skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of mankind do not have safe and enjoyable life.

The reason for that is not enough progress. "Safe and better" isn't going to materialize out of thin air.
Somewhat amused that the embedded video for this $599 device had a google ad overlayed for the €69 GoPano micro.

The demos - showing warped images via normal video - are not great. I've seen this done better: http://www.see360now.com/ (possibly the same technology? I've no connection to this, I just happen to follow the photographer Paul Raats on twitter)
Scoopinion - find out what people are actually reading
I always thought that Namco's GunCon controllers were the most interesting; rather than passively figure out the cathode ray timing, they tapped the video signal to actively read it. They're still the most accurate "light gun" controllers I've used.
> Modern computing technology has brought these goals within sight.

Haven't we been saying this since we had vacuum tubes and early chess programs?

We thought machine vision would be easy and that turned out pretty tricky.

> ICT is ready to give us a completely new understanding of the brain and its diseases; understanding the brain will lead inevitably to radical innovation in computing.

I can't help feeling this is backwards. As we learn more about the brain our simulations become better. But I'd be really interested in any computer simulations that have improved our understanding of brain stuff.
Jobs had black turtlenecks as a signature style. I think Zuckerberg sees Jobs as a role model and imitates his practice with hoodies. What else could he choose to look "cool"?
I tried a sample with some existing 2012 Politics Twitter data:

https://code.google.com/p/sasa-tool/

and as you state, even the most negative tended to come out as neutral at best. However, even a basis analysis of the hashtags used seemed to show that most messages were positive. It seems that Twitter as a whole leans somewhat to the left.

My original plan had been to create a heatmap (similar to one I made here: http://heatmapdemo.alastair.is/), with red and blue 'clouds' to indicate which parts of the country were happy and which were angry as the inauguration went on, but the data just doesn't seem to be out there.
When Software is Eating the World, You Better Start Making Dishes
Just because you have one or two courses where you study only for the exam, it doesn't mean the entire degree was like that.
Yea i've been here over 5 years. The largely American participation doesn't seem somewhat deficient in humour capacity
I recently bought ~30 pairs of the same underwear which I prefer. I definitely see locking down a set of favourite items for the basics of your daily wardrobe, and then buying those items in bulk, as a big efficiency boost if you have more important things to do with your mind than worry about the what you're going to wear each day. Makes sense to focus on basic items: socks, undies, t-shirts, pants, jerseys. Then you don't have to worry about needing to do laundry all the time, running out of items you prefer, choosing between different models, choosing when you go shopping again. Ultimately you would want to extend this beyond clothes: food, household items etc. and automate it as much as possible, so you don't even have to worry about re-buying - your system is set up to order replacements on schedule as required.

Edit: just realised I'm in the process of doing basically the same thing with discovering and standardising my favourite haircut.
Not exactly but I agree I'm not being terribly precise. I'm floundering in trying to clarify to myself what the difference is but no-one usually describes email as 'social media' even when you use the cc field.
Unfortunately, it seems to have been mocked up by someone who doesn't know the difference between a terminal and a shell :(

I would rather they concentrated on making a decent standards-compliant terminal emulator and didn't have to hack up the shell to accommodate it.
I have no tips on finding the magic nephew, but I can point you to plenty of software shops that will gladly burn a couple of million for you and give you a piece of crap in return. And maybe worst of all: they're not even deliberately trying to screw you.

