skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: Pusher also supports fallback to XMLHttpRequest or normal http requests based on your browser afaik. We use pusher a lot for our upcoming point of sale app (live stock updates, etc stuff) and so far we are happy with.

But integration's with Apple and Google's push notification system is a good idea.

On a side note i see you used angularjs for the main site and we love angularjs don't we =]
USA-made goods have a reputation for better quality than China-made goods. Not as much in the tech world, where top-of-the-line iWhatever is made in China, but, for example, in the world of mechanics and tradesmen, Chinese goods = Harbor Freight, cheap but low quality, while American goods are pricier but probably good enough to do the job.
Ask HN: As an MP, how would you use the net to scale political participation?
The pirate party is running for election 2013, chances are we gonna break the 5% barrier and get some seats in the national parliament of Germany. Whilst it is pretty easy to nominate yourself right now (login into a wiki, announce nomination), I haven´t seen much conceptwise. The pirates stand for a massive extension of political participation, exploiting the net to make decisions, develop position and so forth. Yet, the software we use is a UX nightmare and lacks formal power. Liquid feedback, our tool, is more therometer about the party´s current status, than an proper tool of political influence. Plus there is a big opposition against any virtual committee (mainly driven by security and fraud concerns). Nevertheless as a MP you are formally binded only to your conscience, and have much freedom to organize yourself, build platforms and so on. One idea would be to have the MP as proxy or megaphone, not making any political submissions him/herself, but only announcing the will of the virtual assemblies. So my questions is, if you would be a MP and your goal would be to allow a huge amount of people to influence political decision making via modern information technology, how would you do it? What problems to do see? Which processes need to be tackled and so forth.
I apologize for the outburst.. I should have attributed a source to back up my claim.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/files/80/ccivi%20report.pdf

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121025/business/7102599...

http://naturalhealthdossier.com/2012/10/the-preventative-mea...

please note I never said "vaccines are bad" = ad hominem
It's still growing. Development is active, people post plenty of interesting stories. Commenting is slowly increasing. These things take time, and the core group of posters are still posting links on a daily basis which is what a nascent community needs to survive the initial "lull".

I'm very hopeful for Lobsters.
> All you have to do is open your eyes and ears and figure out what they want the most.

The Indian masses want food, shelter, and an education for their children. Oh, and they can't afford to pay for it. Doesn't sound like a very good business opportunity, especially for your average HNer.
That site has even less information about itself than HN. Who runs it? What are the rights/licences on content? What is it about?
So open source means it does exactly what it claims to do? It sounds like correcting you might be a lifetime's work.

Consider the 'bug' that the switch value might be stored correctly but the software might ignore its setting.
As much as I like the minimal/darkroom approach of OP's (et al.) idea, the constant swapping between preview and edit is painful, this calms me. Let's embrace reactive transparent update (BrettVictor style).

: the update delay is a tiny bit high for my taste, or maybe just lacks communications/notifications, a tiny gizmo (spinner, led, hud..).
The Chairman's game.
عائدات تطبيقات الأندرويد تنمو بوتيرة أسرع من تطبيقات نظام الـ IOS
People really use Unity? I might be rolling my eyes a bit at Canonical for this decision, but seriously who would even want to use Unity, they can do what they want with it as far as I'm concerned.

We can't have it both ways, for software to be free, Canonical has to be 'allowed' to do this. The community is now very aware of what is going on, and that is good. We can make our own decisions as informed users. Uninformed users have always been at a disadvantage, that will never change. Case closed to me, lets not turn this into an episode of the 'Real Housewives of the GNU' it really shouldn't be as dramatic as this comment war would have you believe.
Yup no worries :D
And Pusher is a fantastic service
I wanted to register, but there is no link. it's some exclusive club?
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Iridient, Stunning High Speed Flash Photography of Bubbles Bursting
Someday I'm going to invent a place where people can gather to learn technical skills from masters of the crafts, and socialize with like-minded enthusiasts.

