skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly didn't mean to break it! It does seem however under Safari OS X it doesn't like alt + 3 for hash, which for the C++ ones is a big thing.
Oddly enough that can sound good or bad but the wave directly caused ~15,000 deaths, so on that scale it's not really an issue.
Thanks for the js library recommendations. I've taken a look at keymaster, and it's mostly focused around modifier keys used in shortcuts. I'm currently using google closure library, but I will need to add more key recognition and failsafes in case there is a unrecognized keyboard layout.
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At home, you should be eating everything on the plate. If you are regularly getting full from that, that is a sign you are taking/making too much food in the first place. In that case, the waste occurred before the food was put on the plate.
You need to add some CSS to account for extra pixels the responsive navbar uses. Also, the JavaScript for the navbar menu does does not seem to be working.
There's a saying in nursing: "If it's wet, dry it. It it's dry, wet it."

I think we need the same thing in programming.

If it's slow, make it faster.
If it's unreadable, make it readable.
If it's coupled, decouple it.

Then just stop worrying if we fall into official definitions of unit, integration, collaborator, mock, stub, double, etc. I swear we spend more time as an industry arguing about that stuff than actually writing code, myself included.
But I didn't pit one against the other, did you read the article?
That would be an ideal compromise in my opinion - for what it's worth the inclusion of the watermark on every page bothered me as well.
Ah ha, I missed that. Good work!
Having a good product is necessary, but far from sufficient.
A way for women and minority to make bootstrapping easier
I made something similar except you can practice using any Gist you want. http://newtonapple.github.com/Gistype/#1 It still needs some work on the current cursor movement for longer Gists, but the basic functionality is there. No login required, just type. :) Note that if you have Vimium installed, you'll have to put the URL on your "excluded URLs" list.
In other news the traditional American diet contains serving sizes 40% too large.
Victor Davis Hanson, through hard work and luck, has parlayed his Stanford Classics PhD into a successful career as classicist, military historian, columnist, and conservative pundit. I just finished A War Like no Other http://www.amazon.com/War-Like-Other-Athenians-Peloponnesian... which I recommend, but I don't think it's odd for him to write this. Even with hard work most folks with liberal arts degrees won't see much success in liberal arts endeavors, but more specifically I think he was referring to farming, which is a side hobby for him and liberal arts degrees in his family did not contribute to success with the family homestead.
"Food is simply too good to waste," the report says. "Given all the resources demanded for food production, it is critical to make sure that the least amount possible is needlessly squandered on its journey to our plates."

Is this some kind of religion I haven't heard of?
I think this is a case where it's probably best to look at regular compensation and take stock options out of the evaluation. A high strike price and a majority owner who wants to keep the company private mean that there is low likelihood for a significant upside.

After a year you will need to come up with $180,000 to exercise your options. That's real money for a small ownership stake with no control - i.e. it would pave a substantial runway with ramen for your own startup. Sure, if the stock is up above the strike price, you could borrow and then sell for a profit - but that's likely to be in the annual bonus range (a few thousands) rather than home run money.

Two additional pieces of advice: make sure that you understand the tax implications, and be sure to read over any buy/sell agreement carefully.

Good Luck.
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I'm not sure we really disagree, if I understand your response correctly. I _do_ think there can be improvement (and, probably, should).

My main objection was calling for using a device that is expensive, requires special/additional phone plans, and doesn't _really_ solve the problem (especially for most of the global population). I have a rather diverse set of friends by age, income and technical experience - and smartphones aren't the majority.
I'd argue that the waste occurs when you take more than you need - making too much of something isn't waste unless you don't keep your leftovers.
Perhaps, but open wifi often only allows 443 and 80.
> HTTP is a huge, hefty, inefficient and complex protocol

It's starting to sound like you've never used CORBA.
Or, in the case of one's kids, putting too much food on their plate to begin with. Assuming one's kids aren't in charge of their own portion control.
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There's a strong undercurrent of "silver bullet thinking" in the US, and it dovetails nicely with the relatively recently named "Lottery Effect":

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/03/21/rising-wealt...

The two above things combined with the short-termist culture that is still going strong in this country help explain the appeal of the magic of "just one thing."
Testimonial from their website Our video jumped from 0 to over 500,000 YouTube views in one weekend.

