skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a job for about a couple of years that gave me enough spare time to read Proust's 1.2m word epic In Search of Lost Time. There was some work to be done but it never took me more than an hour or two, and then my boss was quite happy for me to drift off to the Belle Epoque. I couldn't really get into reading it at home because, as the father of young kids, I was too busy most of the time and you really need to concentrate on P's page-long sentences. I alternated between leisurely, engrossed reading and teaching myself web development skills...happy days!

At the same Not that I consider reading Proust a waste of time,
By implanting a small magnet normally in a finger, moving your finger through an electric field causes small movement of the magnet, so you can 'feel' electric fields.
e.g.
http://gizmodo.com/5895555/i-have-a-magnet-implant-in-my-fin...
But there's been a number of people who've done it.
That's why I mentioned the original XDA WinMo crowd, which I was a part of going back to 2006. They fall into the Binary Modder camp. :)
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I realize that the actual correct solution, in the opinion of those in the discussion, is new algorithms involving dynamic adjustment of buffers and such (over-simplification, I'm sure).

But in the meantime, is there any way a broadband internet customer can somehow manually adjust the buffers on their router?

Using the netalyzer tool they mentioned, it suggests that my buffer is much too high (and I am indeed been having horrible network performance lately). "We estimate your uplink as having 4300 ms of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption"
The poll is about the fad of using a program to monitor your known to crash/leak/whatever app, generally starting it, monitoring it, and restarting it. Hardware failure is completely irrelevant to the discussion.
There is no way for us to know the intent. Shouldn't we just look at the actions? Was the stolen data misused somehow in this case? The article does not say so.
Interesting.

The non-litigious nature of the kernel devs seems to keep this from kicking off. It would probably end up hysterically expensive for all concerned and be a bit of a PR failure I guess.
We have a lot of features already built that the video doesn't highlight:

1. Setting arbitrary breakpoints for responsive design, which will export all the necessary media queries.
2. Reusable components – save them to your library, pull them out on any page, edit them in one spot and update all instances.
3. Reusable styles - save a style, apply it anywhere, edit it in one spot… you get the idea.
4. UI Kits - load in the wireframing kit to easily drag and drop flexible components to design with. Those components can then be morphed into other elements so you don't have to throw away your wireframes.
5. Multiple pages - comes in really handy with components. save a header, apply it to multiple pages and manage it in one spot.
6. Interactivity - add an interaction class to an element and Macaw will auto-generate variables needed for interactivity.
7. Style guides - Macaw will abstract all the useful bits of your document (grids, swatches, components, etc) and generate a style guide for quick access to the styles.

…and more :)

We're not sure what we'll charge just yet, but it will be a fixed price.
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Everyone knows we need some kind of government

I don't. Many people I know don't either. So what if we don't really need any kind of government?
Licenses aren't applied automatically. What can happen is for Samsung to get sued for a violation of GPL and either be forced to license the code under GPL or pay damages.
Or Congress could pass new laws that remove any ambiguity that allows for a different "interpretation" than what was intended.
Oh yeah, Brazil was kind of confusing. I think I'll have to watch it again. :)
> #9: Computer Science courses teach you how to repair computers

Oh god, this.

edit: People also think CS teaches us which computer brands are good or answers to the questions like "This computer has 4gb ram, should I buy it"
I cancelled my pre-order for Bioshock Infinite because Steam offered what I saw at the time as "day 1 DLC", and paid half price for the game a couple of months later. You want to sell me half a game? Fair enough, but I'll wait until I can pay half the price.

Of course it turns out that on this occasion I picked the wrong target as they are doing the DLC thing right (they started work on it after the main game was complete rather than it being cut out of the main game and sitting on the disk from day one ready to be activated by a DLC code) but that wasn't made obvious in the sales blurb I saw at the time.

But my principal still stands: if the DLC is genuinely an extra or an extension then I don't mind, but when it seems to be a core part of the content removed to get a few extra $ I'l adjust what I'm willing to pay for the main game accordingly.
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Yes I have. A whole ISP in fact, including hosting corporate email for hundreds of small to medium businesses. Postfix never crashed. Openldap never crashed. Courier never crashed. What is monitoring and restarting your monitoring/restarting daemon?
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Also, when a company exits, a bootstrapped founder might make more money than a VC-backed founder.
Nice lib, you may take some ideas from pismo: https://github.com/peterc/pismo , more metadata oriented but returns a nokogiri doc as well.
Opera: iOS still king of mobile ads
"signal strength should dramatically decrease over distance."

