skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somoone said below. I've seen many magazines call Elon Musk sexy in many magazines ( He even got a hair transplant).
Noone ever said anything about it being sexist. We only seems to take offense when a woman is being called sexy, which by definition is sexist.

If someone in position of power can look sexy more power to them.
I was able to build and flash my Due with this, very cool. The possibilities are really exciting!
from the google play developer guidelines:

"Developers offering additional content, services or functionality within another category of app downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play's in-app billing service as the method of payment, except ... where payment is for digital content or goods that may be consumed outside of the application itself (e.g. buying songs that can be played on other music players)."

the kindle store is kind of straddling the line between affected and unaffected. if reading a kindle book on an e-ink kindle device counts as outside the app, they're fine. I'm guessing google will give amazon a pass here, the regulation is clearly meant to stop games with scammy IAP, not ebookstores.
A laptop becoming noisy and a webpage that will suddenly become unresponsive? Who is his right mind would implement this on his own webpage? It would only be attributed to your "shitty, slow" site, users don't care what video codec their browser supports..

That said, i had so high hopes for ONE standardized video codec in HTML5, but the w3c/whatwg just fucked it up (or better yet MS, Apple and Co. who couldn't agree on one standard just for profit-reasons).
It would seem to me a much simpler solution would be for airlines to offer earplugs on all flights. That way, babies can cry and businessmen don't whine.
>I would make an argument that giving Mr Obama every morning a brief what is going in secret in UN, Kremlin and Beijing is NSA mandate. They were created to collect that kind. It is intelligence agencies work to collect intelligence.

Some people seem to think that collecting intelligence means breaking 24/7 into sovereign countries (and allies) leaders' communications...

How about they fucking do it the old fashioned way: talking to people, gathering diplomatic sources, analysing press and political statements, checking budget uses, the odd snitch here and there, getting some leaks, etc etc?
Indeed, Sparkle updates on the Mac would be very much appreciated.
If cigarettes are to be any guide, it won't be long before children are banned from planes, children have to stay 50 feet away from hospitals, and eventually most people stop having children at all.
I don't. All they have to do is announce that analysts will need approval to investigate anyone that can be connected to their personal lives, fire two or three people for violating the new policy, and suddenly all NSA spying is vindicated.
Perhaps a more accurate phrasing would be "Most people (incl. employees) overvalue the stock they got", or that employers will try to pass off stock as worth more than they are actually worth. e.g. if you're offered 1,000 shares, it's highly unlikely they are worth €100,000,000.
After seeing the blatant double-standard and after the hostile Palestine grouse-fest I tend to get from people the second they learn I'm Jewish (not Israeli, not anything about my personal politics), yeah - I'm going to call it like I see it.

Sorry, but the vast majority of you are bigoted hypocrites. If it wasn't Israel it'd be how we control the media or some other damn fool thing.
Great idea, thanks a ton. Thinking on it, it may be that my pitch to them is too complicated or convoluted. Its not their realm to know stocks (typically) so creating the pitch to peak their interest is a good starting point. Thanks again!
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Why is noise canceling useless for screams?
IMO a types stack languages does not make much sense. If the stack side effect is typed a function does alway have to return the same number of arguments and consume the same number. That IMO takes the by far biggest advantage of postfix languages away.
I am selling social interaction
The hardware seems quite good.
This doesn't deserve to be posted anywhere, much less on the front page.
Three options, with some color for each. In essence, this could be viewed as a time/money trade-off, although I think there's more to it than that:

(1) Learn to code. Start with a language that makes it easy to do what you need for the most complicated part of your app. What is that part? Do you use a research-grade algorithm that is only implemented in one particular language? Use that language. Do you use run-of-the-mill machine learning? Consider Python, or any language you like and just farm out the hard part to R. Do you just need to express complex algorithms without re-deriving them? Then really any language should do.

(2) Find a co-founder. This is tough because without any programming background, how do you evaluate whether someone would be a sufficiently technical co-founder for you? I'd say that this implies some aspect of #1 in that you'd need to get a bit more comfortable with programming.

(3) Outsource. This requires more money, less time. One might imagine that someone who does a lot of stock trading should actually have more money and less time than most, but I don't know you and it doesn't really matter anyway. You could outsource your technology. You'd just need to tightly control the schedule and the key elements of the product (e.g., make sure that they've correctly implemented your desired algorithms).
> They mostly cry without any reason watsoever.

Not knowing the reason is not the same as without reason. A child may cry for seemingly silly reasons (there's an excellent Tumblr blog "reasons my son is crying") but there's generally a reason.
Basically whatever 5 justices of the Supreme Court decide is "reasonable."
You say that as if it's his fault. He did not write the app - he's just using it.
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OpenHyperloop: A GitHub project with Wiki to crowdsource the hyperloop design
This project was the subject of a WWDC lunch session in 2009 I believe. One of the best I have seen.

