skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a recognizable celebrity figure (POTUS, a TV talking head, or a film star) walked into my vicinity, I'm going to stare. I'm going to stare mainly because I doubt seriously that the actual person that I think is here would come to where I am and I'm really trying to discover if that's a look-alike or a mask.

After seeing this woman's photo, I'd do the same kind of staring. Is it a mask? Is she real? When I discover she's real, now I'm curious what causes this particular look. I have large ears and at some point in my life I was curious why my ears were bigger that average. It's pretty much a genetic thing through my maternal grandfather's family. Where the trait originates I didn't particularly care.

When someone looks different enough from the other people you see every day-- ugly, attractive ... doesn't matter --you tend to stare. Apparently you can't just walk over to random people and ask things like "did you inherit those ears or are you a genetic anomaly?" and "you and your friend both have nice round rear ends, but what causes your waist to be so much wider than hers?" - it's considered rude. When our children do ask these questions of others, the child gets reprimanded (even if only by the shocked and insulted reaction by the other party) and learns not to educate themselves in this manner.

So you're out in public and you find yourself staring. Curiosity happens. Now, what's the next thing you do? Start whispering to the group you're with? Laughing? Making jokes? That's the problem. "Stop staring and start learning." Learning what exactly? That we're all humans and deserve the same respect? Yeah, your mama shoulda taught you that years ago.

How about we all just stop being assholes to each other?
Well, if you're making an iPhone app or Mac app, then it's obvious.

But I assume you meant specifically in the case of specifically non-Apple stuff... because they look better to more people (or at least most of us learned to buy into that perception), and represent to many a more "premium" experience. I've seen it on TV ads for years now -- blank-labeled Macbook Pros say "sexy".
I don't think your site is holding up to the kind of bandwidth problems Hacker News delivers.
Sure. People find symmetric faces to be more attractive.

A person's physical appearance goes beyond the face. Body shape, fitness levels, etc are all factors in attractiveness, and those preferences have changed over the years, and vary significantly by population. The 19th century Victorian ideal didn't do much for a farm wife of the era.
"1. May work on a central tool to show same clean graph for ANY stock symbol. Thinking of a good domain name ... hmmm."

cleanstockcharts.com is available. For now.
And indeed it now shows:

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 12592 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 31 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-12-31, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-12-30.
Malicious software includes 13 trojan(s), 4 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 8 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 5 domain(s), including mpchester.info/, malatyuhr.com/, iloveeu.info/.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including 2upmedia.com/, adexcite.com/.

This site was hosted on 3 network(s) including AS36351 (SOFTLAYER), AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone), AS31815 (MEDIATEMPLE).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, twitpic.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s) including ow.ly/.
Im dyslexic and love Python but as you say not all dyslexics are the same. I would dry out different colour schemes, I font they make a massive difference.

I find it interesting that he describes the white space being an issue. I think my dyslexia makes me a more 'visual' learner, I need to see something in front of me to absorb it and things with a solid pattern and structure help. I think Python follows those sensibilities.

I could undersand that maybe something with a C style syntax using braces may provide a 'better' indication of the blocks but my feeling is that the indentation is a better way of visually showing the blocks of code.

Could you ask him what it is about the white space that he finds hard?

Some dyslexics when reading see the words moving around in front of them and use a ruler to follow a line, most editors have a way of setting the background of the line where the cursor is in a different colour. That may help?
* What's here that wasn't here in 2007?

Robots are still rising. Drones too. Voice recognition for everyone with Siri and the equivalent on Android. Natural language queries in Wolfram Alpha.

Cheap, reliable 3d motion detection via kinect.

3d printing. Tissue printing and a $99 genetic scan https://www.23andme.com/

Cheap SSDs.

Self driving cars.

Raspberry Pi boards.

iPads (I had to check that one - the first iPad launch was just recently in April 2010!) and competing Android and windows tablets.

github.

* Or these lists:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/27-science-fictions-that-beca...

http://io9.com/5971328/the-most-futuristic-predictions-that-...

* Things that were new and not so well known in 2007, but are big now:

The rise of online education via Khan academy, Coursera and Udacity.

Workable electric cars.

Twitter.

Arduino boards.

git
I've read somewhere that this behavior is some kind of valve for agression. Similar to laughing to specific kinds of comedy, or cursing at the other team in a stadium.

When you compare that to real violence, this is culturally very advanced.

There is the downside that some take stuff often very personal, they have to learn that these things are more about these people themselves than about the target.
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I deleted my one photo a while back, and the photo count still says "1". Sometimes, it's better to threaten to stay and delete your data than to leave and disable your account.
Cool. But how is it different from Github's own https://github.com/stars ?

