are having a rough time after about the 6 week point.

3. After a while, if you're not working, you'll get bored. It happened to me. Being on a beach for a week is great if you're stressed. It's not so awesome if you're already a little bored. Find something you like doing. Make a list of books you want to read, programming topics you want explore, or whatever floats your boat and do that for 4 hours a day while you're out. It keeps your brain sharp and gives you a purpose.

Other observations:
1. Many digital nomads are software developers (including myself) but many aren't. The ones that aren't tend to be in pyramid schemes. Have you heard of the drop shipping lifestyle? Would you like to? It can get irritating, especially since every blog post or Facebook comment is about how they're winning at life and you should too!

2. Coworking spaces are great for meeting people that are also traveling or starting their own companies. They would also totally be down to hangout and grab a drink. See point #2 above. They can clue you in to where the best expat bars are or where to find an IPA.

3. It's ok if you don't actually want to go to museums, temples, or whatever. Finding the best coffee shop in town can be so much more enjoyable than making the trek to temple #5 and seeing the second tallest Buddha statue in the country.

4. Move slowly. The days when I'm in the worst mood are the ones that I have to put on my pack, navigate to the train station, hop on a plane, and somehow find my AirBnB in a new city. It's a pain. Spend at least a week or two in a city if you're doing long term travel. You can get cheaper rates if you do weekly or monthly rates anyway.
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Wait five minutes and it will be the next fad somebody is complaining about. Another plus of OpenBSD: a largely fad-free experience.
I've heard Vietnam from the the top (Hanoi) to the bottom (Saigon) is a good bicycle tour. Total is about 1000km.
Don't compare the Gnome development process with the OpenBSD development process.

They are very different. Especially one being a core utility another a Desktop Environment.

I agree with that critique of the Gnome development process, but the OpenBSD development process prides itself on security and that's a first commit, new changes are being added (as it can be seen by the log of that file - http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/file/fi... )
The hedge fund only had one person's money in it. When he made money on a trade, that money had to come from somewhere.
Make EA or Indicator for MetaTrader and TradeStation you tried it?
Some one tried the 1PB servers from WizzSolutions?
Standard devices, or proprietary devices developed (and kept) in-house. The New Yorker profile suggests that FDA device approval only becomes necessary when devices are sold.
It looks alright, but it took me quite a while to figure out why they were 'superpowered'.

Seems like the main USP is that you get notified of price changes of products in which you are interested, but this is hidden behind scrolling and waiting. I only bothered to wait because I visited through here.

Personally, I would add something like "Add products to your Amazon wishlist. We'll tell you when the price changes." underneath "Superpowered wishlists for Amazon".
7 hours? Maybe, if you never stop and never leave motorway. 8 h drive, 8 h sleep, remaining 8 h for finding place to stay, packing & unpacking stuff, eating and other necessities - doesnt leave you much time to interact with local or experience new culture.
I don't really see the connection. Care to elaborate?
What about Floatalk's landing page?

http://floatalk.com
https://www.woopra.com
> emphasize cinematic gaming over intricate mechanics

> the SNES generation has yet to be topped [for those who prefer mechanics]

Starsiege Tribes. Tony Hawk. DotA/LoL/HotS/etc. Dark Souls. Portal. N/N+/N++.

I believe that all of those games emphasize intricate mechanics over cinematic gaming, though I admit that the majority of them are also hoping for cinematics (as were most games of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras). To my mind, on mechanics alone, the SNES generation has been topped. Of course, it's also nice when a game is also beautiful (Dark Souls) or also has engaging story (Portal).
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Not sure why you're assuming people do it so they can seem cool to others, and not just because they like challenging themselves and exploring the new.

Overall it seems like you're looking for a basic philosophical debate about 'plain happiness' vs. constant challenge and growth. It's a big topic of course, but to me it comes down to satisfaction vs 'plain happiness'. The scientist or inventor who toils day on end, literally sacrificing themselves to enact a vision, in my opinion experiences deeper satisfaction than someone who, to use your example, has found a way to be content working their 9-5 office job with basic consumerist lifestyle of restaurants, craft coffee, etc... One is not better than the other, but one is more satisfying, in my opinion. I think always seeking 'growth' and challenging yourself in whatever you're doing lends itself to satisfaction, and, while a lot can be achieved at home, a challenging lifestyle of setting up shop in the new cities and cultures, seeking new people, seeking new experiences, lends itself to growth and satisfaction. (Don't be a perpetual nomad, but doing it a few months per year is about the right balance.)

