skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it feels like you're besieged from all sides.

Ehhh... in my experience tumblr really is the easiest social site to avoid trolls and opinions contrary to yours, just as the article says. The only default means of communication, reblogging, makes comments hard to see unless you're already following the commentator - you pretty much have to explicitly look for them.

But at the same time you see all the comments and content from the like-minded people you follow, making tumblr into the perfect echo chamber. Which directly results in the toxic communities your quote is referencing (https://twitter.com/tumblrtxt)
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Show HN: I built this in 5 minutes, and this is why Ratchet is awesome
Doubling down on that sentiment, Dani. Proud to see you making it happen, on something so major. I remember seeing an article in Forbes or Fortune last summer featuring you and a few other up and comers and yelling, "I know her!" in the bookstore. You're the truth, glad to see things happening for your vision.
I think you're right. You are probably always going to have a normal distribution, or close to it, but how tight that distribution is and where it is centred is I think something that can be changed with some effort.

Certainly it is possible to make the population as a whole dumber (just stop public education for instance), so it makes sense that, unless we happen to be doing everything brilliantly right now, we can do better as well.
For anyone interested in further development of the idea presented in the article, I recommend books 'Power of Now' and 'A New Earth' by Eckhart Tolle. Life changing books.
> Interface builder is _not_ the tool for doing this.

The Ratchet website talks about "iPhone apps" in general (not just web applications). And for non-web apps, storyboarding (in Interface Builder) is a great prototyping tool. And it has the advantage that it has all the common iOS UI concepts (and only them) and can be fleshed out into the real app afterwards.
I don't understand why mensa is not a support group for the gifted, rather than a society. That would make so much more sense.
The power of a ring buffered capture should not be underestimated. Having an intermittent problem that you can't seem to catch while it's happening? Just let the capture run saving the last 2hrs of traffic. When the problem happens, pull the capture files.

Personally I prefer dumpcap and wireshark for this, but it's similar.
Zagat or Michelin with 1000x more reviewers, which is the promise of a site like Yelp or Foursquare. If a business has been around for a few years, I already probably know about it. What I want is great reviews of new businesses, or rapid re-reviews if something changes, which Zagat and Michelin are poor for.
BUT does it do social? Does it have a mobile strategy?
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My startup can be found at dividethebuy.com I am new to the forum but I decided to come here for feedback after reading a recommendation from Jeff Epstein on onstartups.com Thanks for your help in inadvance
Whatever. Ad hominem attacks are actually useful when people try to dress up their politics as "science" or "objectivity". Try reading Nietzche. Nothing is new here. The purpose of his analytics are propoganda, plain and simple. The notion that an election will be an "independent test" of a pollster's predictions the goal they are all <trying to be avoid>. That is why campaigns employ them, to test their messages, react, change message (as appropriate) and influence the public mood, etc.
It's hard to escape the fact that "crowdsourced" == "gameable".

My current local demonstration of the pointlessness of crowdsourced reviews:

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/71/1709549/restaurant/Melbourne/...

A cafe that's not open yet, has 9 votes including 2 "I didn't like it" votes.

It's interesting that St Ali's other café seems to have a string of recent poor reviews (many written in a suspiciously similar style). Surely it'd be easy for UrbanSpoon to do a quick "sanity check", identify the 9 voters who've voted on a venue they couldn't possibly have been to to form a valid opinion, then remove all their votes and reviews across the board?

That's what _I'd_ do if my objective was a fair and balanced review site. Of course if my objective was a Yelp-like advertising service using poor reviews as a way to blackmail small businesses into paying protection/advertising, I'd obviously _welcome_ poor reviews and vindictive downvotes for businesses that haven't even opened yet… UrbanSpoon, like Yelp, is clearly signalling their intentions to me, and calibrating my expectations of their usefulness...
Why such drastic measures like giving up. As I said in another comment, too low a claim and people think it's not worthwhile, too high and it's crackpotty. How do I get to the right balance?

