skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but the resolution is terrible for sharing screens.

The other thing I should have mentioned is that I'm also concerned with sharing a hangout to YouTube for later viewing. That, right now, is only supported for 480p, which is completely unusable for screencasts that contain text.
Squared-off corners, symmetric design, and a matte interior with glossy exterior.

Would look pretty nice, I suppose.
I assumed this was a very well produced joke, but apparently not: http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/new/

Nintendo's apparently going after those who don't care about 3D or aren't willing to spend an extra $40 for it, but I don't know why that means the 2DS has to look like a tablet - I would've thought the clamshell design had other advantages like protecting the screens and allowing the user to adjust the viewing angles.
I can't wait to see the Virtual Star Party in HD.
Finally, almost as if born equal. It's also blocked here in Poland.
Not quite - if this was the same, then LinkedIn members could set a fee for recruiters to contact them and /they/ would receive the $10.
However, this system is interesting - I should go reply to all those recruiters.
We would love to cover additional topics. I did my master's degree in robotics and worked in that field for a number of years. The reason that we're starting with iOS and Android is that the job market is the strongest in those areas, so it's easy to start there to prove that we can fund a tuition-free school via industry. Long term, we would love to expand to areas outside of engineering as well.
One thing I try to determine about startups is their ability to fire people.

Lots of the problems you mentioned sound like they were in part due to the company finding that difficult, and of course it should be noted that any process like this, about humans and done by humans, is going to have errors on occasion. The real trick is realizing and correcting them.
Because Go is getting more press than Rust and that is really, really hard for some people to handle.
yes id still til take "dave" our database guru at BT - whose first boss was Edsger Dijkstra.
A surprisingly compelling story. And a reminder that despite intense care, life can end for the most abrupt & stupid reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#U...
Equity crowdfunding is doomed as an asset class
I use rsnapshot to automate this hard link creation and backup rotations hourly, daily, weekly, monthly. You still use cron or something else (I've used Launchd on OS X systems) to schedule the runs but rsnapshot takes care of the rest.
Landing page says:

> The crowdfunding campaign and building of the course will start as soon as enough people have signed up.

If you plan crowdfunding, why not do it earlier? Putting up a Kickstarter may give the project some publicity.
Also: Validation is tricky, since we can't just compare the output to ground station observations, as we incorporate ground station data into the model. Eventually I want to generate alternative versions that randomly exclude specific stations so we can use them for comparison.
I can't believe that there are so many people in a scientific, technical, industry like the software industry that believe in something as facially superstitious and handwavy as "natural rights."
Practically universally: C:/Program Files/FooProg
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Linux kernel automatic tailored configuration generation
Oddly, in my experience Google's data has been bad (e.g. giving me directions to take a freeway off-ramp that has been closed for construction for months, and still routing me to the same close off-ramp a month after I reported it) and the app itself has been stellar. Their robot voice is the absolute best in the game right now, it actually sounds like you're getting directions from a human and not a tin can.
Well he only gets 7p according to the article, so more like $6.50/hr. AFAIK, receiving calls in the UK is generally free (as in, it doesn't count as minutes as it does in the US), and the calling party foots the bill. He's essentially made his line a toll number.
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> We are sorry, but currently your browser is not supported.[1]

Really? Mozilla Persona doesn't support Firefox 23.0.1?

[1] https://webrtc.personatest.org/unsupported_dialog

EDIT: BrowserSupport.getNoSupportReason() == LOCALSTORAGE_DISABLED.
I've gotten four endorsements for 'Butter', none for 'Balls' so far.
Thanks! Cross domain json calls would certainly work but our APIs are not public ready yet and not all would work as expected.
Soy is a cheaper raw material.

Let's look a bit closer at that: why?

The answer has a lot to do with addressing our energy challenges, if you want to take biofuels into account.

Plants are roughly 1% effective at converting sunlight to stored hydrocarbons (mostly cellulose). Sometimes we can bump that up by a factor of 2-3. Photovoltaics are much more effecitve, about 20% in production, with theoretical maximums of 40%, which translates to even higher with multi-layer cells. But that just gets you electricity, not storage.

Algae are roughly 10x more productive than plants in converting sunlight to biomass. Which is pretty useful. However where a farm is a pretty lightly engineered environment (provide irrigation, even tillage is optional these days), if you're going to grow algae, you've got to provide a hell of a lot of services plants otherwise self-service: support, pest control, nutrient transport, and the like. Yes, your primary productivity goes up 10x but your capital investments are even higher. I've followed the field from a distance, and most pilot projects have been abandoned.

