skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a hardware expert as well. I've a technical ham radio license from when I was at school (pre 2000) which gave me a small advantage when getting into hardware hacking.

IMO Arduino's are great for getting started - especially the Arduino Uno as it's not stripped down like the Mini or Nano and can nicely be used with a breadboard. Plus in case you blow up the Atmel chip (e.g. by shortening pins so that they are dead) you could get a replacement chip for a few dollars and pull the old one out of the socket.

I would recommend browsing over the tutorials here: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

That should give you a hint on what you can do (programming and electric circuits).

There's Arduino IDE which hides the toolchains from you (which is not bad at the beginning). As soon as you advance you can setup your own toolchains and use C directly.
Heh, the Google Nexus 4 is $299 in the US, 700 € in Greece. Talk about a ripoff.
I didn't expect to see my own country (The Netherlands).
I ssh into my devices often, eg. to get pictures out, or to scp episodes into my vlc folder - since my goodplayer can't play mkv.

I am also pinging ocassionaly other servers and have to do it from another device than my iPad if it is not jailbreaked.

Imho, you all seem to be to accustomed to appliances - I favor open devices without those hastles. And being unable to inspect a good before purchasing it, if it is something lasting like software sucks.
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1. For one, when viewing HTML source, it's cleaner. I feel more confident that I'm supplying a minimum viable product.

2. The HTML document payload is smaller (and this is a feature-to-scale).

3. The same basis behind SASS's "placeholder" approach: use only classes on a contextual basis.

4. Everything in one place: Now I can manage all of my properties in one Layer (not "file" as many people suggest; "files" are a myth), the Presentation Layer.

5. Collaboration is easier since we can define variables which represent our standards. That way, we can talk at a high level about UI modules without worrying on the impact to our deadlines. (More fun and productive work activity!)

There are others. Philosophically, it's just cleaner and easier to think about my assets. If I disperse .classes all over my markup, I then have to worry about "presentation-points" like data-points (where server-side tags are placed). That's complicated. CSS, like the DOM, is complex, but it shouldn't be _complicated_.
Nobel winner slates Britain's 'stupid' immigration reforms
But it does reminds me of this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3161455

Why didn't any country try this?
For now I don't feel any annoyance, the shell startup is instantaneous and it closes instantaneously as well. If I'm starting to feel a slow down I might rotate the log, but I guess that's not happening soon.
Zynga has actually open sourced a bunch of stuff. Nothing earth shattering, but there's good stuff there. See https://github.com/zynga and their tech blog http://code.zynga.com/
I love the idea, but I worry it has little practical use for business - it'll be the web faux pas equivalent of using unmodified Bootstrap!
Thanks for the article, it was a nice refresher!
All I want is to replicate the experience I can currently get from uTorrent. ie - high res content downloaded [not streamed and thus vulnerable to buffering] to watch at my leisure around the time of initial cable viewing.

The price for doing this legally should probably be similar per episode to what I pay for a song on iTunes.

I'm happy to pay for a netflix sub, but it doesn't do what I want. I hate buying boxed sets (though I sometimes do) because playing DvDs on my PC is worse than having a quality .avi file neatly filed and quickly accessed.

In fact (I've said this here before) my ideal world is where Steam holds all of my purchased series and I can manage it all from there. It remembers stuff I no longer want clogging up my HD to be re-downloaded, and downloads the latest episodes of stuff I've bought automatically.

What I want will never happen.
I maintain a WMAN and can't use my 700€ iPad for it. Use case: connected with a hotspot, it lags: normally pinging to hotspot, than from hotspot to GW is the first diagnosing step. ..
reducing such a fine device to a mere consumption device is really bugging me.
This is something that I too find confusing.

I don't get what the added value is of a handbag that costs $2,000. There's good quality materials, high quality assurance, restricted numbers, sales from expensive shops. But still, that's no where near $2,000. So a forger can make a knock off and try to sell it for $1,800; or for $200; or a bad similar bag and sell it for $50. I don't know why they don't make nice bags for $200. This is true when you look at wristwatches. I want a nice movement in a nice case with a nice face for a reasonable price.

There's a lot of philosophy around it if you're interested in that kind of noodling.

"Bob has a science-fiction machine that can make an exact copy of a famous artwork. No one will be able to tell the difference between the two pieces. Bob borrows a famous artwork, but he then gets the copy and original mixed up. Should he tell the museum? Or should he just return one? No-one will eve know, but Bob." etc.
I'll pitch in with one that hasn't been mentioned yet. The Egoscue method: http://www.egoscue.com/meetpete.php. In particular Pete Egoscue's book Pain Free.

