skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article isn't really getting top tier investor opinions, but my assumption is that they are taking crowdfunding quite seriously. To not consider it disruptive to more formal capital would be incredibly out of character with smart money - considering they look for these very opportunities to invest. My guess is that the smart angels/VCs will try to leverage the smart platforms or create them themselves.

10 years from now, few people will seek 'traditional' financing suppliers as capital is about to get real efficient real quick. Bottom line is, this will be excellent for businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Show HN: Building a new startup on 3 continents
Loss of interest in something that previously gave you pleasure

Loss of motivation

Feelings of failure

Withdrawing from society

Recent adverse life events

Take some time for you. Consider seeing a therapist. (cognitive behaviour therapy should be a short course of about 8 weeks.)

Find a small tiny project that you want to do. Spend time investigating areas of programming that you haven't tried so much before.
To those using calc(), WebKit requires -webkit-calc
On the side of the Facebook employee bus, a new “hell screen” is painted
Tesla team mulls plan to boost image after New York Times review
The big issue, addressed in part in the linked article, is that processed foods have been engineered to fool the body's natural hunger and satiety signaling. They've been relentlessly tested and optimized to maximize enjoyment and minimize fullness or desire to stop (this point on the curve being the so-called "bliss point" alluded to in the article).

It's possible, and perhaps likely, that the body treats processed fats very differently from natural fats. But the real crux of the issue is everything the fats come packaged in. In an almond, the fat comes packaged with a lot of fiber, a decent amount of protein, and a host of other nutrients. In a handful of Cheetos, the fat comes packaged with an array of chemicals designed to circumvent satiety signals, plus a lot of salt, sugar, and other goodies thrown in for good measure.

Dietitians like to draw comparisons between, say, the nutritional profile of a single serving of almonds vs. the nutritional profile of a single serving of Cheetos. But who eats just one serving of Cheetos? That's the real issue. It's pretty hard to eat natural foods to excess; it's exceedingly easy to eat artificial foods to excess.

In other words: it's not simply that artificial ingredients, in and of themselves, are bad. It's that artificial ingredients are intentionally combined in ways to increase caloric density and decrease the brain's recognition of said density.
FYI - He corrected the original post to mark the correct date.

I think that the chicken and egg problem may be a little more fundamental. The major social networks (Twitter/Facebook) first had a compelling application and then later migrated to try to be more like platforms. App.net is trying to be a platform first, without providing a compelling application first. They need at least one killer app to convince people to sign up, and that is what they should be pushing to end-users.

They can push the File API/platform to devs at the same time, but who is their real customer? The end user or the developer? It's hard to figure out.
Wasn't that a small price to pay for being paid by the government to shoot off all that ammo ^_^?

(I certainly appreciated the government supplied ~3,000 rounds/year of .22LR I shot on my JROTC rifle team.)
Their FAQ states they've resolved this issue by leveraging unnatural gestures. There's no way to tell if their solution is any good but at least this should give the public an opportunity to decide which applications the tech is ready for and which it isn't. Things that tend to be difficult to define "in the lab."
Interesting question, but doesn't quite seem to be the difference between hard and circumstantial evidence.
The statement you quoted was sarcasm, meant to convey that the article is proposing something not revolutionary at all.
I had worked with Unreal Engine in both PC and the Ipad and the performance difference was abysmal.

In order to make it run we had to downsize the art and make several optimizations.

The last time I ran that game was on an Ipad 2 so that might changed with the last generation, but giving that experience I find very impressive that Surface Pro can run PC games out of the box in a satisfactory way.
This post is not getting the attention it deserves. I think its marking the beginning of the next wave of interaction with our devices.
DHS bigwig 'adamantly opposed' to degree fetishism
And I'll jump in on this calories vs everything else. If, as I've said many times before in other posts, all you care about is weight, only track calories (you'll most likely end up skinny-fat...but at a certain weight. Horray! You are now unhealthy at a lower weight. Congratulations!) If you care about losing fat, track macros and reduce carb intake to lose fat (along with weight lifting, HIIT and some carb-refeeds to manage hormone levels).

heh "most likely end up skinny-fat"

I have visceral fat, though I have never been outside my target BMI range. The only time in my adult life that I did not have visceral fat was when I was on a low FAT diet (doctor prescribed) and exercising every day. I do not have pre-diabetes. Other than the visceral fat I show no other signs of metabolic syndrome.

But I don't go around telling people they should be eating more carbs. I don't tell people that eating carbs will make you skinny-fat.
> It does little to prevent crime...

More often than not, it breeds criminals, by mixing minor delinquents with professional, organized criminals.

