skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no evidence of hard work in this page. It's a marketing video.

I can make the same claims as them. Worse, projects with catchy colors and no substance are submitted to HN all the time.

Maybe they actually worked hard and developed a good product. But I'll believe it when I see it. HN is a playground for every marketing guy hoping to raise developer hype about his doubtful product. Why should I give anyone the benefit of doubt ?

(And even then, hard work doesn't automatically mean what you do is good or noteworthy.)
Or it might be developed by the same guys who were doing demo scene then.

Either way, I'd like to wait and see that one in action - really like the idea.
I have to agree about the World Service. It made me so very cross when I heard they were cutting the funding! Having listened to the Africa Daily for a few months, I was convinced that it was the only robust news source for so many people. (robust = willing to interview relevant politicians with real, tough questions.)

I may be wrong, but it is still an enormous asset, worth saving and/or reviving one day.
I have avoided many a flamewar in this manner
I guess you can start talking about unfair genetic advantages when you have zero doping...

Also I don't believe it matters at the top level. Even with high heritabilities, the top performers will probably share the same "genetic" advantages.
So the only thing clear from the comments is that the folks behind this are going to have to work on their communication game. The video was obviously created to tease the product a bit, which is hard when nobody knows exactly what thye're looking at, but even when I went to sign up for updates I see:

"We will send you a maximum amount of spam as soon as possible."
Nothing is sane, just more or less functional and workable. The web seems to be ticking on just fine. There are problems, but also a lot of development.

HTML is designed for more or less static content, but the DOM itself seems well adapted for dynamic content. Since it comes out of a tradition of streaming over slow connections, it's made to be dynamically rendered. The content layout is flexible and somewhat intuitive.

Compared to something like Swing or Cocoa, the only drawback seems to be the paucity of widgets -- we basically just have basic inputs and scroll bars, the rest is app-specific. But that also brings a certain flexibility. I think an update to the table element would be great, perhaps with support for streaming data and more flexible layout.
South L.A. student finds a different world at Berkeley
Fire. That's something of a cliché answer, so here's my reasoning:

First of all, you probably don't interact with a bare fire on a daily basis. Most of the functions that fire used to serve have been replaced by electricity based solutions.

The heat of fire is a cheap and easy (compared to waiting for a lightning bolt to hit) way to cook food. Cooking of course opens a lot of possibilities in the realm of what's edible. How often do you eat raw meat?

Fire can be used to heat spaces, allowing people to live where it's cold.

Fire let's you light up dark spaces, it's a primitive sort of night vision.

Fire wards off predators, making it safer to sleep at night. (There was a time when large animals dangerous to humans weren't nearly extinct.)

Fire is a decent tool for clearing land.

Fire is used as part of a key step in tons of early manufacturing processes, including smoking foods, brewing alcohol, etc. (Both of those are methods of preserving foods that are cheaper than using salt. Which you can get by boiling sea water, to add another use.)

But really, that's just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to all of those things, Fire was (to my knowledge) the only way to generate enough heat to smelt ore, a process that should require no explanation as to its importance.
Can someone rewrite this article in Go?
> Often even if I say I did not understood, I'll get the same sentence repeated the same at speed of light.

I'm a native English speaker and I don't understand why people do this. If you are trying to have a conversation with someone, surely you want to do what is necessary for everyone to be understood as well as possible. It is only a little effort for you to slow down and simplify your speech, but it is impossible for the other person to learn better English on the spot. I lived in Hong Kong for a while and some US/UK people still wouldn't adapt their accent, even though the locals were humouring them by speaking English to them in the first place.

Perhaps it is easier for me to empathise given I have a (now very mild) Yorkshire accent, which was consistently mocked when I moved to London, and is reasonably slow paced anyway.
I just wanne know one thing:
Will this work with older Browser?
and with older browser i mean the browser we have right now.
How hard will it be to adapt Browser vendors? or can i run it ontop like google chrome frame ?
I'm 23 and a native Australian English speaker and I still run into this problem for the same reason.
Very cool. This is exactly the type of book I was looking for ideas on how to better describe my current situation and for ideas on where to go next.
BTW we still have a Call for Lightning Talks open: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dENhN0t...
The YC people deal with enough startups to see probabilities. They have data, and they say the odds improve dramatically with cofounders.

This article (mostly) doesn't dispute that, and explores ways to perhaps compensate for the lack of a cofounder and redress those odds a bit. That seems useful as a source of ideas, as long as we keep it in the right category.

