skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love using Jekyll to generate my blog, and I host it in an S3 bucket making it extremely cheap and easy to serve.

Lately I've been wanting to revive all of my old digital photos and put them online. I'm considering using Jekyll to make an online gallery of photo albums hosted on S3 as well. This might turn into my next side-project. Has someone done something like this before?
Bitcoin was never intended for raw micropayments. The blockchain is just too expensive to maintain for such transactions. Litecoin doesn't provide any advantages over Bitcoin in this respect.

Some types of micro-transactions can be supported.
Mainly, transactions where you have an ongoing relationship with the other party. For instance, paying for Wi-Fi access, one kilobit at a time: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_7:_Rapidly-adju...

Micro-transactions can also be supported through other centralized systems built on top of the main bitcoin system. For example Open Transactions: https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions
Well, the raw GPU interface IS not good for 2D text-heavy graphics!! I mean you could render to an offscreen framebuffer but doing it on the CPU is much more convenient.
> One could employ a million people digging ditches and then filling them up again, and ultimately nothing will have been accomplished save for some wealth redistribution.

This is kind of obviously wrong. Just substitute "entertainment" for the ditch digging and it should become apparent why. Those people might have made their money in a silly way, but much of it will be spent, and that is important.
Security fixes that addresses issues in 1.2 will be back-ported from 1.4 by either A) upstream, or if that fails B) the Debian maintainer, or if that also fails, C) Debian security team. Thats the promise made by The Debian security team which cover the latest stable major release, and for the prior stable release for one year.

And it works. Most of all fixes are done by A or B, but the promise is one which the security team takes very serious. For one release, the security team backported security updates for 4 years. A achievement of taking responsibility in a "open source" project if I ever saw one.
Why would anyone care about relative code size or compile time for a program this small? This is obviously a "cost of entry" issue.

I have trouble imagining that doubling the code size and complexity of the "mandel" example would double the compile time or code size with either example. Why not try a handful of programs to get a scatterplot between the two toolchains?
Get it from a party balloon?
The Economist article cited two groups that are lobbying to fix this- Innovate for America and FWD.us.
And verify your user's email addresses. My name is not that common but five people around the world have repeatedly entered my email address for various things.
I can understand that concern, but I think people might be reacting out of recognition that this is more an advertising stunt than an informed strategy at addressing child abuse.

Either way these tactics speak to a failing system in not approaching students where they are away from their abuser - school.

While the ad has great intent, it simplifies the issue a bit by implying that kids aren't calling in abuse because they can't find the number.
Amazinginly helpful article (especially for first timers). Another addition I'd like to add to the list if you use LESS is the LESS Build plugin: https://github.com/berfarah/LESS-build-sublime — allows you to compile LESS stylesheets by hitting control + B on Windows to compile.
I've wrestled with this in the past. As a CS PhD student, I will be working full time as a web developer when I graduate.

For me it came down to either (sweeping generalisations):

1) Continuing research on interesting problems, or perhaps working for interesting companies like the Bearau of Meteorology or the CSIRO (the Australian governments industry research organisation). The problems would be intriguing, and you would feel very satisfied with what you have done most days at work. However when you get home, I imagine you would be pretty mentally exhausted, and may not find much time or energy to work on your own projects.

or

2) Working for a web dev company, where the problems are (not always, but often) relatively straight forward, and don't take too much mental energy to solve. Sure, building business apps is not the most satisfying job for everybody, but the people are great, the company is great, you get looked after well, etc. The best bit is that when you get home, there is probably more mental energy to work on your own side projects that interest you.

I like contributing to Open Source projects, and I also find that after a difficult day at work or uni, I don't have the energy to punch out an hour of coding when I get home. So for me, I'm currently leaning towards option 2.
There is a funny story about when Carl Sagan brought James Lovelock into the NASA exobiology think tank set up to design experiments that could determine if there was life on Mars. Lovelock, being your archetypal scientific maverick got to thinking and with his experience with CFCs and Gaia theory he deduced that all one needed was a telltale signature: a seasonal pattern of waste compounds excreted into the atmosphere. He told Sagan, they trained the appropriate detectors and started looking. Sure enough, there were quite obvious seasonal waste deposit blooms exactly where Lovelock had anticipated. Conclusion: there IS life[-like processes] on Mars. The fact that this was not "hard" evidence drove the revelation under the rug because it does not play into the hands of the scientific community as a whole which needed experiments that required us to send probes and develop technologies to get "hard" evidence. Which I don't refute is the correct method (we would need this before a categorical "life on mars" conclusion could be given the weight of the scientific community), but I think it would be a kind of vindication of Lovelock's brilliance that HIS method is more "useful" in the real search for exobiology. Mars is in a very sweet spot that allows us to confirm our suspicions and validate our methods before we go looking and finding this "life" shit all over the place (literally).

