skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed it, but I'm still wary of that data entering Facebook at all.
Added a couple more downloads from the UK.

Whilst I like endless games so this does appeal, I do echo the comments above that it seems to be iOS users would prefer levels to complete, the game and concept itself work great on the 4s
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One can only imagine what kind of inane ridiculousness we'll be put through as they race to keep security theater entertaining and fresh.
Its called Seasonal Affective Disorder and its why I moved to California.
That seems impressive, I agree, and I'm all for giving credit where it's due. But the problem with looking only for "fingerprints" is that you're inherently narrowing your search spectrum. By doing so, you're actually making the job easier for terrorists -- whose goal, roughly speaking, is to move to wherever the spotlight isn't shining.

Bruce Schneier does a much better job explaining this phenomenon than I can ever hope to. But essentially, there's a good argument to be made that totally random searches are superior to fingerprint searches. Terrorists operate on probabilistic scenario analysis. They will only attempt a plot if they're close to 100% sure that they can pull it off, because a failure embarrasses them in the eyes of their sympathizers and would-be financial benefactors. It makes them look like amateurs, and nobody wants to fund an amateurish organization. So even doing something like randomly screening every Nth passenger (where N changes daily) inherently reduces the odds of success by a fixed daily percentage. Terrorists are more scared of dice rolls than they are of fingerprint searches.

I'm no security expert, and for all I know, some combination of random searches and fingerprint searches is the optimal portfolio. I can, at least, understand the logic there, and it makes some sense. But focusing solely on fingerprints creates loopholes everywhere else. And it seems that the TSA has become more and more laser-focused on fingerprints in recent years.
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I could see some people buying expensive filters as a status symbol
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I did stumble on to Instant Watcher midway through development. It's a great concept - I especially like the aggregation of review information. IW covers the full spectrum of search, recommendations and queue management. Qwikstant is much simpler by comparison, partially by virtue of not cutting off more than I could chew (also working fulltime), but also because I was scratching my own itch and search was the issue I was trying to solve.
Because WSJ is a business which uses a subscription model rather than an free with ads model, so it is willing to pay for articles that appeal to readers, and potential customers, who would be willing to purchase a subscription over free with ads.
isn't 10k a little too much? they suggest 5k and that supports what i have read about otherwise.
Here's a TED talk by its creator: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_ki...
I did a similar thing (with Bill Zeller and John Udell) as a ubiquity/twitter extension a couple of years earlier[1]... but in practice the low resolution of the standard unicode caracters makes them just a novelty; the technique's been reinvented several times but hasn't found a niche.

Even this font doesn't quite hack it for me - the curves are too wide to take in the time series at a glance.

[1] http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/13/fuel-prices-and-pageview...
I agree with all of that.

I noticed an ugly feedback relationship between stress and exercise. When I was stressed, I exercised less. When I exercised less, I was more prone to stress. Ways I broke the cycle: taking an exercise class, scheduling workouts with friends, booking a race so I was forced to train, and picking exercise options that were too awesome to not do. (An example of that last one: my favorite bike ride is across the Golden Gate Bridge and along the coast to a restaurant with good brunch and strong margaritas, followed by a ferry ride home.)

I also discovered that some of where I "store" stress is in muscle tension. Yoga, massages, saunas, steam rooms, hot baths: all reduce my stress level. As a confirmed nerd, I had to learn to ignore the associated woo and the flashbacks to middle school gym class, but it was totally worth it.

My doctor also recommended B vitamins; in particular B100 and sublingual B12 tablets. It definitely seems to help, although I haven't done a blind trial.

Meditation has also been useful to me, but I'm still struggling to find a sustainable way to do it regularly.

More broadly, I'd encourage HN readers to treat it as an experimental problem: Subject Y's stress level is too high, leading to [bad outcomes]. What interventions are most effective at fixing the problem? Every month I pick some things, try them for the whole month, and then see. The ones I'm sure I like, I keep.
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The fierce battle for intellectual property
Thanks! Yeah, I can see how it looks a little out of place. It's clickable (hides the filter sidebar), but the fact that wasn't obvious is good input..
I didn't generalize to all technology and I didn't mean it to come across as so. I also learned a great deal having a computer when I was younger. It pushed me into areas I wouldn't have been interested in otherwise. The point I was trying to make is that technology gadgets like this often are assumed from the get-go to fix what I see as a non-technology problem. There doesn't seem to be much of a discussion on whether something is actually a solution sometimes and it's rather just assumed because it's a computer or gadget or whatever that this thing is going to fix that by the nature of what it is (new technology).

