skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're probably running out of things to implement that people want, so are now trying to shoehorn things in that people probably don't want. Probably as a result of new-found shareholder pressure.
Hey Joey! I love earbits! I caught some of your interview with Ian Rogers on youtube, so it's really cool you found this!

So yeah, I didn't want to get too specific with what not to do, because I feel like things change so quickly on facebook. Also, I don't really don't know the # what's a good/bad frequency. I think in general it's best to go at least a few hours in between posts, but at the same time if it's awesome, timely content, then you should post it regardless.

And yeah, the rules are certainly different for brands as it is for bands. In fact, it's different from band-to-band: how loyal your fans are, genres and their cultural norms, age/demo of fans, how "hot" the band is, etc. I feel like if Bieber or Gaga or Amanda Palmer or Bob Dylan were to post a status update a minute, they could get away with it because their fans would eat it up regardless.

Long way of saying, I don't really know the answer!
I would disagree that adding gamepad support for existing games will be "trivial" especially if you care about the game experience at all.

Changing the input type for a game in most cases fundamentally changes what the game is. It can also mean that the difficultly curve has to be adjusted significantly because things that used to be hard suddenly become easy and vice versa.

For a good example of this , look at the original Unreal Tournament on the PC. The maps on this game take huge advantage of the vertical space and allow for precision shooting over large distances thanks to the mouse.

Now look at popular FPS games on consoles, most use way less in terms of the vertical space and typically incorporate some form of aiming assist to make distance shots possible.

Having the OS based on android will provide some advantage is re-usable game code but I think this overstates the issues when it comes to porting to different platforms.
3% of the budget, not the GDP! I am not sure it makes too much sense to divide it by the GDP.

Israel's GDP is around 250$ billion. So US foreign aid is around 1.2% of GDP.

However, as I mentioned in the previous post, this aid does not come in the form of actual dollars but in the ability to purchase goods with highly inflated prices and some strings attached. I'm pretty sure Israel would happily trade 3$ billion of US foreign aid with 1$ billion of actual money.
I think memristors are a real contender for future devices; the darpa synapse reseaarch has shown that it's already a big backbone for future ai devices.
Its ingenuous how they talk about indie developers. If the founder is as knowledgeable about the gaming industry as she claims to be then she knows that game development by indie developers is great and a couple lucky ones will emerge but the big player come in quickly and take up most if not all of the profit so any gaming platform that pitches to indie developers is just creating smoke and mirrors
enneff: his post is FUD and you are right and on every Go thread here, there are always some people to needlessly bash it. And while I appreciate your frankness as a developer advocate for Go, I think your points would go over more smoothly if you weren't so defensive about it. I notice you have been a bit curt with the criticisms.

I like Go, and I have also seen that nearly all people who actually get to the step of writing Go code also like it. It doesn't look too good on paper (compared to Clojure etc) but it works really well in practice and that's awesome.
I know it sounds like class warfare but they're actually trying to prevent that. Believing the outbreak affected only their underclass, the health officials made a conscious decision not to not tell the public, repeating a decision they had made in 2008, when the same strain had appeared in an assisted living home for people with schizophrenia.

“What you don’t want is for anyone to have another reason why people should turn their backs on the homeless,” said Charles Griggs, the public information officer for the Duval County Health Department.

Don't know if it's true, but it's at least plausible.
I laughed when you mentioned a black gradient header and helvetica for body copy making Bootstrap sites obvious. I mean, that is pretty generic when you say it like that but at the same time I know exactly what you mean because it's actually what I'm thinking when I see it.
Minimalism: Identity Investment and Loss Aversion
I would certainly hope you would be higher up on their list of priorities, in fact if I was in their shoes I would be contacting you.

If I develop a game for this, using LibGDX seems like a no-brainer because even if this is a total flop I can at least pivot it into a PC game.
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Sweet stuff. Works great.
Because it may help to understand where one comes from to understand where one is going.
Fair enough, I think you can make a reasonable argument that network communication is a basic city service like sewers and sidewalks, so why wouldn't that argument also require a taxpayer funded phone service? If you go the whole basic service argument then not only do you provide a wifi hotspot but you also provide a way for someone to browse the web, send and receive email, and maybe chat at these same kiosks. If you don't provide that then you run into the social justice argument that you are discriminating against the poor who can't afford a smartphone or laptop to hop onto the 'free' WiFi in favor of the rich. Whereas if you charge for the access and dump that money into the general fund (after expenses of course) then its a service fee that achieves a socially acceptable taxation of people with more disposable income to provide services to those without. So do you see my confusion?
RIM mobile phones have for years and years (least as long as I remember) had a magnetic sensor. With a official case that has a magnet in, it will turn the screen off and lock the device once it aligns with the magnet in the case - so pop phone into case on your belt and bingo - screen shuts off and phone locks.

