skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very good point, and reminds of the "Confessions of a Recovering Lifehacker" post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4012852

It's worth doing some approximate cost/gain math now & again.... E.g., my core goal is to better communicate about important things with family/friends. To that end I have... spent about 30 hours of my spare time this month implementing a solution to save me 30 seconds per email, and about 1 hour actually writing 5 actual emails. QED.

Side note: in your message here (and twice in the blog post), you're using the verb "loose" (means "set free") when you mean "lose" (means "fail to retain").
The way I see it it's to subtly suggest to our heads that it's not the background that is curved back, but the box that has slightly curled up corners, offering an organic, 3D feel.
We were doing this for 9 years. The secret is to have part of the team serving customers and the other building products and experimenting. Also real customers are a source of good ideas.
It's like pinterest but with things we've done not things we've randomly found.
All I see is myself squinting painfully trying to see ahead and not crash.
Can an algorithm be wrong?
The Great Video Game Crash of 1983
Disabling autoplay on iOS is not unreasonable. I don't want autoplay anywhere, but I really would not expect opening a web page on my phone to start blaring random audio out the speakers. I wouldn't call that "sabotage", I'd call that "someone actually cares about what users expect". (That's leaving alone data concerns, especially with limited and expensive 3G data plans.)
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Thanks for the input madao, but I disagree. First of all, I'm not saying sysadmins are going away in any respect, but I do believe that with increased efficiency there will be fewer admins needed for any given business.

I currently support over 150 production systems on Amazon, so your estimation of 10 servers per sysadmin is outdated and inaccurate. Even by Instagram's own admission they manage hundreds of systems with only 5 sysadmins. By your calculation, Instagram would have needed at least double that.
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Why the cookie law is a bad idea and a proposed solution
You would almost certainly have to use option 1.

Option 2 includes such problems as:

A. A random selection of end-user's email services have spam filtering that some of your app's messages can't get around. To the end user who never actually sees the emails (because you simply use them as message passing items) this will simply seem like your shoddy service flaking out.

B. An end user's personal email service goes down, which has nothing to do with you but renders your service unusable to them, again as far as they are concerned, your service is simply shoddy and unreliable.

C. In the event that the end user's email service does go down, and they know about it, they are likely to turn to a secondary protocol to get in touch with people, only to find that your service also isn't working because it relies on the same protocol.

Frankly, I can see several problems with option 1 as well. Excessive bandwidth overhead from unnecessary headers, the spam problem inherent to email, all the parsing you'd have to do to extract data from the text body. I'm not really sure what the advantages of using email are if you're just going to be running a single mail server for all users of your service.
I can argue this both ways, mainly based on who I focus on.

If I focus minimizing pain for the end user, I want things to blow up as little as possible. If I focus on minimizing my pain, I tend to go for hard failure.

For things that are important enough to spend the time on, I go for both: a system that is maximally kind to its users, but is internally a fussbudget. But that requires building a decent infrastructure for logging and alerting, plus an organization disciplined enough take the alerts seriously.
As programmers I think we have a special relationship with meaning, pedagogy. Also we read about people like Alan Kay that brings math to children and see how they play with it, often to our great surprise.

I see here and there (khan academy, psychology publication in Europe) a tendency to kick painful myth out of learning, but I'd like to see a cohesive effort to rethink the learning systems we call schools. Especially the early years. If any of you here knows people working on this I'd be happy to read about their thoughts.
DotCloud.

Plus, they are Epitech alumni :3
It's impossible to build an iOS game for Safari that has sound. They've limited the API by only allowing a single audio channel that can only be used during touchscreen actions. You can't programmatically play a sound, eg like when a collision occurs.
Because many of those bike lanes are 90% door zone or have other hazards, leaving almost on top of the white line the safest part of the lane.
Surely we've got to be hitting the limits on what the eye can perceive. Why don't we focus on color/contrast?
I don't really adhere to the fixed vs variable pricing schemes too strongly, they are just trade-offs. In fixed-price, we're taking much of the implementation risk onto ourselves. In exchange, we ask for a stringent requirements phase and a little flexibility on delivery dates from our client.

Our sprints are basically at 2/3rds utilization and we've reserved the right to take a couple off-weeks between sprints over the course of a 4 month project. This gives us some strategic leverage in picking up attractive small projects so we don't have to completely close up. It also gives us the opportunity to do full sprints on our own product if our MVP tests, developed during the 2/3rd sprints, look good.

That being said, flexibility does not mean half-assed. We're doing our best work whether it be for our clients or our customers.
I love this so much, I just need a html7-mode.el for emacs now and my next websie will be in html7 :)
Well, my comment was specifically directed towards the idea of a UAV first responder system. It's not hard to imagine ways that the detection system itself can be hardened (or hidden).
Interestingly, there were some cheap Korean 27" 2560x1440 displays that came to prominence recently, mainly because they were originally selling for ~$370. The panels themselves are the same as those in the 27" Apple and Dell displays, just ones that didn't meet Apple and Dell's requirements.

