skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Veering off on a tangent, but this once happened:

"The 12th round-Australia motoring event run since the first (1953) Redex, the [largely off-road 18,000km, 14 day] 1979 Repco is now acknowledged as the toughest long-distance rally since the continent-to-continent epics of the first decade of the 20th century. Like earlier round-Australia trials and the London-to-Sydney epics of 1968 and 1977, crews were expected to drive virtually non stop for days at a time with limited rest breaks. Nowadays this would be considered irresponsibly dangerous."

http://repcoroundaustralia.blogspot.ca/
I couldn't find much information about the treatment details. Do you know if anyone has looked into sterilizing the worms?

It seems like the only downside is worrying about the worms reproducing. If you could make them sterile before applying them, and then just take new ones every month or so.
>>- Pin programs to the taskbar - Use shortcuts for common/important stuff (Win+i, Win+x, Win+w, Win+f are the ones I need) - Use the type to complete thing otherwise

You can also use Win+Number to switch right to the taskbar program. quite convenient although I prefer using cap locks + home row keys to switch apps on the mac.

>>Most users I know moved to that workflow anyway, before Windows 8 (the start menu entry on previous Windows versions. Spotlight or maybe QuickSilver before that on OS X. Unity / Gnome Shell on Linux).

I agree. But if your workflow is shortcuts + quick search to open everything else it doesn't really matter if you use a start menu, something like metro or the mac os x dock.

But I think that if you are asking what is good enough for 90% of our users, is easily discoverable and reduces confusion it is hard to beat the start menu + taskbar. It isn't really a question of functionality, all you are doing is managing graphical icons that launch programs. The key should be reducing confusion for users who will use the program launcher for everything they do. I don't hear a lot of people arguing that the metro launcher was something that microsoft should have done without a focus on touch.
Got to level 2 and gave up on the Twitter app one, since I'm running Linux and I don't have an Apple computer handy.
The named anchor works for me in Chrome 27, but I appreciate learning the query string parameter method too.
I actively avoid mug shots. Face pics are often used to manipulate, esp. if it's "happy faces".

I've developed a rejection to faces in websites. But honestly I didn't expect this to be common. Much the opposite.
Google Releases Major Penguin 2.0 Update: What You Need to Know (And Do)
This really makes me wonder about the practice of "anonymizing" data down to birthday / sex / zip
A great tip I have been using recently is to avoid using cut and paste and IDE completions.
European Commissioner Calls for Eliminating Roaming Fees
Poll: How do you protect your privacy?
Choose all that apply.
Avoid using social media sites
Avoid using web search engines
Flush cookies regularly
Use virtualization
Post under pseudonyms
Browser extensions (NoScript, RequestPolicy, HTTPS Everywhere, etc)
Web proxies like Privoxy
Proxy websites (anonymizer, etc)
Proxying/tunneling through a VPN/VPS
Internet cafes, libraries, etc
Change browser's User Agent
Masking my OS fingerprint
Spoofing my IP
anonymous remailers
Contribute to organizations like the EFF
Write privacy-enhancing software
Avoid computers or the internet
Hire someone else to worry about my privacy for me
Nothing (because I have nothing to hide)
Nothing (because I don't care about my privacy)
Nothing (because it's too much trouble or I don't have time)
Nothing (because it's hopeless)
So this guy has more computing power than google's entire processing power.
What a load of crap.

Nice marketing though.
It didn't like "polar bear in a snow storm" so I had play with an image editor and then gave up because of the Twitter requirement.
> "I really feel this is a non-issue."

For geeks, probably not. For normals? It's a pretty big deal. Normals weren't entirely convinced by the mouse. They learned it. Sort of. But many never even grokked the whole 'click vs double-click vs right-click' thing.

And the mouse was at least a fairly consistently-behaved indirect pointing device. Tapping and swiping an inconsistent, indirect touch surface, particularly after having learned direct-manipulation touch-screens, is not going to go over well.

Keep in mind that to make a Glass-style wearable make sense to a casual user, it has to be more efficient than simply taking out their cell phone. And for people whom HUDs are a natural advantage, it needs to be efficiently usable without requiring that person's hands being used.

So seemingly minor annoyances can add up quickly to a determination of "not worth it". You've probably got about a half-second of grace before people go back to their phone.

> "Once Thalmic's MYO is fully operational, I don't think navigation will be much of a problem."

Hand navigation might be easier, but the social problems will get massively amplified. Nodding/tapping/talking is 'weird' enough. Throw in some finger/hand/arm movements and this thing's never leaving the den of specialized technologists.

And requiring hand gestures can kill usefulness for those (hands-full) people that most naturally benefit from a HUD.