There was so much more content in the WWDC presentation, I wished they had filmed lunch sessions at the time:

- It was not only moon orbiter pictures but also stuff from the apollo missions

- The analog pictures were actually transmitted over radio with an analog process (converting black and white in frequencies)

- This signal was then digitized and used to recreate images on the ground

- What they use (at least what they showed 4 yers ago) is the raw sound files that were recorded. Of course this is much better than the recreated on the ground images because you are one step closer to the source.

- They first had to find a way to read those files on tapes. They actually called this presentation "data archeology" because of this. Had to find tape readers, get them back to work, etc.

- Using DSP processing they were able to significantly improve the quality of the reconstruction process, dealing with mechanical problems on the space side (like the film were moving on a roll which speed was not perfectly constant)

- One of the most interesting result was an image reconstructed in 2000s compared to the original image. Turned out to be one of the first picture of earth poles (and ice cap). Extremely useful today.

For more info:

- http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/nimbus-ii-and-lunar-or...

- http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/26/the-lunar-orbiter-imag...

Found the slides from the wwdc presentation!

http://www.slideshare.net/kcowing/presentation-by-dennis-win...

Enjoy!
> If you could somehow do this manouver to an infant that started crying on descent.... Otherwise you are funding him about an hour of really painful torture.

Chewing/swallowing tends to accomplish the same thing, which is why it's recommended to give them a bottle during takeoff/landing.
They are. A better headline would have been something like "refactoring an existing backbone.js project to use require.js". His project still uses backbone.js, but now it also uses require.js.
It's really hard to tell. Extrapolating from current trends, AR (probably goggleless) and touchscreens with tactile feedback seem plausible as major new near future gaming technologies. Also, instant audiobooks of anything through quality voice synthesis (we are almost there already). More virtual pet/friend/girlfriend/boyfriend "games" with NLP and sensor-based input. UAV games (with AR elements?).

Let's hope we play the energy game right and have a global war over the natural resources or else we might be too busy (or dead) to look for entertainment.
If smoking is a problem for non-smokers, would it seem like a simpler solution to give non-smokers face masks?

Why should the burden of the negative externality lie on the recipient and not the creator of said externality?

The market will sort it out. I would pay more, lots of people would pay more. The demand curve speaks louder than words.
You may have seen an extremely relevant speech on this topic :)

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...
We, as members of society, are putting less pressure on each other to reproduce, probably because our society's tech level & processes can't support many more humans than currently exist.
I'm not even sure what entertains "us" today. Leisure-time activities vary by class, race, occupation, age and many other (ever increasingly specific) social categories. Some of us are "laptop loners" [1] while others enjoy mass sporting events; some provide endless free labor to Facebook in their "leisure time" while others use that time to engage in protest.

George Packer noted that most new "apps" are geared towards what rich 20-somethings want and need. Whatever future forms of entertainment Y-Combinator grantees develop, they will almost certainly be designed to be pleasurable -- and profitable -- for them.

1: http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/louis-c-k-and-the-rise-of-t...

2: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_...
>Invading the privacy of (innocent, or incidentally guilty) citizens turns the NSA from a national security agency into a secret police.

They've already announced that invading the privacy of the innocent is official policy. The fact that errant analysts take 10 minutes off from executing algorithms that mine your mother's phone history in order to read their girlfriend's emails is a distraction.
That would be interesting for video games and pr0n, but why not apply that tech to plain ole "womens drama TV show"?

Oh wait we already have that... My wife already "watches" TV while she holds her tablet and scrolls thru facebook and whichever is more interesting get the attention.

Why watch a reality TV gameshow/drama about say... some dude getting married, when you can watch a real world version play out live on facebook today?

I'm not kidding about this. We're about one, maybe two, "innovations" away from facebook (or equiv social network) replacing most "big network TV".

So theoretical viewer (perhaps my daughter) clicks certain checkboxes and dropdowns on a web page and then some youtube quality CGI video of some girl she knows meets some boy and there's a teen pregnancy and then tragically one of the CGI characters... Or rather than your social network, you get to pick "stars".
If it's not part of the mission statement, it's off mission. I don't consent to rogue intelligence agencies at the heart of my government.
>To stay in the game, these readers urged, make sure your skills are up to date, especially in areas like coding, and be prepared to work longer hours and get paid less than you're used to.

I think that's what many young software engineers have to endure, therefore it's also the young who face ageism.