It was announced a few months ago https://github.com/blog/1236-searching-and-filtering-stars
You're projecting your own political views on everyone else and HN is not the place for that.
Your potential customers are actually smart.
List of Javascript eventListeners | trying to call click()
I'm not sure if I'm dyslexic but I use the Gill Dyslexic font everywhere I can. I also bought mono dyslexic and set up Sublime 2 to use the font. Forced chrome fonts to use Gill Dyslexic. Makes a huge difference (and sorry, but it's way better than the free font that's floating around).

Not a language, but it makes whatever I'm working in much easier.

http://www.pixelscript.net/gilldyslexic/

(I'm not associated with the creator in any way, just find it extremely useful.)
How far away is the sea?
Looks real nice on my KPW. This would be my third. So maybe this time I can get all of the way through! :)
Standardized JSON API to indicate downtime for apps and services
This is pretty awesome! Are there plans to charge for this? Keep it free?
This is incredible!!! Fanatstic!!!
Former Amiga coder here.
Find out if anybody needs or wants it first. The worst thing that can happen is that you spend X amount of time building something that you never determined anybody needed or wanted in the first place.
Looks great -- As a note, I got a response after about a 1-2 minute process time. Would be great for you to show where I am in the process queue location instead of just the loader so that I don't think there was a browser or server error.

Is it possible to also have a multi-device template (showing the screen simultaneously on iPhone, Macbook, etc?)
Yes, staring is rude, I get that. But you have to understand, our brains are hardwired to stare.

Pattern recognition is so innate that when we perceive something that breaks the expected pattern our first instinct is to keep looking at it until we understand what we're looking at. It's unconscious, and if we're lucky we'll catch ourselves doing it to a person and try to mitigate the circumstance with shifty glances elsewhere, but our eyes will always be drawn back as soon as our concentration wavers.
How Black Gentrifiers Have Affected the Perception of Chicago's Neighborhoods
Power hungry certainly, but if they were really greedy they could satisfy that far more easily in private industry for the same amount of talent and work.

As for morality, well, I think there are two factors at play there. Powerful people tend to become less moral in their treatment of people below them, but that isn't the same as being willing to compromise their ideals. Also, people seem to have a finite desire to be moral, and you can find studies about people being less likely to hold doors for others if they've recently donated to charity, for instance.[1] So if this hypothetical Republican leader feels that his political work is Defending Civilization from Barbarity[2] I imagine that they'd feel more free to be amoral in other aspects of their life. But that doesn't mean they'd be willing to sell out their cause itself!

[1] Different people can have very different base desires here, and habit is also a force to consider.
[2] See second to last paragraph in this very good post:
http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/being-uncharitable-to-those-...
That's how I deal with it:

I often try to think about it one step further, when you have a funny last name you have heard comments about it endless times already and I keep it for myself.

That also applies to famous people when they are in a casual environment, you look at them twice but that's the downside of being famous.

When it comes to visible things that are not self-explanatory I ignore them unless I want to know this person better. Then I ask directly once and then I am good.

This worked so far and I didn't offend someone so far, I think.
Techniques explained in NPR episode:

1. The "Nibble" - ask a little more into the offer, especially if not directly related.

2. "Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)" - ensure there is a viable alternative, preferably before negotiation.

3. "Expanding the Pie" - offer can be often improved or agreed on parts of an item or service rather than assuming it applies only to the whole.

4. "Bracketing" [my term] - offer low to point of anger but not withdrawal, then praise counteroffer and negotiated item/service while claiming cannot afford counteroffer.

5. "Defer Immediate Agreement" [my term] - on best offer, defer immediate agreement with any reason so can gain time to check the offer or for other offers.
Have to agree - especially as my static site generator is now clearly not going to do SEO, content marketing etc for me and I am heading back off to running a WSGI server
Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm starting to take ergonomics seriously, and I appreciate hearing what works for others.

In your write-up on your blog, you mentioned that you used a program called WorkPace on Linux and Windows. I looked into it, but I only see a Windows version on their website [1]. After a little Googling, I found a similarly named WorkRave [2], which is available for Linux and Windows. I was wondering if you might have meant WorkRave.

I have also been saving up for a few months to buy an adjustable desk and ergnomic chair. Most easily-adjustable desks that I've found cost between $1k and $2k, such as the Humanscale Float desk [3]. I don't mind paying that much if that's what it takes, but it seems excessive. I'd appreciate pointers to any other resources for adjustable desks.

[1] http://www.workpace.com/WP:DOWNLOAD_SYSREQ:680095134

[2] http://www.workrave.org/

[3] http://shop.humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group...
Pretty cool - as someone with probably way too many starred repositories its nice to have the ability to organize them.
> Perhaps we just understand disk failure modes better, and are more comfortable with them.

