skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of the cover of that book, The Design of Everyday Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

Looking at the photo of the store, the top halves of the two side walls seem to be flat and empty. Maybe they could put some nice-looking sound-absorbing materials on those walls?
We call those managers.

Summary: An educator is a teacher with a qualification in education and/or a manager in an educational institution below University level.

In the UK we try to keep it simple, all teachers have a degree and have had training. Unless they work in 'academies' but that is another can of worms.
Crashed a LinkedIn event and filmed Matz's talk about Ruby
Matz also gave me an interview for my docu at that event. He was really nice and forthcoming. This is the talk he gave at the event (HD). Duration: 45 min. Hope you like it.
Should I use a standing desk?
If the default state of procrastination was researching higher order mathematical theory the world would be.... probably more predictable.

I'll let myself out.
Great work! Typing date/time directly would be a nice extra feature.
What is "that kind of person"?
Great work! Please try to change control-arrows to something else, as Macs map it to switching desktops :)
It was reposted today because he gave the talk again this morning at Pycon Canada, I suspect.
Hi, would like to have this API on Mashape.com ... I think our community of developers will like it.
Sadly, I have found this to be standard procedure these days.
Also, iHackerNews has links to 'viewtext' on the article, which works on about 75% of articles that I've tried, and saves a lot of badnwidth/cpu/ram.

The viewtext service is also incredibly awesome for printing out articles on paper -- I've found it to be much better than even the custom "print" versions of many articles, and certainly better than readability, etc.
You can easily create limits on the # of people you allow on each reward tier.

You can also add extra tiers that are identical except for a later delivery date.

Kickstarter should consider making use of # limits mandatory for non-media projects (art, software, film music), or at least more strongly encourage their use.
Lawyers on GitHub
This is ridiculous. There are already similar tables from China using AllWinner A10/A13 SoC with similar prices on volume (ARM Cortex A8 @1GHz, ARM Mali GPU, 512MB RAM, 4GB flash, etc.). My bet is that they are doing anything but buying in volume from China. Which is OK, but in my opinion it is not an Indian achievement at all.
Felipe here: I would also recommend another extension that provided window search abilities to the overview, so I could type "hacker news" or "handler.py" and go to the window I needed to, but it doesn't seem to be updated to gnome 3.6. I've been looking at the code and I can't figure out what is wrong with it.

[1]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/317/window-display/
A good implementation will have a bunch of ready-to-use functions for - polynomials of various degrees, at least.
But the premium for having it administered (and backed up, and having support, and the extra stack tools) is a bit too pricy, isn't it?
If you want, the needed input cases and their desired output forms are in the repo, I would love to see how it's done in Ruby.

https://github.com/2grep/CoPATH-Parser

I'm not completely wed to postgresql, but I would hate to give up Joe, who has been tremendously helpful. And most of my admin experience is with postgresql (blogs, wikis, etc).
Conferences and lectures are great playgrounds
Pertaining to the XKCD you just have to hope they don't get wise and go with vivisection.

However, the sender would likely phone/email/deliver the password on notification of arrival, which IIRC was what was supposed to happen in Johnny Mnemonic, but the Yakuza attacked and Johnny gets a portion of the password, which incidentally ties in with frame 2 of that comic.

I guess the lesson here is that a $5 wrench and a $50 mix of acid/shrooms/K applied to the right person would beat any cyrpto known to man.
Yes, and you can even add limits to existing reward tiers while the kickstarter is running, so you don't need to know things in advance.
That's fair. I didn't quite get to outputting the loadings. This was really more about MDS than PCA.
I'm an expat... Showing up somewhere in person once a year is unlikely to be an option for me when you take into account that I visit the US every other year on average. And before you suggest using embassies as an option, you're assuming you live in a city with an embassy, or that you should be required to travel to one, regardless of the cost.

How do you guarantee that the mail server will be up after you vote? Or that the server sending out the email won't be hit by a denial of service attack?

For that matter, how do you determine if someone is at home? --Most people don't have fixed IP addresses, and they can be spoofed anyway.

Finally, how do you determine that the vote logged in the database is what the person actually voted for and wasn't changed at a later time? With a paper ballot, you can always recount. Recounting database information is less easy.
Survey about new contributor experience in free/open source software communities
If you have joined one of the following FOSS communities within the last 3 years (after January 2010): Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, or OpenSUSE, I would like to invite you to complete an online survey.

http://kevincarillo.org/survey-invitation/

I am interested in hearing from people who are either technical or non-technical contributors, and who have had either positive or negative newcomer experiences.

Thanks!

