skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Our ability to access information isn't the problem.

I disagree with you both on this point and your characterization of Glass as a "subtle overlay of noisy information".

Nowadays, although that information access is quick, it could be quicker and more seamless. There's a world of difference between:

1. Fishing out your smartphone from your pants/bag/wherever

2. Unlocking it (with requisite passcode, thanks corporate IT)

3. Bringing up the search app

4. And either saying what you want after invoking the voice search (and hoping it comes up right, or else you get to do it over again) or typing what you want (and hoping you made no mistakes).

And:

1. Saying, at any time, "Ok Glass, search for (thing)", and having the results played back so you can hear them.

The first one feels contrived and annoying, the second feels passive and natural in comparison.

Glass is unique in that the first two steps of that transaction are eliminated outright, and the third is reduced to saying some magic words. The fourth is greatly mitigated by the fact that Glass is likely in a better position to capture your voice than the speakerphone mic on your smartphone.

Passive access to information (and I'm saying access, not overlay, for a good reason)
is going to be the next big thing for precisely this reason, ease of use!

But let's take another example. I'm sure you've seen the posts decrying someone "missing out" on some event because they were too busy recording it. Now? That's not a problem anymore. "Ok Glass, record a video". You're done. You don't have to think about it, you just launch the recording and then go back to whatever you were doing.

Focus? You barely even see Glass unless you're actively looking up at it. Indeed, you need to "focus" on it to use it. The transaction is just reduced from messing with your phone to an upwards glance.

This is also why I disagree with your assessment of glass as being both an overlay (which it isn't), and noisy (which it isn't, and which would go against the guidelines anyways).

I'm finding more and more that people who feel they need to "disconnect" are simply failing at technology. You are no more connected than you let yourself be! If you are so wired in, by your own choices, that you feel the need to get away from it all for a length of time, how about just not wiring yourself in that tightly?
Draw a map of drug-related violence. Draw a map of poverty. Same map?
Happiness?

> I'll be here in my log cabin in the mountains, looking at the stars

He needed a physical thing in a physical location doing a specific action to acquire this happiness, and you presume to suggest that others can't have happiness on other criteria? That enjoyment can't be found in other ways?

More importantly, it's how the OP defined success. It's arrogance masked under a guise of zen attitude.
Reliable statistics on the lung cancer danger of smoking have always been difficult to find ... particularly for second-hand smoke ... possibly because it's easier to blame cigs than to find real numbers for the hundreds of carcinogens we're all regularly exposed to, all day long, wherever. Society must have its scapegoats, and smokers are a (relatively powerless) minority.

The lung cancer statistics I've seen usually for cig-smoking fall around 3 per 100,000 for second-hand smoke and about 50 per 100,000 for a half-pack-a-day smoker. Considering what's in E-cigs, the risks are, at worst, a very tiny fraction of these numbers.

So yes, for E-cigs, "For no health reason, but for governments to demonstrate their power and how they are doing something" is a very likely explanation. But consider the insane response to global warming, and what more should we expect?
My understanding of the original scene is that the police first on the scene were not very good, so even if the DNA on the knife is hers, one has to think about contamination by the original (postal) police.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Meredith_Kercher#Disc...
Using my google-fu ;) I found this link which may or may not be any good(http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html).

I have never used operators myself, I think just the way you structure and choose your words wisely has the most impact.
Article on statistics, IDing, and trials from a former professor of mine: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1432516 (free download).

Also very depressing to read his work on forensics. Long story short, everything in CSI besides DNA evidence is an unscientific sham. And even DNA evidence is dominated by lab error (1-2%). See: lst.law.asu.edu/fs09/pdfs/koehler4_3.pdf.
Interesting concept but,

1. It seems to fail silently for searches it cannot find, making you doubt whether it works at all or something wrong with your web browser.

2. If you are going to make it such a heavily scripting dependent site, then why not add price comparison on the rollovers or some other way to see prices immediately following a search?

3. It does not seem to work with Internet Explorer 8 or old Firefox browsers (3.6.* generation).
For anyone who doesn't know what "Woodward" refers to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Woodward_case
For web applications, I loved what I could do with Java EE and GWT.
And yet the mathematics in the article seems bogus to me, too. Can anyone figure out what calculation Colmez is doing?

