skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the color choices selected and used for their website is more to highlight the chair design and not actually a color people would choose themselves.

We just outfitted a conference room in my office and they selected a color that I've dubbed "poopacado."
It would be nice naming versions after drug names, like Android with their sweets. But it should go from weakest to strongest - whoever starts with cocaine straight away, does not leave themselves a lot of space
Why I Will Never, Ever, Go Back to the United States
Oakland launches new program using Big Data to bolster police surveillance
Both its and it's are grammatically valid possessive forms.
POcode Gives Small Businesses An Easy Alternative To GPS
How I made over $100 an hour as Spiderman at Times Square
http://www.michaelhealy.me/how-i-made-over-100-an-hour-as-sp...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus... - alcohol is more harmful than cocaine, and yet you've got www.alcohol-soft.com and noone makes a big deal out of it.

Illegal? Sure, but so is killing. And yet you've got http://www.killermobile.com/ for example.
More like Eric Clapton's fans

https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core#readme
Betteridge's law of headlines comes to mind.
> Not only is Intel used to high margins on its chips, but it's also a very small player in the mobile world, and the PC world is shrinking continuously, so "making it up" in the PC market won't cut it.

Your world seems to be missing servers.
> but what you have written is different from "concerned about inequality".

I don't think so. Henry Ford for example realized that paying solid wages allows people to buy more cars [1], in turn increasing the profits for Ford. Reducing inequality in a society strongly correlates with social peace and happiness, which in turn fosters the economy. Good social equality also helps a larger part of the population to achieve good education, broadening the pool of skilled labor. Certainly, a single bad actor in a good environment can reap benefits from behaving "anti-social", but in the long run that's a spiral to the bottom. So I think that smart companies should be concerned about a raise in inequality, even if it's only for their own good. And making sure that you keep inequality low in your own workforce is the first step.

[1] http://corporate.ford.com/news-center/press-releases-detail/...
Also, cookies are perfectly fine for saving progress.
> But mostly we funnel our expertise into better advertising solutions.

That's the thing that pays most. For some reason our society rewards advertising platforms. Everything from popular films and music, to every successful medium ever, was founded as or taken over as an advertising platform.

Maybe we as a society simply value advertising above all?

Personally I try to only work with companies whose business model is providing values to users directly, but I can't argue with the fact that I am far more willing to give my money to advertisers (so I can make a profit), than I am to services that help me make the products I advertise.

Why is that? I don't know. But I think the feedback loop from "put money in, get money out" is much quicker with advertising platforms than it is with services I use during creation.
http://www.asus.com/Eee_Box_PCs/

Don't own one, but just linking to give an example that there is a pretty decent looking PC Mac Mini clone out there.
Wolf Richter: NSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales In China
You could use boost::range to make it even more succinct
Did I understand the article correctly...Oracle releases lots of security fixes, and the author is _critical_ of this?
New global index exposes 'modern slavery' worldwide
Google to support Windows XP longer than its developer Microsoft
Check out https://www.yunojuno.com -- currently London only, and primarily on-site work, but lots of big digital/media agencies using it
Nice estimation. I also don't fully understand how they arrived at 190 GW.

For the purposes of a "back of the envelope" calculation to account for the entire capability of the Saturn V:

Based on the 180,000,000 HP figure, we can (naively) estimate:

Stage 1: 180,000,000 HP (7,500,000 pounds of thrust from 5 F-1 engines)

Stage 2: 27,870,000 HP (1,161,250 pounds of thrust from 5 J-2 engines)

Stage 3: 5,574,000 HP (232,250 pounds of thrust from 1 J-2 engine)

That's a total (non-simultaneous) output of 213,444,000 HP... the equivalent of 159.17 GW (!)

That's simply massive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_J-2
If your healthcare is tied to your job in the USA, wouldn't that impede social mobility? If you can't change jobs because you would lose cover, how are you meant to move around?
Yes. Thats why I rarely click on such titles.
The shiny silver elephant in the room
thanks for that story... simply awesome!
I won't address your general point, because, I never wrote any drivers, but the following may appease some of your concerns.

Changing the number type in Lua is only a few #DEFINEs away. See http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/luaconf.h.html#LUA_NUMBER and the comment above it.