I could even "gamify" it and the players could earn points for passing tests to prove their knowledge, ultimately earning an "achievement" for mastering the craft at various levels of proficiency.

We'll allow a diverse range of players to apply and even come live there, maybe right out of high school.
I'm thinking "friendiversity" for the name, because you'll make friends and there is diversity there, what do you think?
Hide & seek with the Page Visibility API
In the MMORPG area there is today Darkfall which is kind of a spiritual successor to UO in many regards (full loot, anyone can kill you outside cities and so on) but in first and third person 3D. The original game had its issues though and is closed down since mid November because of the release of the now much hyped sequel Darkfall: Unholy Wars (a.k.a Darkfall 2.0), coincidentally coming out on Wednesday next week. It was also greentlit on steam in record time (like within 24h) so there's definitely craving for games like this out there.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkfallOnline for anyone interested.
also why does the tooltip say the same thing as the link itself?

http://i.imgur.com/fdkpt.png
Can I get an invite, please? Email in profile.

EDIT: Got it. Thanks. (So no one double-sends)
"I didn't want to have a discussion. I just wanted to put it out there. "

WTF?
Consider this: How many searches did you do before you became aware that this was introduced in one of the 384 software upgrades you installed in the past 4 months?
Probably: to make a profit.
http://www.pivoted.co/
That response doesn't answer the question but it does contain a lot of diversionary handwaving.

Short version, yes we do tell Amazon, we just claim to preserve your anonymity. Given the deceit implicit in this obfuscation, there is not reason to believe anything Shuttleworth has to say on this subject.
That is coming from the browser and is a good thing.
This is very good advice. One tangent on this is the High/Low status games we did during the few acting classes I took in high school.

It truly helps you read some situations as one does act differently when a high or low status is assigned to you, it is striking how it affects behaviour, both in the game and when applied to real life.
"think mod-13 arithmetic and prime numbered cards behaving differently"

I know it puts me firmly in the Mathematicians/CS types corner, but when I read that, I did not even have to think consciously to have 'once you are in Z13, prime numbers should not bother you anymore' spring up in my mind.

For those not Mathematicians/CS types: modulo 13 arithmetic does not have primes. For example, 2 is not prime because 3 times 5 equals 2 mod 13, 3 is not prime because it equals 4 times 4 (and, by extension, -4 times -4, which is 9 times 9), etc.
Not just better quality, but an honest product. Waves of toxic toys, rotting drywall, and deadly dog food from China have seriously damaged the Chinese brand in the US.
You see, about a year and a half ago this was what HN was actually like.
Or we could learn electronics, programming and make our own future. We can. It's really program or be programmed. That's what hackers do.
Love it! What I'd need to adopt it is Dropbox integration, possibly using filepicker.io
Stallman is right about this in my opinion. I think if the feature isn't either opt-in, or removed, in 13.04 then Ubuntu is going to lose a great deal of credibility, especially amongst its long time supporters. With 12.10 they can claim that it's something experimental rushed in at the last moment which needs refinement.

Both Mark Shuttleworth's and Jono Bacon's blog responses to this issue have been below the standard that I would have expected. Shuttleworth made a silly comment about Canonical having root on Ubuntu machines already and Jono described the Stallman's comments as "childish".
E-Books via Kindle FreeTime Unlimited: Game-Changer or Non-Starter?
Build a home server with a Rasberry Pi : Samba, ftp, Time Machine, Airplay
Banjo Tooie for N64 finally cracked
How does a landing page tell us anything?
Peter Naur wrote on this subject in 85 and came to much the same conclusions.

Here is the paper for anyone interested http://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ve...
A well set up Google Reader account can do wonders... but it takes a while to get to that point.
That makes sense. It would be a good way to get started considering the relatively low demand for Mac Pro's they could presumably assemble all of them in the USA (therefore all customers get the same product).
This sounds a lot like another Scientism dispute, i.e. if all questions of human life can be empirically answered or that there are things beyond testability.