I'm not a statistician, but if you toss a fair coin 20 times, there is about 0.1% chance of getting 17 heads, but to figure out the probability that the coin is fair given this data, it seems you need Bayes' theorem, which requires a prior probability on the coin being fair.
And apparently, people are willing to pay even without the creators having to give up equity. So even if that option legally existed today, why would they?
Hash/GUID collision is exactly what I suspect. I wonder if we'll learn anything from this, or if we'll ever even see an analysis.
Yeah, that rat-race competition bit really rubbed me the wrong way. As if we aren't already competing for enough things, now I'm supposed to worry that John Doe is stealing all my potential good experiences because of his Glass? Maybe this appeals to and motivates others to buy, but definitely not me.
I don't know about that, Wikipedia was down for a whole day last year.
Ajay Bhatt, inventor of the USB, tech rockstar
It's really useful to me.

I have a filter for messages to:
m.y.g.m.a.i.l@gmail.com

which marks the message read and moves it out of my inbox.

This is the address I give out to companies whose correspondences I don't care to read generally but don't necessarily want to go directly to the trash.
If your idea to going to help people do something better than the existing tools at hand, you can worry about money later. But it helps to have a plan.
Correct, which is insanely cool. It's like a design contest - if an organization crowdsources all of their design work it is tacky and offensive, but having a rare or occasional contest is a great way to get talented fans involved.
I'd be happy if you asked him what he smokes for me. I stopped smoking a pipe half a year ago (earlier I was smoking cigs) and I sometimes miss that heavy, but quite good smelling smoke from the pipe.
I don't like that RFLP analysis is still so common. Practitioners of forensics should genotype a few hundred thousand markers and be done with it. I see that Illumina offers tools for this purpose, in fact: http://www.illumina.com/applications/forensics.ilmn?sciid=20...
Because it's never been legal to do so.

And even now it's still not actually fully legal. Congress passed the JOBS act to allow for equity based crowd funding but the SEC has blown past deadlines to actually implement it and make it a reality. Who knows when it'll actually be fully legal, hopefully some time this decade.
Crowdsourcing in Manhunts Can Work
Not sure I understand: the issue you're having is with the grammatical makeup of the sentence, and thus a grammar error. It doesn't fall under some different purview just because it seems easier to fix.
Ha. As a company that's had six figure law bills we've negotiated back to mid 5s thanks to careful documentation on our part, this tool sounds compelling. A real problem.
This is always a good one:
https://www.mybalsamiq.com/
Nice job!

Are you applying some filters for showing posts or every post
with "Show HN" will appear there?
And very very weak. But don't bother saying that.

As others say, the smell is far weaker that after-lunch booze, deodorant, BO, auto exhaust, bad breath, leather, hand sanitizer, and to a vegetarian, meat.

Sure, you could sniff your coworkers to discover who ate corned beef, and who vaped at lunch, but neither is at the level that we'd call it offensive in an office setting.

The only reason people are complaining is because cigarettes are bad and by extension everything related to everything related is bad, and people love jumping on the bandwagon.
I cannot imagine how shocked he must have been to have such immense amounts of knowledge at his fingertips. Coming out of prison and seeing new incredible technologies would be amazing. When I was a teenager I worked at a grocery store and I was washing my hands in the bathroom. The faucets were motion activated. A man walked up to them and looked at them and then looked at me and said, "How do you turn these on?" I told him that you just put your hands underneath and they turn on automatically. He said, "Wow, I've been in prison for a while."
1) It's not like those facilities are sitting around empty right now. If we close them only by the amount that we reduce the need for them, we'll have about the same reserve capacity.
It makes all those comments that flat design doesn't convey enough information, and makes everything indistinguishable, so true. It makes it very hard to understand what I'm seeing.

I took screenshot of same location with the original map and put it next to a screenshot of the "flat" map. http://imgur.com/TdFqpmw

Honestly, aside from some of the missing overlays & text on the "flat" side - I can't see too much of a difference between the two....
There is a difference between knowing someone at Google and getting someone at Google to go on the record in regard to a customer service issue with a free product as "spokesperson Cristine Sorensen" is reported to have done.
BankID is using pretty standard public key crypto with a custom API. http://wiki.fribid.se/ has some docs on how it works (in swedish).
Show HN: Social Blogging - How to start using Glipho
What language should I learn?
I thought the same thing then thought it's the US so maybe drugs, yup.

With such a large cocaine network in the 80s, especially in Miami, I doubt there weren't some deaths directly connected to the operation.
Ask HN: How to convince site visitors to "Sign up with Facebook"?
Hi. I recently announced the pre-launch of Kloser.me on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5611680). Kloser uses authorized facebook data to connect and match people with similar interests and personalities. On the first day of launch, I was able to get 250+ visits thanks to HN, but only a few ended up actually "Signing up" for the service, using Facebook. I could have let users sign up using their emails during this pre-launch, but eventually such users will have to authorize Kloser to import facebook data in order to get started.

