skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg attacks gender stereotypes at work
hack the kitchen?
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Accented characters make iOS passwords stronger, not enough to keep data safe
Granted, so let's put optimization out of the picture. I still claim what Gates is doing is more than unqualified "science".

I suppose it is "applied science" but that seems like a weak term. My point is just there is a difference between acquiring knowledge about the world, and actively engineering change in that same world. He is doing both.
Maybe, probably in combination with a feature that sometimes tells me that I searched some term some time ago and how often I visited a hyperlink. What disturbs me: these features are hardly explained anywhere, making this an incubator for FUD. (I can delete my browser history - how do I delete this?)
I don't get the negativity in this thread. Bill Gates is trying to solve hard problems and people here are complaining. Sure, they may not be the problems that you think are most important, and I'm sure the foundation is making missteps along the way and wasting some money. But his message in this article is a good one I think:

> The process I have described—setting clear goals, choosing an approach, measuring results, and then using those measurements to continually refine our approach

This sounds like a pretty pragmatic plan to me. I know that I don't necessarily agree with the direction he's going (I would personally pick other problems to tackle), so I just hope someday I'm in a position to do something along the same vein and learn from the lessons he's willing to share.
Very nice! I'd like to have the option (but not the requirement) to log in with oauth(2) from Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

Your site will get a lot more traction if you implement that, I think. Most people (even non-techie folks) are suffering from account proliferation.
To me, Quirky looks like the crazy person who escalates in a big way without even bothering to talk to the supposed wrongdoers. Not someone I want to do business with.
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More likely they never knew to begin with. Stupid public.
This is how all charities should be done. I will be supporting this charity, and I furthermore think it should be illegal to run a charity in any other manner than pure transparency. My hat is off to Watsi, and I feel this is a bigger deal than most people may realize. These are the types of startups we need to change the world. Not only do they do something good and useful for people, they also show the rest of the charities that operating with transparency is the only way to go. Thanks guys, this made my day.
Stock sale puts Twitter’s valuation at an estimated $9B
I've had exactly these three settings for a while, and I've just tested and incsearch didn't take to the match without enter. It's a great feature though, but I don't think I'd want it to take me, it would always fire early, say if I would be typing 'th' it would go to 'the' when really I had wanted 'though' some words next.
Article contains blatantly false statements that Swartz "released" JSTOR documents. He did not. Claims that he did are pervading the media and all are false. TechCrunch and other sites making such false claims can not be considered reputable news sources because of their propensity to intentionally misrepresent such matters.
> What Third World problems are important for hackers to attempt to solve?

Corruption
Corruption
Corruption
Just like every other cool page for managing recipes: Please add automatic conversion from/to metric units.
I get it. Still annoying that I'm reduced to a simple "Malthusian" for espousing that resource depletion is a problem that's insurmountably difficult to "solve".
I've went through the feature list, there is not a single one that interests me.

Web Page Preview on Tabs:

Its faster to click on it than to wait for the preview to appear

Torrent Downloading:

I honestly prefer a full program for that, uTorrent

Opera Mail:

Gmail is better, and I prefer using the full gmail, not a program that downloads the emails, or syncs them

A Built-in RSS Reader:

Could be ok, I still prefer Google Reader online

Opera Notes:

I like to have my notes synced everywhere, if i can view them on my phone it could actually be good.

Mouse gestures:

Firefox has that (with an extension), I tried it but never liked it. I tend to play with my mouse all the time, and triggered gestures by mistake

Reload page every x minutes:

Most apps now have an auto refresh like Facebook or Twitter. And honestly F5 is really easy to do. Also there is a firefox and a chrome extension to do this

Clone Tab:

For the twice in a year where I might need this function, it takes 1 second to do this manually
Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context.

As much as I dislike them, I also think they'll take off.

I can see them as another Instagram-like "useless" thing that is none-the-less popular because it's quick, illustrative and requires little effort. Think an animated GIF-like snapshot of your day.

(Bah humbug, etc.)
Have you got any references refuting this claim then. "but they were not" just isn't that convincing on it's own.
IMO neither of these is true. Vine can't replace YouTube in any meaningful capacity, but it will change the way we think about video on the internet on a very fundamental level.
It could also be read as a dramatic exaggeration of the parent's claim that one class of crime was better than another and that we should be willing to commit crimes of civil disobedience based on pragmatism and not be tethered by morality or legality. I tried to point out the absurdity of that claim by extending it as far as I could, by arguing that we should murder government employees so long as it "might" make the world a better place.

