skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I buy the rationale. The person in the video says he receives so many text messages (he names emails, tweets, facebook updates) that he decided to build a device to see them right in front of his eye as they come in.

It occurs to me that having emails, tweets or facebook updates alert you is hugely distracting. Personally, I would probably allow SMS on Glass, though, given that they are — in my filter bubble — usually important, used when coordinating and occur rarely enough that it doesn’t distract me. But email? No way!
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Works both ways no? It's not that F needs the comment -- a comfortable room temp is ~75, and no one will think "but it might be 100 in here!"
Interestingly all the 1 star reviews happened only after the author's true identity was revealed. What kind of psychology is that?
Based on the little I know about this I would guess the $ amount would be more than most would be comfortable with.
I appreciated your suggested experiment, so I tried it out.

My results were perhaps not exactly what you anticipated:

- My phone has 114 ppi (and wonderful battery life)

- My primary computer screen has 128 ppi (and wonderful battery life - sorry, I don't own a desktop)

As I said, I don't personally value high-density screens and this apparently affects my purchasing decisions quite strongly.

I can easily accept that we have different technological desires and I am interested in your point of view :)

I suspect you are right about the direction the desktop market should go, but it won't tempt me back to desktop (and in general, the desktop market will surely continue to shrink). I already have most everything I need from a desktop, plus portability.

Probably, we are both in minority niches - at either end of a spectrum.
Why not do it all in a single bill? They could still make him a figure head, even name the bill after him and include a specific point about pardoning him, but include everyone else too.

If this ends up getting through all the stages and they then want to do the same for everyone else, at the very least it's a waste of time going through the stages again (if there's no more debate), or if there is still debate then even more time wasted.

The only reason not to include it in this bill, if that is their long-term plan, is if they think it is more likely to pass with just one name, which seems odd to me.
Microsoft's horizontal play in the 3D Printing market?
It appears that they excel at bad things (fining us, taxing us, conducting wars, etc).
Oh, thanks for the hint. That makes some things easier :)
Either that, or I just missed it. For anyone wondering (I think) the change is that the inner loop read "(j=i; j<=i; j++)". Note the first statement "j=i" is not "j=1". It would probably be clearer with a variable other than i.
Who knows..? They might be teaching that in schools half a century from now.
Can you set up dyndns on the box?
If you are surprised that Yahoo is ruining Tumblr you're either so optimistic that I envy you, or have no knowledge of the history of Yahoo or acquisitions in general.
Do you really think the vaccine-autism thing is a "lefty pop-topic"? As far as I can tell the sets of people who deny climate change science and those who deny vaccine-autism science are nearly disjoint.
Since you're someone who seems to belive in multiple human races could you give me a list of those races?
If you're on the east coast, those signs are on I-81 through Virginia. I haven't seen them in any adjacent states.
Karen is JK's other pseudonym :-)
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It's also sad that people typically spend a small fraction of effort determining what it is they believe, then expend vastly greater effort arguing and promoting those hastily-formed (or most often, inherited) beliefs.
Ehm, Isn't their violent reaction a clear representation of their choice?

Individuals might want to get out and wonder as you say, but some makes a choice for them - their leaders. For one reason or another good or bad.

Just like people make choices for you and you have bare minimum say. They way your government, state government, mayor they all make choices that impact your life one way or another, some highly, some to a low degree.

>I guess all I'm saying is that not establishing contact is also a choice that we're making on their behalf. Is deciding that they can't parttake in modern society any more OK than deciding they must? Can we not contact them in a way where they get to choose?

so NO!
> not that he hadn't broken it so as to have a pardon

Reasoning I find confusing. A pardon is by definition something given to people convicted of breaking the law. It can be and is sometimes used as a relief for people who have been -wrongly- convicted if there is no other mechanism (or just because it's easier), but that's not implied or required.

Is this some difference between US and UK law?
The particulars of the BT protocol are beyond me, but I thought it would already do a compare between the copy you had and the one on the external server, and only send the relevant bytes to bring everything up to sync again.

Between that and a "compare timestamps to figure out the newest file" I wouldn't think it would be that hard to re-create? What am I missing here?
>Investment is now running into sharply diminishing returns

This can be seen quite clearly in the rising ICOR [1] numbers. The stimulus lead investment since the crisis has been substantially less productive, at least in the short term [2]. Infrastructure and real-estate investment is doing much less for future GDP growth than prior investments in capital equipment for manufacturing, exports etc.

The bigger concern in the financing of this investment binge. IMO there is a very real risk of substantial civil unrest in China when the massive credit bubble comes apart.

