skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just so we're clear, by users, you don't mean actual people sitting in front of web browsers, you mean CloudFlare Customers. In general, people using web browsers despise the Apture services - particularly when they can't be overridden, or if they are poorly done (The stupid popups interfering with web browsing behavior - particularly on small mobile screens).

Just because it's popular, doesn't mean you should be doing it. On the flip side, if you do it in an _elegant_ manner that allows the individual using their web browser to regain control over this behavior - win-win all around.
This pretty much nails it. It's so bad. It's my first experience with Android, and the UI is heinous. I'm not sure how it was ever released.
Hah Thanks! I'm always looking to help! (:
The math escapes me, but what an incredibly novel and breathtaking idea.. any thoughts on this?
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Feeling pwnage right now.
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I guess they don't believe in competing on quality, or time to market, or price, or novelty, or any of the traditional methods of standing out in a free market.
When talking about EEG-based "mind reading", there are three primary methods currently under study (when looking at locked-in patients at least):

1) P300 - This refers to a predictable change in the EEG signal that happens around 300 milliseconds after something you were expecting happens. For example, if I am looking for a particular letter to flash amongst a grid of letters all randomly flashing, a P300 will be triggered when the letter I want flashes.

2) SSVEP - This stands for steady state visually evoked potential. This approach uses EEG signals recorded from over the visual cortex, which responds to constantly flickering stimuli. Given a few seconds, the power of the frequency of the attended stimulus increases in the EEG, which can then be detected and used to make a decision.

3) SMR - This stands for sensorimotor rhythms, and is an approach that looks for changes in EEG activity over the motor cortex. Successful approaches have been able to identify when you imagine clenching your left or right fists, or pushing down on your foot. Unlike the other two, this does not require external stimuli.

SMR is the most like what we consider mind reading, as the user is initiating the signal while the other two infer what a person is looking at. It is limited to only 2-3 degrees of freedom at the moment, however, and is the hardest signal to work with. It is susceptible to external factors such as the current environment and mental state, and not everyone seems to be able to generate the needed signals. SSVEP, while lacking the wow factor of SMR, is much easier to work with and is a much more stable signal.

Disclosure: I work in this area. Here's a flashy NSF video highlighting our lab: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/brain...
does this fix the abominably slow development with the asset pipeline (without the gems needed to hack it and speed it up)?

Basically, can someone give me a way back into pre-3.1 asset pipeline slowdown ?
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> They're blocking competition to their own stores; I don't think there's any way to defend that as a legitimate action.

If intentional, I agree. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they were also surprised by this side-effect of redirecting the Android Market intent. If so, I'd say the right thing to do would be to make sure their browser doesn't raise an intent for http://market.android.com, side-stepping the issue.
By the way, it's not as fully featured but..: http://toolbox.no.de/
Godadmnit, being able to code a bit is no longer "Nerdish", it is fast becoming an essential skillset that every school leaver should have.

And before all those people come and say "Only a coder would say that" I include things like people writing various stuff in excel to help their spreadsheet calculations as coding.

This whole "Anything vaguely technical = Nerd" thing is really getting to me, maybe I have just been watching the old farts at SOPA to much
Apple == US company

HTC == Taiwan company

Any surprise why the US International Trade Commission bans HTC?
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don't forget Everyblock they've got great data as well as ties to media now
If you can't write Javascript, get out of the biz. Coffeescript is an abomination.
Your very comment indicates you haven't a clue what you are doing or talking about. You are a child.
> This leaves only one place where pickle makes sense — short lived data being passed between processes, just like what the multiprocessing module does.

ZODB disagrees.
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Thanks, this is a really cool suggestion. Until now, I was totally unaware of the HTML5 context menu. Also, I really like the idea of using an icon that tries to flow well with the body of the text instead of obtrusively covering it up.

And once again, some kind of opt-in and opt-on setting for our users to choose for their sites is definitely something I want to experiment with integrating.
I think that the fact that it's a cultural reference and, on its own, not an interesting contribution might be why it's getting downmodded, rather than people not getting the reference.
It really helps to see the big picture to think, as you point out, about both mobile phone service AND broadband service. These are highly regulated services in the US that have terrible performance compared to the rest of the developed world, even only examining major cities.

