skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gruber's comment here is a bit ingenuous:

"Don Chadwick is the designer behind both the Aeron and the Chadwick. The Chadwick is the one he put his name on."

The Aeron was a collaboration between Bill Stumpf and Chadwick. They'd worked together on chairs before for Herman Miller (Equa chair, 1984 & Sarah chair, 1988). I'm not sure Bill would have appreciated naming any of these chairs "the Chadwick."

Bill Stumpf was an extremely talented industrial designer. He passed away at age 70 in 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/obituaries/10stumpf.html
http://www.hermanmiller.com/content/hermanmiller/english/pro...

It's also worth reading some of the backstory on the creation of the Aeron chair:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671789/the-untold-history-of-ho...
>>didn't make the cut

Did you submit a pull request for it and it was denied?
Anything that is not a fancy dress for attending a Borg themed party.. but rather is actually pointed toward Borg.. is a no go for me personally. This is one tech where I'd request someone wearing them to take it off while near me.
I think the original quotation simply used it as a rhetorical device to indicate difference in approach at a more abstract level than literally replacing conditionals with Bayes filters.
It looks like a great collection of experiences and stories.

I also latched onto the Lean Startup genre and didn't immediately understand the programmer/web architecture distinction. Also, in the subtitle blurb you say, "Startup Founders Open Up About Web Architectures In The Early Days." That made more sense to me after I read the rest of the page, but it might be helpful to point out they're discussing "their web architectures." At first, I thought the book was about the history of web architectures.
$99.99 - $149.99
Sadly, not only that but the search depth gets smaller, too!
Choice is a gray area. For instance if you're of unimpressive physical stature, intelligent, and wear glasses you're automatically grouped into a certain category. You also have certain options open to you. Not to mention while you can choose what to do you cannot always choose what you are interested in.
Depending on granularity, your comment was written by a number of people approaching infinity?
I see your point. I was thinking (though I didn't state it explicitly, apologies) of "worse" to mean "worse value". For instance, reducing the quality by, say 10%, but reducing the price by 50% would probably be a good value for many students, I agree with that. My concern is that the quality would drop "more" than the price.

This concern is partially motivated by my background. I used to work for a university doing academic technology-related stuff. In my opinion, many of the technologies that were being acquired didn't contribute much to the quality of the education offered (beyond looking sexy when prospective students came in for tours). However, the tech was often extremely expensive and, in fact, required additional fees in many cases.
Even on linux, I've found nvidia's drivers the best by far.
Agreed. Here's something I realized about 5 years ago.

You will spend 95% of your time putting pressure on your:
- Shoes
- Mattress
- Chair

Skimping on any of those can lead to fatigue, discomfort and pain.
First and foremost, the 2nd link you posted is full of hilarious; thanks for sharing.

> II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8767: Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.

I don't know that I'm arguing for anything 'major' or 'documented'; for any specific religion or culture; or for anything at all beyond the fact that crude vulva drawings can be either or simultaneously a show of reverence and sexual interest. That we (meaning largely post-Testament historians) haven't documented the intentions of ancient cave-artists as being born of such duality is hardly evidence against that possibility.
It seemed to me that the open source ones tend to be the most stable, regardless of vendor.
How often do you look at your chair?
I don't claim to have an eye for design so its aesthetic appeal is difficult to judge but as far as functionality goes, it leaves a lot to be desired. The site has removed the ability to search by category which, for me at least, was an important way of searching.
I totally agree. Personally I try to use the fact that I was bullied as an opportunity to empathize and try to help others. We may not be able to choose our external circumstances but we can certainly work on how we react to them.
Here is the issue for just that:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/11...

If you're interested, we'd love to have some help getting this accomplished.
I think it's interesting that self driving cars will have to decide this themselves someday. What do you think we'll have them do?
Meet IBM's 'Boy And His Atom,' Stars of the Smallest Movie Ever Made
Some lecturers are truly outstanding, and a joy to listen to. I went to a small undergraduate college, with small class sizes and many passionate, engaging professors, where classes were a mixture of lecture and discussion.

But a straight up lecture? I'd rather read a book. And really, even with good lecturers, most of my real learning comes from applying the knowledge somehow: writing computer programs, writing essays, etc.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/the-europe-in-ru...
I was just thinking the same thing. Someone should definitely contribute a JSF test and if possible it should be run on both those implementations.
Whenever I hear "Java" I also get association "slow". But looking into this list - java web frameworks doing incredible job!
I think the deeper question that is being ignored is that of how we decide what is valuable: how we measure value. The market approach that is being espoused, and favoured by some here, reduces everything to a dollar amount. This is convenient, especially from an algorithmic standpoint, since then your algorithms can process any kind of input.

