skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
be nice to see full realism and proportionality with the lid opening, should be on hinges and shouldn't change shape and size when it's opened.
Fair point. In truth, I use my phone as my watch. I pretty much dont switch from Fuel reading on band.
At will or not, I was terminated for sexual harassment.

Rights or not, it wasn't realistic to pursue it (an inexperienced 20-something against a multi-million dollar internet giant), and it was enough years ago now that I've gotten something more valuable out of it - experience.
Well written article! Realistic from an ops perspective but also has marginal AWS cost calculations, which are very interesting but difficult to estimate.
Even though Google+ was/is compared to facebook...I don't think it is much like it. All I have really seen bloom from Google+ is hangouts with live streaming. I constantly hear businesses or other devs promoting a hangout feed.

Facebook I felt was more for the intimacy of family and friends; personal profile.

Linkedin for resumes and job experience; professional profile.

Google+ ... so far has really been promoted as a tool of Google's that is no different than Wallet, Gmail, Voice...or Google Reader. By a tool, I imply that the niche Google+ is carving is hangouts.

Please feel free to reply and tell me what/if you guys use Google+ and what for.

Side note: I'm a developer, and I closed my facebook and never opened a Google+ (at least by choice -_-, don't you love how Google automatically signs you up for G+).
You should see this at the bottom under the dots. I haven't optimized for small (under 13") screens, so it may be hidden.
I switched to a standing desk almost a year ago. Didn't take me long to decide that I wanted a nice thick gel mat to stand on. No, not a yoga mat. Something really thick and cushy, made for this purpose. (My 8yo daughter thinks it's awesome BTW.) I have also always taken breaks and switched to using my laptop on the sofa or loveseat for a while. It's also worth mentioning that I have a freakishly strong lower back. Maybe something to do with slinging 40lb boxes of books around a lot when I was younger. Anyway, when I used to frequent health clubs I'd always push 20% more on the lower-back machine than even the most hard-core lifter types. And I still get a sore back if I stand too long. Just don't do that to your body all day.

More recently, I switched from my ad-hoc pile of boxes to an adjustable-height desk (Ergotron Workfit-S). It's freaking awesome. I can switch between standing and sitting almost effortlessly, which makes a huge difference. Now I've settled in to a rhythm of standing 65-75% of the time, and sitting the rest, without ever having to break my concentration. It's really a lot better than either position alone, or expensive "context switches" between the two. I highly recommend trying it. If you don't like it, you can just leave the stand in your preferred position permanently.
I agree.

The point of my above statement was that one might argue that it's not reasonable to for example call Linus Torvalds and demand customer service for free.
One of the big advantages of redshift is the postgres protocol compatibility. Which means I don't have to rewrite code to connect to redshift and run queries. It seems that BitYota wants me to run queries via json. Really? Why would I lock my code into using something like that?
Same argument could be applied to Wave (which also featured an open-source client, server and protocol implementations), or OpenSocial (which also featured an "open" set of standards) and yet without a strong and motivated backer such projects stop feature development and fade into oblivion.
Wait till standing desks have been in fashion for some decades and you'll start seeing stories about people getting Thrombophlebitis in their legs.

Seriously, get a good chair and sit in it. Get up every half an hour or so, also strech your legs while sitting. Raise your toes forcefully to get some blood flowing through your lower legs (this should be done automatically every couple of minutes without thinking). Put your feet on the desk every now and then.

Do some rigorous exercise every couple of hours or so.

And you should be fine.
Do people who give this advice actually go volunteer?

I do, thank you very much.

Volunteering feels like work because it is work. But it has important special properties. You aren't paid, so you aren't beholden. You get outside your regular circles and meet more people. You are likely making a positive impact, which not everyone feels they make at their day job.

Certain types of volunteer work lets you do a hard day's labor, stand back and enjoy the feeling and admire the results, and then go back to your regular job the next day. In other words, you aren't trapped in hard labor every day.
I've been using a mix of standing and using either a high drafting school or a geek desk with a firm chair for about 2 and a half years.

I never have back pain like I used to and never have foot or ankle pain. Whenever I get uncomfortable in any way, I switch from sitting to standing. I figure this is a pretty good sign from my body that I could use a change.

That said, the first week of standing including some restlessness and foot/calf pain. This went away pretty quickly. Additionally, I've used a GelPro mat at both workplaces with standing desks.
Mine was a joke too - I hope people wouldn't get that incensed!

