skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Networking rooms for virtual events like podcasts and webinars
http://www.tekiki.com/cher/40-How-to-Choose-the-Right-Incubator-for-Your-Startup

The concept is to replicate the networking value of in-person events, to help connect the real people at virtual events. Obviously, it's not valuable for all podcasts or webinars, but we're curious to see if people could use this for virtual events where building professional connections could be helpful (e.g., business workshop).

Feedback would be awesome. What do you think?

Thanks!
It would, probably; not all those names to type out.
I managed my own email sever for a long time but eventually grew tired of fighting spam. Unfortunately spam is so rampant now that you're going to have to devote a lot of personal attention to do 1/10th as good a job as GMail to fight it.
The Mario AI Competition used the original Infinite Mario...
I'm one of the authors and maintainers of Popcorn.js and this is unbelievably cool. I think you may be the first ever commercial product built with Popcorn.js - so congrats on that and for making such a worthwile product.
Thank you for your thoughts. I am curious, though: What is "click karma"? I'm not quite seeing how a humorous response post that puts into context a previous front-pager here on HN is for "click karma".

In fact I see that the only two comments are by, and I apologize, bores. I assume that you have another post nearby in the new, under a different account of course, that you are hoping to elevate by trying to urinate on this submission? For the life of me I can't understand why two people would leave such boorish comments when they could have just moved on.
I don't find Google+ any significant improvement over Twitter or Facebook. That is, in the larger sense it's a mildly amusing diversion and not at all something I'd miss if it disappeared.

Losing access to my GMail account, on the other hand, would be painful. The thing that's worrisome about this is that you really have no recourse if Google's automated systems mess up. For example, I've completely lost access to a Google Apps account I set up for another domain I own, and many other people have complained of similar problems on their support forum to no avail.
I think the whole of Hacker News thanks you for this generous service you provide for them. You are, truly, a hero.
Hah!

That's so simple, yet so brilliant.
No I think there isn't. It is effective and often there is probably no other even mildly realistic way to solve some problem in time (e.g. a bug that is reported in the software bug-tracker)

I missed to make a concise point with that (concentration anyone?) It's more like 'Googling for a solution' became my default behaviour in most parts of my life. Be it education, food, advice... I think this is dangerous at least for me.
That just means that you can't spam abuse reports to get somebody autobanned. It doesn't mean you can't get banned by a bot for other reasons.
I feel like I've just been teleported half a decade back in time.
I've been on Twitter since the beginning and have had the same experience. Start following some people, post some interesting things and you'll get followers.

Another way to get followers is to either pimp a product or complain about a product. More often than not, you'll get some followers and you might get a response.

Either way, I've loved it. It's very stream of conscious and a great sounding board for me.
cute, but surely there are less intensive ways of generating random numbers?
I understand relativity is hard science.

While I agree you are not talking about wacky unproven theory, I am not sure I agree that you are not being a pedant. Your parent's assertion is most definitely plausible from the right frame of reference, and mainly written to elicit amusement, but you insist on getting bogged down in the details discussing how it is NOT plausible in other frames of reference, which is quite frankly, besides the point.
There's water vapor in the Milky Way, although the total amount is 4,000 times less than in the quasar, because most of the Milky Way’s water is frozen in ice.

How could they possibly know this?
Making a commit with the Github API
Everyone is arguing over a flawed education system, who are any of else to judge?
> The insidious thing about this is just how effective it is (if you are good at it)

Yes, but not if you want to learn something. Then it is disastrous because you skip the "actually solving something" part.
Oh, probably started them 10-15 years ago. Hard to say.

I started around 1978 or so with Emacs on ITS (MIT-AI lab Incompatible Timesharing System), which was built in TECO. So those files wouldn't be very useful. ;-)

Then moved to TOPS-20 Emacs in 1979-1980, then to Unix Emacs (Gosmacs) for a while in the early 80's, then, finally to the One True Emacs (Gnu Emacs) in the mid-80's on Sun workstations.

I don't highly customize Emacs at all, actually. I tend to like a mostly vanilla installation that I can run in terminal mode both locally in Terminal (OS X) and remotely via ssh without even thinking about it.
I kind of hesitate to reply. My thoughts on male-female relationships often get very strong negative reactions from both men and women. (FWIW: I happen to be female.)

I would suggest you back off some and let this be her baby. If she whines, ask "so what do you plan to do about it?" Let her know that if she wants to change this, you are happy to provide practical support. But if she wants a shoulder to cry on, you aren't really interested. That "I feel your pain" crap isn't really your style. (This is what I routinely did with my sons: I will help you explore your options but if after exploring your options you choose to keep doing the same thing, don't come whining to me about it. You can come back at any time and get more assistance with brainstorming and such but I am not a shoulder to cry on and I have no sympathy when you clearly brought this on yourself and keep doing so.)