Tokyo is one of the world's highest density places, with an average city block completely composed of an endless sea of highrise buildings that are made of very thick reinforced concrete. Radio waves cannot possibly travel very far in this place. Yet two of the main three carriers provide rock solid service. The third suffers from poor spectrum allocation (no spectrum in a range that penetrates thick material well). Recent regulatory changes have forced NTT (one of the two that has rock solid network everywhere) to resell access to its network to MVNOs at rates that are disclosed to the public, making an opening for tiny alternative carriers that are trying new service and pricing models.

Probably very difficult to dig up even a few feet of ground to lay new fiber, too, yet 100megabit ADSL and 100megabit fiber are available just about everywhere, in head to head competition. To improve competition the fiber pipe and network service provider are split (you pay NTT for the fiber, and one of about 10 different ISPs to push data down the pipe). AU is even pushing GIGABIT to select customers. Average 100megabit consumer pricing about $50 a month. Not to mention there is stiff competition for all this from wireless broadband from more providers than I can count (WiMax 40+ megabit, EMobile, Softbank, ...)

Japan's mobile phone pricing remains shockingly high, but the level of quality and competition in broadband service shows that the US could do much much better.
Ask HN: What are the obstacles to open data?
In Finland there has recently been quite a lot of public discussion about open data in daily news papers (http://bit.ly/sWb6ZA). The government has also agreed that all official data should be made public. However, the government has not stated anything about the means to make such data public.

What do you see as the main obstacles to open data?
I bet it's harder not to compulsively think "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right" than it is to dial a phone.
I agree -- I was basically answering the parent that it's a "non problem". Sometimes it IS a problem.
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Ask HN: How do I pick between Microsoft and OPower?
I am a CS major who will be graduating in May 2012. (I would be starting full time work in Fall 2012.) I have a number of job offers, but the two I'm most interested in currently are Microsoft and OPower (http://opower.com/). I really have no idea how to pick between the two.

Microsoft - Windows Phone Team

__Pros:__

* Much higher compensation

* Working in C++ may make me a stronger coder

* I am passionate about Windows Phone

* Based on previous internship experience, I know most people there are quite smart

* Microsoft may look better on my resume (but that doesn't feel like a great reason)

* I've lived in the Seattle area my whole life, and know that I like it

__Cons:__

* C++ can be a pain to work with

* Despite being reviewed well, Windows Phone has a tiny market share

* I interned on Outlook in Summer 2010 and had a hard time socially connecting with my team

* I've lived in the Seattle area my whole life, and may want to try something new

* Push code to users every 6-12 months is slower than I'd like

* Is Microsoft stagnant?

OPower

__Pros:__

* Stock options could end up being worth a lot

* Java isn't the greatest, but it could be more fun than C++

* Push code to users every 3 weeks!

* Rapidly pivoting teams/priorities could nicely fit my desire to work on a wide range of projects

* Quarterly Hackathons

* Nice office with plenty of natural light and scooters

* Goofy, laid-back culture

* Arlington / DC could be a cool area to work

* OPower's 21st century approach to energy reporting / analytics is wonderfully refreshing after the horribly user-hostile traditional bills I get

__Cons:__

* Stock options could end up being worthless

* The interview questions were significantly easier than those at Microsoft - does that mean the quality of people is lower?

* Customers are utility companies instead of consumers, so it may be harder for me to relate

* Number of people who actually pay attention to the stuff OPower produces could be even smaller than the number of people who use Windows Phones.

Maybe if I worked at OPower, I could express my passion for the Windows Phone by continuing to develop 3rd party apps.

Both companies felt like a good culture fit - I enjoyed the people I got to meet during my on-sites.

I've interned at Microsoft and Google in the past, and I eventually want to work at a startup / maybe found my own. One friend suggested that I work at Microsoft for a bit so I can save enough cash that taking a risk on a startup is easier.

I have no idea what to do. I suspect I could be quite happy at either. I also suspect that as a new grad, I don't even know what the right questions to ask are to assess how happy I'd be at each of these places. Can you share any wisdom?
The important barrier to (effective) participation is not the drive to an inconvenient polling location. The barrier is learning about the candidates and the issues, and enough background to fit all the pieces together.