So I'm not sure what patent is being violated at all and indeed who's.
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Agreed, and we're aware of it. It's a tradeoff I'm personally willing to make. It's symbiotic and very friendly to us.
There are about 15 national holidays in Japan. Also, if you stay at the same company (which most people tend to do if they can) you're entitled to an additional vacation day every year up to 20 days. So a person with a 5-year tenure will have 15 + 15 = 30 days a year.
Looks like a very cool concept, any idea on when invite will actually be sent out? Also do you have any public docs or other content to look over?
This looks a lot like look.io (http://www.look.io - redirects to LivePerson who recently acquired them), which is already live in and working in a few apps (Hotel Tonight and others iirc).
The Strange, Campy Tale of the Web's Very First Photo
Владимир Познер, Иван Ургант. "Их Италия" (2012) - SATRip
ASAS Foundation offers Kaggle prize to develop open source NLP for education
In the group context, I think this makes a lot of sense. It is similar to Path (which is basically a "group" limited to my closest friend). For every post I make, it shows me which of my friends saw it, and that is convenient and cool.

I think this could work well for small groups of trusted friends (or shared interest groups). For large scale groups of strangers this could be creepy though. I definitely would hate to see it abused by larger brands, etc (or for this to be integrated into the main news feed for that matter)... which unfortunately at this point I can't say I trust Facebook enough to believe they wouldn't try to push it past that limit
I would wager that it was discussed in a meeting there at one time or another.
It needs a way to stop the user messing with a demo - by temporarily disabling certain elements for click events etc?

(I expect this is already an option, but wasn't enabled on the demo on this page.)
What's the minimum number of people necessary to use ZeroCater?
Mods need to take account of context when reviewing titles.

The context the original title in the blog post is totally different from here on HN hence the desirability of a different title. It's just good UX to take into consideration the different end user.
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Doubt it. It would make users self-conscious and reduce engagement.
All this seems to be is Android with a new brand, though. The specs are the same as modern phones and you can already attach a gamepad to Android and your phone to a TV.
That's a ridiculous theory.

The biggest barrier to using Facebook as a communication tool is not knowing how often other people check their messages or groups. This feature solves that and will increase the usage of messages and groups.
Haha, a page of comments (well, 3/4, i stopped scrolling, seen enough!) on HN from Americans living up to their stereotypes.

Top work guys :-P
Inspired by FuzzyDunlop's subcomment to another participant, I have to ask the direct question: does this help Facebook monetize and gain value for shareholders any more than any of its other features? I'm beginning to think that there really is a market for a PAID service where customers (the people paying for the service) are treated like customers, rather than advertisers being treated like the customers. Some of the friends I most like interacting with on Facebook are looking for a service like that. They are annoyed by Facebook's flailing about looking for ways to monetize.
In terms of streamlining a procurement process, you should definitely take a look at Cyber Fast Track which is a huge streamlining of the DARPA process for awarding grants (maybe procurement) done by Peiter Zakto (Mudge).

http://www.cft.usma.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
I think that pretty much everybody sees a single RGP LED as a super cheapr component. Even if they have no domain knowledge.
Spot on and Apples patent pertains to connecting things with magnets (how that got thru I realy don't know beyond patent officers need better drug testing IMHO).

This is a magnetic sensor so Apple can do nothing. Maybe functionality is not enabled and this is why it is not mentioned. There were a few NFC phones that initialy in the earlier days did not mention they had NFC built in as the software was not ready to utilise it. Indeed there are probably many features in phones chipsets that don't get used, but are mearly a software update away. All technology has to some extent undocumented features - undocumented CPU instructions being a classic one of its time. maybe a better example is how some USB TV tuners can act as hardware for software radio's.
Sorry, I didn't grasp that context from your comment.

Since employees are "normal" Facebook users like everyone else, we were also subject to having vanity@facebook.com added to our profiles, and I for one immediately replaced it with my personal email address, just like anyone else can do.

By contrast, our @fb.com address is our "official" account that goes to a standard email client, and has no relation to our actual Facebook profile. Some of us (including me) still prefer to use our personal email address for anything not directly related to work topics.

And for what it's worth, I can vouch for the authenticity of the FBSerkan account on Reddit.
Yeah...that doesn't really "prove" anything. I'll thank you to have some better evidence before claiming things about my true "nature".

I remember traveling in France the summer before the 2008 presidential election. Every newspaper and tabloid on the stands had Obama's face on it.

I'm not saying that a mild preoccupation with American politics is a good thing for the world to have, but to say that it doesn't exist doesn't seem...accurate.
It's a barrier thing.

Our public life is less touchy, but when I'm dating someone I am very affectionate.
It's a better idea to put that info in a gist or an email so it doesn't clutter the thread.
8. We’re Status-Obsessed And Seek Attention

I thought status obsession is a human universal and the cultural variation is in how it's expressed. Am I wrong?

