skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sergey Brin says using a smartphone is "emasculating"
No it isn't. "https://www.dropbox.com// is not the same as "https://www.dropbox.com/
Looks like it's either resolved or just on your end. Works fine for me and https://status.dropbox.com/
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How about some buttons instead? Voice is not what I want for man-to-machine communication. IBM found out people don't want voice to text over 20 years ago http://vivondo.blogspot.com/2012/04/ibm-speech-to-text-exper....
Yeah, but Java has primitives and thus value semantics you mention. Also, Java is much cleaner than c++ and on the scale of object-ness, java ranks higher than c++ but only a little bit.
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As a woman who is willing to initiate, I find it rarely works. It mostly backfires. Men typically react one of two ways: "Cool! Slut throwing herself at me!" or "OMFG! Stalker!" It almost always goes disastrously. I have been working on figuring out how it works to attract a man and let him initiate. I find it to be rather tricky to navigate.
Netherlands: Government Report Says Dutch Libraries Cannot Lend Ebooks
Shit is Shit. Even if "polite"ly labelled as waste, or residue matter, or even cake.
We do it for shareholder derivatives suits, and in several other contexts. For B2B lawsuits it's not a big deal.
Thank you for posting. I could have easily happened upon this moron's book in a dentist's waiting room purely by accident and attempted to read it.
I love Erlang. As someone said it is a complete platform. It is like a programming language, middleware, system monitoring software, database all rolled into one. Plus it was originally designed to create telephone switches. Bulletproof reliability was the primary concern.
It's trolling that ends with black helicopters circling over your house. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter)
Your response should have been: "With all due respect sirs, I agree that I am still lucky to be here, that the company is still here being that it's so poorly managed, that they cancelled their only backups with rackspace, that they had no contingency plans, and that you were one click from losing millions of dollars--in your estimate. It makes me wonder what other bills aren't being paid and what other procedures are woefully lacking. I will agree to help you though this mess and then we should all analyze every point of failure from all departments, and go from there."
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And I never see anyone using one of these technologies in public as part of their everyday lives. We see it time and time again that technologies that have existed in one form or another for some time really take off when they are packaged in an attractive and consumer friendly form.
3 alternatives to Chrome OS on Google’s Chromebook Pixel
Well, it'll be at a minimum at least. Grad students probably won't quite be in yet, and for undergrads nothing is going to be due Saturday, so I wouldn't expect too many people pulling all-nighters.
The prices of the items themselves are the same. It's slightly more pricey due to the delivery charge and tip.
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Sergey Brin: Smartphones are 'emasculating'
They're not really shells. They're very small companies created to limit the exposure of the owners to liability. This is not weird or abnormal in business. Real estate guys use separate entities for their projects all the time. If one gets in trouble, it leaves the others intact. That is the whole point of limited liability.
It´s simple Viber is worthless if your friends don't have it, therefore free.

Maybe someday they will flip the free on/off switch, and loose the majority of the users. Or they could do something smart with ads maybe, listen to the conversation and put appropriate ads in the app?

One thing they don't have, I think, is P2P as Skype and therefore must have more operating costs.
I love the idea of "shared views" when you're having meetings or collaborating with people. Whatever document or supplementary set of data you're talking about is on the entire groups HUD.
There's a company that's been making HUD technology for ski goggles for a few years. http://www.reconinstruments.com/

Something like this is far more accessible to consumers since you won't look weird in the goggles. Unfortunately it's VERY expensive (4 or 5 times the price of a regular pair of goggles).
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Nuclear scientist redesigns nuclear power - while still at high school
People should read the posting guidelines before down voting.
Great job team. Any plans for an API in the future?
I would like my next car Google Glass enabled. It could display turn by turn directions, warn of upcoming traffic, and let me know what services are available at the next exit.

I can also foresee Google Glass being very useful for complex, domain specific tasks that require your hands: surgery, automobile repair, home construction, cooking, learning to play an instrument, dealing cards, sowing, tying flies etc.
Hopefully this is just the MVP.
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"Inspiration Mars" plan announced by Dennis Tito for Mars flyby mission
MIT hacks are not supposed to be damaging in any way, at least according to lore.

Source: If At All Possible, Involve a Cow (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407327.If_at_All_Possible...)
It's funny that you want to see it as a flaw, while it's the only way that makes sense to me. You simply have a slight case of pointer-phobia.

