skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor quibble - I'd say "an open licence", not "GPL".
Hey man, this is amazing! You just gained a subscriber! :)

It would be really good if you had a way to choose certain recipes to available only to certain meals of the day.

This way you could find recipes on the public repository or create one yourself and add to the "list of possible combinations".

I also think that the "like" on each Meal of the day should make the combination of recipes in that meal to be "bundled" and be selectable/randomizable from the ones you already liked , so you can basically open the website everyday and choose the meals you wanna have today.

A "Daily Shopping List" button, or a "Shop for the next X days" would not be bad at all either!
100%, thanks.

There is more than one way to skin the old meow meow. Getting over myself enough to realize that was the big take away from all this.
You can see first hand what happens by looking at large parts of Europe. And the development to push low paid jobs back to the customer themselves does indeed happen, but it happens regardless.

Countries like Norway does not have massive unemployment by international standard, despite one of the flattest salary curves in the world.

> If a business now has to pay someone, say, $10 an hour instead of $7, they will be able to get people with more experience / skill for that price, making it harder for people to get entry-level jobs in the first place.

This assumes the more qualified people want those jobs, even at $10 instead of $7.

If I could get a job as a cleaner for what I make as a software developer, I'd still pick the (much less physically demanding, and less soul destroying) job as a software developer.

If salary was even the main determinant for why people pick the jobs they do, then we'd practically have no nurses or teachers, for example - both jobs that require disproportionally long education for the often very low salaries they command.

Or even law.

In the UK, the average salary for solicitors (who require 3 or 4 years for a degree plus the Legal Practice Course of one year plus two years of practice before you become qualified) is lower than the national average salary.

You can make far more in many professions that don't require even a degree. In fact, there are people in retail and fast food jobs that make more than many UK solicitors, yet work normal hours where many solicitors work hours that are illegal in most European countries.

But most of the positions that are in the territory that would be affected by minimum wage restrictions tends to be positions primarily attracting the totally unqualified that are generally positions that are extremely unattractive for qualified workers and remain so for most even if the salary was better.

How many people do you come across that actively want to make a career for themselves working themselves up the ladder in McDonalds? Yet making manager at a McDonalds in the UK can net you 45k GBP/year or more - far above the average UK salary. Economically, a large proportion of UK solicitors, teachers, nurses and many others would be better off working at McDonalds. Yet we don't see a massive flight of highly qualified people to McDonalds or similar.
It would be nice if people would put a tiny bit of effort into the video, specifically making sure the audio is intelligible (levels, lack of noise, etc.) on a normal computer. Just playing it back on a normal settings computer on internal speaker would probably be enough. Maybe don't shoot it in a car while driving, or outdoors with wind?
Slow as usual
Hmmm given that you're talking about India, I wonder which "brutal" religion exactly you mean.

From the article:
"The global climate is crucial. People believe radical Islam to be at the centre of the many of the most violent conflicts around the world. They feel they are at the receiving end of conversion drives by the much more evangelical monotheistic faiths. And they feel that if other religions are going to get tough, they had better follow suit."

Same phenonmenon there too "Evangelical monotheistic faiths". They don't mean Christians. Note also the generalized "many of the most violent conflicts around the world". The inability to name the obvious.

Why is it racist to point out that islam is involved in pretty much every conflict worldwide (with the west, east, north, south, white, black, yellow, brown, ...), and that this situation has been a constant through history (ever since it exists) ? Islam got started with a campaign of genocide, and everyone can name 5 places the very same thing is happening today. If you study history you will learn that this situation is the norm of the last 15 centuries, not the exception. If people start thinking that that may not be a coincidence, that is a VERY understandable viewpoint.
Sorry - but could you please try now - my friend informed me that he just added caching for voice synthesis.
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Thanks for having my back!

I can understand how it might look if you don't know me and there's probably a lot of people who thought the same thing.

Looking back, it was just a coping method. In the same way that I make lame jokes when I feel nervous, this was just a reaction to the idea that my life just got flipped upside down.

And I totally posted it directly to instagram. Spade is a spade, I guess.
I'm sure there's a presentation from Valve engineers in which they specifically talk about Linux as a staging post for porting to android.

Here's a reddit link that goes to the presentation slides but also has some comments from one of the presenters:

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1bnaoh/valves_...
Unless you're stuck in Windows, I suggest you take a look at PicoLisp, a very rich and interesting development system. The Wiki is of course written in PicoLisp: http://picolisp.com/
You might want to try 010 Editor: http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/ It runs on OSX, Windows and Linux.
I would recommend you a mechanical keyboard or a capacitative one. They cost a lot, but they endure for years and typing in a mechanical keyboard just kick ass all other ergonomic keyboards imho.
Locker rooms will never be the same with Google Glass. Peeping at ATMs when someone is using it... I can already see the criminal class thinking up a multitude of uses for it.