Very smart idea - making out of the shady YouTube-view-buying dealings a legitimate business.
Is there an AirPlay compatible app for linux?
From what I see, it is based on YouTube. I'm not too familiar with YouTube's ad rules but can Google pre-fix any video with an ad? If so, can someone else put their ad (via YouTube ads) before my Virool video ad?
You keep referencing things I made no mention of "mentality that carefully-documented work is a substitute for results", "set out to achieve a result and receive instead a detailed log of steps that failed to produce it", "the strategy of producing volumes of well-groomed data".

I don't see how you managed to fantasize all that from my suggestion about the potential utility of an easy, concise way to share what I'm working on and how with someone.

"That's bad idea." - Fine.
"No one cares." - Cool.
"Don't try to hide your failure to produce results behind a pretty status chart." - What the fuck are you talking about?

That's where the topic of intent came from, you keep baking it into your judgments.

By this point in the tangent I thought the interesting topic was why you seem to think that the work or method behind a specific result is irrelevant?
HTTP implements an architectural style which ensures reliability, scalability, decoupling of systems and support for hypermedia for a complex network of disparate, unreliable systems and networks.

Do you have any suggestion that provides the same features, or should we forgo them because HTTP is "hefty"?
I understand (and my budget may vary differently from yours). But the original poster's point was that if you have a number of these services (similar to Mint), then it sort of sucks having to check x different sites for a general overview of your "status".

EDIT: I saw your above comment and you make a good point about different check-in times.
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Thanks for the bug report. I'll look into what's happening with your key inputs on Safari.
I am always skeptical of headlines calling for making something more "efficient".

Waste is a funny concept.

Consider what eliminating it would do:

* reduced consumer spending

* loss of jobs (farming/warehousing/transportation/retail)

* less money "perishing" (literally) -> inflation

Waste, for lack of a better word, is good.
If I was in China and looked at microsoft.com, I would think they were absolute idiots if it didn't default to Chinese. If you don't localise for all your major territories from your .com domain and force them to use a country domain instead, then you should shoot your marketing director immediately.
I appreciate the amount of thought you've put into this, but let me try to raise a question.

Matter is a pretty well defined thing. 'Experiential Stuff' on the other hand, seems to be less defined. If it means human or human-like experiences, I think we can all agree that moss most probably doesn't have that. If it means something else, then anyone claiming that moss has it should first define what it is.

If I said (for example) that moss is gerclectic, I would first have to define what gerclectic means. Absent of a definition, I actually said nothing.

If 'Experiential' does not mean human or human like experiences, what does it mean?
The world needs another piece of closed source, proprietary infrastructure written in an obscure language?

My number one rule for infrastructure software: never, ever build your business on closed source software. Doesn't matter if it's free, or costs tens of thousands of dollars per month to operate, or is written by a superhuman like developer. You will be hurt Every. Single. Time. if you do.
Unfortunately, from what I've read, the image is somewhat degraded -- you won't be getting Retina-level resolution.
Uncovering "Stealth" Plair - Floodgate and Maples Next Big Idea
So much for staying stealth(http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/22/shhh/)

I'll take the liberty of releasing it now just because it was so easy to gain access to the site. Just use FB to connect and your in. This is exactly why staying in so called "stealth" is ridiculous. Sorry but this reminds me of Color.com release.

"As in stop being in stealth mode. Stop asking for advice. Stop doing your start-up. You're not ready."

htt://Plair.com

http://bit.ly/PZuZcq
http://bit.ly/MNfZNB
http://db.tt/39VifwBv
http://db.tt/kkPiZMNk
http://db.tt/NbPNRAXO
Can't wait to read it - it would be really helpful if the chapters in the table of contents linked to the content
So much for staying stealth(http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/22/shhh/)

I'll take the liberty of releasing it now just because it was so easy to gain access to the site. Just use FB to connect and you're in. This is exactly why staying in so called "stealth" is ridiculous.

"As in stop being in stealth mode. Stop asking for advice. Stop doing your start-up. You're not ready."

htt://Plair.com

http://bit.ly/PZuZcq
http://bit.ly/MNfZNB
http://db.tt/39VifwBv
http://db.tt/kkPiZMNk
http://db.tt/NbPNRAXO
I would ask them if they feared computers, which are more complex, more recent, and used to control almost everything.
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Great idea! I just added backend function to your prototype. The dashboard UI is at:
http://s.myezapp.com/demo5/app/ezstatus/guest/dashboard.ws
The admin UI is at:
http://s.myezapp.com/demo5/app/ezstatus/pages/taskslistpage....