The magic nephew may be rare, but my 25 years worth of anecdotal evidence suggests the latter example is quite common. And it's this experience that makes people very wary of spending a lot of money on software development.
I would say my biggest competitor is Carbon Made, they charge $12/per month and also have a free plan which gives 5 projects and 35 images. Being new to the market, I thought it would be a good idea to offer a better looking product for a few bucks cheaper. An incentive for their customers to make the switch.
Anonymous Hacks The USSC Website (Did You Notice?)
The new rules of the responsive web
Responsive web design has become a near ubiquitous buzzword on the web. Try searching for #rwd on Twitter to find equal parts content and Twitter spam. This is a common phase in the maturing of a new idea. I remember when AJAX was all the rage; the term got driven into the ground. Now, few people talk about AJAX but libraries like jQuery are fully embraced in a developer’s workflow.
Interesting. Not to go completely off-topic here, but does equalize.js work equally well with zepto in your experience?
If anyone here is looking for a "Startup Data/Metrics Analyst" as per the blog post, please get in touch. I've done this for companies here in the UK for the last two years, and I'm looking to expand this part of my work further. Happy to discuss working arrangements and deals, and am open to offers.

Please see my business card if you'd like to learn more about me: http://krmmalik.com/me
Open Source SQL Editors
These are the most useful SQL editors I have settled on after years of using Open Source SQL editors. What do you use?
30 Powerful and Free Drupal CMS Themes
I fear this is going to be very much a niche phone but I just might get one to support the project.

Between Android, iOs, the remnants of blackberry and the Microsoft offering there will not be a whole lot of room for a new entrant that is not compatible with any of the above. A hackable phone that is not tied to one of the three largest 500 lbs+ gorillas sounds like a really neat thing to have.

Here's to hoping battery life will be acceptable and that they won't spoil it by tying it to Ubuntu services all over the place. Ideal would be NBR + phone capability, possibility to hook up an external display and hold the marketing.
Do you have a solution for setting a footer down and getting it to stay down in desktop mode?
Agreed with everything you mention. I'll update the front page of the website and duplicate the Sliding Boxes effects on the main screenshot.

I'll rewrite some of the language to target artists instead of developers. Thanks for this feedback, marketing is definitely not one of my strong suits.
"So a single tweet's analysis will be inaccurate, but an aggregation of many inaccurate results becomes meaningful?"

Effectively, yes. It's called the Wisdom of the Crowd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd

To rule out artefacts you need to work out a) what you're looking for, and b) whether it is backed up by anything else. For example, in this study my findings are backed up by other, different studies. The findings also correlate with key public events.

Being able to infer true sentiment is not what is claimed here. Instead, you're able to infer 'sentiment' trends that are backed up in some way by other studies and research.

I'm 100% sure that these approaches aren't perfect, however they are proving useful. For example, one group of people are using a very similar approach to take average 'sentiment' on Twitter and use it to predict stock market fluctuations 3 days in advance. It works and it's proven not to be fluke. Something is in the results, however inaccurate a single tweet is.
Because it is a good way of referring to the group that believes the issue is fundamentally about human life, as opposed to the group that believes the issue is fundamentally about a woman's choice.

I happen to agree with the pro-life side, but both terms are intended to highlight what the respective sides view as the most important aspect of abortion.
Since a few weeks this feature was completely broken for me. 90% of the time, hitting "reply" lead to an email with just a sentence or a word even without clicking/selecting anything and I had no idea what happened. I was always forced to delete the current mail and start again of go back and forth between "reply" and "forward" for the whole conversation to appear!

Maybe I was not the only one with this problem so they decided to disable it by default?
I'm not allowed to release the raw tweets due to Twitter API restrictions. I wish I could!
MAME is back in the Apple AppStore (for now) with Gridlee
You just blew my mind. I am going to have to test this later!
Hybrid apps are prtty decent, but fall apart as the complexity grows. I'm working on integrating custom native video players into a hybrid app. It's not hard to extend features to your javascript SDK, but there is overhead and complexity communicating and syncing state with your javascript runtime, where you'd prefer most of the code to be. Native apps with webviews sprinkled here and there are great, but when native code sits as a second class citizen to html/js (like phonegap), it's a nightmare.
> selecting multiple tags might be nice

The UI hints that this is possible because it uses checkboxes for tags, I tried exactly that when i first loaded the site. Radio buttons please :)