Kevin Carillo
We are looking forward to testing it out on other events, with higher voting rates. We tested monitoring mentions of popular twitter accounts and results were absolutely impressive. So if you have any good examples feel free to drop us an email andthewinneris@beyounic.com
I was at his talk this morning at pycon canada. It was a very good talk, the highlight of the conference. I like his approach, although I think it'll be a challenge to get there since not everyone has his "visionary" and api building skills, but someone has to start somewhere. Well done.
Yes that's what they found out after they invaded.
Ask HN: How to find an idea for a product / genuine need?
Dear HN,

I have quit my job recently with an idea of spending some time on need finding and further customer and product development.

My initial plan is to catch up with as many various small to medium business owners and try to figure out what sort of problems they may be having. Admittedly, this is just one way of finding a need / idea for a product.

How would you approach this task, or may be have already approached it in the past?

Thank you!
Show HN: Live Vibe
Live Vibe app allows you to get a live perspective of any place in real time.
WOw this was really, really in-depth! Cool blog!
Devil's advocate here (and an employer)..

Its common for thousands of applicants to respond to a posting, many of whom are not vaguely qualified. So when a position is filled, its not uncommon to be turning down several thousand people.

Honestly, do you want to send a disappointing email to 3000 people and then deal with the responses? More importantly, do you have time? Remember, wasting time on the wrong problems is a sure-fire way to kill your business.

That said, if you've responded to a candidate at all, much less had an interview of any kind - then absolutely, you must follow-up. Those people have good reason to believe you might be an opportunity for them, and you owe it to them to respond one way or the other ASAP.

Sidebar: the current situation is awful for employers. Some start-up, PLEASE fix this. A job board where candidates can only submit 1 application per day would be a tremendous step in the right direction.
Interview with Chris Wharton - James Brooks
You could tape a micro-SD card to the bottom of your foot, under your sock, and the TSA would never find it. Just opt for the pat-down, and they have never checked the bottom of my feet before.
Randall Munroe Responds to Gelman's Criticism of XKCD
For those who haven't seen the film in question, there are some pretty serious spoilers. Perhaps a spoiler tag would be appropriate?
Photoshop was never needed to build an interactive demo.

https://37signals.com/svn/posts/1061-why-we-skip-photoshop
The Presidential Namespace
Yes, certainly. I dimly remember HP as being a particularly cruddy install.

The Amazon search in Unity home lens (where you go to launch programs &c) is attempting to be a dynamic search so that results narrow as you type. Network latency means it sort of 'jumps' in groups of letters. Sometimes results corresponding to part of the words you type appear. This can produce 'interesting' results.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2063868
Bill James, whose Sabermetrics led to the whole Moneyball phenomenon, says something similar in his book Solid Fool’s Gold. As neuroscience writer Jonah Lehrer added in May's Wired, we should cultivate genius the way our sports system, from peewee league to the majors, cultivates athletes. Some schools have programs like Odyssey of the Mind, but every school has a sports program.
OK, maybe you should do a little marketing. I have no idea what GTD stands for, why I should care if your app is the best "GTD" app, and why I should get a GTD app in the first place.

And I may like it if you explained it a little bit!
This looks really excellent. I'd want to bookmark Rogaway's authenticated encryption talk, the Royal Holloway TLS record protocol talk, and whatever Trevor Perrin is talking about.
Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon
>When I tried Gnome Shell the most recent time, the System Monitor applet showed up at the bottom and only if you moved your mouse to the bottom of the screen. That is beyond spectacularly useless - it needs to be always visible.

But the System Monitor is an external extension to the shell; the problem you have with it is not gnome-shell's fault at all.
Graphical interfaces for laying out user interfaces on the Bootstrap grid are a "step backwards" from HTML/CSS like InDesign and Quark are a "step backwards" from TeX.

There's nothing inherently virtuous about building UI with raw HTML and CSS (or even Bootstrap's macro-assembly version of same). The problem with Dreamweaver wasn't that dumbed web design down; it's that it spit up terrible markup. But Bootstrap (and things like it) remove degrees of freedom and provide a semantic framework; they almost beg for graphical tools to configure them.
Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time
I'll just point out that top security experts like Ronald Rivest (co-inventor of RSA) expressed extreme skepticism that we would be able to implement electronic voting without seriously endangering our elections during the MIT-Caltech voting project. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from working towards it, but it has a lot of issues.
Yep. I was looking for exactly this list.

Incidentally Python could use an more equivalent to djangopackages.com to help in identifying popular alternatives to standard lib packages.
Identification is "voter suppression"? Please explain.

