skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh that's funny. I just ordered 5 pairs from them to try on, they came yesterday. (http://imgur.com/a/ZRTKi if you're interested in offering an opinion)

I'm really impressed with the build of them. They feel a lot better than my zenni optical pair (which were only 30 dollars, not 95). Hopefully the lens quality is better too (mostly anti-glare I'm concerned about), but I'll have to wait and see.

Also, if you missed their april fools site, it is extremely adorable and well done: http://www.warbybarker.com/

Every pair of glasses has a dog modeling it, ie: http://www.warbybarker.com/sunwear/aldous/
Well, many, many things suck about the App Store and the submitting process, but they are not that important. This one really ruined a lot of people's holiday, tons and tons of angry and 1-star reviews and if I'm not mistaken, people lost local data. If it was a little more widespread, it could've been a real fiasco.
I've bought three pairs of glasses from Zenni. The arm snapped off of my last pair. After that I bought two pair. At $30 each shipped, it's still worth it. The current pair I wear are comfortable and fairly strong (they withstand the beating my twin daughters give them).

The issue with Zenni (and others where the lenses are produced outside the country) is they don't have the stringent quality control standards for lenses you find in the US, Canada and Europe.

If you have a fairly common and simple prescription, go for it. If you need progressives or bifocals, you should probably avoid buying online.
At small enough scales -- and this is one of them -- air is not just a fluid, it is a viscous fluid. Movement will be more like swimming than flying; there won't be any landing or liftoff, so much as grabbing on and pushing off.
The "writes code" part is key to actually using software architects productively.

The times I have seen architects be productive additions it was essentially a job title for "a super-senior-developer who interacts with everyone." The times I have seen an architect be unproductive or a hinderance it was a job title for "someone who spends all their time telling other people how to code." I've even seen architects who were never coders: since I believe high-level design decisions are intimately linked to low-level design decisions the idea baffles me.
great idea. That just might happen.
Honestly, what would an Amazon branded Android experience bring to a smartphone? I suppose I could see why they released a tablet to support their Kindle line, but this doesn't make much sense to me.

They aren't even remotely winning in the tablet game either (<1% market penetration). The Nook is besting them for 4th place.

Obviously they make their money from their controlled store / experience, but does that make up for the difference in R&D and production costs yet?

source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405847,00.asp
I'm pretty sure that's what Tumblr was made for.
I think Zenni and other discount etailers have been around much longer than WB has. I was browsing their sites in '06 or so, and the prices were low as mentioned. I guess WB took the game to a new level with much more intense marketing and branding, aided by the use of snazzy design and curated (ugh) glasses styles.

Nowadays lots of people know about WB but not about Zenni and the other mass-market retailers, which speaks to the success of WB's marketing efforts.
> What's wrong with array_keys? It's extremely useful.

I don't think he was arguing about the utility. I think he meant that: array_keys($aHash); is less desirable than: aHash.keys. Also, if you you really look at the PHP example, the semantics really suck.
Posterous did this, but tumblr won the mindshare, and posterous was acquihired by Twitter.
Yes they are reappearing. Look up "bootkits".
We don't have sufficient control as we are in rental premise.
Superlike your suggestion :)
Is this a bad attempt at trolling? You said "PHP is good b/c it allows a lot of people to be productive". Everything else is equally good at that. Simply not pointing it out doesn't make it go away. So your argument is "PHP is equal to other languages at X", even when you word it as "PHP is good at X" while trying to ignore every other language being equally good at X.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/science/21brain.html?pagew...

This article suggests that it's computationally infeasible even for an organism with only 302 neurons, all of which have already been completely mapped.
Flua programming language in development (Alpha)
All I have to say is this:

http://norvig.com/21-days.html
So true, many times when I've lost sleep over a decision before ultimately saying, "no" I've been surprised that the other party is completely OK with it - I had assumed my saying yes was waaaay more important to them than it really was.
If you are 30 today, then in 40 years you would be 70. Good time to get rich

:-)
Rotten Apple: Apple's lousy design patent lawsuits
Do you mean it just indexes the short "abstract" that's provided of each paper? Or does this even go less, and just builds an index of the URLs only.
You might find this project at Caltech interesting. They are trying to model a worm:

http://caltech.wormbase.org/virtualworm/

I imagine one can eventully extend it from simply representing anatomy to "activating it".
Agreed. It is well-designed.
I was asking about selling your company for equity share of another company. Not cash sale.
cool. I like your work and may be contact you later for design help.
I think two decisions need to be made:

1. Tabs vs spaces.
2. If spaces, what is the indent depth?

Apart from that, people should be able to do whatever the hell they want, within reason.
The #boycottapple hashtag paints a target in the wrong place
Lunch: An Urban Invention
My theory: there's a version number that devs set on an app, and there's another version (say an integer starting from zero) that Apple puts on apps. They bumped their version, leaving app's version intact.
I find the implied range of cell sizes to be amazing. (Informally, it's tempting to view all microscopic biological entities as being similarly small; they're not.)

