skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on the DeskCade for a while now:

http://blog.sheasilverman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/des...

It's been featured on the frontpage of RaspberryPi.org and the Orlando Sentinel.

Good luck with your kickstarter!
2560x1920 (or even 2132x1599) would be better, but I guess that fight was lost long ago.
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Do you know something that Netflix doesn't? They avoid EBS dependencies for a reason:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-...

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/10/post-mortem-of-october-2...
Good Luck! Would love to collaborate with my DeskCade project for the Raspberry Pi.
That's just for demonstration purposes. You'd want to gat an optical bay cradle for a MacBook Pro to do this for real.
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For clarification, it's much more likely a Hidden Markov Model. Most speech recognition algorithms use some form of Baysesain probability model, HMM being the most commonly used e.g. Sphinx CMU.
Only if you are intellectually ambitious.
I imagine this is the American equivalent to when Iranian news agencies cite the Onion[1].

[1]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49226254/ns/us_news-weird_news/t...
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It's a handy way of ensuring that your time spent dicking about is minimized. I used nothing but Windows from 1999 until mid-2010 (and I used MS-DOS as well between 1993 and 1999). Windows 3.x was horrid, Windows '9x was horrid, and Windows 2000 and following have their disadvantages, but there's a lot to be said for never having to relearn any of the basics. I used only Windows XP from 2002 (or 2003?) until 2010, which made things even more convenient.

Some people seem to like shaking things up every few years, but I'm not one of them - it just takes time away from doing what I consider more interesting stuff.
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You are right - I'm wrong. 2880x1800, not 2560x1600.

What I want is for the screen to appear to be 1440x900 (the 1:2 scaling you mentioned), or 1680x1050, but for the Terminal Windows to appear to be as though they were on a 2560x1600 screen - really small.

I thought I could do that by making the font Andale Mono 4, and I was hoping that the font would be displayed properly because of the retina screen - but it was still pretty unreadable. You can't really get "microprinting" on a retina screen - it still has a ways to go in terms of resolution.
When you lay your eye on it? When you look at any website? When you read any book or text? The amount of scrolling you have to do on x768 to just read a text or webpage is ridiculous. You cant even get a good overview of a PDF.
Nice! I saw that when it was featured :)

You might be interested in the custom PCB we're putting together to offload all the input, sound, power, and lighting requirements!
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This may be another factor Exec discovered before rolling out an "official" cleaning service. The focus then is less on one off requests and more on getting return business and managing the customer. It would be easy enough for a contractor who got random work from Exec to pull a few regulars if there was no follow up after the web scheduled job. As a side note, I disagree with the win/win idea. Ethics and trust are put into question for me. If the service provider is willing to screw over their employer, what are they going to do in your home.
No, you're correct in that assumption.

In case of a complete server breach, that would indeed allow for de-anonymization of posts.
I like keeping the ownership of my data as much as I can. Also, I find Evernote really painful to use, especially for bookmarks. I had experienced it a while ago; coming from Delicious at that time; and I had found it painful and badly integrated in the browser.
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I'm wanting to help a few of my customer service agents get better at soft selling. Does anyone have any books/DVDs/online courses they could recommend? I'm finding lots of stuff for real estate or auto sales (or other industry-specific) but very little that just talks about the basics of sales: finding out what the user really wants, asking leading questions, prioritizing customers, etc.

Thanks!
Have you tried dia? It works great for most if not all of my needs at least. It even exports to tikz if you want!
Vectorizing bitmaps has been done for a long time. Even Flash even had a built in feature for this (see "trace bitmap") (I think even Flash 5 had this feature).

The significance of this is that it introduces a new algorithm for doing it. The core of the algorithm is diffusion filters.

What would be VERY interesting is to see the vector size difference for photorealistic pictures using Diffusion curves vs a typical linear or gradient picture.
I do not see an indication that "happiness" was the goal. Happiness is a subjective measure one uses to gauge one's effectiveness in obtaining one's goals. We don't know what he is trying to obtain when having his gamma waves measured, but we can be certain that he believes he is obtaining those goals.
Would love to check it out. I'm currently using a Teensy Arduino to offload as much as I can. I have a huge space constraint, so the smaller the PCB the better :)
I find my 4GB to be enough. I develop on it in Java and sometimes Python using Intellij and have several VMs in kvm and one (windows) in VirtualBox, it also runs nginx and postgresql, and Im using KDE.

I dont understand people who go to 16 or 32GB of ram. Sure its cheap, but I would rather spend that money on a faster SSD or HD than ram.
Its not like there are no european Ruby conferences that include many topics beyond Rails and even Ruby. E.g. wroclove.rb, eurucamp and even EuRuKo. So, I don't see the big news here.

