skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like those brick walls. Bricks on my country are generally clearer and color doesn't vary that much. Do you know if that is some treatment on the bricks so they look old, or perhaps they are really old?
Yes, I use Catch all the time. I prefer it over Evernote.

But there is no desktop client. And am not impressed by the overall direction of their web UI.
How is this different than correlating user names or email addresses? Especially given that most of the OpenIds out in the wild are specifically keyed off of email addresses anyway.
If (you.equals(developer)) {return apptopia_pays(your_apps);}
Kudos to you and the team for caring about the culture.

People tend to forget that the company culture - shared interests and activities being a big part of it - plays a huge part in shaping the quality of the product/service. In addition, it helps build a sense of identity and pride among employees, which is especially important for a fast growing company.

Taking some time off to work on a project like this might actually provide huge returns which are not immediately apparent.
This is a terrible article by somebody who obviously has no clue about the function of the treasury market and how it is managed in cooperation of the Fed and the Treasury.

The best status quo descriptions of how this market works tend to come from the Modern Monetary Theory school in economics. For a popular explanation, see e.g. http://pragcap.com/understand-the-modern-monetary-system/und... and certain chapters of this: http://www.neweconomicperspectives.org/p/modern-money-primer...

As an additional benefit, the writing of the MMT people is enjoyably concrete and solid. When I read other sources on financial markets, I always feel as if the authors were describing some weird ununderstandable magic to me. Something that is not and should not be understood. MMT provides a refreshing alternative to that which seems to match up very well with all sorts of technical descriptions you can pick up from the Fed and Treasury itself.
That's a great advantage -- to know what you don't know. You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and you're not arrogant. --Gene Sharp

That's going up on my wall. My real wall, with the tacks and whatnot.
If I could choose so, I rather have my screens facing a wall, or even better the front door. I just don't like the feeling that people might be monitoring what I'm doing. Anyone else notices that?
Oh the noble pirate, Dropbox must throw themselves on their sword to be moral. You are way out on a ledge but your tinfoil hat fits well.
I prefer Opera. Neither Firefox nor Chrome work submitting items to HN. Don't know why
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I don't get why they are referring to this as a Twilio for x either; it seems like they're just saying that it is an API that abstracts away some things, which quite a few do.

Just last week I met someone from Code for America where they talked about creating an API for working with local governments. This seems like an education version of that. (Although perhaps Code for America isn't famous enough yet to use it as a comparison in a TechCrunch article.)

Edit: The reason why I don't think Twilio is all that unique for making that comparison is you could call it the "HopStop for schools" (since HopStop allows you to get mass transit directions without having to interface with each bus company, subway system, etc.) or the "Singly for schools" since it allows you to abstract away Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, LinkedIn, etc. I suppose that Twilio just has better branding, though.

Edit2: Code for America seems like a more direct comparison (but perhaps more obscure and not as suitable for marketing purposes) since it involves creating an API for programmers to use to connect with government institutions that use a diverse set of typically hard-to-interact-with-programmatically software.
Some 18 Year Old Made A Site That's Going To Get People Fired For Using Facebook

http://www.businessinsider.com/lock-down-your-facebook-priva...
Yes, it is. It says so on the second sentence in TFA.
Meditation is actually total bullshit...
Sorry, Blogspot redirect tricked me again. Ty!
There is definitely a need for something like this. I have worked with SIS's in the past and they're awful. I thought SIF might be the answer, but it was not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_Interoperability_Framew...
> Has it ever occurred to you that people who've been programming for decades have a reason for putting forth the advantages of editors like Emacs and vim?

Of course--I stated clearly that I'm a vim user and that I love it, and couldn't see myself going back. But I still appreciate the out of the box functionality and ease-of-use of ST2.
Nonviolence is a simple idea. It works when majority of people stop working, enough to cause loss to a company or the ruling party. It requires that the ruling party gains it power from the working class, which was the case in British ruled India and similarly in Iran.

It will fail if one nation is attacking another. It would have worked against Hitler if the German people had revolted (I guess they did not because they believed in Hitler's ideas, few minority that did not could be got rid off). Nonviolence would not have worked if British people used it against Hitler.

Being shameable is not necessary (but is helpful). For example, the occupy movement in America, even though nonviolent is not successful because the companies (or the top 1%) are not losing anything. There is not enough critical mass to the movement to affect the profits (enough that they take notice).
look forward to your talk tonight. I blew half my morning in vim playing with different plugins for a better file search experience, and finally caved and installed ST2.

I'm happy so far, but hope they add multi-window support and terminal integration (unless they already have).
Dropbox disconnects Boxopus for unwanted features
You submitted .in, I submitted .br. Its a PITA the redirecting.
No, you can't play Tetris in it.
I like the article, but I think the practice here is lacking something. I realize that there are many meditation practices, but the writer here mentions Buddhism, and so I'm assuming insight, or vipassana, meditation.

