skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love my Nest, have had it since they were first available.

Took a smoke detector off the wall with a crowbar a few months ago because it was 3am, I couldn't sleep because of the damned beeping, and I didn't have any spare batteries nor the desire to find a chair or ladder to stand on. Replaced it the next day, but at least I got back to sleep.
The LHC beam-dumps[1] at CERN are also at that holy-shit-physics scale. A more explanatory article[2] also covers the superconducting magnet quenches, in which up to 10GJ of
stored energy suddenly decides it really ought to be following Ohm's law again.

Any good refs for this disruption situation?

[1] http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach...

[2] http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2007/protec...
Thanks! I will try opening a HSBC US bank account from my country of residence, Malaysia.

I've contacted SVB by phone. They told me to email them some details, but then they ignore my email.
Ads are an inconvenience, surveillance isn't.
It may be a metaphor, but it's also nothing more than a creation-anchor metaphor.
>music is a form of mating display

Hm, then why did I start learning the piano at age 6? Music is a form of communication and expression, and humans just tend to gravitate to people who are good at stuff we like (which make for good mating displays).
Lets say its 'the other side's perspective'.
"How was it a handwave if it actually worked?"

Ladar claimed that he had no way to access user emails. The hidden subtext of that, which was sort of hand-waved away, was that he had no such access with the code he had written, and that all that stood between your mail and his eyes was his own willingness to write that code. The entire security of Lavabit depends on Ladar and his principles.
How did you solved ELB 60s disconnections for idle Websocket connections?
I know it can be increased, but not by too much.

EDIT: also when 2 years ago I did load testing with ELB and created 1 million concurrent WebSocket connections, I did received mail from Amazon asking what the hell I doing and was asked to stop it ;)
AVG Antivirus website DNS hacked
Cascading 2.2 got released
As far as I know, the evidence is very conflicted on whether using a standing desks is actually better than sitting. Apparently, standing still is still sedentary.
I just want to say how much I love Inkpad. I am a heavy Illustrator user and Inkpad was super-easy to pick up and just start using without any prior experience or instruction. The multiple finger gestures are intuitive and the 'outline stroke' and pathfinder features are something I rely on heavily and are not common in vector-based iOS apps. I'm looking forward to reading some of your code!
Since they're already likely decoding and parsing the websocket protocol to proxy it, it'd be nice if they offered something like "SockJS-as-a-service", where Heroku handles all the different connection termination types, and just exposes a plain websocket (or maybe a raw TCP socket, even!) to your backend.
> sitting on your ass may be uncomfortable but it's not 1) addictive

Ok.

> 2) marketed heavily to teenagers

Its compulsory for teenagers (via mandates for school), as well as marketed heavily to them (in terms of sedentary occupations.)

> 3) causing life-long debilitating diseases

> 4) cheap and abundant.

No, sitting on your butt is actually both of these.
This smoke alarm looks very complex, and the amount of risk increases with the level complexity. For such a complex product, I would want to know some insights to the following.

What safety standards have been applied to the software development and product development?

Does it need wifi to work correctly?

Can you connect it to the mains power?

How secure is the wifi connection? ie Can it be hacked for malicious purposes?

etc.....

For something so critical to a life and death situation, I want something to function as simple as possible.
Does anyone know the timezone for this?
Ugh - what a fluff piece.

Perkash said that Lumoback’s goal is use technology in a way that helps, rather than destroys, our body.

This is just awful journalism. First, the typo should not be there (it's the fifth paragraph!). Second, the choice to let the press release/feature drive the story is just too much. Third, that statement would've been killed in any high school English/journalism class for being obvious/redundant/unnecessary. "You mean they don't want us to destroy our body? How great of them - I'll take two, please!"

No surprise though - she posted four "articles" today and four yesterday: http://venturebeat.com/author/rebeccaggrant/. The only way you could really do that is if you (a) read the press release, (b) fired an email off to the press contact asking a few basic questions or read the company's media kit, then (c) wrote the article based on that info alone. You don't have time to actually do any "real" journalism when you are on a "four article per day" quota.
That makes two of us. VoIP integration on Hipchat is something I'd like to see happen. (I don't work at Hipchat :D)

And obviously it looks like we're not the only ones on this.
http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions/suggestion...
Wow, these kids don't even have computers?
I came here to write this.
Yes, but some companies measure building long term brand and trust against trying to squeeze a few extra points out of PPC by making people feel tricked.
This sounds like a really cool project - Getting kids involved in coding could really boost their options for education and jobs later in life. Having worked for non-profits, I have seen money for youth education programs go to waste but now as a coder I really think that the kids that actually like it and want to get involved could really have their life trajectory change for the better.
PROTIP: Rather than getting cranky about someone using a subtly different meaning for a word from the one you tend to prefer, instead just mentally substitute a word or phrase that falls within your linguistic comfort zones while still capturing the author's intended meaning.