Furthermore, I think the medical industry is full of unsystematic people. Every time you see a medical lab, it's a guy walking around physically moving petri dishes. That's why I'm trying to promote in the tech circles, they do overly ambitious things.

Rather than simply naysaying, people should give a concrete reason refuting the claim that focused ultrasound is potentially a cure-all. I can't think of any, and I've put thought into it.
In Feynman's case it seems quite plausible that the 125 is not an accurate report of a rigorous testing environment.

He is certainly the type of fellow who would intentionally misreport his score for personal/philosophical/fun reasons, or not care enough to remember the number correctly decades later.
Good points, but I work with someone that is very able, very smart, but is an extrovert. I've actually never worked with anyone that was an extrovert and didn't do the work on their own, but I've heard of them. Usually if someone doesn't know what they are doing, they don't want to let on about it. It just becomes obvious.

What I don't understand is that when I go to small tech startups, the layout is almost always like Facebook's: face-to-face in an open room. Sure it is cheap, but I agree it is hard for some of us to think in those environments. I think Microsoft's "everyone gets an office" is best from the introvertive, thinking developer's point of view. Unfortunately, that isn't enough to make them great. And cubes suck.
What you're saying is you don't care. You can just say that. "I don't care to look further to see if this person's work has merit." That's ok. But don't try to dress it up as some kind of cynical enlightenment.
I meant to start khanacademy after I finish a book on arduino, or a computer science course. But of course, I never really got around to that with an attitude like that.

Then I decided, "---- that shit!" and just go ahead and do khanacademy. The result? I worked weeks after weeks on khanacademy,(spending at least an hour) and now I completed 83% of all of the math exercises and concepts. 316 concepts are mastered out of 379, and 63 more concepts to go.

Combined with a couple of good habits, I have perpetual emotions like "OH YEAH." or "---- YEAH" or "I AM A BADASS" because I keep doing thing that is productive and meaningful to me. Which is kinda odd, because you expect the hedonistic trendmill to catch up with the level you are at.
Good. User-Agent detection has always been a hack.
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." -Weisert.
If you count the average number of legs on a bird, you will find that your result was not so serendipitous.
No, i don't care to argue with you.
Congrats to everyone at both companies!
If I were to guess, it'd be because dashboards in general are en vogue right now and this is a nice way to fit it in a (more or less) square area.
Back in the 70's the CIA commissioned a watchmaker to build a hummingbird or dragonfly (forget which) that ran on a tiny two-piston combustion engine.

[edit] Source: http://hackaday.com/2011/02/10/the-cias-amazing-bots/
Ev Williams on Medium: Democratizing distribution of content
And the iPad 2 that they're still selling.
the many orders of magnitude number of active users today disagree with you.
Take a quick look at ICS/JB on Android, which has already solved this problem.

The current state is written on the sliding bit, clicking anywhere will toggle it, but correctly show the current state.

The slider will also glow blue if it is on the ON state, and revert to grey on the OFF position.

See here: http://i45.tinypic.com/263jypz.png
Lots of LED fun with the Python-based pyMCU
Are you saying it will never potentially be a cure?

Maybe it isn't now, but with enough automated testing on mice or pigs etc. it will get to a mature point. This can also be parallelized, so maybe it can be done in a few months.
My Amazon Wedding Registry Hack for #Sandy Relief Going Viral
Two friends and I (AlexNord) created a wedding registry on Amazon to help NYC victims of Sandy. We've been in coordination with Occupy Sandy to ensure shipping to a distro center in BK and then delivery to affected areas. The idea has blown up across social media and the press and donations are already off the charts - in just two days.

