skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We built a tool to create links for embedding in personal sales/marketing emails. When clicked, an XMPP message gets posted to the sender. We've found this is a great time to follow up with a phone call: "Hey, did you get my email?" "Funny you should ask, I actually have your site open right now" "Really? Great timing! So, what are your first impressions?" ;)

It's a winning idea to follow up when it's at the very front of the recipient's mind. The tool also gives you feedback if nobody ever clicks on the link, or if it gets passed around to other colleagues.

Simple. Do it today.
Online Education: What Is Desperately Needed Meets What Is Suddenly Possible
“While i have my issues with Win 8 the idea of a tablet where I can use real programs, and not just apps, for the same price as an Android tablet makes my next purchase a no-brainer (insert/insult joke here).”

According to Microsoft, its Intel tablets (the only ones capable of running regular Windows programs) are going to cost the same as ultrabooks [1]

I also have doubts about the usability of running regular Windows programs on a tablet. They're optimized for mouse+keyboard, not small touchscreens.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228292/FAQ_What_we_d...
How does this compare to Mr Social? : http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/mrprivacy.pdf
Here is example of a predicted map: http://www.votenight.com/p/1tptn
I think you're grossly over-estimating the difficulty of defining a protocol. It's no more difficult than defining the protocol for which you'll use HTTP as transport.

Load balancers know how to load balance straight TCP. HTTP caching servers are an HTTP-centric idea.

The 'libraries' you'll need can be much, much smaller when all you need is a bit of framing and serialization, instead of a complete complex RFC compliant HTTP client stack.
I do. We are the 1% - from which we can try to separate another 1%, but there's no point unless one's only drive is jealousy, because somebody will always have more.

The problem is when a 1% behaves in a way that tries to hold back the others, does not scale - or even just conflicts with the moral values of the 99%.

Like in throwing away food.
Leaked iPhone 5 Parody (Video)
What's your primary purpose as a human?
Yes, but many open wifi hotspots at commercial institutions only have 80 and 443 open.
Hmmm.... it just occurred to me... what do you think would happen if they threw the man off because he was wearing a clown outfit? That seems pretty ridiculous to me. But let's consider the number of people that have a genuine fear of clowns. Is it still ridiculous? I still think so. But if this was all about making sure that all of the passengers felt comfortable, then it would seem perfectly acceptable to toss a man for dressing like a clown. But that does not seem acceptable at all. Just like when Billie Joe Armstrong got tossed because his pants were saggy[1]. And he's a god damn rock star!

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/billie-joe-armstrong-kic...
I worked at a company where the husband was the CEO and the wife reported to him. But at home it was pretty clear the wife made the decisions and the husband reported to her. As a result we got to experience the CEO making some decision which the wife disagreed with, only to have the decision changed the next day after they had spent some time out of the office. It was uncomfortable for everyone, and ultimately fatal to their marriage.
I can't and won't speak to any supposed trends, but Marissa got "side-lined" because she was despised by nearly everybody.

She mistreated everyone who answered to her or met with her in a meeting for years on end, the upper-ups' patience for that understandably evaporated. They gave her the best they could manage at the time, which was to shelve her so she wouldn't keep pissing people off.
As I (and my now partner Eevee) race towards the level 8 finish line, I don't feel quite the same. I see us making limited progress and see the number of people finishing level 7 rising, haha. This is fun, though.
Except aren't most of these hypothetical tablets running on ARM so the actual software on the market now that will run on them is 0. Some stuff will get recompiled in ARM for them, but far from all of windows software out now. So we'll see.

And real apps aren't designed for tablet. So we'll see how much fun running desktop designed apps on a tablet really is.

I'm sceptical.
As an aside, you should also note that you can interact with the X clipboard from within vim or gvim. It's represented by the * register, so you can do things like "[asterisk]p to paste from other programs or "*Y to yank to them. Replace [asterisk] with the actual symbol. HN thought I was trying to italicize.
Despite how much awesomeness goes into it, the final product sadly leaves me unable to think of anything but two words: uncanny valley.
The universe has so far remained silent on the question. It's vanishingly unlikely that I have any objective "purpose," but that's only my opinion.
your approach to convince the founders

Just ask.

Seriously.
Why We Are Using Geekli.st - a Hyper Community
Unfortunatelly suffering from the same problems, as soon as I type : or ( or = or anything other than normal characters, I get errors. :( Cool typing experience other than that!
Hey now, don't dehumanize yourself! A dashboard of your life could summarize the boring, fiddly details that you have to keep track of -- budget, to-do items, reminders, package tracking, whatever -- so that you can stop wasting time thinking about them. You are more interesting than your credit card bill, or your list of upcoming events, and automating that crap would almost certainly be a net win for you as a person. Or me, for that matter.
Currently there's an option to tweet your results after you finish any entire lesson. However, I will consider adding more sharing opportunities.
Seriously, how does your hypothetical situation relate in any way to what was asked? How exactly do you equate selling a company to murder?
It's a really good idea for their stock price. I think they would REALLY become something of a juggernaut if they did that though.

