skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about applying a coating to your lungs? Then they can't get dirty from all the glass nanoparticles flying around.
Holy, does that ever not matter. If you don't want to get in the news as a representative of your employer, don't talk about your employer in public. There is no such thing as a "private Twitter account". This woman picked up a bullhorn and announced that in her capacity as an AT&T CSR she deals with "crazies" and "idiots".

You're basically saying, "it sucks that she didn't realize she had picked up a bullhorn and maybe people should cut her a break". Nobody is obliged to cut her a break. I bet nobody does.
I know how you feel: I'm still waiting for that first sale. Congratulations!
After reading about your successful Reddit ad campaign, I feel a little attached to the project--congrats on your first sale! I hope it's the first of many, many more to come.
JavaScript needs coroutines. They would solve a lot of problems.
Looking forward to putting some of these into action.

Great office setup too, a tad jealous!
Very true. But by shipping WebM, MS would be vulnerable not to the patent holders coming out of the blue on H.264, but also ALL the mpeg-la companies AND patent holders coming out of the blue. It would greatly increase their risk.

I think they have reached a good compromise by developing support for IE9 to pickup WebM codecs installed by the user and playing HTML5 video through it.
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Discussion and referenced article that seems to have inspired jacquesm in this instance - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2101163

(As noted, linkbait, and as is often the case I learned far more from the discussion than the article.)
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I wouldn't say "puerile" - I'd say "passive-aggressive".

If you're that opposed to everything Apple or Microsoft or Sun or whatever, then forbid using it on that platform in the license. If you're unwilling to do that, mind your own damn business as to what compatible compiler and platform people use.
>A quarter of a cow, instead of a whole cow

Now that is minimalism.
I blindly click ads on websites I like, once I realized the stupidly high amount click-throughs pay ($0.10-$1.50 per click from Google Ads)
I will be honest, I saw the title when it first got posted and skipped it. Yawn, another project. When I checked the next day and it was still on the front page, I had to see why. It was definitely worth it. Great job!
First off, radio waves have been pervasively bombarding us across a wide spectrum for nearly a century.

Radiation and it's effects are well understood and quantified with fields devoted explicitly to the research of it's effects on humans.

Animals have been continuously eating food food that's mutated since animals have been mutating.

People have not been smearing engineered nanoparticles over their face and putting them into their body in these quantities for any appreciable amount of time, except around places like coal mines, heavy industrial areas (especially where exhaust from combustion), asbestos lined buildings, and all sorts of other fun places directly linked with mesothelioma.
Turnover is high for customer service reps. If she was to the point of calling her users "crazy idiots" she was about done anyhow, at that point, customer service people either quit or are fired, unless something is very wrong with both the CSR and the company. Continuing on the job after that point is unhealthy for all involved.

Running a customer service organization well is /difficult/ - and being a CSR in a customer service organization that is not run well is /very difficult/
And being based in Amsterdam probably reinforces that perception.

We haven't had bad experiences with our name so far, but we're well aware that some people might make that association.
I tend to click specifically to transfer money from advertiser to website owner. Mostly because I like the website, sometimes because I dislike the advertiser - when I'm lucky I get to get both with one click! =)
Asbestos was also a great idea once :-)
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How would you propose that codelesson specify "the quality of the course or the tutor"?
That's the second time 'The Deck' gets mentioned in this thread, if you're wondering (like I was) what it is about there is more info here: http://decknetwork.net/
My brother has a tendency towards long-form, interleaved email correspondence. The result is that every email thread I've ever had with him spins off into an ever-increasing number of simultaneous discussions, all interleaved. We take longer and longer to reply to each other, until one of us just stops, and then it gets picked up again some months later.
"felicific" - producing or tending to produce happiness

I learned a new word today :)
Haha, what a moron. Human body is the most complex machine in the known universe, optimized to work in a very specific environment. Do you really believe it's impossible to break it with chemicals, radio waves, etc. ??

Or maybe you somehow stupidly think that executives and owners of corporations like Monsanto will put your health and interests above their interests and profits? Or that there is some independent, uncorrupted government agency in your country that will protect you (against millions of "lobbing" $, and pressure from the top)?
Gotta admire their determination to keep finding new ways to slow down the performance of Eclipse. Seems that Moore's law finally caught up with them and they couldn't produce two second waits for menus to appear in desktop Java anymore, so they had to step it up and port to Javascript.

Given what we've come to expect from an IDE these days (think IntelliJ or VS.NET + ReSharper), it's tough to imagine a browser-based version being all that compelling. I've actually worked for extended periods using a browser-based editor while traveling, but it really wasn't that pleasant. I don't think I'd consider doing it if I was sitting at my main dev box.
> Most people who live with their parents do so because they believe that paying a rent is a waste of money and you oughta buy your own place, rather.

