skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting. How do you "look for the moments worth recollecting?"

You might be interested in this (somewhat dated, from May 2012) slide deck of related work I'm doing: http://s3.amazonaws.com/vitorio/Automated%20Storytelling%20M...

I'd be interested in hearing more about your software if you'd care to share. My contact information is in my profile here.
hehe. Foil I guess is a better word, but I didn't think of it at the time when I posted my comment.
Thanks for that, I get it better now. Writing with this isn't something that interests me personally, but I hope it is funded because I reckon watching other people do it in a "spectator" mode would be pretty entertaining!
I'm excited about this too. I just wrote a blogging engine for node that allows you to edit posts in a web-based editor:

http://jlongster.com/edit/Introducing-Nunjucks,-a-Better-Jav...

I absolutely love the simplicity of Markdown, especially with github's addition of code fences/blocks. It's so trival now to add code and have it automatically highlighted. It's not nearly that simple in other formats (to get autohighlighting I guess).

Excited to see what will come of this.
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Product development is hard... Figured I would share some things I've learned over the past year working on Populr.me. I also outline the tools we use to manage our product development process.

If anyone cares, I recorded the video with a Samson GoMic attached to the laptop while I presented with keynote and some cheap clicker. Keynote lets you record a pitch & that mic rocks for only $35
He's human.
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I can't help feel that the need to login with Facebook or Google conflicts with the idea of anonymity.
Product development is hard... Figured I would share some things I've learned over the past year working on Populr.me. I also outline the tools we use to manage our product development process.

If anyone cares, I recorded the video with a Samson GoMic attached to the laptop while I presented with keynote and some cheap clicker. Keynote lets you record a pitch & that mic rocks for only $35
> If you knew you were going to be unlucky, there's very little you could do

I believe the startupland term is "pivot."
I have somewhat different experience. I usually include more references than strictly necessary to support the work, because there's an expectation of general credit-giving: if someone else works in a related area, even if their work isn't directly on-point or needed in the specific paper at hand, it's often expected that they get a generic nod in the "related work" section, and reviewers may complain if that's not done. But often the reference amounts to little more than a friendly ack: yes, I know paper [2] exists, and I hereby acknowledge it.
I wouldn't say Enron merely went bankrupt...
A sense of place
> Earnings from the chip division, where Samsung competes against Toshiba Corp and SK Hynix Inc, dropped 28 percent to 1.15 trillion won as prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips sagged, though a recovery in NAND flash chips, widely used in mobile devices, helped offset the weakness.

The company said it expected DRAM oversupply to run on into the current quarter, but sees a tight NAND flash memory market.

Intel had the same problem. They switched markets from commodity to monopoly. They're still around.

I've noticed Samsung's ability to crush it since about March of last year and have been long Korean tech dominated ETFs to hedge my Apple stock - which I recently sold and subsequently shorted. Samsung is Dell with profits. It in combination with Android will destroy the iOS ecosystem.

Here's to profits with openness. May the Microsoft strategy once again prevail.

Apple was good while it lasted and it brought a lot of great tech forward by a few years. But they're out of screens to attack - just like Microsoft is really out of operating systems to attack. Disclaimer: I'm long Samsung, and will be long Google once more if the price drops further.

You never bet against Linux in the long term. Just like you never bet against capitalism or democracy.

Linux always wins.
I am very glad Ableton has created dedicated hardware for this. I currently use APC 40, MicroKorg. I had a Kaoss Pad, but that was sold. I have never found the "perfect" midi solution for Ableton. Push looks great.

Push has several things that I want to use. The Touch Strip looks like a smart addition to a midi controller. Reminds me a a bit of the Jazz Mutant Lemur.

I can't wait to try the pads and see how they handle pressure.
Live 8 has been great, but definitely excited for 9. The new Gate and Compressor look cool.

The ability to sort and view my instruments by rank will come in very handy.

If I could have Push, an Eigenharp, and a Hang Drum. I would be set.
The RPi has a serial port, though it takes a custom cable to hook it up. You can do basic I/O with that, and much more simply than a USB stack.
None of those myths talk about spoofing the sender domain.

DKIM doesn't validate the From line. But where is the weakness in trusting that someone with Google's private key approved the entire content of a message that is signed with Google's key, and so, my trust in Google should extend to the content of that email?
No shareware doesn't have to be limited in anyway and often isn't apart from a nag screen. I agree donationware is more accurate.
That's a good question, ssebro. We're about to deploy a just-in-time sign up flow. Until then, we're hiding the options that apply only to users – for instance the ability to add a quote or love a quote. I'm not surprised you're not seeing the value, since some potentially valuable interactions are hidden.
> What an embarrassing post to be occupying the top of this thread. Blaming Markdown.pl for security flaws?

