skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent post. One thing which the OP alluded to but I think deserves strengthening - 80% of the quality of your talk is in your talk, not in your slides. The OP helps focus you on your talk by giving you rules of thumb like 'less content'. That's good advice.

Along the same lines, if you're just getting started, it's not a good idea to attempt to make your slides beautiful. Plain old text on solid backgrounds will do just fine. To drive this point home, go watch some TED talks. The slides on those things can get positively ugly, but that hardly detracts from the quality of the talk. That hinges almost solely on the speaker.
It says the kid Sanders "wasn't prone to depression" but was "in a drug program for marijuana abuse, actively attending group meetings and undergoing frequent drug tests." Eh.
That was my first thought. I mean, I'm not one to try to steal someones idea. In fact, I'm pretty repulsed by the idea. So the first thing I thought of is "If I browse this for an hour and see 100 ideas, those are 100 ideas I'm ruling out from making myself". I know I could still do them, but still, I might think of an app that creates foldable printed figures on my own next week but if I saw it on there first I would just feel like I was copying and not do it.
I was very interested in the course syllabus for 'Statistics One' by Prof. Andrew Conway. I missed the course on Coursera and now I'm unable to view the course archive. Does anyone know where I can find the lectures?
(Yes, I've googled some.)
There seems to be support for Javascript. Check this out https://github.com/objectfabric/objectfabric/tree/master/obj...
Same here, I don't think I've used it much though.
The only thing on this list I'm surprised about is that recent emails are more protected than old ones. I don't really understand the difference there
I would be pretty angry at Vice Magazine if I was McAfee right now.
Exactly that. I was just wishing to have the "tty" tool in my actual terminal and not in my browser, just because i spend more working time in the terminal then in the browser.
Having to open the browser to find a text interface is somehow backwards.
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Show HN: Kubi - low-cost iPad remote telepresence
Any exit plan yet? I'm in the same boat.
I read 'frequently' as meaning 'much more than it should'. I'm guessing he was referring to three strikes violations leading to jail time for pizza-stealing.

I googled 'stealing pizza jail' and came up with one example, which of course was from California. Doesn't seem like it happens often, but there are enough stories of long jail time for comparably petty offences.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stealing-one-slice-of-piz...

I also found this odd story from spain, which is a more serious incident of pizza thievery, with a knife:

http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2011/04/25/pizza-thef...
I'm glad someone wrote this -- and it's an entertaining read. I would add to the author's points my opinion that people who are overly concerned with whether the person on the other side of the conversation really believes what he is saying -- whether they are arguing with someone "sincere" or whether they are just the victim of a "troll" -- are evidencing a lack of appreciation for debate and dialectic, and are substituting ad hominem.
Instagram vs. Twitter: Who really wins when we all lose?
better than nothing, but most of the components will still be produced in China, Mac will be merely assembled in US factories.
I have to assume so, as D3 does have things like CSV import:

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/CSV

And I assume that it xCharts omits it because of the wide variety of ways you may get your data. (XHR CSV, JSON, WebSockets, etc)
Apple has made no attempts to turn Macs into "iOS." it's copied some features, like full screen, but the system is as developer friendly as ever (and more unix compatible than ever).
We forget that geeks are hopelessly outnumbered by normals and they are the ones Apple is targeting and reaping the rewards.

This was always Steve Jobs vision and it's not like it was a secret.

Nah, Steve Jobs' vision wasn't to make computers for "normals." That was Jef Raskin's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin) vision. Steve Jobs' vision was to make computers for Steve Jobs.
If the idea of female executives it that shocking to people, it's probably a good idea to sometimes use a female gendered "generic" executive. Had the author said "he" rather than "they" I highly doubt that anyone would have made this comment. Further if they had, any complaints about it would be ridiculed as overly feminist or sensitive.