The practice of vipassana is not to focus everything on the sensations that you have, but only to note that they are there, and move on. I sort of say "that's interesting", when I notice a sensation, and then move on in my body scanning or noting--whichever form I happen to be doing.

By concentrating on those emotions, pains, and discomfort, you are giving them more attention than they deserve, and doing yourself a disservice. You are doing the same thing that screws us up in our daily life--hanging on to the countless emotional experiences we have all the time. The writer of this article could use the guidance of an experienced practitioner to help avoid and get out of potholes like this.

Another thing I'd like to mention is the emotional rollercoaster that this person is experiencing. One should look deeper than just the surface emotions that arise, and look to the cause in your body, mind, or whatever is coming at you from the "outside" experience of life. Just as with the discomforts of sitting in meditation, and emotions, you should consider the events in your life in the same manner, since you'll eventually realize that they have little intrinsic meaning, but have an effect on your thoughts and emotions just the same if you allow it.

Accept that the thing happened, and then move on or act as needed, without letting emotion and overthinking clog it up.
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Did you have them saved under "Default" or "User"? If the former, SL2 overwrites these when you upgrade.
It might be because people on HN are beacons of productivity who find that these atrocious projects take away from the reams of value that could be created otherwise by working on the product.

This is why they don't read news sites during the work day. Oh wait ...
I think it's more of blizzard now make 15% of all (legitimate) gold farmer transactions.
It would be much more appropriate to detect screen resolution and adjust the web page accordingly to ultra small or ultra large displays. I know there are already JS implementations of various flavors that allow you to detect the browsers active resolution no problem.

I would think it hilarious that anyone with the new Transformer Infinity that has a higher resolution display than their home computer or tv will be getting a giant text wall mobile site.
I don't recall having a wordpress account and I've been using gravatar for about three years now.
You should try Emacs if you like out of the box functionality and ease-of-use. It's modeless like most other editors (unlike vim).

You can bolt vi/vim on top of it if you really want the modal editing though.
Which would be an appropriate arrangement of it was their content. But it isn't. Would you be willing to pay for those two products without the podcasts themselves? Of course not, the app and the servers are valuable to a consumer because of the content. If the content creators don't get a cut of that advertising money then the business model isn't fair.

Not to mention that stitcher removes any editorial control over the kind of advertising associated with any given program.
I'm not a pirate. I don't even use torrents myself. But your admission that you have no argument, implied by your fabrication in order to make an ad hominem attack, is noted.
Gooseberry: cheap SoC that runs Android, Ubuntu
believe me, I want it to work well. That's the source of my frustration :)
Esoteric keywords in google work brilliant for my sites. Then came social and I added the +1 button because of the nature of circles in g+. Birds of a feather flock together, so +1 would bump results for my sites for people in someone's circle and my reach would expand a notch. So I'm disabling the button in anticipation of a js option to disable the mousehover menu.
I don't think any mainstream perspective claims that the crises in the various member states are caused by anything other than their being in the Eurozone, if that is what you are claiming.

Since the problems with having currency union without political integration were widely discussed at the time the union was being set up, I think that the failure to address them qualifies as 'completely economically inept'. Maybe 'completely' is a bit hyperbolic, when compared with the USSR or Zimbabwe, but still.

The great strength of Europe is that is consists of lots of competing small countries, which are capable of cooperating when faced with major threats such as the French or the Turks.

I can see why politicians would want to create a single State to oversee the whole area, but it boggles the mind that the rest of the populace would want to go along with that.
Can we change the title to something more serious to reflect how truly groundbreaking this research could be?
As I'm sure you already know, there's a fellow who did some impressive things with acme a few years back:

http://ipn.caerwyn.com/search/label/acme

If I understand correctly, these hinge on 9p; instead of Acme worrying about keypresses, it's some 9p client worrying about characters read. A clever solution, and self-evidently powerful, but with the obvious drawback that most of us aren't running Plan 9 or Inferno. And we still have the problem of syntax highlighting.
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The reason you dont see it mainstream is because for someone like my mom its too difficult to understand. She does however understand "Login with Facebook/Google/Twitter" because it is simple, one click, approve permissions and done. Anything more is just a hassle for them to remember and they will fallback to email/password instead.
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Or run your own mailserver and hand out email addresses like
servicename @ [yourmailserver].com

Everything gets forwarded to the same inbox.

tuffmail.com is awesome and cheap; I'm a happy subscriber.
Is it your view that Twitter has "thrown themselves on their sword" when they went out of their way to defend the rights of their users against government subpoena? Or when they took a stand on software patents?
True, but it is not the important focus of the article. Most of these people would not care as to whether they are being called the Father-of-whatever.
Instead of focusing on who gets the credit for the idea, it should be more on implementation and outcome of the idea.
So - I will agree that dropped packets are a problem (I'm having them myself with Comcast Cable - argh!!) - but WiFi connections, except under the most _extreme_ circumstances, don't ever drop packets unless you have a RF/hardware problem that is unusual. (Or Contention - which is why I don't like to share WiFi on a consumer Wireless router) Latency over WiFi is < 1ms - which should be imperceptible to VOIP.

