skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat relevant... I had an idea to set up accounts for street performers. If you were near one it would send you a notification, you could easily drop them a tip through the app. They aggregated in an account somewhere until they were able to make it to a computer (hell, anyone can go into a library right?). You can rate people, find where they play, etc. Why not?
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what if one of it's ancestors once thought, i would like to fly like one of those things. a few generations of evolution later you have a flying frog. sadly that's not how evolution works.
I'm not sure I agree. The technological revolution hadn't happened yet in 1913. We saw an increase in new types of jobs over the course of the 20th century because any innovation that occurred still required a significant amount of human labor. I believe we will see a slow acceptance that we are not going to see a high level of full time, high paying, high skill jobs. After the recession, employment has slowly creeped up again but you can see that the types of jobs that people are working now are different than they were in the early 2000s. More jobs might have been created, but they are of a lower quality in terms of hours, pay, benefits, and the amount of skill they require.

We are at a point with technology where any conceivable manual task that we do will almost certainly be automated away at some point, and many tasks requiring high degrees of skill - including intelligence tasks - will also be automated away. It will be increasingly hard for us to find pockets of value in areas that we can offer the marketplace that it hasn't already seen. I do believe the decline won't be rapid - our expectation for full employment will slowly but steadily fade away - but over the course of decades I think we will come to the idea that we are all entitled to a minimum quality of life, regardless of our ability to hold a job, and that we will have to be guaranteed such in order to maintain a stable society.
Vodka + diet coke was pretty much only alcoholic beverage I was drinking when on ketogenic diet. It's quite good, actually...
I don't see how the masturbation thing is sexism. It's immature, sure, but guys and girls both masturbate...

Also, I can get on stage and present an app involving shaking a phone and get hundreds of people in the audience? The hell?
It's my birthday too =)
It's hard to explain. I try to understand why the person thinks the idea is good rather than try to figure out why the idea is bad. The realization that most ideas evolve over time also means that the initial idea you dismiss will most likely change.

It's really just about taking the time to better understand an idea, and trying hard not to dismiss it.
So, this has to be said.

These fucktards are the people representing our profession on NPR. NPR doesn't run stories about the other apps presented at TechCrunch Disrupt. The public won't here about that, or really, much of the cool tech that goes on. They'll hear about this, and that's what they'll remember.

Why the hell doesn't someone go up on that stage and kick those idiots off? Who's the goddamn moderator that is in charge and standing their watching this go on, instead of walking up, killing the power, and getting them an escort from the building.

I don't want to be an apologist for my profession, nor my passion. Right now, I am, so it's up to us to put this shit down. Start now.
Read about a startup that recently launched that was claiming to be "Netflix for Books." We already have that. Its called a Library.

Either that one, or the guy selling fart scented candles on Shark Tank.
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And the link straight to that is http://bugs.python.org/issue19002#msg197498
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This isn't any different from sharing the password with your family members (who you should trust anyway, right?). Why not make it more useful and allow the person you share with to play games from your library at the same time you're playing?

(but different games. if I want to play TF2 and the family member wants to play Dragon Age, I don't see why that shouldn't be possible!)

Heck, you can already play single/multi player games simultaneously just by sharing passwords and using offline mode. Color me unexcited.

Here's even a quick config file change you can make so that your Steam always starts in offline mode and doesn't force-logout the other person already logged in. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25474... (tried this with my dad and it works great as long as he doesn't need to patch).
More stupidly
This. Like it!
> TechCrunch issued an apology Sunday for the "two misogynistic presentations,"

app is sexist yeah, but how is looking at tits misogynistic?
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Looking forward to seeing your ideas! Email us at team@appcubator.com and we'll pitch in where we can.
The idea that there is any significant difference between someone the day before and after there 18th birthday is clearly rediculus. However, current law makes a massive distinction between them dispite bing willing to try 15 year olds as adults. And yes it's an easy problem to fix, just add a gradient to sentencing. From misdemeanor with fine for someone close to 18 up to long ter jail for hard core preteen porn. With an exception for voluntary transactions, aka if your 17 year old friend sends you a picture of his boys as a joke that's ok.
FlashFood, a student startup from Phoenix, is doing this. They have a network of vendors and volunteers who connect perishable food with existing infrastructure like food banks and soup kitchens.
I don't know much about the field myself, but recently interviewed with Flatiron Health in NYC - http://www.flatiron.com. They have a great team of brilliant developers and may be interested in participating, so think about reaching out to them!
OK, game idea for someone: Space Frogger. Mr Toad tries to dodge orbital debris & marauding aliens on his way to Venus.
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I will more say the PHP version will be nothing fancy, have a beer kick back and relax while others try to impress with new ways of solving an old problem :)
What if you'd invested the cost of an Apple product in Apple shares instead?
Not such a bad idea for some: http://www.widernet.org/egranary/
Wi-Fi isn't radio?
I heard the story too, and I was most offended that the reporter said that I would be offended by what we were about to hear. Also, what do they know about locker room attitudes? My locker room attitude is to get out of the locker room and into the gym, pool, etc. Calling it sexism seems sexist to me, since I'm a guy who wouldn't normally do that kind of thing.
Consider going to bed early enough that you wake up without an alarm clock. It's not going to 100% prevent you from ever falling asleep during the day, but it'll sure help.