Please login as demo5/demo5 to use the admin UI.

It comes with complete source code. Please feel free to take it from there and improve it. Thanks!
> Complexity of Scala has been debated many times. Just because a language adds some new concepts and is different than other mainstream languages, is not enough to call it "complex".

It seems to me that the JVM community has moved on from Scala and is actively looking for a language that offers most of the benefits that Scala offers without the downsides.

Kotlin (from JetBrains) and Ceylon (from RedHat) seem to be the first two languages with a really interesting take on this problem. Gosu and Fantom are similar attempts, although I think these two already failed to gain traction.
I really enjoyed this until I got stuck on level 3. I have a bunch of ideas about what the solution might be but I'm not good. Are there any websites with challenges similar to this that are more geared towards someone that isn't so great at this sort of thing? A "beginner" at security stuff?
Thanks.

I'd been theorizing that some of the baffling responses here are the result of folks are seeing the world purely through the lens of a specific type of company.
Well done on the NoScript front. It's rare to see a site on HN that requires JS and falls back to a nice explanation of why it needs JS (Instead of just stating the fact, or worse, displaying a white page).
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What about these 37signals bootstrapped profitable projects? http://37signals.com/bootstrapped
I can't up vote this enough. Things from _way_ outside of my confort zone, just from the last week due to my kids (I have 2 teenage girls):

Coaching Softball (I generally dislike base/softball)
Sewing
Marathon training
teenage interpersonal relationships

Kids are great for new experiences. Especially if you encourage _them_ to take on new experiences, invariably you will also get to experience new things.
A couple of things I don't see on a quick scan of the docs:

(1) I don't see how one Tent entity contacts another proactively - it looks like A can't message B unless B has already chosen to follow A. If this is so, is it an anti-spam measure? Given that StatusNet etc. are infested with spam, it seems like a very wise one :-) On the other hand, it is rather limiting as compared to centralized platforms, don't you think?

(2) I don't see how you maintain the promise of a portable identity when your identities are hosted URIs. Eg, if my identity is tent.is/foobar, and I want to move to a different host, how do I do that? I can download my data, sure. It looks like I can even bounce from tent.is to another data server. But unless I want to break all my social connections, don't I remain at the mercy of tent.is? This strikes me as a rather unsolvable problem, but it would be reassuring to clarify that you're not solving it :-)
You're right-- Our plan is to get the protocol and reference server functioning for general use. We're mindful of the notes made here: http://liberationtech.tumblr.com/post/13377461578/how-the-ne.... We have some thoughts on adoption tactics and strategy, but the master plan is still under development. All insights are welcome.

edit: wow, wrong link.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
I'd agree w/ the "waste is good" thesis if not for the fact that, at least in the US, we're not really paying the true cost for the environmental impact associated with food production. Less waste would mean less food production and less environmental impact.

Perhaps it's just me, but I've always felt like wasting anything that has scarcity-- food, water, etc-- is just a morally bad thing to do.
That would be wonderful. I notice that a lot of people are really generous with bonuses for their imaginary companies. But people with actual companies are always kinda stingy. What's up with that?!
I'd be more willing to agree with that line of reasoning if generating the wasted items wasn't consuming scarce resources in the first place (fresh water and gasoline/diesel in particular). Putting pressure on the demand for water and fuel just to keep more people's time occupied seems like a bad idea to me.
Sure, 37s products are good enough to spread by word of mouth, and they have an awesome customer base, so stricly speaking they don't need any press. They could shutter their blog and stop all interviews and continue on as a successful business indefinitely.

However if you're a young company learning the ropes and looking to emulate 37s' success, you have to first understand that 37s is a company that is built on PR. They were around for years doing consulting work before they ever built a single product. They were one of the early noteworthy web design blogs, and they built a significant audience right around the time people were figuring out how to go beyond brochure websites. So when Basecamp launched in 2004 they had the most valuable possible audience in the palm of their hands. It didn't hurt that true web applications were in their infancy, and they were essentially competing with bloated desktop software like MS Project, but it's important not dismiss their reach in the web design blogosphere. Without that, there's no telling if the product would have had the uptake to become their sole focus or whether they would have gone back to more consulting work.
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I'm glad someone noticed! I hope you whitelisted typing.io in noscript:)
Matasano also likes interns! I worked with them for the past two summers and can't say enough good about the experience. You will learn (or get to practice) the things tptacek mentioned above as well as web apps, mobile, ruby, a staggering amount of crypto, and whatever else you find interesting to work on or ask about. If you're into this stuff, check them out!
Without judging the statement, I would say that there is a strong moral component to it.
Ask HN: What are the most useful tools for freelancers?
Anything that makes you, as a freelancer, more money by using it than you would make without it.
While, I understand on principle why he thinks he should be allowed to fly wearing any political statement he wishes - it's the kind of principle I had when I was less than 30. Nowadays, I completely understand and appreciate why passengers don't want to fly on a plane with someone who was wearing a shirt that had the phrases, "Moisture BOMBS", "Terrorists gonna kill us all", "Alert Level Blood Red."