Otherwise this is very cool - smooth and responsive UI, interesting use of the mass of information on SO. Love it
One way around this is to obfuscate the data that goes on the server. Ciphercloud does this:

http://www.ciphercloud.com/solutions/data-residency.aspx
Honestly, have you tried simply contacting the project? That's how I got an internship on the Blue Brain Project a few years ago (and in fact have a cameo in the video).
You've just described how fashion works, and how most people experience it. People who don't care so much follow the lead of those who do, so that they don't stand out from the crowd.
Ask HN: Would you have a use for $30 custom motion capture?
I'm currently considering (or rather, my company is considering) investing in a very high-end motion capture system - as in "usually used by Hollywood studios" high-end.

One of the side benefits of this system is that we could produce very clean motion capture data very quickly. So, I'm trying to assess what other markets or groups would find unusually cheap custom motion capture useful.

Is that the kind of thing that you'd find useful in your business in some way? Obviously, it's mostly useful for animating 3D characters - in games, of course, and other 3D apps, as well as for demo videos, advertising, and so on.

Currently, we're thinking we could get the price to around $30 for a single 10-second one-person motion. We could also do multi-person capture, much longer captures, and pretty much anything else you could think of.

Would that be something you or your business would be interested in?
> Vizzini went on to add, "I had an idea 10 years ago, made it happen, put the money and hours into it, the idea picked up steam and I trademarked it. That's how the system works."

Holy shit. You're building a community, not a product. The two operate very differently and you're going to get nowhere if you treat it like a commodity. He should do the smart thing and license the trademark to /r/gaymers.
C11: A New C Standard Aiming at Safer Programming
I've been thinking for a while, actually, that terminal emulation isn't something I want today.

It might still be appropriate to have some terminal/shell distinction, but emulating an old text-only terminal imposes UI issues. For instance, my shell sometimes prints "you have new mail" to tell me about it. But my computer already has a notification system built-in - I don't need random text strings in my work area. I think the ideas in this mockup are at least moving in the right direction, which is using all of the capabilities of the computer.
Google's Evil Plan is Simple (and not so evil)
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Isn't Javascript a lightweight scripting language? Plus I've seen some scripting done with CSS3, what exactly is missing?
His job was to consult and help guide the projects.
...I thought everyone knew that. I certainly did that to mess with my friends/siblings as a kid.
> The system attacks those who threaten the system.

Is questionable. There is to date no proof that that is why Aaron was targeted, but there is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence that prosecutors wanted to be seen as tough on cybercrime.

I do consider it an open question, there have been some hints that his activism was part of the reason but for want of proof you can't really contend that it was.
Silicon Valley's 'Suicide Impulse'
You mean like the Sticky Footer example from bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/examples/sticky-footer.h...)?

It's actually not part of boostrap.
Yes. The problem is, there are two screen size for iMac, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air and iPad.

And yet they only have 1 for iPhone. I dont agree with different product line either. But Just 1 more, 1 more larger screen size. There are a world of people who NEEDS to use their both hand anyway. ( As the article points out, those who actually needs to write their languages instead of typing it. )
SVG fonts are dead, so what? You can still embed other font formats the same way you do it in HTML/CSS.

You don't need to sanitize SVGs to host them safely - you just put them inside <img> tag and browsers will do sandboxing for you.

What features do you actually miss in SVG 1.1? Gradient meshes? 3d transforms? multiple fills? I can think of only advanced stuff that is rarely used and tricky to do with other web technologies anyway.

Also, why would you want to strip browser-incompatible SVG elements? Browsers will simply ignore such elements.
Yes, enforce is probably the wrong word, though at least at one point, I do remember they used to take this position outside of conferences as well.
> In our company, "Unlimited Vacation" means two weeks a years.