So instead of harvesting protein from algae and yeast, we get them from acres of soybeans. It's just cheaper. And the technology is too expensive.

Population

Yes, growth rates have declined, but we're still dangerously over long-term sustainable levels. And unfortunately, it's poorer areas where kids are most prevalent. In advanced societies, children are a net cost, in poor ones, starting at an early age, they can help with household tasks and chores.
(Identity team member here.) Yes, that's right. tincan is against running an ephemeral instance of Persona that doesn't do the account bridging, and doesn't share a database with the real persona.org. We do plan to integrate this with Persona. Also, while I think this is an awesome use case for Persona, and we do intend to land it in Firefox [1], it's worth noting that the proposed webrtc idp proxy architecture [2] is designed to work with any identity provider, not just Persona, and could be incorporated into any browser.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=878941
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-arch-...
Is this a moot point with the advent of digital boarding passes? I use my iphone whenever possible.
> To me, this has always seemed a bit futile as well as overkill. You're still sedentary. You're providing very little benefit to your overall well being and it's simply yet another way that people are trying to get something for nothing when it comes to health . I've read a lot of the examples of it's positive effects. I've read a lot of the raving reviews of people that do this, but I ultimately come to the same conclusion every time I read this stuff... exercise a little bit every day. It's healthier than standing all day, it's free, doesn't require expensive furniture, doesn't require you to beg your boss for something expensive and it's something you should be doing anyway.

I'm tired of this type of condescension. I guess because the author writes to a community of programmers, or nerds, or whatever, he feels that he can address them as if they are all sloths. I have not had the impression in the overall debate about this standing/sitting business that people are saying that they are going over to a standing desk in order to not exercise. One can perfectly well imagine that the people that are going over to a standing desk because they think that it brings benefits that are a good complement to an overall healthy lifestyle, like eating and exercising properly (I notice that you say that you don't eat healthily, deanproxy... does this mean that you willingly do this because you think that an exercise routine can fully compensate for a bad diet...?). If someone vows to try to have better posture in their everyday life, does that mean that they think that it is a replacement for something like a good exercise routing for the back muscles? No. So this is standing/sitting contra exercising is a false dichotomy.

In fact, this whole standing/sitting discussion was partly propelled by studies that showed that sitting a lot was bad for ones health, also for active people [0] :

> Even when adults meet physical activity guidelines, sitting for prolonged periods can compromise metabolic health.

To turn deanproxy's baseless condescenscion towards "standers" and their supposed lazyness on its head: deanproxy is simply trying to rationalize his sedentary habits by asserting that having discrete blocks of activity time during the day counteracts his sedentary existence for the rest of the day.

To get the whole picture and in order to be in a position to assert that standing is inconsequential, deanproxy should also have experience with a lifestyle in which he exercises and stands/walks/is somewhat active in his day job. But it does not seem that he does. Perhaps not too surprising when his whole argument rests on standing CONTRA exercising in your free time. And what all of this shows is that the zealots (imaginary or not) who vow to NOT exercise BECAUSE they stand during their day jobs are leading an inferior lifestyle because deanproxy exercises and is able to do WITHOUT standing (and eating healthily... ). So deanproxy can claim victory here, the victory of being an exercise-zealot over the standing-zealots.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404815/
"junkmail because a large chunk of it ends up unread in landfills."

So what? So does food that is not eaten and other forms of waste. I don't follow sports but I understand that there is plenty of waste by people who drive to games, consume beer as well as other costs associated with sporting events. There are people who send out "junkmail" who are legitimate and get business from it. And they are selling things that people want. Obviously no marketing campaign is 100% effective (a few percentage points is usually good actually).

"If it was solely good then I highly doubt it would be called junkmail"

There are pros and cons to most things. Giving it a different name wouldn't make it better or worse. People also don't like television commercials or ads on web pages. If you asked them they would like to eliminate those as well expecting everything to be to their liking.
I would bet that changing the from the bars to the dots is a marketing maneuver, remember the "More bars in more places" ad campaign, the bars icon was specifically used, by using dots, Apple is diverging it's identity away from AT&T. It's minute, but a detail none the less.
Sounds like the 3-in-1 printer model.
Catabolic Collapse and Rent Seeking are largely the same thing:

http://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf

Ads, FIRE industries, intellectual property feudalism, and microcode: it's where the fiscal hoarding opportunities are. They're creating little if any real wealth.
Probably my biggest advice is be prepared for lots of changes. Startups are extremely dynamic and have lots of shifts with direction of the company, product builds, and much more. Learn to be adaptable.