Here's a cool visual of relative cell sizes and scale:

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/
Breakfast is even better when you eat it for dinner!
MS Outlook: Fixing common problems and issues.
Gizmoduck approves
Cut that daily $5 latte adored by the middle class, let the savings compound annually at 6% for 40 years, and you end up with $300,000.

That sounds like a lot. Would you say that the middle class is hamstringing their upward mobility by drinking lattes? There are several issues with this simplistic analysis. Here are just two. One, it's ignoring inflation and risk. Two, it's playing a psychological trick on readers (and perhaps on yourself) by asking them to superficially compare the utility of two things, $300,000 in the hand 40 years from now vs 14,600 lattes spread over 40 years, that will make the money seem like the obviously better choice to most people.

Actually, it's exceedingly difficult to get a handle on sparse, spread-out utility like in the latte scenario. Eliezer has the thought experiment where he asks you to compare the disutility of one person being tortured vs a million people suffering some trivial inconvenience like having a dust speck in their eyes. There he is spreading the utility over many people rather than over many years for one person, but the issues are strikingly parallel.
This sums it up nicely: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...
Perhaps I didn't explain it as well as I could have done (or I don't fully understand Tumblr) but this would be more of an opportunity for people to put out a single post, without needing the full on "their own tumblr". I'm thinking especially people like me (and much of HN I imagine) who don't have the time to put in in maintaining a blog. With Tumblr and Posterous, you never really own the canvas either - I am looking at something whereby you can choose whether you have ads or not or you can pay etc.

Thank you though for your thoughts - it really helps.
This isn't quite as slick as how word lens does it. Google's translation is likely better, but Word Lens superimposes the translated text back into place on the original image.

Anyone tried to install it on a stock 2.3.3 Nexus One and been told it's incompatible?
Less Confident People Are More Successful
The Diet Solusion Programs - Choosing a Diet that works
The Diet Solusion Programs - Choosing a Diet that works - feeling sluggish or just wanting to be the best that you could be, then your diet offers quite a bit concerning your optimal performance. There have been numerous studies on which diet works the very best.
Once you go absolute-position, it's hard to go back. With a mouse, you need to be aware of where the cursor is; with a tablet you just need to know where you want it to be.
Product quality for Zenni, Goggles4U, and similar have all been excellent for me. I have titanium-flex half-rim glasses that look an awful lot like a pair one of my salescritters wears. Mine cost under $40. His... didn't.

If you have a normal range of eye correction and your face isn't too oddly shaped, I highly recommend these stores.
Reasons to Code for America
How to highlight code in Python
This is also what I see: http://awesomescreenshot.com/07e9uoabe
Show me an investment right now that is returning 6% per year without substantial risk, also to be fair in 40 years $300k is highly likely to be worth much less.

For instance, 40 years ago, $3000 would buy a competent sports car, new, (MGB), and $7500 would buy a V-12 Jaguar (Source: http://www.teglerizer.com/new_car_prices_in_1972.htm). Imagine telling some in 1972 that if they put $50 a month in an investment account, in 2012 they'd have $37,500. That's sound like an enormous sum to them (10 new sports cars!), but when they cashed out this year I bet they'd be underwhelmed with the buying power of all that saving.
Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs?
Who does the eye tests in the US? In UK eye tests are often done through local opticians.

Disclaimer: not using specs at present but probably will be soon, I'm having to hold the books with small print further and further away...
Mr Stiggy
I can't see how you would be making a mistake. To each their own. I love the Bay not just for the business environment, but for the cultural environment, which is just about as unique as the entrepreneurial environment.

I feel confident that I could meet dozens of new cool and interesting people a month if I wanted to. I don't know if I would click as much with people in other locales (not even NYC - too neurotic for me).
Yeah, beautiful and charmingly funny video.

Does anyone know what the waltz used was? Strauss?
I thought the Segway killer was the cost and confusion about how to integrate it with traffic codes. The Ryno doesn't appear to solve either of these problems.
It's a largely necessary phrase because "I'm a sophomore" is otherwise ambiguous if you just finished your sophomore year or are just about to start your sophomore year.
That would be great, if you were living sometime between the years 1960 and 2000. I don't know if you've heard, but we've had a rather spectacular economic downturn since then. 5-year CDs are less than 2% interest; 1-years are a little less than 0.8%. (The corresponding rates for the stock market are too volatile to quote.)
It's interesting in a way. When people have conversations with me about all of the popular topics (news, politics, religion, sports, etc.), they'll ask what I think about some issue, and normally I'll say that I don't know enough about the subject to comment.