My old high school has more computers and technology equipment than it did when I was there yet overall the educational statistics are the same or worse. Technology is amoral, it's neither good nor bad, it's how it's implemented that makes the difference. Some view technology as a moral plus in that it is innately better than no technology at all. I disagree with this.
To make things worse, last month a fire on the ministry of education destroyed tens of thousands of laptops, solar panels and other educational material. It is very,very sad to know that all these materials where sitting there for more than a year waiting to be distributed to the poorest areas of the country, only to be consumed by fire.
Holy crap, much of this makes sense. Who are these people and what have they done with the real government? I'm not falling for it. Must be a late april fool.
i'm a strong developer located in US. demonstration of competence: [1].

i'd be interested in considering opportunities in chile. if you gave me the time and financial comfort to enjoy chile a bit, I'd totally do six months if i found a team i vibed with.

just tossing a dart here. my availability starts around summertime.

[1] dustin's awesome monad tutorial for humans: https://github.com/dustingetz/dustingetz.github.com/blob/mas...
[2] resume http://careers.stackoverflow.com/dustingetz
It feels to me like any large company is a punching bag on HN. I do think it makes some sense though, because a fair number of people on here are trying to build things that disrupt large companies and they would have a natural interest in pointing out their flaws.
It's more than freedom of the mind--it the freedom to use and modify tools to do as you see fit. Software isn't the only industry that necessarily harmed by "closed" tools--Ivan Illich started making this point in the 1970s. If workers completely lose control of their tools, they necessarily lose freedom.
I have an 11'' laptop that I never take out. 80% of the time I'm okay. 20% of the time they make me take it out and when I tell them that according to their own rules I do not have to, they ignore me.
There should be no difference. "Out of the box" and after a reset, the phone is a blank slate and won't work until it talks to Apple.

Part of that activation process involves getting a token back that instructs the phone how it should be locked, or not at all.

The unlock process that AT&T (and every other iPhone carrier) does is that they instruct Apple to update the record on their activation server to say your phone should be getting a "fully unlocked" response. Next time you tether the phone to iTunes it checks the activation token and unlocks the phone.
"He wants these at the expense of the freedoms of the people that wrote the software."

Huh? These are the freedoms that the people who wrote the software should enjoy.

And, I never said "with none of the technological advances", I meant the hacker culture. I think that was pretty clear. If you want to understand the culture read the book "Hackers."

I understand that it's hard for some people to understand that software can be more than something to commercialize. I suspect that even though this site is called hacker news, most of the people here are not hackers and don't really respect the culture.
Verizon will "unlock" the SIM unit in their iPhone 4S units if you've been a customer in good standing for 60 days and the iPhone is on an active plan.

However, it's not a real unlock -- it just allows you to use any GSM SIM EXCEPT from US carriers.

I went back and forth between Apple and Verizon about it back in December, trying to get a true unlock but each blames the other. It seems clear at this point that it's the carriers being the jerks.

I hope Verizon will get similarly bad press about this and follow suit.
Loans and by extension remote deposit all require a military connection, like I said. (It turns out anyone can get a credit card, which unfortunately is not 'enough' for RD)

From https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/no_fee_checking_main?offerNa...

"Deposit@Mobile® using your iPhone®, iPad® or Android™ device. Available to qualified members.2,3"

2: 2 You must qualify for USAA's Deposit@Home® and Deposit@Mobile®; eligibility for USAA property and casualty insurance and credit qualification required. Deposits may not be available for immediate withdrawal. (3 is a trademark disclosure.)

Okay, so you have to be eligible for USAA property and casualty insurance. How do you do that?

From https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/mobile_banking_dm:

"You must have a USAA checking or savings account and:

Have an active USAA property and casualty insurance policy and be qualified for a USAA loan or credit card (not a USAA Secured Card).
OR
Be eligible for USAA property and casualty insurance and have an active USAA loan or credit card (not a USAA Secured Card)."

So, you must have or be eligible for insurance. How are you eligible for insurance?

From https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/why_choose_usaa_main: (click "A legacy to pass down", then "Other individuals")

"USAA auto and property insurance is not available due to membership eligibility requirements."

