skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never be waiting around for something to happen.. That's what hustling is.
I assume so, the current Firefox for Android fully supports WebGL.
Unable to copy it, China tries building own jet engine
This only describes the feature of connecting an XMPP client to facebook chat.

S2S federation means server-to-server. That is, use your XMPP account on your own server (such as prosody, as proposed above) to communicate with facebook users (on facebook's servers).

But that would go against fb's walled garden approach, so it's unlikely to come.
Big Data Won the Election
"How do I know when a student is doing really well? It’s when the best thing I can do for them is to just get out of their way."

I wish more "real world" managers believed in this principle.

Academics tend to want their students and post-docs to function independently. They don't have the money to hire "managers" (a.k.a. "people who boss other people around and don't contribute"), and therefore prize autonomy. It's not universal, but it's common. Even on large projects, there tend to be very few formal "managers" on a scientific team. The research organization tends to be flat, and the leaders are the people who produce.

When I first left grad school, I assumed that this sort of autonomy would be a prized commodity in the real world, but instead I've found that most businesses have a natural revulsion to independence. Politics, money and laziness conspire to produce a class of people who want mainly to exercise authority without doing much work. These folks are easily threatened, resort to micro-management to control situations that they don't understand, and generally just try to get in the way of any progress that occurs without their consent. It's a weird pathology of the commercial world, but I don't think I've ever encountered a professional manager who thought that his most effective role was "getting out of the way".
How well does this work cross browser/OS? It looks nice. Have you considered submitting this as a pull request to Bootstrap?
>i don't see why i should be civil

Because it's the protocol here. Because it contributes negatively to the discussion. Because it makes you, and indirectly your point, look worse.

>it is a lack of insight, depth and originality

Perhaps your own bias is preventing you from understanding their perspective? You're not the only person here who knows someone in academia, there is a very wide range in the way professors deal with their students, especially across fields and departments.
VS2010 implemented much of the C++11 feature set, and VS2012 implements almost all of it. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh567368.asp... for a table comparison of C++11 support.

I'm itching to start using this stuff in QuickBooks; I love smart pointers but hate auto_ptr and being able to safely use STL containers with smart pointers opens a new world of entity processing.
i haven't been this excited about something in a long time. what i wouldn't give to hack my own phone without learning proprietary platforms.
This. If you have no cofounder, and have no immediate need for the company to be formed, put it off as long as possible until there are reasons i.e. cofounder(s), hiring, launch, etc..
All those things you listed that a start needs from the government, they only account for about 26% of the budget. So... $6.6M down the drain.
whats messed up ? I stated I like personalized search because 9/10 times I'm googling something its related and I'd want to be personalized , either by local or a topic i've searched before. Not personalizing results will probably make search worse and people less likely to search in the first place.
I am unable to use stripe as I'm not from US and I don't have a bank account there. Gumroad itself uses stripe and pays the 2.9% + 30 cents a transaction. It keeps the rest - 2.1%
I'll be in Shoreditch friday morning so I'll definitely visit the Campus Café. Too bad I'm leaving monday morning, I would have loved to attend the Burger Night.

Thanks for the tips!
Yes, GarageBand is the app in the commercial. Why would Apple feature someone else's piano? :-) But it is nice that they said "App from App Store" instead of being more specific. That allowed the rest of us piano app developers to benefit.

p.s. I hope I'm not the only one around here who thinks of Tom Hanks when I hear that tune. I suppose all the kids downloading my app don't think of "big" when they see the TV ad.
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Thanks, your company looks good :)

https://ventata.com/

but at a glance it doesn't seem to work for App Store / Google Play.

Plus, I'm not sure how it would work for our intended demographic.

I'll definitely keep it in mind, looks like a great tool in the startup toolbox.
wasn't he badly wrong in the 2010 midterms? I'm not convinced this means he cracked anything. RCP uses simple average of polls, and they got 50/51 correct with Florida being the only wrong if it goes dem (which it looks like but hasn't been called).
No, he never said "VA is going to Obama, ...". He said "the probability of VA going to Obama and IA going to Obama and NC going to Romney ..." is X%.

This used to be at the "Paths to Victory" on the NYT, but they've been collapsed now.

We can say that somebody "nails" a prediction through both specificity and repetition. Nate had a modest amount of both. 50/50 and 49/50 are pretty specific. He did that well in 2008 and 2012, and similarly in 2010.
I made no claims about the product. I commented upon Apple's branding.

I find the way in which Apple brands it's widgets far more interesting than their specifications due to the way in which that branding affects online discourse.

For example, your "argument" is centered on specifications of components rather than productivity in a way which parallels Apple's branding - to the point where your "argument" depends upon ignoring computing performance.

