skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was doing PHP I loathed the docs for their vagueness and the overbearing wrongness of the comments (no, we're not going to tell you how to make these date handling fucntions work together, we're going to show something that involves subtracting or adding manually and leads to sadness.)

That said, I miss that they were SEO'd in the good sense. Most people are looking for the documentation are Googling it and every PHP function has its own page with the title the same as the function so you can generally count on the first result being the actual answer. This is opposed to Rails or Ruby in general, where you always get dumped into a blog post like "Basic Caching" because something in the middle of it kind of fits when you're looking for a very specific issue.
Did you rely on any particular tools for optimization? How did you decide which initial words to target? Was it solely based on pricing?
Whoever edited this image had ZERO experience with image editing. I think that's an interesting point to consider. It isn't that the person was bad, the person was _untrained_.

A bad graphic designer, say someone who dabbled in photoshop over high school and has no real artistic talent, would have done a better job.

I feel that is an important point because (getting rather tinfoil-hatlike) it leads me to believe the person that took the picture, or a very small circle of individuals, decided to alter the photo. This wasn't a big group-think decision, this was a few people who felt they couldn't talk to anyone else about this, not even pay someone $100 to do a semi-decent job out of fear of the originals turning up in the wrong hands...

or maybe it was just a timestamp embedded on the picture and they didn't want it shown. Who knows.
Thanks! I think you just tipped that one into the lead. You mean the more developed one, not the simple version right?
I also don't think I'd care to live in a world where 90+% of us were illiterate peasants bound to the soil (serfs if we were lucky, slaves if not), spending our entire lives on hand-cultivation of crops.

That was the norm essentially everywhere on the planet right up until the development of modern, mechanized agriculture.
Your example (reddit using S3) is not a database use, it is a content delivery network use. For that, it is good enough, but I'd choose a different key-value store for database, and mostly because of the latency (been there, tried that).
Properly processed manure does not do that. Compost it first at a high temperature, then mix it into the soil over the winter.

You don't just take fresh manure that throw it on the field.
Does Vundle allow you to just unzip plugins that aren't hosted anywhere into their own subdirectory somewhere inside your ~/.vim/ like Pathogen does?

This isn't clear from it's webpage.
I think I have gone through a similar transformation and understanding as yours and I can totally relate to the experience and dynamics you describe. However, my conclusion was that it is better to be 100% authentic in a small and controlled confines than it is to be in public. And slowly I have adopted the approach of only speaking online what I could backup offline, that is with or without anonymity.

So upon that realization, I kept using the platforms where pseudo-identities are welcome and not frowned upon and I can be transparent where I feel comfortable. It is similar to being in an environment where I can speak on any matter on my own terms and not anyone else'. So when I acquire an avatar/identity for a site, I make sure that I use that avatar/identity with full honesty.

The people who use pseudo-identity to gratify their egos and to be abusive towards their freedom of anonymity, are basically being dishonest with themselves and everyone else. I think one can be anonymous and still be authentic. Each one of us have multiple compartments from which we operate and live our lives and we are always evolving and changing as person. Google Plus team and Mark Zuckerburgs would wrongly want you to believe otherwise.

It is just so that Internet as a whole is not a trust-worthy place so you have to pick and choose how and where you participate, and we have to be able to do it on our terms.
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Given that they're all also cable tv providers, I'm not sure how smart providing ipv6 would be.
Solve it while you walk
I am peripherally familiar with the technology used to relay thoughts to computers. I obviously can't comment on the specifics of the technology described in the article, but the degree of control displayed in the video is unlikely to be be possible with current widely-known methods of detecting thought.

This doesn't mean that such a level is not ultimately achievable, or that they may have some "secret sauce".
My own experience with monetization makes me agree with this:

"“It is just as hard to get a potential customer to pay one penny as it is to pay $10. I like to call it the ‘First Cent Syndrome.’ If you, as a consumer, are used to getting something free, you are even more reluctant to pay for that thing. The goal is to overcome the hurdles to getting that first cent, that first penny. Once you are able to get it, you have made the initial, tiny crack into someone’s pocketbook and psyche, converting a non-paying customer into a paying customer.”
Fred Dewey, CEO at Kachingle"

I like the phrase "The first penny problem".
Doesn't solve the problem how to find the gold nuggets, but if you want all the details: http://arXiv.org has the real preprints/articles. At least in the fields covered there, most articles appear here first.
> Outside of conference presentations, ...