But this is a pretty big assumption. I'm not saying that you can't put a price on anything--you can. But that doesn't mean that the price is accurate, in terms of the value acquired, which is what some other people are trying to point out. The market assumes you can rationally determine the real value of things, in money terms, and compare all things equivalently. But the future utility of something, let alone knowledge, is impossible to measure with any hope of accuracy.

If everybody measures everything with money based on some expectation of value--itself measured in terms of the return on investment of existing money/time--and most people are wrong, then it might have very bad long-term consequences for individuals and society.

Lots of things are lost when we replace one way of doing things with another way, and usually the dollar value of those things is never considered, but is externalized and conveniently forgotten. Same is true for the way we treat the value of natural resources (air, water, wildlife, minerals) as zero until exploited. It's a pragmatic necessity, enforced by the limits of our measuring tools, but that doesn't mean that nothing is lost.

So, when you say "standards of living have increased", what measures are being used? Past the essentials (food/water/housing/clothing/security), we get into very grey areas. Knowledge and ways of life are changing, and maybe the loss is more costly than people are willing to admit in the rush for material prosperity.
A former coworker of mine created django-unfriendly[1], which seems like it's probably worse. On the other hand, django-unfriendly is meant to obfuscate on purpose.

[1] - https://github.com/tomatohater/django-unfriendly
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That's great feedback - thanks for taking the time!
I don't pretend to anthropomorphise the entire company, (nor do my words represent the company's), but yes I hail from there.
The idea is that porn reduces the actors in it to objects that exists solely to be exploited for the pleasure of others. It is often combined with unease over the power relationship implied, typically of women being subject to men.

The main counter to this is that it's fiction and the actors are consenting adults, and that the only material difference between porn and other crappy fictional films is prudish judgment of (primarily) women's sexual behavior.
I half expected to see a disclaimer, "We use biscuits on your computer or mobile device to help make this website better."
First traction, then funding
I agree that performance shouldn't dominate the decision, but there's no reason not to be informed by it - it can wind up mattering.
Why would there be only one? Much like there is Coke, Pepsi and other smaller brands, I can envision a future for both edx, Coursera and other smaller providers of courses.
> Many are built with great design in mind.

I've gotta disagree simply because a lot of the people posting to ThemeForest are just trying to make a buck on their hobby - so many of those themes look exactly alike; they're not spending significant time thinking about the usability of their designs and just applying trends. TemplateMonster back-in-the-day was more reminiscent of designers with experience creating unique enough templates to be modified/used for multiple types of purposes.
Hey Erica. Thanks for sharing the link and for the incredible talk you delivered. I learned a lot from your talk and from listening in on you guys talking at the buffet.
Wish you all the best with your rebranding efforts from WooshTrafic to Marketvibe!

PS: I now know that I'm missing a 'h' :-)
Godly plugin!
Would be nice to be able to filter like "show me an API for TV show data that uses JSON and has a free option". Would also like a curated list of client libraries (there are like 2000 Twitter API Ruby gems - which one is the best/most active/most supported).

I've used http://www.programmableweb.com/apis in the past, but the data seems kind of stale.
Many of the negative comments here remind me of the general discussions about tablets before the iPad was released. I'm not saying Glass will reach a similar level of success, but it is clear that a lot of people won't understand the benefits of a device like this until they actually use it.
When you benchmark Vert.x on a multicore system vs 1 node process. Now add multiple node processes to occupy the cores and store changes completely
Wow. Great to hear. My current big project is all in Python. Maybe a rewrite is in my future if I find the project successful.
glad to see more arduino compatible wifi alternatives getting out there
I have an adjustable height table and an Aeron. This is certainly THE combination if you can get it. Because there are mornings when standing is simply not an option.
I counter with http://www.ctshirts.co.uk just go there and even the front page transmutes itself into a horrifying URL of doom.

Depending on which subsection of the site you're in, you sometimes also get |||||||| on the end of the URL.

I actually know someone who works in the e-commerce dept of the company and I think we should all berate him for how terrible a person he is ;)
The world is heading towards wearable computing, and honestly, Google has done a fantastic job hyping up Glass. When I first heard about Glass a while back, I told all my friends, thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. The majority of the girls (and about half the boys) who saw the concept told me something along the lines of, "Ewww, why would anyone wear that?" Now here, at the college level, a good majority think it's really awesome. The attitude is changing, and watching the younger generation for innovative product adoption is going to be key in determining success.