Anyway, if you can only get hired for less than you used to, then your effective market rate is actually lower than what it used. And that's "fine". Perhaps the market rate for a software engineer follows a kind of bell curve. That specific issue is not ageism.
I think this depends on who you are directing the question to. There are hundreds of millions (billions?) of people on this planet who can barely afford to put food on the table. For these people, entertainment is the same as it has been for hundreds of years. You sit around with friends and family, talk, eat, play music and generally keep things simple. If the middle class continues to decline in the U.S. then people in the U.S. may be doing the same in 20 years.

Edit: Grammar fix
Ubershmekel, you are dead right! Sorry, I stand corrected. After reading the Wikipedia article I guess they really were 'back!'. (I was listening to Smashing Pumpkins at the time in all honesty!)

In another example of the music industry seeding their own success, I remember when it wasn't uncommon for a major label to ship a number of initial releases to record stores and then buy them back to push their artist up the charts (which were all based on record sales). The result was that the album or single rode high up the charts getting more rotation on terrestrial radio and MTV, until it became a self-fulfulling prophecy and eventually outsold the buy-back investment and then some.

Thanks for the BSB correction :)
> The app is 253MB (OS X version)! Is it just me or is that crazy?

The bulk of that is Qt. If your OS had a standard Qt library thaf every application that uses Qt could reuse, Calibre wouldn't have to distribute Qt itself.

But since on McOS10 the preferred method is to distribute every depedency over and over again in each app that needs that dependency, you end up with that bloat. The common retort is, "253 MB? We have terabytes of storage now! Who cares about a few extra megabytes here and there."
> Yes, and how many of your family and friends had mp3 players before iPods?

I don't know. But mp3 players were definitely something people knew about before iPod's (at least the kids, can't speak for the adults at the time). Some even got those mp3 players with 128 MB, enough to cram two albums into. I didn't feel it was worth it before 512 MB, at the least.

Back when I was in the market for a good (gigabits of storage) mp3 player, I don't recall that iPod was the definite go-to choice in the electronics store.

> And you dismiss a feature of the iPods by just saying 'a great user interface'.

Not dismiss in general as much as dismiss when it comes to revolutionizing music listening and the industry. I think that people would still have adapted mp3 players (what were the alternatives? Discmans and those cassette-like players which you could record 320 minutes of music max on each disc?) even if Apple wouldn't have come out with a really nice UI.

> Plus, and I cannot stress this enough, iTunes really was power pushing the iPod and Apple along. First, by truly binding hardware and software together to work together as seamlessly as possible.

All mp3 players I've used (except for iPod's) are very easy to manage: plug it to the computer, open the folder of the mp3 player, and copy-paste songs. I am hardly a 'techie' when it comes to general computer usage, and I was not back then, either. But maybe this was beyond the capabilities of most people for all I know.

> Second, by being able to purchase songs from iTunes store, and have it automatically appear in iTunes.

I could torrent music and have them automatically appear in my Downloads folder. You could say that the iTunes way is more user-friendly, but most people used Windows back then and were used to shuffling around files and folders themselves, because you had to do that at some if you wanted to do more than read your mail.

> And thirdly, and this is perhaps the most important bit, by forcing (and by forcing, I mean sometimes using the mob style of forcing) the record industry to play along. No longer did you have to know which artist belonged to which record company in order to buy music. No longer having to browse 4 or 5 different sites to find music.

I guess I never was big on buying music online. I downloaded illicitlyt, bought some things in the store and the few things I didn't find I bought through iTunes. I know the last part validates your point, but having four more albums in my collection didn't exactly revolutionize my music listening.

> No longer did you have to convert songs, if you could even, to another to get around DRM to get all your music to play on one device.

When I changed computers I couldn't get my songs to play on the new machine.

> So, yes, they did revolutionize the music industry.

What revolutionized music listening for me was: 1. being able to easily download (mostly pirate) music 2. streaming services (only used Spotify myself).
It's almost as if that's their whole purpose.
agreed. I kept reading after "pure gawker" and regret it.

tabloid writer assholes aren't just for hollywood now I guess.
What if you could install an extension that disabled the "show stored password" feature? Would that make a huge difference to you?

(Since that is about the same friction as running a soon to be extremely well known piece of javascript, or accessing a site to copy-paste it from.)
Highly technical simulations (may or may not look like games). ie. much more detailed versions of farmville, kerbal space program, etc.
This... I am an earlier adopter of Windows 8 and I actually love it. It feels to me like it's the first version of windows that is truly keyboard centric. Stuff like winkey +x can make you wonder how do you survived without that before.
Cheers, thanks for the advice. Learning to program is definitely a barrier since much of the formulas I'm looking at using would require bit of power (makes me lean towards Python or Javascript - depending on end use).

I'm pretty leery about outsourcing. Back when I managed a web division, it always seemed that when we outsourced, things would go horribly wrong. I'll have to reach out to friends and find some good outsource recommendations.

