skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like an awesome trip. Definitely more interesting than the drab Amtrack trip from D.C. to Miami I took. No stops, lots of industrial and abandoned residential blocks (and sound walls) the entire trip.

This was of course before the internet was available and laptops were yet the expensive convenience of the industrious business man.

I played lots of card games though.
The value of lunch
I didn't get how using inches is easier here. Can't you also do all these calculations, with the same ease, using centimeters?
Basecamp Breeze is targeting people like my mom, who would want to setup an email "club" for her church prayer group.

Pretty positive she'd have no idea what to do after reading "simple team management for coaches" — even if you offer the exact same functionality as Breeze.

(product messaging > feature lists)
((((a))))

-> server error. Looks like 3 groups within each other are the limit
more information on http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/
Apple is partnering with Broadcom to bring super-fast 802.11ac to upcoming Macs
How exciting! Now to figure out how to install this. I'm not sure i understand how one could actually place phone calls with this.
That shell script will be no good on Windows, which was your other recommendation to replace OS X.
Is this a joke? I'm really struggling to understand if this is an actual thing.

Seriously, who would subject themselves to this reply-all hell?!
They already have the infrastructure for this and they have to maintain it running for Basecamp so what they're doing here is more of their "sell your byproducts" thing.
I'm surprised paper hasn't formed a larger part of this discussion.

The 'A' system for paper has many advantages, and actually would be something that could be accessibly changed (all printers and scanners handle it just fine).
But you're completely wrong here. All research done by Microsoft and IBM is published as academic papers. That's what the people there are paid to do: publish papers. Many of them are postdoctoral researchers and need this for their academic careers. Just like Bell Labs, Sun Labs, and IBM Research, this is more of an academic institution backed by a corporation than a corporate R&D division.
> Are you saying that the code you linked is loaded with some sort of JTAG device, and is the entirety of the code running on the chip, or is it run from the command line?

That's all the code you need to write. You also need a firmware binary supplied by the raspberry pi people. You write your binary and the firmware binary to an SD card, and the pi boots and runs your code via some process that is frankly opaque to me. Alternatively you can stick a bootloader on the card and transfer your binary via an ftdi cable, which is a lot less hassle while developing. All this is detailed in the repo I linked if you're interested.

Using the onboard peripherals is admittedly fairly challenging, largely due to the paucity of documentation available. Hopefully more documentation and examples will emerge as more of us tinker with it.

I'm not yet in a position to compare and contrast to TI's stuff, but I have a Stellaris Launchpad I intend to start playing with soon. Will be interesting to see how it compares.
Though to be fair, I think the "fad" is as much as encouraging people to give it a shot. "Give the person what they want in the guise of what they need." That method of transmission has been around for centuries. It's hoped that eventually, you start examining your own grasping, and the kind of Jungian shadows lurking there. On the other hand, for this crowd, it also means deliberately examining things like -- well, why are you trying to build a startup? Why are you trying to launch a new product? Is your hot new social network really going to change the world the way you think? Do you really need to change the world?

If those feel uncomfortable, then the mindfulness practice is paying off ...
Can I run this on my old iPhone 3G?
Does it come with Amazon spying?
Googling "house [programming] language" gives me nothing useful. Can you give me something more specific?

And keep it up on Deca. We need it. ;)
Avis buys ZipCar for $491 million
Fuse.js - JS Fuzzy Search
Wow. Am I the only one who doesn't like the pixel-perfect alignment?

I hate to rain on the parade, but the v2 icons were beautiful -- all perfectly proportioned. Absolutely fantastic. The new ones have to distort things to align to the grid, and wind up looking inconsistent and unbalanced.

I'm comparing the new icons with my downloaded version of 2.0, and, for example, the "i" in the "info" icon is no longer centered. Or, now icons like "asterisk" or "ban-circle" have strokes that are too thick, while "envelope" is too skinny -- since strokes basically have to be 1px or 2px, I guess.

Previously, the icons were drawn in a balanced and consistent way, and all looked good together. Now, their widths and shapes have been shoehorned into a 14px grid that frankly destroys a lot of their charm and consistency.

Pixel-fitting made perfect sense when fonts weren't anti-aliased, but now that almost everyone has even subpixel hinting enabled, it's anachronistic. The FontAwesome team has done a great job with introducing new icons, but it saddens me to see what were once beautifully proportioned icons that showed excellent design taste, now take a giant step backwards.