Think about initial smartphone adoption. You could've argued that they provided little benefit over a laptop for many features. The displays were small with low resolution, web connectivity was slow, websites weren't optimized for mobile, and the cameras were pieces of rubber duckies. But they were cool, and people found a use for them as technology improved. As techies, we should absolutely not be dismissing first-generation tech.

Yes, voice control is freaking awkward, but there are solutions to that. Thalmic Labs, for example, is coming out with the MYO (go watch the video) which would be perfect for interacting with Google Glass. Make a hand gesture to take a picture, instead of taking out your phone and positioning it? Seems like a natural fit to me.

I'm guessing Google Glass will converge around the $400-$700 price range, possibly with more than one model. Youth adoption will probably drive overall consumer adoption. As with a lot of new stuff like this, it's easy to say you don't need it. It's harder to say you don't want it after you have it.
> It's not useful.

Have you ever tried one before making a judgement? I'm not saying I'll find it useful, just that for now it's too soon to tell.

> It provides no advantages over my smartphone and tons of disadvantages.

It provides a hand-free + display + sound experience you can't have with a cellphone (you can use a Bluetooth earplug but you still have to hold it to see the display).

> And it looks so, so stupid when you're wearing one. It's one of the only things you can put on and even though you founded Google 90% of the people looking at you will wonder if you're an idiot.

The same thing was said with smartphones and laptops you know.

See this quora post on how it could be useful: http://www.quora.com/Google-Glass-4/What-have-been-the-best-...
The fnids do not expire randomly due to restarts; they expire when there are too many or they timeout so memory doesn't fill up with these continuations. Personally, I don't like this continuation-based approach since "Unknown or expired link" is a really bad user experience.

Way back I wrote a bunch of documentation on the Arc web server if you want details: http://www.arcfn.com/doc/srv.html
Look at harvest-fnids which expires the fnids.

The fnid is an id that references the appropriate continuation function in an Arc table. The basic idea is that when you click something, such "more" or "add comment", the server ends up with the same state it had when it generated the page for you, because the state was stored in a continuation. (Note that these are not Scheme's ccc first-class continuations, but basically callbacks with closures.)

(The HN server is written in Arc, which runs on top of Racket (formerly known as PLT Scheme or mzscheme))

Edit: submitted in multiple parts to avoid expired fnids. Even so, I still hit the error during submission, which seems sort of ironic.
The latest test that we have, dubbed "Fortunes", does server-side templating, so we (or a generous community member) could add a JSF implementation for that test.
> but the Manchester City Council website looks like a $45 Wordpress theme off of Themeforest

Yes, the only thing better than inexpensive availability would be free and open availability.

Add to it being on wordpress, and this could potentially make future implementations cheap and easy.
38 Bucks and I would even let them pop advertisements for local business sales and promotions in moderation.
Since this is multi core test, how many instances of Node are running actually?
Both of your polls need a "it's far too soon to tell" option.

None of us know how use of a Glass-like product will impact our behavior over the long term, so we've got no way of objectively evaluating its pros and cons.

Buying and using Glass now is like taking an unregulated pill based solely on the claims of its manufacturer and a few enthusiastic users. You can see the good easily, the bad not as easily, and the unintended consequences that take time to emerge not at all.

When more information is available about the true pros and cons of Glass, then I'll be able to answer your poll. It could be a steal at almost any price, or it could be the sort of thing I'd never want anything to do with. At this point, who knows?

I keep thinking of how my smartphone unexpectedly weakened my ability to simply observe and be in my surroundings, and how, because I was an enthusiastic early adopter, I only found out about this after my behavior had already changed, when it was harder to fix. If I had been a bit more patient, I could've seen these effects in others and made a more informed decision. I won't make this mistake again.
As someone who is also really enjoying Go, I think you need to add a huge, gigantic disclaimer before making a statement like this: Go's ecosystem of web development packages is in its infancy. You're not going to find any super-well-documented, super mature/stable web frameworks (thought a few are showing great promise). and some of the individual components (for example, Gorilla) are looking very good, but still have some more cooking to do.

