skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like that too, but my solution is to not trust the camera and have a sticker over it which I can remove when I want.

There work well because they have a sticky portion and a part that has no adhesive: http://www.post-it.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Post_It/Global/Pr...

The view from my camera with the sticker on is: http://i.imgur.com/y0OKxqO.jpg
One of the author's frustrations, seeing months of work abandoned - is the byproduct of training programmers as scientists and engineers rather than designers...or rather it is the byproduct of a pedagogy which attempts to extend mathematical logic and proofs to messy social problems.

Landing pages and NoSQL backends are not deductively better or worse: at best they are statistically or inductively so. Typically, however, choice is simply intuitive.

Making good intuitive choices is the essence of design and the way to develop good design intuition is not to sit down and bash on one's first solution until it plausibly works. Education should attempt to teach students that falling in love with one's first idea is a tarpit.

Teach students the practice of coming up with three independent design schemes and developing each to the point that the merits and flaws of its underlying design concept is evident. Maybe one is worth developing.

Throwing away months of output is not wasted effort - just as lines of code are no more a relevant measure of productivity than pencil lines on a blueprint. Artists have stacks of sketches and studies, architects stacks of abandoned schemes.

Most ideas are not worth loving, let alone executing and most solutions cannot be demonstrated correct via mathematical logic. The education of programmers should align with this reality.
I don't agree with the assumptions behind your analogy.

You believe it's a natural mapping from "ocean travel" to "space travel." This is frequent enough to be a trope at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceIsAnOcean .

However, you have not established that it's true. Space travel could be more like hovercraft travel. There rare cases where hovercraft are the most appropriate means of transport.

Or to be more generous, it could be like air travel. The air cargo and passenger industry is huge, yes. But it's dwarfed by ship, train, and road transportation.

Nor have I established that it's a false analogy. I've only pointed out many counter-examples of how the premises you've given don't necessarily lead to the conclusion you've reached.

But let's assume that you are correct. South Africa is a resource-rich country with good ports. How come economics doesn't "favor industry controlled by" South Africa, while it will favor Mars that way?

Kenneth Burke gives an example of gradatio, a rhetorical technique: "Who controls Berlin, controls Germany; who controls Germany controls Europe; who controls Europe controls the world". That construct is well-enough known that a Google search for "who controls * controls the world" finds dozens of different examples in the first few pages of hits. Here's a baker's dozen of them:

- He who controls food, controls the world
- He who controls information, controls the world.
- Who controls the moon controls the World
- Whoever Controls Princess Diana, Controls the World
- He who controls the water controls the world
- Who controls Eurasia, controls the world
- He who controls the internet controls the world
- He who controls the branding controls the world
- Who controls money, controls the world
- who controls Jerusalem controls the world's memory.
- He who controls the calendar, controls the world
- he who controls the seas controls the world
- The person who controls the oil controls the world

Your argument so far is essentially "Who controls Mars controls the industry of the Solar System." I believe that's highly speculative and not reasonable.

I can be wrong. How is it likely that Mars will be the center of industry within the next, say, 200 years? What is the process of getting to that point?

You suggest that it's easier access to "most of the resources in the Solar System". How does the economics of that work out? And I don't just mean nickel mining of asteroids, since there's plenty of historical examples - again, South Africa - where raw ore extraction does not lead to overall market control.
I love yUML, and implemented a tool to generate yUML code from objective-c. https://github.com/darkFunction/DFGrok
Bookmark hell? What about click through stuff hell?

Needless to say, 5 clicks through, I gave up.

How about a normal link to a normal page explaining your offer?
I'm just here to smirk at the old narrative - that the iOS customer doesn't balk at paying for stuff - being slowly whittled away as the march towards smartphone commoditization continues at pace.
Yesterday, I happened to come across a particularly inspiring reddit post about about determination and drive. Objectively it's rather silly, but I left that window open anfd got to work.

No less than five times that day, I switched over to my time-wasting site 'work'space to procrastinate, saw the post, and decided to keep working instead.

I got a lot more done yesterday than I had planned on. I think that there's definitely something real here.
Hi sally. A sin? Definitely not. The reason gender mentions is an error is because it's actually illegal for a job spec to discriminate either way in terms of hiring. If you're getting false negatives with this rule, please let me know and I can revise it :)
"slowness" is not the problem here - it's "slow program startup". If your process only lasts for tens of milliseconds, you're not going to make it any faster by embedding C code because 99% of time is still going to be spent initializing the python VM.
>All they had to do was recompile the app and potentially fix a few small bugs.

That's all they had to do eh. It's all so simple.

>If they are unhappy with how much money they are making then they simply need to raise their prices.

Haha. Or charge for upgrades?