I had a horribly seized neck a while ago where I couldn't look over my left shoulder. This had come on after visiting a physio for a very stiff upper back (a legacy of military service and lots of programming). I bought the book after reading about it in the 4 hour body and did 1 set of the exercises. My neck had more range of motion after 25 minutes than it had for months and several hundred pounds worth of physio appointments.

This and other information on self treating trigger points (http://saveyourself.ca/tutorials/trigger-points.php) has got my back in better shape than before I joined the marines!
Protesters say movement will continue
I think what happens to most people following advice from others is that they are not "dumb enough" to go with it.

That or "suckers don't value what they don't pay for" (attributed to PT Barnum).
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About how niche online video is developing and will give traditional programming a run for its money.
This is cool, but I think more transparent background scenes would be useful.
Life in the grey area: Private WOW server under repeat DDOS attack.
Arena tournament staff: "As most of you might have noticed, we are currently under a huge Ddos attack and are doing our best to resolve the issue. The attacker is the same guy who threatened us a while ago (Trentddos) but the attacks have increased by size. We are not able to tell yet for how long we will stay offline but we're doing everything in our power to get the server running.
We're thankful for everyones support and patience."

What sort of measures could you take to prevent this sort of thing?
Great. I love mountainbiking and was serious about it for more than ten years now. I agree with all you are saying. I would add that there are still opportunities to improve and build better bicycles. Especially the recumbent bikes community is very actively hacking better machines. I have some friends involved and was able to try several prototypes - if I have the extra money to invest I would definitely support this. It is innovative, useful and fun!
I have also used a bicycle for commuting in every city I've ever lived. It is probably the best way to explore the surroundings and get to know the city map. Just note: I have experience only from Europe and Eastern Asia.
David, I would be happy to visit you someday with my bike in Padova.
I live and work in London, and while cycling would free me from the shackles of public transport, I am almost certain I would be killed on the roads within 6 months.

Cycling is dangerous when you share such tight little roads with 20 tonne trucks, cars and other vehicles.
Hi, I was too at the unreasonable institute with Michael and had the same opportunity. Great exposure and we are closing our second round with investors we met through the same channel in March.

Jamila,C.E.O MFarm
It's not "conceptually identical" at all. With some legal due process, the police force can violently breach the front door of your house if you refuse to let them in, and similarly open locked safes. Though this process may be expensive for them, it is not impossible. Cheap, widely available systems to provide provably impenetrable security against government intrusion is a relatively new phenomenon.
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One is successful if?
I really hope I don't need a loading bar or command line application.
Well, hey, look at Zynga. They even treated their employees terribly and got their success.
Not exactly a scientific breakthrough, but I am really interested in the progress of Curiosity in Mars.
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I've always wondered if we paeons truly know what the heck is going on in our chips. I mean, the basis of trust is pretty large .. but there is really nothing we can do to ascertain whether there isn't a backdoor in every single chip package, and indeed this has been discovered to be a real situation by the Pentagon (Chinese backdoors in milspec chips), so .. I can hardly imagine that we can do much more than just plain trust, and get over it.
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I have been assuming that it's most likely they won't make another board - or at least not another design.

I assume that, because in that case - they'd be fanfaring a lot more about how their newer design is being worked on. I'm seeing that they're more focusing on developing the userbase and utilities of the current board.

ie. with expansion cards, refining the software stack and such.
From the page:

"As most of you might have noticed, we are currently under a huge Ddos attack and are doing our best to resolve the issue. The attacker is the same guy who threatened us a while ago (Trentddos) but the attacks have increased by size. We are not able to tell yet for how long we will stay offline but we're doing everything in our power to get the server running.
We're thankful for everyones support and patience."

What can you do to avoid this sort of thing?
Time to deploy EMET... again.
It's unfortunate to not be able to power other things off of the Raspberry Pi's USB though. Like a WiFi USB dongle.

But we knew we were in for the ride when we bought rPi's.
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Your numbers are way out.

Disney has a market cap of $87B and that gets you Disney, Disney Theme Parks, ABC, ESPN, The Disney Channel, A+E, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic, and a hell of a lot more to boot.

News Corp has a market cap of $57B and that gets you 20th Century Fox, Fox, and a long list of international broadcasters and producers.

Viacom has a market cap of $26B.

Any of those gives you pretty much all the content you can shake a stick at in both TV and Film, as well as several broadcasting networks both in the US and globaly and a long list of other assets that would likely be packed up and sold off. Even accounting for a leveraged buy-out premium, Apple could buy either Disney, or News Corp and Viacom and instantly be one of the worlds biggest media companies.
I would like to include a speech recognition in my commercial projects, but the license is GPL and is tied to KDE.
I've also tried sphinx before but the recognition is kind of poor and it lacks a gui for user/developer configuration of the grammars.

