skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scarcity creates a lower bound to cost. If the lower bound for every good and service drops such that no human can afford to live between material cost and the finished cost, then humans will be out of work except for charity. There might well be boutique human-crafted items, but counting on that for the survival of 7-15 billion humans seems premature. :)
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Google Glass, beyond the hype: a true innovation of Human–computer interaction
I've been suffering from Repeated motion injury due to the over use of touch devices ... when Google glass was announced, I didn't see a cool new gadget, I saw a new and important step in the evolution of human-computer interaction.
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To match the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline, we would have to lift 13 tons of water (3500 gallons) one kilometer high (3,280 feet). With that kind of energy density and its established infrastructure it will be hard to dislodge.
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Sharing a detailed email with you.

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I've been suffering from Repeated motion injury due to the over use of touch devices ... when Google glass was announced, I didn't see a cool new gadget, I saw a new and important step in the evolution of human-computer interaction.
Not a bad idea, but be careful. You'll be liable to pay import VAT of 20% on an order over £15 in value and custom duties as well if the order is over £135 in value.

So take this into account if taking orders or money from people, you might end up with a 20% VAT bill when they get delivered that purchasers may decide they don't want to pay.
How does it go beyond that?

I'm willing to be wrong here. If you lump movements like open source and such in, I see your point. But often, self-identified "Internet culture" seems virtually indistinguishable from pop culture.
> The Dropbox analogy has been proven to be an effective one-sentence way of giving people an idea of what Instabridge is about...

In what way has this been proven to be effective? I'm interested in both the methodology and understanding how investigating this in the Nordics might not persist elsewhere with the same results. Perhaps your experimental group has a different understanding of Dropbox than others? The comments so far seem to indicate general agreement that

Since Dropbox has no connection to syncing, sharing, and revoking WiFi credentials/access, you have created a very different product from what "Dropbox for WiFi" connotes.

Off the top of my head, you could probably get better mileage from a descriptor such as "Bump for Passwords", or even "WiFi Password Sync-n-Shareinator". Anything that accurately conveys an immediate expectation of an app that syncs, shares, and revokes WiFi access among mobile devices.

Beyond this, the app implementation, design, and workflows look awfully damn nice. Now I'd love to have this functionality available for my phone, tablet, laptops, PS3, Xbox, TV, and Blu-Ray player. Keep up the good work!
Clojure has been grown up, it hasn't change that much since several years ago, especially on the surface.
I second this comment.
Keep in mind that requiring users to sign up before trying the product contaminates user count as a meaningful metric, and devalues it as a marketing channel because it's filled with unqualified non-users.

I totally hear you that it sucks when you know people try your product but leave without signing up, and worse still you have no channel to ask them why. Users exploring a public demo have shown real interest in your solution to problems they have, and while they're exploring (especially if the demo is somewhat guided) there's a very natural opportunity to begin a conversation without requiring a signup. Ask for feedback (via survey, olark chat, quick submit comment form, your contact info...), offer to email product updates or tease future enhancements, show you twitter feed, etc. Moving registration downstream doesn't have to mean you can't learn about potential customers.
If people want more like that, you can find them at http://hexu.al/
With a Show HN title and some openness to feedback+questions you should be fine. I think as long as you don't treat it as free advertising no one will complain.
I think you can use both. As Clojure is more dynamic in nature where Scala/Haskell are good compiled static compliments.

Large projects, I would go with Scala/Haskell and for front-end systems, I would use clojure.

Why do it this way? With clojure, you can easily modify data or small pieces of logic. Simply edit the script without the recompile. With the scala/haskell api or library, you probably need something that changes less frequently. That backend system may act as a core piece of your library.
...

And if you don't like that. You can do Python and Java/C# which can give you the same effect.
Since everybody is always repeating it and one can take Git being the "winner" of the DVCS "war" as a fact, I just have to ask: why tf did Git win at this?

...I use it every day, but if I try to look at it from the outside it's an UX horror: weird terminology with worst possible choice of words, inconsistent terminology even in the docs, inconsistent argument naming, mostly incomprehensible error messages (yeah, they make sense after you dive into the docs to search for the thing mentioned in the message or you google for it, but that's not how it should be) ...and for anything more complicated you have to undertand how it works in order to use it, which is the greatest sin a piece of software can commit imho ...it's a great tool but at the same time utterly nightmarish if you stop to think about it instead if just using it on auto-pilot
To each his own for me. Having less didn't allow me to enjoy or experience special things that having more somehow prevented from experiencing as the author would describe. In fact, having more was way better than having less for me.