I have known a couple of men who both pressured their wives into going back to school etc. They were never really satisfied. Both men found me wildly attractive...and promptly behaved towards me in the same butt-in-sky, controlling fashion with which they had tried to run their wive's lives. This does not fly with me. And it doesn't work. Pushing someone around to force them to do better in life is not the way to create someone who does a good job of standing up for themselves. In order to "benefit" from this type of help, she first has to cave to your demands. It actually gets kind of the opposite of the intended result.

I would also recommend you pick up a book called "Chore Wars". Women are routinely expected to do the lion's share of housework, cooking, etc. Helping more around the house (or hiring help if that is feasible) is something genuinely supportive you can do to remove real obstacles to her having the energy to put into being more ambitious. I know for a fact this works. I left a husband who was really dumb about the ways in which he was holding me back and I told my two sons at some point that I would rather they take over the housework and cooking so I had the energy to work overtime instead of encouraging them to get jobs. This serves multiple purposes for our family. But it is very clear to me that all the studies and what not I have read are correct: A big obstacle to the success of women is the proverbial 'second shift' which motivates them to choose pink collar ghetto jobs so they have enough energy left to do all the "women's work" after they clock out.

Best of luck.
This doesn't include the most important service: GMail.
Unless that's a time machine in your pocket, the only thing useful to take away from this in 2011 is that we should work towards more open and accountable voting methods in the future.
Tip: "I'd love to explain it, but (I won't)" comes across as extremely elitist, and to some people, quite repugnant. If that's not how you mean to come across, simply omit that first bit before the comma, and you will come across much more amicably.
Whoops, I forgot my own rules. Relativity doesn't violate causality; Obviously no one will observe us to see the reservoir it before it happens.

Okay, so there's a frame of reference in which what we'll observe to happen to the reservoir tomorrow has already happened. It was much punchier the other way, though :(
I am under the assumption that the karma for posts has something for people clicking on the links.

on another note, the SNL link was funny, but the post lacks anything useful(?) beyond that.

On the other hand I don't mind doing this comment chain to get myself some karma points.

I do enjoy urinating and being urinated upon[1], but I do feel bad seeing shit on my rss feed, because I for some reason don't like visiting the front page.

[1]:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWQoK506xkQ]
"You'd have to be pretty clueless about your customers if you think automatic bans over having " " in your username is a justified reaction."

I posted elsewhere here, but judging from an older copy of the profile in Bing, the profile used to be for "Adafruit Industries." I'm guessing the profile was flagged when it wasn't as close to a person's name.
Don't you think you're simplifying it a bit? Some people get along fine without having sex, you seem to suggest that anyone who doesn't have sex is bound to be unhappy and lead a horrible life.

While for most people sex is important, I think you need to take a step back and look at how different people's needs can be.
Inspiring! The way you used Popcorn.js is engaging, I could see myself using this course. One thing I noticed in your sample chapter is that when I skipped around to see a previous slide, the slides would not change relative to the time. The slide always stays on the last one presented.
That's a great tip, thanks. I really meant that I'd love to explain it, but you're right that it doesn't come across that way :)
You can use Gmail with your own domain. That way, it's easy to switch if this ever happens (just a matter of updating some DNS records).
What came of it was that he's violated Google's ToS, as confirmed by a number of employees. It would be nice if he was innocent, but he's not, so the story is meaningless.
The three starting lives are actually plenty, I stopped playing out of bordem not game over. By the time I stopped I was sitting at 12 lives and I think I died 3 or 4 times in the process.
Every time I see these posts with alarmists giving bullet-lists of things they are "going to do", it sounds a lot to me like they are trying to threaten Google.

Just so you're not surprised and disappointed later, I'll let you in on a secret- they don't care. Even besides the part where they are Google, I have witnessed a long history of complaints to different companies, and the more false bravado and chest- and/or drum-beating you display, the less they care about you.
The other commenters said most of it already but here's what I do. I follow multiple headline accounts (BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, Reuters etc), those tweets usually have a headline and a link to the article if I want to read the rest.

I follow around 100 accounts at any one time, and frequently prune the list so it doesn't get to busy or full of stuff I'm no longer interested in.

I also follow specific journalists, politicians, science and tech people who also often link to things they're reading which are useful background for what's going on.

By far the most useful thing is creating custom columns in tweetdeck for search terms. Think of it like this: rather than subscribing to an RSS feed for a site and hoping they post stuff I'm interested in, it's more like automatically generating a news feed on any subject you're interested in. I have a bunch of saved searches on all kinds of subjects, some of them may only get one or two tweets a week, but it keeps me up to date.

