skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The few times I had to wear smart trousers in the office I used to refer to them as my Executive Power Slacks.

I wonder if he will write a blog on them.
I think if people would just accept that software costs money instead of wanting everything free*, we wouldn't have all this crapware.

(I meant "free with an asterisk," because software developers will find a way to be compensated, one way or another.)

(I also am talking entirely about free-as-in-beer, not free-as-in-speech.)
URL UPDATED: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92126558/projects/ntpd/n...
Show HN: Launching Wordpress Plugin to Replace Powerpoint & Slideshare
We've spent 9 months and close to $200,000 building a new plugin for wordpress. It's in beta, but it has:

- a canvas editor for slides

- a pdf importing service (with API)

- a presentation viewer that is embeddable anywhere (with links to you not someone else)

- slide notes (something none of the presentation sharing sites really accommodate)

- publish on your own site and an aggregation site automatically (with API)

We're launching now because we need to get it in your hands and have you provide us feedback for the next few phases. The power of owning your presentations and content is not to underestimated from a marketing perspective. The ideas for the phase 2 canvas editor are pretty spectacular.

Please give us your feedback on:

- http://wordpress.org/plugins/seoslides/ <- plugin

- https://seoslides.com <- homepage

- https://seoslides.com/upgrade <- upgrade page

- http://seoslid.es <- aggregation site

- http://sparkcatalyst.com/slides/youftw/ <- sample imported presentation

- https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/526056443ce0 <- medium article

It's a presentation building system built on top of the most popular CMS. And the base model includes almost everything for free on the repository.

Thanks!
Machine Learning playground using Docker
http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/09/19/machine-learning-playground-using-docker/
.red is already being used by Red - http://www.red-lang.org
Back in my heady startup days, I'd occasionally take my programmers to a local pub for afternoon chat and coding sessions. Code produced during these sessions often contained comments like:

/* First pint begins here */

/* Starting a second pint */

The idea being to keep track of code written during increasing states of inebriation. Interestingly, later analysis of that code showed no relationship between number of drinks and number of defects. (Of course none of us would ever get really smashed.)
Shiny Reddit
Processing Content Security Policy violation reports in PHP
I think it looks nice, but I don't think creating one screenshot view can be considered a "design facelift". I would expect to see multiple views through the app, how you handled navigation and user flow, and how your design will be flexible as Watsi moves forward and adds more features.

I love the initiative, but IMO its not very useful in its current form.
Sorry, we can't try to fix TCP, if we want wide deployment. I think we have learned that by now.
Power sleeping, power eating, power lifting... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
Online Courses Don't Live Up To Hype
IOS 7 Turns Your iPhone into a Refined Android Device
Lumipendant -- wearable, hackable, social light installation
This is a win for us all, for sure!

Not sure why the sites did not populate... trying below:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/seoslides/ <- plugin

https://seoslides.com <- homepage

https://seoslides.com/upgrade <- upgrade page

http://seoslid.es <- aggregation site

http://sparkcatalyst.com/slides/youftw/ <- sample imported presentation

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/526056443ce0 <- medium article
Unprecedented Patent Case Concentration
Because the physical distance your voice can be heard is a much, much smaller pool of people, and it is safe to assume that it generally excludes credit card fraudsters. edit to add: This is also why it is suggested that you wait until you are off the subway to make a purchase over the phone, for example. Who knows who's listening.

Email is available world-wide. Email is not generally secure, and the message is not protected as it is sent on the wire. It is not very difficult for a determined attacker to harvest your email and scan it for common structured data like credit card details. The potential audience here is much, much bigger and is made up of many sharks.

If your kids use your card it is easy to control, you can probably return the purchases and clear up the matter yourself. If a mob in Russia gets your details and starts making fraudulent charges chances either Visa or your bank are going to have to just give you the money to cover the fraud with no realistic recourse of recovering it themselves.
I'm failing to understand your point. Almost every version of GTA has been released on the PC. How was there no option where you lived? Are you meaning you couldn't purchase it at your local stores before mail-order was available?
This was from an interview a few years back. It could have been because he wasn't making any money from it. I haven't kept up, but glad he's embraced it.
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles4/205169/projects/108816...

The original myTouch 3G was my favorite phone of all time. It's really sad that trackballs have gone out of style. At the time it felt like having a trackball was saying the touchscreen experience must not be that good, I suppose. Even though this phone was very plastic, it felt cheap but not too cheap. Just thinking about this phone makes me want to buy one and install a JB rom on it but I'm guessing the experience would be pretty bad. Sigh.
Interesting example of journalistic framing choices having a huge impact. Obviously, the jury is still out on these, and there are lots of people yelling loudly from both sides. But this story presents the pessimistic view only. It's also amusing how two years is treated as such a long time -- "they should have caught on by now." How many paradigm shifts happened in less than two years?
Hetzner required passport and some other stuff. I caved.
My understanding is that Sega v. Accolade[1] made it moot, so trademark infringement can no longer be claimed in such a manner (it's now considered fair use).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
very interesting initiative

I see from my own experience that there is an increasing demand for more sophisticated content creation inside wordpress
A man's thoughts are his own. How he choses to store or recall them is also his own. There is no one size fits all.
Why not targeting something like this instead?