The 99c app business, is shit-business. I feel for app developers. You can't build a company around that price point. Either you charge more or you go down the recurring revenue model. Neither is easy. If you're a game developer you go freemium, and you try to squeeze as much revenue out of your customer base.
Terrible presentation. Unless I'm missing something, Scrapbook on FF has been doing all this for me for a couple of years. Admittedly it is not supported as yet for > v17 but otherwise it's a terrific tool.
It's 540lbs which is way to heavy to be considered a superbike [1].

For reference -- unlike Mission who presumably are hiding the weight on purpose -- Suzuki lists their stock GSX1000R as 450lbs wet on its spec page[2].

[1] http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-reviews/first-drives/2014-mi...

[2] http://www.suzukicycles.com/Product%20Lines/Cycles/Products/...
Star Wars lightsabers finally invented
Just as well: there are people spending thousands of dollars in cutting edge PCs or Home Theatre systems, and then playing only pirated games.

And in the Appstores case the free alternative is even legal!
This Ariely experiment is unconvincing because it's quoted with percentages.

Are the free customers switching down from the luxury product, or are they new customers who otherwise would have gone for neither option?
The percentages withhold that information.
> Rare is the job that allows the job-holder to write code for the sake of writing code.

Just as rare is the job that allows the job-holder to clean up toilets for the sake of cleaning up toilets. Janitors clean toilets for a reason: allowing people to poo in a clean, healthy environment, therefore diminishing their stress and health problems, therefore making them more productive at whatever they do, which means more money for their company. On the other hand, getting paid for cleaning toilets up without reflecting on those good consequences is quite common.

Programming is the same. Many, possibly most programmers, are paid to implement specifications handed out from above, few questions asked. They are definitely not paid to think about the actual business value of the solutions they are told to implement. The bigger the company, the more junior the programmer, the truer this is.
As someone who's worked at (and quickly left) places where quality of code was measured by the amount of tests (while copy pasta, immediately evident memory leaks, and ASCII-art // HACK boxes lived throughout the entire app), I'd react positively to a job ad that mentioned http://programming-motherfucker.com/.
Lisp Dialect Reference Sheet (Clojure, Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, Racket)
I think the only way out is to allow demo apps. I find it really hard to justify $10 or $20 on an app which may or may not fit into my workflow.

That's on top of the problem of determining whether something is of reasonable quality (i.e. even does what it claims) from a few screenshots and likely-gamed reviews.

The problem gets worse the more complex the app... Yes, reviewer A might find it useful because some subset of the features work OK for them, but perhaps I just want one specific feature which they don't care about?

Without a demo I'm left with the size of the community around and app, and a general 'buzz', both of which make it harder to enter the market at all.
Remy Ft Yc Misery Loves Company http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3JcSeCyykM&sns=tw via @youtube
Little bits of information are leaking out over time. I don't think his attendance at Black Hat was publicly known before this week?

I don't think it's surprising that MI6 / GCHQ CESG / NSA / etc send people to conferences like Black Hat.
> It's because Google and Apple want it that way

I imagine Apple and Google are largely indifferent. Low price points make their platform more attractive. Higher price points, make them more money.

It's just competition. The barrier to entry is incredibly low (lower than it's ever been on desktop, because billing and distribution is done for you), and now it's a race to the bottom.
> So whoever sits near the break room can't get anything done

Why do you want to do anything in the break room, apart from... you know, having a break / fun while away from the keyboard?
You got me curious. Could you please post the link?
> It's becoming a career decision to neglect your children so you can claim special needs status and therefore disability benefit (and celebrity status on FaceBook amongst peers).

This is a hateful stigmatising lie.
doesn't chrome have this built in?

going a step further, i'd like full text search of every page I've ever visited. bookmarking, even a single click, is a hassle and easily forgetten when grokking many pages in quick succession.
How Customer.io helped to better engage with users
The transgenders would burn you down.
He might have been a pre-Snowden that didn't escape:

Williams was unhappy with his work environment at MI6 and felt he didn't fit in with his colleagues. During the inquest, testimony revealed that the coder had conducted unauthorised searches of an MI6 database

also: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/codebreaker-death/
I agree whole-heartedly ... There are very few days when I dread what I have to work on, and you can always find something to improve.
Ask HN: Interested in contributing to Open Source?
You can decide which filters you want - or write your own :-)
Looks like a glitch in the Matrix to me.

Information contained in a cubed meter should be equal to information contained in 100^3 cubed centimeters (the number of cubed centimeter parts in a cubed meter).

But it's not.
Generically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching

And as for a language / call semantic look at Erlang for what actual pattern matching looks like.
Quitting Facebook: What's Behind the New Trend to Leave Social Networks?
>Most people in nearly every company from the PA to the CEO sits at a desk with a screen and makes clicking sounds 95% of the time. With the minor process of of 'talking' added, this is the basic description of ~all jobs.