Personally, my intellectual capabilities are at their peak in the first few hours after I wake up.
I've forgotten my 'stupidest' ideas, but my 'worst' idea was basically to do what PRISM is doing now. I realized you can infer a hell of a lot from the bits of information people post publicly and you could aggregate them into a comprehensive profile. There's obviously a market for this as we all now know, but I realized how evil it was and that even if it was highly successful, how shitty would I feel about selling out humanity. ... however, it does still strike me as a fascinating technical challenge.
Hmm, sounds like an iteration of Bump, but for NFC-enabled smart watches...
Almost any phone not a smartphone could fit your description. There are so many phones that can last for almost a week, but all you can do is talk and text with some light apps.
The whole thing is sad, but hopefully this sort of exposure will have the 'training' effect that folks won't seriously expect us to believe the excuse "Hey, its just a joke, I didn't mean it." which works fine if you're comedian doing a comedy act, not so well if your venue is more serious than that.
Thanks for your reply. The the users' text is saved with HTML5's local storage.
Any reason you chose vodka over rum?
Coveralls/TravisCI for code reviews w/ self-hosting option. I'm sick of Crucible and expensive alternatives that don't even work that well these days.
I have a slightly different view (43/20).

I like to work for small companies that have a bit of startup thinking (let's get things done, build cool stuff and be open minded about fresh and contrarian ideas) but that are run by people who have a more balanced view of how much time their employees should work.

At my stage in life (speaking only for myself), I don't buy into those BS sales jobs from hiring managers of getting rich on options, working until you're burnt out because you're changing the world, etc.
But there actually are "flying" frogs (they can glide).
Am I the only one who thought this was about Pelé?
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YES.

The healthcare industry is absolutely ripe for disruption; I'd totally hang out with people working on meaningful projects related to improving the health of our loved ones.

(i work in wburg and live in bushwick. so... if you're looking for venues... that is what is convenient to me! :)
Oh man, RIP me. Cheers boys!
I'm in. Second half of the month please!
No worries, it's a slightly confusing concept. You can basically crowdfund cash prizes for anything you want to see get done in the world. Teams then apply for the prize with proof that they've accomplished the prize's goals.

You basically can crowdfund your own X-Prizes.
Thanks Daniel, appreciate it.

Regarding the points you made:

1. Time span - there may be some "erosion" in the prize amount as it goes on, but we follow up with pledgers to update payment information as necessary, and update the prize amount accordingly. Unfortunately the time span can't really be helped due to the fact that prizes have to have time to build in value in order to attract teams to the prize, and then there's R&D time for those teams to actually accomplish the prize's goals.

2. Regarding fraud, there is a final up or down vote on any leading prize applicant that didn't receive 70% or greater of the vote. I don't want to get into too much detail publicly on fraud prevention, because it's obviously counter-productive. ;) - but we're certainly confident we'll be able to prevent someone from pledging 70% of the prize in order to capture the remaining 30%. Also, the majority of that 30% would surely cancel their pledges if a sub-par project was about to win - that is if we hadn't already disqualified the fraudulent applicant.

3. Regarding free R&D for a big contributor, I suppose that's a possibility, but I'm not sure it would be a very big concern. Presumably any R&D that would motivate a scheme like that would be pretty valuable, and all I.P. would still belong to the prize applicants themselves.
Ok, what non esoteric languages would one consider extremely difficult?
The moderators and many people in the room found the presentations funny. It wasn't until later when they tried explaining their behaviour to their mothers that they even began to understand the problems with what occurred.
As a PHP developer who likes tequila. I'm down for this.
Hackerspaces around the world tend to figure out how to get it. It's hard to get in Poland, and yet in Hackerspace Kraków we have a crate ;).
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These two apps were in appropriate and offensive, why not apologize for "two inappropriate and offensive presentations"? While some of the behavior is clearly hate-based (threatening posts on Twitter, etc.), it seems like flat-out stupidity and insensitivity is also very common.
I had an idea for single mothers to post info about deadbeat dads for others to avoid. However, after thinking about it for a bit, I realized it would turn into what you were proposing and decided against it.
Firstly, to say that the older/younger relationships from that era would be generally considered rape even by todays standards would be quite a stretch.

