skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read that the closest to a new version of a Nexus 7 is the Nvidia Shield tablet, but frankly I don't really feel the need for anything more powerful.
Did you actually watch the video ?

It's exactly the opposite of an anti-LGBT video
Anything that impacts the readability of the markup sent to the client is an atrocity - not that Google would care about this since they are notorious abusers of js obfuscation. Don't be evil indeed.
This is true. Having a lamp that produces UVB radiation could help (with appropriate use and eye protection)
>For example, metallic effects usually require "black" as a shade ...

If I recall correctly, MagicLeap has figured out how to effectively render black.

It was mentioned in the video below. The technique involved somehow tricking the human visual cortex into seeing black.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHSIEx69TQ&t=35m18s

EDIT: Updated with a precise time on the URL.
Speaking from experience, statements like this are often cases where the actual story was more benign than the perception, and the statement here is the perception, not the actual story.

If this is true, then there's a huge problem, but I'm willing to believe (pending more information) that the policy isn't this blatantly sexist, and that the truth is somewhat more nuanced.
On Dogfooding Your Own Product (and How We’re Using the TOMO Tool at TOMO)
> Is is possible to have increased leisure/increased standard of living/increased health/decreasing cost of living over time, without having an incerase in GDP and an average positive return on capital?

My guess is a very emphatic yes. GDP goes up in a traffic jam; there's such a thing as "bad GDP" as well as "good GDP".
Viz: Interactive Visualizations and Stats of GitHub's Newest, Most Popular Repos
Dao De Jing. I read then Ursula Le Guin's rendition. since then i have also read Waley's translation and fragments of some others. i would say that reading widely and thoughtfully a variety of interpretations is worthwhile. The only 'layman' interpretation i find satisfactory is Le Guin's, but perhaps that is nostalgiac bias? I find other unscholarly attempts to be a bit vague and artificially 'mystical'. Scholarly translations are great because they really try to put the work in context and preserve its delicate meanings. That's rather important considering that the text, like many ancient writings has been corrupted through transmission and interpolation, and translation is fundamentally lossy.
DMA attacks (tb, firewire, etc) also have to be prevented so nobody injects code to pop the registers
what's not shown: all the ads it'll have
Thanks for sharing your story--it is definitely encouraging to hear successful people who have struggled with similar situations.

I wish it were really a significant chunk of my life compared to some other things though. It saved me maybe 10-20 minutes/day. Sure that adds up, and I have to start somewhere, but I need to chop more. Reddit is a huge one that I'm on the fence with. I use it as one of my primary news sources, learn a ton from the more educational subs, and even do some valuable professional networking there (in fact, I just had coffee with someone whom I met on Reddit to chat about work stuff). But I inevitably also read things that don't add that type of value, or get sucked into responding to stuff that I could have avoided, etc. Would love to hear how you tackle integrating the various "feeds" in your life in a productive manner.

Also, back to the gaming note--were you actively playing any games on a regular basis when you started having your first major entrepreneurial successes? I'm pretty established in my career by now and senior in my field. Objectively I'm "doing well", but I sometimes feel like I'm being held back by my leisurely pursuits (gaming, gardening, watching a little TV with my wife after dinner). I justify it as something I need to do to manage stress from my life/job, but I simultaneously feel guilty when I realize how "unproductive" that time is. I could be practicing coding, working on side projects, reading something educational, etc. It is really starting to be its own source of stress.
>Not really, it still needs to be ratified by the member states of the EU (and even after that citizens in some of the states can start a referendum about it)

That's not true.

Under the Data Protection Directive the Commission, acting alone, can do this.

Article 25(6):

"The Commission may find, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 31 (2), that a third country ensures an adequate level of protection within the meaning of paragraph 2 of this Article, by reason of its domestic law or of the international commitments it has entered into, particularly upon conclusion of the negotiations referred to in paragraph 5, for the protection of the private lives and basic freedoms and rights of individuals.

Member States shall take the measures necessary to comply with the Commission's decision."

>The pact is so vague about the protection of European citizens that there's a good chance that the European Court of Justice won't accept it

I'd go as far as saying it's almost certain.
It would appear that Yahoo had forsaken the three D-s of firing: Document, Document, and Document some more. Employees fired for legitimate cause usually leave behind a trail of evidence wider than the New Jersey Turnpike. This documentation can take many forms, and is astonishingly easy to come by in today's increasingly data-driven workplace.

Yahoo's apparent inability to gather evidence is just another sign of a poorly run company. Who will miss them once they've gone for good?
Licensed content is really expensive.
Nobody said that. Reading the comment again, we see it said "Women flock there because they can succeed there." There would then be many more talented women there than average.
IIRC, vitriol started to be directed at Ellen Pao only once she was cross-examined in court, giving specific details, and her claims of discrimination suddenly seemed much weaker than what the media had been reporting before the trial.

