skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Customers may not care when they're using your SaaS product, but my company is in the market for new support software and we looked at yours but because yours is Microsoft based, it's disqualified. We are looking for a self hosted solution.

OP offers a self hosted solution as well.
goto.com anyone?
Any tips on getting started? It sounds interesting but I wouldn't know where to start.
Apple was never actually "in" that building at 770 Welch Road. It was their answering service and mail drop when they were still in the garage.

Here's a better view of the building:

https://www.google.com/maps?q=770+Welch+Rd,+Palo+Alto,+CA&ll...

The answering service was on the first floor near the front door - right near the map pin in that view.

I have a somewhat embarrassing story about Steve and me and that answering service:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/h4n5w/i_was_one_of_the...
There's the other problem of decreasing contrast and lack of borders separating the last ad and first organic search result.

http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-it

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...

A few years ago this was the style http://www.ismoip.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Screen...

Before that http://cdn.userstyles.org/style_screenshot_thumbnails/58617_...

Now http://i.imgur.com/Wmdd0.png

Some of those keywords are worth tens of dollars per click so no wonder,the colors have been A/B optmized to get the most clicks from people not knowing they are ads.

Comparison:

Google: #fff7ec
Bing: #f9fcf7
Yahoo: #fafaff
DuckDuckGo: (255,212,0,0.18)

Not to say that Bing, Yahoo etc. are much better but I expect more from the "Do No Evil" Google rather than increasing the next quarter's earnings instead of targeting older people and people with bad monitors and hurting people who did a lot of good work to come in the first few in organic results but don't and/or can't pay Google for expensive ads. Also, Bing and the rest continue to mostly lose money and they can't afford to separate ads while the big guy continues to reduce the difference between ads and search results.

"Study:Contrast sensitivity gradually decreases with age"
http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=818&strict=0&morphol...
http://glossi.com is disrupting one of the last pilars of 20th century media - the magazine. Glossi allows anyone to create a beautiful digital magazine that can be viewed on any device through our browser-based WYSIWG creation platform.
We are all Transitional Humans; Transhumans
Reading this article, for me, is just a reminder of what an awesome effect a really good teacher can have... In this teacher's writing I see a lot of positive qualities reflected from some of the teachers that made a huge impact on my life and disposition. In the end I suspect that - just having a teacher that is even willing to think or write about this - has much more of an impact than any rote following of procedural formula about "how to teach boys".
Hoefler & Frere-Jones introduces Cloud Typography
There are two basic scenarios here that I see, both of them extremely bad for US national security (something I care about, and everyone reading this should too because it is core to our safety). *

1. Obama made a huge back-channel concession to Russia to get them to deny Snowden asylum. He had to do something to get Putin to decide not to shelter Snowden, and it would likely be an extremely painful concession. Most likely something security related in eastern Europe, probably BMD.

2. Putin cannot keep Snowden from releasing information and has done what he can to bind Snowden to Moscow. By forcing Snowden to stop publishing, he can keep any revelations from being released and instead give him a thorough debriefing to gain sole access to a treasure trove of counter espionage intelligence.

This is bad. Very, very bad.

(*)Understand that every country spies on every other. Germany moaning about us spying is highly hypocritical because they do the same exact thing to every ally. So does France to Germany, the UK to France, so on and so forth. Hell, Israel spies on us and we spy on them. Spying is core to our safety in the modern age, and has been core to the safety of every country since the days of the roman empire.
The 'Glass experience' is nothing more than a scripted over-courteous event. As a developer with social anxiety, my Glass experience was spending quality time with my wife as we ventured throughout LA.

Unboxing is not interesting to me. Overly-cheery reps are not an experience. Touring a near-empty facility rivals staring at pictures online. My wife's comment summed it up: "You just looked disappointed the whole time."

Yet, don't discredit the device. There are amazing chances to improve people's lifestyles. There will be niches to help navigate people through life in otherwise impossible-to-assist situations. The to be educated/educators, handicapped, autistic, businesses and many others may find new approaches to life through a device like this.
What you don't understand is Google's been doing this for almost a decade now. It's about profit optimization while not pissing off your users, or sometimes helping them even.

A paid result can be a useful thing and might even be better than an organic result in many cases, but both have their pitfalls and it's not surprising for them to keep going this route more and more.

Google is a company, not a nonprofit. They are in it for the money. Why is anyone surprised?
Doxie scanner uses this to AMAZING effect for the Doxie Go: http://www.getdoxie.com/product/doxie-go/index.html

The huge advantage to using micro-video is that it's much, much lower commitment. Because of this, many more people will watch it and it goes from being part of product help/support to being part of marketing. Very short videos convey a ton of information without making the visitor invest a lot of attention and time.