To me, Glass is looking more and more like Microsoft's stab at tablets. It's an early attempt that's going to make a class of specialized users very happy. But it's not going to be in casual use on trains, in coffee shops, etc. It's supposed efficiency gains are largely hamstrung by interactivity problems that are just annoying enough to send most users back to the alternative tools.

The real test for Google, is whether they address these problems or pretend they don't exist -- as Microsoft did -- until someone else comes along and eats their lunch with a far more modest solution.
Yeah, as Warren Ellis wrote in Transmet, "the world is, generally and on balance, a better place to live this year than it was last year."

Of course, it's easier to believe this when I'm not part of the 40% of young unemployment in my country.
Indeed, but that's not the only way to solve this level!
I'm not a grandmaster by any means, but these are things that I focus on:

1. Aggressively avoid techniques and abstractions that have produced bugs in the past. The "backwards conditional" is an example of this, in languages like C that will accept x = 0 as a conditional, it is safer to do 0 == x in an if statement in case you mistype. Mutability trips me up sometimes, so I try to never re-assign a variable. I keep links to the source code of key libraries in my bookmarks bar so I never have the guess how something actually works. Static analysis tools, and bug prediction tools [1] are two steps I haven't taken.

2. Seek out code written by experts and inspect it [2]. If I'm considering using a new language or library one of the first things I do is to search for large scale OSS projects. For a new language looking at some of the popular 3rd party libraries can be really illuminating. Especially if you're already familiar with the problem space.

3. two words: learn to fuckin' type.

4. Get familiar with what the history researchers call the Primary Sources. Not just the actual source code but the proposals, the specifications, and the research reports that are written by the people who conceived the tools that you are using.

[1] http://google-engtools.blogspot.ca/2011/12/bug-prediction-at...

[2] (EDIT) According to Paul Allen, in high school Bill Gates actually went dumpster diving for source code: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-abou...
Is there a place where embedded systems job listings tend to be posted?
The mirror is there to increase your situational awareness while cycling. Glass has a strong potential to do the opposite. If its use is limited to HUD for information useful to you for cycling, fine, but if you're getting text messages or anything else you have to think about, it's distracting.
Sony Most Successful at ... Selling Insurance
> Yes, they used to suck.

Actually, no, this one didn't. It was fantastic technology. The resolution was the same as the monitors on the other computers, and the tracking was very fast. The only downside to the technology itself was that it was heavy.

The problem was that it was only a window, and a relatively small window at that. It's a glorified 3d monitor that denies you vision of your surroundings (and works very poorly with anyone with glasses).

Worse? You still need some other sort of controller (which you can't see when you're wearing them), and unless you're standing up, you can only look a limited amount around you. In any environment other than wandering around a virtual world, it's a curiosity at best.

FPS games - the head moves too slowly to make an accurate method of aiming (and think of your neck muscles afterwards), so you still need to use a mouse as your primary aiming device, and a keyboard to move.

MMO games (perhaps the ideal target for these) require extensive use of the keyboard and mouse (neither of which you can see with the device on), and are rarely played in first person view.

I just can't really see a market outside of VR, and then not without a whole new class of controllers and tactile feedback methods. It's the first (and arguably the easiest) part of a new class of technology, which when combined could be interesting. Until then... meh.
Introducing Whistl for iPhone
But with medical fecal transplants there's very little ick factor.

Wikipedia has a nice article describing the process. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy)

It must be very frustrating for you. Good luck.
I believe there's a huge difference between 'it's not growing' and 'it is disappearing', specially with a market with the overwhelming massive size of Windows.

That's where the current MS problem lies.
At a Startup, Does Being the Only Woman in the Room Matter?
Even the G2 was only $530 full price and now that the Nexus 4 has anchored pricing even lower it's hard to see people being willing to pay more.
thanks for stepping up to the plate. trying this out.
Khan Academy: Machine Learning → Measurable Learning
Build a refer-a-friend program for your web app in 2013
Agreed. I don't think there is anything stopping me from registering googleinternetsecurity.blogspot.com or officialonlinesecurity.blogspot.com if they filter out "google."
Used Games and the Modern Gaming Economy | allenc
I live in Atlanta, while I've driven in Manhattan before and had to get in some tense situations, I understand the type of city you can be referring to there. They're atypical for city driving here.
Absolutely.
Each time I try to move away from Scala, I always notice the lack of functional features in most other languages + a type system that's as strong as Scala's.
Most importantly, with Akka([1]) you have an awesome concurrency framework that comes with lots of features out of the box.
However, for many client-side applications, Go's lack of the JVM is a huge plus...

[1] http://akka.io
Very familiar. I live in brooklyn.

