skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will need two things as a programmer, A desk and a chair.

Will be great if we can see a few designs for those.
First of all, thanks for playing.

Yeah, there is no interactive objects yet. And yes, you can not die either.

Thanks again,

Matheus.
The intent of the license is not clear. My interpretation is that the plans may be remixed and republished non-commercially, while the production of furniture is expected to be commercial. To limit or charge royalties on the production of furniture would require a more restrictive license.
I can't seem to find a license file in the GitHub repo. Since no permissions are granted by default, this is effectively not open source. I've opened a GitHub issue requesting the addition of a LICENSE file: https://github.com/pornel/ImageAlpha/issues/9.
Device cost is only part of the equation. If 99% of the devices out there run iOS, there are real accessibility and support problems - websites will use iOS-specific layout, applications will only be available for iOS, devices will only have 'drivers' or dedicated apps for iOS, connectors will be designed to hook up to iDevices, etc. Obviously we aren't in that scenario right now, but the Windows monoculture made it clear that all these things can and will happen.

Low-cost manufacturers can thrive (comparatively) in that kind of environment by selling their devices for $25, but customers will suffer because their general purpose computers will be useless for non-hackers.
As much as it brightens my day to see a project I worked on (I'm actually the guy who filmed that video in the article) make it to HN's front page, it also makes me sad a bit.

It makes me sad because of the usual troupe of folks who complain that we don't have the right to go around calling ourselves an "OS", we don't bring anything original or innovative into the world, or that we are plainly just OS X clones.

I was extremely active on the thread[0] posted to HN when Luna launched (which was at #1 for the better part of that evening), but I don't think I'm going to do that same level of in depth responding here.

Instead, I'm simply going to leave you a link to the below article[0]. Please read my comment if you want to understand how we as elementary evaluate and understand our design process and the criticism which seems to come with it.

Thanks for listening.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6193148
Hey, we're working on this with http://www.madeonjupiter.com/ -- see the parameterised OpenDesk design walkthrough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-ubblgDmc

With SpokeCreator and similar tools, it is a matter of mastering a design as a kind of logic network. I blogged on it here: http://thruflo.com/post/56330542825/inside-the-distributed-m...
I disagree.

You cannot simply buy the RPi at a normal retailer, unlike (smart)phones, laptops, (smart)TVs etc. etc. This does not mean the RPi isn't a fantastic little machine or that it doesn't offer new possibilities. However, there is a world of difference between a developer board (that doesn't have a case, operating system, built-in storage etc.) and a ready-made consumer article.

General purpose computers become rarer with an increase in phones and tablets, all of them locked down. This is the making of a niché, and I think it is dishonest to simply assume people are worried about losing their status. Is the reduction in sales of general purpose computers the end of the world? Perhaps not. Should it prompt closer scrutiny and some concern? I think it should.
I'm glad to see that the top comment is a positive one. I haven't personally used eOS, but I'm also glad to see they are focused on usability and design. I switched from a decade of Linux to OSX a few years ago and have been pretty happy with my choice - OSX is unix-y enough, and tends to just get out of the way when necessary (some of Apple's more recent Gatekeeper changes withstanding).

In the meantime, I'm disappointed that Hacker News commenters continue to bring out constant negativity against new projects. What happened to original HN ethos that celebrated people _doing things_? Seriously: if you feel like you have to complain about somebody's hard work, try being constructive and giving feedback, or not commenting and just doing it better instead.
I don't know why no one offered these answers over at StackOverflow, but:

* Computer languages reflect the reality of the computers on which they run -- how you allocate resources, how you orchestrate events -- and as the computer changes, so does the language. For example, why have interrupts on a processor that doesn't support them? Why have multithreading on a processor that supports only one thread? Computer languages change along with the computers themselves.

* There is already an ultimate computer language. It's called mathematics.
How would you classify handling the American economy during the worst banking crisis, killing OBL, pulling US out of Iraq, etc, etc? Pretending or Doing?
Understanding the apt-cache depends Output
I don't know of what level of "success" are we talking here, but most HN readers won't understand? I'm sure instead that they understand what it means to leave a safe career path to embrace the "unknown".
By that characterization, virtally no GNU/Linux distro is actually worthy of being called an OS.

Exactly, it isn't. Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, they are all distros. The real OSes are Unix, VMS, Plan 9, BeOS, Minix, Windows, GNU/Linux, BSD, OSX and Android.

Making some user space applications or libraries don't make you OS authors. And I don't understand why you guys are hurt when I say that. And why you are not open about what you're actually doing.

Maintaining a distro is not a small thing though, so I'd like to see how serious you are in that aspects. What are your upstreams? What are your release policies and schedules? Update schedules? Verifications? Quality assurance? How many people do you have in charge of all that?

