skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://hubski.com is in many ways a mashup between HN and Twitter. I created it from the HN source code. Building feeds built from following people and tags keeps noise down. People are pretty careful about what they share (retweets). I know Rob has an inactive account, so he is vaguely aware of it. He agreed to let me bend his ear about it (I lived nearby him), but left for the WaPo almost immediately after.
I did this exact thing.

Wanted to see what statuspage.io was all about. Clicked logo and wouldn't you know it..they only blog.
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Get the benchmark code, get emscripten, and compile them,

emcc -O2 nsieve.cpp

for example.

Yes, I also had to increase the runtime, they were quite short on a laptop - they were meant for a phone I think.
First you kill off all Twitter replies, those are where the most noise is on a lot of entities you follow. Then you prioritize entities who consistently post interesting stuff, and you quickly filter out people who use Twitter as a chat tool or Facebook.

Twitter at its best is short succinct one liners that quickly summarize the content you want the world to see with links that take you to the long form, and you only go there when the tweet conveys its something that will probably interest you.

The second you start writing stuff longer than 140 chars it gets too long to quickly scan a stream and find the stuff you are really interested in to spend your time on. People who want more than 140 charts on Twitter are NUTS. It would destroy the whole point and the beauty of the thing, they totally don't get the concept.

My client puts the people I am following in a bar on the left prioritized by the ones I like and read the most. @newsyc50 and @newsycombinator are at the top, along with @slashdot. I alwsys tap them first thing every day and I get EXACTLY what Malda was asking for, the top posts on Hacker News recently with no noise. @newsyc50 has links to the Hacker News comments and I go to them on topics that really interest me.

I scroll down my avatar bar and look at other people I follow that aren't as consistently interesting when time permits.

Twitter, if you get a good client, and spend time finding and following the right things, gets you all the news and info you could want, and you only get noise if you want it. I look at my whole stream to get a pulse of what's happening, or for the occasional serendipity, otherwise I just look at the streams of the things I am consistently interested in.

Twitter is a beautiful thing, Dorsey deserves a billion for it. Unfortunately the current Twitter and its executive team have been pretty ghastly for a while, but that's usually what happens when a company heads to IPO.
Things have always been grim. The crows are just coming home to roost in America. Why do you think so many Indians and Chinese people are doctors or engineers? Fear. It is not about competence. It is not about passion. It is the fear that drives them. Because life is hard there without a safety net. A life where health care has to be paid for out of pocket. A life where your daughter's marriage requires piles of money.

“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it”

What is the solution? I don't know. The future is going to belong to people who refuse to let themselves be nothing. It is not going to be about STEM jobs, math or science or art. The future is something you are going to have to find. Or become irrelevant. Scary, but sometimes that fear is useful.
Do you see a Guaranteed minimum income as a viable alternative? Do you consider basic income and guaranteed minimum income the same thing?
I am not interested in security features that work only against my mom, and you shouldn't be interested in them either.
> Doležel would like to bring Angry Birds, other games, and multimedia applications to Linux.

Who needs real apps when you have Angry Birds? Sigh.
The StatusPage folks are executing incredibly well on adressing a tangible pain point. It's been a lot of fun to watch.
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The market for those types of games is slim.

The tabletop market is already small and the only reason they can turn a profit is because their costs are low.

AR tabletop games would have an even smaller market and also be more expensive to produce.
Neither TOTP (Google Authenticator) or Twitter factor in how easy it is to malware/root Android phones these days. I still prefer Yubikey or other opensource cards until the state of mobile security improves (for ex SEAndroid).
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> This document proves that the meme is false and that Apple did not attempt to protect 'rounded corners'.

You are straight up lying here. Observe the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD593087

'many attributes' in this case meaning 'two attributes'.

Reading your post history you have a short history of only posting pro Apple and repeating many similar assertions. Yet you have the gall to accuse me of being a paid shill. Hilarious.
I would bet that this particular incident is not like the others. This strikes me as an intentional overreaction by a government trying hard to justify their surveillance programs.
Actually, the most popular way for ordinary (non-academic) users to get online was through services such as CompuServe, AOL and Prodigy. The web thing and Windows really took off after the widely-publicized launch of Windows 95, which came shortly after the widely-publicized Netscape IPO.
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Wow I just took the time to look up hellban [0] because I always just assumed it's synonymous with permaban. For those too lazy to click the link, it's a ban where you're not informed that you're banned and the content you post is displayed only for you and no one else. That's actually a pretty shitty moderation tactic mainly because it doesn't teach the poster why they made a mistake and it does just waste their time when they could be getting back to being a better user.