I should set up a Skype call from my MacBook Air tethered to my iPad over Verizon LTE to you - this really is a much worse scenario than WiFi - 35ms latency, about 1% packet loss - than my WiFi connection - but I still bet you would hear stellar voice quality (over my MBAir's Mic, no less!)

Honestly - WiFi really, really is not a problem with VOIP unless you have some contention, RF disturbance or really poor connectivity - something else is going on with you - I've done lots of Voice Tests ahead of important meetings when I'm presenting just to be 100% certain that my call/voice quality was 100% - and it's always been with Skype over WiFi.
Tried installing this a week or two ago but ended up with an issue with libxml. Took me an age to sort it (not got much experience with how npm works). Finally got it sorted but then couldn't figure out a way to add authentication, so gave up. Would be good if they came up with an easier installation, especially as it looks so promising.
This is really interesting. I'm a contractor so i deal with recruiters a hell of a lot. I've never come across a good recruiter to work with, 90% of them are an annoyance but harmless and 10% are outright scumbags.

Its really interesting to see this honeypot information. I think recruiting is an industry thats ripe for disruption, especially for tech contractors and i've got a theory on how to do it, one day i'll write a blog post on it but the basic premise is, instead of a sales strategy, i'd like to see a talent agent strategy.
This is really really good. For my sins a few years back I made a similar profile on linkedin[1] but made it as obviously fake as possible while still pretending to be real, it's an open secret in the UK infosec industry and still gets emails from recruiters.

Incidentally the profile is entirely populated with content generated via Markov chains using logs from an irc channel I'm on as the corpus.

[1] - uk.linkedin.com/pub/markov-bambam/15/643/a56
I'd really like to try AeroFS although they don't seem to have enough beta spots. Is there anyone that could spare an invite?
Actual desk tops are much more expensive, around 2x the price for an equivalent area: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/wor... I'm not sure about the whole rounding the legs off thing, but if you're going to make 20 desks it's probably not that big a deal, and it does make the legs a lot nicer.

And it's interesting that you're ignoring the Aeron chairs - or are they worth spending money on?

Update: My bad, they're actually Progrid chairs from Costco, not Aerons.
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Does anyone know the simple principle? Is it the golden rule?
Brightcove, Makes Tools For App Dev Open And Free, Even For Apple TV
Neat, thanks for your response.

Question for you: on your roadmap[1] you write:

> Efficient binary data transfer

> This would allow for some interesting applications such as video streaming, file transfer, image processing and more. Binary data support was one of the key reasons Github chose to roll its own serialization format (BERT) instead of using existing options.

Why is BERT > MessagePack for this?

[1] https://www.getbridge.com/about/roadmap
I really really want this product to work. I can see the potential/benefit in it. But every time I try it I'm left disappointed. I know it's probably me doing something stupid, but here goes my experience this time.

Oh cloud9 I really like this idea, lets see if it's improved since last time I looked -> click

I can sign in via Bitbucket cool I'll do that.

Okay that was dumb of me, my Bitbucket repositories are all private so I can't use cloud9 for this. I'll import my github projects instead.

Dang, Github is already registered to another account and I can't change it.

No problem, I'll de-active Bitbucket and delete this account, then sign in with the old account I created.

Doh, I can't remember my password, I'll reset it. Weird a new password is sent back to me in plain text? That doesn't fill me with confidence.

I'm in, the dashboard says I've only got one project in my Github repository, that's odd? Never mind, one project will do for testing.

Open project, click index.php, hmmm no syntax highlighting.

Never mind I'll just click on view then syntax and choose PHP. Nope that didn't work, not sure why, okay maybe it's because it's a PHP project and this is a Javascript IDE. I'll have a little play around and see what else is new.

Zend mode that seems interesting I'll click that. Ahh okay, that looks pretty. Right, now where have all my options gone, bugger. How do I exit out of zend mode? I can't remember the keyboard short cut and there's no hint. Okay never mind I'll just exit the IDE and login again.

Right back to the dashboard. Oh sweet, looks like my other Github projects have appeared. I'll try a Javascript based project.