So, you can't use remote deposit. And yes, you really need to read through at least 4 pages on their website to find this out.
I don't disagree but I think there's one big problem here:

Kickstarter has no guarantees. As soon as one of these projects falls through / doesn't meet expectations the idea is going to start having problems. All it takes is one company to take $250,000 then not deliver and they undermine the entire idea.

Publishers take risks and publish games that might not be successful and if they're not successful the publisher takes the hit, not the consumer, the consumer is never made to care about failures but if consumers are the ones funding these games failures will start to matter.
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No. Those are already unlocked and will forever remain unlocked.
maybe im just paranoid, but a bit wary of installing chrome-ext without a quick perusal of the source. Is this github'ed?
wrote the same thing when they first released social reader (it has been here on HN):

http://github.com/nikcub/frictionless

the problem is that they change the HTML elements every few days and it is a pain to keep up with it. I am in the middle of rewriting frictionless to use an external ruleset which will be updated, not requiring the extension to be updated.

you can see what we go through to get this to work consistently across loggedin/loggedout users, all the different apps (what you do wont work for all apps) and all the different use cases:

https://github.com/nikcub/frictionless/blob/master/webkit/fr...

(we also anonymize referral and click data)

Edit: to add, i'd be more than happy to merge the efforts and we are definitely seeking contributors. would rather one extension that works all the time than two that don't. we have already put in a lot of time keeping this extension up-to-date since launch with all the changes and updates made by the social readers.
Why do you trust a standard the federal government has set over what a teacher says? After all, the teachers are the ones who have hands on experience with how the students are actually doing.

Further, standardized tests don't really measure much, except for how well student can take tests and regurgitate information.
Even in California I notice the seasonal effects, especially when it gets cloudy. This winter I experimented some with a SAD light (in particular the Phillips GoLite BLU) and better lighting (near a window at work, bed near a window at home, an alarm clock that turns on lights) and it made a big difference for me.
Anyone interested in beta testing/giving feedback for CodePupil?

I'll send you a link to one of our games.

We're launching our preview this week after 7 months of development.
Peru's education problems have more to do with teacher selection & training, filling children basic needs to enable learning (having a decent breakfast for example) rigid education policies & enormous bureaucracy.
There is not much that a OLPC computer can do to help on these.
Such a drilldown is very helpful if you have applied and figuring things out. I thing the reimbursement process can be a little less cumbersome (from what it looks like from outside). I have applied too but I am not very excited about the said process.
It definitely depends on team size, but we brought down three people and were pretty close to running out of the $10K.

I'm not an isolated case either. Quite a few other people were depending on that first reimbursement to pay the next month's rent.
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TechStars often accepts companies before they've got a ton of traction. If you're planning on raising money before you've got that traction, pitching and networking isn't nonsense, it's your job.

If you're not willing to go out and schmooze (which I completely understand - it's not particularly fun), that's absolutely fine. Just focus on a business that doesn't need to raise before it takes off.
Do you think pre-Sequoia investors are willing to price themselves out? I think not.
I'm really impressed with the gov.uk project and have been following it for quite a while now.

We've been taking their lessons and applying them to a small municipal site we're building -- topic pages like their VAT example, flat document structure, really robust search. At first we were unsure how many lessons from a national government would apply to a village of a few thousand but it's turning out really well so far. It's a liberating data model in that we spend less time worrying about hierarchies ("is this for businesses or residents?") and more time curating content based on what users will need (e.g. what pages should be drawn into the residents' topic page in the springtime before an election).

They've also got a bunch of their code on GitHub: https://github.com/alphagov
Ask HN: Get some feedback on my startup website?
I recently created www.confusinghomework.com. I am wanting to know what you guys think of the idea / functionality of it?
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but they only reimburse for two people other than the founder. so you paid for the flights out of your pocket?
Yes, definitely. The number one thing I tell people who want to go solo is to have plenty of money in the bank so that they can weather the ups and downs without freaking out.

Samuel Johnson captures it well: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." One normally has more runway than a fortnight, but the feeling is definitely similar.

One related thing that seems relevant: Steve Blank writes perceptively about how a lot of founders have dysfunctional childhoods:

http://steveblank.com/2009/05/18/founders-and-dysfunctional-...

The theory is that if you're already used to living in chaos and being near the edge of disaster, working without a net seems almost reasonable.
Unfortunately, the amount of difference this kind of thing will make is minimal. For services supplied to Government, the decision making for anything non-trivial is made at appointment after tender: and these principles aren't embedded into procurement.