Languages like Python insist that there is a difference between basic data types and objects, that the former should copy by value, and the latter by reference. But what is a basic data type? Is a list (a builtin data type) basic? It turns out to be no (and it makes sense if you think of how C arrays are just pointers), and every python tutorial has to warn you of that. When are you dealing with reference, and when are you dealing with values? Expect to do some reading.

While in C, we have actual pointers. Your reference is simply syntactic sugar when compared to actual pointers (and pointer to pointers). That means all C structs and basic data types can behave consistently (copying by value). Even pointers themselves are just fancy integers that copy by value. If you want to copy the references, use their addresses. C++ add classes, which are just fancier versions of structs (and thus similarly copy by value) and references, which are just pointers (that also make sure the objects exist). C++ also allows you to redefine the assignment operator itself, which I usually use to disallow copying complex objects by value (which can never hurt). I'm not scared of the power C++ gives me, but I understand many are, and thus I use it sparingly and document it carefully.

Consistency, pointers, deterministic object destruction ... They're why C and C++ rule. You can make the case that they are too difficult for some programmers. But they are great for those who want clarity, control and performance.
That's the rub - what is underfunding? Should you have to plan to lose lawsuits?
Yeah, "NBC News" seems a bit of a misnomer
I think a first big step is going to be conquering usability of Glass with respect to NLP. It's truly going to embody the vision that Dustin is talking about once I can get things don with my voice with no error and minimal overhead. Ideally we wouldn't even have to talk to the device, that would be the Holy Grail.
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If Google can avoid the "Segway curse" of extreme dorkiness, I can only then see Google Glass having a chance at being revolutionary.
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Tinder is blowing up right now, and they cornered the coveted attractive 18-29 year old female demographic.

Why are these girls using it? Because other attractive girls are using it. IMO, they used the growth model for social networks (the same that Facebook used:

Get sorority girls as users. In the case of Tinder, some top-tier sororities had rushees use the app and the number & quality of guys who 'liked' you influenced if you got in. Once sorority girls use it, then other high-status girls will use it. Then the guys start using it because the girls are there. Then it's a chain reaction until it circles back to the tech crowd who aren't a part of that culture, at which point tech journalists try and pinpoint why the app was successful and get it wrong because the original users are bored & gone by then.

Rather interesting to me that IAC acquired Tinder.
Make sure there are no live trademarks associated with the name. Also, go for a natural sounding made up name and avoid combining common dictionary words, it's more defensible that way. Use the wordoid tool for this purpose.
Abusing the TTY relay intended for the deaf is pretty much only as traceable as an IP address, even if calling 911.
yes, that was what i was talking about (phaedra starling's "schrodinger's rapist"[0] is a good if dramatic look at how the landscape is different for women in a way i will probably never fully realise). though the parent has a point too - there is an entire catalogue of abusive terms a man can apply to a woman who has rejected his advances, and the accumulated weight of social convention has given those utterances the power to hurt.

[0] http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-sch...
Maybe I am an idiot for not understanding this sentiment expressed below:

"Google glass will make everyone smarter"

Is it in the same way that a car makes an obese un-athletic person faster?
It appears that crouton doesn't actually replace the OS, so you're both right.
I really like RequireJS. The have a build optimizer. It is pretty handy. I have not tried LabJS. It looks pretty interesting. I am looking forward to more about KnockoutJS. It seems like it would really reduce the amount of code you need to write compared to pure JQuery.
I've always been interested in those first few days/weeks/months for dating applications. What's it like running a dating site with 30 members?

Obviously locality makes it a lot easier but even then, there had to be a point where you had 5 users and nobody else. How do you get past that?
The closest analogy I see is with the segway. Something that could be useful and even world-changing but overhyped and dumped on a market without justifying it's existence. Apple could have released the iPad first but they waited to teach the market what it was with the iPhone first. Thus each step (iPhone, tablet) was a new form of a familiar thing rather than a new thing altogether.

If I were in Google's shoes, I would start by introducing the glass into existing items such as workplace safety goggles. Imagine a pair of carpenter's safety goggles that could measure a piece of wood, or track a list of supplies, or show a work plan as you go. It's not the big play, but you can try it in a bunch of contexts until it catches on. It will generate press and awareness, and then once the novelty wears off you can make a "smart goggles for everyone".