Okay so start editing -> click on Javascript file -> no syntax highlighting -> click syntax button -> choose javascript, no syntax highlighting sigh...
Maybe code completion will work, at least that's fun to try. I type "this.". No code completion, right well that's enough play time quit.

I don't doubt that all this stuff works, but for me in the 5 / 10 minutes I played around with this I've not managed to get the IDE to function how I expect it to. And it's the same thing every time. I really hope this post is taken positively as constructive feedback because I can see great potential for the product. I'd love some kind of automatic ajaxy getting started tour once I've logged in.
Golly, how dysfunctional do you think our justice system is? Do you think that people have absolutely no recourse to address small disputes like this one? It's true that when you need something other than money and/or money over $10k (in CA) you need a general lawsuit, but small claims court exists for handling stuff like this.

Regarding venue, the rule is that you have to file in the location the offense occurred. Stuff on the internet genrally favors the plaintiff, because they can claim it happened near them, forcing the defendant to travel. Travel costs alone can eclipse the amounts in these cases, so deciding venue is important.
You should not use OOP (in javascript)
Co-working space in London
I'll be in London for a week while working on my startup, Sensr.net. Any co-working spaces there where I can hang out for a day or two?
Gamera II team smashes previous best human-powered helicopter flight time
ImpactJS is really good. Currently using that for side-scrolling games. great for indie development.

Worked with LimeJS, but it is based on Closure so a bit hard to get used to. However, it gives great performance on web and mobile.
Apple granted patent for wireless charging system
Haha, I'm only a few weeks in so please do! Though I am working closely with the team that open up the data and look after the mapping options so feel free to ask a question or two.
We're a well funded company. We've raised money from A16Z, Salesforce.com, and a bunch of others.[1]

We have open sourced the clients but Bridge Server is not open source.[2]

How do we make money? We're building this type of software for much larger organizations (think enterprise & government). We're not in the business of charging hackers and students $5.

We're likely going to charge some money for Bridge Cloud as a lot of the startups currently using Bridge prefer to use & pay for Bridge Cloud. It's the peace of mind of not having to deal with ops on a messaging server. Bridge server itself will also cost some money.

But the point is that we're only going to charge the big guys who can easily afford such systems. Their alternative today is to spend tens of millions on an engineering team to build systems in house.

There will always be a generous free tier for Bridge. You can download Bridge right now and pump 40,000 messages per minute through it for FREE. Do you need more? Just call me, I'm happy to bump you up.[3]

We have a setup for companies paying us and need to see the source code. If it's really important to you, we're happy to show you the code.

What can I do to help you evaluate Bridge? Can you shoot me an email? I'm at darshan@getbridge.com.

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/andreessen-horowitz-salesfo...

[2]http://github.com/getbridge

[3]https://www.getbridge.com/start
The research is interesting, the article is... drivel and just pasting internet memes on top of research and cherry picking one mediocre result from some really interesting ones.

Google found nothing of the like. Google trained a neural net to recognize things with no prior knowledge. "Amazingly", among the things it learned to recognize was cats, but not even as well as other things like people. So this whole article just missed the point and tries instead to cash in on an internet meme instead of reporting.
We've been talking about this around our shop. No small amount of thought goes into considering whether to use a service or tool or not. And that can greatly depend on if it has a web api or needs glue code to fit into our world. Both Facebook and Google use similar message layer systems to keep the chimera cluster f*cks they have working. The problem will be keeping bridge lean enough to do what it needs to, and small enough that you know what it does.
This release is a complete rework of the version that was online two weeks ago. Check the download links at the middle of http://c9.io/site/features/ to download a local verson that can sync with online.
The Pentagon Is Building a Reddit Knockoff
There is far more grudge work now than ever. It's just that people don't do the vast majority of it.
really? why not just buy a $99 ikea desk: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40111124/

if you add up all the time it took to sand, varish, cut, drill etc it would have costs so much more. time is money man.
Nopes, I think they'll go into a loop...

First the robots both spot the other one appearing to go with rock and make a last millisecond change to paper. Then they both notice the other one making the change to paper, so they both go scissors... then they both go with rock again.

Loop!
You should probably take a step back and learn some etiquette. Typical HN replies should be informative and non-abrasive.
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If you want to build an app that uses voice/SMS, but don't want to deal with a bunch of complex telecom systems, you use Twilio.

If you want to build an app that needs student data, but don't want to deal with a bunch of complex student data systems, you should use Clever!

That said, I love the grandparent's description of what we do.
Sure. At the same time it is all of the content on Apple's own iTunes servers that gives value to those servers, and Apple uses that value to sell more hardware. Are podcast creators getting a cut of that? If not, then why might they think that business model is fair?

Edit to reply to below: that has been the case for the download model. How certain are you that this is still the case for the streaming model of this app? Have you sniffed the traffic?