More info at: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/occupy-sandy-hacks-amazons-wedding-registry-in-a-good-way/264543/

And follow the effort at @SandyRegistry
How to keep synced personal and work computers?
I have a Mac for my personal use and now got one to work on my new job. The main problem here is to get all the tools synchronized between the Macs, for example:
* ~/.basic
* ~/.vimrc
* ~/.gitconfig
* ~/vim/
* Python packages installed system wide

I tried to sync using Dropbox but it was a totally mess up.
When I was young, I was furious at "Skip the first letter, keep every other letter, and what does it spell?" Data was something like "ghfeklmlto", and my answer was "hfeklmlto", of course.
Not sure if it can handle big repos very well, I just threw in Twitter vs Facebook for fun and I got stuck with the "secret of life" message. But it's pretty neat! :)
I wouldn't use it personally, but it might be useful for some.
Android Apps to Help Web Designers too
I came here to say the exact same thing. I've worked with JQuery Mobile, and found it to be a bit 'heavyweight'. It likes to take your html elements and replace them with a soup of divs and spans, so that it can support devices such as blackberry, feature phones, etc. I've been wishing for a pure CSS mobile framework for some time.

I just tried ratchet out on my Android phone - it works well under chrome, but there are some minor CSS problems with the directional buttons under the built in web browser. Performance seems ok, but not lightning quick.

On the ipad everything seems to work ok. I had a bit of trouble with sliding the toggles.

So on the face of it, building an actual HTML5 app should be feasible. Does anybody with an iphone or a windows phone want to comment on how it runs?
1.7M mobile apps analyzed: Unjustifiably, users tracked, put at risk
Apple v. Motorola Dismissed with Prejudice
thanks for taking the time to leave a comment
:) Glad you found it useful, I built it.

Ratchet does look awesome, though it seems from these comments the goal isn't to build a HTML5 mobile framework, so I'm not sure it would replace jQM in that regard.
PSD was never intended to be a data interchange format: it is the serialization format of a single program that has more individual unrelated features that actual people rely on than almost any other piece of software and has maintained striking amounts of backwards compatibility and almost unbroken forwards compatibility during its over two decades of existence. This product's "file format" needs to be critiqued in this context, along with similar mega-programs like Office.

I am thereby having a difficult time fathoming why anyone would think that a PSD file is thereby going to be some well-organized file format that they should easily be able to parse from their own application is just naively wishful thinking: even other products from Adobe have limitations while opening these files; to truly manipulate these files you really need to be highly-compatible with Photoshop's particular editing model (hence the conceptual difference between these two classes of file format).
This string of posts says otherwise. I think it annoys you that I won't go along with your desired narrative. Your submission history combined with the rapid rise in karma makes me think you're the one doing thinly-veiled PR.

edit: One of your first submissions is from Andrew Breitbart's site. And you're calling others partisan. Who are you working for?
How is this good? How is this considered to be a hack? You make this sound like something that can be achieved in a more sophisticated way. How?
When you cool the air by mixing it with water spray, a good portion of the energy is now spent producing low temperature water vapour. So... how do you recover that energy? You'd need to condense the water vapour to get at the latent heat.

And if you do recover the heat by condensing this vapour, it is low grade heat, which CANNOT be efficiently converted back to mechanical power or electricity.

Your web site claims 90% of the "grid" energy goes to heat storage. AFAICT This is NOT POSSIBLE if the heat comes from air compression. Is this an error in presentation? A fundamental error in your concept? Or am I mistaken... please explain.
Pretty sickening. 90% top tax rate though - that's pretty ridiculous.
In short:

Bayesian inference gives you a subjective imprecise answer to a question you need to answer.

Classical testing gives you an objective precise answer to a different question from the one you need to answer.
While i agree with you on almost everything... Why didn't Apple accept to be bound by the courts (supposed to be fair and reasonable) rate?
Something smells here about this, and it's coming from Apple.

Apple and Microsoft both are trying to make FRAND patents become cheap, so they can just tax Android to hell with their utility patents.
Loved that book. Agree on the advice. If only I'd read it 25 years ago.

For the young'uns: don't wait till it all makes sense to you. Every word in it is true.
As a sysadmin, I find it's great for problem localization. Usually an application has a pile of services behind it. Where is it going wrong? Appserver? Backend database? Name resolution? network contention? misrouted? blocked by a firewall?

