skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the feeling I am going to pass on so called smart watches.

I had a digital watch back in the 70s when they were way cool but in time learned the value of a watch with hands - read with the shortest glance and just think, the display is on all the time and battery life is counted in years.

I have heard suggestions that a smart watch would tell you when you have messages on your phone - but my phone manages that just fine with sound or vibration (as set and circumstance).

Data entry is not a practical proposition - without hooking up via yet another cable to a PC.

I just cant see it.
I normally expect the Next and Previous buttons on sites like Cracked.com that want me to generate more ad revenue with more page loads, but why five clicks for a simple article with no ads, Nature? Why can't you let me just scroll through your content, particularly when this equates to a blog post (and a Top N formatted post, to boot)?
Yes, Nokia, Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Ericcson, RIM, France Telecom/Orange, Qualcomm.

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dbenham-webrtc-videomt...

IETF's royalty-free commitment isn't as strong as W3C's so unlike the HTML5 codec were they were just filibustering alternatives, they are actually arguing for H.264 to be MTI. But the VP8 camp is strong enough to at least prevent that, even if not strong enough to prevail as MTI itself.

There's some overlap with the groups that didn't want Opus made MTI as well (one of them submitted a patent against it too).
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD-8.4 release cycle is now available
You're thinking of "money" as a resource that can be depleted like a forest or an iron mine. But that's not true, the amount of money is constant -- it just changes hands a lot. First graph shows that everyone could retire comfortably at age 50:

http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=231

GNP (red line) tripled since 1970. That means, on average, every worker got three times more efficient. So why on earth do we have to talk about a lack of money when society's wealth has increased so fast?

http://current.com/shows/the-war-room/blog/what-you-need-to-...

Money is about power and is a zero sum game. If someone increases their share of the pie, then someone else necessarily loses out.
Interesting. Could that be why people with overprotective mothers (often "indoor kids", nerds) tend to have allergies? As infants their cribs and highchairs were meticulously kept clean and sterile with disinfectant wipes.
They're basically retaliating against her for speaking out about sexual harassment

How is it sexual harassment when two guys have an internal joke that a third party accidentally overhears?
MtGox did get hacked badly a couple of years ago [1]. People have long memories when it comes to monetary risk.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/bitcoin-price-plu...
I am curious, what do you think would have been the appropriate response, if any, by Ms. Richards to your comments? Many have posted that she should have minded her own business or just moved to another spot. What would your advice be in situations of this nature?

Also, if she had turned around and verbally handed you your ass, would that have offended you? I'm talking about her dropping a series of f-bombs, etc. Would you have considered that overreacting? I'm asking because in other comments elsewhere on the internet, many have suggested that she should have turned around ripped you a new ass.

One more question, if she had turned around and asked you to refrain from making the comments, without ripping you a new ass btw, would you have stopped? Many men will not as is just eggs them on to escalate whatever their saying. I've seen this on many occasions. What would your response have been to her request?

Thank you for taking time to address my comment.

PS - And don't worry, you're a straight, white male in America in the tech industry. You'll be given another job out of spite if nothing else. LOL! (It's kind of true though...) They hate this woman and since all straight, white men are victims [INSERT MASSIVE EYE ROLL HERE] you'll be "vindicated." I think Anonymous has already taken of that btw. It's all good. Keep saying whatever you want, whenever you want, to whoever you want. It's your world honey, we just live in it.
API design is really key to working together. If I could pick one thing about myself to improve right now it would be API design skills. I think a lot of other programmers don't get it for whatever reason, so I can see why that would be in high demand.
Backbone.js reaches 1.0 milestone
People with learning disabilities get pretty lousy treatment from society.

They are subjected to verbal abuse, bullying, sexual abuse, and physical violence, sometimes from the people who are supposed to be providing care for them.[1abcd]

People with learning disabilities suffer poor health outcomes, and those are not all explained by their LD.

People with LD are deprived of their liberty, detained in hospital against their will, without trial. People get caught up in bizarre Kafkesque nightmares.[2] That man was held for a year, with all of his rights ignored.

People with LD are illegally discriminated against in the workplace assuming they can even get a job.

Given all this the pain caused by people carelessly using the word 'retard' trumps your supposed offence at my enabling 'complainers' so I say, politely as I can, FUCK YOU.

See, that's the point. I don't care if you know you are being offensive and want to cause offence. Go ahead. My post was clearly aimed at people who do not know how offensive some words are.

[1a] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/jul/05/longtermcare.g...)

[1b] (http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/31/07/2006/55162/cor...)

[1c] (http://www.mencap.org.uk/outofsight?gclid=CIziubGwkrYCFeXLtA...)