Regarding the lack of infix bitwise operators: usually, the functions are cached in locals. It is not as readable as C, but less bulky than what you wrote:

local band, bnot = bit32.band, bit32.bnot

function avi_unset(addr, val)
local v = assert(devmem.read32(addr))

v = band(bnot(v), val)

avi_write(addr, v)
end

If it became apparent that infix operators were needed, adding them to the VM is trivial (There's a power patch for Lua 5.1, and a patch for Lua 5.2 was recently posted in the mailing list). If you want to use the stock VM, you can still use a preprocessor (which makes things a bit more cumbersome).
Cool project! But could you swap the icon for queuing to a play one and the playlist icon with the queuing icon?
Isn't it a side effect of java compilation ? it's a lot less easy to install functions at runtime than in lisps (or other languages alike)
Apple's emphasis on how it looks over function has always been a double edge sword. The lack of docking station, from both the hardware and software side, was the second most constant push back I received when asking about swapping the Dells out.

With TB ports and the like it could have been worked out to one cable instead of an edge connector, yet they seem to have zero interest in the business.

I have run Windows 7 even as primary at times but in the end went back to a Dell for work put an iMac back on my home desktop.
Compared to the US, any other country can be deemed politically incorrect :)
We use Floobits to develop Floobits, so we feel your pain.

If one person commits and pushes, others in the same workspace have to stash, pull, and stash pop. That doesn't always work, since people might edit files in the workspace during the stash/pull/pop. It also doesn't solve the problem of people being on different branches.

We're planning on making our plugins and tools more git-aware. Syncing much of .git would help things quite a bit. We're also toying with the idea of making each workspace a git repo, but that's farther off.

Like I said, there's still much to be done. :)
Do you think people who actually use/sell/buy it call it be the medical name?
I did some research and pedal section( bottom bracket) gears exist, but aren't very common.

http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/8872/bottom-brac...

http://www.haberstock-mobility.com/en/products/schlumpf-driv...

http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/5274/why-not-hav...
How Much Is Yahoo Worth Without Alibaba? Not Much
You are the first libertarian I've talked with who actually has a coherent philosophy and positive ethical intent backing up their statements. Respect.
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

I had to look it up, so this might save some others the trouble.
Well it opens up the opportunity with supplying school systems with a far cheaper solution. I have seen far too many stories where systems wanted to or did go out and buy the Apple products at far greater prices. The story is always the same, the software was more mature, greater emphasis on education.

Well if open source supporters ever wanted the perfect market its education. Books are going to be gone, it will be an education system of tablets and the like, where are the big projects to put down an open source solution? (admittedly I haven't found any that stood out but I may be looking in the wrong places)
I read that statement as almost guaranteed for every location on earth. The only way it is not true if no one born there leaves. For a location of any size that would be unexpected.
We had the Humanscale Freedom at the office, and they were kind of crappy. Not much back support (at least for me, 6'2), and they break all the time...
My instant thought too
> I like it because the 30 mile range, whilst not suiting my 18 mile commute for a daily charge, actually does suit the vast majority of cyclists that I know who only commute fewer than 10 miles.

If you can easily remove the wheel, then this isn't much of a problem, they say it charges in 2-3 hours from a normal socket so you could probably get to work, plug the wheel in under the desk and have it charged well before you're going home.
> Obviously, this isn't exactly the reinvention of the Web, but Famo.us has pushed JavaScript in a novel direction

At at least they admit its just hyperbole... right?
Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
Hi,

Since the app can be self-hosted the whole point is to do it directly in the application itself (and keeping your data at home ;)). I don't know doctape but if the "media conversion" works well it could be a good addition though! Thanks for pointing this out.
Saying goodbye to Twitter
While I generally do favor service oriented architectures (and remote work), this is woefully short sighted.

Say the remote worker builds you a shaky RoR+MongoDB app, no scalability, no error handling, no tests, no comments. At least in the short run, it works - there are occasional outages, but the worker (remote or otherwise) does a great job keeping it going. Then the remote worker quits. What do you do?

Just because something is behind an API doesn't mean you don't have to worry about knowledge transfer, code quality, etc.
Nintendo could force that site to be taken down at just about any time. So long as they're not trying to commercialize it / make money off of it, they stand a modest chance of being left alone (and so long as they don't alter Mario in any unusual way, such that they'd draw the ire of Nintendo).

If it got wildly popular (unlikely), Nintendo would finally do something about it.
From the rather vague text I can imagine they are doing matrix multiplication in JavaScript and assigning the end result to a CSS transform. Instead of doing multiple transforms in CSS which is slower. The end result is smoother HTML5 animations but I haven't yet figured out where they reinvented the web.
If their performance claims bear out (which, we'll see) I could see this becoming a popular way to deliver apps and games to mobile devices without giving 30% of your income to Apple or whoever.
Win a free pass to Business of Software Conference as guest of VC Michael Skok
Ask HN: What are the best designed mobile enterprise apps?
Which mobile apps for business and enterprise use can be considered the examples of best interaction design, usability and visual/UI design, be it for IOS/Android or mobile phone/tablet?
The Pi Man Project
What a demoralising (and grossly incorrect) way to look at work.

