skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The option to expand into other markets is something that we are always considering. We've chosen to target seniors right now, but we definitely have other markets in mind for which this device might be useful (individuals with cognitive impairments is one of them).
They've not made the images Public Domain. It is part of an "Open Content Program" and usage must be credited.

http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontentfaq.html#usingimages
What do you mean by "actually fix?"
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Not a big fan... The movement of all "navigation" to the right feels unnatural and my eyes keep trying to shift focus to the right (away from the content). Poorly done, IMO, for these usability issues.
Size is definitely something we are incredibly conscious of. This device will be 40mm x 40m x 17mm, but we are always working on trying to get it to be smaller. We want this device to look great, and we are approaching it as if it almost were a fashion statement, or at least an accessory that a senior will wear.
Missile Command: Pause a YouTube Video and type 1980
The problem with your theories being, of course, that property is theft in the first place.
That's not how it works, at least with angels. The expectation is usually you put the money in, and if the company needs advice or help with something they'll ask you. Feel free to give unsolicited advice but don't expect the company to bend to your will.
I agree that there's little offered in those 2 areas in most business programs. Most juicy courses are offered at the graduate level, which is why I'd only recommend business school in undergraduate if the business side of skills is giving you a really hard time.

There are however severak courses that I'd give a shot out of the list Sloan makes public.
Sytem Optimization
Network Optimization
Early Stage Capital
Finance I&II
System Dynamics
A whole slew of Accountig & Law Courses

As you can notice, I left out anything marketing related, current affairs related anything industry specific and anything ethics related.

It's not that I think those are useless, because I agree with you. Business school marketing will teach how to talk about marketing, but not how to do marketing. Current trends are better analyzed by yourself, and industry specific knowledge should be gained directly from the source. Go talk to some people who are in that industry. And if you don't have personal ethics, business ethics isn't going to help you, and if you do have them, business ethics is not going to teach you anything beyond what you have.

Business school covers a fraction of doing business, so you have to supplement it with other sources of knowledge (Marketing? Get your fingers dirty with PPC. Salesmanship? Sell vacuums over your summer break). But if you have most of your trouble with that fraction, get help with it even if it's just formally learning the stuff.

So business school has limited utility, which should not be simply discounted.

And yes, you can study everything on your own. But then why go to college at all?
Getty makes 4,600 pieces of art freely available to download
Nesting is not the problem, you see what you're doing (when you perform an async io request). And you still have the "if (e) return cb(e)" line... And on top of that, it does not look better.
I found the one simply entitled 'after' amusing....http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/images/enlarge/00076101...
That's a good point. Many people who don't believe in the strong version do actually fall into the weak form.
Do you mind sharing what tool you use to scrape?
An operation queue where dependencies can be set is also very relevant. For example, if you have to do 2 different json requests, followed by a render - but they are mutually exclusive, you can do a 2->1 dependency. If they do depend on each other's result, you can do a 1->1->1

I like this async syntax but I'm more fond of native JS generator trampoline. I think the JSOperation with dependencies could even use generators in its implementation.

All these solutions coming about after the C# async article are very enlightening to this problem of the synchronic vs diachronic vs asynchronic.

The JSOperations lib is in alpha but can be found here
https://github.com/iandrewfuchs/JSOperations/blob/master/REA...
No immediate plans other than making sure it's up and running reliably. The 'Request Captures' feature of Runscope does essentially the same thing with some other niceties added. That's where we hope people end up.
It is difficult to imagine what sort of evidence will convince you. All sorts of behavior is possible under all sorts of unrealistic models.

I'd also like to note the irony of your snarky comment about wishing that those who disagree with you ought to study some math, given the background of managers like Jim Simons.

Edit:
> First, he didn't beat the market average 227 times in a row -- for most of those periods, he didn't lose money, but then a buy & hold investor also didn't lose money. A meaningful comparison would have to compare his outcomes with that for a buy & hold investor riding the ascending market value by holding a boring, geriatric index fund

The stock market rose by about 8 or 9% annually during that time. Dismissing his 227 positive months requires absurd contortions, like positing that his firm would invest in the stock market or t-bills for 11 months out of the year, and then make a series of large bets in the remaining month. Given that he made, I believe, 10k bets a year, the disparity in bet size must be massive to even come close to supporting your hypothesis.
This appears to have turned into a pissing match, and I was unable to contact you (your website's message page is crashing).