[1d] (http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/12/final-winterbourne/)

[2] (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18998875)
I remember Google doing this back in 2009.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=617533
Apple bans AR Drone Freeflight app from the AppStore
For those who have an AR.Drone, Parrot hasn't been transparent with their customers on what is really happening with the Freeflight app, which is used to fly the AR Drone. Instead they are just saying that they are promoting the AR.Race app, which doesn't have the same features and requires a pattern to unlock the camera.

To me it seems to be privacy concerns by Apple to this kind of apps, but only guessing here.

Does anyone know something?

Sources:
http://www.ardrone-flyers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5406&p=52505
http://ardrone2.parrot.com/apps/
http://forum.parrot.com/ardrone/en/
That's one of the mental traps of the term "Intellectual Property", it doesn't protect what you own, it only allows you to stop other people from doing things (and therefor charge them in order to get your permision). But other people can use the same mechanism to stop you doing things with your own "property". That's why the asymmetric warfare of patent trolls works so well, they don't actually do anything you can interfere with via your IP.
Exactly. With new technologies like google glass, public shaming will become a more serious issue. I guess everyone says something childish or stupid between friends, so we should be scared all time of people around recording and/or being offended?
Forbes' Billionaires World Map
Startup data 2000-2012 from CrunchBase
I don't understand the downvotes.

This is from the first paragraph on backbonejs.com.

API over a RESTful JSON interface.

Emberjs.com doesn't mention REST once, not on the homepage, guides page, or API page.
Very similar analytics work takes places in the telecom industry with respect to customer churn. However, this typically requires a large data size for it to be accurate. So, I wonder how many companies are large enough to benefit from it.

On a larger note, I wish "managers" used other simple means like talking to people openly about their aspirations, instead of blindly following the processes laid out by the company. Thankfully I don't work in such a place - but most big corps could just do better on the attrition rate if they made their appraisal process more employee friendly, focussed on encouraging a open culture and reduced needless hierarchy.
Hereditary, but not in a strong sense - to quote the american diabetes association:

> In general, if you are a man with type 1 diabetes, the odds of your child getting diabetes are 1 in 17. If you are a woman with type 1 diabetes and your child was born before you were 25, your child's risk is 1 in 25; if your child was born after you turned 25, your child's risk is 1 in 100.

Even if both partners are diabetic, the risk is only 1 in 10 to 1 in 4. This strongly implies that what is heritable is the vulnerability to getting diabetes, rather than getting diabetes itself. There is, presumably, some trigger that also needs to occur.
From the article:
“It was so unexpected,”...

George Carlin on germs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Was it? Really?
To put it another way, patents work to prevent innovation, but they don't work to protect innovation.
That might be it! You know, I had a digital watch back then too. It was the craze. We're probably going to experience it again. We're already going through an 80s resurgence in fashion especially with the hipsters. It might happen with watches. Plus, there is some serious demand for these things. Kickstarter top funded projects are Smart Watches. And I recently read an article saying Kickstarter is the most democratic platform out there.
loool. You might be right!
Github can sometimes be a lot of copy and paste from either other repos or Stack Overflow or tutorials and such. For blogs, many very talented developers don't have one (or don't keep it up to date), and so it's very difficult to determine and verify ability just from an online presence.
Ah, yes now that slide away panel is neat! That's decent and better implemented than the Android browser I first saw it on (racking my brains to remember which) but still it's just one innovation. Like putting the coolest new cupholding system in the execrable Dodge Neon. Call me curmudgeonly (I've just had a tooth implant so I have an excuse) but if you're actually in charge of interface and still you can't get overall UX even to be adequate in a major product, then you're not managing and communicating upwards well enough. Yes, I don't know the ins and outs of who owned the whole experience, but understanding the shoddiness of the roll out of their Android product in the past three years is very important!
When your spot instance gets killed mid-download, does the Warrior system handle that and re-assign it to someone else immediately?

Or was your spot instance assigned some URLs to download with the assumption that your Warrior would be reliable, and now they won't get reassigned until they check them all at the end, which may be too late?
Look out the window. Dow at a record high. Unemployment in recession territory. Labor demand and economic growth are decoupled.
I think there's a false dichotomy in the article. The true choice is understanding that success is not always deterministic and dependend only on one factor but that there are many risks to be managed and that you need to hedge your bets. The world of finance has worked it out best so far. Thats what's the VCs do right too.
A quote: "Let this serve as a message to everyone, our actions and words, big or small, can have a serious impact," he wrote, adding he was the father of three children. "I will be at pycon 2014, and I will joke and socialize with everyone but I will also be mindful of my audience, accidental or otherwise."