I see you've had one release which you call yourself "Ubuntu 10.10 remaster," and now you prepare for second based on... what? I see you make your own patches of Nautilus. Once you accept you're a distribution you can be realistically compared to others.
One reason is that performance would be miserable. Most current JS runtimes aren't very good at optimizing that kind of code, and it actually uses quite a bit of extra memory.
I'm surprised you're not taking him to task for his poor grammar, sentence structure and obvious misspellings. To say "replay" when he means "reply", how the hell did his accent make it into his writing? Quite obviously his reports were ignored.

Most certainly, this chap should have followed proper decorum by consistently petitioning Facebook to pay heed, by filling out the necessary forms and ensuring a stamped, self-addressed envelop was also included should they choose to write to him at a later time.

And then to go and expound his savagery to the Noble CEO's account, an utter insult to civility indeed!
(Yes! I'm being sarcastic)
> More and more psychologists and researchers believe they know what makes people happy.

This only reveals why psychology has the reputation it has -- its intellectual shallowness and its inability to distinguish philosophy from science.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." So by Steve Jobs (and Picasso's) own definition, the eOS guys are merely good, not yet great. They've still got some catching up to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
It's interesting to me how you can just look to the way that people are dressed as an indicator of where the package is in transit.
Semantic three color icons
This bug is a spammers paradise though, free advertising by posting on other people walls about products. Gold
internet != the web
Meaning the world is in corporate hands,sad enough.
Who exactly is going to write and pass this law?
La Vida Robot
There are lots of individuals and groups that have benefited greatly from the status quo on drugs and who made a conscious effort so that message cannon was always aimed at your mom and firing.

The Drug War has been massively expensive. It isn't expensive because they hand money to drug dealers, it's expensive because money is used to manufacture prisons and operate them, money is used to buy military equipment for police forces, money is used to supply dictatorships around the world (but esp. in South America) with helicopters, US-made weapons and cash, money is spent on wars that drugs are used as a partial pretense for. This money is all spent with the same individual interests who also happen to be some of our largest political donors.

So politicians, the ones responsible for official drug messaging and for drug laws, have a spigot of cash that will be cut off if they have a nuanced opinion about drugs.

It also often helps politicians to be seen as tough on minorities (especially presidents running for a second term) and "tough on drugs" has been a stand-in for "tough on blacks" along with welfare reform. The same demographic who is becoming more pro-drug is also a lot less racist than their parents, so that message doesn't play to them anymore. I think the Drug War is starting to be seen as preying on the weak, rather than preying on the undesirable.

It's not really meaningful to put the blame on Puritanism, because there were hundreds of years between the Puritan landing and prohibition, during which time most people spent a lot of their time intoxicated on whatever they liked. Drug prohibition was initially a result of race-baiting.

>If you poll your mom and her friends, I bet you see that viewpoint pretty well-represented.

I'm nearly 40, and my mother has always been against drug prohibition as far as I can remember. Depends on your family.

>pot causes young men to give up on life and not get jobs or girlfriends and just play video games all day

I don't know it to be a cause, but I'd say that there's probably an association. Alcohol is associated with falling, being poisoned and liver failure, fighting and domestic abuse. Both have been associated with a pleasant afternoon with friends, too.

Judging by the prescription drug market, the effects of either drug wouldn't keep us from trying to give it to children if a buck could be made.
If you paid attention, all of Obama's "deadlines" for pulling the US out of Iraq were the same deadlines as Bush. The only time they were different was before the first election.
I gave an example of an automated checkout, but my point was not that the jobs I mentioned could all be automated -- my point was that they are not necessary. When I say "necessary", I don't mean that they aren't necessary to increase corporate profits (salesman, which I mentioned, certainly are), I mean they are not necessary to ensure a stable and functioning society. The example I gave with automated checkouts is not to demonstrate that automated checkouts are _better_ than human workers -- human workers are and will likely be far more capable than machines at running checkouts for a long time. My point is that they _could_ be replaced, and that if society decided that increasing human liberty was a more important goal than certain small inconveniences at the checkout, they _would_ be replaced.

So yes, these people are "contributing to the maintenance of society", but there are conceivable alternatives that would give these individuals (and society as a whole) more liberty, and would only require some small inconveniences.

The anecdote you give of your startup which needs advertising to get off the ground is beside the point. Perhaps your startup is revolutionary, and perhaps it needs some advertising to get off the ground, but this doesn't change the fact that most advertising is simply misinformation. Television commercials which make use of lush landscapes and half-naked women to sell cars don't create rational consumers, and without rational consumers you cannot have a functioning market. If advertising was simply a way in which companies communicated well-reasoned facts about products, and came with a balanced analysis of a product and its competitors, then we could argue that advertising was working towards creating a functioning market system. Until then, advertising will simply favour those with the largest advertising budgets and those who are best at disinformation, and so it's difficult to argue it is contributing to society.