It is in a different category from the YC statement, which was based on numbers. YC didn't draw conclusions about cause/effect, they just correlated. That's pretty solid ground. This article puts up several specific possible causes of the cofounder advantage and then possible solutions, which might work, if the cause/effect inference is right. Two layers of inference, based on anecdotal evidence.

The article made me think about the issue in a different way. I thought it was valuable in that way. I'd be really interested to know if people with data have correlated solo startup success with any other factors. Does anyone know of any such attempt?
The author tries to make a point but drowns the reader in a sea of definitions and data without providing a useful navigation. After reading the article and trying to re-read some sections I noticed that he lists popularity as a criterion:

Popularity, which correlate with:
- number of tested libraries
- facility to find learning material
- ability to find another developer to work with

With those points added popularity looks like a useful metric. However, a little later

RedMonk Programming Language Rankings (January 2013) provide an apparent
good measure of popularity. While not perfect the current measure feel
mostly right. They create an image using stack overflow and github data.

This is so far from perfect and almost unrelated to the points the author had just made above that I decided not to take this article seriously.
Yes, that's why it isn't a good replacement for something like WPF, Qt, wxWidgets, etc. node-webkit and NiDIUM fix that problem.
People overestimate the role of genetic advantages in individuals.

Usually these advantages can't be quantified, they can hardly be predicted. It takes a lot of math to do that for a population of athletes... and then the top performer gets injured.
Seconded - that series illustrates a number of dystopian fantasies based on rapid technological change.

Forgive the tangent but I felt the "The Entire History of You" episode is particularly poignant at illustrating one of the most damage side-effects of always being connected and that is the losing the ability to forget. The ability to recall (via images, videos) at a whim can lead to being obsessed with matters that occurred in the past while living in the present. It's a problem unique to our generation since previous generations weren't able to capture, as ably as we can capture now, all the unnecessary specifics of daily life.
This website looks like a bastion of sanity and rational debate.
They're needs, qualified by kevingadd that rural life != dark ages.

By gas, I meant fuel for transportation. One simply cannot survive in a rural area without an automobile and the ability to use it.

Food, ironically is more expensive, and lower quality. I still haven't figured out why (other than market opportunism).

Internet, same as food, more expensive, and lower quality.

TV, I agree is not a necessity, but another example of a common expense that tends to be lower quality in rural areas when compared to urban areas.

OTOH, housing is generally cheaper.
> BBC used to have the excellent World Service programming.

BBC radio programmes were also at the receiving end of a wave of political correctness sweeping through the Blair years. "Classist" Received Pronunciation was out, regional accents were in (mostly so that Scottish cronies could occupy civil-servant jobs and the likes of John Prescott could eventually become plausible Peers of the Realm, but I digress). The result is such that, in 2013, I struggle to find any broadcast at all that might sound like old-fashioned RP. There is now no real alternative for learning RP: either you attend Oxbridge and/or belong to certain circles, or you'll be stuck with a local accent forever.

Paradoxically, trying to make RP disappear, they made it even more exclusive and desirable.
Right, this is actually the first commit - it's just that the history was squashed before publish - we had to remove sensitive Spotify specific things in it, and it seemed easiest to just do a big squash.
Who is talking about building "websites"? Argument I think is- it should be possible to have regular file system access from a browser-like engine. That would greatly simplify building desktop applications.

Imagine you chose to build an IDE using Webkit and it lets you access everything via JS api that you could access using Cocoa or GTK+.
The BBC World Service used to have a wide variety of programming.

They'd include some of the programmes broadcast on BBC Radio Four, including panel games such as "Just a minute". They'd include some of the science and medical documentary that Radio 4 would broadcast. They'd also have their own programming - some soap operas, some news, some great documentaries.

All of this meant that English was being used in a variety of ways. There was informal, conversational English. There was English humour and word play. And there was more formal English.

But now the World Service has lost most of that. It is just a rolling news service now. There are some arts and science programmes, but those aren't great. The variety of spoken English is much reduced, and the variety of programming is much less. And everything is repeated every few hours, with some tweaks for different time zones.

Speaking English must be very hard!
Like this comment here

Good one. The author could have complained about self referential comments too, and how writing one doesn't make you Douglas Hofstadter.

I liked it, though.
C64 wasn't the only basic. GW-BASIC on the Oric-1/Atmos machines, for example, did save a byte if you used ? instead of PRINT.
What? It'd be sad if the US DIDN'T spy on other, friendly nations? And, am I not a grown up for seriously being angry about all this then?
"a document dated June 2012 shows that Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's emails were being read."