Are identity requirements also "driver suppression", "banking suppression", "2nd amendment suppression", etc?
"THE BEST GTD© APP ON WINDOWS 8"

This may be relevant or it may not but:
The homepage of their website I think needs some work.
The above slogan is all the text apart from the carousel.
I had absolutely no idea what GTD was (as it was not explained) and no idea why it was copyrighted.
Then I did not want to click the link to get it now as I did not know what I was getting.
Shopify Desktop Theme Editor 1.0 Release
Gnome 3 is the "Windows Vista" equivalent of Linux. It looks better? yes, but at what cost? it takes a lot more resources.
I hope Gnome 4 pulls a "Windows 7" and comes back as a modern, optimized DE, with a "no 50 watts GPU/CPU required" mode for people that don't want/have it. Until then, Mate desktop it is.
lol thats exactly how mytwitterbutler used to work :)

the end user created the api call and named the app whatever they wanted......but hey what do i know i'm a spammer account to Mashable.
I don't think there is. One could open a feature request on the Github page[0], though.

[0] https://github.com/cheeaun/hnmobile/issues
Someone who tells a hiring agent that they won't be able to pay their rent if they don't get this job.

THAT kind of person.
> Are identity requirements also "driver suppression" ...

No, of course not, that's why I used quotes, and then qualified the next point with "on a more serious note".
Viewport affects css media queries
Rhetoric for programmers
I have no graphic card, and just an old i5 from 2011. It doesn't eat much of my computer power. For a light processor maybe, but I can't talk about that.
Whilst a funny anecdote, there's only a hint of truth to that story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen

The Fisher 'space-pen' was developed independently without government funding and was actually later adopted by Russian cosmonauts as well.
This is an example of running contest that has been created during the node.js conference in Brescia (Italy)
http://www.andthewinner.is/nodejsconfit

These are examples of closed contests
http://www.andthewinner.is/nodejsconfithack
http://www.andthewinner.is/musicidol

The last one was amazing, we ran it by monitoring only mentions (as there was no official hashtag), and in 2 hours of execution we managed to get almost 31k votes :P It was pretty insane to follow it eheh
There is more than one joke.
Android and Linux on a dual-booting tablet for $100
How is security handled for this service?
In Defence of PRServe
While not a table of "stdlib package => 3rd party package", there is this: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest

[ Also by Kenneth Reitz ]
The question should be: "Should a equally competent teachers be paid differently based on subject area?"

No. Great teachers should be rewarded equally. It's no simpler to make a child value their body than to make a child value logic. The fact is, there are children who will do well and fail in both.
Looks great. Can't get to testing it today but I will get back to you soon.
better solution: don't use default parameters. They're a misfeature in every language they appear in.
The license for this web server is quite unusual,

http://pancakehttp.net/license/

I would expect a more sensible license.

P.S, that license page is so well hidden.. only possible to find by going to the github page
That makes things worse! Am I supposed to not use the System Monitor at all and count that as an improvement? I believe the System Monitor applet is somewhat part of the official extensions - ie it is in the gnome-shell-extensions package.

This is one of many little niggles that add up to an unpleasant experience. Another example is whether additional workspaces go horizontally or vertically.
I'd never specifically refer to someone as "an educator", unless I had no idea what they actually do, to me it's sort of a vague genre of job - definitely not as a synonym for actual titles.
>lxml is awesome, but difficult to install

So true... I often need to write something that will run on a Windows machine and I just end up having to use the old version of Beautiful Soup (before it became dependent on lxml). Pretty frustrating.
That's correct. It is Market Blueprint in a pretty, consumer skin.
Old i5 from 2011, I hope you are trolling me.

You know just how hugely powerful an i5 processor is? the "no graphics card" that you actually have inside your CPU is more powerful than the latest gamer graphics card from 5 years ago. And consumes a lot of power too.

Gnome 2 ran quite fast on a 500 Mhz ARMv5, 200 milliWatts idle. Yes, it is a niche application, but it shows just how much hardware (and batteries!) Gnome 3 needs.
http://joesgoals.com does a pretty good job in my opinion, but it shows last 7 days instead of full month.
I missed the point of this post. I felt like it was going to point out something Microsoft did wrong, but it didn't.

Other than some publicity for the app, I don't know what this article wants to accomplish.
It is not clear that Canonical is going to fail, just that their support model for making desktop linux profitable failed. We are seeing them change their profit model with the Amazon links in unity, and their attempt to get into the android/desktop linux hybrid market. It remains to be seen how these play out.
Microsoft has draped a beginner's user interface (Metro) over the existing GUI
A bit off-topic, but I couldn't find this and was very curious: What font are the slides using in the code snippets? It looks very clean--I didn't realize it was monospace at first.
Canocial doesn't select hardware to work, they certify that hardware does work.
Will ‘talking to the camera’ continue to leave us mesmerised?
That's because the right address is http://www.nanog.org
How to Win at a Startup Weekend
> I am TIRED of Microsoft disappointing me over and over and over

Were you expecting Microsoft to promote this for you?