Almost on topic: I have to say the team is also really cool and approachable at conferences - and for that I'm very grateful as a member of the unexperienced audience. They can really adjust the explanations to the right level for the general crowd, which must be quite hard considering the topic.
Bitcoin is off to a great start. I'm really interested in what direction it's going to go when governements start to notice more. Will countries try to outlaw it? Tax it? or leave it alone.. who knows.. What I do know is that it's going to get a lot more interesting. I'd really like to know where it'll be in 10 years.. but I can wait.
Technically, outside of Apple frameworks, they're typically dynamically linked to frameworks located inside the .app folder. This is by no means mandatory though.
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Wow, talk about being out of touch with the real world. Developers, especially Linux developers, really need to give up on this whole "Desktop" operating system idea. It's not going to work. It is already dead. And I can hardly believe we are still using these ancient systems for many tasks even today. There is no future in WIMP, and people really need to stop developing these Windows clones already. It was lame 10 years ago. If you are still working on desktop OS clones today, you so are terribly out of touch with the real world there really is no hope for you or your product. Get over it.

Touch-based (and by extension, NUI-based) OS'es and mobile applications are the future. Windows always sucked. Mac OS always sucked. Every desktop OS ever built sucked because it is a horrible way to use a computer. Nobody ever really wanted to use these terrible desktop metaphor systems... they only ever did because they had to.
Why would UDP holepunching be affected?
For me, only a miniscule amount of 'my science' (say, 5-10%) comes from latest papers, and when it is - it's through relatively mainstream media (HN; BBC; New Scientist, etc.). Instead, 90-95% of my science consumption comes from learning fundamnetals (OCW.MIT.edu is great for this!).

For me, this is because advancing science is an inch-by-inch process, where to really grasp the significance of each paper you have to come from the same background as the researcher themselves. So only the mainstream stuff is super-exciting for me.
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RE: the argument that the scientific process forces headlines to be better aggregated than delivered immediately, because it takes a long time for the public to digest and analyze the findings of a paper.

I x-posted this question on 4chan:

"Science news articles and headlines don't really exist. I mean, you can always subscribe to Science or Nature or what have you and get your news that way, or through some other peer-reviewed journal's online offerings, but because of the nature of scientific publications, "Oh fuck some new things is out", followed a month later by, "Those fucks didn't do their experiment correctly", you'll generally get better and more accurate information by following news aggregators.

The only reason I'd recommend following the as-it-happens scientific literature is if you're a PhD in the field and can understand the pedantry that they'll discuss at length, all while trying to find where they fucked up. If you just want to see the occassional bit of cool shit, just subscribe to /r/science or something on reddit"
My response on 4chan:

"two contradictions:

1) higgs boson
one of the most live streamed events ever, and hugely viral outside of the physics community. people were streaming directly into the presentation at cern.

2) mars curiosity
arguably the largest scientific event to have happened on the internet. people were watching a livestream at NASA, and also watching a direct simulation of the landing. twitter hashtags and facebook shares, galore.

other events like the lunar eclipse are showing that the general public want to be in on the scientific action, as-it-happens."
there's also blur.js: blurjs.com, although it's tailored more for blurred div backgrounds.
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Very thrilled about this! As a Tindie seller [1], I've had an excellent experience so far. Congrats, emile!

I put this in an email to Emile earlier, but would like to say it here, too... I think Tindie is perfect for people like me. I don't have the time (yet!) to dedicate a huge effort putting my projects up on Kickstarter. But by putting the project up on Tindie, and having a cap on my inventory, I can organically improve the project within my personal time constraints. I fully expect to ramp up inventory over time, but it's nice I can start at one or two items... and grow at a pace I'm comfortable with. Thank you so much for creating the site!

[1]: https://tindie.com/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-birds/
Looks like an eeg neural device. Lots of interesting stuff on this in terms of neural prosthesis. As suspect as the source may be, scholarly literature on the subject suggests this well within the realm of possibility.

Here's a swedish study on the eeg robot control (I haven't read this article, but the abstract suggests its approximate to the Chinese study):
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=13...

Anyway, while the eeg angle for brain computer interfaces (BCI) are interesting, bandwith limits are a major issue.

Kuiken and his staff have had some success with reinnervation, which also returns some "tactile sense" capacity, but is still limited by the differing commands for input (in this case free muscle groups).

http://www.ted.com/talks/todd_kuiken_a_prosthetic_arm_that_f...

Anyway, interesting stuff. Should be fun to see where this technology goes.
You can see these (frequently updated) TextMate 2 release notes here: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/master/Application...
I'm going to go ahead and guess that the people behind Qubes were worrying less about the fact that the desktop paradigm may be fundamentally flawed in terms of usability (not going to argue on that one), but more about security, which is the stated goal of the project. Desktops may be on the way out, but that doesn't mean that we can't do some very basic security work on the heart of the OS. Looking at some of the documentation, it appears that their VM-per-application-group idea could scale very well to touch- and app-based interfaces with some work.