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/13/antibiotics-c...

I think it will be much more of a problem in the long term than aging (pun not intended).
I would expect a wild eagle to either avoid the people more or to make a bigger fuss about them. This one flies over them for fun (or so).
Show HN: Loading sound files faster using Array Buffers and Web Audio API
KoboldKit, Sprite Kit game engine, released for iOS7.
I think it should work on it, it doesn't use PHP 5.3+ specific features.
Poll: Changing to Android after iOS7 Update?
To me iOS 7 UI is too light, low contrast type and unusable, I'm getting an Android next.

Are you?

* Fanboys flagged this Poll out of the top. Too bad.
Yes, its so bad I'm changing to Android
It's bad, but I'm sticking around with iOS7
I love iOS7
Might I recommend one of these sub-100 things: http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax

They are amazing.
dead link.
People don't say this, or if they do they make the same mistake as when they say PC gaming is irrelevant.

They lump the whole of 'gaming' as one thing, not realising that a new market segment emerging doesn't cannibalise the old one.
Support Vector Machines and Hadoop: Theory vs. Practice
A few months ago a colleague on my team left and went to HubSpot. From what little I heard it sounded like a cool company, but seeing as I'm both easily distracted and get anxious wearing headphones (it makes me nervous when I'm not able to perceive my surroundings) the revelation that they have open offices (and shared desks, lockers, etc) makes me realize I could never work there.

I'm sure there are lots of people that can thrive in this environment, but I'm not one of them. And I suspect I'm not alone.
...we all wore headphones, we used IM before starting conversation (or in place of vocal conversation as often as not), we had a private meeting room we could grab just across the hall...

All of these behaviors seem intended to minimize the differences between open-plan and private offices, don't they? Of course, one could say the same if everyone was in a private office.

Haha... headphones. I didn't really get into Danzig or Rammstein until I got stuck next to the boisterous accounts payable department. Radiohead just couldn't compete with those bozos.
The result ends up communicating "infinity" not "global". And there's nothing infinite about Google, I'd say.
If I saw this in my inbox, I would think it is a phishing attack. By sending a legitimate email like this, Big W is making it much easier for their customers to succumb to phishing.
I hate the way it looks. Modern is fine, change is great, but at least before an iPhone had it's own look.
Then you'd be right. ;)
I agree, have you seen the text on the keyboard? I can barely see!

I'm getting a discount Nexus 4.
Ask HN: What browser do you use?
Personally, i go with Firefox Beta.

If you use a not-so-known browser, please post a link on how to find it!
Smart spoon cancels out users’ hand tremors
> Because any sort of dictated social order implies absolute definition of morality and justice

I don't believe that to be the case. Force or fraud are defined the way they are in a democratic society not because they have absolute definitions, but because that society acting through government finds particular definitions conducive to their collective prosperity. These are operating definitions, not absolute ones.

I do find myself less flexible on the question of who is entitled to dictate operating definitions of "force" and "fraud." I believe that the majority, who is charged with enforcing any definitions of those terms, is morally entitled to pick the definitions. This is my key point of disagreement with Randianism--it's morally wrong to force the majority to conform to particular definitions of "force" and "fraud" that it does not get to define.
At least at the larger software companies do they really only measure LOC and man hours? It seems like you could develop decent estimates if you tracked every asset on a job, its performance, and the overall conditions of the job itself.
When? iOS never had the dominant share (globally) - that passed from Symbian to Android.
I agree with you, but it works and it's saved me hours and hours of crying in front of gdb.
It's story telling; trying to tell a good story with the use of certain specific descriptions the author feels reflect the environment. The use of 'Asian Lady' invokes imagery of a stoic, calculating, strictly business and slightly mysterious entity, which may or may not exercise some large degree of control over the situation.
Indeed. Our site went down.
You're not getting surly, you're being empathetic. It's a good thing to rebel against the cheap comedy that is Fail culture.
Looks a bit too similar to Opscode's logo for my taste:

http://www.juliandunn.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/opscode...
People always quote this, and I always wonder why it makes any difference.

People in hunter-gatherer societies weren't "more healthy" than we are (as you imply in a later comment). Most people in hunter-gatherer societies died as infants. I don't consider that healthy, and I consider infants people.

On average, most hunter-gatherers died at 20. In reality, virtually all hunter-gatherers died at 0, and the few that survived might live to 60.