My eBooks have less than 100 sales. Is that the fault of Amazon's KDP? The website doesn't say what your app is. You didn't say what "GTD" means.
Close, but not quite there yet.

The reason Apple does not allow GPL applications on the App Store is because it would be in violation of the GPL license for them to be there. The way the App Store model works requires static linking of both Apple and 3rd party libraries, which, amongst other things, is a violation of the GPL.
All other things being equal, right, they should be rewarded equally because, ahem, we just assumed these other factors were irrelevant. But in today's job market, where employers are chasing CS professionals, it makes sense to pay CS teachers more provided you can attract good talent.
Fortunately, most of the research I have read says that consumers don't look up, so acoustic foam on the ceiling might be a good option.
What is a GTD app? Failing to explain a key acronym is not inspiring.
The ability to quickly switch to a clean workspace is imperative for me. When I'm doing something fairly intensive I have at least 15 open across both my monitors.

The other option, is less workspaces and more split windows. I personally don't like this setup because it means more varied key combinations to go from any desired window to another, whereas in my case I only need one combination: Alt-<x>. That is not to say I don't use splitting because that is sometimes imperative for quick reference from one window to another (although in this case a second monitor helps a lot too).
Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y97D8j6CAog
Visibility is everything at MS. Is there a line item on your review for "W8 App d/l #s"? No absolutely not. Are there positive career effects for your boss being able to say "yeah, so-and-so wrote an early Win8 app and got a bunch of good reviews and X hundred thousand downloads and got it highlighted in MSDN as an early win for the platform"? You'd better believe it.

(ex-MSFT, 14y)
And luanode? https://github.com/ignacio/LuaNode
For those of use who don't know, what is the film in question?
I left a corporate job a couple of years ago to pursue technology development in areas that I think will be making a huge impact across all industries in the near future, notably computer vision and artificial intelligence.

One of my biggest problems is that though I have many ideas about how to implement advanced technologies I haven't had much luck finding intersections between the following requirements :

1) Problems of a scale that don't require a large team to achieve meaningful results (ie. no competing with IBM at natural language query or building humanoid robots).

2) Problems for which people with money are willing to pay for solutions.

Generally speaking I have few social connections and most of the ones I do have haven't proved very helpful in meeting my goals.

I too believed (and to an extent still do) that there can be good opportunities in meeting the needs of smaller businesses. However to date my only attempt at this sort of thing yielded no results. You can read about my idea here :
http://cogniception.com/products/rmds.html. I sent out a dozen or so emails to restaurants in my vicinity but didn't receive a single response.

I think that one of the problems is that there is a tremendous gulf in knowledge between someone like me who has worked with these types of technologies and understands what they can accomplish and small business people who's concept of what computers can do doesn't extend much beyond Word and Excel.

If you're interested maybe we could work together. At the very least you seem to have a greater interest than I in the social aspects of business. I'm definitely open to business ventures with anyone who would be able and willing to help with business development, both at the stage of identifying good matches between business needs and my technology (ie, pre-product development) and with actual sales once products have been developed.
Back when I still followed blogging blogs, I saw a guest post on ProBlogger (an old, somewhat past-its-prime blog) extolling the benefits of PLR. PLR this, PLR that. The author loved PLR and wanted to tell the world how great it is.

The post was followed by 100 comments asking the author to define PLR.
AFAIK, there are no official extensions. The gnome-shell-extensions package is just a collection of extensions which grew together in a development repo before the extensions website (http://extensions.gnome.org) existed.

From the website:

> Since extensions are created outside of the normal GNOME design and development process, they are supported by their authors, rather than by the GNOME community. Some features first implemented as extensions might find their way into future versions of GNOME.

For another system monitor (this one attaches to the panel, so it's always visible, and is plenty configurable), check https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/

EDIT: GNOME's stance on extensions might be changing, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685744
Acoustic simulation is a deficit in first-class CAD packages. By comparison, rendering has advanced to unbiased, real-time photorealism.[0][1][2]

[0] http://render.otoy.com/gallery.html

[1] http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/galleries.html?catID=8&pr...

[2] http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/rsaomx/cryengine-2-cryeng...
I run Gnome 3 on a four year old laptop with a Core 2 Duo and Intel GMA X3100* integrated graphics. No performance issues.

* View the internet in multiple colors! Run games almost a decade old on "low" settings! Sometimes capable of displaying HD YouTube videos without jittering!
Thanks! Is the API simple enough?