I thought it was clear by copying the words of the parent in my post what I was doing.
Hacked site from google cache, some of the files can still be downloaded: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sV8dPXf...
It's also a good idea to make it request only the minimum amount of information from the auth provider (e.g., name and email address). I (and I think others) have become wary of sites that ask for full access when there's no obvious reason for it.
If everybody who interviewed a candidate thought they were a raging asshole, then yes, I would turn them away. There are enough really smart people to hire who are not assholes. I cannot speak as to Linus, because a) I haven't met him or interacted with him and b) I don't think it's appropriate to comment on a named individual.

As an interesting point, I learned this lesson in who not to hire from Michael Schroepfer, who is now VP of Engineering at Facebook.
This does exactly this as of now.
That's odd. With my configuration I can use ; with t and it will skip over an occurrence of the target if it is the next character, like it seems you expect it to behave. I don't know if this has been fixed/improved in Vim itself or by some plugin that I use, but it does seem to be fixed now.
5 Signals to Identify Negative SEO Attacks
Isolationism and non-interventionism are two different things. Libertarianism is non-interventionalist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-interventionism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism
This seems pretty obviously a calculated publicity stunt. And it worked. I'd certainly never heard of Quirky before. Now I know not only who they are but that they stake their brand on protecting small inventors. That message will probably outlast any remembrance that they essentially smeared a beloved company. From that point of view, I say congratulations.

But OXO handled it brilliantly and turned it into a PR coup of their own.
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In Chrome, you can clone a tab by command-clicking the reload button.
Should at least get credit? You are against piracy then I hope. Most content creators when they put a product out asking for money consider you legally paying them their asking price in exchange for their product as "credit".

Also when did a handful of writers at Glee become the stance of the whole Newscorp evil empire? Until every decision by every subordinate is reviewed by Murdoch or the Board of Directors for possible copyright infringement painting Fox as a whole responsible as part of their normal MO is false.
Mine is. :)
You got it from badstartupideas, didn't you? :)
No reason to use a website like that, you can download your Facebook data directly from the source:

https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/
I wonder just how much friction Facebook users are going to put up with until we start seeing news of record account deletions. I doubt any Facebook executive wanted to do this. This is a decision made by lawyers. This is Facebook getting to big for its own good.

People, get off Facebook. I'm in college and haven't touched it in 11 months. I'm doing just fine. Nobody needs it.
Anonymous threatens Justice Department over hacktivist death
Agree completely that implementation is key. Look at all the open source voting sites. Anyone can start one but Reddit is popular. Why? The way they do things.
Recon.io is now free for startups
Many people work on these things (renewable energy, electric cars, education, you name it) and many more donate to such causes when they can't or don't want to get involved directly. We also vote for political parties that we hope may improve things.

What are you doing other than posting "WE ARE DOOMED!!1" to seemingly every HN thread you come across?
In Firefox by holding control and moving the tab.
Haha actually I didn't, I started working on this a couple of weeks ago in my free time.
Facebook embeds.
Send me an email. Working on something similar and am a designer :)
yea but unfortunately it's not that good ... think it's better than default search but a still too slow as a mean for code navigation (atleast for my taste). it's mainly due to needing to hit enter, which escapes everything, there should be a way to hit next occurrence and prev without leaving the /search box.
I'm not so sure about this.

Why not use github Pages and scrape the github repository for necessary data? It's all harmless recipe stuff anyway. Non-github users could be asked to use e-mail to place recipes, and can be informed that they can use markdown. Or even present a web form that sends an encrypted e-mail for them, employing that wicked JS textarea enhancer we saw the other day, for markdown syntax or even allow haml.

Re: {url_block}/new

Recipe Name: {name}
Date: {extracted_from_email}
Subject:

{haml_recipe_body}

The github haml pages can have links station'd at the top or bottom to pre-fetch categories, previous, and next pages. The github Page Index can include a JS that builds the UI of the site via DOM manipulation, based on a lightweight Web app hosted elsewhere and called in via ajax.

Summary: Total MVR (minimum viable repository).
Amnesty International are one of the organisations that credit Wikileaks as being a catalyst for the Arab Spring.

