skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the specs of the specs? And don't tell me to Google it.
Seagate 4GB external drive is selling for $180 right now:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-STCA40...

Yes, probably not same speed specs, but it's external, which means it usually costs more for the convenience of the housing.

Edit: Unless my math is wrong, the 3GB model is a better price point...$40 for a TB as opposed to $44+/TB for the 4TB version.
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-STCA30...
It is possible they could program it to trigger the cash drawer with the printer even if going paperless, but you would still need to have the printer. Star printers have a control code to trigger the peripheral device. See this for one model: http://www.starmicronics.com/support/Mannualfolder/tsp200pm....
LOL. Now this is somehow technologies' fault. I can give you a simple solution: Get a girlfriend who likes you more than looking at stupid horoscopes on her iPhone.

>People spent time with each other.

They still do. Just because you're in a relationship where that isn't the case, doesn't mean technological advancements are to blame for it. I still have amazing engrossing conversations with people who are as embedded in technology as I am.
I'm surprised LastPass hasn't been mentioned yet. I've had nothing but good experiences with the company and the product itself. It is primarily a browser plugin for storing web passwords and sensitive information but you can also use the secure notes feature to store passwords for other applications. There are several multi-factor authentication options available as well.
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Sometimes I need a break from the oppression of being physically around people who demand all of my attention just by doing nothing more interesting or remarkable than "being there".
This is only tangentially related, but I recently read The Shallows by Nicholas Carr and he referenced an interesting study:

Kansas State University scholars conducted a similarly realistic study. They had a group of college students watch a typical CNN broadcast in which an anchor reported four news stories while various info-graphics flashed on the screen and a textual news crawl ran along the bottom. They had a second group watch the same programming but with the graphics and the news crawl stripped out. Subsequent tests found that the students who had watched the multimedia version remembered significantly fewer facts from the stories than those who had watched the simpler version. “It appears,” wrote the researchers, “that this multimessage format exceeded viewers’ attentional capacity.”
> Why do your find the idea of turning on your kettle from across the room by looking at it, exciting?

That use case is exciting because it'd be a phenomenally useful device for the elderly or bedridden. Being able to see who is at the door without having to get up and look through the peephole, then letting them in if you know them; answering the phone without getting up; generally just operating your house's devices without undue movement really would be quite something.
Yep. I need some way to differentiate betas from regular sign ups. http://colmtuite.com/
Or Gedit, which has a very good amount of plug-ins that allow you to configure it the way you want. He might even want to start using Vim right in the terminal.
Surgery?
Anybody in Hong Kong?
Finally, my dream of wearing masks in public has a chance of becoming more acceptable!

As stuff like Google Glass becomes more common, I could see there being a reactionary movement of people who want to stay anonymous. The easy solution is to wear masks like in Venice.
So does this version support building native OS-X apps, aka uses the cocoa UI elements instead of gtk# or something similar? I played with this a while back and I couldn't get the UI to look native at all, it was quite disappointing.
I know, it great for the speed-up. But for just making things more manageable it's not worth the added complication of build/compile. I know, my problem is actually solved by "properly written tests" :) ...for I still long for some optional drop-in static typing.
Very cool, I love using this feature on github.

Looks like it looks for github repos, and will search up the tree and back down from there. However, this seems to mess up for me. If I go into a sub-directory in a repo and then try to open a file in the parent directory via `ctl+t`, then it tries to open that filename in the current directory, not from the parent (I'm using emacs as $EDITOR).

One other little thing, is there a way to get curses to cleanup better after itself? My terminal ends up with a relatively large blank spot after finding something, viewing it, and then closing emacs.
"The obvious need for a new punctuation mark"
How is this disruptive? It's still a cash register. Most cash registers for decades have been digital/electronic in terms of running/totals and counting cash, and they all have credit card readers too.
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Now how would that differ from gender prefix in css. The point here being, you will have to get some work done in order to have consistency .
1Password on OSX is one of the only blockers from using Linux as my primary desktop right now- I've tried LastPass, KeepPass, and others, but haven't found anything that works as well ;(
> Get a girlfriend who likes you more than looking at stupid horoscopes on her iPhone.

Yes, and see how long that phase lasts. :)
I'm also curious about this. Promisingly, F# is explicitly mentioned under the "Extensible" heading here: http://xamarin.com/studio.
I was about to disagree with you, but I realized the real problem I wanted to address was the importance of context.

Text messages from an airline aren't great because by default they have the same "ding" as random jokes and "hey what's up." messages.

But Google Glasses could easily start having the exact same problem.