Last 5 years, I moved around to various cities Canada and US every 4 to 8 months or so going to school and working on internships. By necessity, I had to pack light, really light. No car obviously. I was a poor student. I had only one furniture, a bed, and I got that only after I started to have lady friends over. Before that, I slept in sleeping bag for months. I had very few cloths and only thing I had extra were my underwear and socks. And I guess only thing of value I carried around was my Macbook. I didn't even have a smart phone until this last month. I used cheap Huawei prepaid phone drug dealers use as their second phone. I probably had a little more stuff than an average homeless person in that I had a roof over where I slept.

It was definately an "experience" alright. I had ended the life of plentifuly that I took granted in high school, and went onto a subsistence living by the North American standard of extreme minimalism for 5 years. Sure, I learned to inspect what my true needs were and had a good discipline to spend on things I needed, not wanted. However, was that learning worth 5 years of discomfort and annoyance?

Since January this year, I finally decided to settle. I was done with school and I found a good roommate to share furnitures and kitchenwares with. I had a lot of fun decorating my room, living room and kitchen. It's been awesome since then. I felt so much more comfortable with things around.

To put it bluntly, there wasn't anything romantic about living with less stuff. I haven't experienced or felt different things that you would not feel through living with plenty of things.
Vatican updates Papal Conclave status with hashtag
Vatican opts for skeumorphism, humor; updates Papal Conclave status with hashtag.
Any reason the logo is on the right instead of standard left? https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1435&bih=762...
It looks beautiful, but, as a daily reader of the Times, there's one thing that's holding me back from signing up: it's designed (like the iPhone app) to show you other content from the same section.

Here's the thing: When was the last time you gave a damn about the section?

I understand caring about Fashion vs the Science Times. But while the number of sections the Times has makes sense in print, on the web, the differences between the Metropolitan, New York, Business Day, International, National... it all seems fairly artificial. Is the war in Afghanistan national, or international news? Does education reform go under politics or education? The answer is, of course, both, but the Times has to choose. Sure, it makes sense to group them on paper, because it's the best way to help you find things that are like what you're reading. But digitally, without the ability to quickly flip through, there's a lot that just gets hidden from the reader.

As someone who spent five hours yesterday laying out a newspaper, I have a lot of respect for the designers at the Times. Here's to hoping they find a better way to move their IA to the web than in hundred-year-old silos.
Pre-ordered. Way too cool! Sort of like a pedometer for your car (in that you get quick feedback on things, etc).

Our Volkswagon dealership was going to charge me $110 to find out why we had a check engine light. I didn't know this is all they were doing. But thankfully our car was Certified so they waived it.

Looking forward to fun with this little device.
When the question is "why do people use X?", and people give totally reasonable answers, it doesn't make much sense to respond "but if we ignore your requirements then you could use someone else".
> If you're threatened by certain defeat, I think your immediate concern is saving your own skin or avoid being back-stabbed.

Failing those, someone might decide, heck with it, I want my place in the history books.
Just wondering, why do you think you need a designer cofounder? I just took a quick look at your site, and truthfully the design looks much better than most early stage startups. Did you do this design yourself, or did you previously have someone else doing design that you are no longer working with?
I can see your reasoning behing making people sign up, even if that will significantly retard your growth rate multiplier.

But there's NO reason to make people create a new account. Everyone hates making new accounts, and there are a zillion identity providers out there, from google to facebook to twitter to linkedin to github to yahoo (ad nauseum).

And even if it's too much work right now to configure your application to accept third party identities, you can still "sign-up" users by requesting an email address, letting them straight into the application, and then email them a URL with an embedded identity token that allows them to pick up where they left off.
Google hit by $7m Street View fine in US
"Wi-Fi with Friends"?

Zynga might not like that though.
$70 is crazy. For $20 I bought from www.carcarecheck.com and get OBD2 + a year's membership + their beta.

They do real time diagnostics + crash notification = Much better deal.
Fixed headers are terrible. I once asked a whole room of designers if any of them could think of a single design they liked that used a fixed header, and none could.
Everybody makes their own deal.

O'Reilly must have recognized by Mr. Few's demands that these expensive details mattered to him or else they would not have signed the contract. But they did. Belly-ache all day about the margins and practical difficulties inherent in printing a book to Mr. Few's standards, but they signed it to get the deal and then broke their word. What is he missing about that, the central theme of this piece?

P.S. $50 to $200? O'Reilly sells their poorly bound books at the low-to-middle of that range. You are not helping them by mentioning what a nicely printed book costs.
I agree with you that everything should be in memory, but I wouldn't call saving memory pointless. The cost of RAM isn't the issue here... we all know RAM is cheap! However, the problem in my case is that my laptop caps at 16GB. I'm also using a RAM drive and no page file (for obvious reasons) and all temp/cache files are also in memory. I'm working on an app that does some heavy lifting on the browser. At times I have tons of reference material open, examples for third-partty controls, sites with flash or controls leaking memory, etc. Memory usage in Chrome was ~8GB.