The only thing I'd caution against is trying to host them yourself. Vimeo, ooyala, brightcove, even youtube all do an awesome job of hosting videos with minimal risk of melting your server.
Pretty cool, region inference is handled via miniKanren, a relational / constraint logic programming embedding in Scheme (also available in Clojure as core.logic):

http://github.com/eholk/harlan/blob/master/harlan/middle/inf...
Microsoft’s Entertainment Head Don Mattrick Leaving to Take Top Role at Zynga
I would encourage anybody who haven't watched this to do so. It's a very interesting video, especially for younger people who didn't grow up during that time period.
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Reading the wish list I do get the impression that he doesn't have a great intuition about Win32. (My own background: I worked in the Windows division at MSFT for a few years). Particularly telling is the item about not knowing what form of IPC to use to simulate Unix domain sockets in pagent (no mention of Win32 rpc or named pipes), alongside some weird ideas about SendMessage and modal dialogs... Or the part where he says he won't do a wince port since he'd have to rewrite with wide strings (not that wince is as relevant as it used to be). I am surprised that the author of such great windows software is writing some of these things.

It does bear repeating though that putty is a great application and the list of stuff he has knocked off on his changelog (same page as the wish list) looks impressive.
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The Next Big Opportunity for Startups
Lol, no, there isn't a safe, reliable, legal way to do it :)

You'll have to find a good dealer since it's a lot less common than weed, ecstasy, coke, ket etc.

And if you haven't taken psychedelics before I'd _seriously_ suggest first figuring out how good your head is on them with something a little less nuts (e.g. shrooms).

LSD has its reputation for a reason. It's not a toy and you'll be tripping for ~14 hours. So if you do decide to do it, make sure you're in a happy, safe environment (physically _and_ mentally) with at least one person with you who you trust.
How to sniff GSM traffic with just an old cell phone
These mechanical benchmarks may be true, but FF still feels sluggish and the dev tooling still leaves A LOT to be desired. Even in recreational browsing, I tend to use dev tools and would get bothered easily having to open another browser.

The memory efficiency doesn't explain much to me. It's like complaining that linux is holding memory hostage in buffers/cache or that Chrome should lose points for its process model. The test surely doesn't tell the whole story; not to mention, I can't be bothered to worry about a couple 100M when I can get 160 of them for the price of dinner. For all I know, the chunking I experience with FF could very well be a relic of their process and/or memory model.

And security is just a smudge on the score? No thanks.
Oh! Sorry, I missed that part. So even things like http://192.168.1.19/mystuff makes Google Chrome scream? That's crazy. I can't imagine what would cause that. Wish I could help :( ...but looking forward to a blog explaining how this happened later!
Considering the Z7000 series FPGA, yes there are many use cases where this is much better than any Cpu or GPU. it's a really uncommon use case though, and the best use for this board is probably as a developer board for ASICs with ARM IP cores.

The benefit of the FPGA, though is that you can use it to add whatever peripherals or even coprocessors you want for your specialized application.

It would be awesome to see a 10gbit fiber optic Phy on it.
> If you are looking to make money off a mobile app (not establish saas mobile extension) rapidly launch MVPs of your apps to see if there is any demand. Don't invest in perfect designs and ux until you've validated that there is a user base worth investing in.

That advice is how you create shovelware. You can't validate a market if you don't meet the demands of that market, and that means producing something that can compete in a space of well-made and well-designed applications.
Google homeschooling resources, and begin talking to the homeschooling groups in your local area. Homeschooling has a network of families that support each other generally. It's the easiest and best way to get started. Plus, you'll get a lot of guidance on what resources are good and which are a waste of time.
>"It seems to me that Snowden is the greatest pacifist. This person has done no less to win the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama."

love it.
Thanks, I will order the book!
"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

This goal seems far less noble since unveiling Google Glass.
But yet it may have been what he needed at that stage in his cognitive and social development.

It's only disruptive to a disciplinarian, industrial age approach to education.
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere four billion years ago
School is half education and half babysitting. The problem is that schools aren't aware of that, and they try to cram too much learning/work into a day at school. Kids just don't have the attention span. College isn't taught this way. Colleges realize that even young adults can't handle 40 hours a week of continual instruction, why do we do this kids can?

I think the reason, is that we're always behind other countries trying to "catch up"--50 years ago it was the Soviets, 20 years ago the Japanese, now it's the "global workforce".

In our frantic rush to compete with everyone else we end up forcing an overambitious curriculum on kids. How much time can kids really spend learning everyday? A few hours at the most?

I have a friend who teaches 1st grade, she knows kids at that age can't spend time on focused learning for more than 20 or 30 minutes, but the school districts forces here to teach in 1 to 2 hour blocks and spend almost 6 hours out of the day instructing

(they get 15 minutes, no more, of recess; 30 minutes lunch, many times in silence because the lunchroom gets too loud; and on some days 45 minutes of focused PE).

