skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the live demo shouldn't be flowplayer's customer support - when I clicked through to the demo the first thing I saw was a bunch of people complaining and I didn't realise for a while that it had gone to the flowplayer site, and made me think it was people complaining about moot. Just something to consider!
Yea. There are definitely something good going on with Stack Exchange but there is lot's of re-thinking on Moot

- forums can be embedded on our site with just a few lines of HTML and it works out of the box

- because it's a true integration with WebSockets and CORS technologies you have complete CSS and JavaScript control

- Moot includes commenting that is as easy to embed as forums

- The real-time aspect on Moot is not just an "cool add on", but the app is completely real time from top to bottom. All operations happen in place and everyone get's notified instantly.

- "My Feed" or "All posts" are simple concepts but you cannot see them elsewhere. Traditional forums are list of links that point to another list of links and you end up clicking and sufring a lot.

Maybe you want to try out search

http://flowplayer.org/forum/#!/search/welcome

To get sense of the speed too.
I'm not sure of what you're imaging but 2 recent new sites somewhat related are:

http://www.branch.com/

http://www.pivory.com/
I don't understand this obsession with GitHub. I have a GitHub account, but it's not much used -- mostly for my clients who use it, and for forking some projects I want to play with. But I have much more work on BitBucket, since I use Mercurial heavily for my own projects.
> Your highest investment pledge ($10k or more) is an insult to the investor. They will essentially pay for 1/7th of your company, while getting no % of your company in return.

There's absolutely no way that this 70k is the value of the company. Their existing plant is probably worth 5-10x that even at bankruptcy auction prices.

My understanding (although I haven't looked in too much depth) is that they're an established company doing work in one area (fabrication for plasma/fusion research) who have come up with a novel use for some of their tech/skills, but can't really justify the cost/opportunity cost of this particular app.

So they're asking for essentially donations to develop the thing, in exchange for very low-cost returns plus a final project demo. It's really the patronage model applied to research.

Also, for 10k you do get naming rights to the tech, and some advertising opportunity during the final tech demo, which is probably valuable to some companies, especially given the audience targeting this thing is likely to attract.

Pitching for equity investment in the company requires a much more substantial business plan ("Make cool thing, produce internet videos & some research data" isn't really going to work), and it may just be that they don't see the value right now in doing the work necessary to attract those sorts of investors.

I imagine if this test is successful and there is any hint of actual commercial prospects from existing satellite/space manufacturers, they'd take a more conventional route to funding to get the thing built.

For "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if...?" studies, I think this is a good way to go about it, and $40k of people already agree.
That's just temporary. We rushed out an early build of moot to coincide with the HTML5 Flowplayer release. The full moot release with dedicated moot demos is coming up eminently. I had the same thought as well actually.
Yea. You are so right!

Flowplayer simply offers us a very good platform to make it production ready. It is relatively high traffic.
We might as well turn this into constructive dialog - does anyone have any thoughts on how to monetize niche online media? Our events went well, but didn't scale.
How SEO friendly is this? I know that some more popular systems provide a regular dump of static content that you can embed yourself.
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hahaha this is noisebridge up in here. hi guys!
What would be great is if you could use the trackpad a lot like a loupe. Imagine a small touchscreen device that shows a certain magnification of the screen. Zoom out on the loupe, and it acts like a standard trackpad. Zoom in on the loupe, and it acts like a precision touchscreen.

There would be some subtle feedback on the main screen indicating where the loupe is currently focussed I'd guess.
Best part about this presentation is the term "got a little Zucked". Zucked adj. Butthurt about the lack of progress on HTML5.
I would love to hear more about this :)
Obviously you will be navigating a world designed with another paradigm in mind, the mouse, or the pointer.

This is what iOS did: Create a new world designed for being touched. Instead of the Windows CE or the Palms around the pointer.

You have to redesign the entire software stack for being touched, and it will happen.

Ubuntu Unity, Windows 8, and Mac OS new versions are races against time for being the first bringing professional creative tools "touch-ready".

It is very hard to do it, and current users are getting angry the same way people got mad when they removed the numeric keys from the macs(so command line software got redesigned around mouse).
Funny, I've been mentally building a model the last few days and thinking that URLs that are frequently referenced in comments are likely to be good indicators of middlebrow dismissals. Thinking specifically of links to the various "laws" of internet discussion, logical fallacies, and so on.

But also potentially looking at things like the urls that get linked into regular discussions such as weight loss or political topics. That might go beyond the immediate scope, but comments with those links might have other factors similar to middlebrow dismissals, so they might be worth building into the model.