EDIT:

as other comments are pointing out I think "seasonal" is misused, but I think you get my point.
Which are the best technology forums?
Right now I mainly go to Hacker News and reddit.com/r/technology. Are there any other good ones, or 'secret' in-groups?
the design is bad in that there's not good granularity of controls. You have to have someone holding pretty much all of the keys so there's not a way to even try to protect yourself against such actions.
Are you saying the average immigrant founder creates small businesses of inferior quality than the average business?
As a current H1B holder making below that number, I have one response for you. It starts with the letter "f" and ends with the letter "u."

(I am getting paid at or above the average salary for my profession, by the way. My company hired me because they literally could not find any qualified Americans for the position, either local or willing to move to the area.)
However, the US does prevent many people from reproducing, by locking them up. Its incarceration rate is the highest in the world (0.7%, compared to under 0.2% in China).
What an incredibly great use of technology.
The distinction between Dvorak and QWERTY when it comes to wrist movements isn't remotely subtle.

I wonder about the extent to which this is due to the keyboard layout itself. For example, I've been using Kinesis Advantage keyboard for the last couple years (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/further-thoughts-on... for some of my thoughts on it) and find very little wrist movement when using it.

The Advantage is ludicrously expensive for a keyboard, but I also often use it for 40 or more hours per week, and, unlike many default keyboards, its keys don't become sticky or break after a year or two.
I have found "The concept of mass" by Lev Okun, (Physics Today, 1989) to be thought-provoking and informative on the subject. I return to it every time discussions of rest mass come up.

Physics Today link here: http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v42/i6/p31_s1?...
Free PDF here: www.itep.ru/theor/persons/lab180/okun/em_3.pdf‎
They don't seem to have the muscle to overcome the crisis. Neither has done the advertising to locals to push through a bill. They are not putting the money into the local markets to really count as a push.
Great, thanks! I shall bookmark that for later.
I'm a current H1B holder. I would quit my current job and start a company if my visa status allowed me.

I've been working for over 4 years. As things stand, I have to wait for another ~5 years before I get my green card and start adding jobs to the economy. And that's assuming the US government does not delay it by making me jump through various hoops like they did with my H1B application.
haha, thats a great idea! thx. this just a tiny promise I had made my friends, not sure if it could ever be a business
Really wish I could zoom in to take a closer look at specific links.
Nothing exactly like what you're describing, but this might help you get started: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/pull/585
Really, what is wrong with providing more than one way to reach out to abused children?
How is that any different. Even every single Linux user I know has bought a laptop and fired it up at least once before subverting the boot process to install Ubuntu right off the bat.

So, let's assume 99.999% of consumers will boot their laptop as soon as they get it. okay, we're still in the exact same boat we've been in. Unless I'm missing something...

>which subsequently (and quite coincidentally i'm sure) have bugs in their update procedure.

Given the multitude of bugs in various UEFI impls so far, I would say that this is a fairly legitimate concern. Especially as I'm assuming most people like you or I are likely to just disable SecureBoot altogether and never properly "test out" enrollment.
I'm not sure where you got three years support bit from (could you point me?) Linked from the DebianReleases page you listed:

Q: How long will security updates be provided?

A: The security team tries to support a stable distribution
for about one year after the next stable distribution has been
released, except when another stable distribution is released
within this year. It is not possible to support three
distributions; supporting two simultaneously is already
difficult enough.

[1] http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
The iBot (the wheelchair using the same technology) was a great invention. The main problem with it was that it was too expensive.
Exactly. I think it's somewhat unhealthy for both the employee and employer (even if they're the same person) for the employee to seek non-work-related interaction on even a weekly basis. I'm talking about the "birthday drinks", ping-pong tables, etc mentioned in the article. It just seems distracting.

If you want to hang out with people then do it, but not when you're trying to get work done.
My personal favorite is docopt: http://docopt.org/
SNL parodies everything. I suspect they did some iPhones in their time and that thing is still flying off the shelves.
Agreed. You want kids to see this and not adults? then give them a freaking flyer at school or actually address it in class by giving them opportunities to come forward and hire proper guidance counselers who know their way around this psychological minefield.
Mark Zuckerburg has done more harm to the human race than anyone else his age?

I get the point he is trying to make and Mark is no saint but that is a ridiculous statement.
Funny, I always thought of it as a near perfect store of value and nothing more.

