skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always good to see cheaper hardware - our early 'proof of concept' hardware were based on an 'Arduino FIO' + 'XBee Pro' which came out to ~$60. Then quickly migrated to a TI MSP430 + CC2500(CC1100) which slashed the price to <$20 all told. We're now on the ARM M3/M4 SoC bandwagon as well. So I understand that angle.

I'm sorta curious as to what you plan on using the $80k for. Are you going to farm out PCB fabrication to OSHpark/China/whatever - or get a pick and place machine, CNC mill, and try to do everything inhouse?

Anyways, best of luck with the project.
Gotta admit that I wish the shift keys were on my thumbs too.
> So instead of a real design, I try to re-look at it and pass it around for advice and update it shortly after version releases.

Feedback and iteration are crucial parts of a real design process.

> (On the plus side, its nice switching contexts to something more artistically focused from time to time.)

Even visual designers spend a lot of their time doing analytical methodical development of grids, colors, and pixels. Art and aesthetics is only a small part of it.
I majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago and Spivak's Calculus was my first-year calculus textbook. It confirmed what I had long believed: what I was being taught in high school wasn't really mathematics.

The book might seem very alien at first, though.
This concept could be monetized quickly and perhaps in a big way if you can saas it to web apps whose users need help in real time, but have to use the old "support ticket" mechanisms and wait and hope that their ticket gets answered quickly.

If you package your technology such that it can be embedded into any web app that has this problem, the web app could then leverage its users (its customers) to help each other out in real time.

Just a thought :-)
Well a sufficiently complex framework could deal with it, by making another trip to the server if it discovers the code being sent down the first time isn't good enough.
Ask HN: Any good readings about marketing and building a following on Twitter?
I'm looking to build a new product, and want to build a following on Twitter before launch. Any good readings on this topic? Any good tools to know about?
Not if you use it in the WAL mode.
is this going to appear on github at some stage?
I actually don't mind the Weather page. Looks pretty, though I'd never use it since I almost never need to go weather sites.

The bigger issue to me is none of these sites are particularly responsive. They all have a huge background but small areas for content and huge waste of space on larger monitors. To be honest, I think should've had a bolder re-design with a greater emphasis on editorialization instead of a standardized layout across sections.
Although this is subjective, the kinesis advantage keyboard has really helped me better deal with my RSI; it has clusters of keys under each thumb and is fully programmable so I am able to move problem keys around (for me pinky keys are quite uncomfortable).

For me shift, space, backspace, tab, win, ctrl, alt, esc and enter are all thumb operations.

However I wouldn't go as far as saying it has solved my RSI, but it is definitely part of the solution that allows me to program 40+ hours a week (more like 50-60, 40 hour week professional + hobby programming).

FWIW the other parts include regular exercise, alternating mouse hands and using a trackball on my 'off hand', and a keyboard-heavy system (vim, dwm, etc.).
Scala Lists Part 2
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/26/scala-lists-part-2/ . This includes some interesting problems with the scala lists.
In addition to this, standing barefoot while coding.
Yahoo's entire strategy revolves around the idea that peoples' tastes and habits change over time, but that content is perennial and not even close to the point of saturation.

I'm not saying there aren't people for whom this strategy doesn't apply -- some call them the "Oh, I don't own a television" crowd -- but it's certainly not just a generational thing.
Have we heard any government officials calling for any drastic attack on your civil liberties yet?

If you think people can't make the difference between the SEA and people who browse reddit and privacy activists, then you're setting the bar pretty low for the intelligence of the population. Especially considering people are getting more and more informed

Your need for a conspiracy seems pretty great
This is especially true when you look at how fractured and ill-defined "person supporting the Syrians" is.
> "you can extend this argument and eventually conclude it's no-one's problem."

