skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out this Q/A on Quora
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-designer-t-shirts-for...
In the first person games you can see her reflection pretty clearly in the helmet. I think other game characters often refer to her as 'she' as well (though I'm not certain of this).
Also note that the distance to travel is proportional to the amount of time to get there. Perhaps you can do a shaded contour showing travel time?

(Spending 8 hours on a plane is essentially a whole day gone.)
Kayak and Hipmunk get a lot of praise for their UI but if you want to use a hacker interface for finding flights, http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ is the way to go.

It's not as pretty, but is incredibly feature-rich, not limited to the US and regularly finds me prices that are significantly cheaper than anyone else.
I missed the joke entirely at first, but I'm glad I read your comments before posting some obtuse, self-righteous reply like I normally would :)

Now I'll have to check out tptacek's "must read" list.
Hey, this world started on the Something Awful forums, and we thought it'd be fun to continue it here. Feel free to contribute anywhere in the world.

It's still early for this project (alpha). Chrome and Firefox only for now. Please don't grief or ruin the fun!

Some tech details: canvas-based rendering engine, firebase for chat and presence, sockjs for realtime events, phantomjs + beanstalkd for rendering static tiles (for zooming way out), python on the server side, mysql where convenient and mongodb where convenient.
I've been writing a library that abstracts the getUserMedia API, and I've found it really interesting to be able to use JS and HTML to interact with hardware in a (mostly) simple way.

Even though I prefer the native implementation of these things, the pure creativity HTML and JS allows (because it's less difficult) is where these features really shine. Calling WebRTC "skype in a browser" is just the tip of the iceberg.
In french, the article or pronoun must match the word gender too, it's always "une tortue", even if it's "une tortue male". There are often two different words for male and female animals, though: "un lièvre" (male hare), "une hase" (female hare).
Now imagine this on Skype as a premium feature.
NB: We've only tested on recent Chrome and Firefox builds on OS X. Bug reports in other browsers are appreciated, but I can't promise we'll be able to act on them in the near future.

Also doesn't work very well on iOS.
There is a complementary discussion to this happening at https://github.com/h5bp/lazyweb-requests/issues/82
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I don't worry about it so much because I know as a father that I can make sure she has the opportunity and encouragement to pursue traditionally male-oriented interests. I worry more about other little girls whose parents may be the biggest enforcers of these stereotypes.
Well, in that case, we should start first with the American Indians. First off, we'll give reparations for all those who never saw a white man but died of smallpox - I think giving them back California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, and New Hampshire might start to make up for that.

Then we could get to the indians who actually _met_ someone of European descent and were harmed as a result.

By the time we're finished with the indians we can give what's left to other less disadvantaged groups.
+1 for exercise and healthy eating.

One of the many reasons we pay for our employees gym memberships.

If you really want to get in shape and turn your health around, find your local Crossfit (www.crossfit.com) gym and get hooked.
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It's the exact opposite of a "celebration of total materialism". Dustin isn't saying - "Take all of your normal purchases, and instead of just going out and buying them, research each one for 100 hours."

He's saying "You don't need most of the shit you buy, and the stuff you do need, you should get things you trust.".

That's it.

Your idiotic post is surprising because, presumably, you do perform some amount of research on some purchases. Apparently you have struck the perfect balance between time spent researching and time spent making connections with people in this oh so short life.
who self-hosts anything in 2012?
It really depends entirely on what your goal is.

If your goal is to tinker with a new language, or a new tool, it would be really nice to start from a working example that you can fiddle with, rather than being stuck with the sometimes arduous task of configuration.
Contact a company like Express Jet, I know they (at least used to) rent out whole CRJs (50 seaters) for private events. If you can fill up every seat, it comes out to a cheaper price per seat than normal airline seats.
Which makes me wonder: is there a text to voice application based on convolution?
Sometimes you need to put serious work aside and just build a game
I am textile technology and apparel mgmt major turned software developer. TBH, most of my textiles knowledge is really rough. It's been almost 8 years since I graduated.

