skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't unprecedented. IE6 has been used to attack websites in the past. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/ie6_microsoft_uk_gov...
It looks awesome and I want one.
The only problem now is that I can't draw.

Perhaps there's a market for making tutorials for drawing with the pen?
That may be where GitHub got it from.

I don't use SublimeText because it's not installed on all the machines I login to. Also, GUI windows are a pain.
The observation I made is that I spend just as much time with people face to face as I did pre-smartphone. Today I just have additional conversations running in the background, which is why I sometimes take out my phone. I think that's the only thing that has changed. We converse more online but not on the expense of real conversations. And - sorry for sounding harsh - if your girlfriend is checking her phone when you are going for a walk then this probably just isn't the relationship she was looking for. Same goes for people who take out their phones in groups, maybe the discussion just died off, maybe more friends are joining in, or some other reason. What did we do before we had smartphones? We just stared impatiently into the void, waiting for someone to pick up the conversation again.
How can someone tell me what I will find beautiful or intuitive?

It's buzzwords, not a meaningful reflection on the changes. People that aren't professional writers think that stringing positive-sounding words together in a way that is grammatically correct will result in a good sentence. The result is corporate speak.

"The synergy of the positive verbiage results in a dynamic reading experience." No, it makes me want to hit my head on the desk until my eyes get too watery to read the text anymore. Or post an angry comment on HN. One of those.
I still don't get the practical use case for this. I see it could be cool, the ad campaign is good, but why do I use this?
I bet it's a lot harder technique-wise to draw in empty space than the video makes it appear. If you go too fast, it won't be self-supporting, and if you go too slow, the already drawn part will be in the way and probably get pushed aside.
This looks amazing. I think in many ways Xamarin has out-done Microsoft here. I'm not sure if Xamarin Studio is more featureful than Visual Studio (VS went over the "overly complex" hill for me after 6.x), but it looks a lot cleaner and easier to get into.

Anyone know if debugging C/C++ code on Mac is still unsupported as it is in MonoDevelop 3.0?
> - College students (or anyone with specific domain knowledge really) could dial into a web based market for advice/mentoring, and charge by the minute.

I think there is a Stack Overflow for hardware hacking in there: " I burned trough 4 capacitors already, what am I doing wrong? ... "
I like the new page. The middle of the screen small toolbar where you can drop-down selected links is a nice and easy to way to quickly scroll through the news items.

I have Ghostery and Adblocks enabled, so I don't know if others see Ads and how it impacts the experience.
Nurph's AI for Twitter: Teach your Twitter account to answer your Replies
Here's a screencast http://goo.gl/IUT7g demonstrating how your Twitter account can learn knowledge and answer your incoming @replies automatically.

- @Hacker1:> @ycombinator When's the deadline for the next application?

- @ycombinator (hand-typed by Paul Graham):> @Hacker1 March 29. Need an idea? Read http://goo.gl/hFyyp

- @Hacker2:> @ycombinator When is the deadline for the next application?

- @ycombinator (auto-typed):> @Hacker2 March 29. Need an idea? Read http://goo.gl/hFyyp

Nurph's (my?) AI technology turns your Twitter @User in to a knowledge-learning assistant that can answer your Followers @replies 24/7. Pretty handy if you use a Twitter account for your business.

FYI, I'm the robot who nurphs it up on the http://Nurph.com homepage, a.k.a. the magical land of Weldshire. The grass is green, the skies are blue, and my crazy-red-robot-friend @Jestly rolls around telling borderline-inappropriate jokes. He really should know better.

I hope to see you in the #Nurph soon.

Regards

@Nurph

p.s. my recommendation algorithm is telling me that if you like this video then you might also like our intro video:
"Uh... David Attenborough has some competition. Best product intro / nature video, ever: http://nur.ph ... @nurph"
https://twitter.com/usiegj00/status/265152897908629504
Business in a Box
And TextMate did it before Sublime :)
cough http://ries.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345194a469e20120a666f07d970...

