skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not make it an actual "pull down" with the mouse rather than simply scrolling down? This is not the same as the mobile implementation.
You an other comments seem to only balance cost and time lost, but doing your own curtains, for many people, is also fun, rewarding, interesting, and a very good way to change focus from professional or personal issues.
I started typing up something about technology and morality but I thought better about it, I'll take a different tack.

Your post is racist. Now, I'm going to assume that it is not intentionally racist, but it has the same ultimate effect.

Let me explain.

There are many different types of prejudice. There is prejudicial hatred, that tends to be obvious and blatant but is also people's stereotypical example of the sort of prejudice that we should all fight against. There's also something that people call "the soft bigotry of low expectations", and this is also pretty bad. It manifests itself in forms such as "well, that's pretty good... for a girl" or "for an Indian" or what-have-you. This is a pernicious sort of prejudice because it affects how people are treated, what sorts of opportunities people have, etc. But for the perpetrators of it can feel more justified and less morally wrong than more blatant racism.

But there's a semi-related form of prejudice which I'll call paternalism. It's where you remove agency and culpability from certain folks and rest responsibility in the hands of "more developed" people. This is even more pernicious than low expectations because it sort of feels like you're doing the victims a favor. By taking away moral responsibility and devolving it on oneself it may seem like you are accepting a burden for someone else. But in reality you are denying them agency, denying them responsibility, and diminishing them as people. All human beings are responsible for their own actions, and to treat them like children or animals by denying them the responsibility for their deeds is incredibly dehumanizing.

So to answer your question, no, the makers of the Samsung Galaxy do not have a moral obligation for creating a device which can serve as a compass, even though a compass can be used to point a weapon. That responsibility lies with, and should never be removed from, the individual who uses the device.
For example, if there really is a God who loves us so much that he died so that we could eternally relate to him as a child deeply loved by a father, we do ourselves a disservice by assuming that it is just made up.

If such a being does exist, it's fatally damaged any relationship we might have had by never being present in my life.

We all need to be told that someone, somewhere loves us. Some of us had bad relationships with our fathers. But by attributing this to an invisible man, we're not really sharing it with the people who do love us. And finding someone else to call "father" isn't dealing with my own daddy issues.
Spotify Labs: In praise of “boring” technology : programming
It would be more useful to see Kraken / Octane scores[1] side-by-side with FF and Chrome than touting SunSpider.

[1] http://arewefastyet.com/
There should be other ways to leverage connections/network other than having to dilute ownership. That may be the most imbalanced transaction around.

I also reject that things like electronic trading for the masses are bad because the general public has bad investors. That's like saying online fraud should determine my access to ecommerce.

In many ways, platforms will help validate concepts through user participation... And the community can validate credibility. I don't just think this is a dumb money thing, I think investors will have advantages they've also never had. The bottom line is both sides of the market will get a clear benefit.
> Being a CS student would open a lot more doors than not having a degree.

Strong thumbs up here.
> OK, but what's your point? So the bully has a hard life. OK, yes, that's true, so sad (really, no sarcasm), but what do you plan on doing about it?

Eliminate the social problems that make said person's life hard in the first place. Reduce poverty, end racist laws and law enforcement, and make it possible for individuals and communities to have self determination rather than being undermined by private and public institutions.
" We will begin auto updating Windows 7 customers to IE10 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE10 Release Preview. "

Does this mean they'll try to update everyone on Windows 7 to IE10? I'm hoping so, but don't know enough about the policies around MS updates to grok what the impact will be in the coming weeks.
For the lazy - http://jpegmini.com

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I grabbed 4th pair of their demo image [0], the high quality image is about 4.8M, the JpegMini'd version - 1.3M.

Then I took the high quality image and started bumping up standard JPEG compression level until I reduced the file size to 1.3M. That mapped to 17/100 setting, with 1 being highest quality, 100 - highest compression).

Then I made an arithmetic per-pixel diff between the original high quality image and two 1.3M versions. Cropped them to 2000 x 2000 and saved as PNGs (cropping is to fit the imgur file size limits). Here they are -

http://imgur.com/1FOwXhq

http://imgur.com/3efRooj

Now, have a look and tell me that JPEGMini hasn't got something exciting going on.

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[0] http://media.jpegmini.com/homepageImages/20121203/hipnshoot....
From their profiles (https://www.microryza.com/about), few of the founders present experience in real research, I doubt a team with little domain expertise aiming to change the game. They did not see the real problem with scientific funding system: to figure out how to spend the money effectively. It seems they were science undergraduate with experience in iGEM (science competition but not real research). Founders with real research experience should be like Quartzy’s (http://www.quartzy.com/about-us/team/).

