skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood. She doesn't mean "real sex" as in normal-looking people. She means real sex in terms of behavior. The article says the site is a reaction to young men who have sex in the manner of porn (which I assume means a certain amount of macho performance, posing, a manner of making sounds and talking during sex, etc.) as opposed to the manner in which real people tend to have sex.

There is a very BIG market for "amateur porn" which is filled with "normal-looking" people as opposed to porn stars. This is more about education and promoting a different vision of the behavioral side of sex.
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Did you try Percona or Twitter/Facebook's version of MySQL ?
Wow, this looks pretty cool.
The fact that the US doesn't use its country TLD is analogous to the way that the UK doesn't have to specify their country name on their postage stamps.

You get certain privileges for pioneering the development of a communications system, I guess.
I guess what he is trying to do is, ask user's OS, Browser, whether Flash or any other plugin is installed or not when you are talking to customer for support. Not to gather stats.
You are criticizing HTML5 far too broadly. Yes, it may not be the best choice for building a game, or a photo heavy app. But it's good for building mostly text based apps, which represent the vast majority of the (mostly crappy) native apps out there.
Problem is, Android's stock browser is called... "Browser". So Android Browser is perfectly valid.
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Go native, HTML5 is going to lag for a while

This is true for most developers. I don't think it's true on the leading edge of HTML 5 development, but it's true that the existing MVC libraries really aren't there yet, and if anything, are asking the wrong questions.

It'll be awhile before HTML5 application development is a viable option for your average dev team just wanting to get a product out the door.
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Lifetime lets you mute people in the video chat.
There's also supportdetails.com which has a feature to let you customise [1] the recipient email etc so people can easily forward the details through to you.

[1] http://supportdetails.com/?sender_name=example&sender=em...
I do not believe this debate will ever be fully resolved one way or the other. That is, there will always be things Web sites/apps are better for: Delivering free-form, multimedia information, especially when frequently updated. Or for relatively simple apps that benefit from pervasive access.

There are also things that OS-specific apps are likely to be better at for many years to come: Apps that operate in the background without using a lot of battery power, and interactive apps that manipulate and organize information and benefit from the richest and most responsive user experience that is integrated with OS features for information and device resource sharing.

OS innovation hasn't stopped. App development for iOS, Android, and Windows 8 hasn't even fully probed what those OSs can do for app developers in creating apps that work together. And the OS developers have not stopped improving their app APIs. They all have different approaches to interaction and application architecture, especially inter-app communication and cooperation.

So not only will we see a continuation of platform-specific apps, we will see a lot of innovation in what those apps can do on different platforms, and a richer expression of the differences between platforms.

"Write-once run everywhere" has zero value to the end user. They want the best Facebook/g+/Twitter/whatever experience possible on the platform they use.
Since postgres has basic json type support now, and PL/Javascript exists, it's only a matter of time until an extension appears that lets you deploy javascript applications directly to the database.

Who needs CouchDB or Node.js when you can just say CREATE EXTENSION 'couchnodegres.js'
I love the flexibilty and ease of use of trello. There is a scrum chrome extension as well.
I hear Asana is good — haven't yet tried it myself, but from reading the docs it looks like it does most of what you're after.

http://asana.com/
To provide a bit of constructive criticism, I don't think your front page (the real front page, not the link here) describes quickly and clearly what exactly you do. I sort of assumed it was just direct contact between landlord and tenant (like moveflat, gumtree, craigslist, etc.) and went straight into searching. The only indication of the other side of what you do (a streamlined version of some, but not all of a traditional lettings agent's services) is in the 'for landlords' box (for the very few who read that far down), or in the 'learn more' pages. I want to know the whole process of what I'm in for (as a prospective tenant or landlord) - i think you definitely need to flag this side of things to your users right at the top of the front page.

Also - the word 'open' might have thrown me, as I guess I was expecting from the name something a bit more free and user-curated rather than a service-driven company.

[edit] that said - I think what you are doing is great and I'd love to see this kind of streamlined and professional service without a huge cost take over alot of the business of traditional agents.
I find it interesting that Flash is detected even with FlashBlock enabled. It seems that the add-on only prevents its display.
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Being a fan of Play Framework, this could finally represent an opportunity for me to dig into Go. I regret the absence of an ORM, but will give it a 'go' (...) anyway.

PS: I regret that no performance analysis nor benchmarks are presented on the project page. It could be nice to have a comparison with Play on that domain.
I use http://supportdetails.com/ . It's solved this problem for me since atleast the last 4 years.
I'm shocked nobody has said this yet. They can't.