As much as I'd prefer things to look as nice as possible, the truth is that the market often doesn't care. I suspect people would allow Glass to slide, largely due to its futurist connotations, the same way they let many electric cars slide.
The way I understood the article is that this relies on harvesting data from users on your site. As you cannot control which browser your users have, the point here is that this exploit relies on a vulnerability in a mass-adopted browser.
They will need a stunning amount of marketing and advertising for this to become socially acceptable.

Not necessarily, the popularity of hipster glasses is a perfect example of something ugly and awkward becoming hip. It's very possible for these to ride the coattails of geek chic and become widely accepted.

That doesn't mean it will be easy, there's a fine line between geeky (hipster glasses) and dorky (bluetooth headsets, Segways). And of course, price will have a lot to do with it, a $700 fashion statement serves a very different niche than a $70 one.
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Ruby Rogues Podcast - Security Exploits with Patrick McKenzie
I really don't see how being able to record sky diving would make me (or anybody) want to go skydiving. What about the experience itself? Is that worth nothing now, and only the recording of it is worthwhile?
It's not bad but...

1. Some elements of the design look "Googley", and that's not a compliment. Specifically: light gray borders, link color, low contrast, sterille, cold, boring, lacks personality.

2. Unpolished. Buttons don't change style on hover or press, title bar shadow looks odd on an overall shadowless page, the "More" menu blends with the background.
You've stolen $50 million in diamonds. What now?
Mixpanel founder says Have An Impactful Vision Before You Start Building
And your girlfriend who was looking at instragram while she was walking with you, was she looking at the pictures, or was she watching another character look at them?
Why do I get the feeling that the POV porno genre will see a surge in numbers? :)
Thanks for the thought. I wanted to use something like YAML but I didn't want to introduce an unnecessary dependency.

Upon further review, I probably could have used a vanilla .ini file and ConfigParser (http://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html) It's a built-in module and .ini supports comments.
I am with you on this. More on this in Part 2 of the post.
Why does http://color.hailpixel.com/#C00000 get immediately translated to http://color.hailpixel.com/#C20000 ?

The last value seems to always get changed when you enter your own hex codes.
Very useful. Would be nice, though, if you could reorder the color swaths that have already been chosen.
Square Bundles Cash Register Equipment into One Package
I'd like to agree here. IMO up-and-coming Clojure is an up-and-coming competitor to Scala. As a Lisp variant for the JVM, I'm a major fan of it.

Unfortunately I can't share any personal experience as the core of my work is in the Enterprise so I haven't had the right opportunity to present itself. But if you're coming from a mathematical background you should check it out
Could the Data Scientist Be a Bad Thing for Big Data?
SideCar is Coming to DC
Big Data becomes Big Brother; will privacy be the first casualty of big data?
correlation is not causation.
Extracting important keywords from thousands of pages for example. On our website we let user enter quite a lot of content, and being able to extract keywords and find patterns between user could be key in naming categories and such.
I asked at I/O. Eventually, yes, but for now, you'd need to wear contacts. I don't know if that's changed, but at the time, there was no way to mount prescription lenses.
When you are continually assisted like this, won't your own ability to do these things go unexercised and start to atrophy?

As another commenter mentioned -- police, yes. Good use case. Firefighters as well. (I assume the military already have similar gadgets.)

But the general public? I don't think so. Too creepy.
Note that in each case, Python has the smallest code. Generally, but not always, this means that people can address tasks quicker in Python.
Microsoft says Office 2013 licensing is nothing new
Big Data Trends - 5 trends changing the world of big data
i think a fair few are active redditors but they dont use their anonymous accounts for their AMA for obvious reasons. Perhaps not Woody Harrelson.

