skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.) What you're offering should be obvious. Just like a good landing page, a good booth should instantly identify what the product is and why I might want it.

2.) Multiple stations if you're showing a product that you need to demo for passerby. A large, general screen and and other, possibly smaller ones to go in depth with people who are particularly interested.

3.) Be sure your demo infrastructure doesn't just work but snaps. It looks horrible when you have troubleshoot or make excuses for a slow/incomplete demo. Don't count on the network infrastructure of the show host, have something to fall back on.

4.) Don't discriminate, be friendly and inviting to everyone who passes by. I'm generally dressed way down at these show/conventions and I've felt plain ignored at times, only to become someone's best friend when they realize who I work for (Nothing special, but a place that certain vendors would bend over backwards to list as a customer).

5.) Don't expect to get anywhere with emails collected from scanning show badges. Everybody knows to use a throwaway for registration after their first show/convention.
Yeah if you want to monetize don't allow people to have it all running on their own servers.
I'm not a customer, and barely know what Twilio even is, but I'd like to say that this is a great example of an apology done right. Short, simple, to the point, describing in basic terms what you're doing, and acknowledging that you screwed up. So simple, yet so rare to see.
Sounds like the pitch may actually contain the Higgs Boson, and it is going back in time and creating events designed to make the monitoring fail. The failing webcam was the proverbial bird that dropped bread into the coolant pipe.
I guess you could just use the wikipedia API. Just try changing "is" to "was" in the first sentence and see what happens.

Complicated technical measures expose the data to risk of decryption prior to possible activation (by the NSA or someone else). Just printing the keys and giving to trusted people would be far less risky.
Thanks Jorcsa. That's great. Someone once gave me this piece of advice - "work very hard to find out why your start up will fail. if you can't, you've found a good one, but the quicker you can find out why, the quicker you can move on to the next one."
Firefox OS already includes a hybrid native/web implementation in custom browser chrome. I think we're still about a year away from shipping native chrome in Firefox desktop.
Some sleep in the trees: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/nyregion/13trees.html?page...

Must be cooler there than on the ground.. Having lived through a few NYC summers, they can really be the worst. Not only it gets incredibly humid and hot, there's at least one serious rainstorm each week to drench you. I always found summer in NYC is much worse than winter.
This is a crucial distinction. Disagreeing with someone is valuable. Being argumentative isn't about accuracy, it's about ego and self-assertion. If the person you're talking to can't be persuaded, the solution is to call on sources (or if they aren't available, as in an interview, table the topic until they are.)
That's great. You can't believe how much I'm looking forward to that!
Doubt it will be a leak. More likely just another long list of someuser@some.mil:somehash entries.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6065248 They have the passwords.
However, running close to your credit limit does impact your credit score, at least according to everything I've seen on the subject.
A `negative control' Snowden Dead Man Switch:

" ‘Snowden won’t disclose more docs, I have thousands’ – Greenwald"

"Edward Snowden is unlikely to make new revelations since “he doesn’t want to end up in a cage like Bradley Manning”, said The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, adding that he himself decides what to publish from the thousands of leaked documents.

...

http://rt.com/news/snowden-leaks-guardian-greenwald-264/
I think it's because communicating is improving even more drastically than crime is decreasing, so the average person hears even more credible stores of crime and violence than they used to (think of the local evening news).

It may fuel a perception that things are getting worse, when in reality our standards are rising, and the bad things are increasingly coming to our attention.
This also assumes that this is information that Snowden wouldn't release anyway and that someone cares about. True or not, the perception by those who believe that he jeopardized national security is almost certainly that he's likely to leak whatever he can.

If he really things this is what's going to keep him safe, he's over playing his hand.

Furthermore, I think he's deluding himself if he thinks he's actually going to be targeted for assassination by the US. I'm no Obama fan, but it's a little far fetched. Shoved in jail, maybe. Killed to silence him? Nah.. that's a strategy ironically more likely to be employed by the countries he's seeking asylum status from.
I don't want to go off-topic, but since VLC developers are reading this thread, here's where MPlayer (I use MPlayerX) is still better than VLC:

- MPlayer starts much faster.

- MPlayer loads videos much faster.