But this project is specifically for the LIRR.
Hold WIN and press R to bring up the Run menu (Win+R). Win+D, Win+E, Win+Left, Win+Right, etc. are all global shortcuts I use all the time.
The author's takeaways are pure speculation as to causation, but he presents them as if they are facts. I could claim that people just don't like the color of his photo, and I would have as much evidence to support this has he has for his other claims re: authorship placement. And he doesn't mention that since he is not doing a split test (since it's not possible) and he's not measuring confidence intervals that his "A/B test" may be meaningless.

His intuition makes sense, and his conclusions are probably correct in this specific case, but this is shoddy analysis and shouldn't be presented in a generalized manner as he's done here.
Lean Startup [webcomic]
This was the process I just went through:

1) Is this actually safe to click on in a public place?

2) What the heck is 'fecal transplant'?

3) Clicked it - oh my goodness, that's gross

4) Read it - wow, this is actually real, and it's amazing

5) Who thought of this, and who tried it first?

6) I'm never going to get a story on the front page of HN, if this is what I have to contend with...
>What else matters?

76 Million XBoxes and 40 Million XBox live users.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/389080/xbox-360-life-to...
See the Wikipedia topics near you
What a load of rubbsih,

Programming is automation :-
Yes it is, but a lot of jobs in life are not, do the people who take care of the elderly and vulnerable need automation in their lives, hmmm an automated butt wiper, or picker uper...

PROGRAMMING TEACHES YOU TO BREAK PROBLEMS DOWN :-
True it does but not all jobs or life in general is about problem solving. Also other jobs Cival Engineering is about breaking problems down, architects they use software, but do all need to know how to program to use the software.

PROGRAMMING JOBS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE ABUNDANT :-
This is probably the only one I can't argue against.

YOU WILL EITHER BE AHEAD OR BEHIND :-
Not really you will only be ahead or behind if your job requires you to use piece of x software. I am a web developer by trade, can't use excel for anything, never needed to. Used open office to do a few graphs but thats about it.

PROGRAMMING IS FUN:-
It can be and normally is, but not for everyone. I find cooking dull, but you could argue the same points except the job one that you need to learn how to cook.

All this everyone needs to learn to program is a load of non-sense, people need to know how to use a computer, use the internet but people like me get paid to make software easy to use so that you don't actually need to worry that a user can't understand basic logic.

Its not an essential life skill, never will be.
Yes, in the sense that I could create a new sport that hardly anyone else plays and declare myself world champion.
Yeah. I don't see how Google couldn't handle some image resizes, even in the billions. Or anybody else, for that matter.
They don't need to sterilize the worms, they just use worms that can't reproduce in humans (i.e. pig whipworms)

I'm keeping an eye out for the trial results. If it works, it would greatly expand our understanding of immune diseases.

http://biotechtranslated.com/2011/07/30/the-hygiene-hypothes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKceA691Wcg this talk by a guy from Remedy Games is quite interesting actually.
Really? Is requiring Twitter that bad? I thought it was a convenient way for most people to signup!
Thank you - yes, I agree. Not sure if this is completely relevant, but I found it very interesting:

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitt...
This is the most transparent salary calculation I've seen. It would be interesting to hear from Buffer's employees on how it's affected company culture.

How comfortable would you be with having your co-workers know your salary?
You forgot to add Dart.
The domain name expired...yesterday.
Another fun story, this time just involving repeated escaping and mangling of an address:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/05/i-resemble-this-remark/
I don't run Windows 8 at home (still on 7) but I did encounter an eye-opening experience when I visited my father-in-law last weekend. He used the start screen to launch the apps that were immediately there, but when he needed to find a non-obvious application he opened explorer and navigated to the Program Files folders!

I thought Microsoft always heavily user-tested their UI changes but I can't see how that was possible at all with Windows 8 and Metro.
Blinness is a spectrum, though. To be legally blind I don't think you have to have 0% vision in both eyes.

I'd be more inclined to believe Stevie has some residual vision, rather than he was using echo location.
How retailers go mobile - some examples from Gilt, Starbucks, Zappos, and Clae
> As usual, you need to evaluate your doctors' incentives.

I would question their background even more. Think about how they were trained, and think about what are likely to be considered "best practices" in the medical field. Doctors tend to err on the side of caution (and usually with good reason). From that viewpoint, it's not surprising that something relatively new and seemingly radical is not likely to be recommended.
Gordon Bell: Your Life Is in the Internet of Everything
It's not unheard of, Washington state has one, to e.g. capture money from Boeing whatever the business climate is. Don't know if it has a floor to help startups, but it is thought that's one of the reason the state doesn't have all that many of them, especially really big ones, and why Microsoft moved there sometime after the point where they hired a professional CFO who was semi-horrified to find that prior to that whenever they had another 100K to sock away they'd just buy a US Treasury instrument.
Questions to ask your interviewer during a technical interview
"When I helped a friend get verified, we emailed a photo of his driver's license..."

