skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not possible to "attract them all", different people find different things attractive, and honestly I don't think "attract them all" is a very desirable predicament, better to have a deep connection with one person than dealing with many shallow connections. Besides, and I know this is a cliche by now, but repeated so much because it's true... confidence (not to be confused with arrogance) is the most attractive quality. Be healthy, sure, but ultimately be comfortable in your own skin.
They make a reliable coffee, which is in many ways more important to me than it being "amazing" coffee.

similar to OP, I travel constantly for work. seeing the big Starbucks logo is a huge comfort. I think one aspect is down to the training. Starbucks employers know how to serve up their mediocre coffee, and that appreciate. I can't count the times that I've been in a random city, decided to try a local place for coffee, and then had to explain why I didn't want to put raw sugar in my iced coffee. There's a pretty key attribute involved in quickly dissolving sugar in a liquid. The "ice" is not one of those attributes. Even places like dunkin donuts fail to train their employees on the sugar dissolving mechanics. Starbucks allows me to order a coffee and then actually drink it, rather than chew it...

That's a valuable quality!
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I have a bunch of these Linux ARM boards including the original beaglebone, rpi, pcduino, ODROID-X2 and a few others. Most of these have less than stellar IO and almost all are 10/100 only. The i.MX6-based Sabre Lite has gigE, although perf maxes out much lower. Here's lots of details: http://boundarydevices.com/i-mx6-ethernet/ - it can't get close to maxing out a single, much less two ports.

If you are looking for something exclusively to do routing, you really should take a look at dedicated hardware from guys like Mikrotik http://routerboard.com/ or Ubiquiti http://dl.ubnt.com/Tolly212128UbiquitiEdgeRouterLitePricePer... - they're actually cheaper than the Sabre Lite and perform much, much better. They're also pretty open/hackable to boot.
Oh, you just have to make your model more interesting. If the involved parties have different value functions for the pizza, cutting can be more advantageous.

Suppose you really like tomatoes and I like everything equally. Than I will make a cut that has slightly more than half of the tomatoes in one set, and everything else in the other. This way I will gain almost all of the pizza (minus half the tomatoes plus epsilon).

Even more extreme, if your utility functions are `context-sensitive'. I.e. suppose there's a grid pattern on the pizza: horizontal mozzarella stripes and vertical ham stripes. I care about getting long mozzarella stripes, but don't want short stripes. Same applies to you and the ham stripes. Of course, the cutter has an advantage there.
"Most of the existing evidence is produced by the e-cig industry. Hardly worth the paper it is written on."

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-study-of-ele...

>> Note also that this is an independent study which was not funded by any electronic cigarette company. The two funding sources were the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland and the National Institutes of Health. This adds objectivity and credibility to the work.

The results of this study are close to the evidence from studies funded by ecig companies, making those all the more credible too.
We use something like this called BankID[1] in Sweden to log in to banks and to several other governemental agencies.

[1] http://www.bankid.com/en/what-is-bankid/
I guess in the US may be different, but in Europe people usually make the weekly food shop either during the week (after work or before work) or on Saturdays. Almost everything is closed on Sundays. Also, what do you mean by built-up areas? In Spain, Germany and UK (countries where I've spent most time) you can get to almost any place with public transportation. Maybe they come once an hour, but for planned shopping this should not be a problem.
You can't find those answers because there aren't any.

There aren't any answers because it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter how many levels you have, nor how many points things are assigned. There aren't any formulas for how they add up, either, because either they add up, or they don't.

Gamification isn't something you install, add some hooks in at appropriate points, and magically have user engagement. It's not logging.

It's applied psychology.

There aren't answers to how many levels you have because levels are shorthand for recognition of accomplishment. Points are proxies for the player's sense of self-worth. How do you define accomplishment in your system? What are reasonable, logical, or emotionally meaningful ways to break that up? How do you break that down into learnable tasks and efforts within those systems?

Those aren't rhetorical questions. I'm asking you those questions. The first two establish your levels, the third establishes things that are worth points. Maybe you earn points and those let you progress through levels. Maybe they're independent. It's whatever makes sense for incentivizing your system.

I ran some design workshops a while back, and one of them was on applied gamification. Out of five or six groups of 2-3 designer/developers, only one really "got" it, and applied game mechanics in a way that might actually be meaningful to users.

The rest applied it superficially and if they had been real products, they would have failed.

http://vi.to/workshop/20100426/ has my write-up of the workshop and the exercise they did, and http://vi.to/gmnotes has my notes, including the handouts and my references. I'd start with those.