I have serious issues with the NSA spying on civilians, the lack of oversight, the notion that the NSA can use terrorism to justify whatever they want to do regardless of due process, just because they think it's really, really important, but... this particular thing doesn't really feel like news. Governments spy on other governments. They always have. I don't feel that threatens my civil liberties.

I think the danger of stories like this is that they muddy the waters. The fact that the NSA spies on foreign heads of state is _not the issue_. This kind of spying is what they were set up to do. If we all have knee-jerk reactions to this just because of the anti-NSA zeitgeist, we distract from the things the NSA is doing that actually pose serious threats to our civil liberties.
Rencon: a 'Turing Test for musical expression'
In Australian English, it's "ann-tith-iss-iss" versus "ann-tee thee-sis"; I imagined British English would have been the same. Interesting to learn.
USSR needed both (agriculture expansion and industrilization).

So, apart from peasants, million other Russians were forced to work in industry, in horrible conditions, and millions died (and thousands were executed) in the process of increasing industrial production.
All those demo's run very nice in my google chrome browser. What is nidium exactly? Sorry for having a negative tone, but its a valid question isnt it?
My favorite (coming from Swedish, which is also a language fond of its concatenations) is finite/infinite.
For a modern view on Mumps as a database technology and the future (or not) of its language, see my blog at http://robtweed.wordpress.com

Also see: http://www.mgateway.com/docs/universalNoSQL.pdf
The title is a bit misleading: NSA spied on Enrique Pena Nieto before he was elected, and explicitly states that "it's not clear if the spying continues".
Go live in New York City. People negotiate accents just fine.
...And it still is. The last investigative journalism conference I went to, Woodward was the keynote speaker. Seymour Hersh and James Bamford, too. The recent set of investigative and public service Pulitzers aren't chump change themselves:

http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Investigative-Reporting

http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Public-Service

What I find faulty about the OP's premise is that he bemoans the dying press, which he sees as making a devil's deal with the "ruling class". I wonder if the OP considered the effect of the Internet on news organizations' business model as a possible reason why there seems to be less substantive news, or is that just too prosaic of an explanation?
I'm originally from France, and I used three methods to improve my english:
1) Reading in english. back in high school, when I was still a beginner, my go-to books in english were the Harry Potter series: not because I have a particular fancy for the books, but because I'd already read them in French so I could guess the meaning of most words without a dictionary. I actually extended this method to Spanish and Latin, pretty successfully.

2) Watch movies. I started with french subtitles, then switched to english subtitles. I stayed with english subtitles for quite a while as I thought I wasn't ready to remove them. Then I spent 6 months abroad and did not have access to subtitles, so I was forced to watch movies in english without subtitles. I had to replay a lot of scenes on my first couple tries, but picked it up quickly.

3) The single most important thing I did to improve my english is .. to stop speaking french. That's right. I've been leaving in the US for about 2 years now, and I avoid french speaking people like the plague. And if for some reason I can't avoid it, then I speak english with them. No french. See, a lot of the foreigners I've seen who struggle with the language tend to stick with other foreigners from their country. That's the worst possible thing to do if you want to improve your english. I've seen people who've been in the US for 8 years and can still barely speak english: they don't need to since they almost never actually speak it in their community.

Now I don't know if that works for everyone. I've met a couple other people who've used a similar strategy, and obtained similar results, but that's still not a very large sample.
but not this one!
There are a bunch of comments related to performance data - the code is available so nothing is stopping anyone from making an unbiased comparison. :)

That said, I intend to publish some sort of performance comparison code / results. The downside with me doing it is that: 1) I know the sparkey code much better than I know level-db or any other solution, so the tuning parameters will probably be suboptimal for the other solutions. 2) I will only focus on our specific usecase (write large bulks, do lots of random reads), which may seem a bit unfair to the most general solutions.
> Birdy is the main application described in detail in the O'Reilly Opa Book.

To learn more about Opa.
And I'm sure Mexico and Brazil did their best to spy on the US... its the nature of things. Countries spy on other countries.
Thanks, I didn't know they were using node-webkit.
In the sport of bodybuilding, genetic advantages do make it "unfair" because you are most definitely constrained by it (zipper abs, unaesthetic chest insertions).