On the plus side, it would make an excellent exercise companion. Heart rate monitor, current speed, calories burned etc.
Google's self-driving car collects 750MB of sensor data every second
It really is difficult to chug a gallon of milk, don't knock it until you try it.

I see what you're saying though. Thanks for checking it out anyway.
I've been wanting to do something similar with kids for a while. I've finally got a good hackers group going in my area, and most of the resources needed for hardware & space. Would you consider sharing some information about your class?
Couldn't they just use a CDN?
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You just were about to hire a mercenary. My guess is, most of the people will go like this unless they contact you to work on your company because they first believe on your product than the money they can win.
Fair. For real though, is Ryan Howard's character really into himself?

Don't want to be that guy who doesn't get the joke but I am totally the guy who isn't getting the joke.

IS THIS SOMETHING RYAN HOWARD WOULD SAY?!
It seems that in the end the install was performed on a system where no Ubuntu disks were present (Ubuntu disk was removed). If true, the whole dualboot discussion is moot.
Personally I also encountered registration hell. After some time trying to get it working I just quit on windows and installed Fedora without dual boot on the new system. No windows (XP) traces were left. And everyone (at least in my home) lived happily ever after.
VideoLAN is a non-profit organization made of volunteers. Who's going to pay?
It means you can get started right away. If you want to be more serious, sure, write stuff in C or whatever, it works fine, after all this is just a Linux machine (with a simple webserver running cloud9 on port 3000). Or just ssh into the bone and edit your .js files in vim (it probably makes you feel a little bit more hardcore but yeah, it's still js).

No need for the negativity, can't blame those guys for wanting to get a larger userbase by making things easy. In the end the larger volume/bigger community is beneficial to everyone.
We were living on the upper...upper east side. We might have been able to find a cheaper apartment in the bronx, but FWIW I was paying less in the last apartment than I was when I was living in Charlotte, NC.

It was a good trade off between being close enough to the "scene" and far enough away where it was cheap enough.
Sorry for the brash tone of my previous posts.

I wasn't aware of PSGI nor the performance it has compared to mod_perl. That's probably one of the most interesting things I've read on here for a while (interesting in terms of it could have a direct impact on my business).

Thanks for that. :)
yep, plus one for infinite scroll, i don't know why people would implement pagination any longer.

also, the form field of the search bar looked confusing to me. I would make it a little less subtle to find it easier.
Tried them a few months ago, my impression/fear was that they would:

1- go the Segway route (== dorky)

2- go the bluetooth headset route (== douche)

Sad, maybe, but then again the Segway is so awesome to use!
Also there is a nice Ubuntu port available. It feels rather stable and more familiar than Angstrom, I recommend it. Of course you'll lose Cloud9 from the box.
COBOL and RPG, for example, on Mainframe / Midrange systems have native support for fixed point (decimal) types. It's the second most used type, besides the "character" types. Floats are seldom used in the context of business applications. Fixed point math is even directly implemented in hardware on Power processors. Always been like that on IBM platforms.
You are busy, that's what work is all about these days.
nonsense. Cygwin is a dog. It looks horrid, it often breaks the unix abstraction with fugly windows paths and.idioms and weird issues when using libraries that have native ports. Yuck
Whoa damn! I knew Williamsburg was 'up-and-coming' when I lived there but that appears to have changed a lot in the last 5 years. Gentrification at it's finest.
I think glass as a physical product looks cool, and I don't yet have enough paranoia as part of my day-to-day that I'd feel weird about somebody wearing it around me. But I can't see wearing one all day, there's simply no use-case I can think of for me to have one on while sitting at my desk at work.

I like the idea of a head mounted display that doesn't block your vision. It's too bad it's not a true hud. That's going to limit the applications tremendously.

I like having a camera on it. I agree with this article's assessment about the quality of the pictures.

It's great getting directions while hands free, I can almost get those today on my phone with a pair of headphones. Once I set the destination, it becomes hands free. I can even listen to music/podcast at the same time and even have my phone record my distance with an exercise app.

About audio only I can hear, headphones work fine for this and it doesn't feel like a brain worm is burrowing in.

It's almost like you can get 90% of the glass experience with your phone in your pocket, a pair of $10 headphones and a bluetooth google now button on your wrist (fictional). I'd say add in a clip on display or something for a hud but there appears to be incredibly few of those around...and the ones that are out there are bulky enough to by mistaken for a orthodontics headgear...

and I guess that's where glass really is great, I just wish I could repurpose the display a bit...

it's kind of "meh" right now, but we'll see where the apps take it
I overheard a guy at the supermarket checkout, he was saying to what seemed to be his GF that he would actually kick people with a Glass from behind because that way he wouldn't be recorded... not very happy thoughts, I have to admit.