A lot of people fine the use of a collective pronoun (they) for a singular generic to be extremely jarring. The argument against using "they" is actually pretty good - as when it is unexpectedly countered it can cause confusion in the reader, causing her to re-read the sentence wondering what this group that suddenly appeared is. Even when readers know the modern usage of they/them, they will be caught off guard.

Until we all can read "she" in a "male role" and notice it as odd, or until there is a singular, gender-neutral, non-dehumanizing pronoun (calling people "it" is bad too), the use of "she" for generics is a darn good idea.

Well - except in traditionally female roles, then perhaps we should use "he" as the generic pronoun. (e.g. talking about daycare providers, nannies, nurses, etc as "he" in the generic gets equally weird responses).
So I read that pdf, and I am not convinced. These all seem like "before Day One" checkpoints to consider when building mobile apps and mobile websites. Making sure the website renders on multiple devices is just the beginning. That's not optimized, that's just the basics. Is there anything more thorough?

Also, have you guys considered hiring pentesters? I'd be happy to do the work.

Edit: what do you guys think about clutch? https://clutch.io/
Yes, it was very tricky to decide whether to release for all or for selected plans or even introduce it as an addon. Ultimately, we decided it to launch for $249+/mo plans only.
Panics serve two purposes: to bring down the program in case of an invariant violation, and to reset a state machine, like setjmp/longjmp in C. See the template package to see what I mean by the latter. The former should not be recovered from. The latter should not cross package boundaries. If they are, it's a bug because only the package author should reset that state machine. Packages should be imune to malicious input. There should be no invariant violations if you supply unexpected input. If you get a panic from a package, it means there's a buga and you shouldn't try to recover from it.
awww you changed "15 minutes of uninterrupted eye contact" to "One on One time". The eye contact thing was my favorite part :(
Good advice.

But I can't help but ask, this isn't THE MtGox providing this info, is it? :P
Great post! I noticed that presentations which give actionable, discussable points can give a but load of positive feedback and fun talks in the after track. For instance, not just showing that x is cooler than y, but actually showing how to use x more effectively than y. The difference is small, but I think it's pretty major in its effect.
Great and fun! Anyone else tried to close the search tab with Control-D?
Boring rant piece.
Most probably aren't. Even in China, where wages are much lower than in the US, Foxconn wants to automate half the jobs at the plants within three years.
The most interesting point of the article is that it is illegal for the GCSB (New Zealand spy agency) to monitor New Zealanders.

Personally I feel that other nations should learn from this and implement similar policies.
How so? Nothing is changed.
New eBay Product Aims to Harness User Data to Aid Auto Marketers
I guess then this story from April 1st turns out to be true after all.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/01/foxconn-plans-new-iowa-plan...
It would be great to have this integrated into a mapping software lige google maps, next to the existing day time satellite layer.
For instance, this would be useful to find good spots for watching the stars at night or to find remote camping spots or hiking areas.
but what's wrong with that one?
Should we embrace hybrids and let go of skeuomorphism?
Wide distribution has become much more accessible and much less expensive, which makes it easier for exceptional musicians (or performers) to get attention and gain traction. The key word here is "exceptional". Some guy messing with Protools or Garage Band isn't going to get far if he just isn't very good. So yes, you can get your music to hundreds of thousands of people, but you probably won't keep their attention for very long. Unless you're exceptionally good.
Why Your Workplace Needs More Than Nice
That's not what Cook said; he said they want to do something "more substantial" than assembly.
It doesn't really sound too good to be true to me. A file hosting service is able to buy large hard drives and then commoditize their space. A dollar currently buys about 20GB. So if one of these 25GB users decides to upgrade, then each month, they will pay the overhead for 10 new 25GB users (forever minus the cost of occasionally replacing old hard drives, bandwidth, etc.), or 40 new ordinary free 5GB users.

Moreover, if somebody uses even 10GB, they're pretty well locked in to box.com. That's more than any competitor I know of gives with free accounts, so to switch, you'd be looking at paying, right off the bat, for service you haven't vetted yet.