Of course there is the reverse, where Will Shatner didnt want to do an AMA as he intended to stick around on a daily basis as opposed to a "one night only" type of event. That sort of thing seems to be what HN would prefer (if it wasnt will shatner but someone more useful).
Apache Hadoop 2.0.3-Alpha Released With Future Outlook
Looks like the web has gone full circle. Back in 2000 frames were all the rage; in 2005 frames were the bane of good designers everywhere; now in 2013 we're back to frames again. Here's hoping the frames trend dies a swift, permanent death sooner rather later.
Nowhere in his post did tikhonj suggest that compilation == correctness, even in Haskell. Of course it isn't. The only people making that assumption are wyqueshocec's coworkers, and naturally they're getting burned as a result.

The key point is that a sufficiently expressive type system gets you far closer to correctness on the basis of type checking alone than does a weaker static system like Java's or a dynamic one like JS's. You should still write tests, you just won't have to write as many in order to reach the same degree of confidence in your code.
DFKI's Space Rovers and Hexapods Will Team Up on Other Planets
For more css wizardry, check out the author's homepage and click on the big him: http://hailpixel.com
The coattails of geek chic has a lot more to do with retro than it does new technology and geekyness.
I enjoyed reading this article and I think the choice about how healthcare should be delivered in the U.S. boils down to how we as a society want to spend our (limited) resources. Part of the reason that we spend more in the U.S. than in the E.U. is because in many cases we go to greater lengths to extend someone's life.

I'm not sure that culturally people are willing to accept the idea that we aren't going to do "everything we can" for someone because it isn't worth it to society (the payer). In the case described here, we might have implanted an electronic device to resynchronize the patient's heart and prevent the CHF from trashing the rest of his organs for a few more months (or years) at the cost of $200k.

Are we at a place where people in the U.S. will accept not doing that that?

I think that a single payer with a base level of free care is the right thing for society to do, but the possibility of making private insurance illegal (as it is in some places and some groups in the U.S. are advocating for) is terrifying to me.

The affordable care act basically ensures that we will arrive at a single payer system sooner or later, but how do we change our culture to be more accepting of our own mortality and the limitations placed on extreme measures to extend life?
The non-sharia controlled parts have been better off than they were with their previous government. Their air travel industry is even profitable, more than we can say.

I'd say that's a lot more than you could ask for considering the exploitation of the region.
For anyone who wants to read in detail about the legal aspects of 3D printing, I'd suggest "What's the deal with copyright and 3D printing" by Michael Weinberg of Public Knowledge. He only gets a short soundbite in OP's link, but really deserves a full segment. Free download: http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/so-what-deal-copyright-a...
What I love about this new version is that they implemented an idea that I've wanted for a long time: filtering the site to not show you stuff you don't want to see. I even wrote on HN about it 75 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4884902 :)

For example, there is a news story currently in circulation about Clive Davis and Kelly Clarkson. I personally like Kelly's music but I don't care about this feud so I just ignored it in my yahoo so hopefully it won't show up again.
"Concentration is improved when people's senses are aroused, says Dr Linnell, but if this becomes excessive it seems to have the opposite effect and reduces the ability to focus on a single task."

Something to be said for the suburbs!
I'm implementing a Google Talk jabber client and I'm curious whether or not it allows sending messages as links. It doesn't seem to automatically parse them into clickable ones. Not much luck on the XML alteration....
From the FAQs, if this helps.

"Customers that purchased within the past 90 days may request a partial refund for the price difference between their purchase price and Indie. If you choose to make this downgrade, you will lose access to many great Xamarin Business features you already enjoy, including Visual Studio and email-based support."
Did you guys consider Google Go? I really like the language and its environment after coding in it for a bit.
HybridConf tickets on sale
Oh look - a downvote for a shallow response to a shallow comment.
Either way, you end up keeping lots of things in your head. With dynamic langs, you do have to think about types and use them conservatively. With languages like Java -- the same. No toolset is going to work well unless the dev is on top of things and good at using the tool well.