Don't do this! I've learned it makes everyone think you're antisocial.

So the goal is to keep discussing the topic, but in a manner that doesn't make yourself seem like an expert if you're not.
I think it looks really nice! if i really had to criticize something it would be that the login/register links look quite out of place! but other way is nice.
If you struggle to schedule, which you don't seem to, you can de-schedule.

What I do is schedule time for goofing off (browsing) that way the rest of the time is focused on what I have to do. Granted it helps listing the tasks but I struggle to complete tasks in allotted time frames.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker -> Waltz Of The Flowers
Oh certainly it wouldn't be an accurate representation, it'd have to just "guess" with a generic model transformed to closely match the position/shape/skin tone of the person. Anyway, didn't mean to get off topic (or sound horribly creepy!), it's just that there are a million "interesting" (in good or bad ways) apps that people will be playing with once they have these powerful, programmable devices that can filter/overlay their view of the world in real time. It will be a fundamental change in the way people interact with the world — whether you're wearing them or not, if this catches on, many of the people around you will be. Right now we all have a pretty good idea of what other people are seeing — in most cases its roughly what we're seeing, just from a different location; in the not too distant future, that may not be so.
I use the Harmony One remote to control my whole setup, including Roku. It's not cheap, and it's a PITA to program (have to tether it to a computer to do it), but it works like a charm.

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/remotes/universal-remotes/harm...
Congratulations for making it to the front page of Hacker News. Have an upvote! :)
Chrome Canary
SO as soon as someone cracks/leaks the Microsoft key, they can compromise all the Arm tablets?

Disclaimer: Not a programmer and not into details of hardware, just interested
More posts like these need to go up on HN. I became a developer during the first boom (97) and spent countless all-nighters working on products for companies that simply no longer exist. I remember sleeping at the office, being up for days in a row, all that work for software that is probably stored in an IT closet, or purchased and used simply for the patents.

With this second boom and it's Hackathons and 2-week-challenges I find myself saying "No" quite often. "No, this is my daughter's soccer practice.", "No, I have a dinner date with my wife." and so on.

I stil work on startup ideas and I tend to take on more than I can chew. But now if I've got to make a choice between finishing a product or being a good parent/husband I'll take the latter.
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I love WP. I've bought three pairs from them. They have free try-on with free return shipping. And you get glasses anti-reflective, polycarbonate lenses for less than a frame alone if you bought them retail.
Site looks cool. Just a heads up, you've got a bit of php "*/?>" showing on your buy now text.
Yahoo Open Hack India 2012
I am not a developer but a few people I know were able to score freelance gigs by creating open source software for businesses and blasting them.

One guy created a small utility for text expansion and easy to program keyboard shortcuts, hundreds of these exist, he emailed the Git URL to several businesses in the area who he thought would find it useful. They replied and now he has clients asking to modify/enhance his open source software.
AT&T to launch new blocking service for stolen devices on July 10th
Ask HN: Does Twitter access your Facebook friends list when you sign up?
I signed up for a twitter today whilst logged in to Facebook. In the first screen where twitter suggests people to follow, there were a few people I was friends with on Facebook and there were a few pages I had liked on FB. Does twitter somehow access my FB account to get this information? Or was it perhaps random chance?
HP says Itanium, HP-UX not dead yet
Checkout our site http://jackpotbuddy.com and see if it would be a fit for Italian market. If yes, then would love to chat more.
The amoeba is as big as a grain of salt? It must be visible with the naked eye, then, no? I had no idea it was that big...
You're right. People should be clearer when touting the benefits of SV. It's really about VC-backed startups that require venture capital (VC's are notoriously adverse to funding faraway startups) and that require access to talent that's willing and able to work 70+ hour weeks face to face with other hackers and entrepreneurs.

There are exceptions, but that's the general model and people have made billions with it so arguing against it is an uphill battle.
Best of luck to them. I hope they succeed to the point where interesting ethical issues are raised.
7,400 seems very capable of being simulated. In fact, that's a small enough number that I'll bet you could map those connections out by hand with some type of microscope.

To someone more knowledgeable in this subset of biology, is this possible?
To solve the security issue, the bookmarklet could perform some sort of hash checking on the source and refuse to run if it's changed.

The question is, can a hash function and verification logic be made small enough for this to be viable?
Sure, but they can still steer cases away from him, no?
Your analysis of the source is misleading. The statistic reported is that the Kindle Fire captured .71% of web traffic as recorded by Chikita, an ad network.