I believe when it comes to Sea Island cotton, I don't know how many mills have access to it. AFAIK only two Swiss mills had access to it. Get a shirt made from Sea Island cotton and feel how nice it is. Almost all cottons wrinkle but the the longer the staple fibers the less likely it will wrinkle. Long staple fibers will be smoother and softer because the fibers won't stick out from the shirt and scratch your skin. Longer fibers are also thinner and therefore softer. Lastly, longer fibers break more easily and thus are less susceptible to pilling.
The race between the tortoise and Achilles (or sometimes Achilles and the arrow) is the common illustration of the best known Zeno's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenos_paradoxes
Creating Room in a Crowd (Kayak)
Really awesome. Although I suspect some people might take advantage of the ability to delete/move anything they want. What would be the solution to this?
I can't escape the feeling that that fun fact is why stories like these have hit the wires:

http://zlkdocs.com/KYAK-Info-Request-Form-463

To save you from reading that document, a law firm has decided to 'investigate' whether Kayak's board "breached their fiduciary duties to stockholders by failing to adequately shop the Company before entering into this transaction and whether priceline.com Incorporated is underpaying for Kayak shares, thus unlawfully harming Kayak stockholders."

Another firm has announced it is conducting another investigation
(http://finance.yahoo.com/news/block-leviton-llp-investigates...). Not sure if it relates to whether or not Kayak adequately shopped around the company....
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This is false, the submit page is the same non-yc people use. They also do not go straight to page 1. There is literally no advantage other than

1. putting "YC (s|w)(04..12)" causes users to notice quicker and upvote more
2. the YC network itself.. batchmates upvote each other, and this voting ring boost is under constant combat from pg.
I was in the same boat too, startup, lots of hours, eating crap. I had a dream that I died of a heart attack. So I decided to do the extreme opposite and get my self back to being fit and making a life long commitment.

I invested heavily into my startup, now I must invest heavily into my health to make my life come together. So I invested in doing CrossFit and doing the "Paleo" diet. A year later, I have gained 15 pounds of muscle and am now in the best shape of my life.

I'm able to think, act, and have a consistent amount of energy especially when times are tough. I'm 10x more productive and have a lot more ideas.

I wish you the best Greg.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/the-best-gym-for-startups-c...
Based on Apple's latest overtures, OS X is becoming iOS far more than the reverse.

That said, any code and library base, be it Apple or otherwise, has a shelf life. It will eventually be replaced, just like the hardware it runs on. That said, there's still a need for good OS X apps today and well into the future. If they EOL'd it tomorrow, things'd be different.

2 years' experience as an iOS developer sounds just about as impressive as 3 years' experience. May as well get some breadth, but most of all, you might as well do what you enjoy doing.
We're gonna allow people to create invite-only worlds. In the mean-time, the entire history of the world is evented, so we can actually filter out events from a given user and it'll be like they never existed.
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/the-best-gym-for-startups-c...
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It does matter if you don't want to manually keep them up to date. And the Steam interface is far preferable if you want to install multiple games at once.
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Definitely.

6 days a week, 2 hours a day.
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Interesting -- I've never had that happen. You may want to recalibrate the microphones on your Kinect; it does some crazy analysis to filter audio from the speakers out from the input stream.
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Agreed. This is the Achilles Heel of affirmative action. It actually undermines the achievements of the favored group. For instance, many people believe that Obama would not be president if he were not half black. How accurate that belief is is certainly open to question, but it's not racist to think so.

In any case, according to this research, Obama's first term didn't improve racist attitudes in America.

Prejudice has risen since 2008 Obama victory:

https://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/10/27/poll-majority...

Remember, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
so, is like a santa-claus or stork lore, but totally twisted by the father... it's like explaining to her that babies comes from crows. Will not get her closer to reality, and will make her awkward when surrounded by larger groups more familiar with the more usual folklore.
Made me think of something that I havent in years. Kant's 'purposeful purposelessness' - a definition of the aesthetic purpose.

Buying 20 sets of cutlery is most definately hyperbole (or no tit doesnt matter) - I think mapgrep is mistaken to link this idea to Steve Jobs and the couch... It is one thing to be an audiophile to have the best stereo; it is another altogether if you love sound.

I like the idea from the article. Made me think of the process of selectign a 'go bag' but not for emergencies, for eternity.

I am glad such madness exists and I am not insulted by it. I am no there but I get the impulse.
While I don't mean to discount the importance of a law school, from a research perspective I think there is a massive order of magnitude difference between lacking an engineering or med school vs lacking a law school.

In short, I don't think a law school matters enough from a research perspective to factor here. The med school thing does, though.