I would expect exactly the same thing to happen here if the case ever goes to trial and Anderson's testimony in the courtroom doesn't support his initial claims as presented in the media.
That's really cool. I like the whole idea behind this site, and apparently I missed it the times it's been on HN in the past. I'm totally going to use this for a few languages I've been meaning to pick up (including rust).
Republicans and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
It's a shame to see this comment in gray. You're right. It's not as if LSD has an intent to be therapeutic. It's a molecule that primes a brain for strange experiences. There's no reason why those experiences have to be good. They can be terrible.
If not a photograph, then at least a more realistic render of the product than one where it appears to be floating in the ether with waves shooting out of it's base. Perhaps on a table?
"While I oppose things like encryption backdoors, I think it's disingenuous to say this is a "fake crisis." The 4th amendment has always required balancing security and privacy--that's why the distinction between "unreasonable searches" and reasonable ones appears right there in the text."

That would be mildly interesting - if this were a 4th amendment issue. It's not.

It is a first amendment issue. If I choose to communicate with you with a (seemingly) random stream of numbers, that is protected by the 1A of the Bill of Rights. Just like a KKK rally.[1] Just like burning a cross.[2] Just like Piss Christ.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_v._Black

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
Microsoft Is Acquiring London’s AI-Driven Swiftkey for $250M
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EDIT: Also, yes, a DO box with Sandstorm is what I have some amorphous period of time this summer reserved for. Just not as ideal for me as physically controlling the box.
As kentonv mentions, right now that's not fully fleshed out. I do download backups of important grains somewhat regularly, but I'm currently using their hosted service until I'm ready to run my own. (Literally just got a server to play with recently.)
> the world is changing rapidly, and there are no guarantees what the future will bring.

I guess that's been true for centuries, but I don't see what it has to do with militias. Like everyone with a bad idea, they want to say 'this time it's different'.

> There is no law of the universe that precludes smart people from believing in ideologies or causes that you personally dismiss.

Perhaps not a law of the universe, but it's not just personal subjectivity. I personally dismiss that the world is flat, and I'm confident smart people widely agree with me for a good reason.
Funnily enough, it's possible to have such experiences on a trip that is otherwise very positive. I panicked a few times that I may have severed my genitalia and been unable to feel it due to LSD - my partner was helpful in calming me down and making the experience truly great.

It can definitely understand why it can be so damaging.
FWIW, one way Sandstorm addresses this is that anyone can sign in with their Google/GitHub/email if you give them a sharing link. So they don't have to have an account first.

e.g. try this:

https://mrdomino.sandcats.io/shared/bqY9H9opr0AnKa6XYtC1Obfu...

This is my friend's bulletin board on his own personal Sandstorm server (admittedly ugly URL - we need to make it possible to make less ugly, but you could work around that with a redirect elsewhere).

Visit it, and then sign in, and you're talking.
> Not knowing things and not being able to know things (“stupid”) are, of course, simply not the same, and this is the whole point the Escalante character was making.

Alright, I'll take issue with this. My step-sister is mentally handicapped. She is not able to know a lot of things. Does this make her stupid? By the author's definition, yes, but I would aggressively argue "no". She is as smart as she is capable of being, impressively so at times. She knows as absolutely much as she is realistically able to know with the cards she has been dealt.

Instead, I would suggest that "stupid" be reserved for those who have the ability or opportunity to know something, but choose not to.
Python and gcc are free software too. Lots of stability in the world of Python and C. Hopefully you don't think free or open source software is somehow limited to the world of Javascript.

Here's why there is so much churn in the JS world: everyone is attempting to polish a turd.
so the macbook air is useless?
How did it damage you? Did you continue to think you had a brain hemorrhage even after you became sober or was it "just" very traumatizing while it lasted?
You can freely share any app in Sandstorm with other users using the "share access" button. If you want an app to be "public", you can create a sharing link and post it publicly. (Note that anyone can log into your Sandstorm server, but unless you share with them there is nothing they can do when they log in.) We have a lot of plans to make the UX better here, but it basically works.

The experience does end up pretty different that traditional self-hosted apps, and not everyone will be happy with that, but there are some pretty big advantages to this approach. Users don't need to log into each app separately; instead, they log into Sandstorm once. Apps don't need to implement their own login systems, which means fewer opportunities for security bugs.

Most importantly, having the Sandstorm UI makes it feasible to manage lots of fine-grained app instances that are isolated from each other. Fine-grained containerization in turn has all kinds of advantages, in particular in terms of security. See:

https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works
I would actually recommend reading "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal first. This book made me comfortable with the idea that deep work is what really matters. And although I understood that very feel, things tend to stick with me when I also feel them.