Calling a conference "Railsxxx" and then not doing any Rails sounds weird to me.
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Meditation that causes an action to not otherwise occur should be counted as action, or certainly not meaningless.
Or you can just run "brew install erlang"
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"Practical problems" is one of those expressions that mean different things to different people, emphatically so in the Haskell community. The response is that far from treating the problems as mundane, the community actually sees the problems for what they are and are taking steps to solve them. Shit's hard!

Dan Doel elaborates on this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wn882/clarification...

I find the whole, 'we're the people actually getting shit done,' line quite amusing. Because the recurring theme of Haskell (and its family) is that those LaTeX paper/pseudocode writing academics keep inventing language features and abstractions that are better for getting shit done than the people just settling for something ad-hoc so that they can get shit done.
The tag field is focused if I ctrl+d in Firefox. Which is very handy indeed.
>In your previous posts you keep mentioning "designers", plural

Yeah, one at a time. I've been doing it for 16 years, I have worked with dozens of designers over that time. I don't have some sort of stable of dozens of designers to choose from or anything.

>Or would you maybe look for a solid, easily customized solution that is built around design and coding best practices and that is tested by an active community?

Bootstrap is not built around best practices at all, it actively forces you into anti-patterns that best practice is to avoid.

>Do you code your own OS kernel and device drivers as well?

If I were being paid to develop an OS, I certainly would.

>How do you implement a clean grid system that works across browsers and resolutions?

I don't. Grids are entirely unnecessary, and are bad web design. All my sites work fine across browsers, across devices, across resolutions and DPIs, with javascript disabled/unsupported, in screen readers, etc. Note that I've never seen a boostrap site that accomplishes that. Most break on trivial, obvious stuff.

>Are you hand coding your CSS?

Our SCSS, yes.

>or hiring a consulting designer who will probably reuse the code he's already written

Bingo! Where are all these people coming from that haven't already solved this problem a decade ago?

>you can instead use bootstrap

This is all that anyone needed to say. Everyone insisted on trying to fight about this, instead of simply giving me an honest answer: "its just a default design you can use in case you didn't already have one". Given that the answer is so simple, it is amazing how many people just wanted to fight about bootstrap for no reason.
There's a book called Buddha's Brain that documents several studies of people meditating while being scanned by an fMRI machine. It's quite fascinating. Regular meditation alters connections in the brain, similar to how working out a muscle changes the muscle.

I was on the fence on whether claimed effects of meditation were real, and reading this book clinched it for me. It anchored the claims I'd read elsewhere in something I actually believe - fMRI scans of brain activity.
Yeah, this and diagram.ly are great tools. Awesome how great web apps help to make your choice of OS irrelevant. (though sometimes, not your choice of browser...)
You're right jowever I sign that conract in good faith and conscious of the consequences. I do not want to break it just for some ethereal good-will.
It is satirical but very serious and definitely about real news unlike the Onion. In the past it has revealed quite a few scandals. This page lists them (in french, sorry) :

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d%27affaires_r%C3%A9v%C3%...

Example in english :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Affair
Depends on the age. For ages 10+ the Android SDK is a pretty awesome "learning" app, and it's free.
I don't get what point he's trying to make at all. And I don't know why it makes either a blog post, or top story on hn, who cares what screen resolution Linus has his laptop set to.

I can work just fine on my 2009 MBP with 1280x800 (or whatever it is) the text is perfectly readable, there's no noticeable pixelation at distances past a few inches from the screen and having everything shrink, as a result of increasing the res, would make it unusable.

He's probably exaggerating for effect, but it's not even remotely true that laptop resolutions have stagnated. They have steadily increased to the point where we now have retina screens on regular work laptops.

I think if Linus created a blog post saying he'd just set his background color to blue, it would make the top spot here!

It's a shame to see Linus stooping to mock apple's use of the term retina. They (Apple) name everything, like the fusion drive or any number of previous technologies. It's to humanize the tech so the average person walking into the apple store doesn't have to talk in tech-speak. It's just a marketing term, and every company has them.

The definition of "reasonable resolution" changes over the years, VGA seemed reasonable compared to EGA.
More than happy to discuss details with that (we have thought about an Arduino being involved there too) :) I'm jon@pimoroni.com, things are a bit crazy right now but do get in touch if you want to chat!
Fixed - thanks for spotting this!
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I completely agree. They have yet to truly add value to their service that enriches my experience with their product. Coming up with more ways to sell advertisements is not a sustainable business model. Well, it could be, but I would hope that this does not continue to be the norm for Facebook.
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Found it somewhat curious that you didn't mention Dribbble (www.dribbble.com) in your article given that they're (in my estimation) the leader in the design community space at the moment in terms of quality of designers, engagement and the web application itself.