Not really... it is undebatably the "government's problem" (certainly local/city, perhaps state and federal). Furthermore, it is the problem of any organization that has 'helping the homeless' in their mission statement, of which there are many.
So not sure what to say, but this is the email I received from DynEct the other day:
subject: Webinar Wednesday: Are You Prepared For DNS Disaster?
sender: Dyn hello@dyn.com via dynect-mailer.net

and some info from my old whois:
$ whois twitter.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Server Name: TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
IP Address: 209.126.190.71
Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com

Domain Name: TWITTER.COM
Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Whois Server: whois.melbourneit.com
Referral URL: http://www.melbourneit.com
Name Server: NS1.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS2.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS3.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS4.P34.DYNECT.NET
I just caught the addition of disputed next to GoT. If this was wikipedia I would suggest changing disputed to WP:FRINGE
I was confused at first but I realized I was looking at the scroll wheel surrounded by mouse buttons. Cursor movement is done with the "bar" above the buttons/scroll wheel. Move left/right in a finite lateral motion or up/down in an infinite scroll motion.
See this is why it's a great conspiracy theory. Parts of the attack that are well executed are used as proof that the powerful US Gov't is behind it. Parts that are poorly executed are obviously put there on purpose and thus also proof that the powerful US Gov't is behind it.
Also there's a lot of good-value Chinese mechanical keyboard imports (like the unbeatable Choc Mini).

NB one of the things you're paying for with the CODE is decent integration, I'm sure. I do have to USB->PS2->USB this Choc Mini keyboard to work with OSX (seriously!). It works fine though!
Seems to me that melbourneit.com was the cause of these problems - that is the related link between all these different problems - basically poisoning the DNS of any popular company that uses them.
Create hashtags for Facebook. Then create the Hashtags killer.
Show HN: A great way to make videos for driving customer engagement with brands
You mean ll two of them? Yeah, and they were simply part of the story. Grow a backbonejs already. (see what I did there?)

In that case I suggest you stay away from most literature, film, and the humanities in general.
And here I thought immigrants did. Silly me, forgetting to thank our corporate overlords.
I'm imagining a crowd somewhat like reddit, yet older, more mature.
<img intent in-standard-src="med.png" in-mobile-src="small.png" />

Why not <img intent src="med.png" in-mobile-src="small.png" />?
What are you talking about? I am not even sure what you think constitutes "plugging his new company." Mentioning that he is moving on to focus on his new company is hardly a plug. He does not even say "I am moving on to my new company, Farsight...", you have to get to his .sig to even find the name.

I cannot imagine anyone in such a high profile position writing that announcement without including a "what is next."
Be careful or LayerVault might sue you over that Present icon.
You don't really have to choose between a standing or sitting desk nor spend a ton of money on a motorized desk. Just get or build a standing height table and buy a drafting stool:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

You can sit and you can stand. And, you get lots of permanent room under the table that you would not have if the table was adjustable. I did one of our labs this way and it was fantastic.
Interesting this should come up just now. My (human solution) electric base arrives in 2 days. I bought a finished piece of birch marine plywood for the top. Total cost $674 plus a little elbow grease to trim to size and sand. :D

It does seem ridiculously expensive for a motor to drive the desktop up and down. But I'm trying to fix a shoulder injury that seems to have gone chronic. We shall see...
Why does a desk need to lift 300 lbs? Seems like a ridiculous requirement.
Thanks for reminding me of the Choc Mini. They look very nice.
This isn't true.

Adobe's suite isn't just 'user experience'. It's functionality.

Show me an open source alternative to Premiere, or After Effects, or even easier: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Edge.

I bet for any open source alternative you find, I can show you a huge set of features that everyone uses, that it doesn't have.
For the record, this is sadly one of the reasons I don't hang out there more. I can deal with bikeshedding and organizational issues, but the threat of bedbugs/violence are not things I am super interested in.

I do go there specifically to meet up with people, and I do occasionally hang out on the FreeNode IRC channel, but thats about it these days.