I never understood that argument. What about opportunity costs?
You might be interested in reading this:

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/columns/guest/winter/ind...

and the subsequent discussion on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049105
Often people think that clutter is about stuff when really, it boils down process and priorities. In that regard, getting rid of unnecessary stress is one of the goals of uncluttering your life.

Also, it isn't about filling your head with useless data -- it's about improving the quality of your interactions with people, making life easier and better for both parties.

Or, to consider from a crass perspective, humans are wired for reciprocity (viz Cialdini's "Influence"), so as the article points out, you'll get more favors, preferential treatment, and marketing opportunities from people who feel they have a connection with you.
Huh? Asbestos has been known to be harmful for a long time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#History_of_health_conc...
Javascript on Node.js: This is the most exciting development and web languages since Perl simply because you can write asynchronous apps (single thread that handles 1000000's of clients concurrently) in a high level language.

Have you tried AnyEvent or Twiggy for Perl?
Don't do that. The money doesn't come out of thin air, the advertiser pays it while getting nothing in return.
I absolutely agree that changing morality had an effect on the abolishment of slavery.

However the mechanical harvester and other machines made slavery inefficient. While the cotton gin increased the potential yield from cotton (and increased slavery in the South), later machines like the mechanical harvester made mechanical production more efficient than unskilled labor.

Since an industrial robot from 2010 is much more efficient than one from 2000, I'm not sure if we can make a statement that a robot is mechanically equivalent to a slave.

You can only use more whips to increase the productivity of a human being. After a point it's more productive to free him and educate him so he can increase his or her efficiencies.
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Just curious... is there currently anything out there now that automatically synchs the contacts of your phone's addressbook to Dropbox?
How would you go about getting traction?
Whenever they claim that something will revolutionize everything, it ends up in disappointment.

The things that actually do revolutionize everything are usually pooh-poohed at the beginning ("Another search engine?")
A fringe use case handled well. (NSFW language)
We have an iPhone app in the store now. It's free. Currently working on our android client and moving to all other major platforms asap. But you can share your cards with people that don't have the app installed.

For non-iPhones we currently offer a stripped down version of the app on i.mynamese.com
Indeed, the possibilities of a spray with these properties are infinite. In spirit of hn, I imagine coating my mobo/cpu/gpu for safe and easy, fan-less, liquid cooling! Fill it up and maybe throw a jellyfish in there for good measure...
At least with Ubuntu you get the New Shiny in a somewhat tested form every six months. Keeps me from trying New Shiny from experimental packages or sources like I did in the bad old days with Red Hat, ending up with a non-functioning work computer.
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Which depends highly on the semantics of the == and = operators.

So if in java you decided to create an assign method (cuz remember operators are evil in java) and overrode equals then you could create such a situation in which it would return pass by reference.

Plus the equals operator in java is kind of f'ed anyways as it is.

Conversely if the language was pass by value (or not retarded) then code such as this should work.

function f(x, y) { x == y }
a = new String("foo");
b = new String("f").append("oo");
assert(a != b)
if (f(a, b)) {
print('pass by value')
} else {
print('pass by reference')
}
The only ads I click on are the ones from the premium ad networks.
Always.

(But with the right mouse button, shortly before selecting "Adblock".)
yawn... Get back to me when you have transparent aluminum.
Ethical issues aside, if the advertisers see lots of clicks but no buys coming from a site, they could simply stop advertising on that site (or, worse, report the site for potential click fraud).

If you a like a website, a much better strategy is to simply send the site you like money, buy something directly from the site you like, or (least helpfully) actually buy the item an advertiser is selling after clicking through their ad on the site you like.
I agree with your thesis. I just disagree that H264 is a worse standard than WebM.

On marketshare, while Android just passed up iPhone, something happened this past Tuesday which will probably tighten up the race a fair bit more. On top of that, the report counted iPhone subscriptions. Not iPad or iPod Touch devices. I've heard estimates that iPod Touch + iPad sales == iPhone sales.

And iPad2 is likely hitting the market in a few months.

In anycase the road we're going down is a fragmented one. Maybe people will get it right for HTML6. But I think most of the vendors at this point take the view that they'd rather have a fragmented web, rather than one dictated by their competitor.
This was so much fun. The quality of the projects was astounding.
That's great to hear. I'm planning to write an extensive blogpost on our story there: was quite a train ride. Will post it to HN and my Twitter as soon as it's done!
IE9 beta's HTML5 support isn't there yet: 3 big canvas gotchas
Happy 1000!
Bioengineer aspires to colonize the sea
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's skeptical. Not that I don't believe that view-through can't provide a measurable lift--I've just seen that the splitting the marketing budget between channels can get political. And attribution based on seemingly qualitative factors feels a bit hokey to me when you can really nail down ROI on a lot of the other marketing channels.