I wonder if speech recognition software can be developed with a :
- Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) algorithm for comparing utterances/words.
- A recording device for the users to record their words.
- Context separation like simon uses for limiting the phrases to listen at any time and improving accuracy.
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TL;DR Conditionizr is a jQuery plugin which allows you to detect several end-user’s browser and environment properties and then serve specific conditional JavaScript and CSS files to them.

License: MIT License
If you agree that binary is redundant, that's enough for me. Although I wonder how the word blob came to be used in BSD. You don't happen to have the first use in some mailing list archive?

Anyway, BSD's usage is not actually the general use of the word, as you can see in the link I've posted somewhere else in this nitpicking thread, people usually mean a bunch of bytes, without connotation.
The truth is that you don't and this is fairly apparent when you find a buggy device and the vendor either shrugs it or threatens to sue you. (yes that does happen)

You can build out of discrete logic. The opportunity for something dodgy to be built in at that level is unrealistic. Some military equipment still works on that principle.
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PP shadows production traffic to QA servers
New product allows duplication of traffic.
http://www.parallelproxy.com
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I guess the future really will be just like Star Trek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunted_(Star_Trek:_The_Next...
Nice design. I'll add a few tag recomendations on the left menu so users can find them easily, and maybe even create their own list of tags they like to browse
Thanks for the different perspective.

It's not that we want to peeve off anybody.

Would you be alright going to m.domain.com on your PC only to be redirected to domain.com? Would you still want to try getting into m.domain.com on your PC?

There's no difference with using domain.com for mobile web app only. It's just the URL address being used is different (domain.com vs m.domain.com). Let me know your thoughts.
I'm not sure that desktop/server drives would even have accelerometers in them.
I would say it's even better if you omit "binary" even in the case you are not using an acronym.
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If only there were some non-Apple devices...
Yeah, maybe 1 in 5 is a dud. I forget to do offerings and press my luck. Basically, I gotta hold-up my end of the conversation.

Just enjoy God's company.

Hurricanes?

What's more fun, hurricanes or tornados, God?

SuperNovas?

God says...

77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the
night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit
was overwhelmed. Selah.

77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot
speak.

77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine
own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
more?

77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for
evermore?

77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his
tender mercies? Selah.

----

My birds are awake.

What are they thinking?

God says...
38655-4109 foretelling smile promiseth oft-times corporeal
unsound voluntarily plotting ships blasphemy propoundest
syllables distracting interposing desireth object sunder
crying Foundation sounder far hogshed joker distractions
bleeding divide fishes soughtest sixth deaf repeat_after_me
gave Isaiah greatly confusedness soon employer perverse
Vermont acquire restricted ninety lends mentioned scourge
blotted

----

One time God made me kill my pet goldfish. I was tramatized.

God says...
giving of thanks.

5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and of God.

5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:
walk as children of light: 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth;) 5:10 Proving what is acceptable
unto the Lord.

5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
rather reprove them.
Birmingham UK: similar issues on a smaller scale. Many cyclists take to the pavements instead that causes other issues (I'm getting quite good at jumping out of the way). The organised cyclists used to have 'critical mass' riding now and again

http://www.birminghamcyclist.com/group/criticalmass

seems to have gone off a bit.
So a forger can make a knock off and try to sell it for $1,800; or for $200; or a bad similar bag and sell it for $50. I don't know why they don't make nice bags for $200.

Interesting enough, this happens; there are high quality fakes as well as poor quality. I've sat down with the head of brand enforcement for a major fashion house, held the different fake items, and seen what can be made.

There are different grades of counterfeit available, which basically boil down to three: the cheap and nasty; something nice (the $200 example); and something incredible.

The latter is particularly interesting; sometimes a counterfeiter will understand the brand so well, the cuts, styles and use of materials that define them, and come up with entirely new ranges that have never and will never be made by the authentic manufacturer.

I've had more than one brand manager tell me that in any other situation, the designer behind the items would be able to walk into a job with them due to their new designs being so good.
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Yeah, figured out the sock trick pretty fast, and also switched to shoes without loose laces -- haven't had a problem since. And trust me, even if I do switch to a road or (more likely) hybrid bike, I won't be adding clips to my repertoire any time soon!
For the technical improvements, maybe, but for the improvements in living standards, not so much.