The only university with top research programs in essentially everything is Stanford. If you allow UCSF to stand in for Berkeley's med school (which you can't really), then UCB/UCSF would be the other one.

While Harvard is an exceptional research institution, I think it falls just a little too far short of Stanford and Berkeley in engineering and applied science to qualify as the top research institution.
"It is hard to innovate in the UX space"

Your goal should never be to innovate, it should be to improve. Yes, you improve by innovating but you should remember the goal is to improve, not make something new for new's sake.

Also it is no wonder they are understaffed, they are alienating their user base which is from where they get their developers...
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Why the hell does this mouse need to connect to the Internet?
The way you phrase that is a bit misleading. It's not that Japanese speech has any less info than most languages, it's just that you can set topics (add state to a stack, to put it in geek terms) that carry over into subsequent phrases. The correct translation of an individual sentence may thus depend on that previous context.

A simple but famous case is "Watashi wa hamburger desu". The sentence has no subject, so with no context that would get translated as "I am a hamburger", but if you fill in a previously defined subject, it could be "I [order] a hamburger", "My [favorite food] is a hamburger", etc.
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good summary, though I would claim another takeaway from this is that SMS is also more capable than most people realize.
So my grandfather on my mom's side was a doctor and a lawyer. My mom's siblings include a couple of doctors, a military officer, a business executive, etc. My mom was herself a journalist, and of her sons I'm a lawyer and my brother is a banker. This is not a coincidence. Privilege is passed down from generation to generation, not just in money, but in social status, connections, values, culture, insight, motivation, outlook, etc.

At the time my grandfather was getting his medical degree and building his law library (in the 1930's and 1940's--he had my mom at a late age), blacks in this country were systematically oppressed. They were prevented from voting, they were prevented from going to school, they were prevented from holding anything more than menial jobs. At the time my grandfather was building a social inheritance to pass down to his children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, blacks were being attacked with firehoses by the government for daring to fight for the barest of equal rights.

My grandfather has been dead for more than 20 years, but his legacy is going to reach out to at least another generation. When my little girl asks why she should do her homework, I will tell her about her great grandfather, her grand uncles and aunts, and how she should study hard so she can be a doctor like them. So too does the legacy of institutional discrimination reach out over the generations.

A poor white person and a poor black person (assuming they can trace their history back to the slaves) are not in the same boat. One is in his plight because of the vagracies of the economy, the luck of the draw, etc. For the other, at least part of his socioeconomic situation, some identifiable component, can be traced back to the systematic discrimination and oppression suffered by his ancestors at the hands of the still-extant state and federal governments.

So no, just basing efforts on socioeconomics generally is not enough. It's not the same.
While I don't mean to discount the importance of a law school, from a research perspective I think there is a massive order of magnitude difference between lacking an engineering or med school vs lacking a law school.

MIT and Harvard solve this by partnering together for HST.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%E2%80%93MIT_Division_of...

While Harvard is an exceptional research institution, I think it falls just a little too far short of Stanford and Berkeley in engineering and applied science to qualify as the top research institution.

... all of which would be hard-pressed to try to claim that they deserve that title more than MIT.
I've seen this happen a couple of times. An article is submitted once only to drown with around five upvotes, and then reach the frontpage on a second submission.
Katchaam is part of a big collaboration project, if interested you can viit the project here: http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Origins/2388240
This is a common flaw in reasoning--just because harms or benefits are not easily quantifiable does not mean that they should be assumed to be zero.
Here's your list, starting with Ms. Pac-Man

http://www.giantbomb.com/female-protagonists/92-2287/
Some people who use Tor do
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Awesome, did this just launch? People love this kind of thing, i'd be surprised if it wasn't successful.

Performance seems great for javascript/canvas. Though I would love to see a high performance native app. Good luck to you guys!
That's a very good point, thank you.
I was just pondering today why PCs have adopted spell checking as a standard feature but don't appear to use context techniques for word checking or grammar checking yet. Perhaps I'm just using the wrong apps?

The speaker says "to take in much more data" but it gets parsed by the speech-to-text as "to take it much more data" which is such an unlikely phrase I can't really work out why it's not auto-corrected.

The phrase provided doesn't appear to be in either Google's nor Bing's web indexes. Typing "to take i" in to either Google or Bing's search box produces a hit for "to take in" as the most likely match; and within milliseconds.

