skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is part of our inspiration for the project. We were fans to buy couldn't get one. So we set out to provide something similar.
They might have gotten it early on though not used it as extensively as they'd planned on using it, but kept paying for it. Just because they'd paid basecamp doesn't mean it was necessarily something that was vitally used at the center of the campaign.
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I tried it on my kubuntu i386 netbook earlier today. The ppa installed ok and when I ran 'netflix-desktop' for the first time the wine installer downloaded and installed mono, then proceeded to install firefox. I noticed some errors but didn't look at them very carefuly.

I ran 'netflix-desktop' again and it said 'firefox.exe not found' at which point I gave up.
> If Windows is truly trying to cover both types of usage, [...]

Who says they're trying to cover both types of usage? It seems pretty clear to me that they want devs to forget about the desktop and start building metro-only apps.
innuendo galore.
Depends on your keyboard and force. For example, a MacBook is generally quieter than other laptops but then again once those keys get old they can get quite loose and clackety. What I can say for sure is that those train cars can be pretty damn quiet. I know the quiet car I ride in is possibly quieter than my own car. And when it's silent the ambient noise tends to sound even more faint until someone on the inside starts making some really annoying sounds. I'd also say its sometimes not so much about the volume itself but rather the type of sound. Someone talking on a cellphone is less annoying than a phome ringing which is less annoying than that damn texting keyboard "click" sound which is equally annoying as typing too hard.
Quiet spaces are important to some of us, but my bbrother always has music or the TV on. He admits disliking quiet.

The small town where I live has strong no noise laws. You can't generate sound that can be heard outside your yard unless it is gardening noise - during business hours. Noise is one reason I no longer want to live in a city.
Thanks for providing those links! I work on mortar and wrote the weatherme tutorial.

We just released a new version of mortar on Friday, with all new templates that should be easier to use. I'll be updating the tutorials soon.

The developer hub will be the place devs go to learn about building apps for Firefox OS. We know it's just HTML5, but we are also aware there are many other questions regarding app development, so we fully intend to fill those gaps. It's not quite as simple as "just" building an HTML5 site.

EDIT: Forgot link to developer hub: https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/
resize the window slightly if it's blank ... there's a silly renderer bug in the latest chrome. I had to do it here.

And no, I don't know the bug number or if it's tracked or if it's been fixed. I just deal with it and hope it will be fixed eventually.
Awesome =).

That is very much inside my price range.
Android and IOS both use exactly the same solution for their multitasking.
Is the "Quiet Car" really as intellectual as Kreider makes it out to be? Is it really full of readers and intellectualists, people that take pride in knowledge and are aloof from the mundane?

This is an interesting situation: put the people you're most likely to enjoy a good, thought-provoking, intellectual, factually-backed, philosophical conversation in a car together... where they take a vow of silence for the duration of the ride.
My life has been a search for quiet for as long as I can remember.

I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt, and they thus don't realize the havoc they're wreaking.

When I was living in Providence, working on On Lisp, I told my loud but well-meaning neighbors that I was writing a hard computer book, and that made them be quiet. Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework. What they don't grasp is that someone would want their mind to work that way all the time, as a matter of course.
"When running web browsers in both device areas, users will only see (and be reminded of) a subset of their open web pages at any given time."

Setting firefox as my default browser helped here. (Not going to work on RT of course). Clicking a link in the Metro mail app takes you to the desktop instance of the browser, unlike chrome and ie, which also seem to ignore any sessions you have open in the desktop version.
The CEO of Evernote also gave another option when giving a Keynote on Stanford[1], a talk properly entitled "No Exit Strategy for Your Life's Work"

You can listen to him explaining this point specifically here[2], on "Decoupling Exits from Liquidity"

[1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2799

[2] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2805
Gambling with others' money might be more stressful than gambling with your own.
So, your assertions are unquestioned axioms, mine need substantiation. Yeah, we couldn't be friends.
It really depends where you are. I live in Montreal, in one of the most active neighborhoods, full of shops, pedestrians and nightlife.

But it's all concentrated on east-west streets (in my area). I live less than a block up from the main artery, and it's completely silent here. Ground floor apartment, window onto the street.
Any thought to something like facial recognition to find photos of myself posted online without me being tagged or otherwise made aware? (Mostly thining posted to friends' facebooks, here)

What about the problem of other poeople taking photos and not sharing them? Anything we can do about that?
I do understand, I just wasn't aware that there are still browsers that don't support SNI. That's too bad.
Anything using Microsoft's built-in crypto support, will still not work, I have a .NET based application I am supporting on Windows XP which still doesn't support SNI.