Living standards for commoners improved (vastly) during the 15th century, as a result of depopulation due to the Black Death in the 14th and the increased negotiating power of commoners that caused. Improved farming methods helped as well.

Unfortunately these improved living standards led to overpopulation and a subsequent decrease in living standards that only bottomed out during the late 17th century and that was exacerbated further by constant religious war and by climate change (the "little ice age"). Recovery was slow (partly because the "little ice age" lasted until the early 19th century) and only towards the end of that century do we find peasants better off than their 15th century forebears.

The evidence for this is in archives all over Europe and has been extensively written about by people like Emmanuel Le Roy Ladury. While the rich and educated were busy improving science and conquering the world, the poor suffered.
It's a bit sad that one of the most useful cases for `Object.create` was not covered: it is the only way to create an object without a prototype. Using constructor functions, even if you explicitly set the ``prototype`` to ``null``, instances's ``__proto__`` remains ``Object.prototype``:

> var F = function () {};
> F.prototype = null;
null
> (new F).__proto__ === Object.prototype;
true

This means all the "default" object methods are there (e.g. #hasOwnProperty) and ready to get clobbered with all the risk it entails[0].

With ``Object.create(null)``, however, the __proto__ of the created object is effectively ``null``:

> Object.create(null).__proto__
null

and such pesky methods as #hasOwnProperty or #toString are not there for clobbering.

And an issue of Object.create failed to be mentioned as well: you can't use ``instanceof`` directly, you have to create one-off "constructor functions" to call ``instanceof`` on them.

[0] http://www.devthought.com/2012/01/18/an-object-is-not-a-hash...
I've had several refunds of apps I've installed and then didn't do what they were supposed to do or didn't run.
I don't believe there's anything stopping you from building or finding a network diagnostic app that will let you ping/trace/etc considering there are SSH clients.
It has worked well for me in the past. I lost 30 lbs when I got back in to cycling, but it's slowly crept back on[2] so I need a new effort to sort it out.

My commute is only 8 miles and I do this the vast majority of days in all weathers (London, UK) even if it's icy or snowy (this weather to come in the next few months) as I've got a spare pair of wheels with Schwalbe Marathon Winter studded tyres on them.

Combining my commute (the alternative is to take the train) with a 30 minute exercise session saves me time and I still get an hour of exercise a day, and I also get a bit of time to arrange my thoughts for the day.

Yes there are increased risks, but these are greatly outweighed by the health benefits.

It can get quite addictive, and the distances soon build up. I got back into cycling about 6 years ago and did a 60 mile charity ride. Those 60 miles certainly felt like a long way by the time I'd finished, but that led to doing a 200km Audax[1] in ~10 hours (they're not races) and then progressively longer rides all the way up to rides lasting multiple days and doing ~300km+ each day. Last year was Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km which has to be done in under 90 hours. That was fun, despite my relative lack of preparation.

1. Other countries call them Randonnees or Brevets. Which are generally measured in kilometers hence the swapping of units.

2. Several reasons; gluttony and apathy mainly. Easily sorted by being less lazy and keeping an eye on food intake again.
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I don't really have a problem with people using a standard form for content, I understand it's nice to make engaging interactive content, and artistic projects that entertain, inspire or amuse, sometimes though, you just want to read some words, look at some images and find out some facts, a standard form can be very good for that.
> - Prototypal rather than classical inheritance,

Meh. Javascript looks, feels and behaves much more like a single-inheritance class-based language (without the class sugar) than like a prototype-based one (Io and even more so Self). Especially if you stick to the standard.

A small concession was made towards prototypal use in ES5 with Object.create (which remains little used and slow as molasses) but it's looking to snap back to classes with ES6
I only found https://wiki.mozilla.org/SpeechAPI for the FF implemenation, looks like it has no Linux support either, but I only glanced at the patch they made... It seems to support recording for OSX and Windows at least.
To the OP: thanks for the post, but the font is nearly unreadable for older guys like me on smaller devices.
how do you spend 90 minutes weight lifting? 5-8 reps, 3 sets per excercise, how many excercises?
Most London boroughs offer free cycle training, even to adults who've cycled a great deal in the past. If there isn't anything free then there are plenty you can pay for, if it gets you free from public transport it may definitely be worth doing it.

I've cycle commuted in London for years and still try and find a course once a year to go on to keep my knowledge fresh.

You'll learn lots of things; what not to do, how to ride assertively (not aggressively), how to ride defensively, when to ride assertively or defensively, the greatest dangers and how to mitigate those risks, etc.
"I want a nice movement in a nice case with a nice face for a reasonable price."

You might want to look at some higher-end Chinese watches.
Some of the Parnis watches look very nice indeed.