The ebooks distributed on the Kindle Store are distributed under a license that Amazon has negotiated. The GNU FDL does not permit redistributing under a different license. If the person submitting the book could assert that he was the author, and held copyright to the content, that would be one thing. If it is community authored, and edited by this person (as was actually asserted), Amazon would be opening themselves to actual legal liability from all of the other authors.

It's insane to me how many people who assert that Free Licenses are useful in such situations. This is the same as attempting to put some GPLed software on the App Store. It can be done, but only if everyone agrees to offer Apple an alternate license.
For a "tenant find" service, agents normally charge landlords between 5% and 15% of the annual rent. They will then add on charges for deposit handling, contract drafting, referencing, etc... All fixed charges at the £30-£150 mark each.

To tenants, agents will charge similar fees, normally in the region of hundreds of pounds. This will cover referencing and general "admin".

It is these fees we are combating against - and will hopefully be able to eradicate.

Agents will also offer a "fully managed service" for between 5% and 15% of the rent per month, but that is not something we're tackling at the moment...
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This is a bit of a longshot. But I am looking for switch hardware that have gigabit fiber and speaks OpenFlow for a FTTH project.
Yep. That one looks good and showed up in our research as well. In aboutmybrowser, we generate a custom url for you so you can copy the url and share your info easily. No need to copy all the text or enter your email to share the info. Just better to protect your privacy and anonymity.

More of the similar products out there focus on users who want to find out their info (basically savvy users). This is for support agents who want to find out their users' browser info without asking them to go through so much trouble
Not all housing in London is like that. Like any city it's hard to find the best areas and nicest deals as a newcomer. A lot of the nice/cheap flats are snapped up very quickly by people in privileged positions (i.e. nice flats may be passed around within friendship groups or within a workplace). There are loads of lovely, old, well renovated flats, you just need to be lucky or well informed to find one. We pay GBP1300 per month for a newly renovated, spacious 1 bedroom flat in a Victorian terrace. Give me a period property over a flimsy/shabby new build any day of the week.
This ir ridiculous. There are no credits in release, file does not contain any mention of source or means of acquiring these four digit PIN codes. Though, my own PIN code is listed, it's most likely just a coincidence.
" Society trains people not to question authority. Qihoo took advantage of years of accumulated branding as an authority on security to exploit the “suspension of suspiciousness” that arose when users were asked to install or make default its browser. The company must continue to approach product promotion from new angles to support its strong growth in advertising revenues. "

What society teaches people not to question authority? Which types of authority? There were nearly 100,000 peasant protests in China last year.

The default and innocuous -- at first glance -- nature of 360 is probably why it is doing so well.
(non-ambiguous) letters rather than numbers would be better to keep the urls short.
Cool. How about adding a way to automatically fire off a web hook after sniffing the information. As in:

"Thanks for reporting the issue. Would you mind following this link so that we can get some information about your web browser? https://aboutmybrowser.com/?to=mysite.com/browserhook

Or better, let me sign up for an account and register a named webhook with you, as in, https://aboutmybrowser.com/mysite, that would automatically forward information from anybody hitting it to the webhook url I'd configured at mysite.com.

That would rock.
It looks like it detects the resolution of the primary display. I'm not sure if there's a way to pick the "right" display, though.

Screen Width 1440
Screen Height 900
Browser Width 2560
Browser Height 1368
I think thats why Quora is doing as well as it is. At first I didn't get how they were differentiating but I find myself going there more and more for hight quality answers from people who know what they are talking about.
1234 is there!!!
End of the show:
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A friend who used to do networking stuff for a global bank had good things to say about Nokia networking gear.

So I guess there are good networking hardware engineers in Finland, and it's not a stretch to imagine Google might have bought some of them up somewhere along the way.
The first comment on the site illustrates (depressingly) well how this type of speculation is being perceived by the average uneducated person:

Wow this was a really good article. I didn't realize that we are
so close to simulating consciousness. and this part: "In quantum
mechanics, particles do not have a definite state unless they’re
being observed." is that true? That blew my mind.

I'm not sure if its superfluous to even state this here on HN, but I feel compelled to: We are not "close" to simulating consciousness, and the whole quantum thing doesn't actually work like you've been led to believe.