I believe markdown.pl is being blamed for over 100 bugs. Not just security flaws.

> I suppose the memory corruption bugs in the "optimized" C Markdown parsers are somehow his fault too?

Strawman, you're better than that.

> He wrote a text-to-HTML parser with a particularly elegant little language design and got on with his life

And he did a horrible job of it. Horrible. But he considers himself the BDFL of Markdown. Break that down for me.

> which involves writing more than keeping up with bug reports in Perl scripts

He clearly can't keep up with any bug reports, so it's good his life is more broad than bug reports.

> Get over yourself; comments like this make us all look bad.

No, comments like this make us look like we have higher expectations than "it worked on my machine, suck a dick!"
How (US) Presidents Have Treated Israel
Is treatment of Israel always one of the issues in the US Presidential elections or is it something new? I have never seen such special treatment given to another country during election campaigns? Or this nook of NYT just an outlier? What am I missing?(Obviously I am not from the US)
A Soviet missile base in Germany that spy planes never saw
Personally I think that Sony and MS are bigger targets for piracy since they have games more appealing to, well, people who would pirate games (18-34 men).

A seven year old's mom isn't going to figure out how to pirate Lego Harry Potter on wii. The casual market that Wii targets is also the one least likely to engage in piracy, in my estimation. Wii Fit? Not a target for piracy, even if the dongle wasn't a factor.

That said, the Wii is by far the easiest current gen console to play pirated games on.
Or say, take something like the Linux kernel -- that is something very big, very complex, that contains input and work from many contributors. Then take Android an OS, with a VM, with applications running on it all on top of a Linux kernel. If looking at it from bottom up (from hardware up to the highest level application code), that's a lot of system, and subsystems, APIs, ideas and protocols working together. It is a very complex machine it is just not physical and tangible but that doesn't mean it is less complex.
I'd also imagine that the Surface's 7.0 is because of the hardware. Every review I've read has said that the hardware is pretty fantastic and the keyboard covers work surprisingly well.

It's only Windows RT that people seem to be complaining about.
They are not knocking out a city, but buildings.

Some military buildings knocked out, everything not underground or specially shielded shuts down, has to reboot - this combined with a military strike...

You don't need soldiers equipped with compasses to do this.

It's not like electric devices in a big area don't work for a long amount of time.
How does that signature verification work? Something like a callback to paypal.com to get the verification? (Analogous to downloading an SSL cert from a website without using a trusted side channel like a handwritten note?)
Come to think of it, the start screen isn't too far off from At Ease either. I remember all the Macs in school ran locked down copies to keep the students from messing with the computers and make it easier to find programs for the little kids.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
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I have been working on games to track and improve cognitive performance http://brainturk.com
4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking
Even that isn't strictly true, since the exemption for smartphones only applies to phones purchased before January 2013.
thanks for this information, while I am away with penfm
MongoDB is considered a complete joke by most who've programmed a distributed system.

So.... poor example.
> I see it as an intermediary step on the path to totally rethinking doors and physical access in general.

I don't believe doors and physical access in general need to be rethought, except maybe to improve the security of physical locks themselves. The 'big dumb thing between you and my stuff you'd need a sledgehammer to get past without a key' model has mostly worked for a good long while. (Or, fine, a crooked bit of wire if you're clever.) Why does that need to be disrupted?
Is cancer causing considered "non-lethal" ?

Because the police are certainly going to be using this someday at protests.

Not their problem I guess if people get cancer from it several years later.
The reference to map-in-hand was spoken in the same breath as an EMP. I don't believe it's intended to be directly related to this missile, but seems to have been brought up tangentially. I explained the reference to you because based on your question, you seemed to sincerely not understand the map-in-hand reference.
I only noticed that once people here pointed it out, and I'm somewhat baffled. Can someone explain? My thought would be that something in the attack happened to trigger the "open CD tray" operation in the computer, but then why would the CD jump out? Is it possible that the microwave sent the motor into overdrive? I'd love to hear possible technical explanations for this.
Here's one, written by a very close friend of mine:

http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/19/autopsy-of-an-innocent-man...
If you keep your landlord out, you're violating your lease. At least under any sane lease.
If anybody at Matasano is reading this, I want you guys to know something. In South America, matasano (also one word) transliterates to "killer of the healthy" and means "doctor who does more harm than good." It's slang, of course, similar to "shrink" and connotes...exactly what it means.
At the point where I replied, the name was NOT in the headline. It was definitely modded in later.
China Blocks Web Access to Chinese-language of NYTimes
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if you read the answer to that very question on their application it falls pretty much in line with your parent's characterization: "did a bunch of research and spent a bunch of time on [drafting some legal documents]"
> Consider everyone who lives in an apartment who doesn't have the option of replacing their lock