We need software to be trained with more intelligent context awareness — hey, Nathaniel put his phone on silent, but he is at the airport and here is a notification about a delayed flight, so the phone should vibrate a little bit to make sure he sees it.

We're getting better at this, as an industry: I walk into the Apple Store, it asks me to check into my genius appointment. If I walk into the movie theater, my phone pulls up my ticket as a QR code. But we still have a long way to go, and I think it's a far more interesting and important problem than whether the information shows up on my glasses or my phone.
I think there is a major distinction between novels, VHS and the smartphone. Smartphone is an active distraction and is portable. This combination is what makes it more likely to be conversation killer than anything else. For me whenever I am talking to somebody and suddenly they open up their phone to see the message or attend a call, it just kills my flow of thoughts and flow of conversation.
This has already been happening for years, though in a more curated/artistic way.

Google up the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Gilden, Daido Moriyama, Garry Winogrand, Nan Goldin, etc.

As a street shooter myself, I've observed that most people's reactions to being photographed is somewhere between ambivalent and happy - the HN crowd's attitudes re: being photographed is decidedly non-mainstream.

Though I'll admit, there is a difference between being photographed with reason (some action, your clothes, your location, whatever), even by a stranger, than being photographed as part of a kitchen-sink recording activity.
That's different. The store isn't taking their (low-quality, single perspective) cctv feeds and uploading them to Facebook for others to see.
Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp?
I guess I'd be surprised to come in here and find overwhelming praise for Yahoo :-) My wife uses Yahoo as her primary site for email/news etc. I took a quick look and think this update is substantially better. Honestly it does look "fresh" and "more intuitive" to me than before via an emphasis on a better design.

One thing I've noticed with the media and financial world is that, when they've been critical of Marissa, it's been because she hasn't made a substantial, dramatic announcement about an all encompassing new strategy for Yahoo. I suspect that's because she doesn't have one and doesn't really need one. Yahoo still has a tremendous amount of popular services and traffic. Make it less of a laughing stock so you can retain good talent. Do some good acqui-hires so you can obtain new talent and just do good smart clean iterations like this. I think that's half the battle for them. The other half is hitching yourself to a growth engine around mobile or content.
SublimeText is a great choice... I especially like tools that are multiplatform. I use Thunderbird as my mail client for just that reason.
Hey Shanghai, what's the feeling on the ground about Mandiant's APT1 report from yesterday?

http://www.mandiant.com/apt1
Perhaps they are already preemptively banned.
"need" and "notebook++" are two words I don't believe I've ever seen in the same sentence. :-)
Did you find out who cracked it? And how did you find out? Just curious if you were targeted specifically.
I had the same reaction...seems like an elaborate troll to point out the vast complexity of C++. This particular assignment doesn't seem "that hard", but this is probably the easiest part of writing a C++ compiler/stdlib.
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5148895 (where this was trashed pretty thoroughly).

A few weeks ago the site said enrollments would close on February 15. On Feb 15 it said they would close "Very soon now." Now they close on March 15. That should indicate how few people are really falling for this.

Edit: hang on - they have a press release claiming they got 10,000 enrollments and enrollment has been extended due to "popular demand": http://www.cppgm.org/news.html. This is surreal.
Without denying that it's "neat", I'd like to be on record as looking askance at the fact that a company that makes >90% of revenue from advertising wants to sell me a tiny screen to put an inch in front of my eye.
We are actively working on F# support for our products.

We have built on the great work that the F# community has done and will be shipping it in future versions of the product.

We are looking at a beat of our F# support for March.
It does have ethernet and USB, while cheaper ones only have USB. And it has a paper cutter, while cheaper ones have a tear bar like an old calculator. And this is probably a solid brand. Square doesn't want to sell a package with a cheap printer that then costs them more in support costs.
What is Light anyway?
> Also, for Londoners, there has been some interest in starting a local user group

There's one in NYC, and I've been disappointed that it seems to be hibernating (only one meetup since Halloween)[0].

Hopefully some other NYC-area gophers might see this and be interested in getting it going again....

[0] http://www.meetup.com/golangny/#past
Sadly, the ones in external cases are cheaper these days, since they're targeted differently. ;(
Take a look at http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming...

If you're not afraid of shucking cases, there are a number of 4TB drives you can get at that pricepoint-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236...
I'm been pretty excited about Xamarin for quite some time, but today I'm not as excited.

The new Studio looks great, but there isn't a Linux version. This makes me very, very sad.

