skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can objectively say that physical feedback really enhances the touchscreen experience.

Well, no. You can subjectively say that using hallucinogens enhances your touchscreen experience.

Edit: I'll elaborate a bit as I'm not trying to be snarky. Given that you took mind altering substances, it's impossible to separate your memory of the perception of the feedback from the chemical experience you had. However real something seemed - that something being both the haptic feedback in the UI, and your memory of the 'goodness' of it - it's the result of a hallucination. You may remember the UI being really fantastic, but that's because that's what you hallucinated. It's not that different from, say, a pot smoker's paranoia: the scratching outside is the wind blowing leaves against the house, not a SWAT team propping ladders up. Doesn't change what you imagined.
* new Android OS imminent

* Google teams up with morally bankrupt (IMO) company

* weird scrolling/animation navigation device becoming mainstream

* first ever sponsored OS?

lots to dicsuss
From my experience of meeting US citzens, even outside North America, it's fairly normal to get something like "Ohio", "Pensilvania" or "Wisconsin" when asking where they come from, as if I'd _of course_ know where those places are (I do).
The first time someone wanted to hire me was even before I started college.
"so how much will you bill me?"
"Well right now I get 7€ (9.2$ at current rate) for unloding trucks ..." He interupted me before I could finish the sentence and demand 8€.
"I can not pay you 7€! taht is just to much!"

Sooooo I declined but someone took the job ... for under 8$ an hour.

How much quality can you expect for that price???
[I'm not sure how a website that on its face seems to perpetuate the culturally normalized obsession with appearance and thus supposed sexual compatibility and success as the highest determinant of evaluating potential and real relationships, provides a service that "turns dating upside down," but]

The idea of mutual trust is dubious at best. What prevents two parties from conspiring in advance so that a third is tricked into believing things that are not true? I will say this: the majority of rapes and sexual assaults are committed by those who are very close to the victim, not by strangers -- and the rapist believes what they are doing is "sex".
KitKat just re-defined what a "tablet" means for me.
Why is this special? What a horrid user-experience trying to actually get to the game though.

Everyone wanting to be wowed by webGL can go browse the latest crop of Ludum Dare entries instead.
I think this suit is a bit silly (since the suit is about users replicating the playlists, not Spotify), but I feel the need to harp on your comment about "innovation" a bit.

At the end of the day, whatever "innovation" happens with companies like Youtube or Spotify, they make their money selling someone else's creative works. Spotify could have the most innovative, awesome platform ever, and nobody would use it without the library of content provided by the "old school media companies." Indeed, in a way the Viacom lawsuit was a great thing for Youtube, because it helped pave the way for companies using it as a platform to deliver quality content instead of just being a host for cat videos.

So while I think it's true that the old school media companies need to embrace new technology, at the same time I think new school media technology companies need to accept that their sole revenue source is derived not from their "innovation" but other peoples' hard work. Those people that are creating the actual product will be justifiably protective of how media technology companies use their work.
Or a city in the District of Columbia other than Washington.
Nice data! However, I'd love to understand the relationship between those attributes and quality of employee. Perhaps a government funded study where you select 100 resumes at random and hire all of them for 6 months? Piece of cake.
It is doing pretty well. Heard that at its current growth rate, it will reach 1 billion files uploaded by december.

Sync apps on android is already launched. iOS and desktop client coming soon. They have launched an SDK which helps developers build apps based on Mega storage layer.
I know it's possible, but I honestly don't know how to copy between instances of vi without it. This has been a huge convenience for me and I'm glad they are keeping it.
I'm not sure that's the right term. Parallax refers to two or more planes moving at different speeds to give the illusion of depth.
The Myth of the STEM Shortage, In Detail
"tomo no tomo" is roughly "friends of friends" in Japanese - so I guess thats what they were going for. It is a bit of a mouthful, though.
@"^[^@]{1,}[@]{1}[^@]{1,}\.{1}[^@]{1,}$"

I check it with this RegEx to make sure it's in the right format of [string]@[string].[string] to make sure that user at least tries to enter an email address, but beyond that sending and email and getting a response is the only way.
An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant (2008)
There was an article on The Verge yesterday about the Google/Nestlé thing. They said no money changed hands.
Founder of Bitcoin Exchange Berlin, gives a live interview 7pm CEST
3d print or CNC? Most furniture is CNC built these days unless it's an ultra 1-off craftsman piece. It's pretty neat what CNC machines can do on wood. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxq3piGChg4
Fuck you cunt.
We didn't adjust for native vs. non-native speakers. Despite that, we did end up hiring several people from outside the U.S.