I've lived in apartments. Giving other people access to your apartment is - in general - a horrible idea. I let guests into my apartment. Personally. It's a pretty straightforward workflow, believe it or not.
We call her Panic because she's the office worrier. I never considered her two sides might be related. Interesting idea, but I don't think so.
I hope so. They clearly learned that the delay between XP and Vista was way too long. I think they learned that the shorter delay between Vista and Windows 7 was beneficial too.

Having the shorter releases seems to work very well, at least it has in the OS X world. The ability to release new features and get them in the hands of users faster than once every 3 or 5 years is a big improvement.

It's also nice to see them drop the price. At the old $99 or $129 level, an OS upgrade really needs to justify it's existence. Many people would just hold out and buy a new computer (especially if you only paid $400 or $500 for it). At $40 it's much easier to get people to update without waiting for a hardware refresh.
There can be an altruistic side to OSS, but certainly not by definition. Open source projects usually exist for benefit of the authors.
7 year olds have 18-34 year old male fathers.
I fully expect it to never come. I don't think it really matters. Amazon will continue to take market share off physical retailers, expand its product range and push into new markets.
Why?

Why get all angry at John Gruber? As many have already noted, he created Markdown for himself and released so that others could use it. AFAIK he didn't put any license/restrictions on it outside of calling himself BDFL. Whatever his skills as a programmer, writer, or his role as Mouthpiece of Apple, the vitriol is unnecessary (but absolutely fanscinating to watch). My panties bunch up naturally, no need to allow my feelings regarding Gruber to bunch them further.

Why get his approval? In the same spirit that Gruber created something for himself, you should just create something for yourself. I find it hard to believe that Gruber was the first person that conceived the idea of user-friendly text-markup. The new standard could just be inspired by Markdown and that would be a win-win: a respectful nod towards Gruber as well as the ability to move towards something 'better'.
It's so I can carry fewer keys, and never worry about locking myself out or a keysafe that corrodes.
It really wouldn't surprise me at all if it turned out that tons of regular users loved Metro. The problem I keep reading about is the fact you can't stay in Metro all the time. There are some settings that you have to go into desktop mode to mess with, and if you're only used to Metro that's going to be really confusing.
During that time, they've been building an amazing infrastructure, and that won't be easy for a new competitor to match.

I ordered from a different retailer last Saturday night, and I had forgotten how long it takes to get stuff shipped in the real world: FedEx didn't receive the package until Tuesday at 8pm. With Prime, I'd already have it by Tuesday night.

Shipping speed isn't the most important aspect of online shopping, but I think it's indicative of how Amazon's size is already providing a competitive advantage that is hard to match.
Honestly, Udacity seems to be losing it. It has only had 14 courses for a while, while Coursera has 200 courses, and counting. And the universities represented at Coursera have better recognition/ranking that at Udacity.

Why would somebody invest in Udacity now?
Shareware has a legally binding price that in practice is not enforced. As noted, DF is not shareware.
Uh... except for the Start Menu, which is what the parent comment was referring to.
In that case the player does a lot of the work to create he game, unless you buy campaign designs.
I hate to be "that guy", but you have a minor typo on the home page.

"How does coffee affects your reaction time..."
It becomes much harder to track down a leak when the leakers know they're being chased.
Well you made a great original comment, but unfortunately, some of the replies want to politicize your observation trying to assign a "side" to it. It's a very social sciences observation so it's hard to prove and for some probably even accept.

I'd add as further proof to your observation was look at how even government organizations position themselves in the last decades. Remember the army of one commercials that were meant to appeal to that very individualism attitude. Military in the US is the antithesis of individualism. If you join the military you are told when to wake up, how to dress, what to do, when you'll do it, and how you'll feel about it while doing it. Chain of command is rule number one in the military. It even has processes so that individuals can't be completely responsible. It's too dangerous. But, here we have a campaign to tell you that's not true, and in fact you have autonomy because that's what our society assigns value to now.