Also, my sites that I would want to enable would be public sites ... ones that I don't charge for since they are mostly public sites (but I still want to protect credentials for people posting comments and the like). So charging for an extra IP is simply not an option.
Ziploc bags.

Also great for travel if you have anything in your luggage that might break or leak.
The average Indian may not be corrupt, but corruption is a much bigger problem in India than you acknowledge. If you look at http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/ you'll find that India is tied with Albania and Kiribati for being the 95th most corrupt country in the world. The United States is 24th.

If you look at issues such as how big a deal caste, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc are, India looks like a much less enlightened country still. Being (presumably) a Hindu male of fairly high caste and normal sexual orientation, it is as easy for you to ignore this as it was, say, for a white southern gentleman in the USA 50 years ago to ignore the glaring problems there. That doesn't make them not real - it just makes it easy for you to not believe that they are real.

Now for a random point of comparison. I grew up in Canada, which is in 10th place on the global corruption index. And yet my wife's family knew a girl who was raped and murdered, the murderer was caught, there was clear evidence, and yet he walked after bribing the right people.

You would say this is impossible? An eyewitness saw him pick her up hitchhiking, and wrote down his license plate. She then picked the driver out of a police lineup. The suspect's semen was found in the murder victim. The medical report said that she was strangled, and cited physical evidence such as bruises on her neck.

The judge ruled that the sex could have been consensual, and it was not impossible that she could have drowned in her own saliva. (She did have excess saliva, but not a tremendous amount. 16 year olds don't generally drown in their own saliva.) The bruising on her neck was ignored. The police then did not appeal. Nobody else had standing to sue, and double-jeopardy rules meant that he could never again be sued for her death. The case died there.

This happened in a country that, evidence suggests, is substantially less corrupt than India. Why then would I be surprised that there can be egregious instances of corruption in India?
I'm typing this right now from my apartment in Midtown Manhattan. I hear nothing except the humming of the two USB hard drives on my desk.

All in all, this is the same amount of noise I grew up hearing in a quiet suburban neighborhood.
In-ear plugs don't work for me, I can't even stand the soft squishy ones for 30 seconds. Given that I also can't sleep while sitting and I can't afford (and my company won't pay) business seats, I have to resort to pills. So the solution for me is Bose + pills.
Does Google's bot do SNI?
> Why is the converse also true?

That those people who don't scream about discrimination don't rail against free speech? I dunno, maybe because they don't feel the need to deprive others of the right to voice their opinions in order to advance their own cause.

> I hear people spout off the most racist and sexist crap imaginable

Then stop listening!

> then complain their "free speech" rights are being trampled when others call them out on it

I don't think they complain when others "call them out" - that is just called debate. I think their complain when they are censored, persecuted, jailed, or killed by the state for the crime of expressing their views.

> It's so embarrassingly prevalent it's become a meme within the social justice community.

By "meme" I assume you are talking about the lampooning and ridiculing of - and gasp even inciting hatred - towards those who stand up for free speech. I think you will find this is a fairly standard modus operandi of these insular, circle-jerking, agitating communities, but the fact these "memes" don't really escape to the wider world says a lot about the general palatability of these views...

> Here in Canada we have the hate speech restriction.

Good for you, although it would probably be more accurate to call it a free speech restriction...

> No slippery slopes has been slid down

In Britain police are rounding up people who say mean things on Twitter. In Australia, being a bit too flippant when commenting on certain racial issues will earn you a day in court. Maybe you Canadians are a bit more open-minded, or gulp, American, than you realize.

> and also no Westboro Baptist Church

And after you eliminate all the people who espouse views you disagree with, what do you have left? Some kind of super Canadian master race?

> I for one happily take that tradeoff

And I for one hope your own views do not one day become categorized as illegal by your state and subject you to censure and punishment.
Congrats to Meraki team. Another exit for Sequoia. Looks like they had an excellent year where companies like Palo Alto Networks, Kayak, LinkedIn that went public (and doing well). And companies like Instagram, Meraki got acquired for north of billion dollars.
Universal, I think, also implies single unified search. OSX has this, iOS has this, Android has this, Windows 7 has this. Heck even Windows Vista has this. Windows 8? Nope. This is the most frustrating part of using Windows 8.
Never had a problem here in Germany either. Smoking is luckily not allowed anymore, as well.
There is a quiet car, too, but it is hardly necessary. Talking on the cell phone loudly is frowned upon everwhere, even in the underground train -- at least I haven't seen too many people doing it. Just don't take the same trains the drunken soccer fans take (if you're not in the mood).