I could certainly benefit from reduced memory usage while still being able to go back to all those tabs. My overall system usage was 15 GB and with any more stuff I risk losing everything (since I'm not using a page-file).

This might be a very specific use-case, but I do see a lot of value in the extension. (Now, only if I could further hack my machine to use 32 GB :>)
It doesn't matter if everything is digital, if the creators of everything can be.

> The scarcity argument only holds true across large industries and populations

I don't think this is so, unless you're talking about handcrafted-by-genuine-Ukranian-American underwater-woven baskets. For anything that can be copied (and that segment is growing way faster than any other), the price will fall at least to just above the cost, which is low indeed. This is true for services as well, once minds to do the service can be copied.
Mike Judge's HBO comedy about Silicon Valley is filming Tuesday in Palo Alto
How about American Rugby?
Up-voting you because, well, everyone always forgets about Corosync. About the only criticism one could have had about it was that when it only supported multicast you couldn't use it with EC2 and other providers that (for good reason) blocked multicast. It now can do UDPU so it works on EC2.

The other great thing about corosync+pacemaker is that it's super easy to write your own HA scripts. Need mongodb? Then write your own script(not sure why you'd use corosync for this, but you could...).
> ...I use it every day, but if I try to look at it from the outside it's an UX horror: weird terminology with worst possible choice of words, inconsistent terminology even in the docs, inconsistent argument naming, mostly incomprehensible error messages

If a tool makes you productive, you make the effort to look beyond its flaws.

Windows and git are just two examples.
Hit? I'd better say "poked".
Historian Garry Wills has written better than anybody else about modern America
Oh yeah, and they're shipping to Canada + worldwide. Again, much better deal.
This looks like an excellent step in the right direction, but I do have one worry here: native apps.

The New York Times has had several experiments over the last year that indicate a desire to move everyone on to the web and out of native apps. They had an experimental website aimed at tablets that they marketed to NYTimes iPad app users and, while nice, it was a definite step down from a native app. And the iPad app has been increasingly sluggish, despite occasional updates — seemingly a sign of disrepair.

I design and program for the web, so I definitely understand the allure, but mobile web apps are, at best, an approximation of the experience provided by mobile native apps. Just ask 37 Signals, arguably one of the biggest proponents of web apps. Maybe mobile web apps will catch up, but we're not there yet, and I would strongly argue that we won't be there very soon.

I have an inkling that this redesign will be accompanied by a renewed push away from native apps. I just hope that The New York Times doesn't stop development of their native apps.
OP, I should add that that's your sickness talking. You will beat that. It's like saying you feel cold when you have a fever: just a normal symptom of a normal illness, and like a fever it's life threatening.
If you explore my previous comments and submissions you'll find some information about these matters.

In summary, there are a great deal of published resources about psychedelics, but they tend to be inaccessible to those without a good deal of psychedelic experience coupled with a penchant for reading academic or esoteric literature. Thus, for largely sociological reasons, most 'typical' modern users of psychedelics are not at all schooled in academic knowledge about them. On the other hand, the vast majority of systematizing, intelligent, intellectual types do not have sufficient experience with these compounds to really understand or effectively critique the literature about them.

So I'll mention a few quality sources that, if you study them, will almost assuredly arouse your curiosity:

* The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide (published book)

* The Antipodes of the Mind (published book)

* The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (not just about psychedelics)

* Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved (published book, of particular edification and interest are the essays that precede the synthesis portion of the text)

* The research done by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

LSD has proven itself to be quiet beneficial in social situations many times in my life. For example, while 'up' on a moderate dose of high quality LSD, I watched a very attractive guy play guitar and sing at a house show. This led to me having an amazing fantasy experience days later where I finally started to deeply connect to my sexual desire for other men. This precipitated my decision to affirm my bisexual inclinations and pursue them, thus overthrowing years of internalized shame and confusion regarding this issue.

DMT and other very potent tryptamines have also proven to be potentially valuable in my experience. For example, while under the influence of a powerful dose of an orally administered research chemical tryptamine, I literally was able to relive my previous suicide attempt and forgive myself for such self destructive violence in a very deep and healing way. Words literally can't describe the true magnitude of the experience and the positive after effects are still in my life and personality years later.