So while 25GB may feel generous, it's really only a one dollar loss leader, and the "catch" is built in to ordinary usage of the service.
Can I politely suggest not writing a book? Writing takes time, effort and self-sacrifice - a lack of which any publisher will be able to spot a mile off. If you don't care how many people read the book, publishers probably won't care that you wrote the book.
A sales channel is a system of business relationships through which you sell your product; for instance, partnerships with consulting firms and VARs that themselves have salespeople. An agreement with Best Buy would be a channel relationship. AT&T is key channel for Apple.

The methods you use to build a channel largely revolve around meetings with other companies, so, no, I don't think age matters as much as knowing how to sell a product to a reseller; how that deal is structured (markups, inventory, spiffs for hitting numbers, sales support, subsidized marketing, &c), how you generate and groom channel leads (pilot programs, pull-through from shared direct customers, tie-ins to services or 3rd party products, &c).

Channel sales managers are more like bizdev than like salespeople (although really, bizdev, channel, and account manager salespeople all share most of the same DNA).
The tips and tricks are not exhaustive of course. We had to balance the amount of information with the limited attention span. I had actually written a more detailed article titled '10 Tips To Optimize Conversions On Your Mobile Landing Pages' http://searchengineland.com/ten-tips-to-optimize-for-convers...

Hope you find it useful and more thorough. Let me contact you about pentesting.
Yeah, in fact ECHELON grew out of the UKUSA Agreement [1]. Pretty clever, actually; if we can't spy on our citizens, and you can't spy on yours, let's switch!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Emerald - Pantone Color of the Year 2013.
Honesty and respect are not mutually exclusive.

You can give great, thoughtful feedback that accurately describes your feelings without being unprofessional or disrespectful.
And yet that is a pile of money..

There are a handful of companies that do this work, they will partner with them, my bet is Foxconn as they already work with them. Build a facility and Foxconn will do what it does, with Americans in America. As an American, I think this is good, I wonder how successful it will be but I hope it works out well.

There are a lot of negative comments. From what Tim said it sounds like it is motivated by a desire to do some good, not just more profit. Maybe that is BS, if you can successfully do this, it knocks a few days off the time from order to delivery and that's also a huge edge. I can also see wanting to not give China so much control. I don't see it being devious though.
Twitterific’s New Design Trend: Cool, Clean and Made for the iPad Mini?
Mac Pro. Not MacBook Pro. You know, the >$4000 workstations.
daeken mentioned this yesterday, but you're still spamming the same exact text with only the name of the library changed.
1 second to see the whole picture just fine.

I love Opera.
A new log4j 2.0
Concurrency Utilities for Java EE Early Draft (JSR 236)
How has the role of aggregators changed as the Daily Deals market consolidates?
Sorry but this post is so full of rubbish it's almost trolling.

>for consumer-facing software, I don't think open source is the right solution..

Firefox, chrome, vlc, android.. think they work pretty well. Maybe not always, but yours was a pretty sweeping statement.

>..The auto-updating marketplaces provide tremendous value to the average consumer.

And have almost nothing to do with open vs walled-garden. What are these competing marketplaces on iOS? (besides, non-proprietary apps usually update themselves in the desktop world, which i can't see a big problem with).

Then you use windows as an example of 'open source' failure? Completely ignoring linux, which (as well as actually being open source and primarily running FLOSS apps) both won't get viruses in the hands of an average user (which i accept--android aside-- it is not normally in the hands of; but that's another discussion), and has also had package management for an eternity, as well as eg. ubuntu software centre for discovery (NB: not the only choice for software). That windows is not perfect is not an argument for the apple model (which IMO is largely better because it is much newer/no baggage; apple have made good software but that is no argument for its walled nature).