"One example highlighted by Shetty was Tunisia, where WikiLeaks revelations about Ben Ali's corrupt regime combined with rapidly-spreading news of the self-immolation of a disillusioned young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, to spark major protests." [1]

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/amnesty-internat...
It has a second redeeming feature: it has a numeric keypad for quickly entering times. Most digital timers don't, which makes them harder to use than mechanical ones that you twist. Most digital timers squander their potential, but oxo gets that one right.

The modes make sense to me, so I see those as a plus. I agree with you though about the hard to read display and the hard to press buttons.
Consider it a bug report. I can work around the problem by whitelisting the site. And, btw, the built-in click-to-play blocker is really annoying.
My fear isn't that the movie won't be entertaining (I'm sure it will be). I'm only worried that the movie won't have the same feel as the previous, that it will feel like a different universe that just happens to have lightsabers and blaster rifles.
Great, I'll give it a go soon. I had a look but it can only share folders, not a single file. Otherwise, a very useful service!

EDIT: And it's all static HTML, fantastic! I just hosted it on my server, although there doesn't seem to be much of a reason to do that, since it's all static! Thanks a lot for this.
Yes that mighty be true .. now a day people are more focused over circular based designs.
I could have written the original post word for word, and I enjoyed your post. However, what torments me personally is the knowledge that the outcome could have been very different had small things been very different. A few freak twists of fate don't happen, I give a little more thought to decisions that turned out to be huge mistakes, etc.
I like it. You need to improve the editor (normal people won't understand markup, just have a text box for ingredients, another for directions and a list for images).

You also need tags so I can tag a recipe as 'Asian' or 'BBQ' to make it organizable.
Aside from the great general advice you are getting here:

You can always go back to school or learn a new trade. The only thing preventing you is "being in competition" (your words) with people who have more experience.

Don't compare yourself to people who have more experience. For example, if I were to pick up Computer Science today (late 30s) I would be happy to compare myself to 20-somethings who have a similar level of experience.

Of course, I have more life experience, hence other skills and perspective, and that is enough for me.
You should remove all of the pictures that do not show the food and replace all of the low quality pictures as well. When I went to your website the first thing i saw was a bunch of faces and non-appetizing looking onions. You want to make the food look amazing.
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I think these are some of the interesting points, A user have to remember for growing traffic to there website.
Why is this so addicting to watch? I just watched random videos for at least 20 minutes and I don't know why I like watching them. Most aren't special in any way :S
What's with the header[1] and the footer? It doesn't feel right.

1: http://i.imgur.com/kTbkdXa.png
I think there is no point in regretting. Regret can only lead to more regret in future if you don't concentrate more on the present.

“Whatever happened, happened for the good; whatever is happening, is happening for the good; whatever will happen, will also happen for the good only. You need not have any regrets for the past. You need not worry for the future.”

[this one is from Bhagawad Gita]
http://www.cucumbertown.com does this very well. Cleaner UI and seamless experience. Also has a lot of celebrity chefs onboard as users.
That 2nd link is an obvious straw man. If you read what Gates is actually saying [1] it's far more reasonable. There is a huge dynamic range in teacher abilities. He is saying take the very best, and give them a slightly higher load. Just as you can take the very best programmers and have them write more code. But then people freak out and say Gates wants big classes across the board, it's silly.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the sentencing guidelines based on the maximum penalty? In other words, the absurdity of 50 years in theory is what creates the absurdity of seven or ten years in practice. If the maximum penalty was one year or less then the guidelines would have discounted that to something entirely rational for cases like Aaron Swartz, but it wasn't, causing the disproportionality.

Buying a $1 lottery ticket would be a whole lot more rational if the rare case resulting in $200M caused the average case to result in $35M.
I'm not exactly sure how the adhoc stuff works on android but there's a specific api for it which is usually used for local gaming. In any case the use case for this app is that the Internet is shut down in your location so you probably don't want to connect to it anyway.
Using / for a motion is way more useful imo.

c/<pattern><enter>

etc.
Interesting.

I suppose if we look at it as a medium for art than it's different. I saw a lot of what I described as utilitarian.

I use Twitter in the same way - it serves a purpose: I can connect with people or groups I need to ask questions of. I can share interesting stories / ideas that I find. I use it as a portal to those blog posts you mentioned, not as a replacement for them.

Outside of the art angle, I don't see myself "tuning in" to thumb through random 6 second videos. The Tokyo taxi scene isn't very interesting to me outside of context within a larger story, EXCEPT as a piece of art I can perhaps appreciate for 6 seconds and move on.