Oh, and if one of the "famous books on gamification" is the O'Reilly one, I'd forget everything you read there. That book is atrocious. http://gamification-research.org/2011/09/a-quick-buck-by-cop... is a good example of some of the negative coverage it received, and I never recommend it. Read books by psychologists, by people who have designed and launched video games, and by academics who do actual research and testing of their theories.
It is an ugly hack, but /you/ could just scale initial investment, monthly investment and desired monthly income by the same factor.
I thought the whole point of the post was the analyses and methods and that the outcome was of little importance, but was only there to make the subject more interesting, gripping, and relevant.
No one answer could possibly handle every situation. I've seen the "benevolent dictator" thing work, and I've seen it fail. I've seen "core teams" where everyone has equal commit privileges, and some of those produce good results, but some don't.

Then there are hybrids, where you have a big company and stuff gets sliced up. eng/foo is owned by one group, but eng/bar is owned by another. Then there's hr/secret which is owned by a third group and isn't even readable outside of that group. The trick is that someone in eng/bar can submit a patch to one of the owners for eng/foo, and if that person cares to approve it, then it can be applied.

Can this be abused? Sure. Get approval for your change and then modify it to be evil before you check it in. If the systems in place aren't specific about what approval means and the people have bad intentions (or maybe are just clueless), then it's possible to make all kinds of disasters.

The better question is: who or what is going to make sure someone actually owns something? Just having some code in your depot is no assurance that anyone is taking care of it. You might not find out that it's broken until long after the last developer has moved on to greener pastures.
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Am I the only one being very underwhelmed by this simply by the fact that it's from Notch? The bar is set so high and this feels like something made by someone doing a Unity tutorial. I know it's a skewed way of thinking but I can't help it.
So ... who makes the decisions?

Johnny wants to make a change. Jim says "no". Johnny's now pissed, because Jim's broken code is causing him problems. Jim's pissed, because Johnny wants to touch "his" code. And let's pretend, for a minute, that they aren't both 100% perfect employees (because I know the answer is - "they'll sort it out sensibly" - we need rules for when common sense breaks down).
Or there is also this solution:

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120110469

What do you guys think of it?
This feature was a Gmail labs feature for quite some time before being fully implemented in March of 2010. This feature is old news (though not as old as claw mail), but I can understand why people just discovering it would be excited about it.
Dohub is hiring Scala Lift/AKKA developers
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If you're interested, send an email with your CV to finbarr@dohub.co.uk. We can then arrange a suitable time to take you through the project and the roles in more detail. cheers,
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Agreed...

I travel heavily as well, and I can't think of any trip recently that did not include a Starbucks visit (FWIW, Panera is my other go-to). I know what I'm going to get (and not get) when I go there, and the last thing I need on the road is more random variables.

When I am at home, I stop in every day at a local small coffee shop that imports their own beans, roasts them, etc. The coffee is WAY better than anything at Starbucks. But independent places can be very hit or miss (as you note). I wouldn't go to an independent coffee shop on the road unless it came highly recommended by someone local.

I don't go to Starbucks because it's the best possible cup, I go there because it's the best possible consistent experience.
great job, but a favicon would be nice :)
Ah, I see.

I guess I will point out that this doesn't seem to be the case. As we see from this very post the kernel sources are released, and from the earlier posts we know Glass can be unlocked with the standard Nexus style 'fastboot oem unlock', so Glass (at least through Google, who knows what other OEMs might do) will be as open as Nexus phones from what we can tell.
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Is Flash "web-based" if it doesn't work in iOS?
Hey thanks for your feedback. We do need a logo and a favicon. Any suggestions for getting a logo designed?
Mobile pictures astray (Translated article)
FYI - the latest Unity3D can export in Flash format too.
Car yes, deodorant no. Not all chemicals are created equally, and it doesn't help anyone to make unfair comparisons.

I do sympathise with the smokers here, who see e-cigarettes as a compromise, but ultimately it's a compromise that non-smokers shouldn't have to make, because like everyone should have the right to do to their own body what they want, they also don't have the right to passively drug someone else and impose your own choices on other people. That's not okay.
I am sorry to disappoint you neilk. Hope we or someone else can create in pure ruby in the future.
I think there are like 20-30 services doing the same thing. Most common Show HN seems to be a Show HN aggregator.
To the author: since you're at Northwestern, don't forget about Rich Gordon [1]. He's the guy who started the scholarship program to bring working programmers to Medill to learn journalism [2].

To hackers: check out [2]. You can get a scholarship to learn journalism at one of the best schools in the nation.