Trying to catch something like this post would be interesting to add. Maybe an anti-indicator if the link adds value. Then you get into figuring the value of the content of the link. Maybe compare it to the content of the original link, which you would want to be similar, but not too similar. Yeah, that might get involved.
Being cool was Justin's answer for starting up. While it may be honest, he could have added other thoughtful answers. More details on his first YC interview would also be interesting, instead of saying that he didn't say much at the interview.
it's also slang for ladybits in some areas.
Humorous.
So they kind of move some business away from Peer 1 after all this bucket brigade job? Not nice.

I hope they move Trello back to "real" servers and not this AWS, once the datacenter is stabilized.

I think that AWS is overrated and overpriced and it's a big asset of FogCreek to still use real data centers, after all they started this thing before AWS even existed.
I don't know if StackExchange or FogBugz would run so good on these AWS-servers with bad IO.

It's great though if they now have the chance to quickly overflow Trello to AWS in case of problems or high demands and buy a new correctly-priced, powerful server to put at Peer 1 a week later!
Yea. We're aware of both of these.

branch is definitely a good one but it's really a different product and market. it's not forums and not really a commenting system for your site also.

and we don't take pivory very seriously
FWIW as a freelancer:

where trusted freelance engineers can immediately clone a git repo, start hacking on a technical problem, and upon completion, get paid what they're worth

The problem needing to be solved in this field is not exactly where you're aiming. I can count on one hand the number of good clients I've had who had a DVCS ready to clone and work on :)

The market you mention is probably fairly small, and not hugely lucrative. (as you noted, you are keeping your initial pool of hackers small)

But if you want a wider problem to solve: there are many many small companies looking for hackers to come in and get them on the right track (DVCS, proper deployment mechanisms, backups, security, etc.).

Just food for thought, good luck with the site!
Isn't it the case that people in the US invest more time participating in their children's education (going to the extremes of homeschooling), yet their pre-college education fares low in comparison? Also wouldn't it have a huge impact on productivity and education inequality if education became a family matter?
I've seen both of these. Pivory seems not really very mature/serious, and branch doesn't seem like a forum replacement.

IMHO pivory is hideous (different strokes) and still feels too bound by trying to simply make old forums "cool". Seems that commenting and forums line really should be more blurred. I know some people really like pivory but I'm not sure it's really a contendor for a serious forum replacement for a real site. At least in my view.

branch on the other hand is really quite unique. I think however it's more of a commenting platform or something for closed discussions, maybe for some kind of collaborative solution even.. rather than a forum replacement.
it always annoys me when people can't properly write about what they've done. For example, the description says, with reference to C: "I've turned it into something of a dynamic and powerful functional language which it might have once been" ...is his wording wrong or what? ...'cause C has never been a "powerful functional language"
Yea. There are other meanings too making the name a bit controversial. Cannot be a bad thing for raising discussion.
You mean WUXGA.
I also detest the shrinking of vertical pixels and the manufacturers pushing it on to consumers. Even on desktops, the prices for non widescreens (more vertical space) seem to be priced excessively to drive people to get widescreens.
"I have yet to see how touching the screen will help me write software (or a word document for that matter) better or that my finger is precise enough to design with."

It will never do. Typing is just so much faster than touching.
But it does not matter because: TALKING is much better than typing for textual data.

On the other hand, touching is so much better for edition of already introduced data, the only problem is that software is designed around keyboards, for example moving letters instead of words.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
> Sorry, but it is not a game, it is a convention that afaik holds true for ALL languages that use exceptions. Using exceptions for control flow is widely accepted as a code smell.

Unless using exceptions either hinders performance(they are expensive but I am yet to see a case where it matters), or makes the control flow incomprehensible, it doesn't matter what is widely accepted. I need a reason for "don't use exceptions because...", and "exceptions for exceptional conditions" or "just because it's widely accepted" doesn't cut it.

I am pretty sure you have very strong opinions about goto as well, which I use a lot when using C. It's simply the cleanest way to directly jump to the cleaner instead of convoluting the flow with non-needed flags. Since you are placing much weight on what others deem acceptable, you can look at linux kernel code and Steven's code in Unix Network Programming.

Also, exceptions are control flow in every sense of the word, though non-local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow#Exceptions. I don't know where the notion of exceptions not being control flow came from. Among other examples of exceptions for control flow, Python and Ruby raise StopIteration in their iteration protocol. And in Python, exceptions aren't that much costly.
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I appreciate that you don't have all of the info on whats happening, and that those who do are a tad busy right now.

However, as I understand from your profile you are a coder on Kiln[1]. Are you really telling us you don't know whether there was a backup datacenter or not?

