skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read this and this (1) and together they paint an interesting picture, though I'm with the TC author on this one. I hope they're very akward to use and very much like the Segway in popularity. If they're worn in public and are recording, I want a large, unmistakable red light to come on. Even so, I'm pretty sure people who record without permission will get roughed up on more than one occassion, if not just pushed.

On the flip side, recording activity or family-based events (ie, going down a mountain at Tahoe, or your kid taking his/her first steps) and having hands-free internet is pretty cool.

1 - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/26/eric-schmidt-is-right-using...
There's also irssi-xmpp, a plugin that does a slightly better job at exposing xmpp functionality to irssi, imo. Unfortunately it does not seem to be under active development. :(
They sell them in multiples of 4 SoCs.
1) "Ostrich." They’re feeding, not hiding. And
2) "Road Runner."
minbif is an alternative that uses libpurple. It also tries harder to behave like native IRC, with better command mappings etc.
Xperia Z Updated to Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with PACman [How to]
Sounds like a fun place to keep an off-site backup, if there's ever a way to get enough bandwidth without disrupting other systems.
Not all of us have memorized all the XKCD numbers->comic title yet, so if your comment is nothing more than a link, could you at least include the title?
Maps, Translate, and YouTube are also the top services in their category.

One could make arguments that Docs, Calendar, have good third party competition, but the former three are relatively unequaled if you consider quality, quantity, cross-platform, and performance together.

Yes, there's Apple Maps or Bing Maps, but there's not available everywhere, no Web for Apple, nor Street View. YouTube competitor Vimeo is great and ad-free, but content wise, YouTube has far more. Translate is both more accurate, faster, and had more languages than competitors.
Ahh Winamp and the summer of '97. The first MP3 player I found that could play in real time on my AMD 486DX4-100, allowing me to put an MP3 player in my car. A great big joyride of inverters, regulators, monochrome 16 shade plasma screen and trackball.

And girls, looking away from their jock boyfriends and saying "You just choose it on the screen and it plays!? There's hundreds of them, they're all on here?!"". It was like driving around a time machine from the future.

Nullsoft, the leading edge of the shockwave that turned geeky cool.
So, we recently did the cost calculation of whether it was cheaper (based on an application benchmark) to use a bunch of different ARM processors vs. the Intel Sandybridge-E line. Based on our TCO numbers, Intel outperformed ARM by quite a bit.

Intel's power numbers per core were only slightly above ARM, but when it came to overall infrastructure, Intel won in terms of price overall.
Wait, Solidcoin? That's still going?
> He's pretty fast to dismiss Shen:

She's pretty fast to dismiss Shen.
I personally switched to foobar2000[1] years ago and never looked back. Some of the big reasons back then were gapless playback and proper unicode support (I have quite a bit of Japanese music in my collection), and the fact that it doesn't do anything unnecessary (like try to be a video player at the same time) - it plays (and manages) music, and does it very well. It has served my music player needs ever since - it's really rock-solid and still actively developed to date (and it's very customizable).

[1] http://www.foobar2000.org/
>Mt.Gox is the world's largest bitcoin exchange, handling about 63% of all bitcoin transactions as of April 2013.

A decentralized currency should not rely so heavily on a central exchange.
It looks to me that the answer was to disable chat by default in all games. I like this a lot in console games, for example in Dark Souls summoned players bow to one another (or use other gestures), but for a PC game that's based on team work this is just giving up.
KDE Search and Destroy, I mean Launch
Serverspec - RSpec tests for provisioned by Puppet/Chef
New Google Play terms ban non-store app updates
It is very useful for continuous integration with vagrant.
For me, the reason is that Creole (and formats like it), feels like markup. Writing Markdown feels like writing text.

I was used to most of the conventions from Markdown mostly as-is from writing plain text for a couple of decades before I first saw Markdown.

Whenever I come across Creole-style formats, I cringe - it means I need to think about the markup instead of think about just writing.
In the Netherlands, Chinese investors are building a factory to produce baby formula that will export the baby formula back to China. There are in fact limits to how much baby formula you can buy in Dutch supermarkets due to the Chinese demand. I'm always amazed at how money flows, to where profits can be made.
In Germany the milk powder already gets rationed by super market chains.

On the face of it, Germans will complain a lot louder and harder about their food security than Chinese people do, but actually we have very tough regulation that works better than pretty much everywhere else in the world, let alone China...
The "all hands" idea sounds terrible. Asking a developer is asked to answer 5 customer emails daily, each one needing a variable length of time to respond to, threatens to poison the well and become a burden. My understanding is that a developer would either try to answer the emails at the very beginning or at the very end of the day to keep distractions at a minimum.

I've seen this sort of setup work very well. It's something I've done myself (while wearing a dev hat) and found it very useful. I'd happily do it again.