Objectively, there is nothing wrong with valuing one set of specifications (display resolution) over another (computational benchmarks). But objectively, there is nothing right about it either.

Except of course as it applies to an individual case. Pointing out that individual cases are the basis for determining what is better, is expedited by pointing to an absurd example. Perhaps, the one I chose was not absurd enough.
But on what basis can a developer be accused of knowing something if he chooses to deliberately deny knowing it? Or, put it another way, is there a reliable method for a developer to prove that he knew nothing about the patent in question? Because, if there is such a method, I don't understand why not to look at patents. Also, if there is no such a method, then again - I can be accused of anything, so why not to go look at it anyway?

The idea of patenting paths of reasoning is such a nonsense.
PER UNIT should be appended to the title of this article.
Where is the comparison with alcohol and other legal drug-related automobile accidents? I think it's safe to say stoned driving is a -lot- less dangerous than drunk driving, and let's not even discuss driving on legal pharmaceutical painkillers - which more people are addicted to than heroin, cocaine and meth combined.

This may or may not be a biased experiment, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzKjFiGFrcU
Blu Graphing Calculator for Windows 8 Now Supports Six Additional Languages
It's even worse than facebook's approach to XMPP (I didn't think that's possible): Not only does it not provide server-to-server access, it also requires client tokens for OAuth that must be requested out-of-band, so any vanilla XMPP client can't make use of that endpoint.
I accidentally Ctrl + W my terminal window quite a bit. With tmux my session is persisted and I can get back to it easily.
You don’t have time to maintain your blog
Linking to bullshit
I don't feel like opening up that video now but I believe it is from a documentary that also showed that crows are capable of grabbing one tool (a short stick) in order to reach ANOTHER tool (a longer stick) which finally helped the crow reach the food. They also showed how crows are able to remember faces and also transfer the knowledge of which face to be wary of to their young. Really fascinating stuff.
It wasn't a matter of the work involved, it's a matter of wanting to keep in touch with the person.
Second the "build your own" CNC. A good friend recently made a 2x2 CNC that does a great job on wood and Halloween pumpkins for about $600. He did most of the structural pieces out of carbon fiber so it looks awesome but took some time. If you're building it yourself, it really doesn't cost that much to make a bigger one as structure and belts are not the expensive parts.
Nitpick: proofing that (as opposed to showing it to be likely by hashing a few zillion candidate keys and computing stats on their hashes) may be a bit of a challenge.

I am making this remark because the question reminded me of the question "If it is the 13th of the month, what is the probability that it is Friday?" (no tricks with weird calendars; you should just use the Gregorian one).
Why is Rick Santorum Using a Picture of 4Chan Founder Moot on His Website?
I think he meant population-wise which doesn't reflect in the electoral count except in analyzing effects of 3rd parties on results.
Same error for me (using latest FF on Ubuntu)
If there are max(SHA-1) hashes, and a 1/max(SHA-1) chance any particular one will hash to itself, does that mean we would expect only a single instance of a hash hashing to itself?

I have no idea how you might go about finding that one expected instance.
Whether you like or dislike Obama, the single biggest difference between him and Romney is leadership the way you described it -- willingness to stand behind something unpopular.

Winning requires all kinds. Sketch out the broad vision, and then do the little data-driven things that can give you a bunch of tiny little edges on the margin. But if it's not close to begin with, no amount of small edges are gonna help you.

A good analogy would be having good architecture and good code quality in a project -- you need both, but no amount of code quality can save a bad architecture.
Sorry, I think I should retract that statement which I seem to have recalled mistakenly. The error rate seems to be quite a bit lower than that, so I will post an article here after I research it thoroughly.
Folks who have been there before will tell you not to waste a single cent on incorporating until you absolutely have to.

Wait until at least one of the following is true:

1. You have investors who are ready to go.
2. You hire an employee.
3. You have actual customers and actual revenue.
4. You have any significant exposure to liability.

Don't bother with any of the paperwork B.S. of setting up a business until you actually are a business. Once you go down that road, not only are you spending a bundle on getting papers filed, but you now have recurring expenses for annual report fees, state minimum taxes, business licenses, accountants, attorneys, etc.

I'll go even further and say don't even bother spending time or money on a name, logo, domain name, website, or business cards until you've talked to enough potential customers to be sure you've understood their problem and are building the right product.

If you bring on a co-founder later, you can draw up a simple agreement (find a template online, or get an attorney to help you) that spells out the understanding between the founders in terms of ownership and control of the company once it is incorporated, who owns the leftover IP if the company fails before you get to that point, what happens if one founder leaves, etc.