I still love the concept of Noisebridge and it needs to exist, but I am not really a participant there right now.
I really wouldn't call this "real" engineering. As a mechanical engineer it really sounds like they literally threw it together and hoped it fit after they tested the motors "...models were assembled together in the CAD software to check for fit, clearance, and interference." I saw no mention of fatigue analysis or FEA, both are now days required for "real" mechanical engineering. Without that just cross your fingers the motors don't fall off after 1000 miles. Other than that it is pretty comprehensive.
Well, the "attacking multiple sites at once" is trivial. The "compromising a major registry" is at least supposed to be kinda hard.
Is the redirect loop affecting your personal website the government's fault too?
Couldn't they do this with any of the sites that they modify? That's what I am sort of wondering about, sure you could redirect the homepage to something dumb, and make it really obvious that the site has been attacked. But, it seems like they could have similarly done a man-in-the-middle and sucked up tons of data silently, without throwing up any big red flags.
Notes on traveling alone as a woman in India
They are two entirely different things in my opinion. Yahoo! is attempting to undergo a re-brand and Google is not.
If you use PIA our Windows (and OSX) app has a feature (on by default) which blocks IPv6 while you're on the VPN.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/#...
If you aren't either visiting Yahoo daily or check the email daily, you are the minority.
Chip daddy: Moore's Law is about to be repealed, but don't blame physics
Is this not obvious to everyone else as it is to me?

Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.

If these "hackers" taking down social media sites and NYT times were actually the Syrian government

The thing is, nobody thinks the SEA is part of the Syrian government, any more than the Irish Republican Army was part of the Irish government. It's just a name the group have adopted to show their affiliation and make themselves feel badass.
The end of last year, I had a microdiscectomy for a severely ruptured disc. L5/S1.

Soon thereafter, I made the switch to the standing desk via the $22 IKEA standing desk.

It's been great. Don't get me wrong, the first couple weeks sucked. Feet hurt, legs ached but eventually I adjusted. A fatigue mat helps, sometimes a wear shoes or padded sandles, sometimes barefoot.

I can't go back.

In fact, I tried to switch back, couldn't do it. Did it for a week, switched back to the standing desk.

I keep a fairly tall stool nearby, sometimes you just gotta take a load off, but its great.

Fortunately I work from home, however I might be in trouble if I have to find a new job.

I recommend giving it a shot if you've considered it. $22 is a pretty low price to pay. And if those anti-sedentary guys are right, maybe you'll live longer!
It's worth mentioning that, unlike Cuba, Libya is a wealthy country by at least some yardsticks - it has significant oil money and has used at least some of that money to improve the average standard of living.
I just checked, and it turns out I'm using Vixie Cron -- I just hadn't noticed it because it's never been a problem.

That being the case, it would be rude of me not to wish him the best of luck in whatever he does next.
http://xkcd.com/932/

Ya, not so much.
Perhaps the "best pizza ad format" works with web, we may have to leave out our assumptions because only tech savvy individuals speak of white space, spacing, kerning, and all that other stuff. Frankly many people do not even know the difference between IE and the Internet and a browser?

Edit: If you built a browser aimed at the masses you should just title it "The Newest Internet" or "Get a Faster and More Secured Internet," rather than "Faster and More Secured Browser."
I've got an adjustable desk and I'm quite happy with it. I tend to alternate an hour standing with an hour sitting. I concur that when I'm standing, I'm a lot more likely to move around, e.g. to get a drink of water or use the toilet.
Can some explain like I'm 5 the tradeoffs between Go/Scala/JS[node.js]? I've been googlin', and there aren't enough articles that compare and contrast the three.
Attacking the NYT tells me you just want attention. There are many much higher-value non-government targets who hacking would seriously worry me.
I had the same problem and solved it by switching the mouse to my left hand. It was awkward at first but then I got used to it.