In general, I think native and non-native speakers should be held to the same communication bar. No one is demanding perfection, but it's important to be able to get ideas across without noise. Moreover, and I think some commenters mentioned this below, a resume isn't written on the fly. Ideally, someone should be self-aware enough to know that grammar/spelling isn't their strong suit, whether they're a native speaker or not, and that should inform whether they opt to have it proofread.
> This is fine on quiet roads, but doesn't work in busy cities.

I guess I can claim to have lived in Shanghai for a span of (not many) years, and I have to dispute this. People will just walk out into the middle of a busy street, making lane-by-lane progress much like Frogger if they have to. They do it because the only real alternative is not crossing the street at all. When I was working at an international school here, it was common (and, in my view, completely justified) for new arrivals to want help crossing the street. But the fatality rate is quite low. ;)
It seems traffic planners don't care about pedestrians.

You got that right. I walk 4+ miles/day on city streets and I've noticed a steady erosion of rules designed to make pedestrian life safer and easier. What you mentioned above and this:

In addition to lights which are timed to not give a "go" signal to pedestrians unless they push the button, I've run across one that will make you wait until the next cycle unless you press it before the current cycle begins. That is, I push it a second after I would have gotten the "go" signal and I have to wait an entire cycle before it actually tells me to walk. The effect of this? I go anyway, but because the cycle without pedestrians is shorted this is quite dangerous.

Here's another trending in my city: buildings which sit directly on streets with parking lots that empty onto streets having their own lights, have separate lights for pedestrians to regulate them while on the sidewalk. So, you're walking down the sidewalk, no where near an intersection and a car comes out of a "driveway" at 20+ miles/hour. Freaked me out the first time this happened. I could have easily been killed as the car was just a few feet from me.

My guess: some city planner was paid off to allow this completely unsafe situation.
This is against my annotation guidelines, so it's a sneaky case that slipped through. I'll make a note to review the Portuguese samples -- thanks!
If it will make you feel better, you could tell me the link and I'll check it out.
Some suggestions on how to improve your site.

1. Replace that stock photo with something less rigid and fake looking. Stocksy is a good resource.[1]

2. Change the h1 and body fonts. It looks good on the company name but not elsewhere. Any good looking sans serif that isn't helvetica.

3. Change "boys and girls" to "men and women". The former implies that they are under 18 or generally young which shouldn't be the case for a (legal) dating site AFAIK.

4. On the third feature, "looks cute/handsome" doesn't really make sense, so change that. Perhaps "no risk".

5. Change "safe friendly trust" on the pink image overlay. Make the third word an adjective or adverb to match the other words.

[1]http://www.stocksy.com/

EDIT: danso's comment covers this better, read that
Procedurally generated
I found an interesting figure [1] for those of us who could name a few, but are not as well versed in the geography of Britain. It compares British cities to similar European cities by population. The scale is unnecessarily skewed, though.

[1] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/resources/figure1_tcm77-259156.png
He probably wanted to pad the stats.
except for a couple of days ago when MegaPWN[1] came to light

[1] http://nzkoz.github.io/MegaPWN/
I think, if anyone was still labouring under the intention that Google was somehow morally 'above' other companies, this is pretty much the death-knell. If I'm being very optimistic / fair to Google, I'd hope that it was a Google US decision and they don't fully comprehend the feeling towards Nestle in the UK. Maybe this leaves a void for a 'good' technology company to spring up.
Good luck with the idea and I believe there's market for that. It will definitely help a certain category of people. But some other people will quickly say they don't like it because they don't want to date friends of their friends. It all depends on the particular person.

I love tomonotomo and actually I have a similar web site for job search/recruitment through connections discussed here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327275
Impressive HTML5 video usage on Powder Mag: The town
was i the only one that found that the kitkat site performed well, while the android one stuttered?
I've created dating apps and I learned the market is totally won by a few big companies. I could never overcome the chicken & egg problem. Not knowing anything about your project, I would have to honestly say the 80k people on there is probably a frivolous claim. You may have scraped some other site and put that many bogus profiles on there.