You do allow designers to list their dribbble profiles in their profiles-- In fact many of the designers on Folyo have empty profiles, but then have super decorated profiles on dribbble, for example:

http://folyo.me/designers/1224
and
http://dribbble.com/seanbunton

Just kinda tired of this "hidden" promotion via blog posts and was hoping you'd be a bit less impartial and include the real leader in the space. Other than this obvious omission, it's a quality article.
They aren't keeping up with demand. Eg. in Finland they've been constantly sold out since it launched a few weeks ago (same time with Scandinavia). The 16GB version is 269.90 EUR / 350.68 USD, and doesn't include the $25 Play voucher, the 8GB version is not sold here at all.

I suspect there is one set of primary-market/trend-setter countries where Google is selling it with near-zero margins and has first cut of shipments, and then the rest of the world where Asus sells it through their retailers and collects a lucrative profit margin.
Le Canard is much more like "Private Eye" in the UK - they actually have a tradition of real journalism, sourced facts, and an independance that allows them to shout BS

Of course they make most money from jokes, but then investigative journalism seems to mostly be bugging answerphones to find out who you are sleeping with.
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Thanks for the parenting. I guess you have never been depressed: you would value a few of things above your life if you had. But anyway, thanks for the mastering.
"Here is a quick reminder about the specs of this amazing Android smartphone."

cough Android?
Great write down with lots of good ideas. I too use a notebook to jot down whatever enters my mind. Tried evernote for the same purpose but it didn't stick as well as pen and paper. I also include trying new and different things that are outside my norm; that takes some serious effort sometimes.
I was actually thinking about another usage: adding additional "permanent" storage to my 128 GB MBA via the SD card slot.

There's a Kickstarter project (Nifty Minidrives) that are selling miniSD card caddies that sit flush with the MBA SD card slot, so you can permanently leave an micro SD card mounted for some additional storage. In theory, being able to pool the storage with the (faster) boot drive would be great. In practice it'd probably be flaky and a bad idea (especially at current SD card capacities). But something worth thinking about for the future...
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it didn't work exactly as intended: "As a result of the attack Mr Trkulja said that entering his name into Google Images brought up images of other people beneath which his name appeared.
He said some of these figures were allegedly murderers and one a drug trafficker."
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Nice one.
Great post, it's always fun to see the cutting edge of C++ revealed. It's such a strange land. :)

To me, this post would have been 10X more interesting if there was some elementary benchmarking included. If it's about the same speed as the corresponding Python code, which I'd bet is easier to write for more programmers, then I don't quite see the point being as clearly proven.

If it's 100 times faster (or whatever), then it gives more credibility to the idea of writing code like this in C++ to begin with, and to learning all the new language features that makes it safe while being that much faster than Python.
FYI: #2 heating oil and diesel are pretty much the same thing, the only differences being dyes in the heating oil (since it's often taxed differently) and additives in diesel (for example in the winter to stop it waxing up in the cold). Not sure about sulfur content differences when comparing #2 to the low sulfur diesels you see, but I doubt a few hours of burning higher sulfur fuel will do anything.

Also, #2 heating oil is cheaper than diesel in New England, it's about $3.70/gal.
Backed! And the guys seem to be working in my city so I've asked for a sneak peek, and got a very quick positive response!
Great work from a 12 (or did it say 14?) year old.
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Interesting, but not totally unexpected as this is very much in the tradition of Unix terminal users. Never mind that today's "dumb terminal" is probably an order of magnitude more powerful than yesterdays mainframes, and you can fall back to even bigger servers without many problems.

But I'm always a bit surprised by small-screen laptop-only users, whether it's this rather charming off-the-grid kind or your average Macbook Air coffee shop inhabitant.
I like my mechanical keyboards, large displays (area, not dpi) and desk-bound isolation. Never mind that laptops introduce quite a few technical problems (heat, upgrades, computing power) that are easily avoided by your cheap mini tower.

And I guess that's at least one minor way in which I've succeeded over distraction without even trying: I don't have a big need to mix my programming/writing/browsing with outdoorsy and/or (real-life) social elements.
I wonder whether the rather common preference of landscape background pictures (e.g. Napa valley) is part of that desire.
While satirical, they specialize in investigations, especially related to insider knowledge and whistle blowers. Only the tone is not serious, the content is alway backed with proofs.

Le Monde, an authoritative newspaper as well as others picked up the news too [1]

The Google News issue seems a different matter, the billion in question is due to an (alleged) tax fraud using the technique of the Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich [2]

[1] (fr) http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2012/10/30/le-fis...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
> Also I don't see a problem with sharing. It's not a substitute for face to face time but it's connecting with people MORE not less. Go back 25 years and you could rarely connected with anyone unless you were with them. Now you can connect all the time by sharing your experiences. Some people do it brag, most do it to share and connect. At least in my experience.