> When I hear people talking about how they stepped out of their comfort zone it seems to me they just aren't comfortable plodding through an office for 40 years. Doing that is outside their comfort zone.

I think people who believe that there is deeper satisfaction in constant challenge, would just respond to this by saying, well yes, not living as satisfying a life as I could is in fact outside my comfort zone.
Any such comparison wouldn't work for just an N=1. You'd need many more people before you could start to draw a conclusion about the Theranos test versus a conventional test. Just an individual doing this wouldn't be anything more than anecdotal at best.

I'm assuming they've done this study, but have refused to publish it for some reason. But this is the real question from the article - where is this study? You don't have to disclose the full technique for the test in order to publish the comparison.
Use couchsurfing, and search for hosts that 'want to meet up', and were online in the past week. There are tons of people interesting in showing travelers their city, so send them messages. Or, check the couchsurfing forums and meetups. It's usually just a bunch of locals and travelers grabbing drinks. Popular cities have hundreds of people attending and daily events, while less popular cities might have 5 or 10 people getting together for drinks once a week. There are always new people at every meetup, so you'll fit right in showing up at the pub alone and joining the group.

Or, if you're staying somewhere for a few months, then offer couchsurfers a couch to sleep on. People are always passing through, so you give an interesting person your couch for a couple of nights, and discover the city with them.

It's made my travels a lot more fun, and I now pick places to live that are popular on couchsurfing because it's that much easier to meet people.
A user-extensible type system is closer to Haskell than Python.

Again, I said not 100% accurate. I knew someone would say something like you did. No way Nim can compete with Haskell's type system.
I like the market making vignette, but in reality the market maker would certainly be hedging his delta as the orders came in, and for a very one-sided options trade like this he would probably be putting on a vega/gamma hedge as well.

For those who don't speak the lingo of options, this means that he'd be hedging his exposure to directional stock price moves (by buying stock as he sold the calls) and also hedging his exposure to the size of stock price moves (volatility) by buying some cheap volatility, say at a different strike or for a different expiry, to cover the expensive volatility that he's just sold.

But like I said, I like the vignette :)
I have read that, and to me that is "no record". By record, I mean a demonstrated ability to actually turn an idea into a product.

When she got that first $6 million, and another $10 shortly after, she had no product, no experience, and it wasn't even clear if the technology to do what she proposed was feasible.

I've read her first patent, it's super broad and covers a huge number of possible implementations. There was no way for her to know at the time if any of it was really feasible. And none of it was feasible at the time--it just wasn't ready yet as evidenced by the fact that it took 10 years before anyone heard anything about it.

It took 11 more years of research to get to anything remotely commercially viable. She basically convinced people to pay her to do 11 years of pure R&D. Name me one other founder who has been able to do this with no academic credentials, and no record of success--much less a founder who was 20 at the time.

>"star researcher impresses and recruits a bunch of domain-experts, which then attracts investments"

She wasn't a star researcher at the time. She had almost no formal training, no publications, and a year of experience as an undergraduate.

Edit: I'm not the only one who is very skeptical.

http://pathologyblawg.com/pathology-news/new-yorker-theranos...
Presumably CVS works for them. They had used it successfully for 5 years before Subversion existed and are presumably well acquainted with its foibles. And all systems have foibles, so if you are used to one set of them and it is working for you, then fixing things that aren't would seem to be a much better use of time, rather than following the whims of fashion to court those developers who will only help if they don't have to learn another versioning system.
http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
What is something the OpenBSD team could accomplish with a different VCS that they are not doing now?0
Finally! The trouble with aspartame is that it breaks down under heat, or even just over time. Since the cola manufacturers stopped bottling locally and shipping through their own supply chain, cases of cola are more likely to spoil. Sucralose is heat-stable, so it can be used in hot drinks and in baking, and won't break down every time some delivery person leaves a case of soda sitting in the sun.

Until recently, production of sucralose was confined to one vendor, Tate and Lyle, and they had limited production capacity. The last patent expired in 2009, so now others can make it. But it's a difficult production process, and the competitors have had trouble ramping up capacity. Also, a few years ago, Tate and Lyle moved production from the US to Singapore, then moved it back to their plant in Alabama, still the largest sucralose plant in the world. The process is energy-intensive enough that high energy costs in Singapore were a serious problem.