If there was, I understand you might not be able to tell us why it didn't catch the fail-over, or if not, why there wasn't one in the first place. However basic info like whether a backup existed in the first place really seems like it should be within your realm of knowledge.

[1]http://bitquabit.com/page/about/
That's funny. I never heard it was used in that way!
Not really. You are just looking at the top, progressive layer of the web. There are still tons of niche forums using old software like vBulletin but with lots of traffic. Anything from car enthusiast sites to bodybuilding.
Wow its was really great..

Mike,
http://www.practutor.com
looks like Microsoft got into trouble before full release...
Single-page app for something that really doesn't need to be?

Not even a <noscript> so you're not actually sure if the page loaded or not[1].

Gratuitous animations between slides?

Barest hint of content scattered across slides?

If I was there for informational purposes, I'd say it was a terrible site.

[1] Although I don't really expect people to cater to the miniscule audience that is NoScript/equivalent users[2], it's nice to see at least the tiniest thought towards those who can't/don't have JS.

[2] In fact, there are even some tech-focused sites now that actually ask you to whitelist them for js instead of 'please upgrade to Netscape 3+ or IE5'!
And none of the 2 candidates will accept discussing this, which means most of the people will be unaware of it.
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Provided as a comparison point as to what the US markets are doing generally.
In fairness LHR is pretty much at capacity. Government needs to get on with building a third runway and/or Boris Island.
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This is definitely on the top of our priorities after v1 laungh. Just want the first version out sooner than later and we excluded this feature in purpose.

There are two ways to implement this and we'll study these under flowplayer.org site. And on server it's definitely a static dump every day.
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See also "Entmoot" from Lord of the Rings.
No matter how small or how big a customer you are, it is a price decrease. The cost of these first-generation standard on-demand instances has been reduced by 18.75%.
There are a few online media companies that are doing really well without organizing events. Copyblogger did really well by partnering with others to develop products that the community could benefit from.

Thats the route you have to take. Partner with others to develop products. You bring the audience. They bring the products that help the audience. Something similar to what EarlyToRise.com did - created a panel of experts each of whom bought their own product to the table. (http://www.earlytorise.com/meet-the-experts/ )
I'd like to check it out, but was not able find anything on the Codeplex site about this - does it work with the Express edition of Visual Studio?
This problem is going to get worse: Red Hat's "thing" these days is to develop software internally, then release it open sourced.

Which is nice: except you skip all of the community testing that gives Red Hat Linux its value.

One good example is sssd, the single authentication provider, which was a buggy mess until recently. Not community tested - and difficult to community test - it's an enterprise component.

Another example is RHEV - almost no community testing.

These days shoving software into the beta or RC releases of Fedora - things which used to be tested throughout the entire Fedora testing cycle before.
This is very similar to the 14-sensor emotiv headset (emotiv.com), which is a little pricier, but closer to a full EEG in scope.
One thing I'm not sure of--are the behind-the-ear sensors in the Muse intended to be reference sensors? Because depending on the specific location behind the ear, there's not a lot to see there. That's the standard reference sensor location on the Emotiv, and one of several reference locations on a typical full EEG headset (I think).

If it's not a reference electrode, and is intended to be used for data collection, then the raw magnitude of the data will be next to meaningless. Only magnitude relative to data in the same wearing session should mean anything, given the large variability of skin conductance.

I'll also be curious to see how they've solved the problem of noise on a dry electrode. Using the Emotiv to collect data for an experiment on Emotion, we occasionally ran into a trial's worth of data that was unusable because of (we think) sensor noise, and that was using fresh saline solution on felt sensor pads.
I'm not saying there isn't a problem. I'm just saying the problem can be perceived differently even by people who don't understand what's going on under-the-covers.

If people generally spend most of their time in IE/Chrome/Firefox,Word,Excel,PowerPoint... and they all look great and Skype and iTunes look bad, I'd expect people to complain about Skype and iTunes.

If, on the other hand, people spend a lot of their time in applications that look bad I'd expect them to have a broader complaint (which may or may not be about Windows since, by assumption, we are talking about people who don't understand what's going on under-the-covers).
I think it would be helpful if you updated the page to say what languages Dmitri speaks.
True back in the day I worked for Telecom Gold(early online service) based next to the thames river and eventulay we moved all our machines to a DC well away from the river becuse of the flood risk

Fun listning to our network guy who when we complained about the slow 10Mbps link (in 1984) he commeneted dont knock it I had oxford street dug up for this.
So far it has not been proven that Megaupload has violated the DMCA, and it looks uncertain whether the cased against them will even survive long enough for the claims to even get prosecuted, so how is that hilarious?