Google's mistake continues to be that the believe value is in novelty, when really it is in taking something people are already familiar with and reinventing it, better.
How can you tell they are using HaProxy?
"Why is bitcoin the one "true" alternative?"

It is not, who said that it is? We have known how to make secure digital cash systems since the 1980s.
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> Bitcoin doesn't allow chargebacks, an important consumer protection mechanism, therefore helping to perpetuate fraud.

Chargebacks enable WAY more fraud than they stop.
According to subsection (d) it is sufficient to meet any single condition. For how many of its patents would ARM not meet the first condition?

(1) Original Inventor
Such party is the inventor, a joint inventor, or in the case of a patent filed by and awarded to an assignee of the original inventor or joint inventor, the original assignee of the patent.
But a recording allows you to share what I have shown you (perhaps assuming it would remain a private matter) with the world. A video recording has a higher truth value than oral reproduction.
You know what else you saw while at Zynga? The stock price drop like a rock. They spent two months teaching you things someone in your position of Technical Assistant to CEO of a public company should already know. This is an example of poor allocation of resources.
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Warning: that page automatically starts playing a video with audio on load!

Obnoxious.
Those aren't exactly what Kay has in mind. And as a matter of fact, message passing between objects does rule the world in the form of the internet. In CORBA and other RPC mechanisms, both sides have some kind of description of the protocol from which they generate methods. If the interface changes, then the code must be regenerated on both sides. On the other hand, Kay believes in individual nodes having full freedom to handle any kind of message and decide what they do with it, not necessarily strictly conforming to a decided-on protocol.

It's analogous to the idea of objects adopted by C++ and SmallTalk. With C++, method calls are essentially procedure calls with a specific signature that are dispatched based on a special parameter (i.e. this). It makes no sense to invoke a method that doesn't exist. In SmallTalk, you can send any message you'd like to an object, and the object can choose to deal with it in any way it wants, up to and including catch-all code for dealing with any kind of message.

CORBA and its ilk work with a protocol, and messages not conforming to the protocol are nonsensical. Computers on the internet can send any message to any computer, and each can deal with the messages in any way it wants. The internet is a network of message-passing objects.
The biggest issue with dating applications/services today is that they are focusing entirely on the wrong thing: matchmaking.

No online service or the algorithms behind it is going to be sufficiently advanced and AI-ified enough to be able to determine whether or not person A and person B would be a good match.

There are too many variables. What even is a good match? Hell, MOST of the time humans get it wrong. How many times have you met someone who fits about 80% of the bill... but you don't find each other funny enough, or attractive enough, or the sex isn't so good. You can't determine ANY of that via an online service.

The real magic is going to happen in the real world. You put people together and see what happens, plain and simple. Dating sites need to stop focusing on match percentages, political affiliation, BMI, hair color, how many keywords match in your bio, etc...

I am an economically conservative person. I did not vote for Obama and do not want him to be our president. On the other hand, I could easily date and get along with a woman who disagrees with me. (most do actually) I tend to prefer brunettes, but I don't really care what color your hair is. If I was locked into some kind of algorithm or search query in a dating app, I might never meet a blonde girl who shared a lot of my common interests. Maybe you're great at writing a witty/funny bio but you're incredibly shy / dry in person. Maybe you look like you're killer in bed, but in actuality you don't even enjoy sex. None of this will come from a dating service. It all comes from meeting people and getting to know them through real life events.

I'd continue and explain what I think is a good solution to this problem but it will be easier for me to just link to the app when it hits the app store in the next week or two :)
I'm familiar with the LISP metacircular interpreter and programming language theory. I know you can define all sorts of things with a very small set of primitives.

It's one thing to build a minimal implementation where your main constraint is that it works and its concise. It gets a lot messier once you start worry about constraints like efficiency on real machines - there are limits to how much you can abstract out the heuristics and special cases.
She should have figured out right away that he was confusing his log-in password with the billing password and explained the difference.

Reading the chat log, I failed to pick up the problem, and I am a Verizon customer. A few times talking to a Verizon rep, I've been asked for the last four of my SSN. I have to remember to give 0000. That's because, when I first signed up, I didn't want them storing my SSN post credit-check, and they complied.

However, I don't ever recall being asked for a "billing password". Maybe that's because mine is still the numeric 0000. Perhaps Pranaya set up an alpha one at some point and forgot, then got confused by the word "password".
That is pretty hilarious. I guess you can save a lot of money on tapes, if you do incremental backups only on files that never change.