The competitor in India gave up, but the competitor in China, JK Sucralose, seems to be doing well. Tate and Lyle says that supply now exceeds demand, complains about competition, and just raised sucralose prices 20%.[1] It's about $80 - $100/kg for food-grade sucralose. Diet Coke with Splenda has about 80mg of sucralose per 16oz bottle, so the cost is about one cent per serving.

[1] http://www.foodnavigator.com/Business/Tate-Lyle-raises-sucra...
SELinux does exactly this already.
you can also checkout- http://www.vedicrishi.in/free-horoscope/ ... i am biased ..but looks clean
Takes too long to get to the point. Take a leaf out of Stripe's book, and make the first thing the user sees be the animated demo. Then let me add annotations to the Floattalk website so I can actually play with it.
Couple of things.

1. There is very little context for this graph, and "Average Hours Worked by Persons Engaged" is not defined very well.

2. What happened in Germany in ~1975 that made them suddenly start working?

3. Where is this data being sourced from?
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The scroll-jacking is infuriating
They really know their target market. People who would consider buying one are probably on high spec machines with big monitors, and really motivated by amazing design. It's also not an impulse buy, so call to action doesn't need to be so strong. Plus it's Apple, so need to do any "We are Apple, a computer manufacturer based in..." type stuff.

If the average app-maker did landing pages like this, conversion rates would be appalling.
It's acceptable (or at least “not wrong”) to use “aa” for å (and “oe” for ø/ö, “ae” for æ/ä).

While ‘å’ was made an official letter in Norwegian in 1917, it's still common to see “aa” spellings of names, and “aa” and “å” spellings are considered equivalent (fun when sorting, since ‘å’ is the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet).
Recursion, though it gives me a big programmer woodie because of the beauty of the code, in my opinion is a poor programming practice. You can always use a loop in lieu of recursion.
I think I understand your point better now. More thorough tests in addition to the current set would certainly be an improvement.

However, I don't understand why you suggest that fixing the old implementation to adhere to new programming standards would be better than re-writing the program from scratch, because most of the program would have to be re-written anyways, and so the developer would barely save any time and effort by fixing rather than re-writing. Also, if more thorough tests were to be included, then either fixing the program or re-writing it would have the same impact security-wise, as the improved tests would account for any discrepancy in either route.

IMO, in this case, whether to fix the old software or to re-write a new version were both acceptable options.
This is how sites with an upvote button work.
I love their designs and Square's. I have used Square's earlier landing page for Square cash as inspiration but I hate the low contrast text on these stripe pages...

I am all for http://contrastrebellion.com/
Thanks for mentioning Super User's BSD Cross Reference (bxr.su)! Apparently there are many more OpenGrok installations nowadays than it used to be 5 years ago.

https://github.com/OpenGrok/OpenGrok/wiki/OpenGrok-installat...

EDIT: Not all of them are working, though.
Also Chrome on OSX, scrolling is perfect. Out of interest, because whenever these parallax sites come up a chunk of people have significant problems, what spec is your Mac?

The Mac Pro landing page is another example, a lot of people think it's amazing, but I've seen videos of that where it just doesn't work for some people - something weird is going on here as it's clear the designers + front end people aren't seeing such problems with parallax, so why are others, and is it rare or more common than expected?
My experience was not that bad but I would do things differently next time. What I realized was that I do enjoy traveling and living in new cultures but I hate being a tourist. I loathed staying in hostels and having to meet new people constantly. Also going from city to city felt routine after a while

Next I'd rather stay in one place and do something there. Eg attending a language school or do some work.
Oh yeah, look at that tiny Buy Now button. lol. Probably more appropriate for a detailed description or product specification page not a landing one. But its still a beauty nonetheless.
https://whatdoesthesciencesay.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/aspar...
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To be fair it's a very niche product - if you find it, then you probably want/need it!
One of my favourites is Kano. Incredible use of parallax. Disclaimer: My co-founder made it.

http://www.kano.me/
Is it just me, or does this JavaScript style fill you with dread? JS already has about 1000 ways to do things, and with new syntax that's going up a few orders of magnitude....
Ask HN: Questions about Accelerators for BioChemMed+Hardware
1) What are the leading bio/chem/hardware/medical accelerators?

2) What are the 'packages' of the leading bio/chem/hardware accelerators e.g. initial funding, percentage of company shares taken, infrastructure, mentoring program, track record?

3) Is it even recommended to join a accelerator as a bio/chem/hardware team? The parameters money (and time) to prototype/product are larger as for software solutions - how do accelerators compete here with, let's say, a solid industry collaboration that may offer significant infrastructure and know how from the particular technology sector?