Secondly, I must apologize in advance, I'm having a lot of trouble stating my point, probably because I'm sitting in a cluster computing conference, and will try to give this a better shot when I can devote more focus to it, but in short:
I think we have some very skewed ways of looking at sex and sexual act. A stigmatization of the topic as a whole even makes it very hard to talk about. There are examples of rape and "improper" behavior in sexually liberal, and sexually conservative societies. There need to be new and less black and white ways of looking at and judging both sexual maturity, "appropriate" behaviors, and conduct. It is not productive to point the finger at a prevelence or lack of sexual material and then yell "THINK OF THE CHILDREN", this is going to be answered I think by a better understanding of human behavior and cognitive function, and right now we're grasping in the dark for useful metrics and basing decisions on questionable logic.

Anyway, I feel like I may be going away from the answer you wanted/rambling a bit, so I'll cut this short and perhaps reread/reedit my response. I also want to brainstorm a bit with my female, who as a psychologist/cognitive scientist, works with the most extreme cases of sexual deviance/criminals, and in positions of sexual assault support, and I'm sure has some relevant thoughts on the issue.
Do bear in mind that there are effectively two alternatives:

- uncontrolled internet access, where other people's kids have access to a lot of awful stuff (not just porn but "shock" videos; goatse and worse)

- State- or business- controlled internet access, where someone else gets to control what you see, potentially eliminating access to inconvenient stories like Snowden.

We could really do with a "third way", but it needs someone to imagine what it could be, how it could work, and how it avoids the usual attempts to ruin it for everyone.
PureDiscovery Lands $10 Million Series C
I'm in the process of learning Colemak now. I'd love to use QGMLWB, but I liked that I was able to use Colemak on my Macbook, Windows box and Android devices without having to install anything extra. I figured that the few extra efficiency points I lost by sticking with Colemak would be offset by its comparatively broad availability.
I utterly loathe this feature in Android Chrome. My constant instinct is to pull down the status bar like you pull down the notifications and quick-menu. Scrolling up to see it screws me up.
I organize Health Devs, which is pretty much exactly as you describe: we do monthly events where people show off things they've created, get help on code, etc. Our next meetup, on Tuesday, will focus on the Open mHealth project: http://www.meetup.com/HealthDevsNYC/events/138467042/

We are always looking for people to help organize more events though, and would love to have you (or anybody else interested) involved. Events are informal and always free. Shoot me a line: michael @ aqua.io
If you like to play with Docker on wercker, you can apply for the Docker beta: http://wercker.com/docker/
I don't mean to spread FUD about LUKS, because I think it's great software, but our team has ran a LUKS setup for a while in production and it gave rise to vague problems. If you plan to use LUKS, please do test it extensively on real hardware before going production.
It's misogynistic by that hip, new definition of misogynistic that doesn't mean misogynistic.
That wouldn't work as there is SOME logic and reasoning to that. We'd have to come up with something else.
I thought it was interesting that the modern "Bliemeister" manufacture method still consists of dropping molten lead drops. The difference apparently being the use of heated liquids and inclined surfaces for greater control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliemeister_method#Manufacture

In contrast metal bearing balls are manufactured using cold metal working techniques. Sheering, pressing, grinding and polishing some wire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_%28bearing%29#Metal

It seems as if lead should be easier to press into shape than steel so I wonder why the difference in techniques.
This is important. I'll also bet you get some of your best work ideas during your downtime too.
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Ask HN: could we stop linking directly to Wikipedia?
While Wikipedia is a fascinating trove of knowledge, I think direct links to it often lack context. IMHO, it's better to write a post describing why something is interesting to the HN community and include the link to Wikipedia in that post. This has been discussed before, though I can no longer find the link to that discussion. What does everyone think?
Q: Cui bono?

/provocateur
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Pretty much related text: "NASA’S SUCCESSFUL QUANTIFYING OF COMEDY TIMING"