I know it's exciting to finally "be a real business" and print business cards naming yourself "CEO". But that's all just vanity. Hiring a lawyer and filing some forms doesn't make you a real business; creating a product and selling it to people does.
I didn't miss that point - I just chose not to address it. Lots of things add zero (or negative) social value to the economy including Farmville or the gazillionth Instagram clone. That doesn't mean they're not worth doing.

And HFT or day-trading does bring some value to the world. It enables companies to go to the public markets and raise capital. And investors to sell their shares without having to wait too long for a buyer. But those positives come along with negatives as well.
May I ask you whether you have ever sat with one of those 'retina' devices (I know you don't like the word, but there isn't really a better way to put it) for some extended time, say >1h? If you had, and your eyesight is normal, I can pretty much guarantee your stance would be different. You can read much smaller text and you get generally less tired working on those devices - going back is like a punch in the face for me personally. These are tangible UX improvements, just like battery life. It may not be for everyone (mostly depending on eyesight) put please don't go around marginalizing people for liking a product for such a feature.
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Sketch support now built into LayerVault
Thats taking something simple and making it more complicated.
All TV ads are somewhat misleading. :-) Yes, they do add some extra stuff at the end... mostly an octave up and down, to fill out the sound.

Here's a fun parody ad that adds even more notes with more devices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaW6IiWKHAk
This presents elections as a system to be gamed, rather than an earnest attempt to learn the will of the people.
The problem with that is that the media is not that stupid. If you don’t have a consistent message you will be called out on it.

There are forces counteracting that, you know.
Make the receipt optional for each voter. Assholes will still be assholes regardless of the existence of receipts. If someone is extorting you to vote a certain way, I doubt the outcome of an election will affect your life very much. You have bigger problems.
There's also no capital gains tax in Hong Kong or Singapore and yet those places are not crime-ridden dysptopias. If you believe a higher level of taxation is necessary to support the services that you believe the government should offer then it would be much more constructive to provide some evidence of that rather than just being snarky.
> and frankly, i don't see why i should be civil to people who mindlessly accuse others of not caring about something that, in fact, is hugely important to them, just to appear cynically cool.

Because civility is the foundation of civilization, i.e., society, even in the microcosm. If you disagree, consider how to carefully respond and present a reasonable argument. This is the stated standard for HN.

If you don't like the tone of discourse and feel it could have insight, depth, and originality, please add insight, depth, and originality, in a civil fashion.
If your contention about voter bribery is true, how come red states are the ones taking the biggest government benefits relative to their taxes and blue states the opposite?

I think voters vote for ideals rather than as a business proposition, and there are polls that back that up. The idea that 47% of the electorate is 'bought' was pretty thoroughly slammed in the media the last couple months.
Introducing "Apple Passbook" for Files
Purple map, 2012 edition
Thanks so much for the great post. I can definitely identify with the emotional roller coaster aspect.
Is there any TLD more liberal/permissive than .se? I don't think so...
Sorry for the confusion. I meant Tiny Piano achieved its 3 millionth download since its launch in February 2012. The TV ad is bringing in about 4x the daily sales.
Apple Drops 20 Percent From Intraday Record
As a rule most security advice on stack overflow is dangerously wrong. It's just not a good topic for the site, because consensus if often wrong in such complicated question.

I don't see anything obviously wrong with this particular article (aside from challenge response or SSL choice - one should just always use SSL, and if you can't, then seek professional advice), however I am still apprehensive of the hive mind.
Too bad the single biggest piece of data here is going to be ignored. If they started competing with Silicon Valley for talent and put thousands of these guys to work in a building somewhere to fix this country, they'd quickly become the 'nuclear codes' of the USA. But they wont bother, they'll immediately forget all of this until the next campaign and go back to politics as usual.
I expect people will buy 3d printing material in bulk at wholesale prices from Costco's the same way we buy toilet paper and bottled water, use it as needed, and restock when low.
From what I can see it only runs on Macs, which I don't use, and it costs money, which !Draw doesn't. I could be wrong, and don't have time to check it out in details now because,as is so often the case, I'm on the road.

I've made a note.

Edit: here we are:

Sketch is available on the Mac App Store for just $49.
Sketch requires a 64-bit Mac with 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher.

Doesn't work for me.
What users really want. That's a billion dollar answer before starting the start up
I've encountered here and there. One of my mentors did when I worked with him.

Also, Michael Lopp, aka rands of rands in repose seems to hold that philosophy.
If someone had enough access to tamper with the regions of the screen and their linking to voting options, what makes you think a remote monitoring system would be trivial?
Sorry, my comment above wasn't well thought out. Amazon's durability guarantee is on a per-object basis, not on a per-byte basis. I will post an article here after I research it thoroughly.
I think part of the reason is that you can now read much smaller text, so you don't have to fiddle around the zoom level all the time. The chrome and top menu could be a bit smaller but it's not really a bit issue for me when browsing. For coding one can still switch to higher resolutions and it's a joy too.
This has to be the biggest side story of the night. - http://www.facebook.com/LiveCourtChat/posts/123286574495584

Recreational use is VERY different to medical use. No need to fly to amsterdam anymore just go skiing in colorado.