> Indication that considering what is and isn't necessary in society could "liberate" half the population? Yeah: every society that tried it, like the Soviet Union (hint: they'd kill people for trying to leave).

This is really cheap rhetoric -- and not even accurate. If I'm arguing for a society where people are liberated from work, why are you using the Soviet Union, a dictatorship where everyone worked all the time, as some kind of counterpoint? Not everything that contradicts the status-quo is totalitarian communism, you know.

Besides, the points I'm trying to make aren't even original. There are serious proposals that have been made for why society should move to a 20-hour work week to address things ranging from rising levels of depression to climate change. [1]

[1] http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/21-hours
When the press is combative, the press is docile if not subservient since he has entered the political spectrum. If it weren't for Putin's obvious lack of respect for President Obama Snowden would already have been shipped back
Works on Chrome Canary. At first I had an extension that was interfering with the key presses.
After reading, I'd strongly consider not leaving an inheritance for my children. It seems to have wreaked generations of havoc on this family.
Secondary reason for Dubai office - "Business" Trips
These videos show what is wrong with our voting system and give a better alternative
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
Who Will Take The Privacy Seppuku Pledge?
I can't imagine that people making those silly comments have 1) RTFA, or 2) done anything remotely like what you guys are doing. You guys are doing some amazing things with the Linux desktop, don't let the peanut gallery get you down.

PS - I fervently hate the word "exciting" and think it is by far the most overused and diluted word in contemporary US English these days, at least in the business and startup realm. Too many people seem to think that calling something "exciting" actually makes it so, and call everything they want investment or traction for "exciting". Almost none of it actually is.

eOS is one of the few exceptions. The first project I've seen where reading your blog posts about it feels like reading folklore.org, and for a Linux fan at least, truly is exciting. So please keep doing what you're doing, ignore the negative nancies.
Simultaneously use the exploit on many investors' FB pages, perhaps starting with their children and families. Nobody cares about an exploit used on Zuck's wall and fixed soon after, but the perception would change if it was more personal and widespread.
This lawsuit is stupid. I'm not at all a fan of Microsoft, but they obviously needed to avoid calling the Surface RT a failure in advance of the facts, because to do so would have become a self-fulfilling prophecy -- potential customers would have reacted to Microsoft's own candid statements and avoided the product, thus accelerating the debacle.

There are times when you can please customers, or please stockholders, but not both simultaneously. This is one of those times.
"Can't pay him" doesn't sound like bureaucracy BS, they don't pay him because he violated the TOS, it's on purpose. We could argue this is stupid and the TOS should be changed, but I can understand why they specify that in the process of reporting a bug you use a test account. Violating a real user privacy to report a bug isn't the proper way to report a bug. If they made an exception with this guy then they would have to make more exceptions and possibly set a bad precedent.
Because having to program a hundred DSLs in your super-language is as (or more) annoying as just learning a handful of different languages (and runtimes) in the first place.
PostGIS is really without alternatives

unless you're willing to send Oracle a blank check.
It's a cultural thing. This should signal most likely some form of competency and credibility upfront.
I keep hoping that someone will port an incremental version of graphviz to JavaScript.
The press always likes something that sounds like a scandal and this presidency has been no exception. You are suffering from confirmation bias. The media is not 'liberal'.
They also have DNSCrypt, the only encrypted client solution I've found.
Nice for prototyping, but it needs a button to generate the native code. That would be truly useful.
Did you really need to say that Obama should sit at the back of the bus? What does that add to the political discourse? It is needlessly inflammatory. Say that you want him out of politics, not something that sounds racist for no reason.
A decent performance check on D3 using canvas vs svg with up to 400k points.
http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/Future/OpenLayersWithC...
And there's Vim Airline being maintained by bling too, purely in vimscript, if you're not a fan of the mainline Python version.

https://github.com/bling/vim-airline/
Kinect and Google chromecast
You can hate both, but the things they do aren't the same.
I think the answer is vaguely to make them irrelevant to real life. There's nothing we can do beyond voting, and money controls who gets on the ballot. Congress writes its own rules, and gathers the campaign cash.

I don't know how to concretely make them irrelevant. We could just ignore them, and consider the cost of government like friction, but they do fuck peoples' lives up and so we can't ignore them entirely. And they are currently the only significant outlet of safety net, as much as they're trying to fuck that up too.

I don't know. Anyone?
This looks like the code for the project

https://github.com/zmap/zmap
...Did you read the article, or just the title?