I move my left hand about three inches to get the mouse. With my right hand (using the old MS split keyboard) it was nearly a foot!
I've got to be honest, this thing is making me want to upgrade my CMStorm Quickfire. It really is the little details that I can appreciate, like backlighting, dip switches, the different layout for the function keys and the possible weaponization via steel backplate. I somehow feel better knowing I can defend myself with my keyboard. :D

I see the code keyboard as filling a void in the mechanical keyboard market between filco/wasd/cmstorm and happy hacker in terms of configurability and simplicity.
Once your vpn is established do you post to HN, inject SQL, download torrents, or is there something else exciting to do? I'm not in a fraternity (or sorority) so that's out.
Has anyone ordered anything like this from alibaba? Just wondering if it was legit.
FWIW I type on a mechanical keyboard daily (cherry mx browns) but I am not a fan of the model m keys (buckling springs or rubber dome IIRC), they are very different in feeling.

My Thinkpad x1 carbon keyboard comes next, scissor switches can be quite nice.
I appreciate the minimalism of flat UI, but I do feel the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction.

Microsoft is the worst culprit here - presenting a text block containing some hyperlinks, but the text is all styled identically so you have to hover the mouse over a word to notice the link. WTF?

Sure, let's keep things clean and minimal, but there needs to be some kind of basic visual language that indicates "this bit is interactive, and this other bit is static content".

Somewhere, Jakob Nielsen is having an aneurysm.
Well, if it makes you feel better, the new code keyboard also uses Cherry switches, so they may hit the same issues. AFAIK cherry's the only mechanical switch key maker left.
This is crackpot conspiracy theory stated as fact.

It's not crackpot, though it's slightly inaccurate. The Federal Reserve is established by Congress and its chairman appointed by the President. It's otherwise somewhat independent, is part public and part private, but might be considered a de facto fourth branch of the government.

And among its remits are to manage the long-term inflation rate through open-market transactions (buying and selling treasury bills).

You pretty much allude to that -- how could you have a target inflation rate ... without some means of aiming for and hitting that target.

Now, the question of how effective monetary (and fiscal) policy are in actually affecting long-term economic growth is a whole 'nother barrel of tadpoles. I subscribe to the thermoeconomic / biophysical economic heterodoxies (very strongly influenced by ecology) which say that the cheapness (which is to say, ease of access) and abundance (flow rate) of energy are principle.
No, the attack target was almost certainly sites like the NY Times and Twitter. The attack vector was the domain registrar you refer to. It seems very unlikely that the target was Melbourne IT per se. You see how many of us hadn't even heard of them -- hardly a high-impact target.
The transparency and non-scrolling BG image reminds me of myspace pages.
For the economic downturn that happened five years ago. The fact that we still need "stimulus" is itself a pretty powerful argument against its effectiveness. Our new economic innovation, making sure the economy stays down as long as our incredible sluggishness in "stimulus".
Yes, it's Noisebridge's problem, as well as everyone's problem: homelessness is a moral stain on our society.

But letting homeless people into Noisebridge to sleep, eat, and dispose of bodily waste is not a solution to the problem of homelessness. It just turns Noisebridge into an outpost of the Tenderloin. No one wants to work in that kind of environment, and suddenly the central justification for Noisebridge's existence would have been put aside to build an inadequate homeless shelter for the month or two before dues-money runs out and the space is closed up.

Building up communities isn't magic. It takes work, bonds of trust, responsibility, and more work. The resources used to build up an institution can't be deployed willy-nilly. Organizations centrally devoted to homelessness don't take the naive solution of letting homeless people sleep in all their offices and bedrooms: it's not only pointless but would destroy the organization. Why should Noisebridge sap its own capabilities to deal with problems that it's well-suited for solving in favor of doing something no homeless advocate would suggest?
I wonder what sort of grade it can climb, and how far. As a "last mile" vehicle this looks quite promising but for me the "last mile" of my commute is my entire commute (well, two miles), and it is straight up a hill.

Eh, walking is probably good for me...
> Like the author said, you can't teach teaching.

Yes you can. I mean sure there is an explanatory gap with things like empathy and identifying scaffolding opportunities. But that just means you can't teach ALL of teaching with a book, experience and guidance is also required.

> I'm talking about a digital tutor with infinite patience...