At any rate, I'm sure that P&G was happy :)
Hmm, I was hoping for spray-on gorilla glass!
Is there a good resource that explains the DL's approach to achieving this in a more practical way? "Train your mind not to worry" is great advice but not easy to apply without more specific guidance. He hints that his approach is called "mind training" and is a Buddhist tradition. Is that another name for meditation or is it something else?
Sure, Amazon shouldn't want to kill it off, but what if they do anyway?
Remember the guy who posted a few weeks ago on HN about how 'google fired me'? It's pretty easy to make a small violation of the TOS without realizing it.

I'm just making a suggestion - don't put all of your eggs in one basket. If you depend on one company for 100% of your revenue (Google, Paypal, Amazon etc)that's a huge risk.
> I don't see how [not playing video games or watching TV] directly helps you improvise

Let's just say it makes me less immersed in today's era when it comes to matters of visual taste/preference, which in turn lets me make creative choices that some people may find surprising (or at least that's what my self-serving bias tells me).

I do understand the importance of keeping up with trends though, but I restrict my trend-seeking to people who I personally perceive as trendy (and which tend not to be on TV).
Thank you! I will forward this to our devs.
Are you suggesting that the health risks of asbestos were known when it started to become widely used?

If not, you missed the point of my comment.
A plea to make it easier to switch from mobile to desktop versions of websites.
Thanks for the reply.

I will definitely look into your suggestion, because if it's the optimal solution, I want it to be the first one I think of. Even though these types of problems don't come up for me that often, I'm sure there are times where a textbook CS solution would have been the best solution.
Society's track record is pretty good, then. Deaths attributable to asbestos are extremely rare in the scheme of things. Sensational headlines and ambulance chasing lawyers fool our primitive brain's broken probabilistic reasoning circuitry into making bad risk assessments. Given the overwhelming improvement in health and lifespan due to new material development and widespread use, I'd say we've been consistently making the right trade-offs. So, yeah, I'm firmly in the "OP is being paranoid" camp.
eh, I think 'display ads' are a bit different. When I buy ads, I buy display ads. My intent is not to get you to click and buy right now; My intent is for you to remember my name. To know I exist. and so next time you want the product or service I am selling you tell yourself "Oh, I have heard of this guy." rather than writing me off as a fly by night.

So, for me, the click through rate doesn't really matter all that much. Which is good, because my target market, generally speaking, doesn't click ads.
It's a bit of a sliding scale. Are affiliate links like those used on hipmunk or Skyscanner ads? Amazon affiliate links? Cross links to other blogs that wordpress plugins add automatically? Job adverts on Stackoverflow? Links to the blogs of people who answer questions on stackoverflow? Blogrolls?

I sometimes only realise a link is an affiliate when my hosts file blocks a 3rd party advertiser. It's impossible to know in general who has paid money for what links to third party sites and what agreements are in place behind the scenes. Half the time people probably don't even know they're clicking on ads.
Describe the tutor's background and qualifications, i.e. experience, to lead such a course.

Also, some friendly advice. You should drop the snarky tone I'm picking up in your replies to others. The good thing about HN is that an intelligent community will provide honest feedback on your post and expect nothing in return. I understand this is your project and criticism sometimes smarts, but it's for the best!
> Are any Android manufacturer's making as much of a killing as Apple is right now, globally? I'm talking about profits

HTC has doubled profits in Q3 2010:

http://www.talkandroid.com/16666-htc-has-doubled-profits-in-...

I'm not sure how you measure "killing" but I'd say it qualifies at least as comparable.
Remind is Free Software and what you are suggesting would make the license unfree. Obviously the author doesn't want that. Instead he chose to keep Remind free and remind Apple users of Apple's opposition to Free Software. It's hard to miss the logic.
I don't mind blogs, because posts tend to largely stand alone. They're like consecutive articles in a magazine. It can be a little annoying in the case where, say, a post is tagged, and I click on the tag to get all related posts, and they cover multiple pages and I need to walk to the last page to get the first post. That can be a little annoying.

Twitter is a little annoying for me, when there's a discussion going on, where it's difficult to get the context of each twitter message. If the tweets stand alone, as is often the case, I don't really care.

Back in the Usenet days, I was a scrupulous interleaved-response writer. Quote the specific sentences or phrases being responded to, followed by my response. I prefer to have that bit of context, right by the response, in that order (quote then response).
I almost never click contextual ads, but affiliate links are another matter. They're usually done in a more tasteful way than most random ad blocks.
"That my three year history with AT&T has been plagued by a massive amount of dropped calls, failed texts, and broken data connections?"