That sounds secure.
Show HN: The Best Chess App for iPhone
I was using this from memory, but yes, your short form is correct.
> As Upton Sinclair said a long time ago: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Incidentally, this is one of the many benefits of services like the NHS. Our doctors aren't thinking about their profit margins!
I'm from the future.

I came to your era to bring you this detergent.
> I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative.

As someone who's just read your comment, I'd like to say: calm down, and re-read the parent comment with an open mind. It's dripping with life experience.
I think people have invested themselves emotionally to this 10000 hours nonsense, so any mention of natural gifted-ness sets them off in a tirade, not because of any analytical opposition, but because their egos are somewhat threatened by the prospect that someone may be naturally better at something than they are.

Unfortunately, 10000 hours yadah yadah is not a "new finding" beyond putting a nice round number on a phenomenon that I'm sure your mommies and daddies told you when you were a kid - PRACTICE. Deliberate practice? Does "try doing the harder stuff" sound familiar? The fact that if you practice areas that you're not very strong at you will get stronger has been known for centuries. "Naturally gifted" people aren't those who are experts, neither are they those who have the best technique. 10000 hours on the piano will not make you Beethoven, neither will 100000 hours. Beethoven was Beethoven for many reasons - well known as a prodigy, highly regarded by the culture of his time, etc - merely playing the piano well didn't make him remarkable. For a less ancient example, take Jimmy Page. Anyone who plays guitar will acknowledge that Page's playing was quite sloppy. It's not technique that I would teach to someone. But he's Jimmy freakin' Page. The genius of Zeppelin was in the innovation. They brought a new sound, at the time - and they were really cool too, but don't tell anyone.

So, to wrap up, practice makes perfect, but perfect isn't genius. Which isn't to disparage anyone, but to see such pettiness automatically raise its head whenever someone brings up this 10000 hours crap as if it's something new - one guy goes boo-hoo people won't think I'm a genius anymore, the other guy goes, yeah I could be a genius too if only I practiced it - is just sad. No one cares about what you could be. I could be a freakin' Navy Seal if I just enlisted and worked hard and blah blah blah; I'm not a Navy Seal, so all that's irrelevant. All that matters is what you are, so if we're reveling in the fact that we could be better at something if we practiced, rather than actually practicing, well that says more about the human ego rather than human talent.
Not all addresses in the US have streets, either. I grew up in rural Wisconsin at a house that only had a fire number and county. "N3042, Rock County WI" was a valid address.

I believe my grandparents only got a street assignment in the last 2 or 3 years -- and even then, the actual street is about 2/3 of a mile from their house.
Intro to Mobile App Development – Today at 6 PM
My pet peeve:

Countries have postcodes (or zipcodes).

I'm in Ireland, we don't have postcodes. Stop making it a required field on delivery addresses.
I am not familiar with C#, but what Go does have is gofmt.

This forces all Go code to be formatted and styled in a consisten manner. This not only solves readability issues, but makes all code consistent for machine reading and replacing.

gofmt also supplies a pattern replace method, which is a bit more sophisticated than a regex search and replace.

http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/
So, the obvious temptation here is to say "fuck it" and just leave a textbox for users to put in their address.

I cannot help but feel, though, that this is inviting ruin and disaster. I'm currently dealing with some of this myself--what's the best solution other than just forcing people to use a five-line US-stle address and hope for the best?
This isn't quite correct, and as the grandparent applies the concept it is definitely incorrect. A monotonically increasing function may never repeat a value. A constant function is not monotonically increasing; it is monotonically nondecreasing (and of course, also monotonically nonincreasing).
> What I’m worried about the Techcrunch reading me is, somehow we all are programmed to think short-term, too short term; 5-8 years.

This is a consequence of the financial world, but in the world of science it's a different story. Many, many long-term projects are in progress and it will be like that for a long time.

One of the things overlooked in this article is that we live in periods of time where certain things dominate the world we live in. The 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s were periods of European settlement in the Americas, the 1800s and early 1900s were focused on developing modes of transportation (trains, planes, and automobiles), and the past 50 or so years has been centred around the computer which has pretty much transformed the world from typewriters and paper to devices that were only thought to be in the world of Star Trek just 30-years ago.

Just because every day you and I still go to work more or less the same way we did decades ago does not mean that we're stagnating. Human behaviour hasn't caught up with technology fully and we're still trying to get used to what we have in front of us.

I think that the author in the article is thinking too short-term really.
I'd def. be interested in the idea of selling side projects. I think Flippa is more and more become infested with fake SEO/web 1.0 marketing sites and its hard for a real site seller to sell.

I have acouple sideprojects that would put up for sale.

Both self-sustained, profitable. One is: Studygig, http://studygig.com

If you are interested, contact me.