In a strange way, it reminds me of when IKEA stopped using Futura and started using Verdana a couple years ago. Excellent design being replaced by mediocre design which is more "technologically accessible"...
Whoa! Thank you very much! :) Will take a look at it later this eve!
more informations directly on http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ and more presentation for ubuntu for phones on http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone/design
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Have you tried Hertz On Demand? I haven't yet, but it sounds very competitive to Zipcar. There are locations throughout cities, no membership fees, similar pricing, and time reservations.

I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about broken, damaged, or dirty cars other than to have managed stations where you pick them up. Which turns it back into a regular car rental outfit. But you're always getting a freshly washed car, a full tank of gas, and at least a cursory check by staff.
This is a good thing, but having known Canonical and Ubuntu since the start (2004), I would really love to see them succeed in the desktop market first. This initiative will de-focus their efforts.
I admire them, and wish them good luck anyway.
Here is the original Keynote -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWHJDLsqTU

worth watching, Trust me.
Yup! That is basically it. There are two other small tweaks that can be enabled through the UI described under the "Common Functionality" section. I found that these features are desirable under certain circumstances.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~colinsul/projects/jnana/#common-...
You are right, I said the reverse of what I meant to say w.r.t. tablet numbers there. Those numbers were real though (measured in the UK over the past month, phones only).

My main point though, was that there are far more Android phones than there are iPhones, so even though there is more Android browser traffic, the average Android user will browse less (but that's mostly because there are so many low-end Android devices that water down the browsing habits of high-end users on shiny Galaxies and Nexuses).
There is a point in having small degrees, in that small fluctuations in the weather are more noticeable. I can say that the weather will be in the 60s today, and people will know what I mean, but saying it will be in the 20s today (in celcius) offers a much larger range of weathers to be had.

Also, you can tell just as easily if something melts using Fahrenheit, you check whether it's above or below 32. Sure, it might seem a little arbitrary, but it's just as arbitrary as "36.6 C is healthy" or "cakes bake at 220", which people seem to remember just fine.
> Chromebook hasn't really worked out

What?
How would that one individual even find them? PO boxes and a "legal department call center" are all that seem to be given and it would seem difficult to track them down.
I hope that this and Firefox OS can borrow from each other liberally. I'm far from convinced that either will succeed, but I hope they do.
I've seen this in a few places, but it seems to only be limited by expiry. Yes, it's a little easier to deal with if the number is compromised and you have to cancel it, but it doesn't actually offer any added protection - I think?
Robert Scoble on why he likes FB Login
Don't Drop Out to Do a Startup
serve 10 drinks at pint prices for only the cost of 9 pints

I guess being worried that you might not get your full ~5.68 litres of beer when drinking ten pints is very British indeed ;-)
Personally, I have never had a negative experience with a Zipcar. I had an Audi A3 breakdown in SF on the way to Startup School, I told them I had an appointment. They instantly called me a cab, booked me a new Audi A3 in the FiDi and refunded my entire reservation + $75 in driving credit. Also, since I was under 21 at the time, they had to change the reservation to my passengers account since I couldn't rent cars outside UC. He also was not charged for the reservation and got $25 in credit.

The cars are always clean and I have never had a low fuel situation. Now, I rent cars in the Downtown Oakland area so I can't say the same for SF but thats just me. Oakland/Berkeley does have the weekend availability problem but if I know I am going somewhere on the weekend I can book as late as Friday night and still get a car I want.

The cost. I pay as low as $7 an hour for a Mazda 3, $9 an hour for an Audi A3, Mini, VW Golf. I have a small discount via FoundersCard however. Still though, those prices are pretty great to rent a car, especially since Zipcar covers gas, maintenance and insurance.

Insurance. If you do not have a waiver, you pay the first $750 of an accident, Zipcar pays the rest. If you have a waiver ($10 a month), you do not pay anything. Also, it counts as real car insurance so when you do buy a car and need auto insurance, you can say you have had continuing coverage. http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/what-damage-fee
Yes, it's a simple product and my review was probably too in-depth, although if there's any one place to submit it I thought HN would be it.

Perhaps stating the obvious is not counter-productive if the product in question is not well thought of, and considering 37signals' history (especially Basecamp Next) I'd argue it applies to Breeze.

I tried to phrase my opinion not to be overly cynical and I'm sorry if my comment still remained offensive.
Israel preparing Cyber Iron Dome Shield - Hacking and Security News
I would like to see the equivalent done with node.js and something like express for comparison purposes.
We need unlocked phones ... not another screen manager and drivers ...
What titles are NOT unnecessarily inflammatory nowadays?
The tap water in Detroit never tasted the same afterwards, though no one else in my family felt the same way. I felt like I could taste and sometimes smell chlorine. Even the last time I visited Detroit (years later, and in a completely different part of the surrounding area).
No, I think this is the opposite of true. It is very easy for copy that attempts to include nerds to alienate normals, or, for that matter, for products that would be more lucrative if targeted to normals to lose marketability by trying to include nerds.