In the vein of your comment, see also this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-pris...
I would love to see a schematic for the device or a teardown. I designed an electrooculogram in college and I'm guessing this is a similar electromyograph-type device. Measuring any signal on the body is challenging and accounting for humidity/noise/etc is difficult.
This "article" is just a repost of infographics from http://www.udemy.com/blog/modern-language-wars/ (Nov 16, 2012). The infographics are pretty but of questionable value.
This is interesting, but I think they make some incorrect assumptions. For instance, people won't use Evernote for most stuff, and then a more-secure app for specific things -- they'll either use Evernote and accept the security weakness, for everything, or find something marginally less easy to use or more expensive, but much more secure, and use that for everything. The issue is exactly how much less easy to use vs. how much more secure, and how much users care about each.
In densely connected societies it is usually worth more, since people interact frequently, so maintaining a "fair" game is very profitable in the long term, even at the cost of losing short-term. But in sparsely connected society, when interactions are rare, I'd expect it to be worth much less. I have no idea how to quantify it though :)
Why Google Glass's unveiling is horribly wrong
Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge
It seems like having "levels" is another way to be able to negotiate.

A couple companies ago, I worked at a place where you employee "level" was public knowledge and tied to your job description, and determined your base salary level. (A, B, C, D, ...). Everyone got yearly raises roughly equivalent to inflation, etc. Yearly bonuses were based on the letter too.

But everyone had a (more secret) number after their letter, so you might be K5, which provided a lot of leeway for negotiating higher salaries, etc. So you'd know if you were in the same general band as another employee, but one of you might be making 25% more than the other.
What is the "Rails way" of doing AJAX calls and updating the DOM? I've been embedding Backbone views in the parts of my app that are the most interactive, but I feel like there's gotta be a better way.
Check out this torrent site front-end with one-click add to put.io
Well that doesn't make any sense. All our use cases would be violating our own ToC then!

What we meant was you cannot resell the data. We shall fix the wording of that ASAP. Thanks for pointing it out.
Here's a better way of comparing the two identical videos. It's an even clearer improvement when viewing side-by-side:
http://goo.gl/xoMgQ
Your ISP could block all traffic except DNS and port 80. They can then redirect your port 80 traffic to their servers using one of several methods such as WCCP, inline transparent cache,switch with transparent cache redirection, policy routing or a device which NATs your outbound traffic to external IPs to the IP of their internal server.
Ask HN: How to turn support emails into a searchable web site?
Hey HNers,

I want to build something like uservoice, getsatisfaction, desk.com, zendesk.com but works with regular email. By this I mean the non-programming side of my startup spends a lot of time answering support emails. I'd like to make a website of these emails that is searchable so our customers have a chance to search for their answer before sending an email. I've decided already to use getmail to download the emails as either mbox or maildir. Now I need a way to convert one of those formats into a static webpage. I'm looking into pipermail and hypermail to do that but the results are so ugly I was wondering if there is something better out there.

Any ideas?
Kickstarter campaign for new-age HyperCard development app wraps up
There were only 2 comments on it then, barely worth linking to.
You're right, the analogy doesn't entirely hold. But then, I used to have a hell of a Taco Bell/Mountain Dew addiction, and obviously couldn't get my fix anywhere else. :)

Food and willpower have a tricky relationship, because willpower is literally fueled by food (glucose). When you're well-fed, your willpower is high, but when your glucose is depleted, suppressing the instinct to reach for that donut is a non-trivial proposition.

I think it's absurd to hold super-stimuli providers legally or morally responsible for poor nutrition habits; they're giving people what they want. But I do think it's helpful for consumers to view Doritos and Coke in the same category as other risky behaviors with high addiction potential: cigarettes, gambling, etc.
It would be more accurate to ask: Will the keyboard disappear?

Calling it a QWERTY keyboard implies that other versions such as DVORAK will live on, or that someone will reconfigure the keyboard for even faster typing.
Between the years 1996 - 2007, if you were in possession of a firearm and shoelaces you possessed an illegal machine gun

http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/...
Interesting study http://religions.pewforum.org/reports suggesting that there is a correlation between religion and birth rate, the obvious conclusion is that religious people are more traditional. Another explanation is that as humans evolved the ability to have rational thought, there needed to be a mechanism to for people to feel that there was something larger than themselves, otherwise, through sheer reason one would conclude that having children would decrease their chance of individual survival. ,Although, hormones probably also contribute to the suspension of reason at times as well.
Nothing even close to that.

Normal Garand match ammo, at least the typical Federal .308 (don't know about .30-06) Sierra MatchKing match loads, are supposed to have real difficultly reaching 1,000 yards. If you want to stay in the envelope it's recommended to go down to, say, 6.5 mm bullets, a diameter where you can get much higher ballistic coefficients, e.g. the .260 Remington and its ilk.

Note this is all stuff I've just read, I've never been at a range that was longer than 300 yards, and almost always 200 or less.... :-(.
Paleo isn't the only other option to the "Standard American Diet."