Whether or not Megaupload violated the DMCA, the US government have effectively demonstrated that if they think you've violated the right laws, it doesn't matter whether or not the courts agree, as your business will be dead before then.
Apologies, when you posted a reply to a post discussing iOS devices I thought you'd be talking about iOS devices.

My bad.
'He sold out all sponsorship packages and demo stands to Arctic15 in just a couple of months'

Even with the best sales guy it's very hard to sell when there is no market appetite. Sounds like the demand is there, media never needs to 'run out of spots'.

Its a highly valuable market niche and you are possibly underpricing.

I suggest you increase your sponsorship prices drastically.
Switching career and get a programming job, would love it to be something in Ruby on Rails. Be it permanent, remote, freelance, part time, whatever.

I tried different approaches this year, so far nothing come out of it. One gig was discontinued as the owner decided to switch to a local developer. The other project took half a year now and still no further progress from the owner. Just attended an interview which didn't work out.

As someone already mentioned, have fun with my son. Am teaching him Scratch at the moment, hopefully can complete a simple game by end of November :-)
Kim is not a hacker. At least he wasn't when the media declared him one, as he had never written a single line of code. Maybe he learned something since then, but I doubt that. His talents lie elsewhere. He was very good at deception - he somehow convinced a journalist that he was able to hack a GSM phone for example. Or convincing mobsters to invest in his pump and dump schemes. If you understand German, you can follow some of his interactions with the German hacking crowd at http://arnold.babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt. It's not pretty.
That's true. I think JLehtinen refers to the fact that if you are about to pick a forum software on your site today you still have to choose from these very old systems.
Hi,

The languages that I speak are: Russian (Fluent), English (Fluent), Estonian (Fluent), Swedish (Basic, Conversational).

In addition I can understand on a basic level a number of slavic and nordic languages.

Dmitri Sarle
Release iOS app & plan what to do next.
I like the look of this. I have used a lot of different consumer EEG gear and this is by far the best looking unit I have seen for every day use. I am curious to see how it performs, as it looks like it would be difficult to maintain solid contact in this form factor. Movement of these devices across the skin can produce a lot of noise too.

I'm sure as hell getting one to play with though.
There seems to be quite a lot of controversy over the lineage of quite a few of the top chess engines, from what I recall reading. I can't find the article I'm remembering this from right now, but I think it was focused on [a] decision to disqualify Rybka from some rankings.

Ippolit stands accused of using decompiled parts of Rybka, Rybka itself may[2] be using bits of Fruit, and possibly others.

I don't know enough to comment about the strength of the various allegations, but there are definitely conflicts over the exact authorship/heritage of a lot of the top performers.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#Controversy
He didn't 'hack for profit'. He was a fence with a modem, nothing more.
The design reminded me of Vanilla forums [1]. Its very much like their default theme [2].
I see some features from Stack Exchange. + sign reminds me of Google+.

Its real time, I get it. I get notifications of who signed in and signed out, nice. this is may be new for forums software. but reminds me of chat rooms.

To me it is few things collected together, other than that
I didn't get what exactly got re-imagined.
is it just the easy integration ?
Could you please elaborate ? or just a simple list will do.
or am I missing something explained already ? in that case a link will suffice.

Is there a dashboard where admins can check statistics [and that kind of things] ? How does it look like ?

Also, just as a note, I didn't register on demo forums only because I couldn't use Google/Twitter account.

[1] http://vanillaforums.org/
[2] http://www.forum-software.org/demo/vanilla
I don't think this will make a good general forum. The comment box is small. It doesn't look like it would promote lengthy responses with images / video and whatever else.

For me the main problem with forums like phpBB is noise from signatures / profiles / layouts etc and noise from nonsense responses. Often the best response will be buried in page 2 or 3. 5 people will be having conversations back and forth and everything gets mixed up.

I think the closest thing to a good forum for me is stackoverflow. Where the best responses float to the top. Similarly reddit handles separate conversations really well with the way it nests responses.

That isn't to say Moot doesn't have its merits. For providing support this looks pretty handy. Its zippy and the small comment boxes promote quick and to the point responses. For a general content based forum though this currently looks inadequate. I could also see this being useful as a message board for a development team. That kind of utility.
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well, i didn't know they call it classic method, i have been using this method for years. Thanks.
The problem is that `bindparam` binds by reference, and `foreach` reuses the same variable for `$value`, with the same reference, in the loop?

Then the solution could be to use `&$value` instead. Untested:

foreach( $bind_params as $key => &$value ){
$statement->bindParam($key, $value);
}
unset($value);

BTW The fact that you need to manually break the connection between the loop variable and the array item value using `unset` is a bug, in my opinion.