- MPlayer has very convenient shortcuts for skipping forward or backward by 10 seconds (just press the right or left arrow), which are a godsend when you're watching something in a foreign language and you need to hear a sentence again. VLC's shortcuts (command-option-arrow) are far less convenient, harder to remember, and VLC reacts to them much more slowly, which makes it incredibly inconvenient.

There has been some improvement over the last few years: seeking hardly used to work at all in VLC, while now it works, albeit slowly. However, it's not enough to beat MPlayer.

There may be other reasons to prefer MPlayer, but they become more subjective. The ones I mentioned above are areas where VLC is objectively inferior. It would be great if it could be further improved.
Maybe because the want to make money?
They've got nothing to hide, right? Is this FEMA? If our government can't be arsed to secure their authentication servers and passcodes (eg. salt+hash+fuckitandusebcrypt), how the hell can they be trusted with other's private data?
Why pickpocket when you can rob someone over the wire?
Especially when there's more than one way to get said content. I've been watching AMC's content I wish to see without having to have cable TV. I simply pay for what I wish to consume and the pricing has been much cheaper than the claimed $10 a month.
> While this is a fair and worthwhile personal essay, I don't think it's a particularly impactful statement about the potential of the product.

This is an unfinished product and he wants his $ back because the user experience leaves him cold. He's not investing in Google - he's buying an actual product. And clearly he is skeptical that this particular product will ever live up to its potential.

Contrast to the iPhone, yet again (the original). It showed both incredible potential and was an excellent actual product.
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Amazing story...perspective. Peyton is such a trooper!
So... It was basically all thanks to a well-designed landing page, or did I miss something?
What "very high" percentage? A single person working a 40 hour week for minimum wage can afford to live without unusual subsidies, even in London, unless you're going to abolish the NHS or introduce a poll tax. The many students working at McDonalds are certainly being heavily subsidised... and would be even if they weren't working at McDonalds or anywhere else.

The minimum wage-earning family breadwinners whose incomes are heavily topped up with child benefits and housing benefits might be being heavily subsidised, but that's because their living costs far exceed those of more employable people, not because McDonalds (or the local shop that barely scrapes a profit most open hours) is underpaying them due to their subsidies. Cutting their benefits gives McDonalds incentive whatsoever to raise their pay, because there's no shortage of unemployed, unskilled people willing to cram into shoddy shared flats and work as many hours in the week as possible.

I'm not a fan of corporate welfare like the Job Skills Agency paying a quarter of McDonalds' annual training budget, but there's no way you can prevent the existence of unskilled, un(der)employed people with few expenses dragging down the earnings of unskilled employed people that can't balance their budgets without subsidising them or auctioning off their kids.
He could also distribute encrypted versions to a bunch of confederates, and have the dead man switch send them the encryption key (but not release it to the public). That way he both has to be dead and the confederates have to be satisfied that the documents ought to be released before they are published.
smplayer isn't windows only. It does work on linux fairly well too. That being said, I have grown to like VLC more lately.
I don't understand why those same enemies are now disincentivized from killing him.
Hm. Interestingly, I was taught at school that it was a false flag op by Karl Ernst's SA thugs, who framed Van der Lubbe. This appears to no longer be believed. Good old revisionism to suit the current political clime, I suppose. Don't want anyone drawing any parallels!
This may not be automated -- he may have simply given copies/keys & instructions to several trusted friends, who will watch the news for info about his death.

They would then make the decision to release or not release, either independently or in concert, depending on how he set it up.
https://news.google.com/news?ned=us&q=America%20has%20no%20f...

Sad.
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Congressmen on the hill are not the same people that the NSA is employing to do technical surveillance work and data collection analysis.
See also: anonymous as a false flag operation to enact tighter "security" measures
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The whole purpose of Skype is eavesdropping.
With the automated version if they kill him documents leak. How is that an incentive to kill him?
Even if you believe Nissen, the actual increase in risk was from .3 to .6%, and people who were denied Vioxx still want it back. An arthritis drug that vastly improves my life with probability 1 while maybe shortening it with some small probability is one that people should be free to choose, or not choose. You don't have the ethical right to dictate someone else's medical decisions.
Awesome tool.

I don't know why, but I was expecting a place to get in touch to other programmers to do Pair Programming (i.e. for small katas or side projects). Does it exists?