The question i have for you is this how do you feel about work place testing?

If someone isnt coming baked to work but tested within 7-14 days positive how would you feel abotu them losing their job?

What if you are a medical marijuana user?

This already came up in a court case in Michigan - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/joseph-casias-fired...
That's true. I was assuming he meant 8% OVER expected turnout, since 108% turnout is frankly ridiculous. That's one of the problems when people don't cite anything we have to assume what the numbers mean.

Taking a more nuanced view, one way the numbers could be true is by people voting in specific precincts that they don't live in. I.E. they go to the polling place near work not home. Which would just mean that one PA vote is counted in a different part of the state, not actually affecting the outcome.

States have different rules governing this kind of thing and I have no idea what the laws in PA are like.
I think you're confusing probability of winning with winning margin. His 79.4% number is his estimate of the probability that Obama would win Virginia by any margin. I don't think it's correct to say he's "a little bit right" -- either his prediction is correct, or it isn't. The only way I know to gauge the accuracy of his actual probabilities would be to run the election multiple times -- but there might be a more statistically advanced technique I'm not aware of.
Thanks! Yes, that reminds me of the quote usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson:

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

If anyone is thinking of doing indie development, it IS a lot of hard work. But if you ship and continually improve your app(s), there's a good chance you'll get lucky (someday).
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.onion but that is more like a pseudo-TLD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion
FWIW, we've developed and supplied safety-critical, soft-real-time applications in BBC BASIC. It was a genuinely serious language.

I also developed symbolic execution and partial verification systems for it, and that helped confirm that our systems were appropriate for the context in which they were used.
Ex-presidents do a lot of work that goes unreported once they leave the white house. They typically work directly with the president who's currently in charge on foreign affairs by meeting with dignitaries, they assist with humanitarian efforts, they work as part of the national convention (John Kerry and Jimmy Carter assisted Obama with his speeches and debates), and so on. Just because they aren't in the white house, doesn't mean they aren't active in politics. These guys have experience that is extremely valuable to anyone who's currently in or is trying to get to the white house. Also, remember that it takes a certain type of person to be president. Most of these guys would go insane if they just went back to their ranch once they left.

The President's Club is a great book that covers some of the ways ex-presidents stay involved in the politics of the day, even if you don't hear or read about it in the news.
what is the technique he is using? is it something like a generalized linear mixed model? (i.e. like using R's lme4 module)?
I have nothing to offer but what I've heard and anecdotal experience. People often get "mentally ill" from marijuana because it can produce mild feelings of paranoia. Add to that a country which will arrest you for it. And forcing people to buy it illegally from armed criminals, and you'll surely get people who crack under the pressure. I'm not saying that it's total bunk that marijuana causes mental problems, but I think a lot of it is attributable to its illegality.
I'm thinking more ~20 year horizon than next five years. I don't know if 3d printers will advance at the rate that transistors and microchips have, but I expect in ~20 years they will be able to do some interesting things.
I hope this gains traction before it's closed as subjective or such...
I often work a heavy mixture of locally and remotely, so every time I start a new unit of work (very loose definition) I run a script I threw together that creates a new directory tree to work in, perhaps checks some things out, and creates a new named tmux session for that work. I then use an alias for `tmux attach-session -t` with zsh autocompletion for tmux to rapidly pick up where I left off on any number of things I was previously working on.

Since tmux works locally as well as remotely, I find this to be a great organizational trick.
It's pretty clear that there are some places to just write off (Libya .ly, io, ga, etc.), and then, if you have anything even vaguely questionable, use a domain name in your country of operation.

If you're operating from NZ, you're already exposed to NZ law. A .co.nz domain name adds no additional risk. You may need to pick your country based on favorable laws -- i.e. don't run a gambling site from the US, and don't be a US citizen. HK is actually one of the better choices. The US is actually good for a lot of things, too.

If you're in the US, .com/.net/.org are all roughly equivalent, although I still think .com is the best overall tradeoff. There are some differences in individual registry ToS, but every one I've read is flexible enough as to be meaningless if they want to do something.

It's probably fair to say the US is the biggest risk for anyone operating in a non-US country except for their own government, so .com is a "safe" backup choice as well.

If you're really worried, the only safe choice is .onion :) Safe from having large numbers of users, too! (you'd be better off at that point distributing some kind of client software, or running multiple pop-up frontends accessing a common API, and then making it easy to move the API around using client-side failover.)