One that can empathise with a students particular background/learning style and understand what might work to convey a novel concept better?

> People say you need real teachers, you need the human touch, but if the average teacher sucks (and they do), then I'd rather be taught by software.

It's not about the human touch. It's about empathy, and expert diagnosis of learning conditions, which the worst teacher does a better job of than the best computer/software. Just because most of our teachers suck doesn't mean software is the better solution. Better teachers are the solution, perhaps that is better education for teachers, or perhaps it's more communication from the realm of pedegogy down to the teaching curriculum that teachers are taught from.

Software can assist teachers, and can even replace certain aspects of teaching. But you will leave a lot of students behind if you try to replace teachers completely.
1. Darwin was pre-DNA. His guesses on the mechanisms of evolution aren't very relevant to the modern understanding.

2. Darwin was not infallible. We pick our scientific heroes because of their ability to advance science, to see farther than others, and be remarkably right given the information they had. Our heroes were still wrong about a lot of things, both outside there areas of expertise and inside their areas of expertise. For instance, Newton was the foremost expert on light of the day, and advanced our understanding of optics greatly, but he thought it was a particle. He was wrong, and we do him no honor by believing it a particle in his name.
Substituting "human brain" for "cockroach antenna" seems rather groundbreaking, but I wonder if the FDA approves.
Most apps where you would be concerned with downtime have load balancers in front of them. This isn't burning fire you make out because you can pull one app server out of the pool, restart and then put it back in once it is restarted. We do this by using keepalived and renaming a chk.txt file in the root.
Hey HN, I am the webdev for Vimily and I would love some feedback for our new site. Ill be here to answer any questions you might have.

Thanks!
The problem with Mark Dreyfus is; as Attorney General his Ministerial portfolio includes managing ASIO and responsibility for leading legislation on Human Rights. Quite a conflict of interest and as the Government's chief legal officer he's the last person to defend the peoples' rights against Government.

EDIT: grammar
Workfit is a great option that's easy to use when standing and sitting. It attaches to an existing table. It allows for two monitors and a keyboard at a nice height when standing and sitting.

http://www.amazon.com/Ergotron-WorkFit-S-33-341-200-Sit-Stan...
Another way of looking at it: target one decently sized registrar and you'll get a handful of important sites. This isn't big news.
Do you want to go through a two-factor challenge every time a single file is synchronised?
The problem with drafting chairs is tall people. I have yet to find one in the 45-50" maximum seat height range suitable for people 6 ft or taller. (Most drafting chairs extend to around 40" seat height, which is way too low for a tall person)
I think embeddable mode is more realistic than single file since the single user mode used by for example pg_upgrade is quite close to that. Some features are missing though for wide use.
So clearly the answer is: you can remain anonymous, so long as you pay tax on your income.

So if you're reasonably careful you can earn an income on bitcoin and spend it in bitcoin, you just have to issue payment to the IRS for (.25 * income_in_BTC) otherwise they go after you and aggressively deanonymize you and hit you with a bill for (.9 * income_in_BTC). And the IRS really doesn't care if you're using your share to buy weed on Silk Road; they only care that you're not contributing your fair share.

Bonus: We get to tax income of non-US-Citizens ( benefits of empire ).
In the real world, when you talk to people (serious Business People doing Business Things), they'll spout of gems of "can you send it to me in Adobe?" or "hey, is Adobe on this machine?"

I'm not too worried about exploits in After Effects or Lightroom.

Adobe = "pdf reader" to almost every computer user in the world. Adobe even took PDF out of their product name to just call it "Adobe Reader." (More appropriate name: Adobe Helps Hackers Slurp All Your Data Away ... Reader)

With Windows + Office + IE + Adobe Reader, you'll be safer just sending the bad guys your corporate secrets directly. It'll save you the shock of when you discover for the past six months all your data has been round robin copied to BIRC.
They can also prevent programmers from making a certain subset of good programs. This is less useful.
Oh sorry, I just meant California.