Huh? Even if we restrict things to the civilian sector, there are a LOT of jobs that don't involve that-- police, firefighters, EMS, doctors, nurses, farmers, manufacturers, construction, etc.
I have been doing various workshops and things to help people make their first contributions to open source, realised I could publish the prep work I have to do and hopefully help a lot more people.

Would really appreciate any answered questions or input on github about it.

Cheers
Dale
That's the Golden Gate Bridge, which is shorter and has ped/bike lanes (separate from traffic, IIRC).

The Bay Bridge's western span has no such thing.
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Nothing like another example of a todo list app to illustrate the downward spiral of app store pricing. Creativity can still get a high price in app store. Find a niche, and develop a great app, and customer will pay. Case in point: Cubasis https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cubasis/id583976519
Libgdx and bullet physics doing silky smooth 60fps on iOS [video]
Some Obvious Things About Internet Reputation Systems
I find Neil deGrasse Tyson's case is particularly amusing, where he himself corrected it multiple times only to find it changed back to "atheist" (from "agnostic").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzSMC5rWvos around 1:31.
Technobiophilia: can we get all the nature we need in digital form?
This. I also have trouble breaking large tasks into smaller tasks -- a project planning skill that some people seem to have naturally.
Microsoft's C compiler doesn't have C99 support.
I'm not 100% sure how the process works but from what I've seen, when the analyst is examining a company or product they work mostly with the website and other marketing materials, which makes it possible for the tool to do one thing while marketing copy says otherwise. That information is probably coupled with revenue, maybe some news analytics and relationship with the analyst to come up with the final determination. I believe how it works is still a secret but I'd sure love to know more about how it really works.
Coercing an under 18 year old (and knowing she was under 18) into providing nude photographs against her will should be prison time.

It's cases like this - where people are rightly disgusted and horrified - that make other cases seem really baffling.

(http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/webcam-scandal-resu...)

> A suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a webcam spy scandal was hit Tuesday with new allegations that a student-issued laptop secretly recorded more than 8,000 images.

> The latest accusations, which were said to occur during a six-month period ending September 2008, has left the high school student “shocked, humiliated and severely emotionally distressed,” (.pdf) according to a federal invasion-of-privacy lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages.

> As part of an FBI investigation and a lawsuit brought by a different student, a judge had contacted the boy’s parents informing him of the breach, and invited them to view the pictures. The youth’s parents were shown 4,404 webcam photographs and 3,978 screenshots captured with the Lower Merion School District–issued MacBook.

Who the hell thought that could ever possibly be a good idea?
well this is pretty fucking dumb
This was exactly my sentiment when I started doing Ruby full-time.

I appreciate all the niceties that dynamic-typing language like Ruby provides. But I am not sure the trade-offs are enough (all you already described).
>>That's a hard pill to swallow, but we should let it sink in. We pour all our creativity, time, and passion into creating basically worthless products.

Obviously not. A cup of coffee is worth $2, period. An app only worth $0.50 to a million people is worth $500k.
I remember the times when the iPhone wasn't technically a smartphone because it a) didn't have a keyboard b) didn't have custom apps installation.
The latest and greatest - why we only support modern browsers
Directionless Wandering: Cursed by Dreams
I think prompts with "hey, don't forget your dreams!" won't work long, but I think prompts like "Why are you doing this? What is your goal?" etc that force you to respond (and it should track your responses, so you can read your older responses) will quickly force you to come clean with what your real goals are. well- that's my hypothesis.

Won't know until I get to try it out myself. It's kind of like having a commitment buddy, only you don't feel like you're imposing on someone as much
I've noticed that you've deleted and re-submitted this constantly. This is the third one I've counted - there may have been more.

It was submitted 9 hours ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6467599

But you knew that, as you have deliberately appended a "?" to the URL.

Here are two of your earlier submissions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469199

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469136

Interestingly, one's just "gone missing" while the other is marked as [deleted]. Not sure what the difference might be.

I see you've also done the re-submission thing here:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6468064

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469285
It's a fun idea but you'd have to be sifting through a lot of jobs to make automating the task worthwhile. I'd be worried a decent job would slip through the cracks because of being filtered out.

I'd suggest the best way to find jobs you're interested in would be to filter things with an inclusive filter, rather than an exclusive one. After running joblint, you'll end up with a list of jobs that survived, rather than ones that stood out.

I can't see this ever being genuinely useful during the next time I'm job hunting. I can see it being useful for recruitment companies who want to sanitise their listings, though. Maybe commercialise a site that can handle that as a service and aim it at them?
I liked the presentation, didn't like the history-filling aspect.