In some ways, predictability is an issue too.

SSD typically fail after a relatively set number of write cycles, which doesn't seem too much of an issue until you try to put them into a RAID5 array. I've heard stories of a couple of people trying this, and having multiple drives all fail within hours of each other (usually during the array rebuild).

It's something I'd never have thought about had I not been prompted.
Find some customers whose hair is on fire.

You'll never be bored again.
I've read somewhere that this behavior is come kind of valve for agression. Similar to laughing to specific kinds of comedy, or cursing at the other team in a stadium.

I wonder if that's verifiable. Some very senseless acts of aggression have occurred among the spectators at sporting events.
It's surprising that very few people even question how the military got from a $200 billion budget to almost a trillion in a little over a decade. And most in Congress seem to be keen to automatically increase their budget every year, and not even investigate if some of the money is being wasted.

Bill Binney, the NSA whistleblower, said that he could build a project for less than $10 million, but the NSA bosses rejected it, because they wanted to buy a similar project for $4 billion instead.

And this is just one example exposed by one whistleblower (not through official means). Imagine how many other such examples must exist, and how many projects are being overpaid by 10x-100x simply because it's taxpayers' money and nobody bothers to check how these guys are spending it.
FAA device rules illustrate the folly of a regulated internet
Try creating instead of commenting on what other create. It's more fun.
It adds tags, for one thing. Not sure if there is more.
Confessions of an ex Geek Squad Agent
Set up OpenStack from scratch
And ... registered. Thanks for suggestion.
After I saw @unclebobmartin speak at Ruby Midwest last year, I got so flipping excited. I walked away with goals of having tests that ran instantly, layers that were as independent as possible, and wanted to build this master framework he described so cryptically.

I think programminggeek nailed it here. If you watch Bob's talk, then watch the Obvious screencast, you'll see that this is a serious attempt at this dream architecture.

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/759-rubymidwest2011-keynote-...
Getting Paid To Do What You Love
"ap"; noun: An illegal two-letter word in Scrabble. E.g., "Hey, you can't play 'qk'; that's an ap!"
I would imagine one of the writers of The Office is a Scrabble player - this timing is a bit too coincidental.

'za' was added in OSPD4, which was published in June 2005: http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/pr/2005-scrabble-diction...

Michael suggests ordering some za in Season 2 Episode 13 (The Secret) which aired in January 2006.
If workers were paid in equity, they would have say in the company proportional to the value of their contribution to the company (modulo politics, etc).

But what if some workers are willing to give up "say" in the in return for cash? Should they be prevented from doing so? Should employees be paid in restricted stock, receiving cash only when their company issues dividends?

Note that as an employee of a public company who doesn't buy any shares, I've revealed that I prefer cash to voice. Why do you feel you know better about how I should handle my finances and working arrangements?
Grooooss. Wonder how state-funded and regulated Irish newspapers are.
You can say the same for Twitter, Facebook and Google. There is always the potential for downtime, but users generally don't want to create more accounts. I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Plus, sites that use GitHub logins are much more appealing to developers rather than sites that use Facebook or Twitter logins.
Can you share a bit about the technology behind it?

edit: Also one very very minor pet peeve of mine is when you have an activation code in email with punctuation around it, e.g.

> Your activation code is 123456.

Chrome actually does a good job of disregarding the period when I double click to highlight. Sorry for the bikeshedding!
You should probably take a look at this first for ideas:

http://www.copyrightreform.eu
When I see something unexpected (And this would apply to seeing a zebra in the middle of the road as much as the person in the article) lots of things fire at once. What did I just see? Did I really see it? What is going on here?

There is a literal jolt in my brain saying "what was that" and so I am probably going to at least double take before I have even mentally engaged with what is happening and considered the feelings of the person I am looking at.

Obviously this only applies to the initial moments after which I am far more likely to avoid looking at all for fear of upsetting them. It is far easier not to look than to act normally. We [should] all know staring is rude - but stringently avoiding looking is also very isolating I would imagine.

NB. No I am not comparing the person to a Zebra, but simply using an example of seeing something completely unexpected.
> Provides metadata describing the treatment of that flash (how many reads / erases, leveling requirements, geometry info, etc.)

My Corsair SSD seems to return some SMART information regarding wear levels, though I'm not altogether sure how to interpret most of it.

