skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my message was a bit confused there. I have all of my versions of 1password - OSX, Windows, and Android - syncing together on dropbox. I was anticipating that someone would recommend LastPass as an alternative that can be used on multiple devices. The point that I was making was that I trust the security surrounding my dropbox more than I trust LastPass's security - although I don't really know whether that's reasonable/rational.
Also interesting at the site, the first few pages of an article about an AMD stab at a graphics API:

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/09/30/amds-mantle-biggest-chang...

"AMD’s GPU14 public presentation had one big surprise at the end called Mantle [... which] is easiest to describe as a graphics API similar to OpenGL or DirectX but without the overhead."
link: https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
Partitioning digital life into security domains
Jesus! I misread and saw 25 pounds not 25 tons. Yeah, a skid plate would not protect from that I'd imagine.
Steve Jobs responding to an insult - 1997 [5 min video]
No; as he states in the article, the total combustion energy of the battery is approximately 10% of the equivalent gasoline vehicle. However, as the battery is divided into 16 modules with firewalls between them, the probability of more than one igniting in a cascading failure is significantly reduced.
> I think everybody knows that who has been reasonably close to people actually leading these institutes. Look at GS, MS or the rest - the CEOs and other top managers are many times coming from the government, and in many cases, ending up in government.

This doesn't disprove the author's point. The author is pointing out that a lot of technological innovation (eg - ' such as application programming interfaces') is churning inside of banks with no notice to the general public. This point is completely removed from politics and CEOs. The article just points out that there is a lot of software development within banks.
Having used a handful of insurance (health and otherwise) industry sites over the years, all I can say is that while all this criticism is no doubt valid, the bar is a lot lower than people might expect.

Medicare was successfully delivering care decades before the web was even invented and we all somehow survived.
> have essentially no information about either

Well, you just denied that privilege exists, and were unable to recognize a sexist comment as sexist. That gives me plenty of entropy to make a strong guess about how privileged you are.
You are missing the divide into 16 isolated battery modules.
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For sure, you are risking lower pay/less security for the chance of making it up in equity; as complete as info as you can gather is a must.
EdX to Work with France to Create National Online Learning Portal
There are millions of people legally required to get insurance now, and this is the place to get the information needed. People who already have health insurance provided shouldn't need to be poking around yet, and let the rest of us who have to deal with this at least get on the system.
Exploring a product's "a-ha" moment (and how Twitter gets users there)
I wonder how explosive the web's growth would have been if Hyper Text Markup Language was complex, pre-compiled, and invisible to end users.
Switching to DWM was the best thing that could have happened to my desktop. I rarely use the mouse ever since.
Maps is a great example of the difference because, wait for it, Apple never wanted to be in the mapping business. People are comparing Apple and Google and forgetting that the two companies ambitions are completely different.

Google wants the full vampire squid platter. It wants to be your phone OS, your browser, your desktop OS, your search company, your video site, your social network, your office software solution, your maps solution, your knowledge resource, your ISP, etc.

Apple never wanted to make a browser. Apple had to make a browser because the vampire squid company that led the market in browsers gave them a shitty one and used it to malign one of Apple's biggest products.

Similarly, Apple never even wanted to be in the Maps business. Apple had to get in the maps business on relatively short notice because the vampire squid company that led the maps market gave them a shitty one and used it to malign one of Apple's biggest products.
Look forward to testing it out.
You can't buy user base.
Instagram had 30 million users. Thats $34 a user. Facebook IPO was close to 100 billion, they had 1 billion users which is $100 a user.
Are you restricted to running in the browser?
Looks great! Id advise adding some Facebook sharing tags and maybe an image. Right now its just a link with no content or image on my fb feed.
This! +100 this.

I use SizeUp to make up for the windows 7 feature I loved the most and being able to quickly scale and tile windows with keyboard shortcuts.

Works great and definitely worth the money.

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
I tried i3wm, and I really wanted to like it. It's got the simplest configuration I've seen in a tiling window manager and it seemed very low maintenance.

Unfortunately, it's got some bugs, at least in the version packaged with Debian Wheezy, which ended up being a deal-breaker for me. One of the bugs is that when a container is vertically split, true transparency (with xcompmgr) gets messed up and you see a bunch of garbage in the background of the client.

I've also used AwesomeWM and xmonad, but both were too difficult to configure, especially because I don't know Haskell or Lua and I didn't want to learn a new language just to configure my wm, especially because I wouldn't use the languages for other purposes, and so I'd promptly forget the syntax and would have to re-learn it every time I wanted to change something in my wm.