The one thing that could make me very happy, however, is if they target the Ubuntu mobile/touch SDK in the future. Wonder if this is on the horizon?
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Based on the offering and pricing I'd say it is more in line to compete with http://shop.shopkeep.com/ than revel.
All those fixed elements on the page make the whole site feel incredibly cramped. Very claustrophobic.
"Only LaunchGram’s CEO Andy Sparks is coming on with the acquisition, but Refer.ly plans to keep LaunchGram alive."

Does this mean all of LaunchGram's employees are let go?
I'm seriously finding it hard to read the text on that page. I've made peace (to a certain extent) with the low-contrast trend sweeping the web but this page takes it to new extremes.
It's a thermal printer with network access, an automated cutter and is rated to work reliably past 60m lines. That doesn't seem like a lot of money for a good tool.
If Glass takes off and especially if it runs Android we can except Samsung and other major players in the cell phone market to start offering their versions soon enough. With Android phones it didn't take long for Chinese manufacturers to start offering phones under their own brands for a fraction of what major manufacturers ask for their products [1] shipped directly from China to the customer. If a technological difficulty doesn't prevent Glass clones from being manufactured then given its high starting price of around $1500 (I wouldn't expect retail price to differ too much; cf. $529.99 for Google Nexus One at launch in the US) Chinese-brand AR glasses might become the next big thing around the world.

[1] See http://www.gizchina.com/2012/11/20/gizchina-exclusive-jiayu-... for what they offer for $200 unlocked. In, e.g., parts of Europe where pay-as-you-go is the norm and most phones are bought unsubsidized such prices are basically unheard for a similarly specced phone. Of course, those phones have their own problems (like worse QA) and come with little to no support. Despite that I personally know many technical types who have decided it to be worth it for themselves and sites like XDA Developers (http://forum.xda-developers.com) show a global interest.

Edit: expanded the footnote.
It's like the hardware bundles that Checkout, POS for Mac OS X, has done for a long time [0]. It's a smart idea, it makes it easier for small business owners because there is actually a large variety of hardware to choose from, and buying a bundle you know is compatible is one less thing to worry about.

[0]: http://www.checkoutapp.com/features/hardware
I just helped a friend install a iPad POS at his coffee shop this past December using BreadCrumb. We looked at Square Register, but it's rather lackluster feature set ruled it out. Namely, it doesn't support multiple printers or printer queuing (ex. food items get sent to kitchen printer), it doesn't have a modifier system for items (maybe this has changed), and no employee features (clock-in/out) etc..

I would say it's good for a small shop without too many needs. As soon as you have to do funky stuff like modify orders (and report on them), you're better off looking elsewhere.

I would also caution people against using the wireless printers and go with hard wired ones instead. I know, wires are not fashionable, but they are damn reliable and predictable. The restaurant next door uses wireless STARs with their POSLavu system(should win an award for worst name), and a waitress there told me they constantly had problems with them, and missed orders, etc.

Also, for anyone wondering why these thermal printers are $300+ on a good day, they're built like tanks. I bought all the Epson TM printers for my friend from a bankrupt Chinese restaurant. When I asked the owner if he'd had any problems with them (they self tested okay), he said in his broken english something like "even with roaches, they still print!"...

Well, I get them home and start pulling them apart to clean them, and they're FULL of dead roaches. Every empty space inside the printers was chock full of roach bodies. The circuit boards were caked with roach shit and all the feed mechanisms had ingested and ground up the roaches that got in their way. And ever single one of these printers still works flawlessly.

So yeah, they're worth the $400.
Gedit is a good and free alternative, also multiplatform. I doubt a guy that goes all the way to install Wine just to use his favorite (mouse driven) text editor will be comfortable in VIM (I know you can use the mouse in VIM, but it was designed for extensive keyboard usage).
Backblaze do say the price per TB for 3TB drives is better, but obviously you can squeeze more TB per 4U case when you use 4TB drives.

That cuts down on the power usage, cooling, and rack space that you need to pay for.
I only heard about the negative review after Musk made a bunch of noise about it. Maybe I'm the exception...
Great news! I'd better stop reading all those haskell books and start brushing up on F# 3.0 then I guess :-)
“Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ that they feel stuffed but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can, nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure and equate the universe, which just won’t be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.”