One of the very few things they got right from a physics perspective is your eyes respond vaguely logarithmically. Its supposedly not really, deep in the decimal points theres a buried power law factor and a buried linear factor at low levels, but close enough to log for all astronomical purposes. They worked with an astro-biologist per the article; I assume this is the "astro-" portion contribution.

Google for astronomical magnitude and there's also some interesting quantitative chemical analysis stuff having to do with light adsorption. In my misbegotten youth I spent a lot of time in a chem lab squirting weird stuff into sample tubes and hovering over an ancient spectrophotometer. A spectrophotometer is kind of like what an EE would call a RF network analyzer, but for light waves, sort of. At least that's the best EE analogy I can come up with. Eventually I spent most of my lab time daydreaming about getting home to play with electronics and computers; why was I trying to become a chemist? It was pretty interesting stuff to experience in retrospect.

The visibility is... questionable. Google for "clear air return" and WSR-88d and stuff like that. A "decent" wx radar is sensitive enough to get at least some return from turbulence. How do you know its not just ground clutter? Because the doppler shift matches the direction and speed (more or less) of ground instruments. The questionable bit is clear air return is a bazzilion dB reflection loss below actual real reflectors so it would be incredibly faint compared to actual reflectors.

Also the humorous artistic waves don't show multipath like real waves. Not unusual in an urban environment to end up multipath limited not raw sig strength limited, at least in other applications; donno if wifi is usually limited like that.
I guess the problem is ventilation. Warm air always goes up, and I guess arctic explorers have a sort of an opening at the top of the tents, like a chimney, to let the gas out. Otherwise they'd die just as much (also, in subzero temps the definition of "warm" is different than when out camping - there I guess charcoal gases could hover, especially in a sealed tent where it's warmer than outside...)
I just called.

A feature that would be really nice: A way for me to give them my email address and zip code and then get an email when vote results are posted with how my Representative voted.
I know, which is one of the many reasons I (ineffectually, before I found out I was going to cause nothing to change at that point) argued for a Bill of Rights when I was involved in youth politics.

I was just giving another perspective :) my final question was aimed at a US audience, I was truly curious how it worked there RE. Not incriminating other people

A journalist here just went to jail for not revealing her source to the court because one of our mining moguls dragged her into a trust case due to reporting on info regarding to it. Pretty horrid in my opinion.

We have no truly defined rights here in Australia. That's what my law degree basically taught me. (that is exaggerating a little :P)
> I've also heard someone suggest that you might be able to produce an Alcubierre-like configuration if you could make a compact dimension's radius larger within some local region.

Interesting, I hadn't heard of that one.

> But the point is (and I don't think you'd disagree), if this guy wants to be taken seriously, he needs to tell someone what he's doing.

I agree 100%.

PS: In the interest of full disclosure, a lifetime (AKA 14 years) ago, I did some research for NASA looking into such "negative mass solutions" in M-Theory that arise as a result of hep-th/9507022.
I can't think of a better way to drive traffic to the authors that OP mentioned than to take this approach. You're going to make people wonder just what they're missing, if this stuff is so "extremist".

I'd be surprised if someone touting anarcho-capitalist politics would be in favour of private prisons, at least the flavour we're used to today, where governments pay companies to house inmates. There isn't anything particularly anarchist about such a thing.
That's just an indication of their safety. Short-term U.S. Treasuries are being used as a safe bank account by a number of people with money to park who don't trust regular banks, and don't want to expose themselves to the interest-rate risk that long-term bonds bring. This raises demand and pushes down interest rates, sometimes even into the negative range.

If you're an American with, say, $75k to park, there's no reason to put it in a treasury at negative interest, of course: you can just put it in an FDIC-insured bank account. But if you're a Cypriot with $50m to park, buying treasuries looks attractive relative to Eurobonds or Cypriot banks, and continues to look attractive even if prices rise to the point where the interest rate is moderately negative.

But in neither case should you buy a 30-year bond for short-term cash parking, unless you are either hedged against the interest-rate risk, or willing to expose yourself to a bet on the direction interest rates will move. If they move the wrong way, your $100k might be worth $90k next year, which will completely wipe out your 3.5% interest and more.
I've been working with Ivy which does dependency management for Java.

It's got a similar split: an ivy.xml file for specifying what it depends on, and an ivysettings.xml file for specifying what repositories to look in for those dependencies.
Am I the only one that can't read the visited links without some serious eye strain?
While true, you don't need to supply the actual copyrighted/licensed binaries across the internet.

You can just supply a shell-script to extract them from the device, and its assumed that interested parties wanting to build the code has the device themselves.