I would be happy to hear some opinions, or perhaps, even better, some hard earned experience.

Cheers!
ADR scanning could probably do this non invasively, it can even pick up prions in blood - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2008164/
When Facebook started out they didn't say very much about what they did, too: http://stradegyadvertising.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/th...
This problem is too extense to be solved only by philantropy.
Greg Anderson [1] from the Arcticstartup summed it up nicely:
"My Summer Car ... is better described as bored Finnish guy in the 90's simulator."

[1] http://arcticstartup.com/2015/04/14/my-summer-car-looks-like...
It's pretty, but that's about it, really. Didn't really make me feel like learning more.
IANAL, but I would think it would be possible to license the patent out to the shell company for relicensing. Something similar to how Microsoft Ireland is able to sell, license and sue companies using MS products without actually holding the copyrights to those products.
One big problem in the healthcare in africa, is the cost and complexity of blood tests. And we know lab-on-chip technology can fix that, but nobody is working on that, because of "business model" problems.

But that's one thing a successful theranos could do, and foreign policy is important at that.
I tried to make Userium very simple, on the landing page you immediately see the checklist. Once you register, you get your own subdomain and can edit that checklist.
It's as subjective as claiming that Bieber is the greatest musician of all time.
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Many of the responses are based purely on aesthetics, without taking context into account. What's the goal of the landing page? Who's the firm behind it? What type of product are they advertising?

In general, when I arrive on a landing page, I'm thinking:

* What does your product do?

* Why would I want to get it?

* How do I get it?

Sometimes, I already know the answers to one or more of those questions when I arrive. In the case of Apple's Macbook Pro page (http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/) I already know the answers to all three questions, so it's about generating desire when I look at it. In the case of Stripe, I want to know why I would use it over Paypal or building my own Gateway. In the case of http://www.getjustlanded.com/, I need all of the answers when hitting the landing page (and it does a good job of answering them).
I neither suggest anything like "fixing the old implementation to adhere to new programming standards" nor "re-writing the program from scratch."

I suggest extending the tests, fixing the problems discovered in the existing implementation and then doing something completely new, somewhere else.
I learned this lesson the hard way. Don't do this.
[Full disclosure]

I made this one: http://nappee.com/

I'd be happy to ask you a feedback.
i'll go a step further and say he's never made a good logo. Ever.
Some of my favorites:

http://bellroy.com/slim-your-wallet/

https://www.leesa.com/

http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil/

Stuff I use or have used:

https://www.hipchat.com/

http://mailchimp.com/features/

https://evernote.com/

https://telegram.org/

I realize that I'm likeliest to signup for something if somebody I trust tells me that it's worth a shot, and/or if it's really easy to get started and tinker around.
We actually only have 4, and not all of them work on every landing page. They're an impressive bunch :)
Related video: https://youtu.be/WHsHKzYOV2E?t=62
I knew ruby, java, and javascript

I wanted to contribute to a golang project

I spent an hour going through the whole page on Go and then used it as a reference during my actual code writing.

I also use that site as an intro to new languages because of a consistent style of content.
It'd be very useful to have at the end of the questions a list of all of them showing the response time and sorted by it. That way you get an idea of which ones took too long or too short and improve them.

Here more questions (it's not mine, I just found it a while ago): https://www.aptible.com/blog/y_combinator.html

Good luck to everyone for the interview! We're still waiting a reply for our late application
I have developed a taste for Nescafé, especially the cold stuff in cans, so much so that I miss it when I'm back in the west (Switzerland used to have a lot of it, but they don't seem to sell the long skinny cans there anymore).

Thailand has some great coffee shops in Bangkok, the rest of the country is ok but nothing special. Bali does ok also, and the phillipines...

I'm not a digital nomad though, I just need to get out of beijing every few months to stop from going crazy.
This is a video of Paul Rand actually showing Steve and the company the logo for the first time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeXlJW70KQ
I don't know anything about the provider in question, but funds might integrate multiple data sources (e.g. the described tweet analysis, last financial results, competing companies) - in other words, a lot more than what an analytics provider needs to do.

Maybe the analytics provider wants to focus on doing one thing and (hopefully) doing it well?
Create custom icon library for iOS
I use it as a quick syntax reminder when I'm dipping into a language I haven't used for a while.
Why aren't you guys just opening issues with Icon requests etc over at PaymentFont GitHub repo?

Seems odd to me to just complain about missing operators, assuming one could know every single one on the earth...