You are not judging it just stating an observation. There is no wrong or right to it.
Divide by number of players....
I'm assuming by the fact that it took you a few weekends, you are beyond the level of learning about OS's as an undergrad, though :) I'm sure it is doable, but the point is probably that it's a non-trivial detour from writing a basic OS.
According to the NY Times, the parent article is now blocked in China ( https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/asia/china-blocks-w... ).
No problem Federico. If you can distill your ideas down into a simple message, you'll be fine. Good luck!
Windows 8 has been available for months for free on Microsoft BizSpark (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/)
Haha, completely agree with this sentiment. By far the most attractive thing about this for me is being able to check my phone and immediately assuage that "Oh shoot! Did I lock the front door?" feeling.

It's something I've been thinking about a solution to for a while. One of these days I'll get around to making a key cover with a simple mechanical display of which direction the key was last rotated. Cool idea, right?
It's consensus-building. If the creator of Markdown says the successor technology is Rockdown, everybody who deploys something on Markdown will get hate mail: "why aren't you using Rockdown? Gruber says it's the future." If that doesn't happen, Rockdown is just a peer to Markdown—an improved, specified peer but not anointed. It leaves the window open for people to say, "well, I like flavor-X Markdown better than Rockdown, so that's what I use."
The design looks nice, and conveys the purpose of the site really well. Well done!

Some of the copy on the front page could probably do with a revision. The use of capitals when describing the focus of a test seems odd and is a little inconsistent (coffee, Meditation, breakfast, Sex). There is a typo in the 'Create your own' section.

Most of the copy reads really well, but the overall feel of it distracted me for some reason. Perhaps I just need another coffee! Love to see what metrics you pull out - do you intend to publish the data and analysis, and if so in what formats?

After some digging I was able to find this quote:

"Quantified Mind is a volunteer project, and we'd love extra help with development, web design, test design, and gathering participants for Quantified-Self-style studies."

It's not 100% clear to me what is the driving force behind Quantified Mind, and that is something I would love to know. Is it just interested hackers building tools? Who is funding it?

In any case, it's a very interesting concept, congrats on the launch.

ps: I can't navigate to the home page from the bottom navigation bar. On a long page (eg 'Science') this meant I had to scroll to the top to get back.

pps: If you have a public repository of your code base you should add a link to it so people can start helping more easily.
Ok, sorry.

But it was only logical to assume that he referred to the missile, since it's the article you automatically (normally) talk about when writing a comment.

I still don't see his problem though.

Even if we talk about EMPs in general:

-> US Soldiers know exact time and are prepared
(i don't see no problem there - even if they couldn't handle a map, which i strongly doubt)

It was probably meant to be a funny/ironic remark i guess
Why, because of the large amount of reinvestment that makes E trend towards zero? How does P/E signal anything about a growth strategy?
Are you writing this comment from 2008? Both LNKD and FB have robust revenue streams that are growing; they have figured out how to monetize their products and they are doing it quite well.
My interpretation was that the CD was spun up, so when it was pushed out by the tray, it had a lot of extra energy.
I think any advantage of actual connections, especially network ones, make all the difference and YC has an extensive network of connections.
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The cd was thrown because it was spinning inside the drive (ie being read). The eject motor didn't eject any harder than usual.

The real question is were the computers destroyed or did they just reboot. I've got a welder in the garage that made my "garage computer" reboot whenever the arc is struck, but it caused no harm. Grounding the metal chassis of the old box (to a real earth ground) fixed it right up in any case.
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Indeed. I plan on using this as an example of what a clever hack is from now on when it comes up in conversation. It is adorable, clever, and just...great.
Most of Governments are corrupt. It's not a inherently Asian thing.

What is an Asian thing is the fact that in most other countries, you can do something about it.

Good luck with that in Asia.
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Doesn't this sentiment feel a bit too entitled to anyone? If someone is having a contest and you don't like the prize, just ignore the contest.
Specs are important but I'd argue a conformance test is equally or even more important.

With a conformance test people can test their implementations and when ambiguities arrise new tests can be added or old tests fixed. Without, conformance tests different interpretations of a spec lead to divergent behavior. Once that behavior is out there long enough it becomes difficult to fix as people are depended on it and/or its quirks.
Consider a rigged die with the probabilities for hitting any one of each of the six numbers skewed in some way. You won't be able to tell that it is the case until you roll it many times.

Consider an entrepreneur. She has the ability to build a great product. Given one day at it success may not be evident, but after months, or years of persistence, she'd (eventually) achieve the result her potential affords her.

There is nothing wrong with your examples, but it's a more narrow example.
Ah! Of course! Thanks!