Similarly (and ironically) with "about one error out of" being parsed as "about one air out of".

That he goes on to say that they use statistical techniques and phrase analysis for the translation makes this sort of error all the more intriguing, why isn't that same statistical approach weeding out these sorts of errors.

Nonetheless an impressive demonstration.
I think I understand where you are coming from, but DRY tends to, at least initially, increase the size of codebases and development time. The programmer who hacks something together that works now, but is a nightmare to maintain later will score better in your formula. As you say, it is an investment in the future, which implies that you are giving something up now for something more later.
Everything feels really polished. Congrats guys, this looks fantastic. :)
Thanks for the tip! Would you mind posting a screenshot of Pong? I know that I loved being able to use graphics when I started, which is why I stuck to QBASIC as long as I did. Do they give you a library to use for drawing primitives (circles/squares/cthulhu), or is it all image-based?
Affirmative action? Are you mad?

Perhaps you're unaware of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_the_Russ...

Affirmative action is not the same thing as making it artificially harder for a discriminated minority!
This is really nice! Looks like you're using Firebase for the realtime stuff?
I created a service called https://www.cyphrd.com - previously called passwords.cc - which is a secured personal information service, let's you store passwords, notes, bank information, ssh logins, files/documents, and whatever else you'd like - securely, encrypted with an AES256 encryption client-side. The encryption library I've created is open source and the service is in a private beta stage.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Of course your app should be useful, but my point in the post is that that's not enough - you have to think a priori about how to make the app spread.
Here's another article probably of interest:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/322194,telcos-declare-sms-unsa...

"The lobby group for Australian telcos has declared that SMS technology should no longer be considered a safe means of verifying the identity of an individual during a banking transaction."
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"Alas, this design patent appears to be quite narrow. According to Ars Technica, Wired and the wisdom of patent lawyer-cum-Internet commenters, the granted patent can really only be used for the precise design of that first iPad, so that no company replicates the exact shape of that tablet, slaps its name on the back and sells the knockoff as its own work."

tl;dr - YHBT. HAND.
Telcos declare SMS 'unsafe' for bank transactions
Have you tried out Google Flights? I've been told it's based on this same technology, and has a much better UI.

And be sure to click around. It has some interesting tools, like prices for flights to your destination flown out of nearby airports.
So you are saying that you prefer globalization with US companies coming in and showing a country how things should be run? I think that's up to the country to decide, and not American (companies).
The article doesn't actually say anything about an intrusion.

I wonder if someone that has loads of compromised email accounts just ran them all against the "forgot password" page in an attempt to take over loads of Twitter accounts.
Visually that kind of interface is very appealing, but fares may be misleading... once you start the booking process, you will end up with completely different numbers. Typically, a featured "as low as $" air fare is a red eye, 8 hour connection time etc. I was going to output specials myself too, but then commented them out - as they hardly ever apply.

That being said, Kayak does have a great UI, and their iOS apps are eye candy.
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I believe that ITA software is owned by Google. They license it to others as well.
> what exactly is the point of different languages anymore?

True. This is why I will be teaching my children Basque and Basque only.

New languages might have originally emerged due to separation, but that doesn't mean lack of separation will cause already existing languages to go away.
Looks great, needs rotation though!
That was from their acquisition of Farecast, which was a great product - glad it's still surviving post-MSFT acquisition
I really like this idea. I hate how existing services limit regions, such as Trulia - it's not like the maps are hard to get - I hope your service works out.
You can also do this with OpenSSL's x509 code; we have a 50 line Ruby function that mints new validly-signed signatures from a CA=YES signature generated by the OpenSSL command line tools.
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It was a sad, sad day when they shut down the old http://matrix1.itasoftware.com/ interface. It was much more keyboard accessible with faster navigation between inputs, and the forward and back buttons always did exactly what I expected. Also really miss the "weekend search". It was a really great service, but I guess it wasn't exactly making them money.
Of course they can. Imagine a hypothetical comic with characters of both genders who are all sparklingly excellent role models in the way they behave. Now imagine that this comic was drawn by people who designed all those characters to be blatantly, panderingly sexy -- a fairly common situation, since sex sells, and cross-demographic appeal makes commercial sense. Does this make the characters poor role models, in spite of their good personalities and deeds? I doubt it.