I don't know what the limits are going to end up being with drones and the law. I think just following someone around can eventually be constituted harassment, and so I assume the same is true of doing it with drones.
Ahh yes... I did miss that because of screen size. You should optimize for smaller screens. :)
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Maybe they're afraid that having detailed reports gives applicants more information to game the system with? I think PG expressed such a sentiment some time ago.

Unless their rating system is so good that if you manage to score high you're doing very good anyway?

Perhaps you can create a self test based on PG's and other investors' public expressions about startup material, and measure yourself against those? :)
With Firefox, I saw JavaScript in the result pane the first time but now it works fine. Perhaps it was behind a version or two the first time.

Went back with Safari (version 6, same version) and it worked fine this time. Before, the background didn't show up properly, only the cartridge door.

Weird.
Agreed! This is brilliant!

Once again a wonderful example of something incredibly simple but incredibly useful. This would be particularly beneficial for Crossfit style workouts that are closely linked to a timer and where there is a different set of exercises every single day.

Brilliant!
> Well, now the company that treated me like human garbage
> for pointing out a doomed product direction will, at
> least, have to view me as human garbage that was right.

Your manifestos were treated with astonishing patience and consideration, given their content and your reaction to criticism.

As I recall, your position was that Google+ Games should prefer intricate rulesets based on obscure board- and card-games on the basis that popular casual games are not sufficiently complex to pose an intellectual challenge.

It seems unlikely that positioning Google+ Games as the place to go for half-baked Catan knockoffs would have made it more popular.
I don't get why everybody is so whiny and bitchy about what Google does and does not. It's a public company that's in it for money and all the stuff they make and you use for free - be it good or not; costs a lot of money to maintain and host and develop and all that.

It's not their responsibility to privately mail you their road map and spendings and ask your opinion about what to do with their money. I hated when they close products I'm using and I do use a lot of google stuff. But .... for the love of god people...
That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute workout timer. Then you're in trouble, huh?
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A start-up BD guy's "Super Size Me" style research on collaborative consumption and share-economy.
Seems the 7 minutes was taken pretty literally in this app. The article suggests doing each exercise for 30 seconds, followed by 10 seconds of rest, for a total of 7:50. I was confused by each exercise started at :26 and rest at :8.

Would definitely be interested in downloading and tweaking this for my own. Github, perhaps?

Edit: FYI, don't release production code with console.log() if you can help it. :-p
If you thought the Atlantic's premise thin, here is the Raw Story:

Are Creepy Dudes Now Using Drone Technology For Their Nefarious Ends?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/14/are-creepy-dudes-now-u...

Which takes what one human on the planet has done, and projects his behavior, his terrible attitude onto all men.
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Whitey Bulger 2.0?
Cool, this is using pylorcon. I forked it to have fun with it. Let's see where can I manage to put this, and what kind of fun can be had. Hmm..., I can even send commands through this. Fun. Thanks for open sourcing this.
What makes you think the larger, more resourced competition hasn't already had the idea but knows they don't have the capability to execute on it? There's a whole lot more to a successful product than budget.
I have nothing to add, I'd just like to give a more emphatic thanks for that summary than a simple vote allows.
I'm hoping the Pebble will allow me to avoid having to buy a super expensive Triathlon watch.

You can get a Garmin GPS watch for about $100. Less than a Pebble, and you can take it swimming. I wouldn't recommend taking your phone in the pool. :) RunKeeper integration is cool, and handy for those that already use it (or for those that already carry a phone while running, which I don't). But I'm not ditching my Garmin FR610 just yet.

As for the unpairing problem, if it happens then I can never trust it. I had that happen a lot with my iPhone, but not with a Nexus running Android. Looks like a bug in iOS, but regardless of fault I can't trust it to keep me from missing phone calls or an email message when using iOS.

These things will get worked out eventually, but for now I view as a kind of neat, if not entirely reliable, gadget that happens to tell time. But that's just my use case, YMMV.
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Great analysis - I didn't realize a small viral coefficient could have this much effect!

I'm really curious about the viral coefficients of other SaaS apps - I've seen a couple numbers thrown around in various blog posts, but never a comprehensive list. Has anyone compiled something like this?
The "D-Wave problem" (as Aaronson calls it) is kind of peculiar.

It's a certain kind of binary optimization problem that comes up in models of magnetic media ("Ising model"). In the original magnetic context, the two states are N and S. Each magnetic element within a 2D array of states jiggles around locally trying to align with its neighbors, and by doing so, each state-flip influences a global energy function.

The same problem comes up in image processing. The probabilistic equations describing segmentation of on-object versus off-object regions are the same mathematically as the magnetic energy function of the Ising model.