So, that's significantly less than the minimum you're getting by law in, say, a European country. And it sounds like you have to negotiate (or be perceived as a prodigy) to even get that. Am I missing something here? Because it sounds just awful.
Carbonmade is plain and basic. And while I tend to believe that less is more, the only real customization they offer is allowing their artists to select between 2 different background colors.

With Sliding Boxes, my goal is to offer artists a more beautiful and customizable canvas for their work. Boxes on the portfolio's front page slide to reveal other artwork. And because it's built as a one page application, page transitions are sublime: http://lucalagreca.slidingboxes.com/
The race point isn't non-sense. The targets of aggressive prosecution are by and large involved in the drug trade or with gangs, and as such are very often black or hispanic. Aggressive prosecution pretty much evolved to target those people. One of the reasons you can get so many years out of what seem like relatively minor convictions is because prosecutors often have to deal reticent minority communities. Everyone knows that the defendant is involved with certain crimes, but nobody is willing to testify to the effect of "yeah, he's the major local drug source here," and the prosecutors end up having to go after the defendant on secondary crimes.

Swartz's case is unusual because of his background (upper middle class, well-connected with the community) but also because of his race.
I think that you and the parent post are in agreement.
Thanks for information. Yes, the Moai is slightly confusing, it's not obvious to me that there is a full SDK available and usable without paying for the cloud component. I might check it out in fact, I have been looking for a cross platform game toolkit, I skipped over Moai before because I thought I would have to pay to use it.
I don't have experience in the psychiatric field, and you have an interesting and positive experience in that matter, and i congratulate you for that.

I'm against most of the new age mystic mumbo jumbo, but, my sensation about the subject is that the main difference is that modern mental science tries the symptoms, where primitive healers worked with the root causes (raw symbols) with the help of rituals, to give you an example of a mentioned author, Jodorowsky sais that "the brain accepts methapors as reality", accepting this premise you can elaborate, for example, a teatrical scene (or a ritual) where you face your problem, fight it, and solve it.

What we are missing is people that know how to orchestrate this sessions, because, as you said is very dangerous to someone with mental issues to experiment with this kind of things.
I spent countless hours on that game as a kid and only found out about the 2 player option last year!
Startups Need the Right Team Mindset to Survive
I Will Design You gets hundreds of signups in 12 hours
Sadly, the Duck Hunt gun doesn't work on some newer LCD/Plasma TV sets.

Some of the newer sets with fancier CPUs are doing all kinds of video processing work on the signal before clocking out the LCD pixels. The delay can sometimes be a couple of frames. While that's not enough to be noticeable or annoying when watching standard TV, it seems to be enough that the NES stops looking for the white video before it can be shown on-screen.
Yes, but at least CC-BY-SA is a sane content license.

What does it even mean to be the corresponding source for images?

Can it be a JPG if you originally had a PNG?

JPG is lossy, after all, and therefore arguably may not be the corresponding source.

Also, the GPL says if you modify it, "a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change."

I guess you are supposed to put that in the EXIF?

Basically, the GPL is not a good content license, and is difficult to reason about legally for content.
It's only faster to click the tab once. The Web Page preview appears instantly after the first one when hovering over the other tabs. You can't click all tabs faster than you can hover over them.

I have my notes, bookmarks, speed dial and saved passwords synced everywhere, as I use Opera everywhere.

You can't clone tabs with all history manually in 1 second. The history part is what makes the feature really useful.
I saw this and wrote to my MEP asking that the EU makes it mandatory for American companies providing services to European consumers to clearly and distinctively inform said consumers that their data may be handed to American authorities without notice or specific consent.

Also, I wonder what's going to happen when American companies hand data to the US Gov't in compliance with US law but in breach of privacy laws in the non-US territories they are operating in : large-scale breaches like this will not only earn them hefty sanctions, but could also lead to some courts shutting down their services altogether...
... So Federal prosecutors said, "He's white and middle-class... Does... Not... Compute... Must... Prosecute..." ?
Keep in mind that "score on a reading test" and "reading skills" are not the same things.