Like I said before, could be just me, I'm glad people are finding and enjoying a creative outlet that clearly speaks to something they enjoy doing :)
"but hey, it's something" is usually not worthwhile.
You're not even able to moderate yourself to "could" be astounding, it WILL be astounding, categorically? Is there anything pointing toward such being able to reach fruition? Not really.
Comparing this to the patent fights between Apple and Android et al, it is interesting to see how calmly OXO is responding. No "thermonuclear war" here over the various copies Quirky is making of their products. (Of course, I don't think the cost of design and manufacturing a plastic kitchen object can compare to the iphone). However, it is good to see an established firm like OXO acknowledge that they are being copied, to not freak out over it, and to acknowledge that the best way to respond is with continued innovation and the best product you can make. I think smartphone and tablet makers would be wise to follow that lesson.
It also has/had:

- Tabs that can be placed in all four corners

- Tab stacks

- built-in text-to-speech engine (extra 10MB download)

- Opera Unite, a set of file-sharing tools

- MDI mode
Or Middle clicking the refresh button.
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No actually I don't think we do, but I'll check since that would obviously be a big problem. If you get a sec would you open an issue for us so we remember? Thanks for pointing this out.
Money elf found a new way to spend money (that just applies "The Lean Startup.")

Good on Money elf!

"Huzzah!"
The preview on tabs can be made visible without the need to hover over them, simply by extending the vertical size of the tab bar. (Or horizontal size, since it's possible to have a vertical tab bar on the left/right in opera).

Admittedly Opera's torrent client is pretty limited and weak in comparison to a full client, but it's certainly useful for non-techies who don't have a clue what a torrent is when they just wanna download something.

You can sync opera notes along with all your other stuff. (Incidentally, Opera was the first browser to include sync.)

Opera aint limited to mouse gestures, but also has voice gestures, if you're into that kind of thing, although I'm with you and rarely use them.

Clone tab doesn't merely copy the current location of a tab, but copies over the whole history of the tab too, which is often useful if you wanna navigate back but without losing what you're currently doing.

I think there's more unique features of Opera than the ones he describes here. In particular I like the fact that Opera contains a full stacking/tiling/tabbing window manager, and you're not limited to "tabs which consume all the space". Nice to browse two webpages beside each other. (The tiling features could do with some polishing, but they're non-existent in other browsers.)

I was a long time user of the software, but I primarily use Firefox now, due to a growing number of problems I had with Opera and the lack of customization you can do with it (since after all, it's not open source, and configuration is done with crappy text files). It's worth a try though, Opera have continuously pioneered many of the features in all the browsers we use today.
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I can't believe it, Bill Gates is a narrow-minded and stupid person.
The negativity is because of the legacy of colonialism. "Rich White Guy Solves all the World's Problems" ends up being really condescending, especially when other rich white guys are causing or exacerbating many of the problems.
Windows is one BIG problem of the world. How is he going to "solve" it?
I remapped `;` to `:` (try it, it's fun!) and evolved my character jump usage into just using `/` + two characters of resolution.

So many times I'd do an `f` search like `fs` only to realize the variable `she_sells_sea_shells_by_the_sea_shore` appears between me and my destination. Ugh!
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Just tried your service, It good's to use.
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In your landing page, the "Get it on Google Play" button is blocking the top menu bar.

Also, your product has the same name as a Microsoft product. That's a bad idea. You're never going to get any traffic even if someone searches for your exact name, plus if you ever get even a little big Microsoft's legal team is going to be all over you.
I think educators have made learning so prevalent throughout society, creating learning infrastructure, that they now must adapt to their own success. A person can basically use the same mechanisms that the educators created to teach themselves in their home or work. It's proof of success that they now must incorporate this into their institutions.
The problem with the modes is that you can't tell which it is. And I really don't need another clock - devices are pointlessly littered with them. I'll grudgingly accept one providing it keeps itself synchronised via radio/WWVB.
That's easier, not simpler. When part of the stack breaks you're even less likely to know how to fix it than 15 years ago.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
"Keep your comments to yourself!"
The biggest issue for me is apps in the developer area. I'd love to drop my FB account but I have active projects that use FB login.
FB & G+ are pushing so much to have data on their users actual identities, I wonder what they want to do with that database. Considering the move polarises some users.
C'mon, dude, it's another Bill Gates thread. This is News.