Another benefit to using searches is that it's a good way to discover people who are consistently tweeting interesting stuff so you can follow them. Without the search I would never have heard of or thought of following some of the people I do.
After upgrading, my wireless connection drops every five minutes or so. After a few days of this I switched to using my Windows 7 install primarily.
But that's more a concern about Java than the IDE. You can type code character-by-character into Eclipse as well as you can in vim as well as you can in any plain text editor. If you're going to use an IDE, I know that Eclipse is the industry standard, but it's far from the only choice. I've used paid plugin packages (MyEclipse and IBM's RAD) and found them unstable and buggy. I stick with vanilla Eclipse if I have any choice.

I've heard good things about IDEA, but I've never done more than relatively simple work with it and can't speak to its benefits over Eclipse or any other IDE.
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There are already apps on the Mac App Store embedding their own JRE.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cyberduck/id409222199?mt=12&#...
Out of curiosity and seeing as you have considerable experience with Emacs, what do you do, keyboard-wise (e.g. remapping, custom hardware, or just the defaults?)?
There are two things I've tried that work:

- programming the router to block all traffic when it's time to go to bed.
- installing Chrome nanny and blocking social sites in the morning.

I can disable them, but it takes enough effort that I don't. (And I remember that I don't want to.)

These aren't full solutions, but I go to bed earlier and start work earlier.
I was about to complain that Chrome wasn't popping up the context menu on right-click.

So the .js file is disabling right click? How exactly do I look at the source without it? Hmm.

Aha: "Wrench icon" -> Tools -> View Source
A conversation with Ed Catmull
That's right but with some very basic rigour that kind of bug ever hardly bites. With high level languages this is less and less of a problem; Python for example let one write code without using i.
vaksel, it looks like the profile was flagged when it was something more like "Adafruit Industries" and less like a person's name. If people want to appeal a suspension, we have a form to appeal that suspension; the form gets the right info to the right people to review. If people have a more complex question or issue, we have forums where people can post.
You bunch of elitists! Sony is looking out for lynx users! Haha
I am not an astronomer but I would guess they know this the same way they know what anything in distant space (that does not give off light of its own) is made-up of: they observe the light shining through it and see which part of the spectrum is/is not filtered by it.
> These changes are not going to be Open Sourced and the required OS level support for these changes is going to be deprecated.

They have already been open sourced and the OS support is not deprecated.
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/macosx-port/
OS 10.7 hammers another nail in the Flash coffin
I was just about to read an interesting link from HN on the investment hypothesis of Founders Fund (http://www.foundersfund.com/the-future) about six hours into upgrading to the new Lion release.

That means I am one of the many millions now undoing 25 years of muscle memory, manipulating scrollbars as though I was piloting a plane. As @tobi said last night, I think Apple is right and I will put in the effort.

Unfortunately, the Founders Fund site uses a customized scrollbar implemented in JavaScript. This is likely to be the first of many examples (for me) of sites that ignored all common sense advice to not implement custom UI widgets who and will now cause a significant part of their key audience to have to think harder just to read their content.

I am not a pundit so I won't suggest that this is a conspiracy, but merely a side-effect of a change that will soon be seen as a new default.

Update

I believe that I'm mistaken: the scrollbar widget appears to be a Javascript + CSS construct. However, I don't think this changes the veracity of my basic point. Don't re-invent the chrome that should be handled by an OS.
shareme, good point. My understanding is that suspension of an account because of a "real name" violation does leave the owner with access to Google services like Gmail.
Gah, sorry. You are correct, I was thinking about everything wrong.
I see you are hiring a handful of workers, so are you funding the start-up yourself?
Of course! That's why it's insidious.
TOS violation, clearly.
I've always been a fan of using electronic noise. It's not complicated to build a device which does this. Weekend project to "hello world" scale if you're not too picky about specifics.

Easiest way is probably with a webcam, which will also give you a pretty good bitrate. The general schema is to read out the bias noise. You do this by blocking out any incoming light to get dark noise + bias noise. Dark noise is an assumed static shift due to CCD characteristics, so read N frames of this and look for the median signal. Subtract that off and you've got the bias, or at least something that's close enough for a weekend project.

Better version, start reading up on the math of noise sources in whatever device you want to use for a sensor. Also do an analysis of N samples to see how close the result comes to the expectation value given the type of noise involved and what deviation is expected at N samples.
As a change of pace from the usual pattern of comments on a 'someone got their account suspended' post I would like to offer a practical solution:

Why not provide an optional pseudonym filed? that way you have the real name to enable searching for people within the service and users can use their desired display name.
Looks great,

Can you share some background on how you decided to create this content, in this specific method of presentation, how did you deicde on pricing, what are your expectations, etc?