Additionally, in the <year time that I've been reading and minimally contributing to HN, I've definitely been disappointed with a trend towards politicization that a lot of people have noted. I'm much happier seeing everyone's static site generators on github than everyone's opinion on Snowden or some other political issue that's related enough to tech to get posted. It strikes me as mission creep for HN to start getting so political. My favorite thing to see on the frontpage is a github repo, not a medium/svbtle article where someone spends two paragraphs telling an anecdote and then one paragraph jumping to a massive generalized conclusion based on that one experience and/or "Lorem Snowden" as you put it. /rant

[0]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hellban
I totally agree.

I always roll my eyes when that happens. And then there is a 50/50 chance I search for the actual link - if I'm REALLY interested I edit the URL manually.
I think what you're looking for will be in my next post.
Same story, in the US, IMO told better: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
I know of some currently successful companies whose founders used meaningful, honest, yet vague phrases like "we're trying to change the way people ___________". And they did. And I know of about 5x the startups whose founders used the phrase "we're in stealth mode" whose isolated, protected ideas showed complete mismatch with market need when launched.

Why?

Because that isolation reflects arrogance. You have two options here:

a) say your vague idea and hear from people who care about it, getting more data, more ideas, more market need (or lack of), more competitive landscape, etc.

e.g.,

The line: "We're working on fixing the calendar"
Person: "Have you tried Sunrise? It's great, but I can't use it because it asks for permissions my security team won't allow"

This gives you, as product creator, info.

Or maybe the person wants to come work with you, or knows someone who is passionate about it, or knows someone wanting to invest in that, etc.

b) Say "we're in stealth mode"

This shuts down any opportunity immediately.

I guess b) is reasonable when you are disinterested in further conversation (totally legitimate)[1], otherwise it just accomplishes nothing other than providing an air of arrogance.

[1] When I was at Apple in mid 00s, the standard line to strangers was "sorry, we're prohibited from discussing features or future products for legal reasons". This shut down conversation immediately, which was the intention.
Not an Android user, but from what I understand the issue is that Google has released the new Nexus 7, but a) the GPU uses proprietary drivers (binary blobs) and b) the actual "factory image" (i.e. what runs on the device when you buy it) of the Nexus 7 is still unreleased and closed source.

This means that the Nexus 7 is, practically, no more open than the iPad/MS Surface/etc.. That would definitely be upsetting to me if the gig had been sold as a way to strongly impact an open source piece of software, and Jean-Baptiste's decision seems very reasonable.

Can android users/developers weigh in? I'm sure I'm getting some part of it wrong.
In my opinion the two biggest problems with Slashdot now are (1)plagiarism: instead of writing a summary, the submitter copies and pastes a paragraph from the link, and it's presented as "<submitter> writes <text>", but <submitter> did not write it; and (2)credulous moderation: numerous comments consisting of obvious crap just made up by someone imitating expertise get bumped up to +5 insightful, so that moderation becomes useless as a reading filter.
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Astute observation - this is actually something we do call out in http://yang.github.io/reactive-coffee/infelicities.html#garb.... As you note, JS doesn't have it as easy as in other platforms, but it's not a fundamental problem and is still reasonably straightforward to address (as described). The fix is slated for this coming release, and we'll need to more thoroughly document/explain what this all means.
There is a timeout. Some people configure it to lock only when you lock the workspace.

If the suggestion is to lock immediatly after you use a password, then people will complain that it's too cubersome to enter the master password everytime you need to enter a password.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this would require the user to have bluetooth on correct? My concern is that most users have bluetooth off as it is notorious for being a drain on battery power, although it has improved dramatically.

I'm also thinking about the typical user case scenario where it would require for me to go to settings->bluetooth-> and connect. Seems like too much of a hassle for the average person, or does iBeacon in iOS 7 solve this issue by not having to "connect"?
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Take your pick of what to call it – Tor, Darknet, the deep web – this is a slice of the Internet that many don't know about and have never visited.

I thought "Tor", "Darknet" and "Deep Web" referred to three different things. "Tor" for example, is a way to anonymously use The Internet, as well as to serve things anonymously and without giving away the server's location. I thought a "darknet" was just a non-public network, maybe something that you get invited to use, and maybe have to use special URLs to get to. You didn't necessarily need to use Tor to get to a given darkent.

Anyway, the whole article seems overheated, in a William-Gibsonesque way.
Your reference to Slashdot on 9/11 gave me a bout of nostalgia for all the time I spent on that site as a teenager, and led me to checkout archive.org's Slashdot capture from that date. For some reason it doesn't exist, the closest I can get is 9/14.

"Net taps without warrants"[1] was on the front page (already). Very interesting to look back and see the commentary and the way this was received 12 years ago(!) in light of all the NSA/Snowden stuff that's been going on lately.