Feel free to call it a loophole, but I don't have a problem with that and definitely don't see it as something shady.
Weekend Project: Parking Ticket Tracker (San Francisco and Seattle)
I see it as less immature, and more making strong decisions about how I want to live my life, and who I want to share it with. :)
You see similar things happening in the poor parts of town in the winter -- they'll bring a kerosene heater indoors (cheaper to run than electricity), and end up suffocating from the CO.
Microsoft Research working on embedding ID tags in 3D printed objects
I believe there are more rules of the Internet, and none of these are from the original set.
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But which minority? The US founders clearly weren't talking about non-whites and women, who were property. Instead, the minority was the wealthy elites.

During the "Secret Debates of the Federal Convention" (where the windows were shut in the summer heat so those outside couldn't hear what was said), the Father of the Constitution, Madison, discussed the conflicting interests between "the day laborer" and "the man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa, or rolls in his carriage":

"In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of the landed proprietors would be insecure. [...] Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/yates.asp)

More useful to read than the Federalist Papers, which are propaganda. (BTW, it may help to know that the senate originally wasn't open to popular election. That battle was finally won in 1913, with the 17th amendment.)
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Researchers build self-assembling multi-copter distributed flight array
Bad example because officially dude is also male. The female is dudine, dudette, or dudess.

But like like guy, dude because gender neutral in common speech.
I don't share his enthusiasm about this. Doesn't everyone interested in computers/computing start programming things that are actually useful at roughly that age?

Also, is an early start a guarantee that someone will choose a career in computing?
This is terrible, but I thought that everyone knew that you must not burn charcoal within a confined space. The British killed a bunch of their soldiers in Crimea that way, how many years ago?
I've done that, including marking down toilet and drink breaks. I quit six weeks after starting.
There's f-droid [1], "app store" or rather an actual FOSS repository with Android apps. It doesn't have all the apps play store has, of course, but lot of interesting apps can be found there. (I'm currently addicted to Frozen Bubble)

[1]: https://f-droid.org/
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Can I program, build and install app right on this device without the need of another machine(macbook, pc)?
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Maybe we should further gamify websites? Look at OKCupid, you can purchase a wide array of features. You can buy the ability to be invisible, to disable adds, to send unlimited messages, to receive unlimited messages.

We could build an extra layer on top of websites offering additional features to the site that don't take away from the main experience. All I'm seeing similar to this is a few websites offering ad removal for $x, nothing else.

These games pop out new games on various platforms by the week, then advertise the new game in all the other X amount of games they have. It recycles itself.
Depends on what you mean by "feedback". The Leap Motion controller tracks fingertips and objects absolutely in real space. Applications can easily tie cursor movement (or viewspace/camera movement, or other interface elements) to absolute hand position or to spatial offset from an arbitrary position in three-space. This actually works really, really nicely for applications designed from the ground up to think this way.

Here, for example, is demo video of a three-space navigation app built on these principles that uses the Kinect: http://vimeo.com/65937620

And a simpler demo using the Leap: http://vimeo.com/66196803

There's no muscle fatigue or stress using these kinds of applications. You get muscle fatigue (gorilla arm, forearm pain, hand pain) when your ergonomic setup -- which includes both hardware and software -- forces your body to conform to motion patterns that are rigidly repetitive, forces you to position yourself in ways that are awkward relative to your joint kinematics, or forces you to over-correct inaccuracy or unpredictability in the interface.
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I think that we would still have governments because organizing into collectives to assert power and control resources is inevitable as long as inequalities between people and scarcity of resources exist.
Native vs. HTML5: looked at objectively, the debate is over
Less fly-by-night-ish projects seem to have little trouble finding mirroring that 1) isn't shared by so much warez 2) doesn't make me visit a webpage and make me do a CAPTCHA, 3) doesn't blast me with shady as hell popups and advertising.
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Mining paid a lot better than pick&pack.
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Guys, Git and Github are just tools.
Even if Git nerds would like you to think that software can't be developed without github, it worked before.

We had sourceforge, berlios, tigris.org etc. for years if you like your project hosted. Then there's Trac, Redmine etc. Otherwise you'd set up a Mailman for mailing lists and subversion as source code repository. If someone attaches good patches to mails and/or gives valuable input to the project, he usually got write access to the svn repository.

I'm not even sure that the Github way of developing OSS is that much of an improvement. Too often people rather fork than contribute. You'll find a dozen forks of the same software where different people fixed various things, half of them abandoned a long time ago and none of them usable.
Who cares about people who think twice about expressing a perfectly valid sentiment in the face of illegal and immoral surveillance. They're the last people that should be considered, as they lack moral fiber and personal agency.
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The difference is that the people at GS have relationships with many (most, all?) of the wealthy people in the world. That makes finding a buyer who has enough cash but not enough brains easier.