The fact of the matter is that this is all Bitcoin has been used for so far (no company has used Bitcoins thus far for micropayments) so I think it will continue to evolve into an even more perfect store of value as time goes on.
It was only yesterday that I thought about using animated GIFs for demoing code typing. That's what I liked most about this post!
Do you mean that users of glass risk ruining their first impressions with other people? Or that the company that introduces glass (like the introducer of the Segway) risks its first impression to the people? (Because, Google hardly needs a "first" impression)
Patrick's (patio11's) advice is really the advice you should be following. However, I can easily imagine how daunting those steps must sound. (Rent a room? Stage an event? Get up and talk? Woah.) I hate to think of that paralyzing you from trying something different. So, an alternative (though not necessarily better) option I suggest is, at the networking events you attend, look for someone to learn from.

Look for someone that impresses you - both technically and professionally. Someone that, if you could succeed in patterning yourself after, you'd consider yourself fulfilled and successful. Grab their ear, pick their brains, ask them for advice. Show them your interest, enthusiasm, and aptitude - and earn their respect. Hopefully, they'll help you get to where you want to be.

If you don't do _anything_ else, fill out your HN profile with some contact information. Right now, you're making it difficult/impossible for potential clients/employers to contact (the Hacker News) you. Why?
I cannot recommend Hannu Rajaniemi enough. Mind. Blowing.
This goes for the whole HN crowd: read his books.
So, pair Refine with d3.js and you've got both. There's no reason I see to require native application for data visualization unless you absolutely need to load enormous amounts of data, but the value in the visualization itself tends to diminish the more datasets you shove in it. d3.js has very powerful visualization tools https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery. He chose to build is tool in the native Mac platform, which is great, and great to hear the product is really useful for you -- I'm just defending against alternative tech choices. If you wanted to build this in web tech, I think you surely could. I'm not saying it should be built in web tech, but I disagree with the notion that it couldn't be built in web tech.
RIP Loosecubes.
This type of spam is solved through minimum fees for transacting very small amounts of bitcoin.

If a user is willing to spend $10 to insert a URL in the block chain, there is no way to stop them without making bitcoin useless.

The move to treat very small amounts of bitcoin as simply invalid is intended to reduce the bloat of the unspent address cache (called the UTXO). This is explained at the top of the linked page.
I use a combination of all these 3 tricks as I have my dotfiles shared between Mac and Linux.

Basically my pythonstartup.py contains the extra check for os:

AP_AUTOCOMPLETE=False
import sys
try:
import readline
except ImportError:
print "Module readline unavailable"
else:
import rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
readline.parse_and_bind("bind ^I rl_complete")
AP_AUTOCOMPLETE=True
You don't need to worry about parking your segway outside the place your going to if you enter the building with it. So, opposed to using a bicycle or scooter, someone stealing it while you're away is not an issue.

It's upright, so you can be seen crossing the street by motorists, which gives it an advantage over a motorized wheel chair.

It saves energy compared to driving a car and it's use would greatly reduce traffic where cars are normally used.
> * On Windows, in particular, the settings seem to flicker back and forth between Qwerty and Dvorak between programs, and between invocations of the same program. No idea why it's not a global system setting.

This becomes particularly obnoxious when Explorer is somehow "partially" switched to a different keyboard, such that minimizing everything sometimes will and sometimes won't switch you back to the layout you're using in Explorer.

Not to mention that it's really easy to accidentally switch layouts. I've certainly done it a number of times.

In the end, it's just far less of a hassle for me to stick to QWERTY on Windows.
It would be lovely if, on these announcement posts, there was a one-sentence blurb that said what the product actually is.
Regardless of how many times the story has or hasn't been posted or discussed; it grinds my gears that we are still using the qwerty, after it was a shitty layout to accommodate a shitty typewriter design and for pitching purposes. Then the horrible layout made it's way, absent of any kind of rationale or relationship, into the computer keyboard, which didn't even have any typing mechanism. Now it has even been transferred into the PDA (can we just start calling PDAs what they are...which is not a phone) and tablets, which now don't even have physical keyboards. Sometimes it blows my mind how humans just drag stupid nonsense from the primitive past into the future.
I think he meant that thanks to FB, a lot of people over the world have wasted a lot of time.
When your transaction size affects my bandwidth and my hard disk, it becomes my business. Essentially you are acting like a spammer: wasting a disproportional amount of other people's computational resources for your gain.
I don't understand all the apologism

I would recommend to familiarize yourself with how bitcoin works on a technical level before mowing down more strawmen.

Also: Do you really think all countries of the world will agree on one central 'bitcoin address registry'? Contrary to popular belief the internet does not end at Virginia beach...
Nice project. I really like the book you used the poster from. My boys devour it. The quirky little elements remind me of OS-tans.