People trying to get traction with new products should be unembarrassed by featuresets and supporting copy that targets normal people and irritates nerds. 37signals offerings are a great example of that technique executed well.
"Will de-focus?"

Anyone who was paying attention when they starting shoving Unity down user's throats knew where this was headed years ago.
A few years ago in NYC I had problems #1 and #2 (never #3) but in the last few years, in my neighborhood, availability & condition of cars has been excellent. That said, I get a lot more utility out of my ancient hand-me-down sedan I now own and the relief from "ZipCar deadline stress" is nice.
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When I try to upload json it never seems to finish. Chrome/Linux

Other than that, I like it a lot. Very cool side project
I played with the surface for a bit at the NERD in Cambridge too. I found it slow, and unresponsive. It was, and still is a great proof of concept but i'm not sure the tech is ready to be a product yet.
I know the OP said he was a VIM guy, but here's my first approximation to a random manual page script for emacs; it doesn't strip out directories (like man1) or specify different sections of the manual, but it indexes manual pages, so you not only won't try opening pages for commands that don't have them, but you'll get other pages too (eg, the TCL library man pages):

;; Taken from http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispCookbook#toc57
(defun directory-dirs (dir)
"Find all directories in DIR."
(unless (file-directory-p dir)
(error "Not a directory `%s'" dir))
(let ((dir (directory-file-name dir))
(dirs '())
(files (directory-files dir nil nil t)))
(dolist (file files)
(unless (member file '("." ".."))
(let ((file (concat dir "/" file)))
(when (file-directory-p file)
(setq dirs (append (cons file
(directory-dirs file))
dirs))))))
dirs))

;; Taken from
;; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3815467/stripping-duplicate-elements-in-a-list-of-strings-in-elisp
(defun strip-duplicates (list)
(let ((new-list nil))
(while list
(when (and (car list) (not (member (car list) new-list)))
(setq new-list (cons (car list) new-list)))
(setq list (cdr list)))
(nreverse new-list)))

;; Display a random manual page
(defun open-random-man-page ()
(interactive)
;; Get manual page paths from the environment.
(setq man-paths (parse-colon-path (getenv "MANPATH")))
(setq man-dirs ())
(dolist (man-path man-paths)
(setq man-dirs (append man-dirs (directory-dirs man-path))))

;; Get a list of files in manual page paths.
(setq files ())
(dolist (man-dir man-dirs)
(setq files (append files (directory-files man-dir nil "^[^\.].*"))))

;; Fixup the files to be a list of man pages.
(setq man-pages ())
(dolist (file files)
(setq man-pages (cons (car (split-string file "\\." t)) man-pages)))

(setq man-pages (strip-duplicates man-pages))

(random t)
(man (nth (random (length man-pages)) man-pages)))

Be aware that Emacs lisp is still something I'm learning; I'm sure the above could be improved.
One third quart = 2/3 cup. I have a 2/3 measuring cup in my kitchen.

I've never heard anyone say a third gallon, but just convert to ounces. 128 / 3 = 48. That's 3 pints, btw.

Of all the "math is hard" arguments, I think the kitchen measures are the least convincing. Everything is a power of two. You can halve or double a recipe without even thinking.
If you think you might buy a car in the next few years and are currently without, having a ZipCar membership, even if you never use it, could easily pay for itself with this benefit.
The people behind these scams have to use legal services as well. They do have to pay in some way for each letter that goes out. There's definitely a "sweet-spot" in the pricing which maximizes the ratio of intake to expenditures. I would bet that they and other patent trolls have found that sweet spot long ago.
Hi all. What sparked this post was the release of this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 for Tech. Turns out almost everyone on the list (92.5%, check article for more stats) did NOT drop out, so thought the numbers + anecdotal + personal experience would make a good case for sticking to school.
That's something that happens a lot in the JS/nodejs world too. It has the potential to be disastrous if you're not rigorous, that's for sure. But it still enables very concise and maintenable code.
Land surveyor here. I understand the issues in play here deeply. Field calcs, just to name one thing, would be greatly eased by metric. But here's the thing: you can't make an old surveyor think in metric. The way I visualise distance is Imperial. This is deeply ingrained.
Crazy people... they get crazy. Camp out at the PO box and wait for someone to pick up the mail. Get a job at that UPS store location. Pay off one of the kid employees that work there to give you the name and address on file. Follow the person that picks up the mail home. Look up his information based on his home address. Collect all his trash, find out where he works. follow him to work. then wreak havoc on all his coworkers!

you are really not all that creative are you... :)
Edit: Here's the keynote video. Skip to about 6:35 sec for the new bits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWHJDLsqTU

Direct link to 6:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWHJDLsqTU&feature=play...