I'm not saying your conclusion is incorrect, but I'd like to see a more definitive statistic regarding market penetration. Overall, I agree; if Amazon's main goal is to drive content sales, I don't see why entering the smartphone market at this point is the best move.
The problems you will face are not obvious and immediate problems. For example, a year from now, a server might fail, and you find out that you can no longer obtain that specific model of motherboard or RAID card that was used in that server, so you have to replace the entire thing (purchase all new). Or, you find that a drive in your RAID array fails and you can no longer get a drive with the exact same model and disk geometry as the other disks in the RAID, so you are unable to rebuild the RAID and have to basically start from scratch.

The main reason why you should go with real server type components is the support lifetime. You can be fairly confident that you can get replacement parts be it CPU, memory, raid controller, motherboard, or disk drive, for at least 5 years after purchase. Otherwise you will find that when your components die, you will be completely unable to repair them due to lack of available parts.

Good luck to you, but I've been down this road before and if you cut corners in the beginning, it usually costs you more money to do it right later on.
Good to hear. Related: a good article by Eric Ries on how in many situations within a startup technical debt can be used effectively.

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/07/embrace-technic...
How very cynical indeed. Speaking as a software architect, sometimes it's important to get people to lift their heads up from the day to day adding value and look at new technologies. Many times developers are so focused on the bug/feature du jour, that they aren't aware there are other ways to do things, possibly better.

Having been a developer for a long time, the thing I have found is how much technology repeats itself, and how at its core, its all very much the same. The same algorithms I have used, like bloom filters or priority queues for example, have application in social networks and 3d rendering engines etc. Having done most software paradigms, an architect us supposed to know which ones work, and when they work.

I haven't written slides or visio in years. Nor have I been to Aruba :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre
In 1998 I would have said, "because it's elite."

In 2012 it's because I got swag.
As someone who would consider himself a windows expert, I will not buy or use windows 8. I tried the consumer preview, and was extremely confused and felt betrayed more than anything else. They tried to fix something that wasnt broken, and it really makes me question their priorities.
Thanks for confirming my point. But, I'm afraid I can't confirm your presages.
Hey!, it's seems pretty similar indeed, obviously your lib seems to have a lot more of work put into it than my quick hack, seems pretty cool.
reminds me of another quote...

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

~ Jim Rohn
Is it really bad to gloat when right? When people are right, let them gloat. Why does that matter? As long as they aren't trying to make the people who were wrong feel bad about it.
Wow, this is so much fun to play with.
I sorry, I made a mistake. The monthly rate isn't $1,200 but $1,100.

I'm not sure it is worth it and cramming 10 people in a room for $40/night feels exploitative, particularly as there are many options nearby that cost less and come with a private room. [1]

They're making a decent amount of cash from this and they're shrewd business people if they're able to rent out a single, sparse room for somewhere between $11,000 to $12,000 per month, just by positioning it as for hackers! I have a lot of respect for their marketing and business savvy!

[1] http://www.airbnb.com/s/Castro--San-Francisco--CA?room_types...
Have been waiting for this to come to Android for awhile now but sadly it doesn't seem to want to install on my Nexus One. Says it only requires Android 2.3.3+ and I have 2.3.6. Oh well, add another reason on the pile to replace this phone despite still loving it over the new Nexus models.
Note that she didn't address Facebook, at all. She confined her comments to Google+.

So, while the FB comparisons may be appropriate to conversation here, they do not -- in my view -- imply a weakness in her argument. She left FB outside the scope of what she was saying and whom she was addressing.

P.S. Upon rereading, I do note this bit:

particularly when there are other social networking alternatives with simpler privacy settings.

which perhaps weakens my original argument in this comment somewhat.
What irks you about email?
Hi HN,

I am working with a team of hackers on an app seeking to redefine the mobile email experience, and finally eliminate the obsolete concept of an inbox.
As we're getting ready for alpha testing of our prototype, here's a question for you that I'm sure many will have an answer to ready on their mind: what irks you most about email on your phone? And, in an ideal world, how should that aspect of mobile email be changed?
Google Spreadsheets predates the Writely purchase and in any case, that purchase was in 2006, 6 years ago, so almost certainly Google Docs is 2-3 code rewrites past whatever the Writely team wrote.
> "if there weren't any government intervention, then they wouldn't have to pay any lobbyists."

That thought experiment doesn't help though, since at the level of abstractions we are talking on, just having courts to enforce normal contract law can be construed as "intervention" of a kind. Wolves of various kinds typically decry shepherds for not allowing them the liberty to eat of the flock. The whole point of this civilization thing is to pull us a bit above/out of the state of nature. So "no government intervention" isn't a viable setting for a civilization.
We use Pivotal Tracker, Github, Campfire, Google Docs, Dropbox. That's about it!