It is an exhausting discussion, that goes way deeper than a few snaky comments on contemporary philosophy papers. There is actually a quite good summary on Wikipedia on the conflict:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
and dont try to run over all cyclists they see (just the mailman ;P )
Given that we're talking about components where more precision is needed, the odds of a defect aren't necessarily the same either.
You probably jump the gun again, but I do get your point about infrastructure issue. And I agree that the needs in India are probably towards lower-middle side of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. But the need is there for sure.

> "The actual internet ready audience for what an internet start-up might sell is smaller than" ... "less adopted to the internet way of doing business and with less money."

> "Well, most of their problems have nothing to do with what an internet start-up can offer. Hence a drought of customers for internet start-ups."

For example, shouldn't you then be looking to provide internet/bandwidth in the first place? This is a lucrative problem that you (entrepreneurs) can solve. Customers are always going to be there, no matter how you see it.
"and you're more likely to have a good comment downvoted."

This has never made sense to me. On some subreddits that focus on disciplines (like AskHistorians among many others), you can easily get downvoted (ie "dissapeared") just by asking a question, let alone answering one. Other times you'll won't get upvoted nor downvoted when you've actually contributed to the discussion. In these instances I lurk even when I can contribute because it's just not worth it.
yes, your electricity company cannot earn money using ads. google's business is mostly built on ads. see the difference?
It's My Birthday (or, "On the Insignificance of Birthdays")
For me it sounds like whole stackexchange.com network.
the page you links to cites one solo "debunking" study which was done by a guy named Dave Mech, who links to occupy wall street and likes "evolutionary biology and social justice": http://www.davemech.com/

people's personal views often influence research
Actually, you would probably not get away with having failed auto-headlight-dimming because you would annoy a cop going the other way and get a ticket. But features that aren't so obvious will go uninspected in many locations.
I honestly don't know why you'd need 250 people to run a service like Dropbox. Dropbox is a piece of software that could recreated in about a month by a smart hacker; and if you're using AWS, you don't have worry about the servers (so don't need a sysadmin/maintenance staff) -- so, theoretically could be comfortably run by a handful of skilled core engineers.

Why are 250 people working at Dropbox? Is Dropbox overstaffed?
> "Indian masses want food, shelter, and an education for their children. Oh, and they can't afford to pay for it"

I don't know which economic lens you're looking through but I do know that Indian middle class is swell, and has pockets deep enough to buy iPhones and Black Berries.

How can you even convince yourself that there is a drought of customers in India? That's not true. From your position it seems that there is a drought of entrepreneurs who are able to see the needs instead.
The real problem for AMD and Intel is that ARM chips are too cheap and have better power profiles. As ARM chips hit that sweet spot of say 2 GHz and say 3-4 cores, they'll hit laptops and it will be game over. Why would a company pay $100 for an AMD chip that is a 50 watt or 100 watt chip when an ARM chip might be 5 watt and $10?

Once chips hit the "good enough" threshold where they perform well enough that the average user doesn't notice the increased performance, it becomes more of an issue of economics and $10-15 ARM chips are at a huge advantage over $100+ chips from AMD and Intel.

Also, Apple is certainly working on an ARM version of full OSX (as iOS is already basically OSX on ARM), Android obviously runs on ARM, Linux runs on ARM, and WinRT runs on ARM, so all of the major OS's can/do support ARM. Thus, there's not a major barrier software wise for ARM, it's more of a performance barrier, which won't likely last more than 3 years.

To AMD's credit, they're working on ARM for servers, but ARM is going to eat their whole business, so they need to move as fast in that direction as they can afford to. x86 is going to die a lot faster than anyone could imagine.
Why do you post a (seemingly?) good source along with two silly sources?

The daily herald article talks about a faulty product which was withdrawn by the manufacturer.

The Natural Health Dossier page is obvious nonsense and not worth comment.