Personally I felt bad when I deleted some files, that were recovered within the hour, and learned from that experience. But when you create a monumental setback as the OP by simple mistake, that's an issue with people at higher ranks.
I want to say well done, but honestly $29k in 15 months isn't great.

I hope it turns into a nice passive form of income for you, or blows up down the road, but it'll take a lot more work to crack even 100k.
No, it isn't, it's just the first time that you're hearing about it because it's the first time that the tech has been pointed at your particular subset of consumer.
I think I agree with the Torrez/Gruber take that "If you see the computer, they blew it"

http://notes.torrez.org/2013/02/if-you-see-the-computer-they...

That doesn't mean that a wearable device embedded in your glasses cannot eventually become a 'bicycle for the mind' but I think the fact that the computer is so noticeable and strange looking means that this version 1.0 will not be too successful. Google is positioning itself well to be the one who figures it out first, but I don't think Glass will take off as a mass-consumer device on a smartphone scale for a while. First, the computer will need to become 'invisible'. Until then, Glass will be highly useful to a few professions (and a toy for nerds), while Google will gain invaluable data and continue to iterate.
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On sale now: Chinese 16GB USB stick with Ubuntu for only $100.000
After reading this, all my left-over good beliefs in humanity fainted instantly:
Kickstarter project pledging for $100.000 USD for a simple 16GB USB stick with a preloaded & slightly modified Ubuntu installation and euphoric people paying $60+ everywhere.

The KS 'project' : http://kck.st/YEHTRX

China 'original' : http://is.gd/SnTQow

Has stupidity become the next pandemia?
>Anyone can record you without you knowing it.

Isn't this already the case with small cameras?
Elon Musk is really awesome. Coming up with 3 products in completely different industries. Especially electric cars and rockets. Amazing.
Your car doesn't need anything to do this. This functionality is all already party of android.
> Bitcoin fluctuates wildly in value.

It's been just growing steadily lately, but a seller can always convert to their local currency on the spot using a BTC payment processor.

> Bitcoin takes quite a while for a transaction to happen

100% false. Every time I've used it, transactions take less than a second. Stop spreading FUD aka bullshit.

> and there are waits and fees involved in exchanging money from USD and back to USD

Yep... for now. I think the point is that at some point you won't have all your monetary holdings as USD.

> Bitcoin doesn't allow chargebacks, an important consumer protection mechanism, therefore helping to perpetuate fraud.

That's a funny thing to say, given that chargebacks are the very source of fraud these days. BTC is attractive to merchants precisely because you can't chargeback. If you have a problem with a merchant, bitch about them elsewhere and their reputation will suffer.
It rarely works for many men, too.
Jumbotron displays have existed for decades too, that doesn't mean that it's the correct display technology for day to day use.
I'd love to know the reason. It always seemed incredibly juvenile (but from the impression I'd got about the US legislative system I just took that on face value). It's an interesting requirement. In the UK we get by with e.g. "The Computer Misuse Act 1990" or the "The Terrorism Act 2000".
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Segways didn't "fail" because they were dorky, they didn't see wide adoption because they were [and are] extremely expensive.
You're not becoming more stupid - Hollywood IS. In their quest for more return at the box office they make dumber movies that appeal to a large share of their target market (which is anyone with eyeballs - *thanks to Argo for that great line). Audiences, in turn, think that they are seeing really great films as the bar becomes lower with each passing year. In the end it is a complete circle and audiences end up getting the quality of films that they deserve because Hollywood told them so.
He's not saying he's going to take them to court; he is saying that he will refuse to interact with them.

He is perfectly within his rights to do that. Comments about legality or western perspectives on privacy are off base.
This doesn't run in a chroot, but boots from an SD card, so this is quite a different approach.
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Hey Andy,

I'm pumped for you to get the exit. Sounds like a great outcome for you personally and for the Refer.ly team.
It's not the price stability, which is still a serious concern, but the fact that you're talking about a system designed by crypto-anarchists.

There is no way Bitcoin will ever displace Paypal without serious, fundamental changes.
> Real fights with robot avatars ...

They aren't robots, unless the scoop on a bulldozer is a robot. They're mechanical telepresence devices, completely controlled by their human operators, with no independent actions or thoughts.

Robot: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot

Quote: "a device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks"

But "avatar" is about right -- if it's taken to mean a mechanical representation of human thoughts and actions.