I'm not suggesting that it's a slam dunk and everyone could be doing it. But being one of the premier investment banks in the world does have some perks.
At the end of each day, in a University town, you might sit down to enjoy a meal or a cup of coffee at a local café, and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger. The two of you might find quite a lot to talk about, trading ideas and perspectives on different subjects, and ideas would flow between you, like heat from a hot cup of coffee into cold hands. But in a one-shop town (like the one I grew up in, or the one in this story), at the end of the day, what do these hard working people have to talk about? Moving packages. The insult of everyone having the same job is compounded by the injury of every moment of the job being the same as the next. Nobody needs to talk, because there's nothing new to say. There's no "heat" exchange, because everyone is in the same pressure cooker with everyone else. There's no differentiation, just accumulation. Organizations and organisms, to be healthy, need specialized organs. Accumulation without differentiation is what we call "cancer".
And what are the chances that the packers who are complaining now, will be complaining then that their jobs were taken away and they want it back? Pretty damn high, I'd say.
> it's even more painful to think about how far we've fallen

This has been going on for a long time. The difference now is that it's far easier to discover these issues. What's happening now in government has always been happing. I'm sorry, but the number of civilian drone deaths, as bad as it is, is quite low when you look at the history of the US. This isn't support one way or the other mind you.

However, where you see how far we've fallen, I see how far we've come. It's still not right, but it's far, far better.
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Its almost as effective, much cheaper, faster, zero risk of infection, and easier to reverse to just stick a magnet in the end of a latex/nitrile/whatever glove and wear it for awhile.

I'd strongly encourage trying it. Been there done that. The glove thing, not the implant thing. Cheap and fun. You will "stick" yourself to chunks of steel and much simpler to fix that with a glove. It gets boring/annoying after a couple hours, at which point you're pretty happy to peel off the glove; I imagine implants are less convenient.

And its magnetic fields not electrical. Over a couple hundred volts/cm you can feel electrical fields without any implants or whatever, assuming you have arm hair. I'm talking about something distinct from feeling current flow, a totally different scenario.

You can feel CHANGING magnetic fields if they're immense, like in a MRI.
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Cyanogenmod) are based on this scene, and there is nothing grey or remotely shady about it.

So when Cyanogenmod was distributing the play store apps illegally there was nothing shady going on? It isn't like they suddenly decided to do the right thing, it was a C&D from Google that got them to stop.

http://androidandme.com/2009/09/hacks/cyanogenmod-in-trouble...
Awesome story! Did you ever fantasize about setting up a big data set avant la lettre, or running your own hosting company off of it?

Slightly related, this reminds me of the 400,000 euro costing MRI-like machine my employer bought, without checking if it could connect to our healthcare software. It didn't.
Exactly. The NSA can't use their funds however they feel like. They have to account to several governmental entities for their (secret) precise funding, and I doubt they would lie about it and take their resources from their useful tasks in order to reallocate them to spying on non-suspect citizens.
Do you think the Taliban shot a 14 year old girl in the head as a response to US drone strikes or because they're ideologically opposed to girls receiving an education?

And do you think the Taliban is alone in their ideological stances.

Thanks
Jason addressed this issue at one of the Entrepreneurs Unpluggd events (you can see it here http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com/premium-content)

Essentially, their argument was that if Jeff Bezos invested, they could have access to his advice and connections which was worth way more than any money he put in.
Also, from that link, it suggests Microsoft now has 80% of the Android market covered by similar license agreements.

Are you actually replying to my posts, or just repeating the same content repeatedly? Yes, Microsoft keeps announcing agreements -- almost universally with companies that produce Windows Phone devices, who play along with this charade -- yet there is zero evidence in their profits that any of these deals are netting a dollar of revenue, further supported by the fact that Microsoft goes to great lengths to hide this income.

But I doubt very much Microsoft is going to go easy on them. Why would they?

Because they won't go easy on Microsoft? Microsoft is trying to make the transition to hardware (where the big money is now), and it turns out that all of those companies that Microsoft is yielding agreements have massive troves of patents that can demolish and eliminate Microsoft from the market.

It appears Google owned Motorola is trying to fight these Microsoft patents but they appear to be losing

Motorola told Microsoft to get lost (all Microsoft wanted, as an aside, was that Motorola keep making Windows Phone devices. That was the entirety of their demands when they didn't "go easy" on Motorola), and thus far Microsoft's effect on Motorola has been....nothing. Absolutely nothing. A couple of fringe patents that will get beaten back and beaten back.
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Darn, you beat me to it! Recommended! It was a good one. I'd like to add that if you want to read the transcripts or get an mp3 of it, the archive page is here:

https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
Is the color too light?
It doesn't bother me -that- much, they're visited after all.