But what I don't like is the fact that I have to change the way I bookmark things, and I certainly don't like the fact that I've got to highlight text. Can't you change it to a plugin which hijacks the default add bookmark feature, and indexes the text of the page automatically?

The latter is probably more important.

You've definitely identified a real problem here.
I have been using a similar technique with great effect:

<input type="text" name="jscheck" value="fail" style="display:none" />

<script> $('input[name="jscheck"]').val('pass'); </script>

On the server side you need only check if the jscheck=pass.

This comes with two caveats. If the spam bot supports JS, their submission will pass. If a user browser has JS disabled, their submission will fail.

In production, this has worked really well for me.
> Curious how it responds to temperature changes, though.

That's a good point. It is common to use a transistor to measure temperature. One could control temperature of the 3904 with a peltier if needed.

silicon bandgap temperature sensor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_bandgap_temperature_se...

http://www.sensorsmag.com/sensors/temperature/temperature-se...
I've been a PM, and also worked with software on a more abstract level (enterprise architecture). Came back to coding, and am happy with it. I much prefer poorly documented franeworks and half-baked tools to the day-to-day nonsense of politics that is inherent to working in higher-level role in any bigger organisation.
Please add some left-padding to the content...
this+delicious.
Then I'm not sure what you're looking for. What does it say about our society except that we like pretty girls and the contestants like the competition?
Just wondering whether there is any REGULAR electric bike (100cc-200cc engine) - that would be an instant HIT in the developing countries like India and China ....
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I would seriously advise anybody from using this device. Designing a hardware true random number generator takes a lot of effort that this design is evidently lacking. For example, there is no whitening whatsoever. Even worse, the firmware includes a line of code that ensures that the "RNG" never outputs the same "random" number twice in a row.

Also, usually HW RNGs include a firmware module that is constantly monitoring the entropy output and shutting off the generator in case of it sinking below a certain threshold to detect hardware failure and prevent it from causing predictable output.

Some more information on this subject can be found at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...
I do not want to discourage anybody from working on such things. I think this is a nice project idea and a very good opportunity to learn a lot about random numbers. Please, though, always put a big warning on any crypto things you designed youself and do not present them as a finished product.

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I had a colleague once that wanted to invest 4-8 hours writing a script that would save her about 1 hour each time it is run. The script was expected to be ran about once a week.

She did the wrong thing and asked her boss. "Not enough time, there's more urgent things to do."

She then lost an hour per week, contributing to the general sense of urgency that she lived under. Of course, this wasn't the only such script she thought about by far.

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My advice: if you can shoulder the risk, automate it before your boss tells you not to.
You're not wrong. From riding myself I remember many times when a ride went a bit further, or a bit wider than expected and one of the group would need to top up, so there would need to be a lot to make this viable and relaxing.

For commutes, it's fine. It's almost like it should be a sporty tourer, but then that's no fun on a press release.

I think given the Formula E plan of having 2x cars per race, racing is actually more applicable. Racing will challenge how these bikes are recharged/replaced quickly.

The most often overlooked issue with press-release-bikes, is that many motorcycle owners will show terror at the thought of having a no-brand bike. The cost of parts, servicing, or replacement if it gets crashed (it will) is so high, that it really is only a toy for the naive or rich (or both).
How is this board compared to Espruino[1], Johnny Five[2] or other aurdino implementations that can run javascript?

1: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/48651611/espruino-javasc...

2: http://makezine.com/2013/07/20/javascript-powered-arduino-wi...
At least on MacBook Pro computers, you can use a thin magnetic strip to cover the camera. My friend was making these by hand, and never got around to the kickstarter :)
TV is read-only wikipedia with hidden discussion pages and anonymous admins paid by politicians.
Ask PG: Why did the JustFab post get killed?
Not looking for conspiracies, but the post about JustFab[1] just disappeared off the front page suddenly. This was noticed and discussed in another thread[2] here. It would be great to understandt why this happened. Was it in violation of some HN protocol or was it simply killed by the algorithm?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6467393
This is just a friendly reminder that if you would describe yourself as a procrastinator, it might be something more. If you've always been one, if you want to do things, but can never do it, it could be a sign.

ADHD is a real problem, and has real solutions (and those solutions aren't all addictive).

If you feel like you are always running behind, always trying to catch up. If anyone says you are a great developer, but that you're always playing catch up, get checked. It can help change your life for the positive.
Morning routines make you a powerful startup founder
it's misleading to say that this is gasoline; gasoline has branched, short-chain fatty acids, and if you are thinking about using the output of this e coli directly in your engine with no further additives, the octane rating will be in the negative number range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating