skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good redesign.

I've had a Mirra for maybe 5 years now, best chair in the house. The only issues I had were the prongs which provide the back skeletal strength broke through the mesh. As the meshing is plastic this meant a sharp pain in one's shoulder blade. The warranty covered the fix and paid for fedex to came to my house with a giant box and ship it for repair. I cannot imagine what it must have cost to ship a full sized chair! Even still I was out a nice chair for a couple weeks. Those few weeks reminded me how much nicer the Mirra was compared to my old staples chair.

This redesign appears to address said structural weakness by spreading the point of contact. It also widens the usage space for positioning your back. In my Mirra 1.0 your body must be dead center else your back will be sitting over a pointy prong. It looks like this 2.0 will have a backing which folds into your back, hugging it so to say.

It also appears they have slimmed the box below the seat. In general the plastic casings are slimmer and less bulky. Also of note it appears the adjustable lip where your knee joints occur has been given a longer radius of rotation. Or atleast it looks longer to compared to my Mirra.
I think it's a legitimate topic to discuss. I think the name of an app or project is very important to its success.

I'm not offended over the name, but simply curious as to why they chose it. I personally wouldn't choose a controversial name if I wanted my app or project to be adopted by others.
Microbenchmarks are a distraction. Macrobenchmarks matter.

The real problem with bash is the mess you get when you start needing whitespace or arrays or error handling or non tabular objects or a computation not already implemented as a system program.
> Ok, so issuing a blocking call is "simple, familiar and intuitive". Invoking a Future or a Promise is "so many unfamiliar patterns".

You got it! Great job!

> Yes Sir, with this attitude I hope to make a remarkable progress in my tech career :)

Well one way to not make a remarkable progress in your career is use fads, acronyms, and unnecessarily complicated constructs. Why use futures in that example when actors perfectly model the problem domain? Are you showing off that you know about Futures and they are easy?
> from the film Ratatouille (2007)

Which was, incidentally, not a very good or meaningful Pixar movie whatsoever.
That is actually a really good idea for a website.

I should attempt it as a hobby sometime.
Except there is already a breakout board for the Raspberry Pi called a Pi Crust: http://picru.st/

Hope they got permission to use the name.

Anyway, I do like what Ninja Blocks are doing on the 'home automation for hackers' front; they should probably get involved in Z-Wave although I believe that is somewhat expensive to license (?). There is another group doing a Z-Wave board for Raspberry Pi ( http://razberry.z-wave.me/) but they haven't committed to producing it for the Australian frequency yet (the Ninja Blocks folks are mostly Aussies I believe FWIW).
"Apparently addressing a quasi-free-rider issue with health insurance (those folks who pay almost nothing but still get coverage) is a bad thing."

Those folks who paid almost nothing but still got coverage were healthy, young people, who have many fewer costly medical problems than older people. You can be sure that they paid enough in premiums for the insurance companies to make a profit on them (on average) after paying for their medical expenses, since insurance companies are for-profit businesses that don't like to lose money.

The fact that they were only paying their own way and not subsidizing someone else's insurance rates by overpaying for their own coverage doesn't sound like a "free ride" to me.

Consider car insurance: Should middle-aged drivers with clean driving records (who pay the lowest rates) pay higher rates so that teenagers, who get into more accidents, can have more affordable rates? Or should the rates be proportional to the amount the insurance company has to pay out for a particular group of drivers? If "health insurance" is really insurance against a predictable set of risks, why should it be different from auto insurance?
Outcome Bias and the Interpreter: How Our Minds Confuse Skill and Luck (PDF)
That's the conclusion this forum came to every other time we talked about it too :)
Robo Raven III: Integrating Solar Cells into Wings (UMD Robotics)
Use redshift, its available in Debian so you can just apt-get it. There is a gtk interface (gtk-redshift) to help with configuration.
A good replacement for Gmail?
So I think Gmail has finally jumped the shark.

I just spent too much time looking for the setting button on my gmail screen to turn off html email, hidden behind all the social crap they want me to give a shit about, and I decided to start looking for a new webmail client.

Any ideas? I want something minimal that looks like the original gmail, before I had to turn off/ ignore circles, chat, video, plus (wtf?), etc etc.

Plus the old colors were much better -- it was great to have blue backgrounds to border off the important things. Now it is just a sea of ugly white. Yuck.
Greg from Rafflecopter here - our name is mentioned in your terms of service for some reason http://cl.ly/image/0A2L0W0L3G2t glhf
> In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read.

It's not as easy at it seems. A critic needs to have experience, knowledge, and a certain eloquence in order to have any kind of power or influence. And a critic does take risks every time he writes a piece. Should he write something bad, he may lose his reputation and his following. A critic has to be consistent over time as well - one cannot say A and then B about the same time 2 years later. It's more challenging that it seems, and that is probably because this line was written by a movie script writer who does not like critics.
> I'm familiar with enterprise IT

I am also familiar with snobby wannabees functional programmers who instead of opening the goddam file and reading it are creating homomorphic endofunctors wrapped in futures with double memoization and distributed locks, so that nobody on the fucking team knows what's going on.

These people are 10x more dangerous than mediocre programmers who just find the simplest way to get the work done and ship the product.

Eventually 1% of the wannabes might get enlightened and realize that simple basic code is usually better than using every single programming concept wrapped in 100 lines of code that nobody (including themselves 2 weeks later) can understand.
Nice backpedal from "definitions".
Today. That won't be true next year.

I never cease to be amazed at how people judge things by what's out right now, rather than where the puck will be tomorrow.
Reinvest in infrastructure and put quality ahead of everything, including dividends and share price? Wow, what a concept...
Some notes--

When we recompiled for 64-bit/universal (from 32-bit before), f.lux's RAM usage went from 6MB to 29MB (but Apple requested that we change it, so we did.) You could probably set f.lux to run in 32-bit mode and have the old footprint.

CoreLocation is an important feature for us, and we have to include a map and a Javascript host to access Google's geolocation service at all. There is no more reliable way than Webkit.

We've considered breaking into a daemon and a GUI, which would also allow us to make a preference pane, but it's a lot of work for not much benefit.
Underwater wi-fi given test run to create 'deep-sea internet'
Really, I don't quite get this sudden trend to show everything in an infographic. Personally, it is harder to read, harder to store. A simple table would work fine.
Oracle releases 127 security fixes, 51 for Java alone
I've been consistently buying the Dell XPS 15" range.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-15-l521x/pd?oc=dncwx18bw7&model...
16GB RAM, 512 SSD, 3rd gen i7, NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640M with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM

I've had i think 3 versions of the same. It's always tried to break the mould in design. They tried funky designer covers in the past. Lately they've been going with the metallic finish of macbooks on the outside(but better in my opinion). On the inside its the black soft touch finish(which feels so much more warm than an MBP). I also own an MBP btw.

The one thing that PC laptops are getting wrong is the battery. The MBP battery outperforms the dell by atleast 2-3 times. But for me that's not an issue, since i work plugged in most of the time.

Also the first thing i do is remove windows and install Linux. The machine boots in like 3 seconds flat. I've not had any issues with drivers or anything.
fastmail.fm has the best web ui i've seen. very clean and elegant.

plus, forks around here seems to like it too.
That's reductionist and oversimplifying.

Maxwell's equations aren't enough to solve any practical example systems in the real world, so they aren't all you need to know to understand the world.
The other point of clients is not that they're inherently good or bad, but that handling them determines the dynamic of the relationship. If a consultant appears eager and willing to do something for nothing, they can't blame the client. Never offer something that would lead to resentment; say "no" instead.

On the otherside, the value of hot to crazy (money to bullshit) has to be there.
Modified the text to say, yes, this is our Windows update. Many of the features are on Mac already, since we've done a dozen updates for it in the interim. But we're planning another Mac update soon.
Good find, in what browser?
Thanks for the tips! Just got a spare bed in Chez JJ :)

Just looked up Hacker Dojo, I think I will definitely visit there, they have a ton of events going on.
You can get a copy of your credit report. It isn't secret.
Novel brain-monitoring technique lets scientists spy on minds
Also, people may be interested in shopping around without having to provide their social security number and other sensitive information to a web site that doesn't seem to be completely debugged yet.
Wen't to test out the HM chairs. I've used both a Mira and have an Aeron chair now, however after trying the Sayl and the Embody I have to say both are significantly better chairs. The Embody being a bit expensive for my taste I'd take the Sayl over the Mira or Aeron after trying them out.
Surprisingly, no mention of Washington Post. That keeps him firmly up there in the zone of evil.

> Congratulations, sir

The tone seems like that of a Bozo fanboy.
The fluidity of lisp based software is something very rare. Trying to extend Eclipse is a huge pain: need to create a plugin project, learn the overwhelming api, all this to get a Hello World menu entry. Extending emacs is two LoC and one shortcut away. Except for the visual side of things, emacs will ingest any feature ever produced by any new editor on the block. I felt it when I watched a 2 hour long video about sublime or textmate and how it was revolutionary whereas there was nothing remotely new in it (except on the pre-integration).

ps: Personally I'd love to see a rewrite of emacs main packages, it's not lispy/functional enough for my tastes. Something in the lines of alan kay minimalism (see VPRI, Ometa)
Government is the public sector.
You can get a $2,500 MBP, work on it for 3 years, and resell it for $700 or so after. So, that's $1,800 for 3 years, or about $12/week. So the price is reasonable if its something you use to make money or use all the time. Plus, with MBP you get OSX out of the box, plus it runs Linux and Windows, or all 3. Even if OSX is not your cup of tea, it's nice to have OSX available if you like to play with iOS development.