I ended up switching to Openbox, and I'm still trying to decide whether it is for me.
I agree, the exclamation mark was a terrible thing to include. Imagine if someone died, would they still put the exclamation mark there?
You could always try selling commodity type stuff. Pick something you know there's already a market for like cell phone chargers or dry erase markers. Find a good supplier, preferably a drop-shipper (https://www.google.com/search?q=drop+shippers), and start selling. Start on Ebay and Craigslist to answer questions like "How much should it cost?", "Who is buying this stuff?", "Where should I promote my commodity?" Thereafter, it wouldn't be very hard to setup a Tumblr and then maybe build in Paypal or Stripe for payments.

At the very least, you'll learn tactics to market whatever it is you're hoping to build. It can also help you develop a supply chain.
Why is everyone so focused on shoving HN into an app when the site could just be made mobile friendly? There's no reason to go crazy making another app to manage when a few lines of CSS (and maybe a couple markup changes) would suffice.
StumpWM is really cool. It uses a similar keybinding system to Emacs and is extensible via Common Lisp.
Thats some great feedback, thanks. We're building a 'Top' page which will list the top voted songs of all time which should take care of one of your points.

If you have any more ideas, shoot 'em our way and we'd be happy to discuss.
The relevant metric here seems to be 'miles between fire events'. On this metric, we have exactly 1 data point for Tesla. I would hardly call that "probably enough".

Of course, I'm exaggerating in the other direction. What we really should be calculating is the odds that Teslas burst into flames less often than the average car, given that the average car does so every 20 million miles and the first such event in a Tesla was at the 100 million-mile mark. We're still failing to account for the fact that the average Tesla is newer and probably better-kept than the average car, but it would at least be a reasonable start.

I don't know enough statistics to perform this calculation, but I would like to see how it is done.
I think it's pretty relevant. The car was in a bad accident that no car would survive. Had this been a gasoline vehicle, the damage probably would have been much worse and there would have been a higher chance of the passengers getting caught in the fire.
Feature request: It would be nice if this page had the total # of employees / furloughed employees.
Seems like a smart move to me. Windows Phone is irrelevant to most consumers despite years of advertising by Microsoft. People just don't have a compelling reason to use it over more popular alternatives. If they can try it out risk free perhaps some will stick with it. Kind of a long shot move but at this point they are running out of options.
Three-Way Data Binding with Firebase and Angular
Good question.

Data confidentiality and freedom from malware and other exploits. I think running it normally would be safer.
yes, but the DBMS was the keystone to that value.
Full screen acme and the rest full-screened in "other window", one cmd-tab away. I try not to IM while working :)
Agreed. Read it halfway before reading your comment. Lot of vitriol the author has towards PCs/Intel.
On Linux i tend to use dwm (and dmenu), it doesn't have many features but then I don't really want anything more than a quick and easy way to fill a couple of workspaces with terminals, editors and browsers.

On Windows 8, WinKey + Left or Right are handy shortcuts.
Secret edits Twitter made to its IPO filing, hoping investors wouldn’t notice
Awesome guys! Would be killer to include something like PollDaddy. That way you could do presentations and gather real time data from the audience. Maybe I'll extend goreveal to do just that :)
Doesn't stopping the clock after 1 fire just penalize them, not benefit them?

That said, I also think the 1 fire is the problem here. Just think about how that relation changes with 2 fires.
AMD has played nice enough for people to release a stable free driver for their cards, but they haven't released enough information for a fast 3D driver.
I wonder what he means by 1/4" armor plate - AR500? Is it actually rated for armor plating, or just built with material from which you could also build rated plates?
There is an amount of fair criticism on the subject, but it has made sense (in my opinion), to equate these individuals as being very high in emotional intelligence / awareness of self, others, and the perceptions of themselves, by others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
I got used to it (at least for go.) I use acme for go and at the same time a full-screened emacs for html/css (and gnus) at the same time. Works far better than expected, speed wise.
>I can't think of any reason for them not to do this now...

The insufferable propaganda that would ensue, plus a lot of Windows customers making an inconvenient conclusion.
Bridging the Gap: Stripe Notifications
Alleged Silk Road drug kingpin denies charges
Yes, it is. However, they will probably lie to you about the cash they have on-hand, their burn rate, and when they'll hit break-even.
They must've hired a well-known team of web developers from elance:

http://toprate.org/FILES/programmers.jpg
Experienced Twitch streamer here. I've been streaming for almost 2 years now to Twitch.

On Profitability: In the gaming space, it's all about the sponsorships. Yes, Twitch ads are going to be nice cash for them, but I would ultimately expect their business to ride on helping promote company's gaming events.

Stream partner payouts are trash, pure and simple. Pull in 100,000 uniques over a month? You're not even eligible for partner status. On YouTube, you can get ~$300.00 for the same viewership. Somehow I don't think that partnerships are costing them much money at all.