Email me if you actually care about replies. Either way, have a good evening.
Because there has been so much air-to-air combat in the past 40 years?
I think you should read up on "lights out" manufacturing.

Also, you are imprecise to say that "people" are the source of wealth. If we go with your claim, labor is the source of wealth, in which case capitalism is indeed systematized exploitation and theft from the true source of all wealth: workers.
So based on this design concept I have to assume that they expect this printer to run on either batteries or wireless power of some sort. I don't mean to be too down on this as it is an interesting concept, but it annoys me when designers leave out things like power cords to make their mockup look cleaner than it actually is. It seems like a copout.
This is unfortunately true for a number of EU countries. Stripe/ Paymill alleviate a fair amount of this.
Care to elaborate? I can't glean your meaning.
You should spend more time just reading HN, before commenting. Your makes no sense on _hacker_ news.
I don't really like the idea of sending someone a dying organism. (Although my girlfriend I believe enjoys receiving such a thing.) But I guess they do real live plants as the article mentioned a succulent.
This link is obligatory when speaking of the evils of printers: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
Well, technically the bottom 15 degrees aren't either. What are the other reasons? Because you don't need to navigate around it to get somewhere else? If you're just going to omit parts of the globe because they're empty, why bother mapping seas or the Sahara Desert?
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Technically you only have to adjust the size of the inlet and handle the rest in software. Since the paper would be comming down vertically, you can do mechanical centering akin to that used in industrial processes.
Love the idea. I found myself spending an hour at a target aisle rereading the reviews I compiled for a DSLR.
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I wouldn't trust ZTE all that much. They have a record of bribes, surveillance, and security holes.
See the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE
and especially this: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-zte-phone-idUSB...
It seems like the actual blogs weren't redesigned (http://barrettsheridan.com/options-101), just the actual Svbtle site (which collects all the blogs, like Medium does).

EDIT: I'm somewhat wrong; adding ?beta=1 on any blog gives you the new redesign. Each user's main page is pretty much the same, but the individual blog posts are lacking the sidebar.
Doesn't look like he accounted for paper that isn't stacked perfectly, but as in my comment above, it wouldn't be incredibly hard to incorporate that into the design.
> It's funny when you look back how suckered in Americans were vs Russians.

Another possible interpretation of your data would be that Americans were better informed of the risks, and so were afraid. Russians, on the other hand, lived in a society with very tight control on all media, and so anything that might cause unrest was censored.

There's more evidence for this interpretation than for yours. In particular, note that in the US we had access to numerous non-government sources of information and analysis, most of which agreed that nuclear war was a real risk.
Beautiful work. The `for parallel` notation is a really interesting way of writing it.

It seems like a number of folks in this thread have expressed interest in your process -- both of designing the feature set, and of gradually bootstrapping it away from CoffeeScript to become self-hosting. I'd love to hear more, if not here, then in a blog post, perhaps...
Because spokes and rims work better for different things.
Why not just have the dateline static? Why make the user hover for it to show? (Does it appear on touch devices?)

Why does the top-right svbtle menu start as a dot? Why not just keep it in its expanded state?

The scrollbar on OS X appears white, despite there being a white background. I don't know why.

Why is the Kudos button presented on the side and at the bottom? Don't you only want people to do that after they've read it? It kind of mucks things up. Same for the author dot in the lower-right.

I like Medium's friendly author photos, but I guess svbtle is about the author iconography.
That's true, and not incompatible with what I'm saying. I'm saying that the majority of defection from Python I hear about is defection to Go. A lot of that seems to be taking the form of loud and proud blogging, so we hear about it here. The defection rate from Python is almost certainly much lower than its overall growth rate, or it would be dying (Perl). I'm just saying, it's not an accident that people are leaving Python for Go. They want cheap and easy parallelism and concurrency. Python is great at many things, maybe even most things, but the state of affairs with parallelism is very weak. Python can expect to continue to lose people to Go until this is addressed in a real, tangible way that doesn't sound like excuse-making. I don't really expect the situation to change, because Python doesn't need it to, but the excuse-making is annoying.
Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files
They were not secret as you and other point out.

It was only classified internaly as secret, probably to get funding without filling reports.

Everyone knew where the damn base was. But officially there was a lot of money being assigned to keep it 'hidden'.

Its just gov bureocracy/money shenanigans.
This is an awesome writeup, thanks for sharing!
Africa is big. The Sahara desert is also big.

But this whole "true size" is true in measure, but I'm not really comfortable with people using it to push their agenda

Yes, Africa is big, and?