[1] http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/faculty/journalismfulltim...
[2] http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/admissions/page.aspx?id=5...
Are not majority of such features was not included in "strict" version of specification?
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Listen up you extremely cantankerous lot, it's the submission's title that is 'wrong' in calling it web-based, not the fact that it uses a Unity plugin. I am amused by the wisecracks calling Notch's work a failure because of a small inaccuracy in the submission title.
why is office being compared to an opensource school/college ERP ?
Dropbox should really do this.
PHP with Laravel. I can highly recommend it. It really is a RoR-like experience, only without the 'I don't know what just happened but it looks allright'.
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Income is only a part of the picture when it comes to poverty. Assets count too. Not having to pay rent or a mortgage because you own your house outright makes a significant difference, for example. Most people could have higher disposable income on a much lower salary if they didn't have to meet rent/mortgage, make car payments, service historic debts, etc.
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For those who follow tl;dr religiously, the answer is: Yes it is.
The returns on your investments may certainly vary under lots of circumstances. But if you're able to living on under 50% of your income, then we're simply talking about how good the outcome will be — not whether it'll be good or not.
> the first method would have a lot of false positives

Exactly. So this is just an index of links to movie pages on IMDB.
Looks like autoSpaceLikeWord95 is defined in ISO/IEC 29500-4:2012 "Information technology -- Document description and processing languages -- Office Open XML File Formats -- Part 4: Transitional Migration Features" as compatibility feature for unicode handling bug and ever has full name "Incorrectly Adjust Text Spacing for Specific Unicode Ranges".
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Ah so many opportunities for mischief.
When I was in SF I saw people who'd taken apart the cartridges and filled them with hash oil. Seemed to work pretty well.
I'm interested in what other poems you read.
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Price mistakes happen all the time and your orders get cancelled...
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In the UK the NHS has district nurses one whose roles is exactly this sort of work and it can make big difference especially where the GP is underperforming. These patients can be unwilling to change GP to a better one (which you can do in the NHS).
Really useful, thanks!
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I'd recommend the postal service. It works really great and have a long record of actually delivering the stuff you give them. The "blue" boxes in the movie are btw very common in Denmark, when you order something you can have them shipped to the boxes, so you can pick your package up 24/7.
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> If you're making the equivalent of $50 an hour, an hour spent agonizing over how to save $25 is a net loss for you.

Only if you would have spent that hour working instead, and if you would actually earn an extra $50 (net) for working that hour (many people wouldn't), and if that potential hour's work is now lost to you.

It's pretty rare for all three of those things to be full, and most of the people I've ever met who have been in that scenario have learned pretty quickly that working every hour possible isn't really a fun way to spend your life.
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A Norwegian girl, living abroad, enabled "auto upload my pictures to Google+" on her phone and for some reason they end up in a Norwegian IT journalists Google+. Everything from full passport details to regular photos are uploaded. The journalist can see Geo location etc as well. Google keep stating it is not possible and the journalist are experiencing problems contacting Google.
What does this have anything to do with Windows?
From the methods outlined in the thread so far, I think I'd pick Akamai after a quick test of each of them. (results in the following are based on the 'real' value returned in a 'time' command

Google 'ping' "baseline" from my ISP
20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 19.858/23.823/31.484/2.593 ms

#/SITE/METHOD
#1: myip.opendns.com (dig)
#2: whatismyip.akamai.com (curl)
#3: ifconfig.me (curl)
#4: ip.nux.ro (curl)
#5: icanhazip.com (curl)

RESULTS

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5
0.051 0.144 3.45 0.24 0.333
0.05 0.143 7.229 0.237 0.106
0.053 0.147 1.986 0.246 0.103
0.047 0.143 7.065 0.246 0.109
0.045 0.145 2.15 0.257 0.102
0.046 0.141 4.301 0.273 0.113
0.05 0.141 2.763 0.242 0.103
0.048 0.144 3.685 0.251 0.114
0.045 0.149 15.312 0.256 0.195
0.047 0.148 5.091 0.244 0.118
0.044 0.144 2.637 0.248 0.133
5.038 0.142 1.535 0.247 0.109
0.049 0.143 7.065 0.238 0.115
0.044 0.146 4.098 0.241 0.106
0.05 0.145 1.665 0.248 0.216
0.05 0.142 1.365 0.261 0.108
0.051 0.143 2.509 0.256 0.159
0.046 0.17 5.323 0.245 0.109
0.044 0.141 83.252 0.246 0.117
0.05 0.145 1.435 0.242 0.119

0.048 0.144 3.685 0.246 0.113 MEDIAN
0.310 0.145 8.551 0.248 0.135 AVERAGE
1.144 0.006 18.377 0.008 0.057 STDEV
Beautiful and simple visualization. The meteors/comets shooting by were a great touch. Did you make this spindritf?
Spot on! The only time I smoke is on a Friday night with a pint of ale and I enjoy smoking my weekly roll ups far too much to consider quitting. I know the health risks, but when I live in London and inhale car fumes for an hour whilst cycling to and from work everyday, the pleasures I get from smoking few cigarettes on a friday night exceed the health implications by a long way!
This reminds me of the health care cost paradox that Atul Gawande wrote about in 2011. In Camden, NJ, one percent of the patients accounted for as much as a third of the city's medical costs. A doctor proposed in a small study that giving these lost causes better care actually reduced costs overall. But good luck convincing politicians to devote more money to cocaine addicts and extremely obese patients.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_...
Atul Gawande wrote about a similar initiative in Camden, NJ, two years ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_...
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They always could have underscore. But beware of browser issues (cookies will fail in IE - at least pre 9 versions, for example).
And it's amazing how much fear a little innovation can create.
This is an interesting point of view, and almost exactly the opposite of mine.