The problem could be exactly that you don't see any problem.

"Connecting all the time" isn't a positive thing; just a few days ago there it's been posted the "Culture of distraction" article.

Also, why assuming that "sharing experiences" is positive? Assuming that "the Facebook way" is the standard in today's experience sharing, most of the "experiences" are banal almost-everyday happenings.

The problem is cultural and it's subtle, although I think it's way more complex than a dualistic living something vs. being and audience of it.
"you will notice that it is more or less as succinct as the Python code." ??? I hope that this person writes better python than this:

const map<const string, const tuple<int, int, StrToStr>> TagDataMap {
{"title" , make_tuple( 3, 30, stripnulls)},
{"artist" , make_tuple( 33, 30, stripnulls)},
...

it will be succinct when the whole type can get reduced to "auto". Python would just do:

TagDataMap = {
'title': (3, 30, stripnulls),
'artist': (33, 30, stripnulls),
...

Ord implementation is also crazy:

int i = static_cast<unsigned char>(s[0]);
return (boost::format("%1%") % i).str();

considering it doesn't even handle different string encodings.

I don't want to complain about C++. It's a great language and has its uses. But it's not succinct and it's far away from what scripting languages provide. Claiming otherwise is close to fanboyism. Not being succinct is not a bad thing. There are many other things that C++ does for you that Python doesn't.
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> The other problem was that examples were typically full of what I would consider appallingly named/abbreviated functions,parameters etc

As adimitrov points out, this is in many ways a carry over from mathematics. However, this isn't the only factor.

For the parameters:

Expressions and functions in general are usually much shorter in Haskell than in other languages, so one can see how the variable is being used, e.g. the conventional definition of map is:

map f [] = []
map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs

One can tell that f is a function and that it's doing something to the first element of second argument, and then recurring on the rest of that list. That is much much nice, than (at worst)

map function list = if null list then [] else ((function (head list)):map function (tail list))

Secondly, the types tell a lot about a function and it's parameters, for the above

map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]

one can easily see that the first argument is a function and the second is a list, and the specific types mean that there is a single sensible way to combine them: apply the function to every element of the list.

(Lastly, there are conventions, which take a little time to learn, but they help. E.g. f, g, h for parameters which are functions, (x:xs), (y:ys) for head/tails of lists.)

However, naming the functions poorly is a problem. (But type do help with this too, especially with Hoogle[1].)

[1]: http://haskell.org/hoogle
Agreed. If you're coming from an iOS background, the lack of good apps on Android will frustrate you.
Thanks! There's something much more visceral/real about a pen/paper than something like Evernote.

As for including things outside your norm - totally agree that it takes some serious effort. But in a world where we look at our phones more than our surroundings (sometimes), it's that kind of effort that makes things much more enjoyable and helps you focus too.
For the record, many haskellers agree with you that the quality of many libraries and their documentation isn't good enough:

http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/08/results-from-state-of-ha...

Still, Haskell is largely a volunteer effort. Things won't magically improve just because enough people complain about it.
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Eric Shmidt is the "Executive Chairman", but this was sourced from a French newspaper, so it is likely a translation issue between French and English.
Why not give him what he wants by simply giving no results at all for searches involving his name? Making special cases in the software or data to take out the offending links seems to imply non-trivial engineering complexity, and a decent search engine as it is already has enough complexity for other concerns.

He should have nothing to complain about, since it's not a right for someone to be found in a search.
I would pay $5 per month to be able to down vote, to be honest.
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He never said "learning to program" app. Just learning apps in general.
But to have 'organic' images you'd need to have a lot of small curves that would almost be like storing vector derivatives for pixels.
Ok, I stand corrected.

I just thought it's a pretty weird source. Especially the "without citing sources" sounded fishy to me.
The SDK is for Windows / Mac / Linux. Is he buying them a PC too?
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Hey nodrama, you seem to have gotten hellbanned for insulting QR codes, despite usually making good posts.

In reply to your comment of:

it didn't work exactly as intended: "As a result of the attack Mr Trkulja said that entering his name into Google Images brought up images of other people beneath which his name appeared. He said some of these figures were allegedly murderers and one a drug trafficker."

If the internet thinks that his name is associated with murderers and drug traffickers, then I think it's part of the job of a search engine to reflect that. Search engines don't just help you find information, they also help you find conversation.
(It's a little late now, but if you indent a line by 2 or more spaces, HN will format the text as code, so you don't lose the formatting.)
Hi again Lewis! No problem at all :)