What's true though is that we're taking a very dangerous road here:

1. Google Glass means total and permanent surveillance

2. Total and permanent surveillance means people will be afraid to use their right to freedom of expression (out of fear of blowback)

3. Suppressed freedom of expression means: Democracy is dead and a police state becomes very realistic.

Who in their right mind wants that?
As the investor tells entrepreneurs from the site he runs -- owning their attention.

Investors out-built builders. And with minimal effort.

It's another thing investors own: what developers read.

Pwnd developers. You're pwnd.
I guess setting up discourse is too heavy for this use case. The same may be applied to the original reddit source, but at least reddit comes with a VM image.
So let me get this straight, after all the years of talk (years ago) about how Java needed red-threads, we now want green threads again. Jesus you people are frustrating
Yeah that site is so weird - I have it fixed in stylish and forget that other people cannot see it properly.

Try the Atlantic's article:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/05/ncov-saudi-ara...
His character iterates over the different seasons.

I thought it was a mean remark, but maybe I'm just a sensitive blossom.

Howard does work on a startup (in a cupboard) which is pretty funny. And there are definitely worse characters on the Office.

FWIW I really liked your post. You hit all the points that I've found in the past, and you included the Ben Franklin effect too.
What is wrong with writing?

Firstly, nothing. No one said there was.

Secondly, from what I can tell, writing is inferior to the human physical expression, which includes speech. It exists to mimic and preserve thought or speech. But it can never be precise, simply because the human body augments speech. When writing gets close to accurately doing that, it become verbose and tedious.

Or, to put it another way: Would your kids prefer to read or be read to? Would you prefer the lyrics or the song? The script or the movie? You might, most wouldn't.
Bachelor of Arts.
> the only thing standing in their way is your weird objection
> to attempting to distribute it.

My point was that people are already trying to host this sort of science content over torrents and it's not working. Nobody seeds it. I gave a very specific example to confirm this observation. I would love to hear about possible alternatives.
As far as head mounted displays go, they appear to be among the smallest on the market. The Vuzix M100 [1] see marketed and styled much more towards the douche demographic. While the Golden-i [2] ends up looking like an orthodontics device marketed to dorks. And there really isn't much in between. Epson's display [3] blocks your vision so that's unworkable, and it looks like the wrap around sunglasses my grandmother wears while gardening.

1 - http://www.vuzix.com/augmented-reality/products_m100ag.html

2 - http://www.mygoldeni.com/gallery/

3 - http://www.qrcodepress.com/augmented-reality-glasses-may-fin...
It seems like these trivial inconveniences could largely be avoided in non trivial broader ways. For example what is the need for having so many javascript and css assets when in Rails we are meant to use the asset pipeline by default? In this case it seems like it would make the most sense to utilize the asset pipeline, more so than most applications. Merge all those together, serving up 80 separate assets is insane. Isn't it?

I don't understand mapping the keyboard shortcut in Vim to reloading all browsers. Does that reload all tabs in all open browsers? What if I have a paused youtube video, or am saving my place in a large article that I am scrolled most of the way down the page. Doesn't that all take longer to fix than just going to the browser and hitting the keyboard shortcut in the browser? Since you're going to the browser anyway or else the reloading would have been meaningless?

The most obvious time sink that I can see from this article is that the tests are poorly optimised. But that isn't a trivial inconvenience. Having to wait 3 minutes, twice, every time you make a change in the code is a significant inconvenience. That should give plenty of time to do things such as reload a page. Designed properly tests are not meant to depend on one another just to run. Use minitest, use fixtures and fabricators. Test individual classes, test controllers, avoid full stack tests unless there is something that can't be tested about it at a lower level.

As others have said also Vim is a powerful tool but there isn't really very much it can do that a modern graphical text editor like Sublime Text 2 cannot... I'm sorry I am just having trouble making this article resonate with me. Is it something wrong with me or am I right?
That is exactly my point why a gender neutral term would be beneficial.
I've been thinking of going into this. I'm curious, how many customers do you get? How sporadic is it? And were do you get most of them from? Does it often happen that they hire you for further work?

Sorry if I just ran you over with question marks =/
"Peeping at ATMs when someone is using it"

Couldn't they already do this easily with small cameras disguised in pens, buttons, etc? Or a zoom lens from afar watching an ATM?

As for locker rooms, watch out for Robert Scoble in the shower: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/inherent-dorkiness-of-...
I kept reading just to understand why anyone would willingly walk around, all the time, looking like this:

http://estb.msn.com/i/AB/E27F92B0A904EC9D92B8EE897D0B4.jpg

I also wondered how he'd eat and talk and sleep. I didn't understand what it had to do with startups and hurricanes.

It took a while until I realized that that's not what "wearing a disco ball" means in NY.
What I find interesting is that when suicide was illegal in the UK, the suicide rate was lower.