I have a friend who keeps bugging me about how expensive MBPs are. I asked him to find a better laptop for the money. I care about the following, in order: quality of screen, quality of keyboard, tough case, light wight, long betters life, fast hd, fast CPU, good gfx card. So far no results :) I actually kind of wish there was more choice in the high end market. I have seen a few nice ultrabooks, but they cost as much as a Mac, if not more, so what's the point?
Thanks, it is, and now that you point it out I suppose I could put it up somewhere.
There's an age factor. If you submit a duplicate of something from, say, 2 days ago, your submission just turns into a vote for the other submission. But past some threshold (I don't know what it is, and I don't know that anyone other than pg does either), the system allows duplicates. I assume that's by design, as some stories are worth repeat discussions. Indeed, there are a handful of links that have been posted to, and discussed on, HN a half dozen times or more.

You can, AFAIK, also "cheat" the dupe detector by adding query string params, and trickery of that nature. I'm guessing substituting the http URL for the https URL (or vice versa) would also work, if they both exist, etc.
Gross, glossy screen that reflects light sources back in your eyes. Why do people put up with this crap?
I paid 15 minutes ago and still have nothing; it seems like the 'instant' setup is not quite so instant. The page should probably not advertise "pay and you'll have it in 1 minute".
Wolfenstein 3D engine in 251 bytes of HTML5
Citizens of a social democracy see this differently.

And non secret isy different from rubbing in someone's face
reminds me of this http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2013/10/15/c-has-...
Twitter's Direct Messages, A Vehicle For Spam, No Longer Accept Links
Haha, I wonder if the name is just a clever way to get the word out, since yandex is fairly unknown in the west.
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Any law that was passed by Congress can be amended by Congress. If the Democrats in Congress wanted to delay the implementation of Obamacare until the web site was ready for prime time, it's unlikely that the Republicans would have objected.
I wonder if it will become a trend to name technologies after taboo items? Imagine if a product called Dildo comes out and it is the best, most easy to use piece of software that ever existed. People would just have to use Dildo and get over the name. It could start a revolution.
By “support” Omidyar means many things. The first and most
important is really good editors. (Omidyar used the phrase
“high standards of editing” several times during our
talk.)

By high standards of editing, I hope that the editors' only focus is pushing their writers to create better work and that the editors themselves are 100% shielded from economic pressures and the only consumer they listen to are readers.

The biggest problem with news today is that the customer is the advertiser and this customer has the ear of the editors. The news industry needs the journalistic equivalent of the chinese wall in finance. The news arm should not have contact with the advertising arm except with the presence of counsel (i.e. compliance).

At the end of the day, the 5th estate has a serious conflict of interest just as retail banking and i-banking does, and this conflict of interest likes in the gulf between advertisers and writers/editors.
Working on calibrated equipment is about having a neutral, uniform reference so that you can actually see what you're doing without having to second guess yourself. You can draw an analogy to reference monitors for sound mixing. Monitors have two properties: they reveal detail in the sound and they have a flat frequency response. The former is obviously important, and it's why as a designer you should have a nice monitor. The latter is important so that when you work in different locations, you don't have to recalibrate your expectations. There may also be non-linear perceptual illusions associated with certain aspects of the signal being attenuated or boosted, which would be another reason to have a calibrated/flat reference, but I'm not certain if this would be relevant at the scale we're talking about (between calibrated and the whole space of non-calibrated color profiles).
I agree about the tone. The information makes a nice enough point, but the tone is a bit much.

Edit: Also, is it normal for a post to get so many of its comments deleted? I thought we collectively moderated through scorn and disapproval, some of those comments were interesting.
Larry-Sergey

& Google is far more feature proof company

Amazon

- Solves easy problems at large scale

Google

- Solves complex problems at large scale
That is fraud, assuming it was sold under an agreement that it should work and the seller disclosed all knowledge of problems, because the seller would be committing fraud by withholding that information.

How is that comparable to insider trading? There is no fraud involved with insider trading.
"Product-Customer Fit"
This is awesome. I met some of the people behind The Center For Open Science at SciPy this year. They seemed very passionate. I hope the idea of reproducing experiments as a matter of course becomes more common. Maybe in the future to be a reputable scientist you will have had to reproduce many of the current experiments of the time.
Marissa Mayer's going to be on this list shortly.
do you know many 70 year olds? My father-in-law runs 100 meter dashes with other old folks. He is 70 and can probably outrun me at 41 - and I exercise regularly.
fastmail.fm ? last.fm is a music streaming portal.
This theory is probably correct...
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What makes his buying WaPo evil? Seriously. At all. Anything?
This is part of the fundamental flaw of bitcoin. It privileges the wealthy who can afford ever-faster and ever-more-expensive computer hardware.
Oh, I know plenty of people without health problems who can't afford it either. Your parents have complete control over your access to college until age 24. If they refuse to sign the FAFSA, or refuse to cosign private loans, you are 100% screwed in most states.