Not very often but not infrequently either.
This article reads badly, like some specialist complaining about how Channel 9 got the story on velluvial matrices wrong. WSJ gets stuff wrong about Apple! Shocker! What should we generalize from this? WSJ gets stuff wrong on every mass market computer brand, or does WSJ get stuff wrong on every technical issue?
Bezos, or his handlers anyway, can be pretty outrageous with this kind of stuff. Water landings of VTVL's have been talked about since the 1960's by various people. It would be pretty ridiculous if he was granted the patent for it.
He means reason about performance/memory properties.
Also, I would suggest that you allow a larger number of lists for free accounts (more than the current five) but instead limit the number of private lists (in fact, I would argue that all lists created by free users should be public).
It's awesome and Fog Creek is awesome. Just reading this makes me a happy panda: http://www.fogcreek.com/about.
Adding to the disappointment, but I was hoping to see a really good example of using D3 for tabular data, updated in real time from JS (such as from Ember) without re-rendering the entire DIV.
Re: dental insurance... if your employees have decent teeth, it maybe be worth it (and a lot cheaper) to work out a deal with a dentist and pay for their checkups. I know that getting a tooth cleaning in NYC is like $80 cash (and I don't have insurance). Same goes for a doctor.

It all depends on how the employees' (and you) feel about preventative care vs. catastrophic care.
I guess its possible...

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Universe_con...

Says there is 1.5 times more calcium than we thought before.
I agree there is a rush but most times is from the media, not only from the actual gatherers of information (not in this case apparently).

I remember when CERN published the experiment that they measured neutrinos(?) that seem to travel faster than the speed of light, the news was:

Neutrinos travel faster that the speed of light, the rules of physics as we know them are collapsing.

CERN did nothing wrong, they published what they findings, and later, when peer reviewed, it proved to be a measurement error, that's the way science is supposed to work.

Similar was when NASA(?) found a bacteria that sustained life without carbon, that proved to be wrong too.

The problem is that it doesn't pay to be conservative, and absolutist headlines sell much better than realistic ones. I think it's a shared blame.

I would also like to add, to be fair, that many of this topics are pretty complicated for the layman, and some information is lost when the news is simplified/oversimplified. Not everyone is familiarized with the scientific processes, nor they are supposed to be.
Are you the guy in the video on your webpage?
Interesting extension. I think you need to address a couple of things:

1. Try to maintain state for all the content in the controls. For instance, if I'm on JSONlint.com with some complex JSON in there, I'd like for that to be there when I re-open the tab. So, simply storing historic reference and reloading the pages doesn't add so much value for my use-case.

2. Can you do the same with other extensions? I have a ton of things running and it would be nice to disable all on-demand via one-click. My memory consumption was still over a GB with all the running extensions.

Thanks & Good luck!!
Bring SIMD to the Web via DART
Tried Frege?

https://github.com/Frege/frege

"Frege is a non-strict, pure functional programming language in the spirit of Haskell ... Frege programs are compiled to Java and run in a JVM. Existing Java Classes and Methods can be used seamlessly from Frege."
I don't know if this helps you, but try telling them that they can leave the 'distributed' part for later. At my company we still have a 'central' repository. We'd really need to know more about your companies objections to DVCS to give advice.

I personally just started using mercurial local-only alongside svn, and as new projects started I would try to make mercurial the default repo for that project. This worked well for me, but my company is pretty laid-back about these kinds of things.
I supposed I pictured myself in a mirror when I did that.
Actually, his chief complaint is that they willfully disregarded their contract with him. That has less to do with "traditional publishing wasn't right for him" than "O'Reilly didn't honor a contract."
I'm sure it's not what you're suggesting but low margins aren't an excuse for breaching a contract or doing a poor job of printing. If it can't be done at the right quality economically, it's better to not do the job at all which is what the contract seems to have been trying to guarantee.

Print media is in decline and will only lose more ground now to digital media, which of course has a significant cost advantage. Perhaps publishers should recognise that now and aim towards a niche of fewer very high quality prints that are as much aesthetic as practical. The price increase which is inevitable in any case as volumes drop might not look so bad then.
Twitter Bootstrap 3: New Release Preview - Mobile First
Bootstrap 3.0 comes with lots and lots of new features and it would take a very long time for me to talk about all of them.
The Woman In Tech Dialogue Is Taking Center Stage And This Is A Good Thing
Dropbox - Stable Build 2.0.0
funny way of putting them together :) ...especially since Git is UNIXy to the bone, in all the bad ways.
"Larger" view is smaller.
We are not alone!
I also added that to the campaign! Just click the thumbnails on www.teespring.com/hntees.
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and justifiably so

Yeah! How dare they defend their own country! </sarcasm>
There must be a myriad number of dye-sub printers in the UK that use AA shirts - wouldn't it be cheaper to simply commission them to print and deliver your shirts in UK and Europe with your [customers] branding?

Shipping simple tshirts piecemeal seems so terribly wasteful to me.
Creating a Cult: An Analysis of Successful Start Up Branding
I liked the part of the article where they explained this new Shop With Friends feature... Oh wait.

Edit: they have edited the article and now it explains the feature