True. Score on a reading test might be lower than actual reading skills due to a lack of test taking skills.

Then again, I can't think of any measurable quantity more highly correlated with reading skills than scoring high on a reading test. Do you have evidence that "principal's opinion of teacher" is better?

...we have a metric that very loosely correlates...

You are confused. GR shows that year on year correlations are weak (0.3), not that correlation between reading test and reading skills are weak.

You are correct that a certain nonzero amount of teaching test skills will be effective at improving scores. I see no reason to believe this amount will be large - do you?

Again, standardized tests are not the only gameable metric. Principal/student opinion is as well. Why do you believe they are less gameable and more accurate than directly measuring student ability?
Do you test your marketing strategies regularly?
I'm not going to watch this cringeworthy thing again, but i can remember than he insisted that dbus was useful and that we need a gnome session in our login manager. That would be enough to proof the point.
This isn't wholly bad writing, but what he's published is really just an early draft: ~version 0.3 in the writing process, the point where you've meandered your way through your early thoughts, lost direction and momentum, then squished all the loose ends and odd thoughts into a limp pseudo-conclusion, because you generally don't have anything clear to say in your mind the first time round. At this point I would be stepping back, taking some time to think about and deconstruct what and why I was exactly interested in in the first place, looking for the seeds of what really interests me. Then I'd strip it down to its fundamentals, generate a potential argument, do some more research, and start a new draft cycle. Usually I'm only getting to something I would consider publishing around 3.0 or 4.0. Or I've realised that the ideas didn't pan out and I've shelved the project - another very important skill for writers! Anyway putting in this extra effort is hard work but worth it, because otherwise your thoughts always come out like this: pretty, suggestive, but directionless. Basically people need to learn to be patient and not rush their ideas - a hard but necessary lesson in our times.

(I usually edit most of my comments here multiple times: written and posted hastily, then subjected to extended consideration.)
What Separates a Good Data Scientist from a Great One
This is something that I've been doing for clients for the last two years. I could do this job for you. It's something I really enjoy, and I'm familiar with a fair few analytics packages, GA, Mixpanel, Re-invigorate and so on. I also think I can pick new ones up pretty fast as the principles are more important than the technology.

Is there some way I can get in touch with you to discuss this further?
Agree on phone, but a hackable ubuntu tablet could have a large market.
Agree, my point was that this will remain a niche phone.
The 90 Day Plan
Great!!!

How long until RMS lets us drop the GNU/ part in what he calls Linux?
Helishopter looks really cool! You guys should come and pitch at the next Startup Pub in Stockholm: http://www.facebook.com/groups/426048174127676/
That's why rhythm games like Rock Band have an option to synch with the particular display you're using.

Guess the makers of Duck Hunt could hardly have anticipated the need. :)
While they're not open source, I've been EXTREMELY happy with the freeware versions of the TOAD tools that Quest has had out for quite a while now. They have specific versions for each of the major platforms, and the only purchasing the pro versions gives you some advanced import/export functionality, but nothing I haven't been able to accomplish through other means.

http://toadworld.com/
For those that want the modern equivalent to relive your old time crisis, HOD, op-wolf days, (e.g. for mame cabinets), apparently the ones that use a dedicated infrared sensor (like the wii) are the most accurate (e.g. www.arcadeguns.com).
I have no idea what geographic location has to do with writing quality; I live near Toronto, I thought it was overwrought and pointless too. You're kind of reinforcing my negative stereotypes of West Coast people.
Sometimes Negative Feedback is Best
Hey, I recognize that name... ;)
Have you tried a rails shooter on the Wii? Motion-control tech is as elegant a solution as you could ask for to that problem. While having a visible reticule on the screen may be less elegant, I find it far more satisfying; no more needing ten minutes to determine the lightgun "pulls" half a foot to the left. The goal becomes to defeat the game instead of defeating the input device.