(I'm one of those little-traveled Americans.)
Right now it's 15. One of the reasons that we're able to offer much higher quality restaurants and caterers is that we focus on sizable groups.
Refuting "most people in the world don’t really think about us or care about us" is not refuting a criticism of America.
As an American who has spend over a decade (most my adult life!) abroad, I really can't agree with most of this list.

Living in China (and being able to speak and read Chinese) made it abundantly obvious to me that #1 and #2 are completely wrong. I often encountered either nationalist jabs royal treatment from strangers simply due to what was on TV at the time. In quite a few people I encountered both views. Some told me point blank that they thought that the US was the best place in the world and that they didn't understand why I left... only to change gears minutes later and tell me what a dangerous, terrible country America is. A love-hate relationship with America and Americans is very common in China. In Taiwan, where I lived for 7 years, I pretty much only encountered love. In Guatemala, I saw both, but very muted compared to China. I did encounter some serious hate from some Canadians there, though... I spent hours helping them translate and apartment hunt, after which they realized I was American, not Canadian. Amazingly, this was such a big deal to them that they pretty much forgot my kind deed and blew me off!

As for affection, I think pretty much everywhere I lived in Asia saw Americans as outgoing and affectionate. In Guatemala, we were seen as reserved. I'd put us at the middle of the continuum, not at the extreme non-affectionate end.

Americans aren't that status obsessed. Just look at sales of luxury cars and handbags. Chinese people tend to be status-obsessed. Rich people in the US are surprisingly restrained by comparison.

Ditto on unhealthiness. After moving to the US 2 months ago I find there's very little drinking, people never smoke in offices, not many people smoke at all, and I haven't seen a single scuffle outside a restaurant yet. It's certainly not as health-focused as someplace like Japan, and food portions are too big, but there is a culture of exercise. On the whole I'd say Boulder, Colorado is the healthiest place I've ever lived. SF isn't bad.

I agree that the health care system leaves a lot to be desired. I do miss Taiwan's quite a bit. It amazed me how it was cheap, high quality and somehow supported by a very low tax rate. I prefer the US system to China's or Guatemala's though.

One constant I've found over the past 10 years is that no matter where I live, I encounter American movies at the theaters, news about the US on TV, American restaurants and businesses in the streets, and a lot of people who very much want to understand my home country better. Sometimes it was frustrating when I was looking for total immersion and an experience living someplace completely different from home. My Swedish and Argentinian classmates in Taiwan could go weeks without hearing their mother tongues or seeing anything about their countries in any media, but I could not. Even a single day would be almost impossible because in truth the US is exceptional among countries.

In short, I think this list is closer to a European caricature of the US than it is to reality.
The horrible CERNettes
If people like the government setting up wi-fi hotspots, would people be open to sharing their wi-fi hotspots (securely) for the chance to roam across other wi-fi hotspots? As in, blanket the city in a grass roots network.

Love to see cities that care about their users..er citizens.
We were actually the first ZeroCater customer at Scribd, and we now use ZeroCater at Parse too. We're huge fans. They take care of everything -- from making sure the food actually shows up to changing up the menus based on our feedback and handling dietary restrictions. Also with Leslie managing our account we have absolutely incredible customer service -- she responds to every comment we make on the meals on their site. ZC saves us a ton of time so we can focus on our product and not on worrying about what/when to eat. The catered lunch/dinner also gives our team a nice dedicated time to hang out and chat. Congrats Arram and company on this story! Now don't get distracted and forget about my dinner tonight! :-)
Insane NASA robot short film
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/40524878
If I may be permitted:

If you try to talk about misogyny on a forum that is 98% male, you're going to have a bad time.
A related note about UI design. I've lately been seeing a lot of ads (mostly on Muni) for both ZeroCater and Cater2 (a competitor http://cater2.me). What's interesting is how much better the clean ZC style looks compared to Cater2's ... frankly, amateurish resembling-developer-designed logo.
Thank you for confirming that @fb.com is only for employee's and also for vouching for the authenticity of FBSerkan. Good enough for me and thank you.
This (among other topics) comes up frequently in Go discussions.

No one should say that Go is a replacement for C/C++ for all projects, however, it could be argued that most new, typical projects could be used with Go as opposed to C/C++/Python/etc.

There must be very few languages in the history of programming languages that could be considered complete replacements for others and that does not take anything away from those languages.
It's pretty simple and managed by OSX.

- Select a filetype you'd want to change the default application for and open the File Info (Cmd+I)
- In the "Open with" section, select the app you want to be the default app for the filetype
- To persist the default app along the whole filetype, also click the "Change All" button right below it.
You've been on Hacker News for over 800 days and have over 300 karma so I'm surprised you don't know this, but...