Your position is made weaker by including those bad sources.

Just posting the cidrap source, with quotes, would have been better.
I'd just like to point out that Lojban is a constructed language, not a natural language. It was designed and built from the ground up, as opposed to the GP's controlled natural languages which are pre-existing human languages with a bunch of stuff stripped out of them.
100% agree. I am 43 self employed, the fourth child is due in March. The understanding spouse with a good career helps a lot. You can do any company a 20-something can, you just use your greater experience and social contacts to make up for the extra time you don't have.
stackoverflow or lobste.rs
Hmm, well that's not how we played it - the cards incremented, not numbers themselves.

The rules went something like: when you play 'X', then all cards are incremented by 1. Kings are 13 and wrap around to Ace, which is 1.

The second rule would have been, say, all primes are spades, so King + 2 would be 2, which is prime. King of clubs on a three of hearts... perfectly legit.
* why hasn't the state of the art advanced since then?

The Fred Brooks essay "No Silver Bullet" is a good place to start:

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBulle...
except you can't discuss things there.
The biggest problem I see is about engagement. If you use any form of issue based voting for the public, most citizens can't be bothered to engage. Thus you end up with a bunch of issue-driven interest groups, that will ultimately decide on that question.

In my opinion political engagement is very hard to sustain if the candidate is not on a clear cut "mission". The only candidate that seemed to be able to achieve an engagement that went beyond a single momentum is probably Ron Paul, but it is going to be interesting to see if his son is able to sustain this movement while having (relatively) more moderate views.
It's much much cheaper to just purchase a VPS or ATOM Dedi and install iRedMail and SOGo. You don't get Docs of course but 80% of the customer's I know don't use Docs, only email and Calendar.

I can't say I will ever switch over to Outlook though since Microsoft is notorious for charging for everything sooner or later and ruining a lot of things. They botched up Skype now that they have it also.
I wasn't previously aware of YAML, though it seems like it would work very well - even allowing for features like adding/exporting multiple entries.
Can websites personally identify visitors?
5 Suggestions to Escape Linear Startup Thinking
But on HN people tend to show their working, rather than using an irrelevant degree as a badge of authority.

There's a difference between saying "I think this is the case; here's why I think it; it needs a bit of iteration" and "I have a degree (in X); here's the truth about Y; some people disagree but they are wrong; I tried to publish this on Z but they are controlled by shills of the big industry and they squashed my free speech rights".
Yes. What does "Other" mean?
Those types of problems are not programming problems per se, but more like riddles for math inclined. Once you know the solution, the coding tends to be rather trivial with regard to control and data structures.
Steve Jobs’ Own Words: Apple Is A Software Company
This is pretty cool! I've been working with Meteor for a few weeks, but haven't heard of it before.

Forking!
graduate school
Are there any applications (mobile, web or whatever) whose sole purpose is to help a programmer capture the program that is in his/her head?

The first thing that comes to mind is UML based applications like Rational Rose. But those seem to have such high barriers of entry and are more geared towards communicating the program to other developers or different stakeholders.
The goes my weekend ;-) Level 7 already
> Never seen anyone use an android workstation as their main work system though

Me neither, but if the hardware specs are right, it's a breeze to install a full Ubuntu userland and work from there. I don't think anyone will ever want to run a heavy IDE (such as Eclipse or Visual Studio) on any machine that was designed to be power efficient rather than fast, but I have no problem developing for Django, Flask or App Engine on my aging Atom (N270, IIRC) netbook. And, if I develop on a remote host (as I do, when I need serious computing power), all I need is bandwidth, a decent screen (all my phones have HDMI outputs), a keyboard and, maybe, a pointing device (easy, since all of my Android devices have Bluetooth).

The more people read their e-mail and manage their shared work documents through a browser, the less they need a desktop PC. Soon enough, the desktop PC will follow the path of the Unix workstation and be relegated to a niche where being able to locally process locally stored data is important. If I were Steve Ballmer, I'd retire right now and never, ever, worry about Microsoft again.
Enderle? Sigh.

