skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shorten the audio clips down. No one wants to sit around and listen to 45 seconds of anything. Even with tweets, no one bothers to take 10 seconds to read ALL the tweets. Shorten the audio down to around 5-10 seconds. Also, make it visual somehow.

Regarding design, change the color scheme... too "viney". I would go with some sort of red... maybe a red-pink as red is already take by YouTube. Get a good UI/icon design, please! The recording menu is too "complicated". Forget all the stop, pause and all the other crap. Just one big record button. Make the "filters" a bit more aesthetically pleasing, maybe an icon of what you're trying to represent (A chipmunk for chipmunk.. duh?).
Google Thinks Gayest and Worst Mean the Same Thing
The alternative to a computer in every home is... well, there really isn't any other way to talk with people around the world. The alternative to a 3d printer in every home is Amazon Prime.
"For example, Elon Musk and entrepreneurs like him have done more to move the world away from fossil fuels and towards alternative energy"

Wait, how does Elon Musk generate electricity?
The biggest issue with PV is cost, but you're right about the concentrated heliostatic generators being an option. They have some significant advantages over PV but require large installations. Plus, molten salt is always cool.

There's a decent image of solar pressure across Africa on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SolarGIS-Solar-map-Africa-....
To a point that is possible. However there are key lessons that don't really sink in until after you have made certain mistakes and have seen the consequences. For instance I understood the value of forcing variable declarations, and of having multiple layers of safeguards after a typo in a variable name caused me to take down Bloomberg's ftp server about 15 years ago.

Judging from ability and personality, it was clear at that point that I had potential. And I received some excellent mentoring. But potential and mentoring do not ensure a smooth path to success.
For the supercharger stations, it's from the sun, using technology developed by another private company, Solar City.
I wish I had your naivety; but I already sow things like a media center that counts heads and will stop the movie if the amount of people exceeds the number allowed by the purchased licence...

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsofts-new-kine...
Audio of Stewart Brand's recent Long Now Foundation talk about reviving extinct species:

http://longnow.org/seminars/02013/may/21/reviving-extinct-sp...
No, I fully caught that part. I also understood why the NASDAQ computers couldn't finish the cross: because HFT computers were hammering the NASDAQ with cancel orders.

You don't DDOS a server and say "oh, the server has a bug."

And, to be perfectly honest, I have no sympathy for anyone that lost money on the FB IPO. For once a company executed an IPO and got every cent on the table. And I know that just infuriates every suit on Wall Street to no end, which couldn't make me any happier.
You can do tree shaking in JavaScript with tools like Google Closure Compiler and uglifyjs (a bit more limited). Any language which compiles to JavaScript aught to be able to make use of these tools.
While there's no downvoting for submissions, they can be flagged by users with a certain karma level. Flagging acts like a heavily weighted downvote for moving a story down the list, and at a certain number of flag the story is made [dead] and no longer appears at all to most users.

Of course, flag too many of the wrong stories, like I apparently did, and you lose the ability to flag.

So we get what we get.
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Not sure that this is accurate, isn't the "work" in a boiler done by the phase transition to steam and the associated increase in pressure? Unless you're referring to a particular design of solar energy production.
My understanding is that, for $3 the author creates a transaction from some wallet of N bitcoins under the author's control, that has a distribution of:

0.000000001 to <hash of document>
N - 0.0000000001 - <fee> to owner's wallet #2
<fee> to miner

So the $3 doesn't buy you any bitcoins, since the address that is the hash of the document isn't a valid bitcoin address since it wasn't generated from a public/private key that is known.
How does yours compare to this one http://vog.github.io/bitcoinproof/
Can you retitle this to "Google Glass"? I know the policy is to copy the original title, but "Glass" is too generic.
I just don't see Ben being able to work effectively with things that are new, powerful, valuable, innovative, etc.

As long as you don't consider app.net, Skype, Meteor, MixPanel, lyft, ifttt, FourSquare, FaceBook, github, factual, crowdtilt, cohere, bump, box, or airbnb to be new, valuable, or innovative[0].

[0]: http://a16z.com/portfolio/portfolio-venture-growth/
Not sure what your problem is, India or Bill Gates? You seem to have a problem with both.

>>- apathy from upper/middle class towards lower classes

Why in God's name will a middle class guy, who probably is having a thousand different battles in his own life get up every day morning to work for some body poor? By now, 'the poor' need to realize its not somebody else job do their work. Chances are no one ever will, not just in India but anywhere in the world.

>>- willingness from normal citizens to live with human feces on the streets, eat in restaurants with huge garbage piles right in front

How is this any different than the western world during the Industrial revolution? So some place like the US during the great depression?

You seem to be assuming a passing state of a society as its permanent condition. There are plenty of urban/rural housing settlement/societies in India which are as neat and clean as any western city.