For example, in this case just mentally substitute the phrase "well adapted for" for "meant to".
"wait for the 'human voice' to explain" is an orders of magnitude better solution than the current one, which basically amounts to 'let's hope that I guessed correctly what it means'.
"radioactive dust" does not work that way. You should run some numbers and see if your movie-plot threat is plausible before proposing it as a risk. (hint: it's not)
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There was a (beta?) video calling feature that existing in the Adobe Air app only, but since most sane people have switched over to the native apps it disappeared.

I agree it would be a feature I'd love to see as long as it doesn't bloat the apps.
Shave at night! Not only slower and safer, but you wake-up with a lovely smooth face. Feels good to start the day smooth.
The ELB idle connection rule still applies: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-labs-websockets...

You'll need to send some data every ~55s or so in order to keep the connection alive.
I think I missed some important things lavabit had done in the past, I concede.
> a better smoke alarm may also alleviate the problem

Like the nest?
Im guessing that if the CEO of google had known of this, he has a big chip to fight it. If google threatened to shutdown or something, public outrage would destroy the NSA.

But they don't have to get up to the CEO, they get the foreign sysadmin guy and tell him he cant tell his boss or his lawyer or he goes to jail and you got anything you want.
There is no stdout, but if you want, you can print to something. Just open up a Transcript window and use 'Transcript show: ' method.
The fire alarms in all of my dwellings to date are wired into the mains.

Pulling the battery completely will simply cause them to beep incessantly.

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The BRINKS home security system I recently battled with (see my post elsewhere in this thread) had a lead acid battery that was used much like a UPS.

Luckily ours was a deactivated installation. Had it been an active installation there would've been NO WAY to disable the low battery alert aside from replacing the battery. (As disabling the panel entirely is the only option; which would've triggered a call to the police.)

Good luck replacing a 12V lead acid battery at 1 AM ... I have trouble finding them during my waking hours. At least there's a chance you'll have a decently charged 9V cell tucked away in a desk drawer.
It's just not there anymore.
"we’re giving you a monstrous amount of storage, 1TB (that’s 1,000 GBs), so you have ample space for all your emails and attachments."
I'm guessing Shalin is aiming for MIT, Stanford, and schools of their ilk. These fall under "high-end private schools".
It wasn't a handwave. It was the best current technology could offer, but this technology was not meant to deal with the oppressive government that can compel any company to reveal any information. As soon as Ladar realized that, and the fact that he is in the jurisdiction of the oppressive government, Lavabit was done.
Parimutuel betting is where all the bets are placed in a pool and when the pool closes we then distribute the winnings amongst the bets. [1] In fact, this is how a lot of horse racing works

This means you are not guarranteed betting X pays out Y. And this does change as bets are made on either side. And so one may think, why not just bet the last minute? House fees are initially 0% at 6 AM (PDT) but roll up linearly to 20% by 6 PM (PDT). This is to encourage betting early and discourage bet sniping at the last minute. [2]

Having said that, we do plan to move towards a floating model, more similar to the futures market as we gain transaction volume.

Current prediction targets are set by us. And bettor bet on either sides. As we gain liquidity and transaction volumes are increased, we plan to then turn this into a real time exchange so that the transactions are settled real time and we essentially have a moving prediction target.

In fact, this how we got our name at future representing futures market and block representing bit coin. :p

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parimutuel_betting
[2]: http://www.futureblock.com/how-it-works
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_exchange
It is up to the participants to bring in experts to make sure the judge has enough relevant information to make an informed decision. Really, even in this case, it does not seem like the judge is doing that badly on grokking the technology.

I think it's actually the other way around, where Lavabit doesn't understand the judicial system and the concept of evidentiary chain of custody.
So, just a heads up, but at Atlassian Summit, they announced. video chat support for HipChat. My understanding is that their is also support for not using the video as well.
If I recall right, the reason it was considered insider trading was that he had published numbers expecting a contract from the government. When he chose to stand up for principles, the contact never landed, which made those predictions false.

I'd appreciate a clearer explanation of this, but last time I read about it, it really did seem like the loss of the contract was out of revenge, and that his prosecution would never have happened had he caved to the requests which he felt were unconscionable.
Lift some heavy ass weights. The solution to poor posture isn't to find ever greater accommodation for atrophied muscles.
Show of hands: who else (this being HN and all) thought this was going to be a software package related to deployment smoke tests?
Unfortunately from someone looking from the outside, it looks like the venture industry you talk about is very small and restricted to a few areas.