>It's going to mean loans.

Well, no shit.

>It is not that much more expensive.

It is when gas is $4/gallon instead of $2/gallon, and the economy makes it much harder to find a job of any kind. Not to mention tuition itself is increasing at about twice the rate of general inflation.

" On average, tuition tends to increase about 8% per year. An 8% college inflation rate means that the cost of college doubles every nine years."

http://www.finaid.org/savings/tuition-inflation.phtml

>You'd hypothetically already be paying the rest with the 7k / year job that's keeping you kicking.

Hypothetically, sure. In reality, if you don't have 7 days a week of 24/7 availability, you can't get a job in many places.

Most of these low end jobs will have you coming in at 7AM one monday, and closing at 11PM the next. You can't plan your courses around work since there's no regularity.

In the best case scenario, you have a job already and try to change availability, but in that case they'll often slash your hours to barely nothing. Can YOU live on 12 hours a week of minimum wage?

> 6k in other loans a year to fill it in at today's cost

>4 years of loans, even if they're shitty, "credit ready" loans at personal loan rates, still only leaves a fictional Ohio traditional student with $45k in student loan debt at the end of the degree

You cannot get these without a cosigner or guarantor. When I was 18, I tried banks, sallie mae, online options, etc for (roughly) this amount and was completely denied. Hell, I couldn't even get a credit card for any amount, even through my bank.

Even when I later had a better fulltime job making 20K/year, I was again declined for loans. (At that time, I had 3 credit cards and awesome credit.)

>In any STEM discipline, paid internships and co-ops are also possible, which would further reduce the loan load required.

You have to have access to loans in the first place to get there.

>But I'm sorry, not having parents foot the bill generally isn't yet a barrier to a high-quality education.

Oh, I see what the problem is. You don't live in reality. I'm talking about people who live in the US, FWIW.
Researchers uncover holes that open power stations to hacking
I think the EFF is engaging in some FUD themselves on this. There's some other project exploring ways to protect source code of web applications, and the EFF suggests that, now that the W3C has touched some form of DRM, that will be able to push a way for sites to disable 'view source'. I don't think that's realistic - minification and copyright work well enough to protect JS code already. I'm disappointed that the EFF is resorting to scare tactics like this rather than debating the actual issue at hand.
Speaking as the principal developer for TogetherJS:

In the past we have opted not to work on IE support because we had limited resources, and because we wanted to focus on what we thought were the hard problems: how should the tool act, how do we communicate changes between browsers, how do we integrate with apps, etc. Supporting Internet Explorer was always something we knew we could do, it wasn't a hard problem, but it still required some effort. As such it didn't feel like it was advancing the project. It was never meant as any slight towards IE, just an expedient way to save some time.

Also, while we do browser sniffing, we only use that to put up a warning for IE users to alert them that it's not going to work well. This was pointed out on Twitter as though we were actively blocking browsers, in part I think a knee-jerk reaction to browser sniffing, but what we've done still seems to me like a reasonable and responsible thing to do – better to admit you don't support a browser than just expose people to a crappy experience.

Of course times change, and as TogetherJS has become a more mature tool it's probably time to revisit our Internet Explorer support. But on the other hand this isn't a commercial tool, so I'm not entirely sure what resources we as a team will be able to invest in Internet Explorer support. But it's also open source, and we would welcome contributions to fix this. We'll be working on a slightly more structured plan soon. It might not even be much work, I really don't know.

Here's the bug to watch: https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/issues/867
It says I'll see them 6 more times.

Very little I can do to change that.
There's a lot of overlap between business commentary and sports commentary.
She's pretty and smells good but I think we need some more solid proof.
35,000 sites including Fortune 1000 hacked via nasty vBulletin hole
Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, otherwise not very exciting.

Furthermore, brick and mortar problems are hard -- things break, rot, get lost, require staff to move them around, etc. Not to poo-poo Google or any other pure software company, but it isn't harder because its on a computer, it's actually easier.
I'm hoping we turn that Firebase fork into a pluggable interface for TogetherJS to exchange messages via other systems. Once that is in place I'm guessing Meteor would be simple too. Most of the Firebase support is in this one commit, and it's notably pretty small: https://github.com/firebase/togetherjs/commit/fdb11887c63342...
What worries me, and I realized this only after trying TogetherJS, is that Websockets don't require a special permission in browsers! So any website with JS enabled is now going to be able to do peer-to-peer? Could this be a can of worms, security-wise?
Steel producers
- Simple manufacturing at large scale

Car producers
- Complex manufacturing at large scale

I wouldn't say one is necessarily better than the other.