>>- spinelessness/cowardness from the voting public

Care to give a few examples??

>>so what if there are smart people in india?

Now that you acknowledge that there are smart people in India. I guess you better prepare for some darn hard competition coming from us.

>> they are spineless/uncompassionate/unfeeling/unprideful.

Seriously??? How is any different than people in any country in the world. Do you think voting matters or is significant even in a country like the US. How many times were the US citizens able to prevent their country from going to war? Or how many times have they been able to change their unemployment problem themselves?

You seem to have a seriously problem with India, no idea why that is so.
Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned
>Perhaps you'd be happier going back to AOL or Hotmail?

Hotmail became Outlook.com a couple of months ago and it's quite nice actually :)
In many of the reviews - the camera is noted as one of the most useful or interesting current features. As unique as the camera perspective offered by Glass may be - virtually none of my favorite photos using traditional cameras were taken at head-level.
I've seen people ask 'what was your first race', which I think is a better equivalent. Answers vary from "high school track" to "a 5k walk for breast cancer". Potential answers to "what was your first program" range from your BASIC answer to my own "a quadratic equation solver on my TI-83". I find it interesting, and when you are aiming to use the survey responses to tell stories, I think you'll get some good material out of these questions. Even reading the other comments here get you a lot of different 'first programs'.
Tesla Will Triple Its Super Charger Coverage Area for Cross-Country Road Trips
oh I indeed have the flag link. I thought that was only to be used in dire circumstances - like people posting a large stash of say, credit card information or child pornography - not for a story which I thought had bad science (such as this)
It's a bit of both. I will say that it's very frustrating to use other languages after adjusting to Haskell. The way it feels when it feels when you're out on your own without a helpful compiler to guide you? It's like losing your sense of balance!
> intentionally evades taxes, almost to a cowardly degree in fact.

To a "cowardly" degree? What does that even mean?

This tech witchhunt over companies not paying optional taxes is getting pretty crazy. How long before it becomes "cowardly" to use the deduction on mortgage payments or medical expenses?
Why can't people just get honest reviews? You know, from users? When I think about services like this, or services that let you pay for installs, I think they are not good for buyers of apps, and therefore not good for the world.

Here's a can't-fail formula for getting plenty of good reviews, that won't cost your integrity:

1) write a great app

2) put a widget in your app that asks for reviews

3) show the widget to users who like the app
Which is why I’ve said (ever since I read it the first time) that Clean Code wouldn’t annoy me half as much if it were simply called Clean Java.

It wouldn’t sell as many copies that way, though. Probably.
You might want to check which of your eyes is dominant. At Google I/O they mentioned that if Glass shows on your dominant eye that it might be a safety issue - but if it's on your non-dominant eye, it'll be more of an overlay and less of an obstruction to your vision. They're working on a mirrored version that goes on the other eye.
Scrolling performance is a bit low on the main page. I profiled your app using the Open GL device driver in Instruments and your device utilization was capped at 70%, so it isn't a GPU issue (I see you also don't have many blended layers, so that makes sense).

When I profiled with Time Profiler, I notice that 51% of CPU time was spent in backboardd, the UIView/CoreAnimation render server. The only way I know to reduce this is to cut down on number of views, which is typically pretty hard :(

Soundtribe itself was at 38.4%, maybe there's some optimizations to make there?

I'm still on an iPhone 4 so you may be able to ignore this.
Solar City and Tesla would have been possible without government subsidies? Are you sure about that?

Do you know what Elon has stated regarding government support?
Using 3D-printed robotic parts.
> Of course one might argue that DRM might be platform specific. However, I very much doubt this standard will make DRM more platform specific than it already is.

It is in fact quite possible that it will. DRM, right now, is mainly Flash. For all its faults, Flash runs on all browsers and OSes. However, EME CDM modules may only work in Chrome and Internet Explorer - the two browser vendors pushing the EME spec, and that have their own DRM solutions that they are building as CDMs.

Why would Google or Microsoft create CDMs that work in browsers or OSes that they do not own? If not them, then who would create a CDM that works on all browsers and OSes? Possibly no one.
Apologies, you're right.

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RayTracingCars/paper.pdf
I'm offering my interpretation of the OP's original words defining the terms of the challenge "I won't promise to log in if you can't provide a valid SSL certificate :)".

So my read is that for this particular challenge there's only one "user", the OP. I read it as he's willing to facilitate the attack by using the site from a hostile network but has specifically said he'll check for a valid SSL session.

So by that interpretation, despite how much I think Moxie deserves another $1k for doing great work in general, it seems an SSL strip attack is unlikely to satisfy the offered terms.