What 6 or 7 year old can possibly sit still and study for 5 or 6 hours each day?
estimated $1.6 mil a month for > 12 months? For a meme generator? I'd say they had a good run.
Ranker: Crowds accurately predicted celebrity deaths
Although I was a generally calm student (I am introverted and not into causing mayhem or attracting attention), I never copied from the blackboard, don't did my homework, slept during classes, or instead kept drawing, or later writing ASM code or toying with physics formulas, or I just outright spent my time chatting about video games with whoever was nearby.

Every time I had a new teacher, my parents were called into the school, and warned that I had some sort of problem (and my parents went into full denial hell not of course my child is not crazy... later I found out I DO probably have Aspergers, seemly inherited from the father of my mother), my parents reply were: "Alright, wait until the tests, and if he fails, THEN you can call us."

Unfortunately to those teachers, and me, I did not failed... Meaning I had to endure them, and they had to endure me.
Specially because I completely ignored their lessons, and in the time of the tests I answered correctly but in my own way, this was specially bad related to hard sciences because I would use formulas I invented on the spot, and I wrote in totally random patterns, forcing teachers to spend LOOOOOONG time to figure what I did, also my calligraphy is horrible, thus all my teachers hated reading my tests, yet they could not just zero them, because I always passed, so if they did that, they knew I would send the test to their superior and would get them punished.

So yes, I can totally relate to the article.

Also I STILL don't sit still, right now as I type I am vibrating one of my legs. (I guess this is a way to keep energy burning considering I stay sitting the entire day).
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I don't know if I'm in the minority, but I don't really care if people have Glass on around me. People have cameras with them at all times these days due to smartphones. The fact that it's not attached to their head is not what's stopping them from taking photos and video at inappropriate times. I don't see myself beginning to take unsolicited photos any more than I would have with my phone (aka never) just because I have Glass on. I imagine the same goes for most people you have any sort of meaningful interaction with.
> It's weird, but I get the vibe that Mozilla is sort of selfish and is becoming less relevant over time.

Funny, I'm starting to swing the other way. I keep wondering how we let a web advertiser on all our boxes.

The dominant browser shapes standards. It was true with Navigator, it was true with IE. Decisions on cookies, tracking, even some protocol designs over the next ten years will occasionally pit the interests of users against the interests of advertisers.

I like Google, a lot. But I do not trust Google to lobby on my behalf on these issues.

(Also, I really miss Ubiquity.)
Because of return on investment.
My personal goal is to figure out how to make enough money to keep my children out of the insanity of public schools.

It doesn't necessarily take a lot of money to homeschool children. (Been there, still doing that.) It does take agreement among the parents about what lifestyle adjustments each parent is willing to make so that children have flexibility in their learning. My oldest son, now a programmer working for a startup, sent me a very touching email for Father's Day in which he attributed some of his success so far in the business world to having been homeschooled rather than being put in public school. "That has made it very easy for me to step into a leadership position and feel very comfortable in positions of responsibility" is part of what he wrote.

Finding truly excellent third-party educational materials and programs can be inexpensive

http://www.singaporemath.com/Primary_Math_s/21.htm

or expensive,

http://ohs.stanford.edu/

depending on what your selection criteria are for "excellent" programs, and what your child's specific needs are, but some of the expensive third-party programs have significant financial aid that reaches up into the middle class, and some of the commercial materials and programs are available in a thriving used-materials or group-purchase market for homeschooling families. So shop around, and see what fits your family's needs.

There is a lot of information about how to get started in homeschooling

http://learninfreedom.org/sidlifgetstarted.html

on the World Wide Web, and my goal for next few years is to update my personal website (the link here) with more been-there, done-thats as I launch my younger three children into adulthood to joint their older brother in the big world.
Historically many, many children have sat still at school and behaved themselves.

That doesn't mean that others should be stigmatized, but it's not like this is impossible and unprecedented.
Would love to see if your prose in French is better than mine in English ;)
I believe it might be because DDG is not Google. What works on google might not work the same in DDG.

How long have you been using google? Probably long time. During this time you (unconsiously) learned how to ask questions "google way", now you need to learn to quack :p

I also found that DDG sometimes (not very often) does not find what I am looking for. Mostly it is because I know nothing of the subject ie. using a description of a "thing" I am looking for instead of its name, etc. - theese are the things google is better at.