Big countries (yes, Africa is not a country) are usually on the wrong side of the stick. Maybe the USA has the most usable land, but it's still costly for them

Asia is gigantic, where's its population? Concentrated into tiny spaces! Japan, Indonesia, a narrow stretch of India.
Looks very nice.

Makes me wonder about the genius of the coposer - very insightful.
Of course you have no idea where your digital documents from the 1980's are. In 30 years you'll still have your most important digital documents from today though.
Probably it won't help you, but Docker is working on my Arch with linux-aufs_friendly kernel.
Antarctica is also the size of Europe. So what? What does geographical size have to do with anything? Kazakhstan is the 9th largest country in the world. What does it mean?

It means that geographically, Kazakhstan is the 9th largest country in the world. And not much else.
I have a project in Go which is pretty heavily functional. Over time, I've begun to notice the general goodness of his 2 rules. If you didn't RTFA, they were

1. Avoid nontrivial anonymous functions.

2. Function declarations after the code that actually does things.

I wonder if his advice is good for all functional-style code in non-functional languages.
My guess is that this was just an easier story to sell because they can just approve accredited investors and not have to deal with those who are not due to regulations. They may have planned to make it open to everyone but had to step the plan back a bit.
If you're gonna promote your big pricing change, why not get closer, or, ideally, undercut your competitors (Sendgrid, Mandrill)?
no .ly?
Why use a service like this in the first place when you can simply send out mail via a VPS?
It doesn't really matter what the genre of an application is. What matters is the runtime fundamentals. How much time is spent computing vs waiting for I/O? Whichever one is slower is the current bottleneck and is what you should fret about. Go becomes something to consider if the bottleneck is computation time. It's tangential otherwise.
Thanks for all the pointers - you should make a top level comment with everything you know on this. To someone from outside the field of curation this is really heartening - to see museums moving toward open data and open access to digital reproductions.
I think if people just chill out and accept that the strong form is a model that allows us to sketch out a lower bound of possible outcomes, everyone will be better off.

Throwing a model away because it isn't perfect is a case of nirvana fallacy. All models are wrong. We build them because they're mentally tractable. So long as the value of the model exceeds the costs of mismatch, they're a boon.
Ask HN: Do you use emacs org-mode?
I discovered org-mode a few weeks ago and already love it. I was wondering if it's still popular and how people are using it.
Sure it does.

{
type: "tag",
tag: "p",
children: [
{type: "text", content: "This is a statement with "},
{type: "tag", tag: "strong", children: [
{type: "text", content: "bold text"}
]}
]
}

That also rather explains why we don't use JSON.
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I use i3. It's not perfect, but it's the best I've found.

I like:

1) tile movement is very dynamic; it's tree-based

2) supports transparent terminals; I like seeing my pretty wallpaper

3) mod key works well for switching desktops, and moving tiles between desktops

4) good multi-monitor support.

I don't like:

1) no dropdown application menu. dmenu is ok, but I need to find a good menu bar app.

2) You can mouse drag-resize, but not drag-reorder tiles. It's on their todo list.
You're wrong. The relationship is different, the graph of the speed limit vs velocity would also be different, for the same masses/cars.
Like others have already mentioned, I'll wait for a torrent link and bulk D/L all of them.
The Isaacson bio got quite a lot of stuff wrong - both personal and technical stuff. If you haven't yet, I highly recommend John Siracusa's podcast book review "The Wrong Guy": http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42 (skip the first 17.5 minutes to get to the review proper.)

(the followup review deals with user responses to the prior one - that one's here: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/43 )
Right, but now your functions are very tightly coupled to each other. The indentation might be nicer, but functionally it's just misleading.

The cool thing about promises is that your methods are pretty portable. For example:

function getUserFriends(userName, next) {
db.users.findOne({name:userName}, foundOne);

function foundOne(err, user) {
if (err != null) return next(err);
db.friends.find({userId:user.id}, foundFriends);
}

function foundFriends(err, friends) {
if (err != null) return next(err);
return next(null, friends);
}
}

Can be rewritten (using q[0]) as:

var Q = require('q');

function getUserFriends(userName, next) {
var deferred = Q.defer();
db.users.findOne({name:userName}, deferred.makeNodeResolver());
return deferred.promise;
}

function foundOne(user) {
var deferred = Q.defer();
db.friends.find({userId:user.id}, deferred.makeNodeResolver());
return deferred.promise;
}

function foundFriends(friends) { ... }

getUserFriends.then(foundOne).then(foundFriends);

You'll see here that getUserFriends, foundOne, and foundFriends (which I left out) are now all portable and can be used elsewhere in the code for other purposes (because they are no longer tightly coupled).