I wonder how many years they could get away with it before the government broke them up?
What I'd like to know is how come so many informed people, from all political sides, understand and want nuclear power, yet still we seem unable to endorse it?

This is simple math. Worried about energy? For the price of the stimulus you could give nuclear energy production a huge kick in the ass, make electricity cheaper for electric cars, and still get the stimulus you wanted.

Politics. Meh.
I love it!

One tiny piece of criticism though: when calculating the percentage of unproductive keystrokes, divide by the number of ALL keystrokes, not just the correct ones.
Flagged.

This should not be on the front page. It provides no value unless you want to read a SV tabloid article.
Well, I meant from the video the developer put up - I'd love to get a hold of it too (would like to try splitting HDMI and putting Android over many).
I'm using a standard Brazilian keyboard. The colon was mapped to the US layout location, but I could not type {, even though I knew the location on a US layout. Maybe because that key is a dead key here.

I would be very glad if there were an "ignore layout" option that dropped support for any layout difference, so I could type as in a US layout and at least finish the exercises.
What's your comments on browsing videos like this?
I believe thumbnails are outdated for video consuming. A better way is to let people easily see what's inside a video.
That's completely understandable if true, but it's something we only have your word on. Makes her Yahoo! role more interesting, if nothing else.
Plunk - An easy way to test clicks on a mobile phone.
It has nothing I need. I need something that shows my bank balance, bills that need to be paid, some stupid very stupid things like preparing some tax documents etc.. So, it's very far away from being my dashboard.
Verizon: "Chrome and Firefox Have Limited Internet Capabilities, Unlike IE"
Society has evolved to the point where many people are regularly traveling long distances. Flying itself has become an integral part of this travel, to the point that driving or taking the train across the country is seen as adventurous. Flight transport is a commodity provided by many carriers in a mature market. The economics of and reliance on this market may change in the future, but as it stands, this commodity is relied upon by the modern world.

To say that carriers should be able to selectively revoke this abstraction and deny travel to specific individuals is to give them the power to force arbitrary rules on anyone who relies on this infrastructure. This would make all rights subject to the whims of the airlines.
Can the same rating calculation used on Hacker News?
This protest was extremely effective. His message has reached thousands of people and I wouldn't be surprised if Delta s actually looking into their policies.
The Lost Decade of the Middle Class
To channel patio11, you should probably raise your prices.

If your book does what it says, it's going to mitigate some of the risk of deciding what path to go down when starting a startup. That's potentially weeks/months/years that you might be saving me from chasing after an idea.

That's worth a lot more than $15 (and especially $3.75)

I'm selling my new book for $39 - and that's a discounted, prepurchase rate! But the value proposition is "if you read this book, and do what it says, and happen to raise your rates by even a $1 - that's another $2k in your pocket this year." Emphasize that your book will help people not waste time chasing the white rabbit, and you can charge a premium.
Is the Galaxy Note 10.1 the same as the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1? I'm confused by the naming.
Well, it's certainly inflammatory but given who it is and what it's about, I think it is probably relevant to this community. Although, the article itself doesn't quote any solutions or anything like that from McClure so it's not a very education article. I could see it both ways in terms whether it should be flagged or not.
> If you study religion, you will see that they grow and adapt naturally.

Yes -- but only when everything else has failed. For example, when confronted by science, the Church began by burning all the heretics ("natural philosophers") they could lay their hands on, then imprisoning them, then negotiating with them, and finally, when the Church's survival was clearly at stake, embracing a kind of science that doesn't threaten dogma.

> An example would be Vatican II.

An example of the replacement of one dogma with another.

> Yes, many Catholics believe papal decrees to be infallible, they are idiots.

Yes -- religion's natural constituency.

> Does that mean that science is bad?

Science is not a moral arbiter and doesn't dictate behaviors as religion does. So individual misbehaviors don't reflect on science as they might in religion.

Conclusion? Science and religion aren't even comparable -- they serve different purposes.
I think in this case it's mostly down to the fact that the robot (fore)head stays perfectly still while the human head wobbles about naturally.
I think github is a nice choice for a site like this, you could even do a rudimentary look through their public repositories to see what languages they generally use and give targeted examples.
Of course, there's nothing stopping AOL from doing a POST or PUT request either, or a DELETE for that matter.
This is awesome, but whats supposed to happen when I mis-type? It is not allowing me to keep typing or re-type again, it just freezes.
Really great post with 2 super relevant examples to interview and test the theories that make up your business. I'm curious how other people are using mTurk (and other scalable solutions) to help test their theories. Any winning ideas out there?
I agree - it probably would be significantly cheaper and safer.