Some highlights:

"Do we really have any reason to believe that the government is trying to create a giant evil spy machine to watch their own people as opposed to the terrorists?
I tend to be more or less trusting of the government, but that's just me."

"This bill is quite limited in its scope, allowing only 48 hours to tap without approval and only for immediate threats to "National Security."
Many civil liberties are restricted during threats to "National Security." Ever heard of martial law and curfews?"

"Anything that is truely our rights in a constitutional sense will be protected by the supreme court.

The congress will push, the courts will push back, and life wil lgo on as it has in the US.

I get the feeling a significant cross section of slashdot just likes to run around hystericly like the sky is falling."

"What's so hard about getting a warrant? [..] Or maybe you keep federal courthouses staffed with at least one judge with a security clearance 24x7, if its so important. "

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20010914224344/http://slashdot.or...
Well, how are you working to change that?

We've made the decision to run our company like a free software project and have been actively ignoring buyout/funding offers since before we launched.

We'll keep applying to YC, but, considering they didn't even read our last application, I'd say it's a fair bet that we'll get to keep running our company our way for the foreseeable future.
> There will be another HN, but it'll most likely have a very limited scope and come from a place of genuine enthusiasm.

Sure, the starts of these things are always great because they have a tight focus. But then they expand, and people post shallowly & intensely interesting stuff, and other people upvote it, and then the community dies.

There's probably a secret HN somewhere, doing better than real HN.
As a former manager for Amazon across multiple fulfillment centers, they ALL use temps. They don't all use the same temp agencies, and sometimes they use more than one at the same facility. In about 2006 some facilities would do a direct hire into Amazon. But the model now is the try-before-you-buy. A new temp is told that after so many hours they are eligible for "conversion" to a full time Amazon associate. But, there is also a max allowable hours before they are let go. So within that window they have to keep minimal attendance points and minimal warnings (write-ups). If there is space, a manager will always try to convert the best of his/her temps.

No, it isn't glorious work. Yes, I felt like I was managing a literal sweatshop in the summer. But, working in a warehouse/distribution environment is tough everywhere. I really wasn't a fan of how Amazon treated any of the fulfillment workers (managers or associates) and that ultimately led to me leaving. Don't miss it at all.
> Also, the design of Slashdot is so 2003 it hurts.

This is a feature, not a bug. Web design trends have become awful over the past 3-5 years. HN is even better - simple and functional - and it wouldn't be out of place in 1999.
For those curious:

As part of the Nexus device support, Google releases factory images. These images contain all the blobs and whatnot necessary to restore your device's OS even in the event of a soft-brick. In the case of the new Nexus 7, it appears Google won't be releasing factory images and the cause is almost certainly the fact that Qualcomm doesn't want to release it's proprietary blobs for the Adreno GPU.

JBQ is pissed about this, this isn't the first time a vendor hasn't allowed release of certain blobs or the first time a vendor has refused to release the code necessary to even boot the device.
Very good initiative. How do you earn money to keep up its costs?
So it's anchoring? "This must be a classy joint if they sell $50 whiskey, I'll just have the $15 Jack and Coke..."
Ask HN: best hours to send invite emails?
What is the best time of day to send subscribed users an email, inviting them to register on the website? Are there any case studies on that, or do you have any AB tested experience how it converts?

Morning? After work? Evening after prime time? Other...? Content newsletters are usually sent in the morning (when people read fresh daily news), not sure if that's the case with converting users to perform actions on websites.
So did I, glad I understand how significant this news is for Oculus.
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I appreciate the sentiment but let's be real, what problem did they solve exactly?
It is strange to hear "Don't you need to see art in person?" because I felt the same way about books, shoes and eyeglasses.
People need some notion of the current state of the world in order to have a meaningful opinion of how to change it. Most people think that income taxes on the rich ought to be raised and most people think that 33% is an ideal marginal tax rate for the rich, but the rich already pay more than 33% on their marginal income.

Or there's the position that we ought to balance the budget by cutting foreign aid.

Or the idea that we shouldn't accept any level of radioactivity in our food.
I really loved the article, but would go furthermore and say like Mooji find out what you really are, ask the question who is I behind a thought based identity. More on yt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_q6gZkoceg
It is curious that Bezos didn't also acquire WaPo labs when he released this statement right after the purchase was announced:

> "There will, of course, be change at The Post over the coming years. That’s essential and would have happened with or without new ownership. The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news-gathering costs. There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment...I’m excited and optimistic about the opportunity for invention." [1]

Based on Malda's statements, it sounds like they are trying to tackle the same problems.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jeff-bezos-on-post-pu...
I think some of this can be solved with apprenticeships like some manufacturers are doing in the US. Were they need skilled labor to preform mechanical tasks automation is not able to do yet.