You can cut away huge swaths of troubleshooting areas just by watching what is on the wire. There are problems you just won't find without knowing how to use a sniffer. I once had a core router dropping packets because of a flawed ACL implementation (It would treat fragmented packets as if they had port numbers at the matching payload offset).

Knowing how to use a packet sniffer makes hard problems so easy it feels like cheating.
I'm not a fan of the "windowed" modular design that is very common in admin interfaces; it wastes a lot of space and adds clutter. I believe a flatter design (like this http://dribbble.com/shots/564078-Minimal-Dashboard) or at least with lighter chrome (e.g. Ducksboard) would work much better.
I'm surprised that they emphasize the fact that the keyboard can be invisible or small. Personally I think that's the most confusing feature because it leaves you tapping on the screen, or website as in the video. That aspect to me is not very intuitive as to whether or not I'm typing currently or trying to navigate the website by tapping a link, etc. Also, if it's invisible, how do you know when the keyboard is brought up on screen? Does it appear and then quickly fade away, or does it appear at all? Both cases seem unnatural at least to me, since I'm just not used to it.

Other than that, I think it looks pretty awesome. The multi-finger gesture typing looks pretty quick and intuitive.
Try Twitter vs Mozilla it's a fun one...
Just added that functionality: http://www.gitbattle.com/?u1=switz&u2=wetmore
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very interesting service: search for local events.
Yeah, we loop over every page of commits for every repo for each user, so it takes a little while...that being said, if you wait it's pretty cool to see. Twitter is ~90 and Facebook is ~80.

I reached out to Github to see if there was a better way to do this, but they said there wasn't, unfortunately.
I think Neil is wrong, unfortunately. It does matter who is in power, but not for the reasons that the media and political campaigns focus on. Other than the ability to veto, presidents don't legislate, they don't have that much control over the economy- although if they are ignorant enough (Bush) or obsessed with progressive agenda (Obama) that doesn't help things but we can't reasonably blame them and even the effects from legislation are often not felt for years, etc. The main thing that a good U.S. president does is to lead and have respect. If that respect is gone, because of a hostage crisis, Iran-contra hearings, Monica Lewinsky affair, because you can't pronounce "nuclear" correctly, etc. then that is a problem. But that is also why we hire politicians instead of great leaders- great leaders make mistakes, but the people and the media don't like mistakes. Great leaders don't want their career ruined by the media, so instead we get politicians that parade around as if they are great leaders.

If you really want to change the system, the president should be chosen at random from the people of the United States, same for the House of Representatives and State Houses. If any of us could become president that is over 40, we'd pay a lot more attention.
Is this a comment or rant ?
regarding the twitter vs facebook issue, checking the network panel on chrome, the rest of the request are pending and checking one of the requested url (https://api.github.com/repos/twitter/twitter4j/commits)

the error message is:

{
"message": "API Rate Limit Exceeded for 112.199.99.5"
}
Please, let's not get started all over again. UA detection is dead. Don't do it. Mobile Safari has a zoom-in feature (double-tap) that works perfectly without any "fixes" by the website developer.
This idea of payments plans/deferred payments seems very similar to how credit cards already operate. However, I could see this being viable if you offer low interest rates (I assume you'll have interest) and if your yearly membership fee is reasonable (I assume there is a fee).

Personally, I don't think I would use it. I prefer to spend within my means, and I have a credit card otherwise.

Good luck on your startup; it seems like this will be quite a large undertaking as you will be essentially acting as a credit company.
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Blogger, Gmail, Google all down for me. Anyone else?
This is the standard BS rationalizing. Copying is in fact theft.
In the code, if you look, I actually extend that rate limit to 5000 by using authenticated requests (on the client side, I know, this is "dangerous"). The problem is that it just takes a long long time, lots of request (~400 for Facebook alone), which gradually slow down as the browser gets overloaded.
Again It seems we meet
In the spaces In between
We always say, "Won't be long"
Oh but something's always wrong
Rubyconf / Rubygems Hackfest
But it's a great filter to avoid the types of employer who would repeat the aggravation OP was experiencing.
Thanks for comment... I hoping to do something similar to QVC and HSN'S easy pay... but your right it might be similar to a credit card which would be hard to implement so it might be better to start an online store on my own
Funny how both the guys you mentioned are remembered for being leaders of men during war.
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We're planning to support a variety of services, not put all our eggs in one basket.