Of course I expect an SSL strip attack would be effective against end users generally.
Speed up your virtual dev env: moving from Vagrant to Parallels
PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for engineers in SF
We’re a small team of construction engineers, software engineers, and ex-rocket scientists, building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We love disrupting an industry that makes up 11% of Global GDP because no one ever cared to do so (for comparison, defense is only 2.5% of global GDP). Our users are project engineers, architects, superintendents, and electricians, and they love our app (because it helps them build real things more efficiently).

We're looking for front-end engineers with a passion for making beautiful intuitive products. Our front-end tech is iOS, Android, and backbone.js. You will be our twelfth team member and sixth member of engineering.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

Competitive salary, equity, company engineering retreats to Mexico (this years location:http://i.imgur.com/kEiI2ej.jpg), and an office next to a beer garden (Hayes Valley, SF).

Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
FLying RC car
Feeding the World with Big Data
Apple to buy new low end iPhones from Pegatron in shift from Foxconn
Just out of curiosity, do you phrase the question, "how does the HTTP protocol work?"
> We have 16 years at current burn rates to end fossil fuels

16 years? Where did you get that figure? What is this deadline you're talking about?
I think the point was to put into perspective the marketshare/growth of whatever platform snapchat is by putting facebook's bar on the same graph using the same scale.

It's like if you showed a photo of several species of elephants to a person who's never seen an elephant, they'd only know that woolly mammoths are larger than African elephants, which are larger than Asian elephants, but for all they know a mammoth could be the size of a large dog. Unless you put something else they already know in there, like a person, they won't know how huge they are.
OKPay to discontinue transactions via Bitcoin exchanges
>>and if you oppose that?

Well there are people who will find problems with anything. I mean no matter what you do.

If you were to go out and invent a vaccination to prevent a human a human from ever catching an viral infection. You will likely find people who will criticize you for not solving the hunger problem first.

The lesson is not to take that kind of people seriously.
Any chance of having CoffeeScript integration? Instead of inlining straight XML, can we wrap it in a function call (like gettext style) so it does not break existing languages/editors?
Inspect Angular’s scope for any DOM element in Developer Console from Chrome
"We have 16 years at current burn rates to end fossil fuels"

And what's your source for this?
Ask HN: What do you do to hire a UX designer on dribbble or behance
The reason I ask this question is because I have found about 20 designers who have potential to work on my project, and would like to contact them. Should I send them a survey to get an idea about their interest before I start email conversation with them?

Thanks for your feedback!
I think this addiction can be fine as long as its not self destructive and not detrimental to your personal happiness.
Men are about five times more likely to have autism than women, and are also much more likely to have autistic tendencies (mild autism, aspergers, whatever DSM wants to call it).

It seems to be accepted that these characteristics are beneficial for coding.

So why wouldn't a 50/50 split in CS be evidence of discrimination against men?
As long as they're not the only game in town, right?

As long as DRM doesn't start getting mandated to function in society.

Frankly, take a look at the way Richard Stallman lives, the way he uses tech, sticking dogmatically to only free open source software.

Why should I have to live like that to not ceed control of every single device I have.

DRM is not opt-in. It's my way or the highway. That's a big difference.
Attempts to limit high earners' use of deductions like that for home mortgage interest are already routinely described as "closing loopholes" in the language of much of the media and the Democratic party.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/sequester/the-presidents-pl...

Limit tax deductions to 28% for the wealthiest and close other loopholes.

I won't even start on the deliberate confusion here between "high income" and "wealthy".
I don't subscribe to the entire GNU/GPL philosophy. But it does serve as a useful standard or benchmark of software freedom. GPL, Public domain, Creative Commons, MIT, and BSD-style licenses all serve their purpose and are all preferable to proprietary licenses or EULAs.
We've been accumulating and refining techniques for having new ideas for centuries, at least. Leonardo da Vinci mentioned several in his writings.

Several? The only one I remember from reading DaVinci's journal was along the lines of "have the students work alongside each other," referring to his apprentices. The idea was that seeing each other's work would motivate each apprentice to excel and one-up one another. The YC dinners would be the modern incarnation of that.

It's a good idea. I thought that it was the only remark DaVinci wrote down about fostering creative process, though. Most of his journal is dedicated to observations from his research projects.
Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS
Somewhat relevant: from a study cited in this (http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/2009/08/14-lop-sided-...) interesting post we learn that

"unbalanced gender ratios did not seem to problematize proportionally. The research showed that as the sex ratio augmented in favor of women, at first, as you would expect, the women simply turned fussy and went for richer and more powerful men. But at a certain point a curious thing happened: the amount of socioeconomic status a guy needed to get girl increased way more than the math would predict. Specifically when the ratio was tilted in favor of women by 10%, low status men became not 1.1 times less likely to get a girl but 2.3 times less likely and high status men 1.3 times less likely."