Security has a vital place in every OS, regardless of the skin you put over the top of it.
I think you're missing the context here. This system is not about UI. It's not about desktop experience either. It's about making sure your email client is so separated from your $BUSINESS_APPLICATION, that exploiting one does not allow you to access anything on the other - and doing that without relying on handcrafted libvirt configs and hopefully without much processing overhead.

I guess the desktop environment was just a random choice of "this works, so just leave it in" from whatever distribution they started with.
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You might find the fourth page of the code examples for the date function helpful. Shows several formatting examples.
Same thing here. I get the "why dont you like/use a Mac/iPad?" quite often these days, which is seriously annoying when coming from non-tech litterate people.
Alright, I can give you a better example. Netflix uses S3 to store movies that haven't been rendered yet. It's definitely a database. The server says "I need to render this movie to the iPhone format, what are the movie bits" and the "database" (S3) returns the entire movie.

Also, I would argue that static content delivery is just another form of database. It's just a massive key/value store, there the keys are the files and the values are the contents of the keys.

Let me ask you this: What is your definition of a database?
I've been using it for 5 years. When I install a program via apt-get, it does ask for my permission to install certain dependencies. At which point I just have to say yes or no and it will proceed or abort. I don't see how that's a problem.
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Nuclear plant failure statistics are meaningless as a measure of safety. You are pointing to the nonoccurrence of a rare event as evidence of its rarity.

Even if coal plants cause more damage to the world, failures are local and manageable. When your nuclear plant fails catastrophically, as they have at Chernobyl and now Fukushima, you can't point to "but this is a six-sigma event!" as an excuse. Given this risk, fission plants have been neither economically nor environmentally preferable enough to displace other ways of generating electricity.
Aren't aggregators like ScienceDaily and PhysOrg doing a service by filtering though?

Most journalistic news is 2nd, 3rd degree regurgitation.
If I were you I would see what could be salvaged. Can you rescue a bunch of business objects, data access code, etc.?

If the code was written in a half-way competent manner, it shouldn't be too tightly coupled to ASP.NET.

If there is a substantial amount of boilerplate code already written that you don't have to rewrite, I would suggest not rewriting it.

I too would like to know what you are considering for the server-side end of things.

The nice thing about ASP.NET is you can strip it down to the absolute basics. Remember that you have complete access to the request/response model. You don't have to render HTML at all. You can deal entirely in JSON if you are looking to build this into an API.

You don't necessarily need to rewrite all the components. If it's possible, hammer and chisel the existing code into something that's not so dependent on ASP.NET (e.g. move code out of .aspx/.ascx components). You can build a web app and an API at the same time, especially if you treat ASP.NET simply as a presentation layer.
I love the fact that there are people, who when faced with photographs sent from a robot on mars, will crop out all the bits of image with mars in them, so they can get a better look at the knots used to tie all the cables down. They must have absolutely immaculate sock drawers.
Lawrence Lessig is saying "I told you so" right now.
every time i see a negative, holier-than-thou comment like this, it makes me think very poorly of the author.

i guess you've never had a site/app/product/lemonade-stand go down? you don't think the OP knows her blog is having problems? she needs you to call her out publicly? stop being such an ass.
You made a lot of assertions there, but in my opinion, there's nothing like a desktop computer for day-to-day use. The future may be in touch-based applications, but if it is, it's going to tough to get anything accomplished in it. Maybe I'm just clinging to my guns and desktop computer, but I don't think I'm alone in that.
Congratulations.

You should now update your HN profile with pride, to read "Founder @ Tindie" rather than "Engineer @ UrbanAirship" :)
Thank you. I knew there must be a reasonable explanation.
The reason i don't think this is funny is because it's compromising the maturity of this community. Please create a new thread stating your grievances, instead of distracting things.
Yeah I was wondering how it controlled the printer too, this makes more sense.

They could have had a hit if they added some more engagement for the user, make it like a game, you can get scores based on how good you followed the knitting instructions...

They could have called it knit knit revolution :)
Do you think there's no natural manure fertilizer on your crops? You've got an interesting argument here. You're against organic food because it's more likely to spread bacteria and parasites? But you've not really offered any facts, just blanket statements. I'm going to bow-out of this now -- apologize if I'm reading this wrong but this all seems too trollish for my tastes.
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Ask PG: When is the application for startup school 2012 going to open?
Interesting. Would you say a file system is a database?
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Within a couple of days.
That's a bit of a straw man. Fallout would obviously not be evenly distributed across Japan, it would be concentrated in the areas near the plant. I don't know anything about the details, but the food from those areas could conceivably become unsafe to eat.