I really admire watsi.org, which is non-profit and makes it transparent to transfer all the money raised to the lives in need. It is unnecessary to have a layer between donor and researchers. For social good, it is better to have a non-profit “Microryza” rather than the current for-profit one, because: if Microryza perfroms really well in financing high quality research and generating breakthrough of social good as watsi, which in turn makes them a perfect non-profit to be supported by various foundations (it is likely for research facilities with great contribution for scientific advancement to be funded by billionaires), they grow; if not, they die. And being for-profit decreases research budget and “sometimes caused messy disputes in the unsuccessful ones” (http://ycombinator.com/ycvc.html). Also as they explained, “As long as you are building something that people love, then a corporation status doesn’t change how likely you are to succeed” (http://blog.microryza.com/why-is-microryza-for-profit/). So, why not stop thinking about making money but funding good science?

In conclusion, I am afraid using microfinance to feed non-filtered research proposals may not necessarily make Kickstarter for research.
Hmm, for me it's always been tougher trying to determine what the source language should compile down into.

AST generation is usually simple. It's the conversion to the other language that usually get's difficult.
Brand Transparency as a Service
This idea goes back further than you might think. The "Stereoscopic Workspace", from the Architecture Machine group at MIT in 1983, was a prototype of this idea, surprisingly close to this implementation 30 years later.

http://media.mit.edu/speech/videos/?video=Stereoscopic%20Wor...

http://media.mit.edu/speech/papers/1983/schmandt_SIGGRAPH83_...
I wish IE would move away from big waterfall-esque versions-numbers and just go to frequent bite sized automatic updates.

I understand the corporate need for browser version locking but that should be the exception (Active Directory overriding) not the norm.

As an aside the latest versions of IE seem just fine. I no longer have any skin in that game like I did in 2006-2010 where every computer I happened across would instantly have FF installed and IE hidden.
If you want to build your application from ground than you can go with client side script. there are many framework available for client side like - BackboneJs, EmberJs, AngularJs etc. i like backboneJs because its simplicity, community and it have a good documentation.

For server side i will suggest to pick either ruby on rails or nodeJs. Now a day i am full stack nodeJs developer and i feel great working on it.

and for database you can select whatever you feel good working with them so if you wana to choose NoSql database than MongoDb and radis ara good options Or u can use mysql.
Show HN: We're creating a platform for Generative Arts
As they say in sports, "winning cures everything".
"This needed to be said."

Did it really? I didn't find the article insightful in any way, it's only superficial complaints about a product he's never used.

People are excited about this project not because of Google -- they're excited because it's a brand new form factor. It's something that is revolutionary and not just evolutionary. And yes, first generation products do tend to be ugly, slower, and have input problems as I'm sure Glass will. But this was also the case with the first mouse and GUI, the first touch screens, and the first multi-touch screens. They got better, and cheaper. Modern smartphones are incredibly polished after only 5 or 6 years of refinement (that is, from when this no-button multi-touch model took off). And you know what, society adapted to them just fine.
Nasty Gal wants to conquer fashion
It'll work if you either deactivate JavaScript or if you add pass your reddit username in the URL like this: http://www.cakedayreminder.com/user/NameNick
The entire article doesn't contain compelling support for the argument you say he is making. Its a bunch of hand waving about how google gets bored after the engineering. That may be so, but he provides no tactile examples of how this is the case.

I can see your point about how he's attempting to argue the implementation is lame, but its also easy to construe his argument as 'glass-type' hardware is lame. This is an issue with the authors presentation, not with the OPs argument.
The Source of Fear
the joke here is that there are no jokes. that's what makes it funny.
Heh. :) Most days, I take the VRE or Amtrak into DC to work, and there's always someone talking on their phone, or to their friend in the seat next to them, or to the conductor. Except, mostly, on the Quiet Car.
it's just a data point, but I read that as self-ironic.
Amazing Hacks: a ROBOT fish (with Arduino)
Only Apple and Google are skating to where the puck is going
By invalidating your point?
I hate people who talk on their cellphone on a bus, as well as people who yell with their friends too loudly on a bus.

Concerning your "snooping" point... it lowers the barrier to entry. Sure, people can always take a picture of you, but if they can do it in a discreet way, there's less incentive for them to have the common courtesy to ask.
Suppose I'm working at Valve, and I decided that I want to work on building a robot arm for the rest of the week. Can I do that?

What if I keep doing these kinds of projects? Will I eventually lose the popularity contest and be ousted?

The amount of money to be made in personal robotics or space robotics probably dwarfs what Valve makes now, but research is risky.