This article is about giving money directly to Kenyan villagers, and in a different program to families in Mexico; and about how they've used the money on productive improvements like replacing thatched roofs with metal ones.

It also acknowledges that this might not be the most effective approach, but that it's being tried in these contexts and deserves further study.

This seems like a rather different context than misused American welfare dollars... and it seems unlikely to me that "low IQ" is a sufficient explanation for third-world village poverty.
Free Open-Source WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
Hey,

Quick Weekend Project, thought it might save some people $79, http://www.woothemes.com/products/stripe/
, a little rough at this point but very functional.
I think he only used the data from WordNet for a personal visualization, it's not integrated with the WordNet program.
I think as long as we do not understand the relation between intelligence and conscience, we should probably assume that a AGI has moral issues and personal needs.
No, not really. You need to risk a lot of capital to make any money at all.

For instance, to make even $10,000 on a 5% drop in Facebook stock, you would need to sell short $200,000 in Facebook stock and would need to have $100,000 in cash deposited with a broker (initial margin). If the stock goes up by even a penny, you would need additional margin to cover that. A young hacker with no money cannot make any by shorting stocks.
The joy and pain of using a static site generator for private and client work
Security researchers find major flaw in Apple's App Store approval process
Quick Weekend Project, thought some people would appreciated an alternative to the paid "offical" version especially since WooCommerce itself is open source http://www.woothemes.com/products/stripe/.

Still a little rough at this point, but very functional.
Will Google shut this down as well since they don't like it when Microsoft tech interfaces with Google products?
Isn't this just a protection racket? The water company will turn off your water supply if a richer group asks for it. That sounds like a nightmare.
I find it a little odd that the toilet issue has more attention than the whole ADA compliance problems.
Actually he wouldn't have been "put through the legal system the same way Manning was," because Manning was a soldier tried under military law, while Snowden was a civilian contractor.

I don't know which law you are consulting for the definition of "torture," but if solitary confinement is torture then our system hands it out for many people less famous and glamorous than Snowden all the time, without much of any outcry. And this outcry seems to be confined to certain political figures, not just any prisoner caught with a shank.
Yes, but it is exactly these kind of policies that let enterprises, corporations or organizations look bad.

This is like getting PR advise from a lawyer when there is trouble coming your way. Sure, the lawyer will tell you to repeat "no comment" or deny any involvement over and over again. That might be the right strategy in a legal sense and work out fine when nobody is watching.

But you are loosing in the court of public opinion when the public perceives your actions as unfair. And denying some kid a few hundred bucks even so he found a legit hack just because he didn't follow some proper corporate policy guideline does definitely reflect negatively on Facebook.
Thanks a bunch for especially the second link.

I was under the impression from articles I'd read that most patent litigation was done in east texas but I couldn't find any specific information. That was exactly what I was looking for.
What's the distinction in this context?
Ultimately, it depends on where morality comes from.

Is it immoral to lie? If so, why? Is it always immoral to lie, or only sometimes? Why? Does someone else's immoral actions excuse you from your moral obligations? Does the immoral action of the head of state taint the entire organization? Why? If the head of state is a proven liar, but the organs of state you are lying to are honest, is it ethical to lie to them?

If you subscribe to New Testament morals, then there definitely is a moral reason to tell the truth, even if the entire government is corrupt. The government is put there by God to keep order and restrain evil, so when you are acting in that sphere of government, you have an obligation to respect the State as God's agent. (Now if the State oversteps its authority or is using means known to be displeasing to God, disobedience may be in order, but respect should still be there. I expect that respecting someone usually involves telling them the truth.) Also, Jesus says to love your enemies and to not return evil for evil (instead, return good for evil), which would seem to suggest that you have a moral obligation to tell the truth even to liars.
EA as a whole seemed to have it in for the game. What a small team of dedicated developers did was stop EA from shooting itself in the foot.

team usa soccer indeed.
Serious answer? Both.

Which pains me greatly, I used to quite like and respect both.
As I said, it depends on the particular circumstances.

For example, suppose it captures a neutron. Copper has two natural isotopes, copper-63 and copper-65. Copper-64 has a half-life of hours, and decays into Nickel-64 or Zinc-64, both of which are stable and occur in nature. Copper-66 has a half-life of minutes, and decays into Zinc-66, which is stable and occurs in nature.

But maybe it didn't capture a neutron. And there might be impurities in the copper that are dangerous when irradiated. Or maybe it was physically contaminated with dangerous isotopes of another element.

Just saying that it was "irradiated" doesn't give us enough information to tell what actually happened.
That is a vague reply with no apparent relevance to anything I said except the amount $500 which was not to be taken literally. My point was that facebook isn't doing this to save money and believing so is idiotic.