But it will also cost a lot of money to develop, and even though it's safer, it's still nuclear, i.e. opposition to it will be unchanged. The worst is some people are demanding that they be installed with full containment domes, which wipes out any cost savings.

Anyone who wants to actually install one will probably be stymied, so no one wants to spend the money to develop something they can't use. And especially not if it costs the same as a regular reactor.

Instead people just stick with the tried and true since it minimizes risk of failure.
I would absolutely never give my email credentials to anyone.
I've been assuming they'd do this for years, and they haven't, which makes me think they actually won't be doing this at all. Perhaps their stock performance will change that.

Additional thought: This could really help them monetize mobile which may actually push it to be a possibility. They have tons of trouble monetizing mobile users (and see the shift as more users access the service that way), so if they could nail local search it could be a huge win for them.
> But that doesn't invalidate the fact that any of them is the (perhaps better stated as "a") common ancestor.

The title clearly suggests a single ancestor, an individual.
hahaha... very nice.
By default Vim's split buffers have some fairly annoying behaviours -- for example, if you accidentally close the file browser you have taking up the entire left hand of the window, all of the other buffers gobble up that space instead of retaining your painstakingly assembled layout.
How a Facebook page has helped and hindered the George Zimmerman legal case
Taken on average, I agree. However, there are some really good VCs out there, and they are not all at the big name groups. VCs with a little humility coupled with the same in founders can make a great paring.

On the other hand, I've seen the "average" VC tank projects multiple times.
I honestly stopped reading when I read "Terrible even by Samsung's low standards." I don't feel like the author was being objective and was looking for anything wrong. Fanboys are inherently unobjective
Advice on entering the Freelance/Consulting World
I'm strongly considering entering the freelance or consulting world for a period of time. Anyone who's done it have any tips or advice?
For the most part I like it, but there's a performance issue that actually affects usability. The first time you start a lesson, the editor is really snappy, but with each successive lesson, the scroll speed gets slightly slower, and a few lessons in, the entered text is just a blur, and you can't even see a cursor. This means that when you make a mistake, it's hard to tell how far you've backspaced, and I ended up bogged down in error correction loops.

I don't have anything more specific to add than that it seems to get worse over time.

Otherwise, awesome idea!
What? Psychologists have acknowledged what I said -- I didn't make it up. Psychologists now see that the Asperger's diagnosis epidemic had no basis in reality -- that's why Asperger's is being abandoned.

Further reading: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pag...
I'm one of those folks who is on the top-end of crazy-stupid-fast typing, but hadn't ever seen a typing test that actually had typing code, so this is absolutely awesome for seeing the difference in speed between prose and code. However, the fading in and out cursor makes it extremely difficult to track where I am, particularly when going back to correct a mistake I made (I know I hit the wrong key, and depending on where in the typing I hit it, I'll need to see how far back to go). It's also exceedingly annoying when it blurs across multiple characters.

I personally would prefer a side-by-side text entry, rather than typing on top of existing code, so it's easy to see progress and mistakes (even if you don't highlight mistakes in the text).

EDIT: It looks like about 50 words per minute, maybe 55, is the max speed you can type and have the cursor actually be visible enough to be a guide of where you are in the text.
... Yeah, me too. If you check out the "about" page [1], there's IRC info at the bottom [2], so there may be hints there.

1: https://stripe-ctf.com/about

2: irc://irc.stripe.com:+6697/ctf

Edit: the IRC helped. the issue isn't ruby, sinatra, etc.
There are also legitimate reasons to be ashamed of it. Expansion capital aside, a pre-revenue funding round is an admission of failure. Failure to convince your team to bootstrap a prototype, failure to build a product/service that's profitable right out of the gate, failure to "convince" by your product performance alone.
> yet still we seem unable to endorse it?

It's mostly financial. It's more expensive than alternatives. So unless you have someone "pushing" it, no one will install any.
Not saying it couldn't be very useful for the data-heavy consumer. Just guessing this is more of an enterprise play than anything else. :)
As an American, I personally hate that standard, and usually use YYYY-MM-DD wherever possible, and only revert to MM-DD-YY on documents that require it in that format. I get that MM-DD follows the conventions of speech ("the event is on May 7th"), but it's really ambiguous when written in all numbers.
No, they are different. The Galaxy Note 10.1 is based on the Galaxy Note which was a humungo phone (or tiny tablet) that came with a stylus (so its like a notepad get it? eh eh?).
FTC's due diligence has cost Instagram $250 million dollars
In my opinion probably a more viable approach for testing consumer-oriented ideas (e.g. "Daycare Review Service") than B2B products (e.g "Lesson Scheduling for Music Teachers"), but some really useful and actionable stuff here.
Because only the iPhone 4S and iPad 2+ support AirPlay Mirroring.