I love the language, but let's not get too carried away until the ecosystem grows. The reality is, if you're going to use Go for web dev, you're going to need to be prepared to do a whole lot of things on your own.
You can configure two finger click on the trackpad to work as a right click. It's in system preferences.
I voted free, but I might consider the "toy" for around $50 or something. As others have mentioned, the battery life should be improved. Also, at the moment the device pretty much needs a bluetooth connection with an Android or iOS phone in order to be useful. I'd think a higher price would be justified if the device would not have to rely on a phone.

People interested in Google Glass might want to look at this video-preview posted by the Dutch website Tweakers.net (first 4 mins is an English spoken interview with Robert Scoble who talks about his Google Glass device): http://tweakers.net/video/7621/google-glass.html
I'm surprised people here know whether they want to buy something they don't even understand how it works.

I mean, I really need to know what exactly I see with Google glass, the features it provides, maybe what its like using one since I have to wear it, etc. I would not feel comfortable purchasing one on the information I have now.
Have you looked into subreddits on these issues?
Any chair is fine until your body has had enough of it, then it's too late.
>Google Glass is gadget for teenagers with a lots of friends status updates and stuff that is not really matters.

Wow, that's a pretty scathing statement. I wonder how many of the people who own a Glass in this thread are teenagers with stuff that doesn't matter.
There are quite a few in this space. I like the idea, though. It would probably gain traction if there was a nice sandbox and set of tools to mock up and understand requests for different services. I have links for all of these if you want them.

APIFinder,
ProgrammableWeb,
RemoteMethods,
Seekda,
Web Service List,
Webmashup,
WSindex,
XMethods,
Mashape
history is perfect for data mining. just search for interesting correlations and then publish when you've found one. it's not like anybody can run a fresh experiment to see if it is spurious or not.
The problem is: unless for statistical analysis of strange phenomena (probably only Physics and geological), the representation of time is inherently HUMAN-centered and this is what gives rise to the very OP's stated CONS.

Unless there is a 'year, month, day', the use of this is probably more theoretical than real.

Don't get me wrong: it is OK as a tool for time-series analysis. But then again, it will lose the Seasons very shortly. And then... A Gregorian update will be needed.
Btcd: a bitcoind alternative written in Go
Oh cool, someone else has made the project on which I was working...

Edit: they made it way cooler than I ever dreamed of making mine.
Hell, I'd rather walk around in some home-made Iron Man costume with motion sending arduino wristbands, legbands, and hair accessory to track head motion.

The main system on the chest will track my motions and blast out sound effects, let me play air guitar or bang a bunch of imaginary drums.

That's my idea of wearable computing
> it's hard to get away from using the cloud to store personal data

Not really that hard. Just don't store it there. However, it is harder to have anytime, anywhere access to your personal data without using the cloud to store it. Still not impossible... but that depends on how big this data is.
If we manage to put hight resolution active displays in contact lenses, I'm pretty sure we can manage to implement a convenient safety switch (blink eyes three times? I'm sure somebody will come with something better)
What the‽ How is it possible my MicroMVC framework + ORM is faster than Native PHP + ORM?
I'm holding out for WiMAX.
Yes. And I really do think it approaches infinity, or else our wetware has a limited clocking speed and that would define a single atomic moment of awareness (seems more likely since we're highly advanced computers, but computers nonetheless.) Even as I was writing the comment several clocks might have been spent not on it, but picking up ambient sound and other stimulae. To the extent that I'm half conscious to these other things, I was actually fully conscious to them though for only a few number of clocks, whereas things on which I seem to be fully conscious are demanding the majority of my (multi)processor clocks. There's the case for whether we can truly multitask--are we multi-core? We definitely are as to the many functions done subconsciously, but what about the conscious regions of the brain? But to simplify the thought experiment, we can simply think that we can only really spend any single moment of awareness on a single atomic thing, and like a computer we juggle attention between various things so fast as to make it seem we're doing them all concurrently (like the various applications simultaneously running on a computer.)

The upside, of course, is that my philosophy frees me up for gultfree teletransportation. Bring it on!
I always assumed the slowness is associated with build times and such. You are slow developing a Java web app, but not running it.
$100 is the top for me.

It's just a matter of time before CA declares them illegal to drive with which will diminish their value further.
The article's main point is valid, but the author's rhetoric and desire to blame Obama for everything doesn't help in presenting a persuasive argument.
A solution similar in spirit, sitting on an exercise ball: http://lifehacker.com/5830748/why-i-switched-my-office-chair...
What functionality is precluded by the use of a tablet?
Unless you're looking at a Retina MacBook Pro, it's not really a fair comparison. Fonts look better on an iPhone simply because the pixel density is much higher than on a typical Mac screen.