Yes - being interrupted at any time would be a pain - but...

1) There are normally enough natural pauses during the day where knocking off a few customer support issues is doable. It can actually be quite a nice change of pace. It uses a separate bit of your head and you come back to that problem that just stumped you fresh after the break.

2) It's can be a mistake to worry about the productivity of individuals and neglect the productivity of the company as a whole. Slowing me down individually can make the company as a whole run faster.

3) It gets you direct contact with actual customers on a regular basis. This is pure fking gold. Lost count of the number of times this has produced insights about how the ongoing development should work. That minor annoyance that three folk mention in a row that's sounds tricky but is a 2m fix.
Personally, I've settled on DeaDBeeF in Linux, because almost nothing else can do gapless playback. Or, if you prefer console players, I recommend cmus.
Old-fashioned key copying services don't necessarily have the opportunity to make their own copy of your key.
That's especially stupid considering Poland is in the European Union and should have pretty much the same food regulatory oversight as Germany has.
I left League of Legends because they didn't ban someone which I reported 3 times for the same "toxic" behavior. Why pay money if they don't care? I stopped watching the video when they said normal players have their bad days as well. Utterly wrong. Normal players can turn to toxic players when they are confronted constantly by toxic players.

RIOT still doesn't get it and I won't return. Mechwarrior is so much fun and doesn't even need a report system ..
Actually, I think it's terrible in it's current state. I made a second account to try some heroes/practice heroes on. Recently they changed the number of reports to four per week, but I almost need to report a person per match for either feeding, afking or really bad language. I realize this is in the 'normal' bracket, which is still pretty terrible.

You might be consistently impressed, lately I have been consistently disappointed by the Dota 2 community.
Hrm. I find that wearing things that aren't strictly necessary irritates me. I don't even like watches, let alone some thing attached to my face. When I raced bikes, I ended up dumping the annoying heart rate monitor too as I did not like having this thing strapped to me. Phones work pretty well as they're just along for the ride, like a wallet or keys, and don't constrain me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations

92.35% of human population is religious, in every religion there are gods that can be easily associated with aliens.

Looking at some religios beliefs the coming of gods means all kind of things, some religions interpret them as the end of the world, the return of christ etc.

Aliens showing up will have a big impact on people beliefs, most of us will be very scared, many will believe the end of the world version and panic.

The social impact of alien existence on our current society is huge and if advanced aliens really discovered us then they sure know this and wait for our society to get more mature to be ready to meet them.
I try to stick to the most common conventions for the language I'm using.

For JavaScript this means:

* Classes use camelCase and start with an uppercase letter: BlogPost

* Constants are all uppercase: PASSWORD

* All other variables (including function names) are camelCase: getAllPosts
> $500/month? But a simple train ticket that takes you 600km away will set you back $100. Here in Europe at least.

I'm from Europe (NL) and some friends of mine did pretty much that, during college. I don't know exactly how they did it, sorry, travelling's not for me so I didn't pay attention to all the details, but they did pull off travels for very cheap.

One trick is, there's a lot more to trains and public transport (also busses--yes it may not always be comfortable) than first meets the eye. Check out local and national train company websites, ask around at the station where they sell (sometimes you get a really nice person behind the desk, and they'll help you out way beyond expectations, pay attention to what they do and what it's called, so you can order that ticket again). There's probably a bunch of Internet forums sharing tricks as well. I've booked 17h return train trips to Vienna for about 70 euros.

Another trick is sharing rides, if you need to get around in Germany (to and/or from neighbouring countries), try mitfahrgelegenheit.de, it's a carpooling website. At first I thought it'd be crazy unsafe, but I've met the coolest people on those trips.
What takes money is to travel while paying for the things you're not using back home. If you get rid of your apartment, car, gym membership etc, it's normally cheaper to travel - et least if you are from high cost places like USA, Canada and northern Europe.

I traveled in relative luxury for more than two years in Italy, Asia and Argentina for less then my previous monthly cost. Depending on your profession it might be harder to earn money while traveling though.
You must be playing a different DotA 2 than me then. To me this is by far the worst community of players I've ever been in, but then I've only played in public games. I really want to like the game, but there are so many players with terrible attitudes that there is a huge change you'll get one of those in your team that will ruin the game. I've reported quite a number of people and it makes no difference whatsoever.
Guess it's because the camera has to be super-tiny.
I am 44 and going stronger than ever. And having fun helping young developers out of the holes they more often than not dig for themselves :-)
Excuse me?

Winamp was one of the the better programs at integrating with the OS that I had know.

it had this thing called skins that made the player look whatever you wanted it to be, including the system look and feel, if you wished.