Own3D.tv was only a "competitor" in the sense that they promised to pay out more to stream partners. They were full of lies. Several times Own3D.tv had big pushes to gobble up popular streamers from Twitch. I was contacted several times. Overall the Own3D.tv site was trash compared to Twitch's features, and the second you ask them the hard questions, "How often do you pay / When do I see my first paycheck", they couldn't answer you.

TLDR; Twitch will be profitable by keeping their costs down, building partnerships, and building brand recognition. Advertising isn't the end game for Twitch.
Oh Windows 3.1, you were right all along. :(
> yet prescription stimulants are just as addicting and have the same withdrawal effects.

In fact, in many ways, addiction triggered by prescription painkillers and stimulants can be more difficult to deal with. We have gotten fairly good (with a lot of improvement to go) at treating "standard junkies" but people who don't consider themselves to be in that "class" will often fail to seek out treatment because they fear association with that "class".

Basically, the stigmatization of illegal drugs and addiction in general causes collateral damage. The attitude that addiction is immoral or signals some sort of personal defect (more or less, the sort of attitude powertower is showing here) causes harm.
Yandex-tank: full-featured alternative to ab (Apache HTTP benchmarking)
Show HN: XFree86-style alt+drag to move windows in OS X
Semiaccurate is pretty much a tabloid, more than the Register is.
+1 vote for me. Slate has been great.

Additionally if you are using a Matrox device to get multiple screen support on your Mac, Slate comes in real handy. Rather than get 2 virtual screens the Matrox devices create one virtual screen that spans 2 monitors. Tiling managers like Slate are super helpful for snapping programs to monitors in cases like thos.
The comments on the Washington Post site are really a sight to behold.. I don't know who's worse, all the conservative/liberal commenters or the apple/android commenters.
No crunch time
Wow, they were that much? No wonder I never had one. I guess the price point wasn't that crazy. I was just cheap!
This could be critical if they make any headway in enterprise. Look at it this way: if MS figures out the "Killer App" for enterprise phones, they can easily have an IT department do a migration of their Android-based phones to WinPhone8.
Linking evolutionary causes to psychological causes is interesting if that is what you are studying. However, knowledge of such link does not actually give you emotional skills. Those skill require awareness and practice. It might be enhanced with a knowledge of links between evolutionary causes and psychology -- or knowledge of psychology for that matter -- but it is not necessary when actually exercising the skill.

It doesn't matter how much you know or don't know about rejection. What matters more is how you feel about rejection and your skills at working with emotions.

In any case, I suspect what you are doing in writing that response is exactly the process I had described: the use of intelligence and knowledge to avoid actually being aware of what you are feeling and underlying emotional currents.

Digging up the roots work. There's a little bit more to it than that. However, I don't have an interest in convincing you that it works. :-)
What is your very old browser? That bit of information might, you know, help Twitch web developers reading this.
They don't seem particularly willing or eager to make changes to the frontend. I don't know if that's because it's difficult to do in Arc or because pg doesn't want to risk breaking the site's mojo with some minor UI tweak that has unintended consequences or what. People have definitely complained about it from time to time.
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Twitter celebrity name-dropping reflects novel IPO risk
Also, forgot to mention we do have a New page already. Just click the 'Hot' dropdown at the top of the list and you should see 'New' which will display newly submitted songs.
not until Bezos becomes President. How about Government-as-a-Service? (I mean for regular citizens :)
The federal government is operational, so the text at the top of the page is politically dishonest.

We still have a federal government that is taking care of national defense, among a number of other things.

"Non-essential" services have been suspended, while "essential" are still operational.

Frankly, I'd like it if it stayed this way. The government shouldn't tax-and-force in "non-essential" areas.
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What you are looking for is an "object recognition" algorithm. These algorithms take one or multiple images of an object (e.g. your little statue) and then try to locate it in another image.

Generally, they are computationally expensive, so performing them on a video stream, especially inside the browser, will most likely not work, even for rather low resolutions.

I have some experience with the SIFT algorithm. Takes some time to grok it as the algorithm consists of several sub-steps.

You may want to look into OpenCV, they have a couple of algorithms implemented.
An easy starting point would be to get this kind of data on similarly aged cars - cars sold over the last 2-3 years, then see what stats you can get there. I'd guess that you'd find some models that have never caught fire and some that have done so a lot more than tesla's, but that's pure speculation on my part.
"Google has more market share than Apple in just about every software category, so if Google can iterate, than why can't Apple?"

This seems like the wrong way to understand each companies motivations. Google got into the maps market because Google's ambition is to be the worldwide leader in (among other things) mapping software. Apple got into maps because Google maps product for iOS was shitty and that was being held against the iPhone.