Though the number of these jobs is not going to be enough.
Capitalism sucks sometimes.
Why exactly? Once you have convinced yourself and your team about the idea you are working on, it can reach a stage where talking to more people adds very little value. You can go back to people once you reach a stage in your development cycle that you are comfortable with.
We use boto to send email via Amazon's Simple Email Service and it is fairly simple. SES allows you to send up to 2000 emails per day for free.
I hope that some Elixir features make it in to Erlang but I guess I'm one of those rare people that likes the Erlang syntax a lot better. I don't really understand the hate for it, it seems so clear and specific. Anyway, if people want choices for an Erlang like experience, without the Prolog syntax, check out LFE:

https://github.com/rvirding/lfe
Also check out ToffeeScript.
See, but even in your own words, you seem like more of an ass than he does.

You didn't even listen to his answer after he said someone else asked the same question. Hell, your entire goal was to just annoy him. I think he probably figured as much and decided he didn't want to play your game.
I don't think they can be, as I don't have a Twitter account.

Certainly I would be pissed beyond belief if I tried to login to my bank (assuming they ever pull their heads out of their asses to support 2FA) and couldn't because I don't have cellular service in addition to Internet.
That's waaaaaaaaay harder than it looks.

The big problem with swords in VR is physical feedback. If I strike at you with a saber, the saber will stop moving, sooner or later - either because you parry, or because the resistance of your bones and muscle eventually slows the thing down. Either way, it's a key component of a realistic swordfight.

And it's bloody difficult to do in VR. You're not just talking about force feedback, you're talking about enough force to stop a 3 foot long piece of metal being swung with intent by a 200lb man, with the same speed and solidity of collision with another piece of metal - without interfering with the movement of that metal at any other time, risking injuring the person moving the metal, or generally screwing up.

Guns, on the other hand, are much more doable.
>>>>My biggest fear is that many of these recent "terrorist incidents", not 9/11, were in fact created by our own agencies

Which incidents do you specifically think were fabricated?
This sounds bizarrely similar to a portion of the Ken Burns documentary about the dust bowl. Basically, towards the end of the great depression tons of people migrated to California looking for work. Upon arriving they found little employment and those that did find work were doing hard labour,farms along with employment agencies were working together to drive down the cost human labour even further.

This created an enormous class of extremely poor that could be let go at any moment for any reason. While farms and employment agencies raked in profits.

Just because a company is acting within the law doesn't mean they are ethical or moral.

Maybe robots are better than human subjugation, maybe this is the beginning of new type of economy.
I think tools like Nuzzle can help solve this. Basically it watches my friends' Twitter and Facebook feeds and bubbles up popular links for today.
What does Capitalism have to do with this?
My guess is it is for anything serious enough to seek medical attention, be it a hospital, ambulance or police and release under own recognizance, and maybe accidents at ski areas during summer with patrol. It definitely includes many non-crash emergency room visits.
If you think you're Number One, then everything must be Perfect. If it's not, that contradicts your entire world view, and then you go in overdrive trying to reconcile expectation and reality.

It's that simple.
But it's good for readers. And if you have a lot of followers your tweet will get read a lot more times than it's written.
Among my drinking buddies we have one inviolable and long standing rule:

No discussions of religion or politics
not sure, but you can check out the ones exotic domain finders (like http://domai.nr/ and http://domize.com/) use as affiliate.
Occasionally the lead comment is dumb. It'll quote a tiny fragment of the article, and follow that with an explanation of why the author is wrong. The fragment will be misquoted or misunderstood and out of context. It might be a tiny part of the article, or not relevant to most of the article. But this post will have been made early, and few will down vote it, and many will up vote it and it'll stay near the top of the comment heap.
It's perfectly reminiscent of factory work. Drudgery, efficient drudgery.
I don't have knowledge about this particular case.

But I can tell you that multiple, multiple times people have cried wolf on this. There's always a gap between when Google releases a device and when they release the accompanying source.
The problem is that all of the technology we've created as a society (sharing science, funding from the government, allowing resource harvesting from public land) is being used to make workers obsolete, but instead of honoring the communal investment in technology by making a strong safety net where people can live, further training/education, and thrive, making our economy even stronger, we allow the corporations and uber-rich to dodge taxes (and hoard the hundreds of billions of dollars that could support that safety net).
Yup, http://www.kivasystems.com In some test warehouses, outside of the service technician, the person loading the shelf, and the person loading the truck there are essentially no employees.
Is he still working at Google? Just quit AOSP?