http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/5987695109/nasas-successful-qu...
I'm very sceptical that such procedure would produce proper solder joints. Proper joint requires that both the lead/pin and the pad are heated. Some metallurgy guru could chime in and explain why that is.
It's simpler to get in bars (though they tend to run out of diet coke fast), and... well, I never bothered to check the carbohydrate contents of rum; just decided to go with the simplest option ;).
The New Yorker has been covering misogyny in tech for a while, be it a "beat" or just a growing trend of coverage.
I think 3d printing has some way to go before this is possible. A 3d printed denture would not have the material properties required to align teeth and maintain integrity in a human mouth.
I find this to be the most shocking thing of all.
How does this go with the space bat?
Yeah, the Blueprint folks are great: They've been amazing sponsors for the Health Devs meetup group and have hosted our meetups in their space since we started.
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Report: Microsoft is creating a cross-Windows virtual assistant called Cortana
The sexist element is just one aspect of the fail. Fratboy behavior is annoying in college. It's particularly annoying in the real world.
I thought whilst Chromium didn't get the closed source bits, they were getting access through PPAPI, as everything else was on NPAPI and Adobe & Google decided to shift off it? I could be wrong though it's been a while since I last looked into it, and there was a lot of he-said-she-said on email lists about it at that point.
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> Vim has changed a lot ...

I just crafted the above example using the current vim. No memory required. Vim still imitates vi, and vi still imitates 1970. Extremely inefficient, steep learning curve in order not to press readily available control keys.

> I don't understand what's comical about 'c3w' - "Change 3 Words".

First, if you happen to be entering text beforehand, the number of characters required to select three words isn't three, it's five. Second, it's comical in modern times because there are much easier ways to select an arbitrary number of words, readily available ways, ways that don't cost any more than vim does, ways that are available on the machines owned by vim's advocates -- excuse me, living advocates. Machines that have keyboards with control keys.

On a modern machine, if I want to select three words, or 2 1/2 words, or 3 1/2 paragraphs, I glide the mouse cursor across the desired text. And to do so, I don't have to enter a special mouse mode first.

This conversation is funny for the same reasons that a conversation about a horseless carriage is funny. No, there's no miniature horse hidden in there -- they did away with the horse entirely. I know it sounds fantastic.
Twitter is the greatest platform for people getting offended on behalf of other people. I bet these armchair warriors will tweet-spam those guys to death.
Why the heck are we launching rockets on top of a wildlife refuge? https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=nasa&data=!1m4!1m3!1d...
Commented earlier on another Women In Tech thread (seems to be the meme of the day).

The question is not "Why are there so few women in IT?", it's "Why are so many men in IT such jerks?"
When I first saw it at McDonalds, RedBox. Now I use it all the time.
Not a "challenge" or anything: do you do hackathons? When you know you're not going to win, but also know you're going to be on stage later, an intentionally and blatantly stupid app is the way to go.
This is so meta.

If HNers value a submission, they will upvote it. If it's crap, it will be flagged.
3D printers are not accurate enough at this time to print such a detailed object. I am printing a large project with many interlocking pieces. The prints are always slightly too large due to the bulge of the deposited plastic as it cools. You can compensate by making the piece slightly smaller, but it is never a perfect fit. In addition, the smallest layer right now is .1 mm, which is not detailed enough for a tooth mold. For a tooth mold, I would want it perfect.
It's paper and cheap glue, I'd be surprised if that defeated our clandestine organizations. The point of spying is that the target doesn't know they're being spied on.
Let our inner knee-jerk selves remember the ``Why defend freedom of icky speech?'' [1].

[1] http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-...
If you go down this line of thinking, you can only trust the code you wrote yourself. Having a couple of dudes publicly recognizing that they wrote TrueCrypt doesn't actually solves anything.
I agree the tech industry has a major sexism problem. Titstare is disgusting, and a lot of men in tech need to be beaten severely with a cluestick as this kind of thing is the worst sort of confluence of aspie anti-empathy and fratboy rape culture.

However all that said, I can't help but notice the inseperable confluence of sexism and puritanical taboo of anything related to sex in American culture. A masturbation app might be in poor taste and unprofessional, but there's no inherent reason it should be threatening to women.
This thread is reminding me of how many ideas I've had that I never went through on.

Another one: Sponsor a homeless person. Crowd-sourcing getting someones life back on track. You get 100+ people to pitch in $5 a month to one person they "adopted". These 100 people have full transparency to how that person spends the money, can advise and help in other ways . If you see that they withdrew $50 in cash on a friday night, they have to show a receipt for a valid reason for doing so, or you can drop out as a sponsor.

Anyhow, it was a stupid idea because people are generally selfish, on both the giving and receiving end.
> broken feature detection

Interesting idea! I can imagine an implementation--every day, along with updating a malware database, each browser pulls down the list of open bugs on its own bug tracker (and upstream component bug trackers) applying to its own version. Then, from Javascript, you could say something like

if(window.renderer.hasBug("http://trac.webkit.org/3440224")){
/* you're on a version of WebKit affected by this bug */
}

The nice part of this is, to get a globally-unique token identifying a bug you just noticed, you "just" have to file it with the party responsible for fixing it. When the bug is closed, so does your code-branch :)