But I wouldn't subscribe to this definition of fairness. Fairness seems more about everyone playing by the same set of rules in the sport. If you start including genetics into the rules then it would become unfair, purely by defining it that way.
Hamilton was eventually caught and was suspended from professional cycling. He became one of the first in his circle to implicate Lance Armstrong, testifying before federal investigators and appearing on “60 Minutes.” He says that he regrets his years of using performance-enhancing drugs. The lies and duplicity became an unbearable burden. His marriage fell apart. He sank into a depression. His book is supposed to serve as his apology. At that task, it fails. Try as he might—and sometimes he doesn’t seem to be trying very hard—Hamilton cannot explain why a sport that has no problem with the voluntary induction of anorexia as a performance-enhancing measure is so upset about athletes infusing themselves with their own blood.

Did you even read the article? Sometimes it feels like when the headline is simple like that people feel like they can skip the thing completely and just post the most concise, one-up retort they can muster.
There's already a couple of these: awesomium (proprietary) and berkelium (open) that basically render Chromium to OpenGL and pass it the HID events you send.

That said, they seem to specifically say it's not an actual browser engine..
Finally some italians on HN's front page
I'm happy about how open Ryan has been about this whole thing. We all suffer from burnout from time to time.
I'm surprised that voice is not mentioned once in this article. As another commenter said, these guidelines could be valid for any device and platform, they have nothing specific to Google Glass.

In my opinion, any experience involving any swipe/touch on Glass is a terrible experience. Period.
If I were to guess this is a performance-oriented version of CEF with additional functionality exposed to the JavaScript engine, would I be anywhere in the right ballpark?
Thanks! I don't need an italian -> english one, just english with sounds will be enough.
Your life isn't leased from government, your land is, and while you choose to live on their land you must follow their rules or deal with the consequences of not doing so. You can make all the slippery slope arguments you want, but they won't change that reality.

And while you may think you have some great solution, wherein you can be sovereign on your land and somehow not have to personally defend it from nation-state level adversaries, those of us acquainted with the real world know this not to be the case. So, we end up with governments, and those governments are generally pretty shit, but they beat the hell out of the alternative.

If you really want sovereignty, then rather than wasting time with the typical libertarian bullshit, whining about how taxes are violence and so on and so forth, you should instead be putting everything you have behind space exploration. The only practical return to individual sovereignty is the return of sufficient unclaimed land, and the only way for that to happen without a lot of people dying is for us to raise our sights to living other places than Earth.
html5 local storage?
1. Every other language with such a system bases it on the "standard" pronunciation, for English this could be for example BBC English. As a result you'll sometimes have youths who will write the local dialect phonetically in IM chat, but they also know how to write (and speak) the standard way.

2. You're saying people should threat written English words like Chinese glyphs, masquerading as a non-glyph language, and that that's somehow better? My instincts tell me that knowing how to pronounce a word by reading it is more advantageous than having to learn 1000's of glyph-like words, maybe someone else has more knowledge about the tradeoffs between phonetic and glyph like scripts.

3. This is a gimmic. How many times do you estimate the average English speaking person reads these texts in their life?
I agree with your post. TV shows and movies helped a lot, and many wrong things just sound wrong. Pure grammar exercises can only teach so much.

However a solid understanding of grammar helps. For example in your post you wrote "like if doing". Correct would be "as if doing" since "as if" is a conjunction and "like" is a preposition. It was probably just a typo, and you would have caught it during a proof-read since it sounds "wrong" but actual grammar knowledge will confirm any suspicions.
I wish Obama's Nobel Peace Prize would be retracted. He never deserved it, and he deserves it now less than ever. It would send a strong message that you can't just bullshit your way into the presidential office of the world's strongest nation, as a champion of civil liberties and peace, and then do the exact opposite.

I support his impeachment for the very same reason. In a way, I almost hope he intervenes in Syria despite a vote against in Congress (hopefully), if that means his impeachment will be inevitable - even though I care about him getting impeached over the NSA surveillance state a lot more than him getting impeached over Syria, but I know there's a lot smaller chance to impeach him over that, so I'll take whichever reason works best.
When did sports become about winning

Two thousand years ago or so (maybe more), when prize money and sponsorship deals became a thing.
In Italian there are not dictation exercise beyond age of 8. ;)
Portable Smartphone Photographic Enlarger
It depends on how you define "playing in a band", but I'd say that's what Hatsune Miku does.
spying is jerk behaviour
I'm sad to see this happen as Ryan not only produces great screencasts but shows the trends and popular gems along the way. I respect his decision, though - I know what burnout feels like and it's the biggest mental burden one can have. Good luck, Ryan!
Even if governments do derive their power from the consent of the governed, the governed have consented to government sovereignty. That being the case, I don't follow your argument.
The problem is, neither does the state.