This is must be a somewhat American problem. I once was at a Cheescake factory there, where it was so loud we could hardly talk with each other. We hypothesized that they do this for a higher turnover.

The people in the Amtrak trains, subways or buses did not bother me -- it was more the screeching noises those old relics made. I would be extremely annoyed by music in a library though.
I presume one of the purposes of the redirect is so that the person testing the add at Facebook never sees the scam.
I think I'm going to have to watch SpaceBalls again!
I know enough to be able to confidently say that this is a personal situation.

The only startup connection is that the person to whom it is happening is a person who would like to be heavily involved in startups, and whose talents would make that a natural thing to do once this situation is resolved.

India does have potential issues for startups around corruption, bribery, a slow legal system and so on. However I'm not aware of any shocking targeting of startups.
And a good idea it is, except the quality of first-party apps isn't up to making that transition.

I cannot speak for Android, not being a regular user, but I have never, ever seen a first-party on iOS get its own UI stuck. It may crash rarely, but it will never get itself into a state where the user is powerless to do anything with it (short of killing it).

Most iOS users I've met aren't aware of the kill-app functionality, and they don't need to, because first-party apps don't have egregious enough bugs like "button to return to main menu reacts but does nothing".
There's not a lot of documentation, but Systems Manager is solid. I've been testing the Android client and found it stable and well-behaved.
Yes, I just wanted to make it crystal clear for people that had never used it, and thus would be even less aware of the "split" (or perhaps misunderstanding it). If people dislike Windows 8 that is fine, I am kind of lukewarm on it myself, I just prefer people to come to those conclusions off actual use experience and not FUD or mis-quoting/mis-understanding an article. Not saying anyone in this conversation did, but I have seen enough posts on the internet from people that appear to have never used X, decrying X based on some FUD/misinformation, I try to nip the opportunity in the bud when I can.
Thanks! What are your pain-points with G+?

1) Although the storification is largely automated, it still requires some user input (event names) so we thought that it would't make much sense to pre-storify everything.

We are adding some graphics to distinguish between storified and non-storified albums in the user view.

Also the question is how to display the contents of an album if it hasn't been storified yet?

2) Yep, the albums should be sorted newest - oldest, the sorting is just buggy at the moment.

3) We were thinking about adding other media as custom nodes in the graph (and a corresponding representation in the main content pane) maybe on the same logical level as the current events or one level bellow visualized with a dot on the dashed line.

The thing with video is that normally you have a bunch of short clips from the vacation and if you don't feel like starting a cutting software or using Animoto, you would need a bunch of embeds, not just one in our opinion. So we should treat video the exact same way we treat photos - many short snapshots put together to create a story.

4) Do you mean subdomains like justin.mystorify.com? Yeah definitely on the ToDo ;-)

5) Once we have the subdomains this is plausible (because we don't have the user in the album url now to make it shorter - therefor it has to be unique).
Not to be pedantic, but I'm not sure your cat will understand if you tell it not to disturb you during work hours.
I think in general India is a bit better than China, but I'm fairly sure that you could move this whole affair to China with very little difference.

According to http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/ it is actually China that is better than India on corruption, but neither has anything to be proud about.

And I agree. This case could easily have happened in China. I suspect that it would have turned out worse there.
Sorry, I added a more complete explanation in an edit.

To reiterate though: the only thing the user would have to learn is to forget about having to close apps themselves because it will be done for them as needed. This would not prevent you from working on something over a period of multiple days, on and off, so long as the developer implemented their app correctly. The app simply gets a clear request to save it's data to disk so that when it gets resumed or re-launched it can load it back and pretend it was running the whole time. This whole thing is pretty much transparent to the user with the exception that you might see the "splash" screen when going back to an app you haven't used in a while. I have not used metro extensively, but I have not experienced any problems with this approach when playing around with win8. If anything I actually kind of liked not having the care about having too many apps open and doing "cleaning" sessions like I do with regular running applications I stopped using.