I also travel a lot and I love it. I travel in order to experience new cultures, people, food and drink. The last thing I want to see when I have traveled half way across the world is something that I see on my own freaking street.

The smallest and most remote places in the world seem to have widely available wireless internet access in lots of coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and bus terminals. I'd much rather support the local, little guys when travelling. It's usually cheaper, tastier and you meet many more amazing people inside. You're right in saying that Starbucks is consistent, but for me half the fun of travelling is playing menu roulette and seeing what you end up with.

I do understand the occasional need for a "taste of home", a haven of comfort if you will (In my case, hunting for a full English breakfast after days of eating fish and rice). I guess the line between "a recognizable, familiar, and reliable brand" and "overarching corporate crusher of culture" seems a little blurred to me.
I have no idea how the alcohol industry gets away with it tbh...I guess they have some serious lobbying power, in fact I know a lot of the anti-drug campaigns are driven by the alcohol industry, one of their biggest threats is probably cannabis!
this site has been hacked by hackernews (aka the site is down because of hackernews) :D

EDIT: Working for me again
"So, other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080803233506AA...
I dig Nutshell, it's configurable enough to not just be for classic sales I just removed all the defaults and started from scratch).
Sure. Modern SoCs are so integrated that its really just wiring up IO and maybe some flash RAM. A good place to start are the Atmel AT91SAM line of chips.
Koichi Sasada first contributed Ruby 1.9 VM(YARV) & now new GC algo. Its amazing that how much big dent an single person can make to a language/ecosystem used by millions around the world #Respect.
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> you can read the methods and they check out.

I'm a materials scientist specializing in microscopy and image analysis, not an astrophysicist. In my area of interest, there is rarely sufficient information published to confidently repeat results. Indeed, the current reproducible research community had origins in computer vision (and was then embraced by the biostatistics community). I applaud the expectation of openness - especially if funded by government grants. Too often, we taxpayers pay for research that get trapped behind paywalls.

I agree the the academic astrophysics community has it tough. This is symptomatic of the entire academic community that is producing too many Ph.D.s desiring too few academic positions. Guess what - it will only get worse when the unsustainable government spending and debt causes the education bubble to burst.
IP checking's not necessarily going to help. If I get your passwords, I'm going to try them with every site I know about in a matter of seconds.

Public key crypto does seem to be a better solution - I've heard it proposed a number of times among security people now. And it has some nice features even when you assume that user computers are still vulnerable to attack.

• It seems to be a harder problem to hack all the users of a service than it is to hack the service itself

• If you abstract the public key stuff into the browser nothing would change in that regard. You can use different passwords packaged with your key. Personally I don't think it's worth the bother if you assume that people tend to use the same passwords but... whatever.

• You could do all the crypto on a token and use interface controllers to reduce your attack surface there.

The difficult bit, as far as I can tell at the moment, is that it requires people to know that there's a file they need to keep safe if they want to hang onto their accounts. I really think you'd need a physical token to get it down to the level that many people are capable of understanding, and then you'd better pray they don't lose it....

If we're gonna trend that way, we add complexity - and that's not going to get people to adopt.
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What features/offerings are currently missing in the personal analytics / quantified self space?
It doesn't look like a mistake if you see the pricing history.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+5150+%40+...
Bought two! One for me and one for my homies.
How do you learn to make these things?
Well, now we're fighting mental illness at an alarming rate due to many factors - that we could manage better.

I'd like to see the graph of rate of mental illness from the past, to now - and yes, I realize there's a strong argument for that we're better at diagnosing people now, however it just doesn't add up IMHO.
How can you know that your instance is talking to the real CloudHSM and not a software emulation that can reveal the keys?
At some point Amazon might be forced (by some wiretapping lawys, or subpoena) to fake the HSM presented to your instances and give others access to your keys.

Of course the attack window is considerably reduced, if they want to perform this attack they have to do it when you initially set up the CloudHSM, they can't replace it later with a fake HSM, but still...
They're (almost) half that on eBay[0].

0. http://www.ebay.com/itm/271196427487
For finding some nice colors to try in his/her flat designs I'd presume?
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Reason #12 why I will not use Google Glass or talk (beyond "hi" and "Yeah, nice weather") to one that has them on. I don't care how much they keep pushing them, they have their agenda, I have mine.

Stuff like this has the potential of ruining lives and relationships.