There are ways to do it with apps for jailbroken iOS devices, though you're likely to get a lesser quality. You might want to have a look at this one for example, made by a former colleague: http://www.plutinosoft.com/idemo
The Facebook SDK for Parse is Better Than Ever
Ah, right - definitely.
Isn't that the kind of not-valuing-food mentality the article talks about? Your reheated vegetables are going to be overcooked and your fried-and-sauced Chinese will get soggy, but they're still edible. They still provide sustenance.

I love fine food, but not every meal has to be amazingly delicious. In the end, it's about putting energy into your body, so why not lower your standards a bit and eat last night's soggy orange chicken for lunch?

As an aside, you can improve your leftovers with proper preparation. For example, yaks_hairbrush above claims that chicken strips and fries don't reheat well, but I reheat fried foods in the oven regularly, and they're perfectly edible.
This article forgot to take into account one HUGE factor in people who use the rating systems.

ATTENTION SPAN.

Yes. People don't have the attention span to independently analyze 5 different scatter graphs of 5 similar products. Sometimes the scatter plots can be actually more confusing and less informing than something simple like a histogram.

I firmly believe that people's attention spans are more captured by things like star ratings and histograms. If they get past the stage of their interest being captured, THEN they read the reviews to find out more in-depth information and opinions. I think it's a system that works well, as Amazon has shown.
I often wonder what will happen to us, to our human psyche, to the media, when that threshold is crossed and we no longer know if an actor (in the objective sense) is human or not. It terrifies me and yet I hope I live to see it.
Why is this news? Did anyone really think that it wouldn't get approved?
Let Barack Obama inspire you
I can't upvote this enough. Flipcode had some really great programming articles on it, especially for the intermediate programmer. Many of the articles are applicable to much more than game programming. Really good practical stuff, not what I see on many blogs that people attempt to sell me on as replacements for learning things from books.
Any idea what was pulled in the brackets?

"Facebook proposes to acquire Instagram through [ ]."
Some salts are soluble in water:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solubility_table

But I agree - for sea water extraction to be practical, we would need to more or less exhaust the cheaper supplies. I suspect that, even if our consumption continues to grow at the present curve, if we don't figure out other ways to power civilization by the time we exhaust Uranium and Thorium, we really deserve to run our of fuel...
That's why you'll have the keyboard smart cover, and possibly USB :P

I think no-one expects you to use visual studio/word/whatever in touch mode, unless you're in a really tight bind.
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Steamlined UX. With Vim split windows, I have to care about positioning. I need to rescale the windows so that I can see the code effectively. I need to think about window management. This automates it for me, and I have one less thing to think about.

Flexibility can be nice, but it can also get annoying. I don't want to micromanage behavior if the environment can do the right thing for me.
I'm thinking about every smart phone as a tent server.

P2P camping site will establish when you are waiting the bus, taking the boring meeting, or camping at the river bank. I tried to use wifi-direct/bluetooth, but I found iPhone and Android system set device default to non-discoverable for security issue. But I do found a lot of Nokia/LG phone in discoverable mode on subway.

I hope the tent will be successful.
Be an application to make strangers knowing each other and people to go outdoor.
I agree with your point, but I also feel as if the author was spot on with this assessment. I recently purchased a Galaxy Nexus, and one of my biggest hold-ups was the build quality versus the Nexus One.

It's really not acceptable that an expensive flagship phone, or tablet, is made out of this kind of cheap plastic.

To put it in perspective, the Nexus 7 is also made of only plastic, but the perceived quality is so different it's absurd.
Simple Space Ship Game in TCL/TK
Space elevator advocates have considered thunderstorms: http://www.mill-creek-systems.com/HighLift/chapter10.html
> Dr. Volkmar --who you quoted-- is actually against the redefinition and is arguing that the redefinition hides people who do suffer from genuine conditions.

So that would be why Volkmar is serving on a task force charged with responsiblity for redefining ASD? That would be why he has been quoted as saying his committee would address the ASD diagnosis epidemic and "nip it in the bud"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/health/research/new-autism...

Quote: "The changes would narrow the diagnosis so much that it could effectively end the autism surge, said Dr. Fred R. Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine and an author of the new analysis of the proposal. “We would nip it in the bud.”" (Emphasis added.)

To make this perfectly clear, Dr. Volkmar is an advocate of this change, and is one of the leaders of the activity.
I wonder how well this would work for B2B apps, in which case you need to interview professionals of some sort.

For example, I would love to interview PR professionals. Compared to parents, I would venture a guess that they're much harder to find on MT. I wonder if Facebook ads would work better.
I feel the same way. I read founders at work before and I am not sure I want to spend $25 just for motivation at the moment :) Thanks for your replies.
It looks to me like the robot just exhibits less motion in general. This might be because (as far as I can tell) the authors optimize only to match a set of static poses, not for physical or perceptual realism of motion.