Apple doesn't want to be in every software category, much less be the leader. Google does.
I'll get on that. I'm thinking of adding some other ways of looking at the data as well, since I'll have some actual time this weekend.
> Freedom of speech is about inconvenient opinions, not about "everything you can do by communicating with others".

Wonderful distinction!
Not only that, but Obama's campaign used AWS heavily (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/how-te...).
But isn't the point of all this to make the process of getting health coverage less painful? A few glitches or a slow site are to be expected, but from what I can gather, the site was literally unusable for several days.
You say that as if 10k is too small a sample size to extrapolate accurately with, but actually that's a huge sample size that if done properly would be extremely accurate. You don't need to poll anywhere near 10k people to accurately predict all Americans views.

You can sample less than 2000 people and get 99% accuracy with a 3% margin of error for a population of 325 million. Increasing the sample size to 10k simply reduces the margin of error to 1.29%, hardly worth the extra sampling of 8k people.
There are a lot of contractors sitting on the sidelines, too, made to take leave or, if they don't have leave, they go without pay. In other words, the "man hours lost" is probably much higher.
Totally wish I had this for a project I worked on recently. Stripe is bad-ass, but implementing the bag of standard emails to tell customers about payment "events" of various types was a PITA.
As I understand it, you have until January 1st.
Have*. It's must have. Or, must've, but that feels very weird.
I'll see if I can't find some better data. I know there are some groups we are definitely missing.
I used to use Divvy for this purpose.
The combination of xmonad, dmenu and emacs --daemon has brought me great joy. The way I use computers has changed completely since starting down the tiling window manager road. It's a shame that getting the configuration for them right can be such a pain, but it has been well worth the trouble!
Well, yeah, I already contacted them directly when my browser stopped working with the site and they pretty much said they can't support stone-old browsers. Can't blame them.
They fall under the Department of the Treasury.
I've been selling scripts on CodeCanyon (http://codecanyon.net?ref=fillerspace). I spent a day or two on each of 3 plugins (2 jQuery, 1 WordPress) back in May, and they have earned me $306.50. Not exactly retirement money, but some of the top sellers make 5 figures per month. This is truly passive for me since I wrote the code once and haven't had to do anything since.
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I see it as any big new service out there. In the beginning there is going to be a spike in user interest.

That's what I was thinking. If experienced development organizations like Blizzard and EA and Rockstar can't pull off a glitch-free first day launch, I'm going to cut these government agencies some slack.
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You example just reinforces the point.

Please don't argue against statistics (mathematical information based on fact) when you don't understand them.
>Frankly, I'd like it if it stayed this way. The government shouldn't tax-and-force in "non-essential" areas.

you must be kidding.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/2/irs-collectin...

"IRS collecting money but not sending tax refunds during shutdown"
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dvito is one of the creators.
This is not a "pivot". Our Premier service is still active and have bunch of happy satisfied users https://premier.mobileworks.com . The VA service is little more expensive than leadgeni.us mostly because leadgeni.us is higher commitment service.

We do send out emails to our crowd and give them opportunities for longer work with us. We interview them, vet them and certify them in different skills. Some of them are lead generation, outreach and sales skills. We do this fairly regularly among other things to engage with our worker community and expand them.

I am curious why you thought that this means our interest are not aligned with our customers interests. We would not be in business let alone have that many satisfied customers if we were not.
If you're familiar with the what happened between Be Inc. and Microsoft back in the 90s, this is pretty hilarious.

(Be wanted OEMs to sell computers that dual-booted Windows 95 and BeOS. Microsoft retaliated by cutting off those manufacturers from the normal OEM discount on Windows licenses.)
I ask my self how much better could I do then what they have presented. I like to think in this case I, myself, without the teams of developers and millions of dollars could have made a system that queries a database that could handle 7m page views per day.
I think the problem is that tiling window managers have never been mainstream, so they are all targeted at people who would go out of there way to install a tiling window manger. By contrast, even non-mainstream composting window managers have the benefit of seeing how the mainstream ones do things to be usable (and have had more effort put into them in general).
Another problem is that tiling window managers are (almost?) never part of a complete desktop environment. They may pay lip service to this (in the form of a basic start-menu type thing), but for the most part they are simply window managers. With composting window managers, no one (except the developer) thinks of the WM by itself.
Yeah, that's my point. That there's a widespread convention that a thread is over once a comparison to Nazis is made because, well, where do you go from there? - and yet in this case, the comparison is factually very similar to where the Nazis were in the early 1930s, before guns and bombs became necessary. And yet we got the Holocaust and WW2 because nobody intervened back when it was "just" a surveillance state and a bunch of economically disenfranchised people looking for a scapegoat.