"Deep work" is more practical. He presents different strategies of working to get more depth. Also, there's a lot about how to stop sabotaging your efforts of working deep.
I would like to add that the safest set and setting is your own own home, with a sitter. There's simply no substitute for it if you're just getting started. Call a friend up and ask; trip sitting is fun! Save nature for later, when you're familiar.
No, of course he wasn't saying that. But there is a problem with the reward structure of the system.

Scientists have to eat and pay the bills, too. Unless you're really rich, it's tough to do much serious science in your spare time on weekends, paying for equipment from your own pocket. So the idea is that a scientist gets a job that pays him/her to do science. The system rewards scientists who advance knowledge and penalizes those who do not.

How do we determine whom to reward? It is extremely difficult to evaluate most scientists' work unless you are an expert in the same field. So we let peer reviewers evaluate the work, and reward scientists for publications in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.

The problem is that these incentives work against some kinds of sharing.

It's not all bad. A scientist whose work never sees the light of day is fired; no publications means no job. But sharing of ideas apart from those that are necessarily published is something the system tends to punish.

What to do about it? It's easy to propose some radical revision of the system. But we still have to deal with the question of how to evaluate the work of someone whose ideas can only really be understood after a decade of specialized study.
I use Sandstorm daily. Private/company projects are run in Gitlab instances, though I may switch to Gitweb if a minor cosmetic issue is resolved (Gitweb in Sandstorm can only host one repo by design but you still have to click through to it when viewing the instance, which is mildly annoying when all other apps come up ready to use.) I have a bunch of Wekan boards managing everything from coding projects to my GTD buckets to separate boards for random home improvement projects. I prefer Wekan to spreadsheets because I can track work through arbitrary workflows and annotate items with additional data, and Sandstorm lets me manage that without having to maintain and secure a separate Wekan server that any random person could find and exploit. My blog is hosted in Sandstorm WordPress so I have the niceness of its admin interface but none of its security risks, and all the speed of a static site. A small 2-person bootstrapped startup I've cofounded uses it for many of the same use cases plus hosting our app's Piwik instance, again so there's literally no non-Sandstorm-secured user-facing attack surface other than Piwik's API endpoint. I have an idea for a platform co-op in the middle distant future, and if I manage to launch it then I'll run it via Sandstorm-hosted Loomio, which I'm actively attempting to port and am fairly close to completing.

Sandstorm is a great platform, and the community comprises some of the nicest, most dedicated folks I know. When my cofounder messed up our install a bit, Kenton talked us through fixing it on a weekend no less, right down to giving us database queries to run and then patching Sandstorm to handle our edge case the next week. Awesome people.
People have a right to record a broadcast and watch it later. This is known as 'time shifting'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting .

In "the Betamax case" - Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. - the Supreme Court said that time shifting was fair use as it did not substantially harm the copyright holder or reduce the market.

Selling the recorded video takes it outside of that definition of fair use.
Ask HN: My employee equity?
Hey HN,

I Have been working my butt off for a startup for approx 1 year and I have just recently brought up the discussion regarding my equity in the company.

There were no formalities such as a contract in place, it was purely based on trust but with a promise of equity towards the end of the year. I agreed to by paid far less than normal.

I wore a number of hats as you do in startup land, especially in the early days. I was a Project Manager, Tech Lead, Designer & Developer. Not to be arrogant here, but somebody with this skill set was absolutely crucial to get us to where we are today. Solid deliverables were delivered and the founders were always so pleased and excited to have me on the team.

Before I came on board, they were trying to outsource their technology to india. Sending bad looking designs and technical specs written by a non-techy. The final result was always so average. A company specialising in delivering tech, couldn't deliver tech.

When I started, we continued with the outsourcing for sometime but with my oversight and redesign of the platforms.. After some time, it simply was not working. I had the connections to bring on a new developer so we could start building things in-house, with proper development cycles, oversight & accountability. So we did that. Over the course of the year the team grew. We're now at 6.

Once this happened, we started landing some pretty cool projects thanks to the teams work. The capability and the quality of work we were putting forward and the character of us all helped significantly with getting these projects on board.
A year has passed and I have poured my heart and soul in to the company. I'm pulling 70-80 hour weeks every few weeks- working till all hours of the morning getting things done. Not to forget I'm not on a cushy funded start-up salary (far from it).
HN, what would you value somebody like myself on your team? What are people like myself usually rewarded with?

Cheers HN!
Out of curiosity, what would be the point of someone logging into NodeBB but not your Sandstorm hosting it? Sandstorm takes care of the authentication by design, so you can ensure your users are protected even if a bug is found in the app in question. That's a large part of the benefit of it.