—	Fahrenheit 451
They actually had people buying external hard drives for them last year[1], so they're probably just removing the drives from the housings and then recycling the casing.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57556147-76/startup-paid-b...
We need more designers in startups in London.
whoa. 2.5" (boot) drives more reliable than 3.5". why?!
For restaurant POS systems the typical cost is typically around $15-20k plus $2k per terminal. For smaller restaurants that don't need more than this package offers it's a bargain.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We're not above liberating drives from their enclosures: http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming...
No idea about any one else, but I got an email from google telling me that iGoogle was going to be shut down. Not happy as that is my home page. So, I for one will be going back and using My Yahoo in its place. Couldn't care less about new staff or redesigns, its just going back to what I know. So, I wonder if this will attract users back, or new users.
Dear everyone:

Might you please make use of the noscript functionality provided to you? Many people like myself do not let arbitrary websites run javascript on their machines. Without the use of noscript tags, as is the case here, I am met with an entirely blank page.

Had there been something there, something describing what I'm missing and how good it is, I very likely would have enabled js temporarily.

But there wasn't, and I didn't.

Very best regards,

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I'm a PHP developer based out of Dallas, TX.

My biggest strength that I highlight when applying to a position is testing (unit/integration/behavioral).

I work fulltime salary, plus do some small amount of contract work on the side.
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This seems to be an attempt to keep costs low. Most cash drawers have a simple cable connection to the printer which can send a signal down the line to open, very simple. Adding a wireless adapter to the cash drawer would certainly be more expensive.
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Awesome. I'm glad to hear everyone is doing well. Congrats again.
Given the high amount of live sex available over cam right now, I think the voyeur idea is almost certainly going to happen.

It seems as more and more communication happens through channels available to all, and communication is no longer restricted to a few powerful channels (the media, the state, the church), we are starting to become more and more aware of the huge chasm that has always existed between what has been projected by society as "the norm" and people's actual willingness to act with a large deviation from the norm.

The malware in your personal brain extender scenario is pretty juicy. Hope some people write some crazy sci fi stories with that idea.
More details on the hardware setup:

https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5084-using-hardware-...
> Why is it a problem that they're recording?

It's a problem because while I don't expect privacy in public, I do expect my presence to be transitory and under my control. The two seconds I spend scratching my arse walking down the street are forgotten by all who saw it instantly, but not if that moment is immortalised in flash memory. When my wife's skirt blows up in an autumn breeze she gets embarrassed, I get amused and the van drivers get titillated. We've all forgotten it minutes later; now some passing pervert with terminator glasses can grab a freeze frame and share her misfortune with the world.

Henri Cartier-Bresson didn't have his camera up to his eye constantly. By the time he'd reacted to her skirt billowing up and readied his camera she'd have yanked it down again.
One way to lose the late-nineties/early-oughts associations with Yahoo: kill the toolbar once and for all. Who uses those things? Is that really a revenue-generator for them? And if so, at what cost to their image as a holdover from a bygone era?
Right, and that lack of bargaining power is because in these days of hefty PCs and standardized software studios can always find other VFX shops, either in the US or abroad, to do a "good enough" job for less.

There's zero chance of requiring studios to only use unionized VFX shops, so unionizing them will simply make them either less competitive (need to charge more to cover guaranteed benefits) or more prone to bankruptcy (cannot meet commitments to workers if there's a shortage of work)
This could save millions of dollars on construction sites. It would give architects and engineers the next best thing to being able to teleport around a construction site. With the right software and organization, any foreman at a building site could get nearly instantaneous clarification.

Then again, maybe it would make people mentally lazy and unable to plan, like smartphones did with meeting up in town.
EventMachine does not build upon libev or libevent. It implements all that stuff by itself.
speak for yourself buddy....$1500 is still a big slice of pie to some of us
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This is another great question. Our team (this is Andy) was very small. My other two co-founders, who I still live with, have decided to move on to other projects. Zach, our CTO, is now working with another company (not public yet), and Carrie, our designer, has booked several months worth of freelance work. The important thing is: everybody is employed and happy.
> Also, running Wine for Notepad++ seems... excessive.

Especially when you can run something like Sublime Text.
I don't even have Javascript disabled and I still got a blank page (running Safari 5.1.7).
This actually reminds me of the opening scene to the Youtube series "H+". The web series is surrounds the subject of 'transhumanism' and the changes we experience in our daily interactions when living with technology. People become remarkably disconnected with each other, and unable to survive without being perpetually connected.

The implant H+ gives people constant access to information through the internet, and are always online, which creates the foundation for a global disaster in which someone hacks the system and shuts everybody "off."

I always thought it was ironic that the series came out shortly after the Google Glass announcement because if you take a look, H+ seems strikingly similar..

A basic conversation with H+ (Compare with Google Glass): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qelEYjJkVIk&t=2m44s