I suppose any other dating sites that break through will be based on extremely simple ideas with elegant or new user interfaces. For example, How About We is an extremely simple idea. The concept of dating friends of friends was already tried several times. The last time I heard of it it was being done by circl.es. I would suggest trying something that is really unique that nobody has ever heard of which would help you break out. I hate to say it but one of the other stories in the last year that was a break out story was Ms. Travel. Try to package what you're doing in a really crazy way. I hacked together a crazy photosheet interface that I've never seen before and it just wouldn't catch. Trying to think of any other thing I could think of which nobody has done, I tried the idea of online dating via the unix command line. That did get me some exposure but certainly not enough to get the wheels of traction turning.

For what it's worth, here's a story that came out on Jezebel.com about my project at the time (which I shut off after a couple of weeks after this article came out).

http://jezebel.com/5934969/new-techy-online-dating-site-is-u...

Good luck w your project!
Probably easier to just treat it like a stop sign rather than actually getting out of your car if there's no other traffic.
Interesting that a "virtual speaker set" won over higher-order Ambisonics (representing incoming audio as spherical harmonics). I wonder if it just boils down to easier engineering.
Also, what happens if the user swaps the order of two tracks? Or adds an additional track to the end? How close does a users playlist have to be to the copyrighted one?
Bret Victor's always spot on.

I see it differently though. Touchscreens are interfaces to something so fundamentally abstract (data presentation/manipulation) that it's hard for it to be less ethereal than images that change on a display. Touchscreens just factored away the mouse/keyboard.

The next information-driven interfaces will, most likely, be something that you don't even interact with your hands (retina image? voice recognition? brain-computer interfaces?) than some sort of screen with tactile feedback. Physical interaction will be limited to tools which map to tasks in the physical realm.
Who is selecting who for survival? Also, working hard in the fields is not bad for your health. Sitting on your ass for 8 hours is bad for your health - maybe you can compensate by going to the gym, but most don't... anyways, the point i was trying to make is that the future will be shaped the way we want it to be shaped.
Kimble's going into politics? That's going to be fun, he's predestined for a job where he can bullshit as much as possible.
There will never be another Nokia Smartphone
I don't know what the author's real motives were

She did explain a motive right at the start of the article, that of seeing how well known Manchester was.
Basically, you should plan you old age ahead of the time.

You will lose your muscle tissue with the age and it will happen pretty fast.

As the heart is also a muscle tissue, your heart will degrade.

The muscle tissue can be considered a separate organ of the human body. It's purpose to make sure every other organ is working properly, basically. Not on the "control" level which is what brain does, but on "demand is on this" signal that goes to brain. Your body is evolutionary constructed to support muscles and brain. If you do something we did through our evolutionary process, your muscles adapt (and other functions follows) and your brain grow stronger.

Training muscle makes body to produce excess BDNF hormone (brain-derived neurotrophic factor). The level of BDNF hormone after resistance exercise is about 40% higher than in rest, and it then promptly goes lower to also about to 40% of the rest condition (indicating quick utilization).

This is just an example of evolutionary protection of the brain.

Training muscle makes your character better. No, really, it is better than toning exercise: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20101012

The aerobic exercise has shown to provide cognitive benefits for older age (and even young age, there's correlation between university grades and physical activity). But, if you want to be very enduring, you have to do heavy resistance training: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914932

And last, but not least.

Man and women have about the same mechanisms regarding erotic arousal. The venous blood goes into cave bodies in penis or clitoris and veins at exit are (partially) blocked by special muscles. Cialis, for example, blocks destruction of special agent that reacts to nitric oxide in the venous blood and makes those special muscles to contract, blocking the blood. The side signal of protein synthesis is the higher level of NO in the blood. Higher NO level makes more probable the reaction that produces arousal, thus makes the sexual arousal more probable (or more stable). Protein synthesis occurs after muscle training sessions. So, if you want a healthy sex life, you better do weight training.

To conclude, let me say that higher NO level makes you ligaments stronger by providing you with the best muscle tissue enlarging program: http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_II.html (see "utilizing lactic acid") And also see this: http://www.nutritionexpress.com/showarticle.aspx?articleid=2... (regarding brain functions and relation between NO and lactic acid)
Not really, no. I've found resumes to be terribly poor indicators of hiring suitability, and so I end up conducting brief first-round phone screens with most at-least-slightly-suitable candidates.

This correlates well with the article here, as it turns out that resumes were more useful as a writing sample assessment than a work experience assessment to this company.
That's the difference though isn't it? Come to glasgow and hear the intensely rhotic pronunciation of "or" and compare to "awe" which has no R at all. The two words sound very different.