First of all, there is a whole spectrum of simulation software to consider. The most Matrix-like method is a direct 3D game-like environment with really good graphics where many parameters of our current environment are hard-coded and everything is executed with the human inhabitant in mind. This is probably close to what the article is trying to invoke if for no other reason than "it's easy to understand". It's also the one which least conforms to our observations. If the universe is being simulated, it's more likely a bottom-up simulation where things like planets, plants, and eventually people simply emerge instead of being designed outright. For all intents and purposes, such a universe would be indistinguishable from a "natural" one, so much so it's bordering on pointlessness even arguing about it.

Second, simulating consciousness (or rather more precisely: designing and running human-like minds on a digital substrate) directly is not something we're particularly close to. We are still missing important engineering details about human brains to recreate them, and likewise generalised AGI research also has some gaps in understanding how to build advanced problem solving machines. Depending on the chosen method of "simulation", from full no-shortcuts whole brain emulation probably being the most expensive to fast and memory-optimised non-human AGI being the more efficient, we might already have enough raw computing power to drive a mind using just a couple of desktop computers. What we're missing though is the right software.

I'm also getting really tired about this whole "observer" misunderstanding whenever quantum physics is invoked. I can't help but feel this was an intentional consequence when they chose their terminology. To this day it remains a poor choice of wording. The agenda behind this might not only be designed to sell books to New Age lunatics, but also to enable pseudo-religious excursions undertaken by otherwise respectable scientists such as Penrose.
This is certainly helpful, thanks for sharing this.
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These technologies live in a very narrow space:

1. If you are delivering information that wants to be accessed everywhere, write a Web app

2. If your users want the richest interactive experience, write platform-specific apps

3. For everything else, use proprietary multi-platform app SDKs.

What is "everything else?"
> I'm pretty sure Qihoo doesn't rule the browser market in China (IE still does well), and their product is really just so so.

Non-Chinese often make mistakes like these because they are extremely ignorant. Do you guys know there are a whole category of browsers called IE Shell [1] whish provides very rich features, even richer than Firefox/Chrome/Safari? Often they share the same or similar User-Agent with IE.

360 also makes webkit based browser[2]

Browser markets in China is a niche, people tend to choose browsers wich opens any link in a new window/tab, also the superdrag & native mouse guesture is a killer feature. Which doesn't exist well on other browsers.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_shell

[2]: http://chrome.360.cn/
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> If millions of fanboys are denied their shiny new iPhones

Quite condescending.
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I'm not really sure if it's a glitch in the tool or that the resolution is (deliberately?) misreported by my browser, but on my iPad 3 it reports 1024x768.

A nice extension to this would be to add some kind of database of popular mobile devices, so you can detect the device type from the reported attributes. I think you coud extract some interesting device usage statistics out of it.
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ChromoZoom (http://chromozoom.org) uses web workers to offload custom track drawing to a background thread. If all the data processing were done on the main thread, the UI would stall. However, unlike this library, I don't rely on passing all the JS to an eval() on the worker thread; I have the worker and the main thread load the same code, and refer to the methods by name. This makes it easier and more organized, IMO, when dropping back to non-web-worker operation.

https://github.com/rothlab/chromozoom/blob/master/js/CustomT...

and the top 135 lines of

https://github.com/rothlab/chromozoom/blob/master/js/CustomT...

show how we do it.
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That's not the only reason. Another is simplicity.
Ask HN: How can this circuit work?
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The video above shows a guy building a circuit which can, at least due to my basic physics knowledge,not work.
Let's skip the blogspam: http://wiki.openpicus.com/index.php?title=IKEA_RGB_Led_Strip...
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We've seen people wearing it and a video mock-up of what it could be. Goofy headwear and motion graphics aren't really "impressive stuff" though.
Great tool! I can definitely see myself using this :-)

I viewed the site with Chrome for iOS (on an iPad 2), and it detected "Safari on OS/2". Is that correct?
It's unfortunate that when using IE, both this and supportdetails.com only give versions as specific as "Windows XP" and "IE 8", whereas I get more detailed version info using Chrome on OS X.

I'm trying to track down an IE issue and would love for our support team to get customers to use something like this. But we need more info to make it easier to reproduce the problem.
You're right, I was having a really bad day and skimmed the article.
Do you really think that Apple wont settle if they don't think they will win? I'm pretty sure whatever patents HTC has can't be worth a mere drop of iPhone sales profit.

Apple are more likely to buy HTC outright for the patents in question than not sell the iPhone.
> We're sorry, but something went wrong.