Okay, let's examine this. Isn't the immediate goal to get more women into science and technology, with the larger goal of assuring and defending gender equality in all respects? Can we agree on that?

What does gender equality mean, exactly? Doesn't it mean treating all people in a "gender-blind" way, just as avoiding racism means treating all people in "color-blind" way?

On payday, women complain that they're not treated equally, and they're right -- they should be treated equally. On election day, women have been given -- and deserve -- the right to be treated equally -- to do otherwise would undermine democracy.

But the rest of the time, away from the pay window and the voting booth, women militantly demand to be treated unequally. The PyCon incident is just one example of an established pattern in which, before speaking to a friend, you had better check your surroundings to make sure no theoretically equal individuals can overhear what you're saying.

Any number of feminists have correctly pointed out that the first step in oppressing and disenfranchising women is to argue that they're too delicate for everyday reality and should be placed on a pedestal. Now it's women who make that argument -- women who are actively participating in their own oppression.

Women have every right to equal treatment -- in employment, in pay, in civil rights. But for this to happen, women need to stop demanding unequal treatment. The present problem is not men, many of whom see women as equals, it's those women who don't want equality, and who yell it from the rooftops.

True gender equality will arrive, not when women are given the rights they deserve (that's already happened), but when women accept and embrace those rights.
What's wrong with open plan wrt programming productivity is that it's distracting. Also, you can't have a private conversation without grabbing a real office, requiring you to move, and that takes up more time.
That seems obvious, however AFAIK infant mortality is not much higher in eastern Europe and Russia than in the west, so this probably doesn't apply there.
I think there's a common, mistaken simplification of the concept of focus.

If Richard Branson had never focused enough to finish actual tasks within his various enterprises, he would not be a billionaire today. It's a mistake to think that there isn't a difference between focusing on getting tasks done versus focusing on only doing one business at a time (in this case). Branson was absolutely a focuser, and he chose to focus on numerous businesses. It'd be like thinking that having more than one errand to do throughout the day meant you didn't have focus - obviously people can do more than one thing.

As an entrepreneur, I find it necessary to focus on micro level tasks to be productive and push a product forward. For example, finishing up code for a specific feature. If I fail at micro focus, nothing gets done / launched.

However, I don't find it necessary to stick to only one macro effort at a time. If I do that I feel like I'm stuck in a straight jacket. I experiment a lot and constantly take new opportunities into consideration. I don't find this macro focus variable detracts from being productive.

The key for me, is to focus on micro elements when it's time to do so, in order to be productive. After that my macro focus can go wherever I choose to direct it. I think that understanding which camp a particular item of focus falls into is critical.
I wrote this in relation to what's being asked and looked for in applications.

I think it might help you.

https://iamwilchung.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/i-got-into-yc-a...
> I can hack on whatever; whenever; with whatever!

So can everyone else, it's just not enjoyable for some people if they're stuck in a shitty office space with shitty hardware. Who wants to work at a place where they don't enjoy working?
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."

- Mark Twain

Those who can not laugh at themselves will justly be laughed at by others.
Gforth running inside Chrome
In 2011 under-5 mortality (m/f):

Russia 18/14 per 1000

https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/russia/report-2011

Finland 5/4 per 1000

https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/finland/report-2011
So, simultaneously the banks too stupid to understand risks or perhaps tie their shoes, and at the same time the critics are so smart they would have been able to put the rest of the industry out of business with their prescience but didn't attempt such.
I think it also suffers from: "Steve Jobs did X, so X is amazing". Well, not necessarily.

By definition high-profile entrepreneurs (like Jobs, Gates, Branson, etc) are rare and their multi-zillion-companies are also rare. I miss general lack of analysis of "common success strategies". Call me eccentric, but if I am building a company, I'd like to base my strategy to something that will give me the best chance to do it. And, in case I decide to not use it, know that I am doing so.
We use it as sort of a 'programmable, smart serial port'. Because RS-232 serial ports are rare these days on laptops and even desktops, its easier to use the RPi as a bridge between PC applications and electronics/hardware devices which use RS-232. The PC application connects to the RPi using a direct TCP/IP cable. Its a bit more complicated than that, but that's the general idea.
They tried that in France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek
>Here's a secret: in the workplace, unlike school, attitude trumps raw ability. Every single time.

This is true... but only because the workplace is run by total fucking idiots.