The FT put out a much more extensive treatment of these issues a couple of days ago:

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/07/17/1554582/when-does-a-ch...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_Capital-Output_Rati...

[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303...
It no longer matters to Turing, but it still sends a message to the country that how he and others were treated was wrong, which is a good thing.

Whether a pardon is needed after an official apology was already issued is debatable, as they both send the same message, personally I'd like to see it passed but won't really care much if it doesn't.

It's very different to "converting" dead people to your religion, as this act would have been offensive to them if done when they were alive. However Turing would not have been offended if pardoned while alive.
Motherjones does have a left bias that makes me cringe sometimes, so i see where you are coming from.

Where I disagree with you is that while science can uncover issues (such as global warming or gmos) that can be politicized, that doesn't mean that the underlying questions are somehow no longer scientific. Politics can't compete. Sorry.
America is the term to the whole continent. Central and south too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas).

I understand that "Americans" is a shorthand for "USA Habitant", in the minds of a lot of people, mainly because USA is the dominant culture in this side.

But is like ask: "I'm Asian" and asume is about a chinese.
I wonder if the name is a veiled reference? (Dattebayo!)
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I've long thought that it may have actually been better for Microsoft in the long run if the antitrust trial had resulted in breaking them up. Who knows though.

The constant forays into new markets isn't new- they've been doing that since the mid-90s at least. At that time they had essentially "won" the PC market and achieved 90%+ market share with Windows and Office. Those products grew and grew until they had nowhere to go. You'd think that would be great for them (and it has been), but stock prices for the tech industry are driven by growth, not profits. If you aren't constantly growing and expanding, your stock price will flatline or start declining. So, for the last 15-20 years Microsoft has been taking the profits from their cash cows and throwing them into one attempt at expansion after another- MSN, Web TV, Zune, Xbox (which was ultimately successful, but not especially profitable)...on and on.

Hardly any of their expansion attempts worked out for various reasons. Often their products were clones of some other company's already successful product, and coming out with something just as good (or even a little better) a year or two later is just not good enough to unseat a firmly established competitor. They also push the Microsoft and Windows branding hard, on everything they make, but those are just not brands that most consumers have positive associations with.

That's the fate of many tech companies, and it's kind of depressing: they have huge success with some core products, blow up over a short period of time, and effectively achieve monopolies with those products. The core products become cash cows, reliably raking in tons of money quarter after quarter, but they have nowhere left to go. So the company dedicates itself to throwing that cash cow money at one (usually) failed attempt at expansion to new markets after another, but hardly anything takes hold and they are punished by the stock market and their shareholders, despite the fact that they are still insanely profitable. In the worst case, some sea change in the industry comes along after a decade or two, and all of a sudden their dependable cash cow starts drying up. It happened with IBM, it's been happening with Microsoft, and it'll probably happen to many of the top tech companies right now. It sucks and it's stupid, but that's the nature of the tech industry; being publicly traded is a double-edged sword because if you're not constantly growing and expanding, your shareholders think you are failing. I wish more companies could settle into a state of doing one thing really well and not have constant pressure to expand, because that's ultimately what kills them.
... but coordinating "edit todos" processes and "add todos" processes is precisely what core.async is designed to do :) No hard thinking required.
Well, if you disagree, then you're welcome to instead use notconstructive.com once it's up and running.
Instead, you can write a letter and send it snail mail to an old friend.
You keep arguing with logical fallacies, but I'll respond anyway. Russia is doing quite well and just became the 5th largest economy[1]. They also have a news station (Russia Today) which reports on real issues - unlike western "mainstream" media. You act as if Russia is some backwater slump and not a growing modern nation. Meanwhile the western world is teetering into bankruptcy. You won't know which side of history is right until it actually becomes history.

[1] http://rt.com/business/russia-gdp-5th-largest-158/
Looks like a graphical rsnapshot. Is this it?
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If anything I would have thought it does that opposite, as anyone who hears about the pardon is just reminded of the terrible things that happened.
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I believe this is the bill they are debating, it seems specific to Alan Turing: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/alanturingstatut... (tangent: this is a pretty neat site, does anybody know if there is similar for US Congress?)
It helps if you contribute factual and useful information instead of trite emotional attacks.
65k years and counting, lets see if our "modern" and "advanced" civilization makes it that far. Mark the start to where ever you feel like doesn't matter. Imperial or Feudal Europe, Rome? Bronze Age? Who knows and doesn't matter, moves the result by give/take 3000 years - less than 5%.
Travel Tips for Geeks: Preventing Theft
I still love this story -- even four years later! (and not just because my husband is the author!)
Nobody brought up Elon (PBUH) until you did, with an oblique reference to his earlier comments on the 787 battery issues.
Child-based tax deductions should be based on what children a couple have, not on what gender the couple are.