The really crazy thing for me is that someone would stick with a company providing them with really bad service for 3 years without looking elsewhere.
Cigarettes, DDT, Agent Orange, radium, hormone-leaching plastics, certain pharmaceuticals, antibiotic-laced meat. All were known to be harmful and were subject to a cover up to promote consumption.

You can debate his example, but his point stands.
I often use Google rather than bookmarks to get to a less-frequented site I want to visit and knowingly click the sponsored text ad at the top of the search results, thinking "should probably throw a few pennies Google's way for the utility they afford my life".

Does that count?
I agree that the public / private option makes sense to me.

However, regarding that the public option "...gives you a way to show publicly how friendly and responsive you are...", it also sometimes forces you to deal with people (competitors?) who want to use your forum to argue why your product may be lacking. There is also the occasional person who is upset that you or someone else hasn't taken up their issue that they mailed to the public list.
As I'm a big fan of storing things in clumsy, inefficient ways just to get them down (drafts in gmail is my thinkery...) I can definitely see the appeal of something that just lets you type away with minimal structure.

The hashtagging of absolutely everything works really well #like

I like the idea of being invited to "Login to your brain" ;-) #interface

The facility to copy/paste in non-media files as well as text would be nice... obviously this takes up more bandwidth but that's something you can easily charge for. #suggestion

Whilst I very rarely use them, I think a screencast demoing the sites functions would be a good idea #suggestion

More social probably helps you promote the app, but your suggested feature list sounds a lot more useful

Also, like a number of people I seem to have had small problems with register/login (specifically the validations advise email addresses are incorrect if you paste/autocomplete them into place). #bug

Delicious importer doesn't seem to work with Yahoo IDs. Not sure if there's a way around that #bug
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I thought Australia first and then thought that's a bit random of a choice. Brisbane, CA makes some more sense.

That said, I don't think they'll move. I think they're bluffing to get San Francisco to throw some of those tax breaks their way. It'd really annoy employees who just bought houses in expensive San Francisco so they wouldn't need to commute, then being told they need to commute (or sell their house in a bit of shaky real estate market and move down to Brisbane).
According to ComScore only about 16% of internet users ever click on ads, and half of those clickers account for 85% of all ad clicks (i.e. they're constant ad clickers).

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/10/...
Do you plan on open-sourcing the app?
I loved those novels. I think the thing that gets lost is that we usually imagine aliens as only incrementally more advance than us - like comparing an aircraft carrier to a Viking longboat. I think a species capable of interstellar travel is going to have a much greater technological advantage over us. So much so that we won't even look at the same things as resources.

Our biggest ideas like Dyson spheres and space elevators are concepts based on an early 20th century way of looking at things.

What's a civilization that can manipulate matter like energy (i.e. "matter" lasers) on a routine level or has advanced forms of nanotechnology or picotechnology capable of? I have no idea.

If we start noticing stars vanishing because they're tapping them for energy, then I'll worry. Otherwise I don't think our rock is worth much other than entertainment value.
"Whom would you rather..."
I'm 25 white male with a college degree and a good job.

I and almost all of my friends are on Groupon.
It makes one glad that Linux isn't licensed under the AGPL.
What about primitive variables, like "int"? If Java passed the variable reference (and not a copy), we should be able to modify it
What if it flakes off? How structurally stable is it? If a wide variety of things start using it, will it increase the risk of silicosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis) when using these products?
If they do move, there will be some employees who won't go, which is great for other soma startups who will be more than happy to snipe some of their employees.
These questions definitely do make sense. If you look at Google's white papers and research, you'll see that their creative implementations allow them to use commodity hardware to build a huge server farm. This allows them to scale quickly and cheaply. Any microsecond of downtime for Google/Facebook would be catastrophic yet it is unwise to dump all the cash buying expensive servers.
No, humans have been exposed to nanoparticles ever since the invention of fire - combustion of most solid materials generates nanoparticles. Humans have been engineering nanoparticles since the invention of Lustre
(a type of pottery). The only novelty with contemporary use of nanoparticles is that we can now create a uniform mix of them - until recently we could only find nanoparticles mixed with larger particles.

You are correct in your observation that dust can be harmful, and I would be surprised if concentrated nano dust behaves differently. In particular, a very real danger from spray on glass might be silicosis - a non-cancerous disease caused by occupational exposure to glass dust.

I'm only responding here to the social phenomenon of "omfg, scary new technology, CANCER", I'm not trying to engage in amateur epidemiology.
It would have helped if the title had mentioned "Brisbane, California" rather than just Brisbane. I clicked this thinking they were considering moving to Australia for some random reason.