Thanks
Cost of False Positives
I do not understand how it is possible for something to expand without having a central locus. In fact, I am at a loss as to how it is possible for anything that posses bounds to fail to have a singular center. Explain?
I get your point, but I don't think that is what he is doing. Sending an angry email to Google listing all these points would be an example of chest thumping, and your right, Google doesn't care. I interpreted his comments more as "I need to look out for my own best interests."

If someone has the technical know how and monetary resources to have more control over their email and phone service, then why not do it. For some people it's great to just use what Google provides. It's relatively simple and is free, but you are at the mercy of whatever new policies they might put in place. Also, it is purportedly very difficult to get any kind of customer service from Google, so if your account is deleted, you might be out of luck. Google doesn't care, but for an individual it could be a huge deal to all of the sudden be cut off from multiple means of communication. If this guy doesn't want to take that risk, what's the problem with that?
You sir, aren't thinking things through. If you want to risk losing critically important emails because google decided it didn't like your google+ picture, you be my guest.

I for one am deleting my g+ account until they fix all this garbage. If they don't, then I won't use it, simple as that. I'm using it for fun, I don't really need it (everyone's on facebook).

BTW, let me know if you ever run any companies, I want to know who to short and what software not to use.
How to solve this problem? Honest question.

Honest answer: Consider the possibility that you may have a hidden health issue. Look into that angle. Addressing my own health issues has been the single biggest boost to my productivity, ability to concentrate and ability to stop being a serious hardcore procrastinator. If you simply lack physical energy and ability to concentrate, willpower is not going to overcome it.

Best of luck, whatever the answer turns out to be for you.
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Seems pretty reasonable to expect it to be this code from the apache shindig library:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shindig/trunk/features/src/m...

From the file:
This code implements a safer random() method that is seeded from screen width/height and (presumably random/unguessable) mouse movement, in an effort to create a better seed for random().

Its aim is to solve the problem of gadgets that are relying on secret RPC tokens to validate identity.
By your posting history, I highly suspect that Hacker News isn't the right site for you. Digg, perhaps?
that's the benefit of being able to quickly (and silently) unfollow someone. Personally, I use a "3 tweets in a row that are annoying = unfollow" rule. It works well for me. And anyways, you'll often be surprised at how someone you respect professionally can be ver entertaining in their personal life.
I did not say what is offered is equivalent and no that is not "what everyone really wants".
As someone who hopes to be a future professor, posts like this are extremely valuable to me.

I hope that some of the good that's come from this media storm is we'll have a surge of great ideas on how to design courses and assignments to minify plagiarizing.
"One of the accounts that's been deleted was recently on the cover of Wired."

Regarding the cover of Wired case: if you do the query [site:plus.google.com ladyada] on bing.com, you'll see an older version of the profile, where the name was "Adafruit Industries." Google has said that Google+ isn't ready for businesses yet, and asks people to use real names. If a profile gives a name like Doctor Popular, I can believe that would be flagged.
I guess I disagree it's beside the point. You say my parent's assertion is plausible from the right frame of reference— what frame of reference are you assuming my parent was referring to? Certainly not the one we're all in, where we can see there remains plenty of water.

I'm inferring you understood it as something like "a frame of reference which agrees with the theoretical frame of reference of a spaceship we launch today, at the time it arrives at the reservoir". That seems far from obvious to me— I find it much more likely that xhuang (like many other commenters on this article, I should add, not to mention the public at large) has been misled by pop-science into the thinking that something being twelve billion lightyears away means that right now, whatever we're seeing is actually twelve billion years in the past.

But that's exactly wrong! There is no actually, and what we see is as valid to call "right now" as anything else. And this is the universe we live in! Maybe I am a pedant, but this stuff is mind-bogglingly amazing when you can actually wrap your head around it, so I try not to miss out on a relativity teaching moment.

Anyhoot, we obviously both get it, so I'll wait on xhuang to say whether my comment was relevant to his point or not.
There's no way to deploy this over the web, unless you use Flash to acquire their webcam video or audio.
This brings to mind a professor at my university, who used to handout textbooks with problemsets which were most of the course's homework. The problem sets would have answers at the back, but he would misprint some of them on purpose that he could 'catch' students cheating from the back of the book.

I always thought that sounded like entrapment - the assignments I tend to learn the most from are the ones that are inherently structured so that there is no way to copy / cheat on them.
"The reason for suspension is probably the quotes in her name."

I think the profile previously said "Adafruit Industries." You can still see that name in Bing.