Sure it's one answer, but the Paleo fear of agriculture can get a bit extreme. People in the US have been living to healthy ages for a long time despite eating lots of wheat, corn, rice, potatoes, and dairy products.
I wish there was more interest in developing on top of the tent.io protocol. Open and distributed should be the goal for the next phase of social networks.
How sure can you be that no one did a background check on you without your knowledge?
Ex-Yahoos Confess: Marissa Mayer Is Right To Ban Working From Home
A++++++ great service would use again :)
> I have never ever ever had anyone look into my background to see if I was a felon.

That you know of. But it is the sort of thing that some people do check up on quietly.
I was initially very excited by this as I skipped over the part where it was "Shared App Passwords". I'm currently using 1Password and sharing the password file via a dropbox account, however, as I look into the details, it appears Meldium would only work for a portion of what we use 1Password for.

I need a solution like this, but allows the storage and potential sharing of other types of passwords not associated with a specific website or service (server passwords, door codes, etc)

That being said, it looks like a great start!
Why Six Strikes and you are out is a Miserable Failure
If religion were a glue to bind disparate people, wouldn't religious communes prove successful while secular ones failed? Yet both types fail.
Isn't it a standard question on application forms? In England it seems to be? (They don't count some traffic offences.) So, it's possible to lie, but lying is grounds for instant dismissal. (And possibly being sued for breach of contract.)

We have something called "Criminal Records Bureau" checking, which is used for anyone working with vulnerable people. (Children, old people, people with mental health problems, people with learning disabilities, etc etc.) There has been a problem with people using these too often (ie, for jobs that don't require them) and rejecting people for convictions that are either very old or that have no relevance.
We're not looking to help anyone evade a vendor's pricing model. The unfortunate reality is that many services do not support multiple user accounts, and customers have no choice but to share.

For services that do support many users, we have deep integration that actually creates individual accounts for every new employee you hire. We have almost 20 of these services integrated now and we're always looking to add more.

We've had the opportunity to talk to many service vendors in the process of building Meldium and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. With provisioning integrated, Meldium removes one of the barriers to service adoption - it makes it easy for a company to add more accounts when the hire more people, and service vendors love this. We're always looking for tighter and higher-quality integrations with vendors - if you run a SaaS app and you'd like to see it supported on Meldium, ping me at brad@meldium.com and we'll find a way to make it happen.
I submitted a pull request that implements support for blurring in IE versions 4 to 9 with 10 obviously supporting blurring via SVG filter effects which was already implemented. Unless I'm missing a browser here, there should now be no browser that isn't supported.
I think the better question is: is it really as seamless/flawless as the video portrays?

Some of the clips imply integration with systems that largely don't exist in the way they're showing them(ski HUDs are real, but not like that). Another notable omission is in the video game sequence - we never see them turn the camera in any direction. I don't think that would be possible with this system alone.
2 reasons I can think of.

1 - nobody would get a pay rise because "If I give you a pay rise, then I have to give everyone a pay rise" would be the mantra of managers in an established organisation. Anything less would create arguments.

2 - the ego of every employee. "Oh, right, just because he's an engineer, he's more important than me in marketing ... which one of us improves how much profit you generate?" ... and so for every other class of employee. even between engineers - "I'm sorry, but I'm better than that guy because of X, Y and Z (subjective reasons) and I should get paid more."

The extension of 2 is - "If I don't get paid the same as that guy then I'm not working nearly as hard as I have been ... I mean - what's the point?"
link? thanks
You have to pay DtecNet to track your content (if they are willing to deal with you at all). But when you say "filtered" I have a feeling you may not be clear on how the system works.
Electrical input from the body is extremely noisy. I wouldn't be surprised if they were using machine learning to train their algorithm to recognize which electrical patterns correspond to which muscles being activated.
Sure I'll check out balancedpayments.com :) We should definitely talk! Hit me up at vinoth at semantics3.com
a company like cisco or microsoft trying to rip off state/local governments? color me not shocked.
Great suggestions - we'll have it soon. If you'd like to suggest apps, hit our UserVoice at http://support.meldium.com/ - we use that to decide what to build next.
Is calc() performant in modern browsers (IE10, Chrome, Firefox)? I got scared off of it a few years ago when it was first announced because I read that the performance hit was very noticeable...
It's 2013, sharing passwords is so insecure. Things like OAuth should be used. I wouldn't be secured if they move towards something like http://www.okta.com/what-we-do/single-sign-on.html
MasterPass to launch in Australia and Canada next week
if the deal were

"plead guilty and only have one hand amputated, or spend a million defending yourself with the risk of execution."

would you still waste our time bring up personal responsibility?

because no one's arguing that he wasn't personally responsible for entering the server room. the issue is how unreasonable the offer is considering what he did.
I couldn't tell you how the marks got there, only that I wasn't the only one who saw M16's stamped with the Mattel logo. I didn't consider the logo thing to be important at the time, it being boot camp, and all that.
We weren't "issued" a specific rifle the way we were the rest of our TA-50, we'd go down to the Armory and sign out a rifle, and that rifle wasn't always the same one you used last time.
Ft Benning (Sand Hill) was the only place I saw the Mattel stamped rifles, and I highly doubt that an Armorer there took the time to add the logos as a joke. These were old rifles, definitely used condition, but I still qualified Expert using them.