Other big advice is don't be afraid to speak up. If you don't feel right about something, don't understand something, or think you have a better idea - say something. It could change a lot about the company.
TIL. Thanks for the heads up.
Given the recent hoohah over strong accents, this author clearly has English as a second language, but writes powerfully and well, structures a story effectively and did not let me stop till the end.

A great game and a great write up. Let us know about LD28 :-)
I guess the link title here changed?
I am pretty happy with this component registry... https://github.com/component/component/wiki/Components.

It also has a build tool written in node.js, http://github.com/component/component and has quite a large community surrounding it now.
It's one step forward (from Apple Maps), about 800 steps backwards from the original Google Maps app. You can't even save bookmarks to locations without logging in to the Google/NSA overlord collective. Not to mention the horrible UI that makes Dwarf Fortress look reasonable by comparison.
Your submission was probably flagged, possibly by multiple people.

An HN pet peeve of mine is that flagging does not require even a modicum of rationale. I can flag any submission without even the slightest justification. When my own submissions have been flagged, I've also been left wondering "Why?" I understand why many of my submissions have not been upvoted. Many are simply not of upvote-quality. But not upvoting is quite different from flagging.

You may be interested in the HN Slapdown user script [1] which provides insight into articles' scores versus their rank order. With this installed, I tend to look especially at those with red scores because I am interested in counteracting what I believe to be an overzealous application of flagging.

Even right now, this very article has a yellow score indicating that it may be flagged (or something else is affecting its rank order versus its point score).

I personally have only ever flagged one or two articles, and only when I felt that the subject matter had utterly nothing to do with my understanding of the purpose of this site. When I did so, I was shocked at the magnitude of the penalty: if I recall correctly, the article I flagged was instantly dropped from the front page to the third page. It really gave me appreciation for how sparingly one should apply flags.

When I don't find a submission interesting, I just don't upvote it.

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/150452
My bad. That sounds logical, though a bit SPOFfy. FYI on our system instead of providing an image (since the format is hard to fix if we want to support arbitrary OSs and arbitrary cloud providers) we first provide a script that can assemble (or acquire) an image (after which it is versioned), and also specify a linked test suite.

That way, a particular build of a platform (ubuntu-12.04-20130808) that we create on a cloud provider could be used, or alternatively a particular cloud provider's stock image (someprovider-ubuntu-12.04-xyz) or existing bare metal machine matching the general OS class in a conventional hosting environment could also be used.

The idea is that where bugs are found (defined as "application installs fine on our images, but not on <some other existing platform instead>") new tests can be added to the platform integrity test suite to detect such issues, and/or workarounds can be added to facilitate their support.

That way, when an application developer says "app-3.1 targets ubuntu" we can potentially test against many different Ubuntu official release versions on many different images on many different cloud providers or physical hosts. (Possibly determining that it only works on ubuntu above a certain version number.) Similarly, the app could target a particular version of ubuntu, or a particular range of build numbers of a particular version of ubuntu.

It's sort of a mid-way point offering a compromise of flexibility versus pain between the chef/puppet approach (which I intensely disagree with for deployment purposes in this era of virt) and the docker approach (which makes sense but could be viewed as a bit restrictive when attempting to target arbitrary platforms or use random existing or bare metal infrastructure).

Also, would you consider the architectural concern I outlined valid? I mean, in the case you are pulling down network-provided packages or doing other arbitrary network things when installing... it seems to be like there is a serious risk of configuration drift or outright failure.
hyperaud.io: edit audio and video like a text-based document
If you live somewhere with traffic, your use will be much higher I'd guess.
Thanks for the reply! I'm sure you guys will learn a ton with these initial pilot offerings. Sans the API hackery part your students will certainly learn a lot of timeless skills about practical product development and design, which is great.

There is always going to be a lot of pressure to teach surface-level skills that are in high demand due to companies who want more warm bodies to hack stuff out. Not even top universities are immune to this, just look at the spread of Java throughout top computer science schools and the proliferation of classes on OOP that are now largely irrelevant just a few years later.