#177 "Wear Level Count" seems to return the most relevant value, in my case 4% of the total rated write cycles. Not as bad as I expected for a MacBook with 4300 hours of use under it's belt.
Sorry about that, folks. I'll keep that in mind for all future posts.
Oh, tech bloggers. Never happy. I think we should all try spending more time away from our devices. There is so much more to life than those glowing rectangles.
My dad gave me the book a while back, I think I shall go ahead and read it!
A brief look at the greatest hits section of his blog suggests that this might be the article you're looking for:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/
I seem to recall reading a few weeks ago that VC money was starting to move towards B2B companies. If that's true, you're not going to see a lot of exciting tech blog worthy start-ups. You will see a lot of progress in software, and real people will be receiving real value. In fact, i view that as a really positive thing. We don't need another social network enabled live drawing text-pad that opens a door. However my fiance definitely needs some software to reduce some of the redundant unsexy work she has no time to do
let me get this straight - he starts two services that collect social information for sale to 3rd parties (advertisers until they fail, then whoever will buy) - hits a jackpot - and THEN suddenly is altruistic.

is that right?
Of course what Zynga created cannot really be respected as or compared with proper games, but it's still sad that it's gone. How will the Moma put games like Farmville (which are an important piece of history of computers and FaceBook and stock markets) in an exhibition once the servers have been turned off?

Makes one really want to buy Sim City 5 (which will do calcuations in the cloud and not be playable without internet connection). Today EA shut down games like Fifa 2011!
Paula Scher gave a TED talk that expands on this idea a bit more. http://www.ted.com/talks/paula_scher_gets_serious.html Edit: Her point isn't so much about taking a break and doing something different, but that it's important to maintain the sense of play.
2013 is also going to be a big year for Healthcare IT, the HHS is moving to open up clinical patient data via HHS. I doubt Google will venture again into the healthcare space, given the recent failure of Google Health, but it's going to be a turning point, they should have waited until the end of 2013 to close it down!
Pirates? Hollywood Sets $10+ Billion Box Office Record
I don't know about these particular sources, but the fact is widely recognized.

Here's 1944 report from RAF officer that said "Methedrine won the Battle of Britain": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine#cite_note-64

Another source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine#cite_note-63) says that "British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the second world war".

I've also read about drugs being being used by tank teams and pilots in German army during WW2. Tank teams got chocolate with drugs, it was supplied together with regular food for everybody.
This guy is only making noise asking us to let go anything cool we've been working for years to improve his 2013's headlines. Don't fall for it.

One thing hthe OP surely got is the title of the worst article of 2012. The year is almost over, and he aside the bar so high that now is almost impossible to take this for him.

Now back to the point. Innovation is not some new shiny thing that no one has seen before. Instead, real innovation is something you work on until itself is the definition of perfection according to someone's vision. Thus iteration is the mother of innovation.
I haven't, but I know there are services that let you get Bitcoins by depositing money by credit card or in a brick-and-mortar bank. It's an extra step, but some people seem capable of doing it already.
Metajs: A metacircular AST interpreter for Javascript, written in Coffeescript.
Existentialists spend their whole lives chasing fleeting moments of earthly happiness. It's all we got. Don't take it away from us.

If you've managed to find God's love, all the best to you. Still, even if this is your permanent, reliable source of serenity, it does not mean you shouldn't seek happiness in this mortal world as well. Your comment is completely irrelevant.
Sure. It's powered by a custom framework running on NodeJS. Links screenshots are taken by PhantomJS and images are compressed/optimised by ImageMagick, Jpegtran, Pngcrush, and Optipng. If you have additional questions I'd be more than happy to answer them.

edit: Ahh good point, I'll be sure to remove the dot.
Naturally, this is the time of year to make goals and attempt to change. What a person feels like they need to change and whether that is a "good change" or not is highly personal and probably doesn't require much comment.

More interesting is how you go about making that change. What do you do (from types of goals you choose down to the daily implementation) to achieve your goals?

I always try to have a meaningful, measurable goal. I'm not going to lose weight, I'm going to lose 15 pounds in the next eight weeks. Then I break them down into tasks that can be followed daily, like measure all food consumed, exercise 45 minutes, etc.

The place where I struggle is the day-to-day tasks, and I still haven't found the answer. This can be especially hard for me on the winter as I deal with seasonal affective disorder (which is why I often wait until spring for my goals).

How do you manage your desire for growth and change?
Michael Arrington did try and fail to create once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo
I think more and more people will be leaving Facebook in the coming years. However, what it's the only company that ties in a bunch of services together. Sure, Twitter, I think is better for messaging, and Instagram (for now) is better for photos, but nobody is doing them all. And even though it's not GREAT on FB, it's going to be hard to take them down.
What evidence do you have that this is spam and that the developers complaints about the Windows Store are not legitimate?