The post uses this as proof for the fact that SF hooking up prospects are so bad.
True, we have been refining techniques for incremental improvement. But what of disruptive technology? Can something that is chaotic and non-deterministic have a deterministic set of steps to achieve? Is it reproducible, ceteris paribus? That's how I parse "creativity and rebellion".
I know a few people who could give you some numbers as well, but I think they study the other kind of cougar.
The React way would be reusable as well. The actual code is being passed as an anonymous function which could be extracted out and named.
One of the most exciting things about bitcoin is the innovation it has sparked in trustless p2p applications. Currencies are just the beginning.

A timestamping/notary is one use. Namecoin (mutable key/value store), Bitmessage (transient messaging) are others.

I expect we'll see a lot more. It's interesting to think about how you could combine various properties of different p2p systems like Bitcoin, BitTorrent, etc.
I love Glenn. This is in good hands.
You understand it exactly correctly. Also, I'm sending those transactions with 0.01 BTC (~$1.3) in fees, which is roughly half the $3 payment (after credit card processing fees).

The user can input whatever address they want, so technically they could use it to buy Bitcoins, but still - the amount is really tiny and insignificant, and it'll be highly non profitable ($3 for bitcoins worth ~$0.0000013).
> "start-ups are full of [young] people working hard to make other people rich"

This is very cynical but there is a lot of truth to it, especially in the current climate of "Who wants to be a millionaire (Startup edition)".

I think that if you find yourself in a startup where you won't profit much from the upside if there is one, and you're not making a salary that compensates for this then you're probably not at the kind of startup you should be at.
According to Wikipedia: Madagascar - 587000km2 , British Isles - 315000km2 .

Whoever made this map under-represented the African island, even though the whole point is to highlight under-representation of Africa.
They stopped opposing H.264 once they needed it for Firefox OS. I'd expect Mozilla to support the W3C DRM stuff as soon as someone makes Netflix a requirement for their Firefox OS phone. Maybe it won't be Mozilla but someone shipping Firefox OS will do the work. Then Mozilla will feel pressure to take the patch they provide. They're in a difficult position now that they're in the mobile phone OS market.
> So you want to demand that Netflix provide at their expense a solution for every possible OS out there?

>

> Don't like it, don't partake. I can't understand this mentality...

What mentality? Perhaps you should read my other posts. To summarise, my position is:

- if Netflix wants to build their own DRM system, fine

- if they don't want to include my chosen operating system, that's their perogative, they just lose out on my money

- what is _not_ okay is for Netflix to lobby the W3C to include DRM in HTML5

The point I'm trying to make is that having a DRM standard in HTML5 does not mean that Netflix will suddenly start to support Linux. Several posters have expressed this idea, and it's just plain incorrect.
How Writers Can Get Paid Now: Adventures In Invoicing Your Copyright Violators
Print Toys Not Guns - 3D Printers for Peace Contest
>I'm not asking for eugenics and one child policies.

These are the only proven solutions to population control.

You are either for allowing people to have kids as they decide, or you are not. There is no middle ground here. As a human I don't favor any type of population control of any type because denying people the right to reproduce is one of the cruelest things you can do.

The alternative is to just let the population ebb and flow naturally. It might double, it might halve, we don't know.

The truth is that quality of life has been improving for centuries and will probably continue to do so.
Thanks to all the questions, I rewrote the React tutorial into an AngularJS app. Have a look!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5790799
I think you could have made the same argument for laser printers. Who ever said, "Boy I wish I could have my printouts look like they came from a professional printer"? Yet, now they cost $400 and many people have them in their homes. And even those that do not have ink jets with output quality almost as good.

Increased functionality: I can have exactly what I want. It can look exactly like it was professionally created.

Decreased costs: It saves the cost of shipping it from China, then driving it on the freeway. This might be worth it for heavier items. If 3D printing can be scaled to a factory level, this might be very attractive, since you wouldn't have to hire expensive American workers to produce in the US. It might make things with high capital cost much more affordable: imagine being able to 3D print out custom car body parts and have them assembled for the price of a high-end car. Impossible now.
I am in the 50K range, have thought of hiring someone to archive it for me.
If it is false, what is the true enduring formula for creativity and rebellion?
public works projects, gridlock traffic, effective urban planning.
Why pay $30,000 to get "11 introductions" (with no guarantees, apparently), when you could have sex with 100 women by just giving the money directly to escorts instead?

Also if I paid $30,000 I would at the very least want a guarantee that the matchmaker will find girls that are definitely down to fuck that night, and will supply me a new girl every week at least.
What laws are you talking about?
This is known as "thumbnail cheating"
OMG, I always wondered how come Greenland, such a huge piece of land, had nothing much going on with it. I always thought it to be very very big, because it is very very big. Now I realize that it is one-third the size of Australia. Makes me want to find a globe soon and compare.
Given the topicality of the word I very much doubt that many HN users will confused.
As little as I can get away with!