Which methods you think I can use to convince users to "Login with facebook"?

Thanks.
> The name "Pirates" does not mean robbers but is meant to indicate an analogy between the freedom of the international seas and the freedom of the internet.

Uhm, well, no. It comes from The Pirate Bay, a website where you can download predominantly copyrighted media without the consent of the copyright holder. It got there (probably) ironically, as those engaged in such activities had been labeled 'pirates'. The original pirates were not about "the freedom of the international seas", they were simple criminals, and not of the ambiguous kind that modern-day copyright 'pirates' are.

It all good, and I wish the pirate parties of the world the best of luck, but let's not over-romanticize the origin of the term.
Haha I count at least 7!

I guess what I wrote is entirely subjective, I wonder how many people would agree or disagree with my statement, or at least my feeling towards how others would view our sentience and life in general?

I really don't think humanity and life is insignificant even when we are small in comparison to giant stars and distances and short-lived in comparison to the age of the universe.
Ask HN: Lean & lowtech founders: How to choose a stack?
Suppose you are planning a startup (buzzwords: lean, B2B, computationally intensive: medium), but the founders are lowtech. Well I can program my way through some hacking challenges, but that's all very fragmented.

We've started out by sketching our product, doing product and customer research and are now in a phase where we make our design a lot more specific. What will be in our first offering and what do we want to achieve later on? Building a slidedeck, so to speak. (Fully knowing that when product meets customer, all bets are off.) Future phases would be grooming a first client and / or capitalist and starting the first (small) build.

That's where things get tricky: We are going to be hugely dependent on the quality of programmers, code and stack we select. On the one hand, you can burn cash like crazy getting a few high-stakes programmers on board. But that's not really on the table. On the other hand, we can take more risk, but save money, by building in parts via Elance. (This trade-off is only an illustration.)

Any tips on how to approach this phase?

-How do you choose a stack for a product if others are to build?

-Any good reads from people who've been there before?

-How do you minimise risks when hiring in a lean way?

-Are lean and nontech founders a no-go in your opinion?

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
You meant 'How I used Hacker news to barely sell my eBook"?
TripCommon Friendmap - TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
This is fun to play with, though it looks like it generally comes down to Obj-C vs Java.
Watch The NY Disrupt 2013 Hackathon Presentations Live
1. The bigger universe that spawned us
2. The multiverse that generated us
2. The same energy that generated this universe
3. Everything
4. Nothing

Pick... some?
...and 'hereis':

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I hope you resolve this downtime as comments are favorable, and it appears interesting.
You can very easily disable the app causing it to be no longer present in it's unextracted form, meaning it's effectively uninstalled.
Coincidently I came across this a few hours ago from http://designmodo.com/flat-design-colors/ when looking for some quick and easy flat colour palettes for an iOS application.

It is no doubt initially confusing, I clicked a colour but had no idea it had copied to the clipboard. Furthermore when it wasn't apparent what the top drop down menu actually did when you didn't know about the copying functionality.

Regardless, in the end I got the colours I wanted. Had no idea they were the same colours as from the flat-ui package.
> I feel like there is a bigger lesson in this story: I've got to stop making people feel silly for not getting my Star Wars references, and they've got to understand that there's no logical reason I'd know anything about the big names in fashion

Not convinced by this: you work in the fashion industry. Sure, not knowing that in 2003 rustic/peasant chic was big (again!) would be acceptable, but not knowing the big names? Surely a certain amount of domain knowledge ought to be expected from you?
Google Drive Now Automatically Syncs Files for Offline Editing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_product

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic.

15 trillion, in it's secret double life, looks suspiciously like 15,000,000,000,000.
Here's my own statistically questionable 90-9-1 theory of creativity to explain why the backlash exists.

- 90% of wannabe creatives lack the talent, vision or focus to actually see their idea though
- 9% of wannabe creatives have the talent, vision and focus but lack money or the ability to connect with traditional financial backers. They're the people Kickstarter was created for.
- 1% of people have talent, money and connections in abundance but see Kickstarter as a free way to get better publicity and collect more of the profit.