You can search for "Yamasaki Catleap", if you're curious about it.
One little bird (presumably a Chicago cop):

By my totals 17 shot on Sunday, 7 of them in 011. With 11 more starting at midnight to 0800 monday morning. The blackberry was ringing all night. 2 of the "victims" dead so far.

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2012/05/not-one-shooting-s...

Note the scare quotes on "victims." Our informant continues:

The city should embrace all the violence and make it a tourist attraction. See if you can come to Chicago and make it out alive! Have tour buses go through the ghetto and stop at all the crime scenes. Get your picture with the body! Only 20 bucks. Better make it 30, 10 goes to the alderman of the ward the body is in. That way the visitors can get a small taste of how business is conducted in Chicago. As a special treat you may also get robbed at gun point during your tour. And if you want to see the indigenous population acting normally in its own habitat start using your Iphones where you can be seen. But you will be charged extra if you get apple picked! End the tour with specially trade marked Chalkie shirts with all proceed going to hire some real leadership at the FOP so we don't get screwed on our contracts. And give one buck from each tour to a special fund for the kids. ITS FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

God I love the Internets...
I like this article, but an important word that's missing from it is "demand". Consulting allows you to keep an eye on what the market wants.

On the flip side, building a product allows you, potentially, to deliver something that people don't even realize, yet, that they want.

Putting the two together: If you can abstract concepts from their material demands while delivering their material demands, you get paid to produce something that they want now and to learn what they might want that they don't even realize.
Powerful 'Flame' cyber weapon found in Iran
They could always allow you to mute sites by default. You see to be overly optimistic that they are doing it for the users good.
Thank you. I came here hoping someone would point out that all these pain points people have with email were essentially solved with Wave. But instead of seeing the underlying system, people focused on a client UI that accessed the Wave protocol.
> If you know what the UAVs are for, you know that your shooting will be heard..

If only there was a device which could be affixed to the barrel of a pistol which could reduce the decibel level associated with the firing process... ;)
Seven years ago I bought a Dell 30" with 2560x1600 resolution for about $1500. Today the biggest monitor I can find is still the same 30" at $1500. What the hell?
Not to mention that there is no way to know how a viral license even works when dealing with a non-linked language like Javascript or HTML.

The goal of the AGPL was to keep people from modifying GPL programs that were essential on the backend, but then keep their modifications hidden. With the normal GPL, if you don't distribute a binary, you don't have to release your code. With the AGPL, the goal was to force people to also release backend code. But code licenses start to get very shaky when we aren't talking about binary-linked modules.
Interestingly, in high-end printing, 300 dpi is considered unacceptably poor, most print shops will simply refuse to print artwork at 300 dpi. 600 dpi is usually what's considered minimally acceptable for artwork and around 1200 dpi for lots of text.
'Using' webgl is writing javascript. Text editors are widely available.
Insurgents do not attack prepositioned listening posts. Their tools are randomness and radio silence.
Eat well, get exercise, sleep properly, drink lots of water.

Vitamin tablets are a symptom not a cure.
I was reluctant to check your link out with a name like "mission statement". It's one of the most unfun names I've seen, but I like the idea. Glad I checked it out.

P.S. Call it Zingr or something.
The technology is impressive. The precision of the information (location, time, pattern) can be transformative in how police responds to high crime areas. Right now, I can imagine that the quality of information degrade in a game of telephone from the caller to the dispatcher to the patroller (and even more so in HCAs). Meanwhile the patroller has to be balancing the issue of investigating a false positive and wading into a danger area.

Panoticon here we come....
Site's back up again, sorry for the downtime.

The idea behind todayimade is to collect and aggregate ideas for DIY projects in a very broad sense – stuff you make, sew, cook, craft, build etc., and to let people build on each other's ideas. Right now the feature set is really small, but we hope to implement stuff like "tell me more about how you made this or that" and "this inspired me to do that" in the near future.
No you don't understand. Or if you do, you are really bad at communicating.
Yes, you're absolutely right on that one. It's on the ominous list of things to implement.
The goal of this article was to only talk about how combinators make crawling easier. If you'd like a more general introduction to the topic of crawling, I provided some references in the 3rd paragraph.
As an interesting aside -- I visited Ireland last year and became aware of this place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

Possibly the oldest 'intact' human built structure in the world. Much older than stonehenge or the Pyramids.
It may not be that interesting for cars, but it is for trucks. A friend of mine is working on a similar system for trucks. The point there is that the group of trucks would actually behave as a train (and need only one driver, or at least the others could rest). The trucks this way could also drive closer to each other sparing on gas.