It also won't apply to the various Quangos, whose spending is publicly funded but nowhere near as transparent as direct Government spending.

There have been a similar set of open source principles in Government for something like six years now. They made practically no difference.
You missed his or her assertion of logical equivalence between Facebook and camp:

>Facebook = camp.

If Facebook is oppressive and authoritarian, and Facebook is camp, is camp oppressive and authoritarian?

The absurdity of internment camps is relevant because his or her logic does not allow one to differentiate between the actions of Facebook and the actions of authoritarian government.
Serious privacy fail, Facebook. You should not provide information on the friends unless their accounts are also subpoenaed as well (as John/Jane Doe if necessary). Without that, your response should be redacted so friends are listed only with non-identifying strings. IANAL, but this is common sense.
I see people arguing until they are blue that national standardized testing is bad. But it doesn't get them anywhere because they miss a crucial point:

If someone gives money, they want measurable, or at least visible, results.

If you want autonomy at the level L (federal/state/county/local), you can't take any money from any level greater than L.

You may not want complete autonomy, just a better national system. If that's the case, then you need to come up with a better way to measure results -- not inputs -- and suggest that. If it's really better, then people will listen, and maybe the existing standardized tests will be replaced with this better system.

There is less of a demand for testing at the local level, of course, because people generally know pretty well how their local schools are doing.

But nobody in Kansas is going to take a tour of schools in Alabama to see if the federal money is being spent wisely. They need a number. It doesn't matter how counterproductive you say it is to collect this number, they will only stop asking for a number when we stop asking for their money.
Is there any tool to generate bitmaps from binary files? For example using each byte as grey value and letting the user specify the column width. Or with more than one byte and then using color.

Wouldn't this be a trivial and somewhat useful thing to see structure in binary files?
I arrived in Chile one week ago as part of the 3.2 batch. So far the experience has been positive. While it's true that it's more like a peer mentorship, there is a good supply of talents in the program. Some have had exits, some worked at great companies like 37 signals and pivotal tracker, Google, Yahoo and etc. We also have some awesome speakers. Just last week, we had Ahti Heinla, the cofounder of Skype.

So far for people in our batch, the biggest source of stress comes from finding apartment while speaking little English. Each company is assigned a padrino, local Chilean entrepreneur to help out with picking you up at the airport and finding apartment. So, you will want to take advantage of that. I exchanged emails and setup Skype call with my padrino prior to arriving in Chile. It definitely helped with relationship building.

The other tip is to really use social media. There is a private Facebook group for Startup Chile participants. I found my current apartment through that. Also, if you are looking to talk to more participants before you get accepted into the program, try to join the meetup group at http://goo.gl/Hw67S.

Hope that helps,

Jerry
Another easy way to put histograms in a text file is to make them sideways. Below is one for the sum of three dice rolls. Python code + larger example: http://codepad.org/YmkQDvni .

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That's why they show different rows from different sources. In my country Netflix is not available yet so I'm not sure about what I'm going to say, but I'm quite confident that one of those rows is just the top-rated/popular movies of the site.
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I have mixed feels. The first two quotes I'm fine with, and I am inclined to agree with you on the second two, but he was talking about TechStars applicants, not just any potentially successful business.

Framed another way: Let's assume plenty of applicants have very solid ways of actually building the business. How else can TechStars filter applicants? By filtering out those who don't appear to want/need to be in the program as badly. And a test for that is how the entrepreneurs have connected with the TechStars team.

I am tempted to give TechStars the benefit of the doubt that the mentors and entrepreneurs are thinking about how to build viable businesses and that's assumed by everyone. What's discussed in the article are the steps following that assumption, which is how to get into the program and gather the resources needed to fulfill the viable business's vision.
I really respect everything he's done and his opinions, but to me he's much like a devout religious figure. His dedication to free software is akin to a Buddhist monk. I appreciate his devotion (like I do non-atheists) but respectfully disagree with his strong feelings.
The problem here is that a resume with no spelling errors says nothing about a persons coding ability. The resumes without errors are lacking the negative indicator of poor spelling/formating. A strong Github profile, however, consists of many code samples and is a positive indicator of coding ability, making it a much more useful metric. This doesn't imply a knock against programmers with no Github profile, simple a leg up for those who do.
Posting what articles one reads is a very bizarre feature- waiting for when this bites a political dissident someplace
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