This particular problem is important in its niche, but it's really not that general. It's possible that even something as trivial (analytically) as going from 2 to 3 states will not generalize well to the D-wave hardware.

And it's possible that, by the time you transform a given problem (say, graph matching) to encode it in this model, you end up with either (a) something with more variables than the original problem, (b) something with exotic parameter settings that the D-wave hardware cannot handle, or (c) a model having an energy surface that is not well-suited to the particular D-Wave computational mechanism (annealing).

In some applications, the use of linear programming relaxations (I have not read the detailed paper, but I assume this is the CPLEX result discussed in the post) is much slower than annealing, and in others, LP relaxations are more competitive. Sometimes the LP relaxations give much better results, but they tend to be much, much, slower, for the Ising problem.
Even if you don't exercise in your "computer room," it'd be trivially easy to put your laptop or tablet on a chair and do the exercises with it in your field of vision
I personally think northern countries have less crime because you can't survive alone in the cold. His anecdote about the stranger picking him up should have been a clue.

People in a critical situation tend to help each other more and when you are in an hostile environment 6 to 8 months a year, it tends to grow on you.
Your government is exporting corruption. The best place to fight it would be at home, and it needs more attention (you know what's wrong, do something!).
I like G+ and might be one of the millions who _don't_ have a facebook account , but are quite happy with a G+ account. I don't think its tragic, I just think they are paying attention to users like me, who you know use their service.
Soon there will be a major land grabbing frenzi by some big software companies and they will put anything that is up for grabs into their propritary licencing vault, making it difficult for anyone else to write any sensible software without being sued into oblivion.

So stupid and wasteful, they learned absolutely nothing about how the world really turns. Really a wasted software writers generation, only a small minority of superstars and well networked developers will be transfered along with the code to that vault, the rest can look for another job, good luck with finding any that has not been automated already!!
You could maybe beg/steal/borrow a GPS simulator[1] and test your candidate receivers with it. Best do it in a Faraday cage though, unless you want to upset some Very Serious Important Things[2], and (likely government) owners thereof.

Probably way out of budget range for hobby stuff though

[1] One is the WelNav GS720: http://www.t-e.com.tw/GS-720.pdf

[2] A Simple Demonstration that the Global
Positioning System (GPS) is Vulnerable to Spoofing: http://www.ne.anl.gov/capabilities/vat/pdfs/GPS-Spoofing-%28...
Why don't startups need to provide customer service? The title sounds suspiciously like you don't need to provide customer service until you have some cash in the bank to pay for it.

But if you can't figure out how to provide customer service for a small number of clients, I don't think you can just throw money at the problem down the line and magically have great customer service. May as well with good practices start early.
One of my graduation projects was a processor. Halfway through the design, I decided to ditch most of the registers and make it into a mostly stack-based machine. Since it was never built (the project was to design a processor), I imagine it was very far from buildable. It would probably be expensive for the late 80's too - the printed OrCAD files occupied an area larger than my room and chip count was a couple hundred ICs.
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I would recommend the following book:

Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Fear-Thinking-Sensibly-Uncertai...
New Google+ is beautiful?
No problem man, if you get it working on your hardware that is not listed in the README, please tell me. I would love to keep a easy to find list of supported chips.
Why do you have one page website for your business?
This looks like something that someone went overboard with trying to be Steve Jobs and thought too much out-of-the-box. Wasn't it Einstein that said that keep your mind open, but not so open that it falls out?
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I mentally parsed this as "Web UI Components" and thought to myself, "Wow, this looks a lot like Bootstrap". Turns out that the page is indeed built using Bootstrap, and the library is a collection of polyfills.
Ha ha, I decided to try the 7-min workout last night for the heck of it and I basically wanted something exactly like this. Nice job, it does its purpose perfectly.

One small suggestion: Perhaps a louder audio cue for transitions between exercises in case you aren't looking at the screen.
"..hop onto Hadoop and ride the open-source rodeo with Hive or Pig by your side." - Laughed at this sentence. Well written!
Can't find much information about it, but what I did find says that it got significant use in the early years of the 747. It makes sense, as the 747 long predates civilian GPS, and other electronic navigation techniques were not completely reliable for long flights. I don't know that there were many radio beacons available for long over-water flights, and pilots probably liked cross-checking their INS.

While searching, I was reminded of another interesting fact, that the SR-71 had a fully automated celestial navigation system that could get still a position fix on the ground in the middle of the day, and was more accurate than an INS on long flights.
I want to make this now
I think the killer feature was ability to use "Hangout" with G+ Games.