You can't really blame a multimillionaire for keeping their cash and equity in a movie project and offering their fans unspecified extras roles not guaranteed to make the final cut in return for a few thousand dollars, but it doesn't mean we have to admire them for doing so.
You're awfully close to a No true Scotsman argument, there. However, if you're interested in damaging photos that aren't secret, you need but take a look at the history of social news. There have been a number of high-profile false allegations with associated vigilantism.
It's certainly true that some people are willing to pay. I consider myself a person who's primed for contributing to a kickstarter, and yet I've never pulled the trigger on one because it doesn't meet my minimum criteria for investing, which is a monetary return. I imagine I'm not the only person who feels this way, and to open up that option to people only brings more money to projects
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it's really helpful to upload and make them easily clickable
Confusing "the odds of this occurring with a fair coin" with "the odds that the coin is fair" is by far the most frequent statistical error I see, and by far the least often corrected. It's mildly terrifying.
PHP is on top globally so must feature heavily somewhere. Glad you like it :)
Prepare to Quit Smoking
"Flat" means "no text"?
Tax purposes ...
Help us understand PDF generation and its problems.
Of course they smell. Nearly everything has some smell, me and you included. It's just that you happen to dislike this particular smell. I know how it is - the smell of raw meat makes me puke almost instantly. But... It's my problem, you know? I'm not going around trying to ban making meals from raw meat (really, I can smell even if the kitchen is quite far away). Disliking e-cigs smell - which one? there's tons of them... - is your problem. I think mine is more serious - think of what I feel when I have to feed my dog! - and so I don't think your moaning about is needed or even worth listening.
Carbon dating is actually only effective up to about 50,000 years, so its really only ideal for tracking human history after we started migrating out of Africa. This is because the unstable carbon-14 isotope only has a half-life of about 5700 years.

There are many other forms of radiometric dating, though. Uranium-lead dating has proven relatively accurate for periods of time between 1 million to 4.5 billion years ago.

Note: I'm not a geologist. I remembered that carbon was only effective for a few thousand years from a geology course I had in college, but all of this information is actually taken from articles on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
The link you provided doesn't provide us with any insight into what the NSA's state-of-the-art might have been.

This NIST publication[1] says: "for ATA disk drives manufactured after 2001 (over 15 GB) clearing by overwriting the media once is adequate to protect the media from both keyboard and laboratory attack."

Tech changes have "altered previously held best practices regarding magnetic disk type storage media". It does not seem to confirm that multiple erases were unnecessary before.

1: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-...
There's more to it than mistakes. I'm reminded of an advice column from a few weeks back where someone had found out that their recently dead grandmother had been homosexual and was wondering whether to share this with her homophobic family.
The Zoom button was introduced in Mac OS X, it didn't exist in any Apple operating system before that.
Paid apps are not more likely to exist next year
On the one hand, I think it's a bit unfortunate that Redis has been stagnant on the persistence side since the virtual memory experiment ended up nowhere. It's a wonderful tool with so much potential as a primary data store, not merely as a smart cache. But people are bound to get hesitant about a data store if it offers no straightforward way to persist large amounts of data.

On the other hand, Redis was probably born 10 years ahead of its time. If and when we finally get to mass-produce persistent storage media with the speed of RAM and the capacity of HDD -- SSDs are getting there, but not quite yet, and we don't know when memristors will become commercially available -- Redis will be the most obvious database to run on it.
Yeah, the return of the right to the majority was weird. They were exactly those defeated on the last election after the Icelandic economy quite literally crash and burned. :-/
Don't give up hope. Cities are making progress in HRF and preventive care.
Is this joke yours? It's great!
I very much enjoy the trend of "tobacco as low class and bad". I can finally go places without inhaling crap and washing my smoked hair and clothes afterwards.
PHP library for generating coverage report on coveralls.io
Looks like the hospitals are using the same techniques as the taxis to keep out the competition.
And since HN tends to lean anti-social: for the objectivists: most of us would don't want to get denied care because we look like a junkie during an emergency.
That quote was the zinger for the article for me too. But electrifying claims like that one should automatically be received with a healthy amount of skepticism; I was disappointed that the author presented the quote bare without any balancing commentary or promise to validate the claim.

If the claim is true it's revolutionary; if it's false or exaggerated, it substantially reduces the credibility of the speaker. In the latter case, this article's credibility would itself be weakened. Hence my disappointment.
Thank you for summing up my feelings on this matter so much more eloquently and succinctly than I would have.
People are worried about bigger projects muscling out smaller ones in the same category, but for now, this isn't what's happening. High-profile campaigns are instead still creating the market for smaller ones.

Kickstarter has some basic analytics so creators can see where backers are coming from, and for small campaigns, most backers are like you, people who go to Kickstarter looking for new and interesting projects. But the blockbusters brought most people to Kickstarter in the first place, not the long tail.
To keep up in the current state of the software field, then Guajrati or Mandarin.
Maybe it should be called MetaQ?