Maybe one day... but even with companies that come from that culture, normally after reaching a certain point of greatness, many stop helping the solution and give in to the system in pursuit of more and more profits.

I'm very skeptical when it comes to changes in society. I really don't think it'll change anytime soon. At least not for better.
The biggest flaw in Outlook.com is the junk filter. You can explicitly mark domains and address as trusted yet it will still disable messages and flag them incorrectly as spam.
This was reintroduced at Atlassian Summit last week.
US soldiers and others near battlefields overseas are constantly getting ill from dust from the (badly named) depleted uranium ordinance that the US uses (and white phosphorus weapons).

That's what leads me to believe this is plausible.
Erm... Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "advisory-only VC" an oxymoron? If you're not investing capital, you're not a Venture Capital firm.
"I saw the best minds of my generation... (writing ad software)"
I've recently been experiencing numbness and sharp pains when sitting too long. Right now, my doctor feels I might have Pudendal Neuralgia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudendal_neuralgia
I publish a print magazine. Up to this point, we've avoided printing URLs in the magazine, because our printed issues may last longer than the links will stay live.

To solve the problem, we're launching our own link shortener this month, and printing our own shortened links in the magazine. That way we can control what happens when link rot sets in, whether redirecting or caching content on our own servers if necessary (and allowed by copyright).

The side benefit is that all our printed links can be easy to read and type, an important usability concern when dealing with print. A little self-referential branding on the shortener doesn't hurt, either.
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Computers are now part of basic literacy and ensuring all students have consistent access to them should be an absolute top priority for all school districts. If we can get students coding at a young age, even better!
Then you probably already know your house is on fire?
"CO detectors can be placed near the ceiling or near the floor because CO is very close to the same density as air" per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_detector
Even if it's fake it's real
I'm surprised you mentioned cost at all. A couple dollar handle and several hundred blades for ~$25. Even if you could only use the blades once (I am guessing you can use them more than once, I am thinking I should look into this more because it seems worth it) it is still cheaper than I spend in 3-4 months since I had to start shaving regularly (replacing cartridges).
The irony here is plenty of colleges I was familiar with had a forum/marketplace/craigslist like competitor of their own (as the author did). I have a hard time thinking of a campus that I knew of that didn't. The social profile angle Facebook ran with was less common in comparison
Nest Gives the Lowly Smoke Detector a Brain — And a Voice
Most people will take their SAT at the beginning of their Junior year. This way they have ample time to retake if they're not happy with their scores.

Stanford, MIT, and the Ivies see the SAT as more of a threshold score. I.E. there's not much difference between a 2300 and a 2400. As long as you have above a certain range, you should be fine. The SAT doesn't make or break people.
> This data set contains 2153471 users, 1143092 venues, 1021970 check-ins, 27098490 social connections, and 2809581 ratings that users assigned to venues

The number of check-ins seems to be low compared to other numbers.
So cool. Fractals were the thing that got me into high-level math and programming, back in high school. One of these days I'm going to go re-implement a bunch of the fractal-generation algorithms.
I found that ideas are pretty worthless until they are made real. That is the hard part I struggle with. Because implementation requires time, knowledge, and wealth. Something all in short supply.
You'd need ASIC Miners, but even then, you'd have a minuscule impact.

More importantly, if you have that much Gigahashing power, it's not worth manipulating this. You're better off sticking to mining Bitcoins.
I was thinking in the context of domestic use along the border or for use with drug interdiction.

Also, I can think of uses for temporarily incapacitating people. The US government sends in an airstrike along a corridor covered by airbases. However, when the opposing air forces try to scramble their jets, their pilots are incapacitated and harassed by quadcopter drones deployed from a container dropped earlier by a stealthed drone. I think there would be a lot of uses for such capability for special forces units.
I was unaware it was a separate committee. I apologize for my uninformed comment.
What about lying down? A few years ago, BBC covered a scientific study[1] showing that sitting at a 135-degree angle dramatically reduced spinal disk movement. Anecdotally, I found that this sitting position, midway between sitting and lying down, is most comfortable for prolonged periods of time. Maybe at my next workplace I'll insist that my office be fitted with a lounge chair.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6187080.stm
Well, you can give them your own business requirements, which should be high-level and state "I need a system that performs these functions for this many people". What you should not do is dictate design and implementation details. That's when you rely on their expertise. . .unfortunately, as you stated, that's rarely how it works.

Also, it would have really helped to have someone - likely not a developer - to bridge the gap and ask the customer "do you really need people to set up user access before viewing plans or you just want that? why?" and then turn to the developer and say "ok, what does that mean technically? what the pros and cons?"
Regardless of any technological or architectural decisions, simple load testing before launch would have prevented this.