If it doesn't, does anyone wants to have a bit of fun doing Pair Programming to create it together? :)
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Diminishing the credibility of the US government does not enhance the credibility of the tinfoil hat crowd one bit.
Whoa... Indeed, this puts thing into perspective really fast!
Get a developer license? The LGPL 2.x does not disallow tivioization. (Thank god)
I think design was a factor. But it wouldn't have mattered how well it was designed, if it didn't show the functionality.

Our first attempt was following the accepted format for landing pages...
1. Pick a headline
2. Take some screenshots
3. Write about benefits

But we realized that wasn't compelling enough.

You could have the best headline in the world, backed by a solid design, and it still wouldn't communicate in the same way as an example/demo/animation of functionality.

Cheers,
@mattgoldman_sd
I rarely get LinkedIn invite spam like that. I've gotten messages from (maritime) recruiters, but they seem a little more professional from what I'm reading about tech recruiters, although they still follow the same gimmicks about being vague, etc.

The times I do get spam, I mark it as such. I haven't had to do it in a while, but I think LinkedIn has an option "I don't know this person" for connection requests.
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Some of my favorite passwords from the list:
notalentassclown3
password2
Password12
password5%
password
Password14
Password1
PASSWORD
Password1@
password3#
Password!1
Password45

etc...
Great to know! Thanks for the feedback
considering how much of those passwords are "password", i'd say that they don't feel like having anything to hide.
Sounds like no one else could get anything done because everyone was too busy working on stuff for Scott.
Two different things.
Wow. Bad move, Anon (and I'm the last person who would normally say that). This was a really crappy thing to do to innocent folks just trying to make an honest career, many of whom probably use the same credentials for their online banking and other important services. It gives a bad name to "hacktivists" (which are growing increasingly important in holding our government accountable) and will only take credibility away from the cause of transparency. Congress members will very likely take an "us vs them" mentality and lump Anon with "them" who want transparency wrt the NSA revelations.

Counter-productive and juvenile, that's all this was.
I don't trust this Castro brother's friend.
OK, after looking at the diagram and re-reading the article you are right -- you did not in fact mix up group and particle velocity
If you wanted to do this experiment with reasonable statistics, it's quite amenable to parallelization. Pitch is cheap, funnels are cheap, dusty basement shelves are (potentially) cheap, and webcams are inexpensive. Doing ~300 of these in parallel wouldn't be hard, and would allow considerable investigation of systematic effects.

Decade-scale experiments aren't hard, but they do require planning.
I didn't read the article (I will) but I can guess why. "Problems". They need to solve problems and programming is the medium to solving problems with computation.
That's easy; Just migrate your CSS to a Google Doc, then add some logic to your build process to download the doc via the Drive API and unformat the text. What could go wrong? :)
You'll have to forgive me, I'm at work right now so I can't pull up the talk Rob Pike did on Go, I think it was 2011.

Around the point where he explained Go was not a language to expand the boundaries of computer science. It's for programmers who "often are not as smart as they think they are"

I'll look it up when I get the chance. That might be later tonight.
It's an incentive for enemies of the USA.
So... schmooze? It may be part of the answer, but it seems awfully condescending. It implies that the IT department could always do a better job, they simply don't care about you that much. Again, this is a hypothetical IT department, so it may sometimes be true.

Nowhere did I see suggestion for a change in how projects are communicated, which I would assume is the #1 issue.
I'm wondering if highly publicized attacks by Anonymous that do not yield any useful information or something that would be embarrassing for the government are actually done by regular citizens, and not by the employees of some government agency.
I don't doubt that is is hard to live a nice life on minimum wage. But I also believe that a lot of people just find it absolutely outrageous to go without a lot of things we don't actually need. I think it is funny that "cable" is listed in the budget like it is a basic necessity for life. Ditch cable = save money.
This seems to be an attempt to stay in the spotlight so they can get their message out.