Again: this is the "things were better in the past" / "evolution is always right" argument template, and it's virtually always wrong.
Run Disconnect instead of Ghostery. Ghostery had a big fad following a while ago, but it's not actually good for you. Disconnect is much better.

(and stop running NoScript (nobody is designing sites to work for you), just run with Click to Plugin enabled, Disconnect, and ABP)

I've seen a lot of these "I can't see the article until I disable my 40 extensions" complaints recently, but they all work fine with my combination of Disconnect and ABP.
Your question.
>I wrote a book on a notekeeping system: How to make a complete map of every thought you think.

>My notekeeping system has since dramatically changed, and is now, primarily, a simple chronology with some discipline connected to it.

From the author's site.
I would but if you see the rest of the thread, my gcc isn't raising this as a warning!

That in itself is sign that a mistake can be made without noticing.
Perhaps if you can program militants using religious discussion, then you can deprogram them using religious discussion. Militants aren't EPROMs, they don't need UV light.

Articles on the Saudi deprogramming effort:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/06/get-out-...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/magazine/09jihadis-t.html?...

And a more recent (PDF) review about why deprogramming mostly doesn't work:

http://sites.duke.edu/ihss/files/2011/12/Morris_Research_Bri...

Although Saudi Arabia's may be more effective. The reason is basically that terrorists aren't actually programmed using religious discussion, terrorists are programmed using monkeybrain ties to other terrorists. ObGwern:

http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror

A clever person might therefore attempt to use stronger monkeybrain ties to deprogram terrorists. Like the PLO did:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/12/all-you-...
If you depreciate them, you have to either dispose of them at some point, or sell them at a loss (and you can only depreciate the loss). Over time it could cost more than walls, or have an extremely long depreciation schedule.
I installed Java a few times last week and never got, er, asked about the Ask Toolbar once. Was I just amazingly lucky?
> That would make you a psychopath.

If we could have just figured this out 2500 years ago, then we 'd be Spartans instead of PsychoPaths.
Very good points.

The original article seems to group all open office plans into a single category, as if they were all alike.

I've worked in two notable different open office plans. One was at around 400 square feet per person. In this one, the only people with an office were those that dealt with sensitive documents that had to be in a filing cabinet (in this case that was one person, the accountant, who did payroll).

I've also worked in an open office where the "senior" staff had offices with windows looking into the cubicle area. The open area was around 150 square feet per person. While sitting at my desk, the back of my chair was about 4 feet from the person behind me.

These two experiences were drastically different in productivity and focus. To say open offices don't work, because most of them don't work is like saying startups don't work because most of them fail.

The problem isn't with the idea, it's with the execution.
I'd wait for Nexus 5. Should be here in about a month.
Oh, you know. Just a GoPro on an eagle...
It probably took hours to create this tumblr and the author did not get paid. I think this tumblr is fantastic. We need more people like this. Ready to call out crap.
That actually stood out to me as well, but I disagree with the others that the detail was meaningless. Of course, the detail we choose to convey has very specific meaning, sometimes unintentionally. The point of "asian lady" does paint a specific picture, but to me it conjures an image of an older, motherly/grandmotherly image (no one refers to a woman in their age/social/cultural group as 'lady' these days). The point was likely to describe a very unusual group of people: "Two Daves, one in a T-shirt, and an [old] Asian lady". The lack of racial details of the Daves indicates that they're the typical archetype of a young startup programmer. They could essentially be any race, so it didn't matter to point it out. The asian lady was meant to be the oddball, so that specific detail was necessary to paint that picture.
My counterpoints are not counterpoints. You are coming off as a double-talker. You're asserting that the 5C is _built cheap_ because it has a small screen. I'm saying the screen is the same as all the other iPhones apple currently has on sale. Thus how can the "small screen" be an indication that the 5C is built cheap when it's the same screen as the most expensive iPhone?
It's funny, but if you twist your mind just the right way, that comment by tedks sounds like (s)he's approving of my parenting strategy. :)
They have probably seen just as many proofs for God, but from people they trust more than you.
>Is the speed increase to gain from HTTP/2.0 really worth the loss of discoverability and the increase of complexity?

There is some data here: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper

Header compression resulted in an ~88% reduction in the size of request headers and an ~85% reduction in the size of response headers. On the lower-bandwidth DSL link, in which the upload link is only 375 Kbps, request header compression in particular, led to significant page load time improvements for certain sites (i.e. those that issued large number of resource requests). We found a reduction of 45 - 1142 ms in page load time simply due to header compression.