If your work can be reduced to such an API, then I'd argue that you can be replaced with a script. Most jobs, however, even today, are far more complex than that. As a very obvious example, culture is an extremely important aspect of building a successful business, and a person's contribution to culture is irreducibly complex and unmeasurable, and untameable to stating an API type contract.
Thank you for the feedback, I'm glad you like it! I opened a github issue to solve this (https://github.com/rdubigny/cozy-music/issues/9)
They probably call it coke, but that already conflicts with coca cola, and some other things.
This is selom practical, and is setting you up for quality problems if you don't care how it works.

It's also undervaluing the importance of _communication_ in work.
This is a really big problem, and I can feel it myself. Now that I've got customers and seed money, should I try to create a sustainable business that grows organically? Or should I move to London - I'm in Rome now - and try to enter the VC game as soon as possible, as a mentor insists?

The sustainable business way appeals a lot to me, but what about the risk that competitors with lots of money crush us just by out-spending us? And what about the ecosystem? But the places with the best ecosystems are very expensive, how can you enter them without VC money?

The problem is that there is no proof that the mittelstand model can work for tech startups, while there is proof that the SV model can.
I see there's a git-core feature request open for multiple authors[1]. Would be awesome if floobits could include all of the workspace authors (gazing into the future here...).

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451880
I'm disappointed it doesn't (seem to) do regenerative braking... so elegant, don't waste that power, reuse it! But I don't think this is a big selling point, and you can always add it later.

I think your marketing approach is what will make or break it: "non-sweaty to dates/interviews" and the phone-charger could be the killer app (perhaps look into what segment actually experiences this pain most? Many of today's phones have adequate battery life for some people's usage; target those phones + usages that don't).
> Companies are for making money

That's certainly true for publicly traded, anonymous companies. But companies in general are for making what the owners want them to do.
Their demo on http://famo.us is pretty impressive at least, it runs flawlessly smooth on my "ancient" iPad 2.
So, the rest of the world is "shocked, shocked I tell you" that the US is monitoring the internet? Does anyone really believe there aren't similar entities in other countries doing the same?

I bet all the world's governments can be divided into just two groups: those that are monitoring the internet, and those that are trying to.
AIDA: Badoo’s journey into Continuous Integration
How I made over $100 an hour as Spiderman at Times Square
There's a demo on their homepage: http://famo.us/
C.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6561709

3 hours really isn't very far. I had Indian colleagues who would see their parents once or twice a year because they lived in different continents. In China they have passed a law that people need to look after their parents, presumably because people weren't doing so. I don't think you're seeing the picture with your one-size-fits-all East versus West cultural comparison.
They didn't invent CUPS, they bought CUPS which was already an established FOSS print server solution.
Henry Ford for example realized that paying solid wages allows people to buy more cars [1]...

More precisely, Henry Ford convinced a bunch of innumerate reporters and politicians that paying solid wages allows people to buy more cars.

Showing that high wages alone [1] only hurt Ford is simple math. Say a car costs X to build and Ford can sell them for X+P. If Ford gives a worker X+P in wages, and the worker spends X+P on a Ford car, Ford winds up losing X.

[1] Higher wages helped Ford to poach more productive workers from the competition.
Most of it is politics. Applets aren't fundamentally more insecure than other competing technologies like Flash or Silverlight. They just got a lot of hate, first due to the Microsoft "embrace and extend" attempts in the 90s (shipping its own awful JVM) and now again due to the buyout by Oracle with its horrible PR.

It's nonsense that modern browsers treat Java applets as if they were radiactive material, showing lots of warnings and scary dialogs (and even forcing you to update) while they do nothing of the sort with Flash.
Look out for second-hand chairs. I managed to get a Steelcase Leap for around $120 second-hand, in really good condition. It's been holding me up pretty well for about 3 years now.
After getting to know a Nigerian[0], I must say this constant jab against Nigerians is getting annoying to me as well.