In fact , if you used a Windows OS theme, you will soon discover that Winamp native interface was much much better at what it did than Windows native(native Windows Media witch Winnamp outlook could emulate was atrocious and super bloated).
Benchmarking your sprites animations to target all devices & browsers
Why every startup should hire at least one senior designer as soon as possible
This is hard to read. And when I switch to the desktop version, Google wants me to log in. WTF?
It lacks separation between the concept of a library and a playlist. Winamp has its Media Library which you use to browse and search your media. You then play what you want by putting it in the Playlist Editor. Whereas iTunes and every other media player just plays everything in your library starting with the file you clicked on.

[EDIT] Others have covered bloat, install issues, and its updater.
Eurobus is so comfortable and inexpensive, I frequently found myself opting to spend more nights asleep on the bus when a comfortable hostel bed was available. I've done less than $500/mo in South America and S.E. Asia (Much nicer tropical beaches and interesting places).

Also, American's wouldn't be spending 300 euro / month on insurance / etc. (Presuming this because the figure was quoted in dollars).

I really liked the link though. I think I've done almost everything on that list.
"He also seems to feel very very strongly about this. I don't think many people feel the same strength of opinion towards Glass."

To me, those who dislike Google Glass mostly are those who have never tried it.

I know some people who disliked it but changed their mind after trying it out.
Well, the guy already wears (normal) glasses probably every day of his life. It's just a matter of using a different pair :)
> But Taibbi writes to incite, not to inform.

Pretty much anything written from that point of view ought to be considered for flagging and being removed from this site, as it's flame bait.
I'm in the normal bracket too and that is my experience as well. I used to max out on reports per week just reporting bad language.
There was a news story last week here in Portugal saying basically the same. Some supermarkets ran out of formula since there was a big Chinese committee here and bought them all to take/ship home.

I also know a lot of folks that work in Angola, and whenever they come here, they buy some products (baby formula included) like they own a boarding school or something. 3-4 car trunks full of stuff to send over.
Nobody in their right mind would hold a cell phone for most of the waking hours continously at their head.

I wonder how problematic Bluetooth and WiFi are for your health.
This thread and especially your comment remind me of Cory Doctorow's short story '0wnz0red':

http://www.salon.com/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/
Wasn't the camera one of the biggest selling points Google tried to make? Looking at picture quality in the blog post and the Glass demo at Google I/O 2012, there is a clear disconnect, in my opinion.
> This is a persistent myth, but if you examine the math it doesn't work out. A VC firm could improve their returns by at most 2x or 3x by extracting really good terms from an inexperienced founder. But that's rounding error compared to the 100x difference between a big success and a small one.

Can you explain this? If by some method you can get overall 2x the returns, why does it matter that most of the income is in the big hits? 2x is 2x regardless.
Monty Python varies in quality (especially some of the shorter sketches), but Life of Brian is a hilarious satire of religion and political movements in general: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krb2OdQksMc
Link to the desktop version of this post: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/ZLV9Gdmk...
So we should just let those whoes mothers died or are unable to produce enough milk starve to death?
I believe that this type of crisis ultimately hits everyone with an analytical mind, given the current school system. That is at least the conclusion that I've drawn from my similar experiences. The urge to understand is not catered for in school. Questions and discussions are not encouraged. Instead, you are supposed to succumb and absorb enourmous amounts of information as fact. First after doing this, you are allowed to form your own opinions. A clear bottom-up approach.

This does not work well for an analytical mind, and as I see it there are very few choices for us who prefer top-down. I feel that the hacker community is one place which caters for us, given the unrestricted access to information on all levels. But in school there is usually very little you can do except be quiet and take notes, like a robot.

The consequence is that top-down analytical minds have a tendency to skip studies and ultimately hit this crisis. And because bottom-up people eventually will start to draw conclusions from their fact bases and gain the ability to reason, you will be outsmarted.

The real fix for this in my mind is to start catering for the top-downs, with more focus on how disciplines interrelate, their background and history, and less focus on direct facts and methods.
Interesting; to be clear: the people in Mountain View didn't seem to have any clue of the kinds of things I worked on, even after I attempted to carefully explain it to them (doing demos on my iPhone, etc.).
How to Really Understand Someone Else's Point of View
> I've booked 17h return train trips to Vienna for about 70 euros.

Yes, and that's about $100 :) Well okay, it's $91.

Anyway you're right about carpooling. I've noticed that when you're traveling in a group of more than 2 and less than 5, a car is always the best and cheapest option.
When you travel on budget, you usually don't take trains, but hitchhike. And you can always get a bed with couchsurfing.org
Isn't it clear that, as with any electronics product, price will go down over time? So even if they launch at $500, in a few years there will be a version for $200. So the question might be more how strongly they want to boost adoption at launch. And this could be a product that actually needs a slower adoption, to get people used to it.
Hi,

I want to introduce a tool which allows creating custom
checklists, sharing them, printing, etc. - for free:
http://checkvist.com . There are some premium features,
but they are not checklist-oriented. You can create list,
share it with your team, clone the checklist, print it.