There might be some sense in a way to present it without the sidebar to go to other apps or shared grains or some such, but I can't imagine you'd want to not authenticate users with Sandstorm in that scenario.
The US will have to change its laws. There's just no way to comply with the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights while allowing mass surveillance to be conducted by the NSA and other US government bodies.
How to build a custom url shortener
Found it: it's Paul Krugman who advocates for this -- at least if this link (disclaimer: just skimmed the article, didn't check it or its context for their political views) is accurate: http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/12/lol-more-proble...
Aside from the massive research efforts they're undertaking I'm under the impression that they're also manufacturing. I'd guess that comes at a serious cost.

I really hope what they have is real, but my mind keeps going back to clinkle. A company that was able to raise a large sum of money with smoke and mirrors. Granted Magic Leap is raising an order of magnitude more than clinkle, but smart people have been fooled before.
Doesn't seem to work on IPython Notebooks, unfortunately (maybe those fields aren't TEXTAREAs?).
I haven't compiled from source myself, but it doesn't seem too bad from the official guide.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_n...
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Email: dorian@doma.io

I'm a french Full Stack Developer who worked two years for a NYC startup (Bespoke Post).

I am in San Francisco for two weeks (leaving the 19th of february). Then I will back in France for six months before being able to start around July.

Some keyword-stuffing to make it easier for people for search for me in the page: RSpec, HTML, CSS, SASS, SCSS, AngularJS, jQuery, Solr, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, Underscore, HAML, Slim, Rabl, Liquid.
Weird. I've used Microsoft's homegrown Swype equivalent a bunch, and it seems just as good. Is this an acquihire, or patent-related?
My 2013 Nexus still does the trick. Same with the S4. There is just no obvious incentive to upgrade unless you play games on it or something
Like everything else from AB/Rockwell, you can find a better one if you look, buy you can't pay more for one.
Huginn is tricky because it needs to talk to the outside world a lot and we need ways to let it do so securely[0]. But we're closing in on getting that done, and I can't wait to be able to port Huginn to show off how much more secure it will be running inside Sandstorm. :)

[0] https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-practices...
It looks like Mophies sales peeked in 2013 at $215 million and they have been hush about revenue for past 2 years....

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2015/0...
This looks like the same folks at https://twofactorauth.org/
I was surprised for a moment to see my company (directnic.com) on there when we hadn't submitted, but then realized its very similar design/layout
GABION BANDS: A Proposal for Reconstructing Houses After the Nepal Earthquakes [pdf]
Compiling nginx is actually pretty easy. With the defaults, it's just a three-liner (./configure, make, sudo make install).
I'm not sure what exact models you're referring to, but the one's I'm seeing were all $1500-3000 machines.
I'm a fan but I haven't used it yet. I'm still a bit wary of either storing data I actually care about (originals) or serving a public website from either a self-hosted or startup-managed machine.

It would be nice to run Sandstorm apps that store their data and serve static websites from Github. Occasionally they go down, but on the whole I'm more confident that their hosting will be around for a long time.

Even longer term, backing up a grain to a git repo (not necessarily Github) would be pretty nice.
The US is treating this as a political negotiation rather than a legal impasse. The European Commission doesn't want to be seen as being obstructionist when it comes to trade.

There is zero chance this would stand up if it was taken to the European Court of Justice, they'd laugh it out of the room just like they did with Safe Harbor.
Can someone smarter than me explain how they're getting the dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration without it increasing the magneto-reluctance of the rotor-slip stream?
Not just that; it also gives them flexibility to expand into other "logistics" areas and have related branding without it all looking the same.
Internet of Temperatures
Spoke too soon, looks like its just a fork of the original two factor auth, which still lists whether it offers hardware key support
After reading, I'm still not sure why I should care.

I've been using "CSS variables" for years -- in less. If I'm modifying CSS on the fly in JS, then I don't need CSS variables; I have JavaScript variables.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not against this change. CSS has been a rather unexpressive language for some time; removing that deficiency can hardly be called a bad thing, as long as the change is consistent across browsers.

So, if someone wants to use this idea, well, good for them. But I've gotten along find without this feature for a long time. I don't see any particular reason to start using it now.
Exactly. I used another note taking app, aptly named "Notebooks" (http://www.notebooksapp.com), which is built with Qt. It's cross platform, open data format, and while it sort of looks and feels almost like a native app, it just doesn't compare to a true native app like Quiver.
and the "pitfalls of university-guided science" : the profiteering , monopoly on knowledge, textbook cartels, underpaid TA's teaching instead of profs, unfair grading systems, unfair advantages to athletes. I could go on.

Not to say university is the only way to study science, but its the "official" way.
He's already intimated that he could take this to back to court