On the what happens when the leader car hits an elk scenario - the leader vehicle could (and probably does) transmit its own parameters (speed, acceleration, etc.).
Seriously? That's not even a sensible mutually recursive set of definitions. And to think I've been told I'll have trouble getting into grad school on account of my GPA...

Then again, functional analysis as an admission requirement for a graduate science program seems like it'd be a bit of a stretch in most places.
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Joe Public didn't care about AAC and Apple Lossless either before Apple started heavily pushing them on the iTunes Music Store. Apple doesn't use popularity as its metric when determining which formats to back.
I hate astroturfing too, but one part of your response bothers me.

"it's depressing to think that with our current voting system in the US, everyone's vote is weighed exactly the same. Whether a logical thinker or not. Whether well read in history or ignorant. Whether you know a lot about human health or very little, a lot about biology or nothing. Whether you picked your beliefs out of thin air one day or arrived at positions after many years of careful observation and analysis: doesn't matter, all votes count the same and can cancel each other out."

I'm certainly not in favor of bigoted or ignorant people voting, but that doesn't make it any less their right to have an equal voice. If one is going to reduce someone's voting rights based on some criteria, how can one measure objectively "logical" or "well read"? The minute the government declares "these special criteria reduce a vote's weight!" someone is going to skew those criteria to marginalize others for political gain.

This idea creates more problems than it solves. It reminds me of the Three-Fifths Compromise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise), an example of voting weight adjusted for political gain (in this case, for the Southern US).
Why did you bother with this comment? Did you actually listen for the squeaking yourself? For the record, I did listen with different headphones and DACs before I posted here. As for whether I imagined it or not, frequency analysis on sections where I hear the squeaking shows an isolated peak at around 13.5khz. This peak is absent in sections and tracks where I don't hear the squeaking. I also applied an equalizer to the track, to amplify the squeaking. The chirps become clearly audible when this is done.
Which makes me nauseous.
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Free, open-source, and ten months old.

https://github.com/rpetrich/WebGLEnabler
I think the real question is whether we want to spend our time producing more goods and services for exchange, or whether we'd be happier with more leisure time.
"It’s a place where pressures bear down with the weight of 3.5 million atmospheres, like 3.5 million skies falling at once on your head."

I shouldn't be overly critical, but, well, that one's not working for me.
If you have enough liquid salt, it will (mostly) stay liquid for days, just like icebergs survive for months above freezing temperatures. They will have enough molten salt, if only in order to be able to keep it liquid when the sun is down (as a bonus, that buffering of solar heat in the molten salt allows these devices to deliver power around the clock)

I also think having solid salt inside your pipes isn't that bad; the stuff is water soluble at room temperature. To get rid of clogged pipes, I would consider pumping in hot water, replacing it when it gets too salty. That might take lots of time, but is fairly safe (I think you would need to dry the inside of your tubing very well afterwards; molten salt and water probably isn't a nice combination)
As of now, you're not missing anything. We started out as a place to collect stuff we made Pinterest-like, then discovered people wanted more Instructables-like information, and are now working on the – as we think – missing links: Connecting ideas via "remake/remix/inspired by" links and changing from a push-model of knowledge sharing to a pull-model.

As we are bootstrapping right now, things are moving slowly, but we hope in the right direction...
Objective-C components for the Linux kernel
People in some areas should be taking vitamin D supplements, because they cannot get enough from sunlight.

Women planning to become pregnant (and up to 12 weeks pregnant) need to take folic acid; they need to take vitamin D throughout the pregnancy. They need to avoid vitamin A supplements and some foods high in vitamin A.
You double-click it.
Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
I saw that after my first release, but 1) this is free-ish (you can choose to pay whatever amount you want) and open source ( https://github.com/daeken/WebGLEnabler ) as well, 2) mine works at the WebView level rather than Safari, and includes a toggle in settings.

That said, I would've used a different name had I known about that before I released.

Edit: Oh, I'm wrong. I could've sworn that his was just for Safari, but I just saw in the source that I'm wrong. He just works at the WebFrame level rather than WebView.
This is exclusively for jailbroken phones. Shouldn't you be more upset at the people who are jailbreaking their phones?
The Art of Raising Seed: You’re Either Hot, Or You Make Your Own Heat
> You should not consider this library production-ready!