Thanks for the advice!
Thanks so much for the contributions and comments folks. I didn't quite reach the goal for this milestone, but I can now afford to take some time on the project. Updates pending.
No, instead of expect others to deal with the US foreign policy when it comes to spying, fix the offending foreign policy.

US is at the blame here, not UN or those which US spies upon.
FYI, this is how scuba divers clear their ears as they change depths. It's basic training.
Ah the headlines will be entertaining, but what about more practical closer to home problems?

The wife finds out I generated a pr0n CGI video of her best friend. Or worse... her sister...

There's a classic Star Trek TNG holodeck episode about ... getting busted for generating a G rated but on the way to pr0n of counselor troi. "I am the goddess of love" or something, and he gets busted, awkward all around.
If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple
Valleywag is the TMZ of silicon valley reporting, it isn't clever humor, satire or insightful. It's mostly poorly written articles with limited research going after easy hits and the lowest common denominator.

There's some irony in defining your job as noting how self-absorbed silicon valley is from an article that exists primarily to boost a self-absorbed ego (picture and all).

The rationality of why it's better for them to be in New York is probably the most enlightening part. Clearly they need to be based in a place free from a hostile culture that's focused on image and wealth. Can't have their hard hitting journalism be stifled.
'Because Fuck You, that's why' works as a foreign policy when we're the biggest 800 pound gorilla in town. But it could turn out pretty badly for us (the US) later.
I've had mixed feelings on this issue for a while. On one hand, I think there's a real danger in hiring people who are like you. I'm frequently surprised how much people defend this practice in the name of having a cohesive company culture.

Would it be more nice to have a greater proportion of older folks? I think so. The problem isn't older folks per se. The problem is just people, period. Just as much as I'm surprised by cultural homogeneity, I'm surprised by how close-minded young grads are to things they weren't exposed to in school or in youth. It's kind of baffling that by 30, a lot of programmers act like they've seen it all and done it all, and then they start snarking out on the newer, unproven languages, frameworks and platforms. It gets worse as a programmer builds up more experience to back up his case. Case in point: you ever talk to an older Lisp guy? The ones who will rip into you just for using Clojure?

In a nutshell, I think that we do it to ourselves, and it is just a matter of time, before the current crop of "young" people turn into "old" people. Mental age does not correspond to physical age, but there is a correlation, and it would lend an appearance of ageism. The problem isn't one of age. The problem is close-mindedness, and you can pin that one on people regardless of age.
I'm not sure if this was sarcasm, or simple platitudes about open source, but this whole "contribute to make it better" is really a hit-and-miss affair. Best case scenario is that the code is clear, easy to update the UI, and the only reason it hasn't been done is because no one cares about the UI. That seems incredibly unlikely (the caring part - someone built it, maintains it, and will probably be upset if you "fix" it).

On other projects, you first get a huge range of code complexity/quality, making contributing perhaps simply not feasible. After that, you can run into all sorts of stuff. My real world experience:

"We won't take this because we use linked lists, not hashtables, because <original maintainer> likes linked lists."
"We won't fix this broken XML parser because this code is fast."
"Why did you fork and create those modules without telling us? That's really rude to all of us that spent so much time on this." (In response to an announcement a company had ported a project to another platform, and wanted feedback and was going to open all their work. They ended up just keeping it internally.)

And some of that is on projects that are actually very friendly otherwise and to which I've contributed large and successful pieces. (To those involved if you happen to read this: you already know my criticisms ;)).

In short, the whole "hey it's open so go fix it" is a rather trite simplification. It does not reflect the usual or even possible experience for the majority of users.
All three of our children have been very happy to fly. They seem to find the engine noise soothing when they're infants, and out 4-year-old loves machines, so he's been thrilled anytime we get on a plane anytime for the past few years.

That said, I'd be happy to be put in a "family friendly" part of the cabin, and leave other audibly sensitive travelers to their piece.

It surprises me how poorly airlines integrate lap infants into their booking process. Often with domestic carriers there's no way to indicate that you're bringing an infant with you until you get to the checkin counter. Seems like poor planning.
Could someone elaborate what for is such spying happening in the first place? What is it really needed for? What would happen without it?
Legal and ethical issues aside, if there are indeed excellent older people who are being passed over, then businesses have an opportunity.
Excellent point. But note that the business that finances, creates, produces, and distributes the entertainment has evolved enormously. Expect Internet to continue to disrupt many aspects of the business of entertainment.
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Indeed, I am thinking of open-sourcing the project so people can host it themselves if they like, while maybe retaining some extra functionality in the hosted version. It does mean that the benefit of easy installation will be negated for self-hosted installations, though.