>Apple also did a magnificent job at creating a DRM-free marketplace for music. It didn't happen all at once

Apple created the locked nature with regard to the apps, it is not battling music labels to free them up. To insinuate that apple really wants an open system, but that it just needs time to mature, is.. contrary to reality (see also: the direction they are taking computer hardware).

NB: this, obviously, does not mean i share every opinion of RMS.

response: silent updating != walled-garden, FF is controlled by mozilla too, and basic VLC function is as easy to use as a DVD player. Yes moore's law has brought us great things, and apple makes nice stuff (relevance?).
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I am going to guess those shifts will be 29 hours or less per person.
Does this mean that the US is going to be the dumping ground for manufacturing? Waste? Low slave wages?
Thanks for the link, I have been meaning to revise some statistics, four years of barely doing any makes you forget a lot.
For someone with no dev experience it's clean and looks decent, if it is a bit plain. Using google fonts can go a long way to make a minimalist site look better.

Take what I am about to say with a grain of salt, but...
I have to ask what are you selling people, or why are they coming to your site? Who is your target audience? Having hung around hacker news long enough, it appears that most of the links you have posted are very familiar because they've been on hacker news before.

If you are appealing to those who don't typically read hacker news then maybe you have a chance, but who are those people and how are you going to reach them?

If you are appealing to hacker news readers I don't know why I am going to go to your site as opposed to hacker news. Are you going to create more compelling content or are you curating content?

ALSO one more thing - you have some links under HOW TO VIDEOS and select javascript, but the first 4 links are for Java. Java != Javascript. If you are going to provide tutorial info you need to be a credible.
"What I learned from Steve Jobs?"

"How iPad kills PCs"

"My iCruft and Me"
Well, for the expected day-to-day case:

S = number of hours an employee needs to sleep to be useful (this varies person to person)

C = commute time to the work location

M = maintenance time (how much time a person needs to do minimal human maintenance, eating, relaxing, showering etc)

So the upper bound on N should be:

N <= 24 - (S + C + M)

Now this doesn't take into account burnout etc. So another factor B, should be put in the equation. It represents the time an employee needs to spend on non-work things (hobbies, family, friends, going to the pub, whatever) to refresh themselves for work and prevent burnout.

The average person seems to have these sorts of values:

S = 8
M = 2
C = 1

so assuming no B (extremely unlikely), this puts 13 as an upper bound on N for long term. However a normal 13 hour day is a LOT. I know for me B is around 2 or 3 and a lot of people think I'm nuts on how much time I spend doing work. I should note, in my case, B is actually higher, however aspects of my work also count towards B - I love my job, and so can spend more time at it in a sustained way because of the "fun" or "paid hobby" aspects of it.
will take care not to do so from now on :)
What Would Jesus Do? He'd Back A Startup
There's been 4 generations of Nexus phones with 3 manufacturers (HTC, 2x Samsung, LG). It seems like a bit of a leap to say that Google is learning the best practices of each and then will eventually use Motorola.

Not saying it can't or won't happen, just that you seem to be passing off your conjecture as something that's inevitable.
really cool, love it already
Your account at Box.com is available as a (secure) webDAV share. You can easily use it in Linux, in Nautilus it's just like any other remote resource.
IOS Support with Windows Azure Mobile Services – now with Push Notifications
Microsoft improves its (Apache 2.0 licensed) iOS SDK for Azure services by adding support for Push Notifications via APNS (Apple Push Notification Services).

Also incorporated an even easier login method that provides the developer with logic and user interface for logins via Twitter, Google, Facebook and Microsoft Account identities with just a single line of Objective-C code.
So do the militiamen in Montana, so what exactly is your point?

The bobbies patrolling the streets in the U.K. are unarmed but people still seem to respect the rule of law over there, companies can still be seized, etc.

In fact there are probably even a few Western democracies without so much as a military that still could pass laws to nationalize a business.