I've found that debugging in a dynamic environment is great for managing types in a well architected system. It falls down in a poorly architected one, in ways that static typing would not ave allowed. However, in such systems, "it compiles so it must be correct," programmers just get stuck in deeper snow.
Epi Inject:Make it Easier to Administer Life Saving Treatment for Food Allergies
Wonder if Unit 61398 will have anybody there...
AWS Summit 2013
I see the upper search box at first, and then it gets covered up by one of those full-page background ads. Might depend on adblock settings.
I think that's why they are pushing the part about drawing a flat framework over a printed stencil, and then assembling them in 3D space, like the Eiffel Tower in the video. Shouldn't require much artistic skill.
The complexity of the project does not make it absolutely vital (the animation could be done in plain jQuery with a little more hassle), but it was fun and I wanted to try it :)
Monosnap: cross-platform screenshot tool (Skitch done right)
If you need to develop Android apps using VS, have you looked at dot42: https://www.dot42.com/
Pretty sure casinos will ban these about... 5 seconds after they become generally available.
Being anonymous in crowds is going to go, with or without Google Glass.
Patrick on the RubyGems exploit, "The ultimate nightmare scenario would have been ... to put back doors or root kits into commonly used Gems. And then, anybody who types bundle update, or Gem install anything for a period of weeks or months before it’s discovered, would have their machines rooted. That’s the ultimate nightmare apocalypse for the Ruby community kind of disaster. I think we missed that by minutes. It was a very close thing. I hate to sound overly dramatic. But it’s kind of like Cuban missile crisis level, as far as software is concerned, right?"
The innovation of economics (intro)
I'm not hiring right now (I'm solo) but like to have your resume... finding devs is hard, specially on latin america (is my impression a lot of latin america developers don't know about odesk and sites like that..)
If a glue gun has no glue, is it still a glue gun?
Extract tags from short texts like tweets in OpenRefine
You're preaching it brother. Same age bracket and same disdain for our smartphones. They are great utilities to have but some of the applications on them people can't help but be addicted to, and for many it spills over into physical interaction with others. Sad part is that many don't care. Seeing gaggles of peers out together at a bar, coffee shop, there's usually at least one with their head down, and then there's the not too uncommon moments when ALL have their heads down. It's more than unnerving. Watching the Glass video this morning made me want to herald the future but this awful recurring gut feeling of unchecked technology negatively influencing society in unforeseen ways couldn't help but to flare up.

I want the future to happen but I also don't want a simple human experience that I currently know such as physical interaction to decay and wither and eventually become an anachronism.
I'd personally love to see the next "generation" (if you can even call the evolution of 3d printers "generations") input a hopper of plastic pellets instead of an expensive filament spool. A simple grinder/shredder could easily recycle old printed models into new raw material.
Copyright isn't a bad thing per se. Millions of businesses - not just large/old ones - depend on it in order to avoid the design they've spent countless hours and dollars on being copied.
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3 Key Steps to Increase Employee Retention
Congrats Andy! Will your day-to-day change now after the acquisition?
I think the reason was the math libraries. There aren't mature libraries yet for numerical computing. Python has Numpy/Scipy, but am not sure of Scala (I don't use).
I agree with your sentiment. Privacy and ads are a huge issue for me (and the reason I will not own one).

As far as usage cases, I can see this being extremely useful while driving, if it's not too distracting. If it silently records and uploads everything while driving, it just became an internet-enabled dashcam. It's also a customizable, interactive HUD. While it's already used in the military (airplanes, helicopter helmets), I can see a case for ground troops having these (real time tracking, enemy location marking, aiming assistance, etc).

I also believe that it's not going to be a always-wear scenario. I think it's going to become a bluetooth-earpiece use case, i.e. wear it when you need it, put it away when you don't. If you recall, people used to wear those earpieces everywhere when they first came out, now: not so much.