That is, making an optimal choice for your vote is an extremely expensive undertaking. Thus, relatively few people do it well.
> imo if you try to push sms faster that they can send it they should either queue the messages (as twilio does)

Absolutely! I simply don't understand that decision. I mean, I can create my own internal queue to get around the problem, but that burden shouldn't be on me.
I don't know why Deutsche Telekom has decided it doesn't want to invest more money in T-Mobile, but some other foreign wireless operator might be up for it. Carlos Slim's América Móbil has already dipped its toes in the U.S. market with its TracFone subsidiary and might conceivably be interested in T-Mobile for a low enough price.
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I was about to pipe up and say the EFF until I saw the link at the end of your comment. Seriously though everyone who works with or cares about tech should donate (or better yet join) the EFF.
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With respect to the OP's specific problem, namely serving up compressed static assets, why use Node.js at all? They're static files. Host 'em on a CDN or let lighttpd take care of it. There's no need to add the complexity of Node to a relatively simple problem.
Okay. Don't say I didn't try.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3372166
I don't know if you noticed, but even after calling it garbage, he uses an affiliate link pointing to the Kindle Fire at Amazon :) Like saying "well, if you're that stupid I want a piece of your wallet too!"

Oh, those entrepreneurs...
I've used it, and I didn't mind it.

I'm not an iPad owner nor do I ever plan on shelling out $500 for a consumption device. $200 on the other hand is low enough for me to seriously consider it.
This is pretty funny for us Perl folks. People have been making this complaint about CPAN for many, many years.

It's a valid complaint, but all of the alternatives seem to be much worse.

I think the idea of using various metrics to pick the best options is a good one, and something we've been pursuing in Perl-land for many years (kwalitee, CPAN Ra(n)tings, metacpan.org, cpantesters, and more).
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I would love an extension that would do something like that. I clip some text and the first paste is the text, and the next paste is the link. Or the paste is a properly formatted html link, or properly formatted wiki link.

I would load that in a heartbeat.
Yes, you are correct. Our users are the site owners, and their users are the ones who encounter Apture and similar "apps" in the wild. This is why, as I've said in other replies, the suggestion that we provide an easy opt-in / opt-out mechanism is well taken.

I _want_ to make this something that is elegant and useful, not just from the average internet-goers perspective, but also from the perspective of my peers and colleagues (and luckily, I'm in a good position to do so). I'm glad that some of the readers here have been willing to offer constructive and valuable suggestions about how I can do that :)
The only problem is the filter for being good at cramming interview questions is not quite congruent with the filter for being a good programmer/developer/engineer/$role_youre_hiring_for.
You can't sideload apps that you don't know about.

The issue is that, using a Kindle Fire, it is impossible to see the Android Store's website. If Apple or Microsoft were to make websites impossible to view, it'd be rightly called out as censorship. Similarly, if Google were to make Amazon's online app listings impossible to view on stock Android installations, it would be censorship as well.
Congress doesn't work. That's what the Internet doesn't know.
I've seen a lot of criticism of the choice to use interfaces in Go, but I don't understand why. Can someone explain to me why some people seem to dislike them? From my point of view, all they are is effectively the static variant of duck-typing.
They're a little fuzzy, but the exact quote from the video is: "IBM scientists are researching how to link your devices, such as a computer or a smart phone. So you just need to think about calling someone, and it happens." From the context it is implied that this will happen in 5 years. In their in-depth blog post about the topic, they say: "...I could wonder what the traffic will be like on the way home and this information would pop up in front of me."

So I think they are actually describing a "call mom" scenario, and I strongly doubt that the information to detect that is at all present in an EEG signal.
Successful Tablet? I don't know if the Kindle Fire is going to make it past the first round of people who bought (even though that was a huge number). It's gotten a lot of bad reviews, and the first people to buy it are often unaware of a products shortcomings.
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You're completely right...there's no reason why programming can't be as fundamental as reading and math.
I don't think I'll be signing up for any idioms or coding standards that are based on an assumption of using Python as a direct replacement for Java. Neither should anyone else.