The problem with large-scale fission is that any one failure has the potential to disrupt the entire workings of the machine, which is whatever country happens to be downwind. There is no resiliency in the network - you have people telling you the accident will probably never happen, but when it does, you could get anything from Three Mile to Chernobyl.

Maybe we could have a wider network of smaller plants that pose smaller risks individually, and any one failure wouldn't be a big deal. But that's probably not economically or socially (who wants a mini-reactor in their neighborhood?) feasible.
One limiting factor is geography, startups tend to be clustered geographically. That may entail a commute (via plane) if your appointment is not local. I have seen this done before, but it to deal with hypotheticals is hard here.
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What kind of businesses are you trying to fund?

Interested in R&D?
If you're taking 5%, that means a gross revenue of $90 for the month of August? Seems a little early to be quitting your day job.
That already exists: it's called a web browser.

Granted, browsers aren't without their security holes, but then again, neither are operating systems. Given the amount of effort being put into browsers to make them secure (especially Chrome), my money's on that.
This is the kind of toxic commenting that has lead to all the "are HN comments getting worse?" conversations.

This guy comes in here and says "Hey guys! I quit my job to pursue something I think will make my life better!" and you leave a comment deriding the guy for his _uptime_.

When I joined HN, it was a community of people all trying to lift each other up and push each other to do bigger, better things.

Please don't turn it into this.
It actually looks like the knitting machine is a standard machine (if cheaper and "plastic-er"), and isn't actually hooked up to the NES in an electronic way.

However, the position of controller makes me think that when you pass the knitting machine head over that section, the software will keep track of what row you're on (i++).

Because you could use the cartridge or the knitting machine alone, I would describe this more as a video tutorial on how to use a knitting machine.

Which is a little disappointing because I wanted to see R.O.B. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B.) with two needles and the latest neighborhood gossip. ;)
> We also offer a competitive salary in the $50k-$100k range

I don't think that 50k is competitive for any developer that they would be willing to hire, regardless of where they're located or how much they promise the equity will be worth in a few years.

Edit: Didn't even realize that it said you had to relocate to SF. For SF, one of the most expensive cities in the US and the one with by far the most competition for developer talent, 50k is not competitive under any circumstances (It's barely livable.), and even 100k isn't very competitive for anyone with even a little good experience.
Two words: zip tie.
This would work just fine for, say, Louis CK, but how would unknown/new artists earn any money at all?
"Did the engineers in the 1940's owe the development of the transistor to the roads, sewers and other services government managed for us? Of course not."

Of course yes. Government makes sure we have good life conditions. If you have a government that takes decent care of its people, then those people will strive and innovate, instead of surviving.

If government is so bad around here, move to Somalia. Come tell us how much you think a government that doesn't invest in its people is great for innovation.
Or they just really like knots. Why do you think that an interest in knots means that someone is going to be OCD about everything else in their life?

Different people like different things. Just because they geek out on something different from what you geek out on does not make them abnormal.
I've been bored recently so I'll bite.

As a poker player, the biggest mistake I see moderately experienced (They understand the rules and know they should probably avoid playing 72o until they change their name to Phil or Tom Dwan) people make are ill-timed bluffs. I've always contemplated making an interactive teacher similar to what they do with SnG wizard that'll provide guidelines for spots and inform people whether they're calculating odds correctly (ie, how much do you want to bet, what size, etc.)

I'm not sure what the logistics of this type of site would be long term (tech wise, it's not that difficult, I'd just have to sit down and go through my HH to find some interesting spots to post and then from there, possibly write an algorithm to generate similar types of spots), but I'm sure I can have some MVP out in a month or two (I included in this estimate some buffer time to account for spikes in my part-time job and classes)

I realize this isn't as hardcore a "start-up" company level idea as some of the others, but I'm confident I can deliver on it and it's an app that I feel should exist to help people out.
No matter how popular your blog is, its important to at least link to the subject you're referring to if you're doing a follow up.
OT: Emile is usually a male name of French origin (rhymes with "a meal").
Stealthy Silk Road flying high on tor and bitcoins
(I feel like I should take offense at you calling what I do "illegal": while nothing is easily proven "legal"--one can always just sue and see if it sticks--jailbreaking iPhones does not break any obvious laws and even managed to get an explicit exemption from the strongest candidate, the DCMA.)
Perhaps zip ties can't withstand the changes in pressures or heat. Expansion, contraction, and all that mess. I'm simply arm chair guessing here.
This could be really big.
zip ties are addressed itfa.