I'm less optimistic than you. It seems to me like an attempt to stay in the spotlight so they can assuage their own egos.
As long as so many people are willing to pay for bundles they will likely continue. I applaud you for canceling
http://electoralmap.net/PastElections/past_elections.php?yea...
A link-bait post with the headline "snowden arrested" and "...in my dreams" as a subheading would cause a misfire, wouldn't it?
I agree that a widely held negative view of the technology would be detrimental to many of our favorite startups. However, so far it seems that the popular (not political) press has been very factually oriented. For instance the bad press from the several problems that Fisker had with launching their vehicle did not spill over and cloud Tesla's reputation. (Although not all of Fisker's problems had to do with batteries, obviously.) Hopefully Boeing is only ruining their own rep (though the impact on US-headquartered manufacturing is unfortunate). Tesla is, so far, unscathed.

Interestingly enough, Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Staubel created some kind of hybrid propulsion system for aircraft, that I believe was purchased by Boeing. So there are definitely connections (if not continuity of technology) between the companies.

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Ie: if you WANT the documents leaked, why NOT kill him (if you are not barred from doing so because of ethical or pratical considerations)
Google experimenting with anti-NSA encryption – report
Politics. Honest career. Pick one.
Hubot is awesome! I use him everyday in the chatrooms for my sideprojects.
If you don't mind my asking, what are the competitive advantages of Divshot over, say, JetStrap?
I agree the display is only part of your vision. That's suboptimal but I'm not sure it's a showstopper.

The camera not being centered on your face is not insurmountable. (In fact, you'd want it to be centered on your right eye, not your face.) The project I linked to above aligns the camera with your vision. It doesn't currently work for different depths of field, but I'm working on that - this relies on your image recognition being able to determine the depth of the recognized object, e.g. by knowing its physical size.
Workforce is not responsible for productivity increases... technology is.

Also, minimum wage is a terrible measure to use here. Look at median wages, or even look at the upper end of the bottom quintile. Less than 3% of the country's workforce earns at or below minimum wage. [http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.htm]
I've been using an ad blocker for years. Sometimes when it has a false positive I have to disable it and refresh the page to see what went wrong. It is during these brief moments that I realize how much I would've hated the web if it wasn't for the ad blocker.

Distracting, bandwidth gobbling and CPU consuming ads. Not to mention annoying video ads on various sites (such as YouTube). Thank Jebus for AdMuncher!

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Favorite password: cody.stewart@mail.house.gov: iConstituent

Obviously this leak is bad, but I think it's also humanizing. Staffers are people.
> A well insulated low solar gain building

office buildings in say, the developped cities on the Arabian Peninsula, are basically high, very exposed glass and steel cages, where their 4 seasons can be qualified as: summer, hotter summer, unbearably hot summer and tiny itty bitty less hot summer.
I stopped reading at "Sound erodes your ear drums", you obviously wrote all this but have no clue about how the ear actually works. Its not the ear drum that gets damaged over time, its the hair cells inside the cochlea that eventually die.
Delayed :( I preordered a while ago. Looking forward to when it comes out though.
Sure they are, the NSA precisely characterized Snowden as a high-school dropout. As well, I'm not convinced Congress staffers shouldn't be just a schooled as those data analysts. These are the folks first in line to help educate our Congress! They help or wholesale write bills! You're probably right though; no freaking wonder this circus has allowed the NSA and the like fly under their nose.
My worry is that I think it is premature to abandon our legal methods to fight back against government tyranny and the abuse of the constitution.

I know that is exactly what Snowden has done (in some ways) but he also had restraint and wasn't attempting to harm the US. By engaging in war (which is what the administration will see this as) they could undercut all the work that other activists are doing.

But like you I can see another possibility, one where this is necessary and the only way the US will get the message. But I feel it is more likely a option 2 Two, it is highly dangerous and might cause lots of unintended collateral damage.
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The Beal seed viability experiment[1] has been running for 120+ years, and iirc they keep increasing the interval between trials because there are only so many seeds stored, and so far they haven't had a significant failure in germinating and growing them.

[1] http://www.amjbot.org/content/89/8/1285.full
Maybe with a "ghost" feature like from Mario Kart where you can see a representation of your previous runs on the course and compete with them.
Considering most of the interaction design in iOS 7 apps is going to feature this kind of subtle animations to move between various contexts, I think such a tool is hardly going to disappear in the near future.
"Loom organizes pictures in albums"

How?

"and displaying them etc is awesome"

Ah.. ok then! Now I got it.
You probably missed it then: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1061646928/vlc-for-the-n...

Unless you were being facetious.