You get a downvote button if you have sufficient karma (likely 500, since this has been verified in the past and I haven't heard otherwise.)

You can verify if you were downvoted based on looking at the points assigned to your own post generally based on if it was greyed out.
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I wonder if they'll start doing this with status updates some time in the future.
It definitely let me know that the market for Ruby on Windows isn't anywhere near what I thought it was.

It's a story that goes back a long way too. Some people care about Ruby on Windows a lot but in the main, nah, Ruby and Windows don't gel and there isn't the mass interest. As true now as when I wrote about this problem back in 2008: http://www.rubyinside.com/is-windows-a-first-class-platform-...

Back at Euruko 2008 I chaired a panel on the topic of Ruby + Windows after a few Windows advocates asked me to get a feel for the what the community though. You could have seen a tumbleweed go across the room of 300 developers! And Matz's opinion was pretty clear: http://blog.flowdock.com/2008/05/29/ruby-release-compatibili...
We all realize that there is no direct measurable effect on government from signing these petitions. And we also realize that signing these petitions and then taking no further action does not make you a hero.

But for god's sake, stop posting about how they're useless every time someone starts talking about one. First off, we get it, some people think they're painfully useless. Second off, just because you can't see any direct effect, or just because the effect wasn't exactly what you wanted it to be, doesn't make them useless. They are a good tool for rallying support behind an idea. They are a good tool for spreading awareness. They are a good tool for getting a cause a little bit of noticeably. They are a good tool for collecting thoughts in a coherent matter so they may be further discussed.

TLDR: We get it. You don't get petitions. Please figure it out or stop complaining. You're not helping a goddamn thing.
You know LCDs have taken over when people don't know the difference between a particle accelerator and a CRT :-).

Basically the guy uses a 45Kv voltage source to 'accelerate' electrons past a grid which then hit a phosphor and emit light (poorly). If he had used mercury vapor he could have created ultraviolet light and then used a phosphor to convert that to visible light and thus make his very own fluorescent bulb.

Now this stuff used to come out every month in Scientific American's Amateur Science column, these days they are afraid to publish such information for fear of being sued. Sad really.
I can't decide if this is good or bad. I don't participate in a lot of FB groups, but I do a lot of politely keeping my mouth shut in other forms of online communication. I think I would feel like I was being put on the spot to say something, particularly in a small group.

A lot of times, I'm not going to lie and agree with that thing someone said, but I also don't want to invest the energy into arguing it with them, either... especially when it's someone who's clearly just looking for accolades and doesn't seem open to criticism.

If the other person knows you saw their message, then there's the potential for them to perceive your lack of response as rude or a show of obvious disagreement.

In huge groups, it wouldn't be an issue, but in smaller, more intimate communities, it could get awkward.
I strongly disagree. I suspect you are looking at this from the 'American Dream' capitalist point of view. Our tax rates might be higher, but this is more than balanced out by our strong social security and healthcare systems which allow us to take risks a silicon valley startup couldn't dream of.

I can only speak for the UK (and lumping all of Europe together is pretty foolish given that it has a range of countries from borderline 3rd world to international superpowers) but in London the tech scene is very much alive and well. I myself work for a middle aged startup (going through some horrible growing pains just now), I love to get involved in the London tech scene and I've talked with plenty of people doing well from startups.
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not that interesting. both logos are good.
Fund another season of 99% Invisible Podcast
I don't understand social coding.
If I'm working on file A and someone is working on file B. I want to compile the project and test the changes I just made to A, But someone happened to break file B, so the project won't compile. Then what?
Banning via cryptographic hashes are honestly better for this, even then. Yes, it's flawed, but I know of nothing better. Name filtering is just a mess. A long time ago, I read up on soundex/metaphone, Levenshtein distance, etc. and wrote what was essentially a search engine for names. When I tried to make it loose enough to catch most common typos, a search for "the jerk" gave my boss as the top result. That was not planned and he was never once a jerk to me.

That said, please understand that I do sympathize with you about artists getting screwed. I just don't want to see solutions where we merely pass the buck to someone else without getting at any of the underlying problems. Frankly, I believe that the solutions lie more along the lines of making sure that artists get their cut, rather than restricting who can listen to music and how. But I certainly don't have all the answers here.
Best. Job Posting. Ever.
That's my guess too - the power management software may need some refinement yet. Or maybe it's perfect, and being pushed upstream... that might keep it from being 'final' as well.
You can silence people without unfriending them? TIL
I always wondered why telcos haven't made a business model out of this. It is too late now that 3g/4g is pervasive and fast enough, but for a period of about 7-8 years they could so easily have wired DSL to all those idle pay phones around the city and I would easily have paid $10/month (or more) to have Wifi connectivity when I was out and about.