The combination of employee selection and social pressure means that it's probably not really true that you can work on whatever innovative ideas you want to.

This is what irritates me about companies co-opting hobby time and free time. It's not really free time if it's a popularity contest. You don't have to justify your hobbies to anyone (family, maybe).

I work at a company where I have tremendous freedom to organize my own work, and to work on research projects, but there are still areas that are clearly out of scope. I imagine Valve is no different.
One of the nicest things about Windows 8 is that each copy shipped is a guaranteed person who is not using I.E 7/8/9.

Hopefully the companies just now upgrading to Windows 7 from XP will also deploy I.E 10, but I'm not holding my breath. On the other hand maybe Windows 7 install media will come with I.E 10 incorporated into it. A man can dream.
Tools + Frameworks to Solve Common Ebtreprenuirial Challenges
They use x264 on near-default settings.
New android app for Google news feeds
A Sliding Scale of Freedom
I'm quite late for this, but anyway. To whoever has put the original title back, thank you.
If I got diagnosed with sleep apnea, it would be the best news I've gotten in years - it would be like winning the lottery, as I could put a name to the root of the problem, and take steps to deal with it.

I want to do my own startup, and solving my sleep issues could easily be the difference between doing it and not.

So thanks again, it means a lot.
I'd say the set of responses in this thread are pretty expected. I think most miss the point.

His point is that the media are falling all over themselves to praise Google Glass and there is no journalistic skepticism whatsoever. Indeed, many in this thread have no issue with that because they like the technology.

The issues he raises with Glass are reasonable points for non-engineers. (Engineers put up with more than average people do.) The most pressing concern for most consumers will be, simply: "Do I feel stupid using this in public?" I feel stupid using Siri in public. If that were the main product it would have flopped. I feel stupid using my Bluetooth headset in public, and wouldn't own one if it weren't illegal to talk and drive without one. That's not to say that it doesn't have value, just that social pressure is a powerful force.

I do think the media will turn on Glass once it's released. There's nothing they like more than setting something up for a fall. I'm not saying anyone in the press consciously does this; it's just what happens when unmoderated enthusiasm meets reality.
Foursquare Is Expanding Check-In Deals to Visa and MasterCard
Well your genes are different to mine so it comes down to your body type.

Personally I'll go to bed at 1AM and naturally wake up at around 7:30AM. I usually fall asleep quite quickly and don't usually get woken up by any noise.

For you this might be a nightmare.

I know people that try and get into bed for 10:30PM. I tried that once. I was awake at 4:30AM. I basically need 6 hours sleep. More just doesn't work for me.

The problem is more that people with sleep issues don't ever feel like they have got a proper nights sleep. It can affect them deeply. You need to get to the root cause of the issue.

As an aside I went through most of my early life with sleep apnia caused by large tonsils. Luckily on a skiing holiday with some friends, we hit it off with a bunch of nurses, who heard very vocally from my friends about the nightmare that was sleeping in the same room as me and the choking noises I would make. 5 weeks later I had my tonsils removed as they were huge. It was life changing. I'd spent most of my early 20s half asleep.
I'm also going to SF soon and would like to meet up with some interesting people. Although, I imagine, you could just walk up to the first person you see with a MacBook and start chatting.
Great job, in addition to the comments already made I think it would be more useful if it said what you would make from a sale after ebay and paypal take their cut from the sale.
Yes, there is: (a portion of) people who try not to generalize and fall victim to logical fallacies. Even if Libyan rebels were all terrorists and Gadhafi was a good guy (I'm not saying that' what you're sating; I'm just trying to make a point), it doesn't mean Syrian rebels, or North Korean rebels (of future!), or anyone else for that matter, are also X (I'm saying X, because I'm not entirely sure what you were implying Libyan rebels were).
> First of all, it's gonna eat up your desktop space like crazy, for what advantage really?

That was my first impression as well. They want to make it enter the third dimension. Their solution for that is - hog more of that third dimension. No thanks, my desktop real estate is quite valuable.

I could see 3D going somewhere in the future, but only if it augments the desktop that is already there, not by trying to replace things that are still superior in their tangible form.

I think the disconnect is that it seems like they're trying to improve upon screens when they don't realize that they're competing. With things like this[0], this[1] and of course this[2]

[0] https://plus.google.com/u/0/111011776153281260419/posts/9Mua...

[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/111011776153281260419/posts/U5qV...