Tumblr, webstagram and all these sites do not offer the same service as us. Maybe our marketing needs work. We're paid because we allow you to CHOOSE ANY of your Instagram photos to make a portfolio from through caching a user's feed and using the realtime API to keep it up to date. All the other services simply wrap the API and show your photo stream - Now Instagram offers that too so these services offer nothing more.
Perhaps some people care more about what would be convenient to them than whatever laziness or lock-in Adobe intended. Or maybe they believe that Photoshop might have better interchange with future versions of itself if its file format was sane.
Mobile WordPress is not something that is going to be done and figured out in a day. As devices and peoples usage patterns evolve, over time we'll have to adjust to this as well. And while all of us take smart phones and tablets for granted now, only a small subset of this world's population has such devices to connect to the Internet. Many use much simpler phones and devices, and so to truly democratize publishing it can't stop with a fancy iOS app.

In core WordPress we'll track our progress and discuss over on the Make/Mobile blog. Feel free to chime in there! http://make.wordpress.org/mobile
A laughably small number of americans vote in presidential

I'm sorry but it's not logical to waste time with something which has no impact.
If there was any incentive, people would come. Like $5 or tax reductions, I don't know.
It's not rocket science to increase the participation. But I guess the vote of the pragmatic is not desired.
Actually the fact there is no incentive at all shows they want as few people to vote as possible, globally.

Maybe it's because opposition mobilizing themselves more is what allows the country to alternate leadership easily instead of being stuck in the same ideology forever, at the expense of the other 48%. Or maybe the alternate leadership is like our beating heart, a constant source of ideological thought, instead of the slumbering effect of an eternal monolithic party like in China. Be careful what you wish for.

Anyway when the choice you have is Blue or Red, "educating the masses" has little impact.
But maybe masses having little impact is actually perfection...
It probably should be handled that way, but that would mean much less money for Motorola. 2% of a $20 baseband isn't much.
This is good, but Ratchet kinda stole the thunder today
It sounds like you're arguing for designing iPad mini apps as iPhone apps, which is contrary to one of Apple's major arguments for the device over existing 7" tablets. Apple wants iPad minis to run iPad apps. Their customers probably do as well.
added: http://gitbattle.com?u1=facebook&u2=twitter
This is beautiful. Well done. This is the first comment I've made in a year - it's that cool looking.
Precisely - I still fail to understand this need to constantly add the overheads for supporting multiple mobile platforms / devices.

Pinch to zoom / double tap are amazing features made precisely for this - if the text, image or control is too small I just pinch or double tap; takes a fraction of a second and I still get the whole website experience as it was meant to be.
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For used car prices, check out Carsabi. They got acquired already, but the site is still up.
http://carsabi.com/
Seems like quite a reach to simply say "no" to the idea of one of the greatest scientists of our time being more enlightened than the average person. Is this just a troll or are you being serious?
I think Google X lab and Kickstarter are targetting very different goals.

X Lab is a skunkworks division: massive funding, bright people all in one area, defined goals.

A lot of what they do can be categorized as pure research with only the vague possibility of one day, maybe spinning it off as a product.

Google Cars have been in development for years, and will be for years more til they can be considered consumer ready.

Kickstarter and its ilk are for shorter term projects where design and engineering, but not necessarily research is needed.
Agreed, the landing page design and UX is really top notch!
Markdown as I see it is for those who are trying to emphasise the text over style, which especially means writers. What it doesn't mean is random webforums where every second post has a rainbow of colours, boldings and so forth.
Can we also have a physical keyboard with just 11 keys on it?