May be someone will find it useful :)

Thanks,
KIR
> Be it true or not, that rubs some people the wrong way.

Huh? If it is true and it rubs some people the wrong way, is that bad?

> He's living within a few tens of percent above the poverty line

I'm not sure what living a few tens of percents above the poverty-line really means, unless you mean tenths of percents? Still, that is not what poverty is. There are more than enough people in the US living in actual poverty but I'm pretty sure this guy has it pretty good. This is because, and that is part of his message, that how good you have it in life is only in so far dependant on how much money you have to spend. It depends on all sorts of factors of relative wealth, of which he has collected a great amount in various ways.
I agree. I also ditched HRM on the bike, but even found something as innocuous as a Fitbit a burden.

When the Fitbit worked, it worked well... but then after a couple of weeks it broke and when the utility and value of it has fallen away it is immediately an annoyance.

I think, for Google, that ensuring that the value proposition is quite solid (mature offering of services via Glass) that it will do well.

The worst thing for them would be to launch too early when the value is not yet proven, and for poor network connectivity, poor software, to turn the "Wow" into annoyance.
I usually agree with you. I can't stand most programs that don't use a native Windows interface. Even GTK ones can annoy me. However, Winamp is the one exception I actually like. Perhaps partly because you aren't forced to use a horrible, brightly-coloured, sparse interface that many of them get. Utilities that get forced upon you with device drivers are usually the worst at this.
Desktop version: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/meet-mr-money-mustach...
I use VLC. It has a playlist, that's enough for it to satisfy my mp3 needs.
I'm actually pretty curious how this will fit for people who already wear glasses or some kind of eyewear. Will there be prescription Google Glass(es)? That could shoot the price way up, especially if Google is the only merchant for them. Who will make the lenses for me? Could I get my favorite glasses merchant to make my glasses, or will I be forced to get a $700 special prescription pair from Google? Maybe people with poor eyesight could never wear them at all?

I am completely on board with the product and hope for its success--but I am convinced that the entire product is merely the first iteration that will eventually make way for contact lenses, which will be the true long-term viable version of this product. Right now, Google Glass will be good for gathering information not only about the world around us as we already do with smartphones, but for understanding how customers and developers would begin to use such a product--and then applying that information towards improvement in what will ultimately be lenses.
I don't think it'll be too different from pulling out your phone from a politeness standpoint.

This is the point a lot of Glass proponents don't seem to get. They assume that not paying attention to you whilst looking at your face is somehow more polite than looking at your phone. It's not.

I suspect that over time Glass will become like Bluetooth earpieces. Perfect for use alone but a faux pas around other people.
How would you explain it?
"...though I still breezed through college (prestigious school in 3.5 years, deans list, didn't "study"). I probably related that story here (and definitely did on reddit in one of those kids-called-gifted-where-are-you-now thread), so I'll spare us that story again."

Sorry but reading this makes me want to wretch -- the Bard character from Asterix comes to mind ;-)
The way he presents the priming results makes me really suspicious that they made statistical errors.

First, the numbers are all given as percentages relative to a control. This makes the measured changes appear larger. If the control percentage was 5%, then a relative increase of 20% is just an absolute increase from 5% to 6%. (Also, the relative increase inherits variation from both the control and the target bin.)

Second, the data is presented as if it were cherry picked. They give the most interesting bins or transitions between similar bins, instead of discussing metrics over all of the bins.

I did a very rough estimate of the variation you'd expect to see, given 217 bins of binomial distributions with n=10^5 and p=0.05 where you report percentages relative to one of the bins. It's on the order of +-5%, despite the large sample sizes. Minor changes in protocol could increase this to +-30% and explain all of their results.

The wild swings when the color or font is changed increase my suspicion that they're seeing noise (because I really don't expect priming to be that strong).

Note that this is based entirely on the very superficial amount of data the presenter included in his slides. It may also be the case that they just omitted statistical details because they expected it to be boring to the audience.
You're trying to replicate on demand, at the last minute, the discipline, focus, and maturity that the others have gained and heavily practiced over the same years that you apparently spent fooling around. It has nothing to do with intelligence, really. Self comparisons and value judgements are pretty useless when all you really need to do is put in the time required to achieve your goals. You may have to accept that it's just going to take longer to get where you want to be because you lost some time. Ultimately, I'd rather be the new you, getting wiser about life, instead of the old you patting yourself on the back about how smart you are but getting nowhere.
Without discussing if Bluetooth and WiFi are bad for your health, it would be way better to keep those transmitters and receivers close to your head than for instance your upper body.
Your skull is quite dense and blocks radiation way more than the soft material that protects your heart and lungs.
President Obama stands up for women in address to Planned Parenthood