"burger" in much of the UK is completely rhotic, with both R's intensely rolled, while in other parts it is more like buhguh. Really sounds quite distinct to my ears.
I believe they have one: http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/clojure/
The name is awful, sorry. Too hard to pronounce / understand and certainly not worth the trouble since it doesn't convey meaning.

The color scheme is ugly. I like the gradual change over the name on mouseover but purple to yellow through brown is not the most appealing... That being said the layout is good.

I'm not sure I understand the value. Friends of friends are the easiest people to meet / hookup with already. The purpose of online dating sites is to meet strangers you don't already have an in with. Is there really a problem there that needs solving?

The passive cute / not cute thing sounds interesting. Maybe make that the focus? That's something that isn't already built into Facebook and would definitely solve the problem of some awkwardness.
I think there are more men that women in some parts of the world or in certain cultures only. In my ethnic group there are way more women than men, and due to the demands of our culture we tend to marry into our own quite a bit (but could still benefit from a site like this)
When you are on ebay or Chinese sites and you see flash drives and SD cards for really cheap...they are fake.

Those cheap ADATA cards are fake even if the packaging looks good.
And that's certainly bad, but Nestle have carried out about 10 other known immoral practises in their history, including the use of child slave labour, so they pretty much 'win' that one hands down.
You might want to give the guideleines a read: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a common for people to default to "he" as when they do not know the gender of the person in question.

It says "by Stacy" at the top of the article and there's a picture of her next to it. Being unsure of the authorship after reading it would seem lazy at best.
On NaCl I partially agree and partially disagree. While it's true that the sandboxing is only necessary due to insufficiently flexible kernels, imo the most interesting part of NaCl and asm.js is their use of a portable bytecode that compiles into native code. Portability really is necessary - CPU architectures don't change that often, but if people started distributing websites as native code a decade ago, none of them would have envisioned that a large portion of web browsing is now done on ARM based devices. Yet you cannot make a fast portable JIT. You say that JavaScript doesn't need to be fast, but it's really nice to have a high-level, dynamic language that still runs fast - in fact, it was compelling enough to be one factor in the success of JavaScript on the server, despite the language's weaknesses.

However, there's no reason JavaScript (or some suitably compatible dynamic-language bytecode) JIT couldn't be provided as a fundamental API in addition to the static compiler. Yeah, it doesn't feel like a clean architecture when you want to use Python or Lisp and it almost translates neatly to that bytecode but with little runtime differences that end up adding a lot of overhead... but it's better than nothing.

I think that your hypothetical arrangement would be very cool. I'm not sure that it would actually be better than what we have - for example, writing a screen reader would likely be a nightmare if some random webpage might be using a browser library that didn't support it; good luck implementing anything like user scripts/custom CSS, scrapers, Readability, magic text reflow for iPhones, smooth zooming, etc. Good luck doing something like the transition to hardware accelerated rendering browsers did a few years ago (sure, you could only support it for new sites, but as is I get smooth scrolling for all sites). And since different engines would now be very fundamentally different rather than the usually relatively thin layers over HTML that are currently popular, developers would have to spend more time learning different APIs. If some engine stopped being maintained, then it would be very difficult to retrofit websites that use it to support the newest features. Et cetera. Meanwhile, these days browsers move pretty damn fast, lessening the advantage of non-standardized development - and many new APIs are hooks to the OS anyway, not things that UI layers could implement on their own.

But it would be cool. I don't mean to be too negative: there would be a lot of advantages, and it would be interesting to try out.

I suppose it might happen. PNaCl and asm.js are soon going to be supported in two of the most popular browsers; alternatively, if JS engines get good enough that specific support for asm.js isn't required to achieve performance for low-level code (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=860923), with the competitiveness all major browsers already have on JS speed, the latter will be "supported" everywhere on short notice. It might not be that long until the first serious attempt to make an alternative UI stack for browsers...
I found this in our codebase the other day:

// BEGIN VALIDATION CONDITION
// Would you like some sauce with your spaghetti?
Heh. It depends. For my lifestyle, it fits perfectly. Living in large cities or places where waiting in line is a frequent occurrence drives my blood pressure up. I'm only about an hour and a half from Austin if I want anything trendy (and my wristbands for ACL just arrived!); everything else comes in by Amazon.
> Trust and Privacy are two sides of the same coin and both are sub-optimal in dating websites because the way they are seeded

But the Terms page says:

> We may get additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. We might sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
What a shame to have to surrender your baby to fight a group of bad actors causing a bureaucratic nightmare on the other side of the world.