And why do you oppose gay adoption? That's nothing to do with changing the definition of marriage, or tax issues...
I have registered an account on HN simply to respond to you. You are a despicable piece of worthless trash. Thank you.
> non-groupthink outliers of one century who overturn the previously accepted scientific consensus of the century before

These outliers are just that - outliers. They are rare and it is not productive to lionize them, especially in the context of science deniers who may fancy themselves as "skeptics". Also, scientific consensus is not groupthink, and the scientific establishment is by its very nature self-correcting. Which is why when a major breakthrough comes along that discredits old models, it is typically quickly accepted. That major scientific breakthroughs are repressed and covered up by the scientific establishment is a myth told by quacks.
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Plenty of real world examples of that effect. Look at bands that are huge in say, Japan or Germany but struggle to fill a small club in their home country.
This is definitely true and something I've experienced running a proxy service with 500+ clients. Fraud percentages are WAY too high right now. We're solving it by simply checking the billing address vs. IP geolocation. Hopefully that helps.
Hi! Author of this article here,

I've done something completely silly. I originally wrote this site on github, but then moved it over to a new host on its own domain and totally forgot about the old one.

If you like this article, please check it out here at:

http://allgood38.io/a-snapshot-of-your-computer-with-dd-pv-a...
No, they don't, and I'm among those who have received negative reviews from people running beta releases in the past. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it (flagging a review has never had any success for me).
In your previous comment, you took the view that your sentiments reflected a global representation, and you short-changed the person who replied to you for being so silly as to think you were talking about the USA when in fact you were talking about the entire planet. Now, in this thread, you hearken to "traditional families". You speak of a country that has "tax deductions". May I ask you to hone your platform and let us know from what level of generality you wish us to perceive your commentary?
It's a manipulative way to discourage action. Oh, I can just sign a petition and everything will be cool? Sounds good, no need to call my representatives or take further action.
>if they had their way, I would go to prison just from saying that.

Your post reminds me that this research seems to miss another way that people delude themselves: persecution-complexes.

Once you believe that others want to do bad things to you for your beliefs, you become far more entrenched. And ridiculous exaggerations such as yours allow you to more fully insulate yourself from facts: because you're under attack and your freedom is at risk, you have to protect yourself from these terrible people, and therefore, their beliefs.

>So why don't people "believe" in climate change? Because they realize it's a political, not a scientific, topic. It has winners and losers to the order of trillions of dollars.

How can you possibly say it's 'not scientific' when it's entirely scientific. The responses to climate change are political, but the topic itself is minimally political.

But you do enforce the point that people will cut themselves off from reasoning logically, if the conclusion is one they don't want to face. If your political buddies may be hurt, one is much more likely to fight the truth.
50 Organizations Send Letter to Congress Urging Solutions to Patent Abuse
Can someone smart summarize what is surprising or educational in this paper?
tl, dr; a much more lame, monocolor version of glass, which can't take take any input from user whatsoever except via smartphone.
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I am interested in learning how you are managing photos. Do you have any good routines or best practices for categorizing and archiving your photos in your hard drive?

Cheers, Domenico :)
http://www.govtrack.us/

For example, the most recent immigration bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s744
I started reading this as "wow, they live in a very different world in SV where you can advise startups to set up a room like this". I am in Brazil and here there are lots of startups with founders working at home, not even an office, much less a usability room. At the end, at least the author sugests that this is for post-series A.

But then I remembered, I did this myself! At home. With my father. In a much leaner way.

I am a sole founder, working at home, while my wife pay for our bills (all that to say, I have no money to invest). My product is sort of "online pills dispenser as a service", a SaaS B2C helping elderly people organize their medicine. And my father is just my target (actually, I started all this thinking of solving his problem). When created the first version I went to his home and let him use the site. I just typed the URL and then just kept watching. He pains attention to details, so I left, one hour and a half later, with literally more than 50 notes of changes that I should made. From small design and copywrite details, to whole new features.

And you don't need webcam, microphones and a soundproof glass. This is the case if you have bosses for whom you must report. If you are the founder, just you, there, taking notes(and asking the right questions) while the user experiment your product, it is enough.