At a certain point, you really don't want, "that guy" flying on your plane, and I'm happy the pilot made the call he did.

In the future - perhaps different attire might be considered before boarding a plane.
I don't see why pilots need to have the power to boot passengers. At all. That's why TSA supposedly exists. Racist objections from passengers should not be able to lead to other passengers getting booted from flights.
* more consumer money available for spending in areas with more overall economic growth potential?
And what about XMPP? It has private messages. If run in a similar way to tent (single user per server/domain?) then switching service provider is exactly the same. "No standard API" ... isn't the protocol an API?
Well, as someone in the last two weeks who:

a) already is using Scala

b) already is using Akka, and

c) wanted a monitoring tool for both (which is part of the "Typespace Stack")

and contacted Typesafe about their subscription, I can tell you that none of this matters for people on HN, product-wise. Their "console" is an obscene amount of money per node per year. Yes, PER NODE.

With just a few nodes, it's literally cheaper to just build it yourself, even if you had to hire a Scala contractor to do it.

So forget scaling linearly up with Typesafe's actual product – you can't afford it.

That said, Scala and Akka are awesome and at least they'll continue to be developed for awhile now.

Play! 2 is cool as well, but being limited to one Play! app per JVM is something we couldn't live with, so we've moved on to Socco.
The hash (#) character isn't working for me (UK layout keyboard, Firefox 10 on Ubuntu).
This seems to work by periodically grabbing a data file like http://www.dsny.com/g2/data/arizona/13m.1, and then the javascript appears to extract base64 encoded .jpgs out of that which it plays back to make the video?

What's interesting is that each of the jpg's appear to have big black portions, so it's obviously doing a sort of overlay/compression type thing and stitching complete images back together.

Anyone got any clues on the audio part?
Ask HN: Know any good maths heuristics?
For instance, I find the 'rule of 70' very useful - if you want to know how long a quantity will take to double at a given rate of growth, divide that rate into 70 to find how many time periods or iterations it will take. So eg. if population grows at 7% per year, then it will be double after (approx.) 70/7=7 years.

Know any other good ones?
I feel uncomfortable boarding planes with guys wearing NASCAR hats, subtly racist tattoos, etc.

Can I get those passengers kicked off, too? Or is it only non-white liberals who get booted?
This is not confined to food. In my house probably 40% of cheap imports end up in the trash in a year or two. During WWII, fully half the U.S. economy was devoted to the war effort. Nobody starved, they just drove on bald tires and stayed in the same house. We need a carbon tax (or a consumption tax, for the climate change deniers) and this sort of thing would disappear.
I did ;-)
So why can't your dashboard show different metrics each day? You can just configure the different widgets to show up at different frequencies.

Perhaps your 401k widget only shows up the first time you log in each quarter. Your weight tracking widget only shows up Monday morning. Your banking and monthly budgeting widget shows up daily. Your Amazon order shipping widget shows up only when you have an open order. Your meal plan widget shows up all the time.

You can choose which widgets you want. If you're poor and don't have a 401k, don't turn on the 401k widget. If you're rich and skinny and don't have problems maintaining either of those, don't turn on the budgeting and weight loss widgets. But a shared dashboard doesn't imply everything on the same frequency.
This is a great suggestion. Every day I see a Show HN or two that are probably losing potential users due to the lack of product information or overload of it. Today Tent.io falls in the latter category, way too much going on for me to digest at-a-glance. I just want a paragraph-pitch, if that.
>I assume that the other interviews are also exactly what the product owners wanted to put out there. //

So, poor interviewer? Or was that not meant to be as backhanded as it reads??
If you are implying most of the waste is too large serving sizes, then they are closer 67% too large.
Just wear a plain tee.