[2] https://plus.google.com/u/0/111011776153281260419/posts/TkM2...
Take another look. Just because Nexus is bigger doesn't mean Asus isn't.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

--eisenhower, 1953

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech
One additional item I would suggest is Fowler's Refactoring. In java hell, the only viable weapon is a refactoring scalpel.
I'd take a random tweet a lot more seriously than Gizmodo.
If anything Glass will make it really apparent which of your friends are douche buckets.
Being bullied is a terrible thing to experience, and I wish that kids wouldn't be that cruel, however, to me, it is not fair to expel or exclude the bully.

You can't blame the bully for his/her social upbringing. Kids are basically psychopaths in such a young age - they just act according to whatever they feel, and if they haven't been taught boundaries - well, shit.
Bad environments promote shitty attitudes and behaviour patterns, which is often due to their parents. Rich or poor doesn't matter. Some of the worst bullies I've been faced against came from wealthy families.

I think schools should be more focused on teaching the bullies way to cope with things at home, instead of simply excluding them. The bullies don't change their attitude, and someone new will take their place (I recall a Danish study about class rooms where the bullies removed, experienced the same amount of bulling just a month later. New bullies take other's places).
You can control it via touch. This info is present in many reviews. Why are you dismissing something without even researching it?

As I said earlier I'm not sure how much can be controlled via touch but that is a not a big problem to solve. Google shows off voice interactions because it is more cool.
So far it got more traction here than on Reddit. I probably chose the wrong subreddit (r/somethingimade).
People also said that the Segway was going to revolutionize the world.
NASA Asks the “Crowd” to Help Track What Astronauts Eat
It's not about the cake and all about the karma.
If you use the new API you must distribute through their app store.
Plaintext recovery on TLS when using CBC using timing attack
See, I thought this recent demonstration of Google Glass was of a prototype. I heard it was going to be fully refined and released by the end of 2013. There's a lot of work left to do in my opinion to make it sexier and more usable. Will they ever manage it?
The truth is that only smart people can make remote working work. What medium to big companies can afford to hire only - or even mostly - smart people? Not to mention that smart people who really want to dance at their own beat start their own businesses. Hence, for medium to bigger companies, the cost of catering to smart people surpasses the advantages.
The Low Capitalization Rate of Human Potential
Is Apple Rotting?
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Bosh Campaign For More Programmers
Word is that IE11 will be out this year with the first major Win8 update. ( http://www.techspot.com/news/51740-windows-blue-to-feature-i... )

This is great news, as they really need to ramp up the pace with "frequent bite sized updates".

But I have no idea (and it will be interesting to find out) if IE11 will run on Windows 7 ever; or if as usual this is the end of the line and older OS versions will be the enabling factor of older versions of IE still being used. This is important since not everyone likes and wants Win8, so Win7 will be around for a while to come.
This. Click to play solved this problem since a long time.
For me the noise of a website isn't the music, it's the advertising.
Awkwaaaard.
As far as I can tell he was never charged with any variant of copying files.

He was charged with unauthorized access to a computer network and wire fraud.

Given your idea of what jail means for rich white kids like Aaron though, I'd just like to recommend that you actually look into the U.S. prison system (at worst you'll find out what's actually wrong with it and not have to make stuff up).
> When reading fiction and non-academic work, it took the joy out of reading. What was the point of reading a novel fast if I didn't enjoy it.

Agreed. Personally, I think that if you don't subvocalize at least the dialogue in a novel, you're missing out.
I was also bullied until the bully got an ass kicking. For all the bullying he did, he was surprisingly easy to beat up, or maybe he didn't think I was going to punch him.

He actually avoided me afterwards.
Typists Wanted - A chance discovery in India briefly becomes an obsession.
It's not about how many ISomething's exist - it's about defining a contract between Something and the rest of the system.

When it comes to testing, how are you going to test your ClassX if it's tightly coupled to ClassY rather than IClassY (which can be mocked/stubbed)? Oh, you have to test both.

Also, an interface is a great way of implementing "worry about that shit later - just let me talk to it now". You can define and evolve the contracts before you have to refactor expensive implementations.

As for AbstractSomethingFactory, I've not written a bit of code like that for night on 10 years. The container gives me what shit I need, ready configured with all dependencies.

Blindly following rules is dangerous, but burning entire books for what appears to be lack of experience is much more dangerous.
Users can relate to tweets more than a tech website.
My take on Spider-Man stopping the train was that the first several anchor points failed as anchor points in the web/anchor/train system (they underwent systemic collapse due to loads past their design tolerances). Therefore, Spidey increased the number of anchor points to more even distribute the load.
Visual Resume for Every Doctors
"We have demonstrated a variety of attacks against implemen-tations of (D)TLS. We reiterate that the attacks are ciphertext-only, and so can be carried out by the standard MITM attacker, without a chosen-plaintext capability."