If your friends are the target, your house is fine. If you must talk to strangers, a public computer is enough. Even Eric Ries on his book talks about customers going to their office to do this - not a whole "usability room". Sometimes I think funded startups spend their investor's money just for the sake of it.
Politicians are far from the only people who aren't pro-gay rights, feel free to hate the specific people for their opinions, but seems a bit pointless to hate politicians in general for having the same mixture of views as the general public.
If they were convicted of both 'homosexual acts' and robbing a bank at the same time, then just pardon them of the 'homosexual acts'. Unrelated crimes are unrelated.
The photograph captured the light from the planet where everyone who has ever lived has spent their entire life, except for a small number of astronauts. More accurate, but less spiritual/sentimental sounding.
Those two things are in no way related. There is nothing offensive about admitting to previous mistakes and making a gesture to an important figure that you wronged. There is something offensive about radical the religious attempting gain attention by performing baptisms on dead bodies that have nothing to do with them.
Well, it provides a perfect copy of the drive, not just a copy on another file system.

I've actually been able to restore to a drive, and when it boots its as though nothing ever happened. Plus its fast.

Its eerie to turn the computer on after knowing you formatted the drive for whatever reason, and your desktop pops up again.
I have over 13000 karma.
Yes, because I was asking only about economic standing, of course...
... core.async compiles down to efficient state machines that I have absolutely no desire to write by hand.
To be fair, that's a rather US-centric viewpoint. Interracial marriage was not ever (as far as I am aware; I may be wrong) forbidden in the UK, for example.
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It's still better than Java's `if (string1.equals(string2))`.
Perhaps the answer lies in tagging. Rather than a hierarchical categorization, everything is just tagged and thus searchable. That way you don't have to keep trying to fit everything into preexisting categories... Seems to be the direction most other things are heading as well.
Term limits.
Absolutely, there are 2,500 genes that we didn't know about.

Now it could be that if any one of these genes shows up in any of the "known" lineages (as it might if a retro-virus carrying it injected it) that it causes the host to die before reproducing. It could be that they are pandemics waiting to happen, it could be that they are code for additional eyeballs.

The challenge is that we do not yet (as far as I can ascertain) have a way to looking at a gene and identifying all of the effects that gene has on a cell or an organism. What we have are organisms with genes, that we are 'debugging by printf' by essentially commenting them out and seeing what happens.

Once our knowledge base flips, and we understand genetics at a information/programmatic level, we would be able to evaluate these 2500 genes and see if there is anything useful here.
My favorite exploration of this topic is found in Maturana and Varela's "Autopoiesis and cognition: the realization of the living". Cells have to "work" to preserve their ability to go on preserving their ability to ... (etc. recursively). Viruses don't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis
impossible to trust the proprietary binary

If the protocol is published properly you won't have to: people will write their own free software implementations.
> There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones.

I know of some affluent high-schoolers who seem to consider it prestigious if you can show off a prerelease iOS on your phone.
Do you remember the way this site was when it first started out? I've been here a long time, and it's changed. I'm less and less engaged over time.

Reddit exists for posts like this one.

I used to use 'flag' perhaps 10 times a year. And judging by how mods change post titles, they've clearly - IMHO - drifted into the harmful space.
Do you think stance on gay rights is the cause of economic problems or Russia's current situation?

It's possible that some day the entire world will despise homosexuality, or that the entire world will be fine with it. Both of those scenarios could happen regardless of whether countries currently on one side or the other end up as the world powers.

Personally I believe that gay rights will keep on improving, not get worse, and therefore you are on the wrong side of history. But I could be wrong about that, so it's fine if you disagree with my prediction. Just, disagree with it using relevant logic, not unrelated situations.
This could have just as easily been applied to disputes inside science itself.
From the reading "This would be a symbolic first step towards the disregard for the 49,000 others convicted and now dead and perhaps a step forward towards successfully amending the protection of freedoms act to that affect when the opportunity arises.". Looks like this is the goal.
Almost no society needs any of that for the continued survival of the society. Modern hunter and gatherer tribes have been "fine" by this measure with murder rates as high as 50%, but that is a pretty ridiculous standard.
Between your two examples, the second one is by far more demeaning. Exactly. Being "professional" and being respectful are almost orthogonal.
If the spec is published it should be a lot easier to build an open source client.
If this became an issue then the laws would have to be changed to accommodate the new technology. We shouldn't reject new technology because our current laws aren't suited for it.
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I don't use Tumblr, but I think you're underestimating the change. While blogs in the NSFW category had little restrictions, 'Adult' ones are completely hidden from everyone except those who have already subscribed. Characterizing Adult vs NSFW is arbitrary, so your blog might simply disappear without any warning.