Should we make suicide illegal just to keep the rate down?
It wasn't named an "indie" bundle and it was marked quite well. I don't think it's selling out.
This came up in a pub a few days ago, and one guy piped up to say "If I see anyone staring at me while wearing one I'll hit them".

The guy next to him laughed and said "Brilliant, then he can kick your ass, film it, and put it all over YouTube".

When it comes out, I'm going to buy one, and I'm going to wear it everywhere. I'm willing to bet that no one says anything, and that those that think about doing so won't. People say whatever they want on the Internet, or around friends at the pub, but in the real world they won't bat an eyelid.
This makes sense, but I can definitely see how I could get caught up thinking that with just "a few more" months I could get something to happen. By default, don't you have to ignore some data in a startup that says your failing and push on?

Otherwise you'd stop at square 0. I know there is a continuum of bullshitting yourself involved there, but it's certainly a grey area.
I think the visual component is important, but you could otherwise get reasonable mileage I assume by having a smartphone, earpiece and Myo [https://getmyo.com/] cooperating.
Ignore the shitty political situation in Washington and realize the US has the largest freshwater supply, the largest amount of arable land, and the US is sitting on billions of gallons of oil and rare earth metals. The US is not going anywhere for a very, very long time.
Just like there is a relatively clear separation between electrical engineering and software engineering, I'm starting to think that we need separate words for this kind of stuff and for hacking up a CRUD-some-tables MVP using Ruby on Rails. They're nearly entirely unrelated skills.

I, for one, am very happy that I do not need to think about this stuff. I think that rounding a float to an integer is super easy:

5.3.round
Hacker news should be renamed to Peasant news. Just how the reality is. Not really new but didn't expect mainstream media to write about the reality of it. Guess a rare one. Personally I will never go for an investor in a pseudo-economic market which we live in. It's like begging to become a new age peasant.
You'll have more freedom living as a wildling in the woods or become a small-scale farmer. Oh right you need that latest hi-tech gadget which they use to enslave your mind. Well enjoy it.
Depends on interest rates.
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Hmm, while the games made with it look quite good, I'm not sure whether to call it a "true" HTML5 game engine or not. You have to download a plugin for your browser to play these games.
Whole heartedly agree. So dissapointed to see people picking holes in the design, when actually the site's functionality works extremely well and is far ahead of almost any other comparable local authority website.
Can you crack a code?
Germany does just fine producing stuff.
Please do enlighten me. I read the whole post and am still not sure. Searching the web seems to be polluted by a nail polish brand named 'disco ball'. Is it simply slang for not taking oneself too seriously?
I find all the whining of all these armchair security experts a bit wearing. No one outside of Linode and the alleged hacker knows exactly why and how Linode was hacked so quit speculating, you are simply making things up. "Ooh, this is a bad thing, I bet Linode did this bad thing". For example people are suggesting that 2FA is useless if outsiders had free run of Linode's infrastructure, and so it would be. BUT, is there any evidence whatsoever that this was the case? If not then STFU and stop spreading lies. 2FA is useless against a nuclear strike, what exactly is the point of saying so? Anyone can fantasise disasters.

To get some positive content out of this thread. Is there a VM provider with a provably better security record than Linode?

If you are going to stay with Linode then 2FA seems like a no brainer. So, is there a simple way to get the 2FA iDevice systems (Google, Duo) to work on multiple devices, say to allow an iPad or an iPhone to be used interchangeably?
I suspect that he has a little disco ball hanger on a necklace or bracelet or something. I'm sure he'll tell us himself soon enough.
I like this, makes for a much better business card and resume line!
Sir, you are stealing my next blog post and then some. Ah, well...
As Schopenhauer famously noticed if you lack arguments start personal attacks on the discussant. No outside-US based good start-ups, no? No outside-US based strong movie industry, no? No outside-US based strong music industry, no? And list goes on and on.

Socialism works. For the capitalistic US and China it does! Because once you impose economic barriers on yourself they have much easier job competing with you. Hence why 'cancer'. Cells killing the body that hosts them.
I think they look really lame. Good side is that at some point in the future, there'll be a better looking product and we can look back at these old photos from 2013 where people were running around with "bricks" on their glasses and above the ear.
Looks like hn_id of monsterix has been banned. Didn't expect this from site admins because what he said above was within quality of discussions normally seen here, and his questions are genuine.

It's kind of sad that admins are unable to take criticism or face real questions and are overreacting to it.
I think you missed his point.

He is asking to see the live demo link to be running on codepen.io. So there is more collaboration via forks, hacks.

Think: There can be more possibilities of using the same plugin via contributions and forks.
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huh. I would say that it's not really a HTML5 game in any sense of the word if you have to download a binary blob that runs in your browser window.