[0]: https://github.com/kriskowal/q
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One reason is that JSON doesn't cleanly map to s-expressions. You can fake it with an arbitrary attribute, but there isn't a 1:1 mapping.

The biggest reason is that HTML was designed to mark up human-readable documents, rather than to describe machine-readable documents. You can remove all the markup from a web page and easily read its contents; you can't do the same with JSON.
> The insult here--"groupie-purchases"--suggests you understand Buffett's existence is a serious blow to your case.

Nonsense. The announcement effect is a well-established distortion of the market:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/announcment-effect.asp

> ... to your case.

My case? The fact that investment managers cannot produce results has been proven over and over again. It's not my case, it is a simple fact about reality. All you need to do is review the WSJ Dartboard Contest.

http://www.investorhome.com/darts.htm

In the Dartboard Contest, managers had every incentive to prove what they could do -- a success would have made them simultaneously rich and famous. They failed. Any questions?

> As you implicitly acknowledge with your hypothesis of the "announcement effect" ...

"My hypothesis?" You need to learn something about equities. The announcement effect is very well-known.

http://www.economicshelp.org/dictionary/a/announcement-effec...

Do you suppose I wrote all these articles, and talked a bunch of economists into believing in it? For God's sake.

> ... the null hypothesis is that Buffett beat the market.

The null hypothesis is that Buffett did not beat the market based on special skills. The null hypothesis is that Buffett's performance has a pedestrian explanation -- chance. That's what the null hypothesis means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis

Quote: "In statistical inference of observed data of a scientific experiment, the null hypothesis refers to a general or default position: that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena, or that a potential medical treatment has no effect."

I can't repair the defects in your education in a series of forum posts -- you will just have to go out and get an education on your own, like a grown-up.
Good plans. Nice to see 10,000 free emails offering.
Dyno idling is documented, and it only happens to web dynos, when there is only one running. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-sleeping

I can say from experience they definitely do not scale down the dynos you are paying for - you still see log entries from them and they are immediately available to requests.
Is Elon Musk's Hyperloop a pipe dream?
Why Is It Building So Long?
MoMA's industrial design section is the only part that I remember years later. Gosh, what a cool place.
If what he says here is true, the parents of every kid on the planet should test their child for some aptitude in this area--at least a little--because learning your kid was preternaturally adept at, basically, "Making a Lot Of Money" would be the most important thing that ever happened to the kid. Also wouldn't it have been one of the most sensational "news events" of all time, if nothing else, when someone honestly reported Someone Has Found the One Weird Trick To Becoming Really Rich, And It Always Works If You Do It Right. The rise in billionaires I surely would have heard about, at least.

So what's the catch? Why can't I just go and study this book and make a lot money if I think I'm smart, now that I've read this article?
Anybody with an IQ over 80 who's read the recent news about the mass surveillance in place had to reasonably assume that these privacy breaches are just 'the tip of the iceberg'.

The only new thing here is that 2 senators seem to have the balls to talk about it.

Besides that, nobody should trust Congress to resolve the real issues. Of course they'll try to sell this illusion to us, but the minds are already too corrupted.
I am wary of designs that make code significantly longer, as both these examples do. The improvement in local readability is often superficial and the cost in overall readability (not to mention bugs, which increase with code size) is often nontrivial.

In the examples, each line of code with a named function appears more readable, but this is only because its meaning has become less dense—and as there is also now more code to read, the two factors arguably cancel each other out. Meanwhile the new code has more non-locality: the eye of the reader must jump between the various function invocations and declarations. That's a lot of jumping, and it will get much worse as complexity grows.

Introducing a name has costs as well as benefits. For example, it adds indirection: the name now stands between the reader and the thing that is named. To overcome this, a name should say something about the problem the code is solving. If all it says is something about the code itself, that's not good—it adds weight and obscures the problem (because you're now taking more code to solve it). It feels like you're simplifying code by factoring it in this way, but you may only be spreading it out more, making pieces which are logically bound together further apart from each other.

A sign that this is happening is when you can't think of a good name for the code you are factoring, or when the name refers only to the code itself. "wtfFriendAction" is a comical example, but I think "gotFriends" is more instructive: it tells you nothing more than "I am the callback for getFriends", and thus adds no information to the original code, only verbosity.