Iceweasel 15 (rebadged Firefox) on Linux.
Maybe http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ is a better place for this sort of question.
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Asana is great but it doesn't have reports, estimates, etc.
My guess is you'll have a hard time finding the "perfect" tool you describe with all these features. I didn't find it myself but Asana was definitely the best out there.
Can you please give us the permalink you get? Here or at prateek@supportbee.com so we can debug this? We want to make this super useful. This is just a MVP.
The 'javascript : true' is redundant as this doesn't work with javascript disabled. Other than that : nice.
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I have an account just over 700 days old that has apparently been hell-banned. Pages take forever to load and when logged into that account I can see a half-dozen comments that are invisible when viewing the account page without being logged in.

Will this account ever be unbanned or am I stuck using this new account?
I believe I read an article in a newspaper once where they tracked married couples with differing IQs over time.

Where the male was the smarter partner, the woman's IQ increased.

Where the female was the smarter partner, the woman's IQ decreased.

I guess the consolation from this is it may become a less acute problem over time :-)
Sorry, but that'd be Nokia and Motorola.
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It could be some kind of hidden circuit maybe. Or some kind of inductive energy?
> "Write-once run everywhere" has zero value to the end user. They want the best Facebook/g+/Twitter/whatever experience possible on the platform they use.

Exactly, and if Mr Enduser X can get it on his weird platform because it runs HTML, that's a massive piece of value to him.

Also, while he wants a good experience, he wants it to be free too and the cost in building and maintaining multiple codebases for client libraries would certainly get passed on to him one way or another.
A particular performance of it, probably not. The space of possible lossless MP3s is quite tiny and I suspect consists of pure or close to pure tones, not the more complex spectra you get for the coughs and page turning you usually hear is 4'33".
Put this up with hope that someone here can contact them. They aren't responsive to twitter or emails.
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This is great to see. Not only because I know how much of a painful, dated system most lettings have to go through but also because you're a small british startup taking on a few, dull big players and seemingly getting somewhere.

When I looked a this problem before, it appeared to me that Rightmove etc. wouldn't let normal landlords list their own properties because of The Property Misdescriptions Act put too high a risk on the listing if there were some false claims and basically an estate agent was essentially required as a guarantor that it's legit. How do you get around that?
Yes probably something about that - restrictions on new development and a lot of other red tape which all but prohibits complete renovations of entire houses and/or new construction. Because otherwise, in a country with that much fluid capital, you would have a lot of good housing (and land isn't a problem, as most of those houses are just 3-5 storeys, and public transportation is in perfect shape meaning you could squeeze in a lot more people).

Even the very center, places like Knightsbridge, are almost entirely old, rotten shit.
Poster here-- I came across this as a link in a previous HN article [1] and thought it would be interesting to folks here.

I live in China and it truly is a parallel universe when it comes to computing. Local clones of everything, from iPhones to farmville. However to own an actual Apple product is a huge status symbol (iPhones, but especially iPads and Airs). The green "IE" logo is an attack vector that is completely consistent with the ersatz nature of all computing in China.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4498724
I have to agree; it has to be the most frustrating part of looking for a flat.

Another thing I hate is no plan. Pictures are great, but without a plan it's really hard to imagine how big (small) rooms are.
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Again, Rick, I apologize, I skimmed the article while having a really bad day and came out swinging. And then my procrastination filter kicked in before I could properly apologize.
Lots more Ikea hacking at: http://www.ikeahackers.net/
This isn't 3D. This is just a flat texture being scaled and moved behind a circular mask. Try setting border-radius to 0. This is interesting, but not novel (people have done far more with just CSS, and I'm betting you could use CSS 3D transforms and transitions to generate actual animated polygons).

If you are a first-year beginner, good work. Keep it up. If not, well, you might have some studying to do.
Oops :( Can you please pass on the url string you got? (That has all your info)
Hoping to see wget info, tried getting it via wget and it showed something went wrong :-(

https://aboutmybrowser.com/2691400901
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I actually prefer the one you linked, over this new one. I like the layout, and sharing options better.
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If I visit with an odd User Agent I get a server error.

https://aboutmybrowser.com/47523742 is an example where I used User Agent Switcher in Firefox with the UA string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.5; FreeBSD) KHTML/4.5.4 (like Gecko)
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In case you'd like to look at some pretty pictures of these submarines, I recommend this quality Wired article:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/ff_drugsub/all/
The single-box-of-power was pretty much a Hollywood cliche.