I mean, I'm one of those people who always looks way better in the interview than I actually am. Excited, engaged, confident, interested in your problems... but seriously? you'd rather have me? some overconfident douchenozzle over someone smart? I know of several setups where I was interviewing against someone I know was better than me, where I won. I remember once, I got a guy who used to work for me an interview at a place where I had a full-time sysadmin job. (For much of my career, I've alternated between doing my own company, and working for other people.) the guy didn't get the job, apparently because he didn't interrupt my boss enough (who kept getting interruptions throughout the interview.)

The hilarious thing is that I'm a total mercenary; I'll leave your sorry ass for the first 20% raise I can get, while those people with a 'poor attitude' will stay at the same place even though they are underpaid and treated poorly, for years.

It's kind of like how employers prefer tall white guys. It's fucking retarded, but if I turned down all jobs where I think that worked in my favor? I'd turn down a lot of well-paying work.

I mean, sure, if it is mercenary work; if you want a problem (in my area of expertise) solved and then you want someone who is cool with being let go the next day? I'm probably a pretty good choice. I don't expect loyalty or anything; pay me on time for the hours I worked and I'm happy. I also do pretty well when one needs to ignore social mores or corporate bullshit to get something done. (I'm terrible, though, when /following/ those rules is important.) And I'm not completely stupid. Certainly, there are times when you won't be able to find someone better, in which case, you take what you can get, eh?

But for full-time "we want you to stick around for a while" jobs? I'm a comparatively terrible choice... I mean, assuming you have other applicants that are smarter and have basic competency. but from what I've seen? I do way better than people who are obviously more competent than I am, because of that arrogance.
I don't know how any body game make a game profitable at £2.99
Try putting up your product on betali.st or startupli.st
We've gotten about 400 beta users from there. Retention is a different matter though!
I wondered the same thing. As a follow-up to wazoox's comment, I looked into the mortality rates of the areas for the studies.

I couldn't find the infant mortality rates of Petrozavodsk, so I went to region (Republic of Karelia) instead:

Infant mortality rate of Karelia in 2000 [1]:
14.4 %

Of Finland: [2]
2.6 - 4.5 %

So at a 3-7x higher incident rate, infant mortality does seems like a reasonable hypothesis. I wouldn't jump on the one-explanation-covers-it-all stance though. Someone else in this thread mentioned Helmenthic therapy, using parasites in a controlled manner to treat for allergies. If this treatment has seen positive results, perhaps both your point and the proposed theory explain the higher incidence of auto-immune diseases in first world countries.

[1] http://www.arcticstat.org/TableViewer.aspx?S=2&ID=12668
[2] http://www.arcticstat.org/TableViewer.aspx?S=2&ID=12348
IARPA forecasting experiment
Actually, "always bundling" isn't even true - https://github.com/domenic/browserify-deoptimizer

Its not yet possible to write a transform that brings back eval and //@sourceURL which is compaibile with a lot more browsers, but if you use the separate parts that browserify is made of (module-deps, insert-module-globals and browser-pack) you can add it, like so:

module-deps main.js | insert-module-globals main.js
| sourceurl-transform | browser-pack > bundle.js

I'll add some r.js cons and browserify pros:

r.js has an inflexible build process. It tries to do everything and assumes you want it to be your only build tool, which fails with things like LESS files, custom image generation etc.

browserify does its bundling and lets you do the rest in your own build system of choice (even minifying is separate). Much better.

Also, browserify gives you access to npm, one of the best package managers today. You can publish modules in the npm registry or in your own private git repositories and quickly add them to any project using npm install. The best thing about this? Practically all modules that don't do server-specific I/O are browserify-compatible. You have a huge chunk of the npm registry available at your disposal.
Can you tell us more? The interaction product between great designers and an org that can provide the environment which affords their talent to thrive is something which would benefit from some decent narratives.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/no-son-of-mine-plays-oreg...
How dare you linkbait non-gossip.
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Let's not forget something. Interviewing is also an skill that you will learn. If you are actively searching for job (because you're unemployed, or you really want to leave your current job), you'll know what to expect and be more confident and perform better on each interview. After the fifth interview, you have already faced 90% of all those pesky algorithm questions. I don't really believe in those kind of questions (other than for screening purposes)

Anyway, as a company, if you are able to create an atmosphere when interviewees can relax and show "how they really are in a regular day" is a great win.
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When asked the question about why I want to work somewhere I'm smart enough to sorta-lie, but when you get right down to it the real answer boils down to the fact that I want the job for the money. If I didn't have to work for money, I'd spend the time I spend at work hacking on my own projects.

Having said that, of course not all jobs are equal and some jobs are much more desirable for me than other jobs and so I will focus on these unique traits when describing why I'd like to work on that job, but if I were interviewing someone and they mentioned their primary motivation for taking the job was to get paid, I'd think it was a refreshingly honest answer and not hold it against them.