1. Load test, discover issues.
2. Fix issues.
3. Repeat steps 1-2 until no more issues.

That is the flabbergasting part. Nobody actually tried applying real load to the system before release? It fell over so easily and quickly the only assumption is either no loadtesting was performed, the results were ignored, or massively incorrect load numbers were used (all of which are signs of incompetent mangement).
Correct http://support.nest.com/article/What-types-of-alarms-can-I-s...
Functional and Dysfunctional Programming
I think that early in our career, it's valuable to work alongside one or more experienced people. Not just to learn about programming technique, but also to see that it is possible to remain calm even when there are still a lot of unknowns on a project.

If you will be working alone on this then I would consider letting whoever the boss is know that you find it a bit daunting, but regardless will be trying your hardest. Being scared is more of a hinderance if you're also expending energy trying to hide it.
GHK published their paper later in the year (although they apparently arrived at the result independently..), which might be why they were left out.

In 1962 P.W. Anderson worked out that Nambu–Goldstone massless mode can combine with the massless gauge field modes to produce a massive vector field (e.g. the so-called "higgs-mechanism", but in a non-relativistic context). In 1964 E&B,H,GHK showed that this is also possible in a relativistically invariant theory.

Here's a twitter comment from John Preskill (caltech):
"The emphasis on finding a relativistic model may be misplaced, though. Anderson understood the mechanism well."
https://twitter.com/preskill/status/387580651664191488

So maybe Anderson is more deserving of the last spot than GHK.
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Amazon’s ‘Pay with Amazon’ Service Challenges PayPal
I'll be surprised if it doesn't have some whitewashed name like "Citzenship Revocation Program" that lets people talk about it without saying "killing".
No, it's not useful, it's exactly this kind of sloppy language that has so many people so confused about evolution to begin with. I'm not upset, so you mind your own feelings and don't worry about mine.
A photoelectric smoke detector seems to be around $20 on Amazon and CO alarm is ~$30, so you're right - it's between 2-3 times more. I was basing my comment on the actual pricing seen on the shelf at hardware stores here (DC), which is higher.

That said, it's hard to compare the base price without starting to talk about features: i.e. the cheaper detectors on sale around here tend not to have things like the LED needed to tell which of 5 alarms is currently going off. That part costs a few pennies but the pricing jump to get it much higher, at least for what was on offer at my local Home Depot last year when we replaced everything.
I don't understand. Are you citing the links, or the pages they reference? What about videos?
>About the only company in this space that makes super high end intimate products

There are a few others in this space, as well:

http://we-vibe.com/
http://www.jimmyjane.com/
The Art Of App Store Optimization - Part 1
While true, so, so much of your life is luck (or more accurately, good fortune through chance, only affected by positioning). While your chances may not exactly be 0.00006% that you'll succeed, I doubt that you can improve them to more than about 0.0001%.

Truly, we don't get where we get because of our capacity or our ability (in most cases). We get lucky, a lot, and we can't really change that.
I find this to be particularly interesting. While I agree, yes, these kids need some form of computers, from what it sounds like, you're choosing to use Mac Mini's. These are pretty high-cost computers, with much cheaper alternatives. Why not use a cheaper alternative?
10 Most Powerful Supercomputers And They All Run Linux
Would you download a car... while drunk?
I believe that would be a consultant
Actually, I can see arguments that it is all four of those.

1) Being sedentary is not directly addictive, but it is self-perpetuating. Being sedentary reduces your overall energy levels, and that leads to more sitting. There are also a ton of psychologically addictive activities that require sitting.

2) What about playing video games, watching movies, Facebook (or whatever the kids do these days), etc.? And don't forget studying. We actually force teenagers to sit for 6-9 hours a day for 75% of the year.

3) There's a good bit of evidence that supports that chronic sitting does, in fact, cause long term harm.

4) What's cheaper than sitting?
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Will people who are woken by an alarm learn to wave their arms in the air until it stops, then go back to sleep?
> While he opposes the bulk collection of domestic communications, he has no such strong feelings about the N.S.A.’s foreign-surveillance efforts.

As a non-American, I have a problem with this seemingly widespread idea even among privacy advocates in the USA that only Americans are entitled to the protection of their rights from the American government.
One of the ones I bought claims that you can point any standard TV remote at it to mute the alarm. I thought that was a pretty handy feature.
I happen to enjoy figurative language and I'm not going to give it up because other people because abuse it.

Should we throw out the word "theory" because creationists refuse to understand it?
I love the new, "And if you quoted this in the NY Times, will you do a correction for the now changed text?" line. That wasn't there when the NYT story broke, obviously. Very clever.
Does anyone know why this instantly jumped from #13 on the front page to #60?