I think what you are doing is great. Don't lose sight of the big picture :)
Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel?
I did that for a while, but now use wmii instead of StumpWM.
At the very least, they should give the connecting gate number, and if possible instructions to get there and to walk to the gate. I presume they don't do this since the gates are subject to change, so printing this up front could mislead someone.

To me, I shouldn't really need a physical boarding pass. They should just be able to scan an ID and inform me the gate number during boarding.
That this needs to be explained makes me feel old.
Isn't this fairly standard terminology for results of a study? That it obviously only includes those users included in the study?
Researchers Grow 3-D Human Brain Tissues
At the moment I believe ShowHN posts are negatively penalized by the front page scoring algorithm, something that was setup many many years ago when HN was a completely different community.

Perhaps it's time to reverse that so ShowHN post get positively scored. Also maybe reduce the impact of flagging on ShowHN posts.
Nanotubes: Can we make speakers as thin as paper?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130827-paper-thin-speakers-on-the-cards/all for full page
"R&D company" that ships no produces seems a bizarre concept to me. If you're doing pure research and you don't want to manufacture anything, then outsource it, or partner with someone who can and sign them to an iron-clad contract protecting a trade secret.

I'm be curious if anyone can even name any "pure R&D" software companies that don't ship products, yet created meaningful advancements. Even in the realm of hardware, did RAMBUS really need patent protection?
The problem is many folks in HR believe [wrongly] they are trained to pick up on these things. This is because they know they don't have anything else to contribute to the process, therefore come up with some 'soft skill' thats hard to verify to justify their existence.
A few small things:

* No AM/PM on times
* No ticket number or confirmation code
* Would a barcode scanner run into problems with two barcodes side by side?
* Listing the terminal without labeling it may cause confusion
There are three buckets of people you don't want to hire:

- helpless
- depressed
- jerks

In my subjective experience:

The top one has about %50 shot of being a character flaw, eg, no amount of confidence-building will help.

The middle one has the most hope, if the talent potential is significant. The best in the field can be painfully shy as well as depressed. The problem is that depression (not shyness) hurts morale. [1]

The last has a %75 chance of being a lost cause. Impossible to manage as they are incredibly disruptive to morale and productivity. [2] Their survival is often linked to mastery of politics, which inculcates their position.

[1] http://m.fastcoexist.com/1679208/a-sad-worker-is-a-bad-worke...

[2] The No *sshole Rule by Robert Sutton
This started off as a piece about Jobs' "Real Artists Ship" quote and slowly evolved. "Build it and Ship it" really is the entrepreneur's corollary to this whole line of thinking. Glad you picked up on that.
This isn't a map. This is a simulation. You made a simulation, and are outputting the results.

This teaches you nothing whatsoever except that your model has pretty colors.

Next thing someone is going to take these results, use them as input data for a new model, then send the results of that new model back as data for the first.
I'm not sure I'd classify Forth as higher level than C; in many ways, it operates on abstractions more akin to assembler. In every way, it's really, really strange.
Chromecast vs Apple TV
You've made a good comment. I can't specifically point you to a study with research or engineering (though I know there has been some that involved academic research performance as an outcome). The finding tends to be that 1) g is more, not less, important for jobs with higher complexity and 2) job knowledge acts as a mediator between the predicted relationship of g and work performance.

You are right to think that the results would be different if the test was just given on the general population. It's an academic consideration that tends to resolve itself in the field.

And you'll never hear me, or anyone else, suggest that g should be the only predictor for just the reason you describe. Biographical data (e.g., years experience, work history) is much better first hurdle.
I'd be more concerned about cost. With the advent of self-checkin boarding passes have become largely homogenized - boarding passes used to actually be printed by the airline, on their own paper stock, instead of the airport authority's touch terminals.

This isn't an environment where the airlines have a great deal of control over what gets printed, or the printers doing the printing. Going from the extremely cheap thermal paper printers I see in these machines to full-color, thick card stock (like it was in the Good Old Days) would be pretty darned expensive.

Unfortunately the airline industry today is hyper-competitive to the point where anything that does not generate higher bookings and higher sales is basically just all cost and no benefit. Unless these easier-to-use boarding passes results in more bookings, it just doesn't make financial sense for the airlines, who are cash-strapped as it is without being tasked with replacing tens of thousands of printers.