Sigh! I had a half baked card game (where seeing other peoples faces was a critical element) that I was planning to implement on G+.
Just to close the circle, this one also has a hash at the end:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5721006
Where are you getting the notion that unit tests and parameterized SQL are difficult or not commonly used in PHP?

You don't have to use those things, but they are there if you want them, just like they are in other languages. Neither Python nor Ruby enforce unit test or parameterized SQL requirements.

I don't like the language itself, but I do like the myriad benefits it brings. The only pet language I hold to a different standard is Perl.
Actually at least Sweden was involved in slave trading, out of a slave fort in Ghana called Carolusborg. I'm pretty sure there was one or a few short lived attempts at colonies as well, somewhere in the Carribean.

Here's a link to a Swedish newspaper discussing Carolusborg (in Swedish). http://www.dn.se/resor/sveriges-morka-slavhistoria
I think in that case it would be almost the same as a malicious site calling form.submit() after detecting in javascript that all of the fields have been filled out. It would have a slightly worse accuracy, though, since the user has not yet double checked that the form is correct. Does anyone know if there are laws related to this? I could definitely see it being illegal to automatically submit forms that result in financial transactions.
I'm also pretty curious about this. I'd assumed that auto-update was a pretty basic feature and that of course iOS would have it- it's only with this thread/article that i'm discovering otherwise. Is there any particular reason that iOS doesn't do automatic updates in the background? I've just got "update automatically on WiFi only" set up on my Android phone and I've never had any problems.
Such is the risk with doing anything on Google these days. G+ will likely eventually be killed off too. Though it may take years. Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Android and Analytics I think are probably safe. Only slightly joking.
Very good points. I did some benchmarks a while ago and found the the decode routines (un-optimized) were some of the slower pieces of code in round trip life of a packet. But with some work it could be done.

> But as it stands (MODULUS = N.NN, REMAINDER = 0.NN) only has 5 decimal digits = 16 bits of entropy. Bunny traffic could be identified after observing just a handful of packets (not even knowing the actual values for M and R).

Very true, I will add this to my TODO list, thanks.
What I meant was, why don't browser implementors balk at it?
When did I lose anything from Amazon?
can you characterize what makes their support "the absolute worst support of any business application/suite I've ever used" with examples?

that is not the general consensus of google apps customers, so i am curious what experiences have caused you to have this opinion.
So, as a linux user wishing to have some communication with other people in the world, what is the correct alternative to skype?
It's interesting to consider that GPS as a concept simply wouldn't work at all if the speed of light were infinite.
I forwarded this program to my coworker when I saw it on HN yesterday. Now, I'm going to forward him this link... he refuses to go to the gym because he's too busy so hopefully this will help him kickstart some fitness in his life.
The only time I ever bother to close apps on my iOS devices is when I do Pimsleur language courses, played in the stock music app. I found that pause/play would introduce stutters and skips if I had a lot of apps open. Each course file is ~30 minutes long, atypical of songs. Reproducible over many tries and several iOS versions.

OK, I lied. The only other time I close an app… The. Chess.com app's analysis board becomes unbearably sluggish if the app has been running too long.

Both instances can be pinned on the app rather than iOS.
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What the author is trying to say is that (IMHO) running a database on a MPP (quite common these days, or easily stood up in a data center or Amazon) is still a pain.

Outside of Postgres, none of the truly open-source databases scale well with MPPs. You're still stuck with mostly single-core processing.

So you can pay good $$$$$ to the commercial database providers to provide you with a good database that may scale to your needs.

Or use Redshift for a great analytics DB at a reasonable price. (Note: we heavily use HBase where I am at, but that's comparing apples to oranges.)
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knockout is not FRP. Knockout uses single events, FRP uses event streams. Here's a quote from Knockout's creator.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5101113/whats-the-differe...
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The comments on pricing of alternative products were ... odd. E.g., Netezza was available for purchase, hardware of course included, at $20K/TB several years ago, counting 2.25X compression.

Well, except for the last such comment, which contradicted some of the prior ones by 1-2 orders of magnitude.
I emailed a link to your 7 min workout timer to my girlfriend. This was her response. Nice job.

"THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!

That's. The. Most. Ingenious. Thing. Ever.

Now, I just have to bring my phone with me. Woohoo!

When I play it on the computer it ticks down, my phones doesn't so I'll have to pay attention to it, which could be tricky, but that's sweet. Thanks!"