From what I've been researching, Mattel had a short contract during the late 70's to manufacture M16 rifles for the US military. Unfortunately, I have no credible verification of said contract.
Perhaps someone will dig a bit deeper to get to the bottom of this aspect.
As for the Mattel Marauder, replica, I had never even heard of it until today.
The punishment should fit the misdemeanor. Jail time and a felony conviction is an extremely harsh punishment for surreptitiously downloading academic articles. Anyone with a speeding ticket has committed a far graver threat to society.
Tell your family and friends to use it. Shares on facebook and tweets on twitter from them goes a long way.
"This is because the synchronization needs to occur over a low-throughput, queue-based IPC subsystem, accompanied by resource-intensive and unpredictably timed context switches mediated by the operating system. To understant [sic] the scale of this effect, we looked at the latency of synchronous, cross-document DOM writes and window.postMessage() roundtrips."

Web pages running in different Chrome renderer processes can only communicate using postMessage. WebKit's design makes it practically impossible to access DOM or JS objects across different processes or threads (the only browser that can do this as IE -- top level browsing contexts have run in different threads in IE since the beginning).

You can test this hypothesis by creating two same-origin documents in different processes. In the first window, do window.name="foo"; then in the other, do window.open("javascript:;", "foo").document.documentElement.innerHTML="hello"; this will work in every browser except Chrome.

Chrome actually provides a way for web developers to explicitly allow a window.open invocation to create a new renderer process (see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=153363 ). This way, the author can allow Chrome to use a new process if they don't need access to the popup beyond postMessage.

So, I have no idea where that peak 800 millisecond DOM access latency came from, but it's not from IPC across renderer processes. I'd love to see the benchmark that was used to get that number.
On my 2GB netbook, chrome has gone from my preferred browser to unusable due to the high memory footprint of recent builds. One killer is the GPU process often taking 200+MB.

Before giving up, and switching to FF, I tried the --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer switches to disable the GPU process but that prevented videos from playing at full speed.
Just stop using the word index and start using the word offset.
Problem solved.

The notion that the first brick in a run has an offset of 0 as does the first upright stud in a frame is something that's been basic to bricklayers and carpenters for a very long time.

Sometimes it's natural to refer to elements by their position, or offset, other times it's natural to talk about sequence numbers or indexes.
streamjoy.tv looks nice. Too bad you're not planning to finish it. Another alternative that I've been using recently is canistream.it but that get's wonky some times.
According to recent discussions, turbolinks. It's built into Rails 4 and essentially works by making a call out to the server to fetch raw html and replacing some/all of the DOM with the result.

Personally I just use Backbone and try to structure things in whatever way seems natural. It looks like there's been a lot of work done in integrating Ember.js if you want to look into that.
"A good whiteboard interviewer" is an oxymoron.
Will you be offering the units for free to developers, like the Leap Motion, or should I just pre-order right away?
>Since they can intercept all DNS traffic you send they could actually emulate all the way up to the root servers and sign with keys they generated themselves. This is probably overly complex but is possible and would allow a false dns entry to be accepted even by resolvers configured to only accept responses for domains which are signed.

this is not how DNSSEC works, if it did work this way it would be trivial for anyone to mitm it, thus render its entire purpose null and void.

Resolvers are preloaded with the dns root public key, that key signs the tld root keys, which sign your registrars key, which sign your domain. There is no effective way for comcast to spoof replies in this setup, as they have no access to any of these private keys.
I think it has less to do with "below your heart" than with "shoulders not required to hold up your arms".
So we increase the donations to, say, three million dollars, and he open-sources the game. He and his brother should be able to live on 3 mil, no? Ok, 5 mil...
It seems to me the main reason for this failed startup is lack of marketing. I am in the middle of building/promoting a startup company and the first batch of customer seems very quite difficult to attract.
If I use this to store my "user data", how do I do any meaningful server-side computation on that data?
Certifications – P0wning the Necessary Evil with TrainACE
It took him this long to figure that out?
The main issue with Tent is that it will have distinct problems scaling. It's fine with a small network, but as soon as you grow beyond that you run into trouble. In a worst case scenario, every user is on a different server that needs to be notified of an incoming message. If I have 100 followers, that's 100 individual requests to transfer just message. When a heavyweight like Gruber joins the service, that model just isn't sustainable.
Why are digital video effects artists so angry at Hollywood?