Regardless, if you find such query than please submit it to ddg, they are very responsive and results do get better.
This is a great post chalk full of many excellent hiring tips for technical roles. Although I'm curious, you mention 2 to 4 hours of "programming challenges" as a component of your 'on-site interview'. These are followed by paired programming sessions (presumably several of these) involving debugging with team members --say, 1 to 2 hours? This, along with the usual meet and greet chit-chat/Q&A and walking tours of the office.
So basically you're asking short listed candidates you've identified as "qualified" to spend an entire day with you and upwards of 5 hours demonstrating their programming and problem-solving skills.

This sounds excessive.

Your company must have unlimited resources or incredible cash flow to be able to invest an entire day on each candidate and then pull team members off "paying" tasks and projects to prepare mock programming exercises.
If you're talking junior or intermediate roles, this might work. But good luck getting any senior developer with decent experience and programming chops to spend 5 hours of their day on so-called "challenges" unless you're one of the Googles or Facebooks of the world.
I seem to recall studies in controlled environments where people were not allowed to exercise, and there was a significant difference in calorie burn attributable to small movements. So the homeostasis argument seems totally plausible to me.
Nit: this article is really criticizing a UI change which makes local results more prominent (in that they take over the entire page). The local results at the top of the page when you search for "Italian restaurants" are all still organic. In fact, whenever there's a map on the right-and side of the page, it's displacing ads.

Now, you can be against Google ever making a UI change, or even against Google showing different results for "Italian restaurants" in New York and Chicago, but this doesn't really have anything to do with "organic" search results.
i think glass will find more adoption with commercial uses than with consumers. military, construction workers, police, racecar drivers, pilots, etc. those people actually can use a HUD for more than just checking twitter comments and they won't look weird wearing it.

for consumer uses, i hope the future is not glass. people should interact with people. today our phones can go in our pockets and we can talk face to face. with glass, we'll talk in this order: face -> glass -> glass -> face.

i do want important info to be surfaced when i need it, but i don't need it as a HUD. a voice in my ear, or perhaps even something as futuristic as just "knowing" that i need to make a left at the next light since the computer has informed the right part of my brain of that.

but please, i don't want to have to compete with glass for your attention.
Everyone spies on everyone, even allies. You think Germany doesn't? That's just life in the big leagues. Even Sweden's foreign minister acknowledged this.

As for the other stuff you mention, I don't agree with your premises. I don't believe the wars were bogus, and I'm comfortable with terrorists being held in Gitmo.
The Immersion Data Center: The Future of High-Density Computing
You're taking a narrow perspective. Fidgeting is distracting, to everyone else. Whatever your ideals of a perfect world may be, 20 dump trucks of kids needs to be educated at one facility every day. Whatever you may think one kid is doing to help him focus, that kid is disrupting the focus of his 8 neighbors. Something needs to change, but it's more than just perspectives.
Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum
They could easily SHA1 the phone numbers to "Anonymize" them.
from that page: The reality is that the US can request extradition through diplomatic contacts from any country even if no treaty already exists.
Being able to listen attentively is a valuable skill upon which other skills can be built.

Being able to not disrupt a class or meeting is a valuable skill upon which other skills can be built.

Thumb-twiddling doesn't matter, but listening and not being pointlessly disruptive DOES matter and learning skills like this is part of growing up.
Is that really any different than carrying around a cell phone all day?
You're right, frankly, a lot of the web-facing stuff isn't quite there yet. I would say that this is because I have been working on improving the technical offering for my current customers, and that this HN posting has caught me in the middle of a frontpage redesign. I'm sorry about that.

As for the language versions, privacy policy, etc - those will be coming soon, but you can be assured I'm not NSA'ing you guys.

The tiering is because most shops favor cost predictability over scale-to-your-needs billing, which smooths out acccounting. I understand your concern here, though, and the pricing is still definitely very new (like the rest of this site).

My site is in fact on top of AWS (heroku), and I have 0 doubt about my ability to scale to enterprise usage. I've invested a fair amount in the architecture thinking up front, and I eagerly await a reason to pull the switch on my dyno counts. Unfortunately, I need an excuse to do it, but I might just spin up 20 nodes and do a load test for fun one of these days.

Anyhow, I'm glad that you at least like the product. Hopefully improvements to the landing page will be present soon. Sorry that your experience with it was so unfavorable.
The lisp part isn't necessary (or necessarily helpful), but it's certainly an improvement on embedding C-as-a-string in more C.

...though I am concerned that abstracting this stuff too much makes it less obvious how to optimize for the GPU. This may be a language for people that already have a solid grasp on GPU programming.
The complaints from other countries seem like a lot of posturing and hot air.
The language has nothing to do with it. LISP, C, Mathematica (which is LISP-like), etc.. The hard part is dealing with local vs global vs const vs private memory, and the intricacies of global work-groups count vs work-group work size. I won't go further but to say, the GPU is very specialized and the frameworks out there like OpenCL take a little bit of learning before you can use them effectively and performantly.
Eavesdropping a fax machine