First thoughts:

2014 is a long way away and a whole year is an eternity in mobile space.

It kind of looks like Unity in portrait mode but without the dock.

What does it bring new to developers that isn't there in Android? Firefox OS's USP is web apps with native bindings(same as WebOS').

It says it uses the Android kernel and drivers to be compatible with the hardware, so will OEM(s) shipping devices with this OSes fall foul of Google's anti-fork rules[1] for Android? Or does that apply only to the Android SDK/Dalvik VM?

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57512418-94/alibaba-google-...
Or the opposite could be true, and this very simple offering could serve as lead-gen for Basecamp, which also explains why they extended the Basecamp brand to accomodate it.

What proportion of the addressable market for Basecamp is aware that the product exists? 1%? 0.5%?
Spending money on research is always good, Microsoft Research has always had a lot of good ideas and generated some truly amazing prototypes and research papers. It's a good thing for the community in general the have people working on this stuff but it's not necessarily a good business investment for MS if they can't leverage the work into viable products.

Many companies like to fund R&D divisions as a means to attract the best minds from the academic community in the hopes that they will benefit from their talent in some way. It's often not directed work but more of a recruitment tool. The best professors bring with them the best students and many of those students end up working on products not just research.

However, in my time at Microsoft I worked with the research team on a couple of occasions trying leverage their ideas into real products with little success. We would send them some interesting problems (in one case we asked them to spend some time on snow accumulation algorithms for a snowboarding game) and they would disappear for months and return with a cool demo that was impressive but usually failed to meet the given criteria that allowed it to be used in a shipping product. e.g. speed, memory efficiency, data size requirements etc.
You are very, very mistaken.

Microsoft sponsors many top people in computer science and allows them to spend time on pure research and to publish academic papers. Ever heard of Simon Peyton Jones or Sir Tony Hoare?

How can that be bad?

For example, Microsoft pays most of the top Haskell developers to research and develop Haskell. There's no patents on that, and the source code and papers are all freely available. Microsoft isn't turning it into a product, it's just doing it to better computer science, to increase their standing, and to inform their other products such as C#.

And you say that's bad? Fuck you.
or just pay a private investigator to do all that for you.
My guess: because they hope that this simple offering serves as an introduction to the Basecamp brand and works as lead-gen for the more expensive Basecamp offering.
Original page: http://imgur.com/Mokjd

from "Atlas of the historical geography of the United States" (1932)

Page here: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/abl7462.0001.001/390?view...

ToC: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/abl7462.0001.001?view=toc
@ramblerman, the more you practice, the more your practice and experience informs the advice. Written works like that take on much less meaning, as does the notion of pulling them out to support your reasoning.

Based on my experience, "to meditate for any reason other than because its the truth" and "It is a dynamic power which, once mobilized, enables us even the most sudden and unexpected situations to act instantly" do not contradict each other and are one and the same. You become less and less a slave of your own impulses and reactions. You perceive the truth of those impulses. You cut your way free and can act like a child, spontaneously correct in the moment without spinning in your mind.

But my experience doesn't mean anything to you. Leaning on it takes you away from your own experience of the present moment.
I think having anti-fork rules on the Android kernel would violate the GPL, so that couldn't happen...
Swiping from the left and right edges on phones is prone to get confused with the swiping inside apps, that's the reason that none of the big mobile OSes have it. I am curious to see whether that's taken care of here.
Well, if both the transformers and actual long distance wires survive the event, then the grid can be brought back up.

Most of grid 'defenses' involve some temporary disconnection of components; the robustness question is how quickly you can reconnect again - is it an automatic switch after half a second, or does it require sending repair squads to thousand remote locations.
The desktop market is going away in the consumer space. Unless you're targeting business, it's past the time to become relevant in desktop computing.
Your Brain Could Have Been So Much Smarter
The article mentions that it is hard to invalidate patents with prior art and that the patent holders will say that it is a narrower scope than previous patents. If that is the case, I can't see how this isn't extortion. There is no way that these "companies" could know the kind of network that the companies they are sending letters to use. They may be just guessing that they are even using a scanner. They are just mass mailing threats and hoping for money back.

Also, how is it even legal to target the users of technology in a patent infringement case like this? Wouldn't the manufactures (of hardware AND software) be the ones that would need to license the patent, not end users? I get why you would target the end user but is that legal/valid?