Surely you kid, this is the nicest one I am to see come out yet. File a bug mate.
since Gould is going to come up again and again, might I recommend checking out his recordings of the french and english suites, and the art of the fugue, all as good as the goldberg variations in my opinion!
You guys are awesome. I tried to do this many times. Dedicate 50% of time on consulting gigs and another 50% on my startup. But unfortunately, what usually happens is, I spend 150% on consulting gigs either to meet the deadlines or get greedy for the amount of money I make doing so (I was working by the hour) and my startup's MVP never see the light and eventually I get demotivated from the original idea and get diverted to something new. What's more ironic is, after sometime I hear about xyz company raising some money for the same idea I was working on few months/year ago.
"They still need to teach them at home for them to turn out intellectual."

This last part isn't quite right. I don't think it is sensible to imply that you can't turn out intellectual without some kind of home teaching. Lots of parents don't have the capacity, or the time, or the inclination to home teach or even home assist. Their children are not doomed to a life of poor intellect. In some cases all you have to do is get the hell out of the way and let the child learn without being punished for taking their own creative path.
This one isn't bad on that front, you should take a look.
Mentoring in a startup (or growing company) is totally different, though -- even if it is training someone to do your job, it's because they need more people to do your job, or because you could move up once a replacement is trained.
It is funny how regarding the polarity flip they just say "don't worry, you'll be dead.". Ok that may be true, but what would happen? If the rate of polarity switch is exponential, 10% in the last century could end up being, oh dec 12 2012? Even if that is just a silly mayan thing, what would theoretically happen? We get pelted by radiation?
Local, in-memory DynamoDB emulator
> Joe Public doesn't care about Ogg

But developers care, a lot. You have no idea how many popular games use Ogg internally.

Here's a small list: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Games_that_use_Vorbis

Looking at the games, I wouldn't be surprised if a billion copies have been sold to date.
Would be really interesting to see how much you make off this with your donation model. I wonder how much it would affect income if you used someone other than paypal, or had several donate options.

Anyways, good on you for doing this.
How extensively have you tested it? Obviously you don’t give a rat’s ass for UX
Disrupt the 401k
Ouch, sorry for not paying better attention; I didn't notice the source to yours. Both approaches appear equally valid and yours appears to be rather more fleshed-out (what with preferences).

I didn't mean to denigrate your project, as well: I apologize if it seemed that way!

I quite enjoy seeing people use Theos/Logos as well. Definitely worth sinking my time into working on them!
No worries. And seriously great work with Theos/Logos; I haven't touched iOS stuff since working on the unlock for the original iPhone, and I still managed to whip all of this up in ~5 hours.
That's taking things a bit far, don't you think?
> Mathematics is a beautiful way of thinking about the abstract, ...

Most people do not have the intelligence for much abstract thought. Look at how much trouble CS students have with recursion, and they are in the top few percent of intelligence.

> Teach it like music.

The majority of people do have enough tone perception, coordination, and muscle memory to make music. It does not compare to math.
A number of people have responded to the key points, but one that hasn't been mentioned is that we have a presumption of innocence. So if a UAV shows up, and you're holding a .45 caliber handgun, we still have to presume you are innocent of the shooting (you may have picked up the gun from the street for example). However, if you take aim at a UAV streaming video back to base and start shooting at it, well that can and will be used against you in a court of law.

There is another issue which is that a hand gun is a poor weapon for shooting down an aerial vehicle. A good marksman, or someone very lucky might do it, but the weapon of choice would be a shotgun. Shot guns on the other hand are not effective at range so in a street fight they aren't a good weapon (great for close quarters, poor for engaging at range).

So in a completely lawless sort of situation I could see teams of shotgun toting folks keeping the UAV population down but not in the typical urban setting in the US.
Suggesting URL aliases with CoffeeScript
Showed it to my sister, who is much more interested in shoes than I am. She disliked the small size of the icons, and she had trouble finding the brands of shoes she was interested in. She also wanted to be able to more easily sort by style; she wanted flip-flops, and couldn't easily just look for all flip-flops.
This:

"A second element critical to switching students onto math is the value they attach to the subject. Parents and teachers can foster the sense that math is an important and relevant body of knowledge by demonstrating the usefulness of math in the real world..."

In high school, I was struggling with algebra or calc and was venting my frustrations to the school's top math student. He asked me for an example of what was frustrating me. I showed him a problem and told him I didn't know how the book got the answer given. He said, it was simple, to just use this formula I don't recall.

I told him I knew I was supposed to use the formula... but why? He said it was because that's the only thing that would give me the answer. But WHY? I exclaimed. BECAUSE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO! he said.

And therein is the issue for many. It wouldn't be until my freshman year in college, no less, when I had a wonderful math instructor who emphasized the why's and whatfor's.

And I became enlightened. I now loved math! I saw it in everything. I looked for it everywhere. If my first love hadn't been electronics, I surely would have become a mathematician.
>A distributed protocol, while in some ways more powerful (and less dependent on a fallible central authority!), doesn't achieve the real business aims.

Then don't build one as a business.