At the end of the day, it's cool technology and potentially extremely useful. But it's created by a company whose core business is collecting data and selling ads, and the idea of embedding themselves into EVERY facet of my life is extremely unnerving.
I made the switch to Ubuntu
On the one hand, I completely agree. On the other, we need people like artursapek to make us think about how far we're willing to go into the digital abyss. And we need people like you to offer the counterarguments to the counterarguments. And maybe people like me to remind everyone that our natural social checks and balances are still working perfectly.

For what it's worth, I never see people with their smartphones out for more than a moment. Maybe it'd be different if I were closer to Athens, Atlanta, or even one of the smaller big cities at the east end of Metro Atlanta.
I got as much face time with the back of that fucking iPhone as with her.

Maybe she just wasn't that into you.
According to a rigorous survey (n = 2 or 3, maybe), this cultural shift might already be underway.

Namely, I know some developers who do not hold degrees themselves that have recently started listing a Bachelor's in computer science as a requirement for consideration on new job postings. It's not, obviously, because they think people who haven't been through college can't do the job. It's because they're already seeing so many applicants that the filter's being applied anyway, and they merely decided to start being up-front about it.
Teacher Retention: Do You Care?
okglass.com has been registered by Google already - http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=okg...

[Someone posted this on Gizmodo's comments]
Looks great, but seems to imply that the cash register doesn't open automatically if you don't buy a printer, which rather ruins the paperless option.

It might be a good business idea to create a simple piece of hardware that does the opening if Square doesn't release one soon – hell, the hardware could just be a broken printer by the sound of it.

But very cool ephemeralisation none-the-less.
Here's some pictures posted in one of the other comments:

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQr6-v...

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvbW54...

They're definitely focused on support people who wear glasses.
Why is a receipt printer $300? Just curious.
The practical purpose of this is to show that Ruby is perfectly capable of scaling to fit the needs of most companies. It kills the myth that Ruby is not capable of doing serious infrastructure work.

That is EXACTLY THE POINT of this. We use Ruby for a ton of real work, and we are sick of seeing it get pummeled on unfairly for the misconception that it is a slow language and you are guaranteed to have scaling problems if you use it. Productivity and performance are not necessarily tradeoffs, with Ruby and some good planning, you can get both.
Since diamonds are actually not valuable, one would require the help of the diamond-cartel to extract any value at all.

Don't think diamonds are worthless? Try selling one.
Confessions of a Git Skeptic
Why is it that so many startups who use tumblr for their blog omit a link to their actual service?
Show HN: importd – d is for django
Poetry of a Startup Founder
A fellow startup founder said this today, thought it was well stated:

"In the end people like us don't really have a choice. its a compulsion. and the only way to deal with it is to indulge the drive win, loose, or draw.

Sometimes I'm actually envious of normal people who can just go a job that pays well and don't strive for anything else out of life. I guess this is our cross to bear. We all have one in some form or another."
Previously on HN as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227263 (4 days ago)
Looks interesting. If you've used it, what are your impressions?
Congrats to LaunchGram & Referly!

Danielle, you are a huge inspiration!!! :D
"tell us what you would do if you had Glass" - uh oh, this is exactly how Google Wave started. They are asking because it is a cool tool and they don't know how people will get real value yet.
Am I the only one, who hit reload for like 48 times, thinking the page is not loaded yet, Before realizing this is actually the page?
From the article it doesn't sound like there was any sort of dispute...my guess would be that the contract formalized payment as a function of capacity and demand, in such a way that payment could be negative. This might not even be a mistake or from a need to distribute the power, it could just be a low-cost (due to rarity) sweetener.
That's a pretty impressive price point.
Have you checked out Cython[1]? It's used quite often in Numpy. Basically, you add some type annotations like, int, double, etc. for some speed-up. There is a quick tutorial as well [2].

[1]: http://cython.org/

[2]: http://wiki.cython.org/tutorials/numpy