I am not sure, But if I'm using Java or C++ or another equivalent say even Clojure. Then the glue language for the rest is going to be Perl/Bash not Python. The reason is Perl does the scripting far too well than Python.

Python is more fashionable today courtesy Django, Twisted and other frameworks.

And I think that's the problem here. Python is trying to be half serious in both the Java and Perl worlds. Java and Perl have nearly orthogonal goals. If you try to do half work in both the worlds. You end up pleasing neither. Try to be either in this camp or the other.
But I found it an interesting contribution -- it really captured the essence; it seemed a perfect 'tldr'.
That's obvious. Culture factors are the main determinant that they could find. It is unrealistic to assume the queried countries have a mean centered around complete gender neutrality, so your analysis is invalid.
Yes, but the context in question is "names for a group of people", since that's the context the site is using the term in. lancewiggs' point is there's already a meaning for this word in this context.
Brilliant example of the design thinking process in action.

This man has certainly practiced the 'design thinking' process outlined by Tim Brown in "Change By Design" - a book about the process of innovation. The Design Thinking process involves lots of ethnographic research, and developing empathy for the user - the same tenets as user centered (UCD) or human centered design (HCD).

In this case, the inventor developed empathy by going so far as wearing a fake uterus that emitted goats blood!

I find this story and others like it to be very inspiring. However, knowing that the world can be changed for the better or worse by people who believe strongly enough about something is both reassuring and frightening at the same time.
And what might this "app" that you speak of be? :)
Are you a user (site-owner) or a browser (a user of the site)?
I have this same thing, but from playing too many video games. Constantly looking for sniper positions, cover, and I always have this feeling I want to walk sideways (strafe) around corners.
As Homer Simpson once said of alcohol, it is the cause of and the solution to all of our problems. While it does intercept some of the nasty rocks and snowballs, it also perturbs objects that would otherwise have been in stable orbits. In an office environment, this would be called "making himself indispensable".
I would happily pay for this kind of device. I only hope that they do not try to do too much with them.

I would probably pay just to use as a navigation tool, with maybe some weather.
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High school, for me, is 3+ hours away. And yes, I'd rather never revisit that place again.
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Looking for an experienced iPhone developer for an awesome upcoming app idea that will turn the the fitness industry on its head. Android experience a plus but not necessary at this time.

Please post a link to your work or email me through my profile
I've had the iPad, and currently have the HP TouchPad and Amazon Fire. Of the 3 I prefer the Fire. By a long shot. I find the 7" size far more portable than the larger tablet sizes.
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So here we have a NASA employee saying "we can't do it because the technology isn't already there" instead of "let's make this work". What a perfect example of the past 30 years of the US space program.

By the way, being in space can be a significant advantage for 3d printers printing metallic components. Not that you care, since you can't buy it off the shelf yet, and anything that hasn't been done can't be done.
FWIW, I hate the new design and feel like it's a major step backwards, both from a design standpoint and from a usability standpoint.

The bigger question I'd like to see answered is what's the story with the board shakeup?
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I swear to god, I am going to write an HN bot that just automatically answers "no" to any title that has a question mark.
Awesome, I saw Aman give an EventMachine talk at MountainWest RubyConf and Ryan Stout is a local that is always willing to help out.

What a community indeed!
I do hope they improve their policy on regression-tests and upgrade instructions. 3.0 -> 3.1 wasn't very smooth for me, the bugs were just more subtle.

My favorite bug during the upgrade: Someone decided (long ago) it'd be a good idea to store a Marshalled object in the session-cookie. One class serialized therein disappeared in Rails 3.1. Result? Any and all requests with a session-cookie bomb out with an unmarshall error.

tldr: Make sure to rename your session cookie before rolling out the upgrade. This logs out all users but is still more desirable than the alternative...
Oh. Thanks for explaining. That does seem quite unprofessional.
This sounds very interesting. Would definitely try this.
So...what's the target audience here? I know it seems self evident that everyone is just dying for another way to show what they've been sharing online...but it seems that the people who want to share a lot will be satisfied with Facebook and G+, both of which give greater granularity for privacy than does this.