Anyway, said behavior only applies to metro apps, desktop apps still operate as you'd expect.
wow, i thought meraki is doing just so-so comparing to UBNT
And by other platforms you mean Android. I didn't read anything about a windows phone or webos app in TFA.
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Try listening to some binaural nature recordings instead of music. It's much less distracting. I find that they function as well as white noise, except that I don't get tired of listening to them for long periods of time.
http://soundtracker.com
http://www.naturespace.com
hmm same link published twice, I thought HN would not allow that. Bug? Race condition?
This has nothing to do with the Wii U being hacked, at least not in any sense that anyone here would care about. It appears this guy was able to accidentally access an admin account of their Miiverse Wii social network that seemed to let him moderate posts and possibly users, and that Nintendo shut it down before he revealed how (which probably spared them having their first day being dominated by news of what 4chan did with those abilities).

He didn't "hack" anything (he just happened to press 'x' while hovering over the exit button), and it wasn't hacking the Wii itself in any sense that you might refer to the hacking of a console.
Have you tried the silicone earplugs ( http://www.amazon.com/Macks-Pillow-Silicone-Earplugs-Value/d... ). The squishy foam earplugs bother my ears after a while, but I can wear the silicone earplugs pretty much forever.
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You may be right… for a certain kind of person, dealing with other people's money increases the feel of personal responsibility (which is a good thing!)

I don't believe that's what's at work most of the time, though. It seems like there is a kind of person who wants to imbue every action, every day, with a kind of Life or Death drama. (Related drama: Everything I Do Is Hugely Important.) Getting the other people's money plays into this sense of self nicely.
Neat.

Every time I find a company that I think is worth working for, I spend time on a good cover letter to try to get interest or even play around with their API and build something simple. Meraki was one of those companies I cared enough to write about, I believe, but I never heard back from them. I seem to not be good enough to be hired but good enough to recognize the best, lol.

Perhaps I should start a newsletter.
"I'm good on the quiet car (though I have had my moments I'll admit). There are people of all ages,miracles, and genders who behave this way..."

You probably don't encounter the same people all the time. There's enough people out in the world such that each one can "have their moments" when they're around you, and nowhere else, and you wouldn't know the difference.

I do sympathize with you though. I've got a sound sensitivity problem, and lots of noises bug me way way way out of the ordinary compared to most peoples' tolerance. I know this isn't specifically related to quiet cars on trains, but noises in general still bug me (even my own oftentimes). I'm sometimes shocked how I can be on an airplane, with gigantic engines blowing away at tremendous force just 20 feet from me, yet a person a row ahead of me chewing gum or chowing down on pretzels penetrates in to my brain.
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Images are useful if you are authoring a math heavy document (and don't want to go back and forth between a previewer and the editor).

See http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/img/preview-screenshot.pn... for an example.
I've seen this scam while in Android apps and like to click the ad every now and again just to cost them a little more money (though it is a shame it is not easy to report as a better alternative).

But a marketeer I recommend looking at scam email/ads from a professional POV. Quite often they are great examples of marketing and how to communicate effectively. Just please apply this to a more honest motive.
Fact-checking the tweets made before BritRuby was canceled
we replaced Casper suite for Meraki's free MDM solution, has been amazing for us. Just recently started to test some of their AP's, and have been really impressed.
That does seem to be the cycle they've been following, willing or not. Win2000/WinXP/Win7 for the corps; skipping every other Windows.
Oh lord, yes. My particular nemesis: leaf blowers.

My office is in a residential neighborhood. The sound of a gas powered leaf blower is at just the right frequency to penetrate the double-pane windows, my noise-isolating earbuds, and it somehow overcomes all background noise. The whine and revving is audible. All. Day. Long. From every direction.

I imagine to the operators it seems like a sensible choice -- What harm can I possibly be doing? I'm just one guy blowing some leaves around! But to me -- the guy four blocks over trying to write code for a living -- it hurts deep in my soul, and I wonder when exactly we became so fearful of physical activity. When did we forget how to USE A RAKE?!?!

I know, I know. Cry me a river.
summary: People in Belarus saved money when they used Opera's features to "strip out images and other bandwidth-gobbling web extras" due to the way the state telco billed them.
It is possible that it's some sort of auditory bias, but there's people from all over the world here (big tourist city and all), and it's almost always people form the US that I notice are loud. Even with the British, I can't normally hear them without being quite close, so it's not the language. Of course, I can't tell how many quiet Americans I've walked by without noticing because they are quiet.
He runs Linux on his MBA, but the thing has specialized hardware that isn't fully supported with drivers and cannot be swapped out.