I wonder if the writer realizes that Steve Jobs started out using robot factories (with NeXT) and then went to China. Its cheaper to hire and fire poor people than robots.

My guess is that Apple plans to assemble the most expensive macs (especially Bro models) in the US. I'm hopingthis includes the Mac Pro replacement.
Dude, I loved your article, very inspiring. Glad you managed to make the jump. Good luck!
Does Tech Create Jobs Around the U.S.? Maps And Graphs And Charts, Oh My
It sounds to me more like "Let's stop funding some parts of philosophy that aren't really tied to reality, when there are real philosophical problems with practical consequences that we need people working on".

* Edit: Made my interpretation a little less inflammatory.
I understand that China has those problems you mention, but as you say, they don't apply to tech products that much.

Does anyone really want to buy 'Made in the USA' products because they're afraid their Macbook or expensive designer clock is going to fall apart if it's made in China?

Thanks for your input. I find it very interesting that so far no one has said that it's about protecting national interests and that they're all for that!
invite just sent..
> Agora Nomic, which is currently suffering from lack of interest

And deservedly so. I started playing once, and got chosen to be a judge. After a couple of hours reading the rules I passed judgement, and promptly got shot down/counter judged. Apparently I was technically correct, but there were a whole swag of "customary rules" which weren't written down anywhere.

If you're not going to play by the rules as written, what's the point?
while android may become the hardware layer king, I think it will be overshadowed by html/js for GUI.
Well here's my shameless plug. I've been building http://hawkee.com for many, many years more or less as a hobby. Lately I've been trying to fill the void between GitHub, StackOverflow and even HN. I don't want to say too much, but if the goal is unclear then maybe I've still got more work to do.
nReduce is missing a great opportunity.

Competition is always good for the consumer.
Debian is a great distribution. In fact, my first Linux was a Debian and I'm still running it on the server. On the desktop I'm using Fedora though - for no obvious reasons. It's just the one I stopped with when I was trying out distros.
Why "train" philosophers?

When I imagine a "trained philosopher" I see a person who uses a lot of smart-sounding quotes but cannot choose between the right saying and the wrong saying. It's all the same to him, a material that he absorbed and now outputs.

Challenge philosophers. Confront them. Let them take on each other.
Good point. You can do it that way too. I find it sometimes hard to use when you need to position the the radio button and the label text separately.
That's a website not a mobile application.
Not in the bay area, but when I'm back home in India - yes. All of them from high school and undergrad.
Most of them don't get my startup is because they can't grasp what a location-based app does...and we end up talking about movies & music :)
Open source means you can have a look at what it actually does. So yes, after all it means that it will most probably do what it claims to do, because everyone (at least people who can code) could check and it takes just one person to have a look at it.
The web site's not loading for me, so unfortunately I can't read the article yet, but your summary sounds worryingly wrongminded to me.

Philosophy should not necessarily be a practical endeavor – it concerns itself with being, life, and existence on their most abstract and difficult levels. There is a place for functional philosophy, and plenty of places where modern scientific discoveries can aid a line of philosophical inquiry, but suggesting we scrap Plato and Kant for "practical" thinkers is a dangerous way of thinking. I don't want to comment more until the article loads for me, but there's a place for practical consequence and it's elsewhere.
Only JS for now?

When do you plan to release Python and Ruby lib?
A major factor in the cost is the defect rate. If you consider each pixel to have the same probability of being defective, you'll see that a 4k display (3840 × 2160, 8.3 megapixels) is 4x more likely to have bad pixel than a 1080p display (1920 × 1080, 2.1 megapixels).

So now the manufacturer is throwing out 4 times more units than before AND those units were already more expensive in therms of materials and time. This cost is then passed on to the consumer.
On what project do you use Pusher?
tinfoilsecurity.com ?
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