[0] http://valanx.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...
But in a small country like Denmark or Sweden, citizens there are also citizens of the EU and so can freely live and work in 27 countries with minimal bureaucratic hassle. Language barriers notwithstanding, it makes the EU a lot more like the wide-open market of the USA.
Does anyone really want that? Web is currently awful for mobile games: hard to interact with the content (see how scroll is handled in javascript) and low performance no matter how many tricks you do. Also, don't forget that you'll have to handle payments by yourself (and impulse shopping will not work if users will have to fill the credit card every time).

edit: I've opened that page in Firefox, it won't show the demo. I guess it won't show it on IE also, but I haven't tried. So who's their target? 25% of the users?
Surely NSA's filters analyse probabilities of occurrence of words in different context like they do with sex bombs, plot diagrams, "Semtex Films", "Terror Inc" and so on.
America's Internet? shrugs

People from all over the world have been contributing to the development of the internet, web, computers et cetera. Yet, it is America's Internet.
I don't think the problem is with the Californian model. Silicon Valley knows how to do technology right for its own sake, and every technologist everywhere can learn a lot about how to do technology right by looking at Silicon Valley. Sure there is a gold rush mentality driving media and politics, and there is a lot of greed at play as well. But rich guys in Silicon Valley are no more greedy (and the true technologists among them are probably less greedy) than rich guys everywhere else in the world. The big difference between finance and tech is that deep down at the heart of tech is a natural curiosity and passion for problem solving, whereas finance is fundamentally about arbitrage.

In order to take the right lessons from tech's failings you need to separate the tech from its social consequences. The fundamental problem with tech is that it kills jobs. It is about seeking greater efficiency in all things. This is why politicians are wrong to try to solve unemployment with tech. It would be great if everyone could move up the food chain in terms of creative and technical work and that tech could create more jobs, but the problem is that by its very nature, the 1% in the tech world will be more efficient than the bottom 90% no matter how much training they receive. 100 great developers will produce better returns than 10000 bad developers. There's no way around this fact. Hell, if you have a powerful enough intelligence that was orders of magnitude smarter than the smartest human then it could obsolete developers entirely by being more productive on its own than all the worlds smartest developers.

Increased efficiency is theoretically good, but we're reaching the point where we don't have the social capabilities to cope. We are wired to work, and to need to feel needed, and to feel that we have an upward trajectory in life. These things make it very difficult to cope with the impending unemployment crisis and the environmental consequences of a ballooning disposable culture. Tech is at the very heart of these issues, but Silicon Valley is not the cause of these problems, it's just one microcosm of them.
Advertisers are willing to pay more than users.
I would suggest adding a

transition: 0; (plus all prefixes of course)

on

#content #tracks-display table tbody tr.track:hover

At the moment the transition into the hover is making it feel laggy.

I'd also reduce the transition time to something like 0.1seconds, or preferably drop it entirely. It's distracting and fussy.

Apart from that, good job! Everything seems to work well on latest Chrome.
Does anyone have any comments other than the name?

Seems like it competes directly against the soon-to-be-released Flynn[1] and Deis[2]. I'm tempted to poke at it a bit, but the documentation seems pretty scant. In theory an open source roll-your-own PaaS is pretty cool, right? Certainly Flynn got tons of attention and funding with a similar value proposition.

[1]: https://flynn.io/
[2]: http://deis.io/
Well, providing the app wants to support it, there already is a mechanism using url schemes. I'm assuming turnpike uses these?
At the $99 price point, price differences matter less , and if Intel can some how offer a more compelling product (maybe by using windows) , it could be interesting.
Sounds like they came up with a novel and impressive optimisation that everyone could benefit from, but decided to keep it to themselves and charge for it. So less "reinvent the web" than "go back to the way things were before the web" really.

Whether or not there's anything wrong with that is left up to the reader. :)
I remember looking at this LUA_NUMBER but I wondered if changing it to an integer type would break something, it's not explicitly mentioned that you can use an integer type there. I'm sure it can be done but it still means that your custom lua will behave a bit differently than the "stock" lua (especially when it comes to things like roundings and overflows). That might be a bit problematic if you prototype your code on one and then attempt to run on the other.

As for your improved code I didn't know I could do that, it does look much better indeed.

Again, maybe I'm just nitpicking but my main point was that lua, scripting language or not, just didn't seem better suited than C at writing device drivers.

That being said, having a good in-kernel REPL would revolutionize kernel hacking, but it seems very hard to do right. Lots of kernel code is very timing-sensitive and you can't afford to wait for user input when you're in a critical path. Just look at the difficulty to implement proper kernel debugging to get a taste of it.

The thing is, the NetBSD people know that and more and yet they decided to go with it. I would be very interested to know their objective/motivation. I googled a bit around and found this:

http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/luakern/

The page mentions some use-cases (like power management and packet filtering) but those can already easily be handed to the userland through the sysfs and tun/tap interfaces for instance. I don't get what problem it's trying to solve.