I wanted to make something similar with my boys. How did you choose to attach the vials? Glue?

Great project!
I see people with Bluetooth headsets every day. That was true when I lived in a Midwest town of 100k people, and it's true now in San Francisco.
As a practical purpose, how about being able to edit a PDF document? I understand that it can be done through some other tools, but this is one more - and would be free and easy.

Convert to HTML -> Edit -> Print back to PDF (if needed)
Wealth is goods and services people want. People want entertainment. People do not want ditches dug, then filled in again. Entertainers are generating wealth; a soft, fuzzy sort of wealth centered on meeting needs very high up the Maslow hierarchy, but wealth nonetheless, a luxury good. The ditch diggers and fillers are not.
Yes, but it is fair to say the design evolved nicely, to the point of "looking good" rather than "weird-good".
I think the decision to let app developers and other software folks be the first to wear these in public is going to come back to haunt them from a marketing perspective since these sort of people will be the ones people will see wearing them in public first
Why do you think it's such a good store of value?
That's like saying I have no right to stop email spammers and that they should have the right to decide if their email volume is appropriate or not.

Making sub-cent transactions is a waste of MY resources because every transaction gets duplicated to everyone's copy of the blockchain. That's spam. If we don't stop this then the blockchain will become so unwieldy that it makes Bitcoin all but useless for everyone, and that's not good for anyone.
I always find "who creates jobs" comments silly. Consumer demand is what creates jobs.
The impracticality of this ad doesn't mean it's just Lion bait.

Some ads are made solely to win awards, and are utterly impractical, but the converse doesn't hold: not all impractical ads are made solely for awards shows.

In this case, the impractical presentation is driving a conversation, which is itself increasing awareness of the issue and the phone number, 116-111. That's a good ad at work: not necessarily at the obvious level - people seeing it on a Spanish street - but nonetheless creating outsize value for the client.
Could you elaborate? I mean I agree about academia being stifling, but I have trouble imagining it easy to find a research/reading sort of job in CS today.
Yes. That's the best example in LA that I know of, of a bike path right adjacent to a freeway. Here's the rose-colored glasses description:

http://thelariver.com/guide/biking/glendale-narrows-elysian-...
#InternetInYourPants
That submission originally went to blogspam, as the top comment points out, and a curator must have changed the URL of the link.
Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files
Well if you're on hacker news and you don't know what jekyll is you're probably in the minority.
I once did a scan over our entire code base for []{} vs /=?+, and it came out so close to even as to make no difference. Depending on your language mix, your mileage will vary, but this argument has less general power than people suppose. Dvorak is not terrible for writing code. This is to a large degree because none of /=?+[]{} are in the home row under any layout anyhow. You do lose semicolon under your pinky, but how many QWERTY users are truly touch typing anyhow?
I'm pretty sure Dr Bartle would object to generalizing HCDS out to the general population.

Also, to 'lifeisstillgood, Bartle actually expands on his paradigm in the book Designing Virtual Worlds, where he introduces another axis for the four types (bringing it to eight) and also specifies two progressions between the types as players grow.

http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Virtual-Worlds-Richard-Bartl...

The man is alive and kicking and will probably take questions.
I see we have a Nas fan here.
> I'm picturing walking past this billboard with my kid and having him ask "Daddy, why does that kid look all beat up" and answering "no, that kid looks perfectly normal, you're making it up". Nice.

Wow. I hadn't thought of that at all. That is absolutely terrible. Maybe there should be a disclaimer on the ad for the kid about how parents and kids see 2 different things on the billboard?

And yeah, good teachers will take note of that and take care of it; though it can make for some really rough beginnings:

"Hey, Jacob, why are you wearing make-up?" the teacher inquires, noticing that there's a really bad makeup job on one of her male student's faces, around their eye.

"Eh, it's nothing, I just thought it'd be fun, to!" the kid nervously responds regarding.
I as well love jekyll. I wonder if it can stay in step with the hopes of the node Ghost project?
One of the things I like most about Sublime is that it just works right out of the box. Sure almost everyone uses a plugin or two, but to me it's the editor that doesn't need blog posts about how to configure it, it doesn't require you to keep a git repository of your thousand-line configuration, it doesn't require an understanding of esoteric key commands to get started.

To me, Sublime is an editor for people who don't want to spend man-weeks fucking with their editor and just want to get to work.
What about TV? What about Movies? What about listening to Music?

These are all wastes of time and everyone should stop doing them.
Or does anyone know of one in the Boston/Cambridge area?