"Guns" are the least of your problems with government from a day-to-day point of view.
My holiday tech wish list... for 1982
I don't think you can avoid entering passwords into software that can connect to the internet. And once you start using a desktop or laptop, anything and everything can both listen to your keystrokes and also connect to the internet.
While moving these jobs home will never make the US a manufacturing giant again due to advances in productivity, …

Not to pick on you, but this kind of statement is made so often that it's become received wisdom that "nothing's made in America anymore." But the US remains the largest manufacturer in the world. And while I don't have the numbers on manufacturing employment by country (anybody know where to look?), I'm sure the US is by any measure—including employment—a "manufacturing giant", even if it is more heavily roboticized and thus needs less labor for equivalent productivity.
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Phoenix NAP Partners with WebPal to Deliver Cloud Document Management Solution
Latest release here:

http://search.cpan.org/~crzedpsyc/App-DuckDuckGo/bin/duckduc...
Hipmunks Design, Designed Years Ahead of Time (AKA, Don't Steal)
How to develop a blog with Portofino 4
It was a rhetorical question, perhaps improperly phrased as such. The point being that they have barely even begun to attempt to scratch the surface. How effective are rovers at doing this? Shouldn't the ultimate goal to be to gather data to allow more extensive exploration (likely by humans)?
This is a work computer, I don't have a choice.

All I know is that for the last six months, whenever I up grade my ubuntu box I spend anywhere from an hour to a day getting it back into the state it was so I can use and work with my code base - be it the wired driver, the over writing of java, or changes to the php.ini and on and on ..

I guess what you are saying is that I should reinstall windows and install the development tools I need on there? I should tell my (start up employer with a limited budget) that we need Ubuntu certified machines for all developers?

I'm not the only one win this problem - honestly you comment is the first time I have heard of an Ubuntu certified box. However I do know that other developers who have experienced similar issues take the same approach - I know of one person who is on 10.11 still. Not because he doesn't want an Ubuntu certified box or because he doesn't want to up grade but because he has work to do and upgrading gets in the way of that.

Why not go the other way, only install Ubuntu on certified hardware, keep me from using it on my hardware unless they can support it.
Hi All,

We have released the beta version of our trip planning solution, Trip Tern and would like to have your feedback/inputs on the current design and how to make the solution even better. It is an initial version so you might see some bugs ( apologies in advance and please let us know about it)
We are covering about 12 cities in this version and some of the features that we have added are

a. You can now select hotels,duration, interest and attractions that you want to visit before planning the trip.
After logging through Facebook
b. You can save trips in your profile
c. Browse Friends' trips albums (picked from Facebook) on your trip Tern profile page.
d. Browse all the places of interest/attractions from the travel guides.

We are a three member team working on this for a few months now. The solution might not be perfect but would appreciate inputs/feedback on the same. Will definitely add them in then next release.
Will Cloud Computing Be To Labor What The Internet Was To Capital?
How about a law that requires notification from the company if your data is given to anybody for any reason? I'd include potential security breaches in this.

This stuff isn't one-way, there have been corporations which have volunteered information and just handed it over when asked. As I understand these laws, they cover when the Feds can force the release of information and they presume that the companies all don't want to release it. I think that is generally true, especially for your larger companies, but not always a truth.

The user should be notified of all releases of information to any party unless a FISA type warrant is presented.
Vague or outright misleading. The "engine for the iPhone and iPad" is indeed made in the US... by Apple arch-rival Samsung.
Why Facebook will have trouble killing the text message
Yes, you're correct--brain fart.

OP, you'll also see EBITDA, which is Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amoritization.
They are truly innovating, but not in gimmicks or specs.

They're producing quality again. Starting to get it, I think.
It's happening. Wages are rising elsewhere, while US wages remain stagnant, thus making domestic manufacturing for high-end goods more profitable than manufacturing elsewhere again. I've been predicting an eventual return of manufacturing to the USA for years now. It'll be a slow process, but it will inevitably happen - the only questions are when and how long.