I'm probably biased though since I'm stuck on a slow connection despite living in a densely populated part of the UK. Connections here won't be improving till 2015 at the earliest. I dread to think how much larger the average web page will be by 2015, both in total size and number of requests.
No, I really don't get it. It doesn't seem that unlikely to me that some goofballs somewhere would actually push interview code to production, I have come pretty close to that situation myself. (Not saying it's a good idea, just that it could happen)
This.
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“The idea that this parasite knows more about our brains than we do, and has the ability to exert desired change in complicated rodent behavior, is absolutely fascinating,” Ingram said. “Toxoplasma has done a phenomenal job of figuring out mammalian brains in order to enhance its transmission through a complicated life cycle.”
--

There is no conscious awareness here, if that isn't obvious. It's cool this thing evolved to exploit behavior in this way, but it had no say in the matter.
I can think of many other ways there may well be a coming Dropbox Apocalypse.

Lets see: OS vendors wake up from their slumber, and start putting the OS back where it needs to be: beyond Web 2.0. Fact is kiddies, dropbox and the like are a hacky solution to a problem that should have been solved, properly, decades ago .. if only the OS vendors had not sold their souls, rested on their laurels, etc.

Another apocalypse: someone targets Dropbox and does the big `rm -rf /* ´ .. its not impossible, although like most Apocalypses, not likely to be a problem until it happens.
> Is the speed increase to gain from HTTP/2.0 really worth the loss of discoverability and the increase of complexity? It's my feeling that the connections are getting faster more quickly than optimizing HTTP would gain us.

I believe optimizations in HTTP2/SDPY is more about reducing latency on the server side as much as possible, especially when a single page can have multiple resources offsite. The quicker HTTP can process them all into one single connection to the client, the better the experience.

This cannot be fixed by getting faster internet connection.
On "poof magic": I agree, with a tiny minor reservation: when we say "mathematics did it", we stand a chance at speculating how.

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> […] the entire idea of seeing our models of the universe as being somehow responsible for its creation runs the risk of being a huge category error […]

Oh yes. When you think of it, actual models are encoded in brains, paper, computers… Which aren't exactly responsible for the existence of the whole universe. So,

> I don't take it for granted that the universe actualizes mathematical rules in that sense.

Neither do I. I just give it enough credence to put it in a shelf, and look at it again once we know more.

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> I distinguish between everyday claims, like someone telling me they went to a movie, and claims about new discoveries about the universe.

So do I. This is not a new discovery about our universe, however, not yet. This is a new discovery of a mathematical simplification. I wouldn't be surprised if this one yields no easily testable prediction, much like the Many Worlds Interpretation.

Anyway, I suspected for some time now that the fundamental laws of physics were simpler than they looked. I expected someone to eventually find simpler models. So, when some people claim they did, they at least get my attention. If you did not have the same expectation to begin with, then of course you would reach a different conclusion from seeing the claim.

That said, I do agree that

> such claims can and should be evaluated on the basis of whether they are supported sufficiently strongly.

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> I disagree with using them to justify a conclusion about the validity of a scientific claim.

No no no, that's not what I was trying to convey. Actually, that's about exactly the reverse. First, I try to have correct beliefs about the world. Then I try and tailor my sense of surprise to those beliefs. That way, when I make an observation (such as reading about a claim), I can use my surprise (or lack thereof) as a hint (no more) about the credibility of this new information.

I won't try to use my sense of surprise to justify anything to anyone. It's only a descriptor of my own beliefs. It's a valid argument only to the extent you trust my beliefs. Which would be foolish: I'm just a random guy on the other side of the internet.
I started to love Nintendo when I've got my GameBoy. I remember crying out loud in Geneva when my mother refused to buy me GameBoy color with Earthworm Jim :-)

Renting out N64 with my friend and playing it as much as we could through 1 month. I'm still a fan of Nintendo, this year bought Wii U and having fun with it. RIP
While I agree readability is valuable, HTTP 1.1 allows too much and is not really sane. See http://www.and.org/texts/server-http for example.
Ya - it looks a lot like this website actually. Its a good way to visualise it.
Is there a forum where tech info on this topic is discussed?
I hate the kerning. The OO just doesn't fit with the rest of the logo in the slightest.
The present king of Saudi was a falconer. Interesting pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_Abdullah_in_his_youth...
Thanks ishener. We would love to have you try it!
Elizabeth Warren has answers:

The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A

Everyone should watch the video. She answers for the question of having more cars etc.
Do you know the price?
FYI, I found the OP while re-reading Norvig's classic on spell-checker design, in which he mentions the chapter in passing: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

The chapter is part of a book, Beautiful Data, and Norvig has a separate page for the source code:

http://norvig.com/ngrams/
It is. Used in addition to (not instead of!) unit testing.
Tangential to the topic, but I can recommend Tixati as a new "I need a small, efficient, unbloated (with additional software) and free torrent client" alternative to what uTorrent has become.
pattern matching maybe? I would assume he can recognize his handlers by sight and checks out all of those he passes just in case they moved from where he took off from?

that or he saw lots of tasty little critters about
I'm surprised how many people assume this was a wild bird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconry