skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you from that you pretend to know so much about the mindset of Western Europeans while showing that you in fact know so little?
I have a similar project, https://teamtracker.io but it is more of a manual entry thing. Looks like this is automated, pulling info from various services? Neat!
We're super excited to launch this and itching to get some feedback. Please let us know here or through email (founders@overseer.io) and we can set you up with a free account in exchange for helping us test everything out.
Brett Terpstra [1] has a good series of posts RE: DefaultKeyBinding.dict. I always refer back to this one when I want to start playing with it again:

[1]: http://brettterpstra.com/2011/08/13/keybinding-madness/
Find an organization and reach out on twitter, or via email if they aren't on twitter. You'll probably find they would love the help.
I've used mostly 7200rpm SATA and Nearline-SAS and they are mostly fine in fact, didn't play enough with higher rpm SAS yet but so far I don't see a big difference between them and the 7200 NL-SAS drives.

I'd echo the sentiment seen elsewhere in the comments about Seagate drives vs. Hitachi drives. Both for SATA and NL-SAS. Hitachi 1TB were rock solid compared to Seagate.
Spread spectrum, if done properly ands below noise level, is virtually undetectable - especially if he noiselevel is dynamically measured, rather than just modeled.
Yup. As lovable as John is and how cool the product seems at first... The truth is that the business model is extremely vulnerable on many fronts including: liability, copy-ability and efficient manufacturing.

The first suburbanite kid that may choose any of these fun adventures including: building a bomb, burns down the house with thermite or just turns their parents backyard into a superfund site will have their lawyers put John throughly out of business with legal costs and damages that no one will ever offer this kind of product again. [1] And that is before the CSPC decides which wheel of punishment to spin today.

And, I don't see a fume hood; or solid and liquid waste disposal instructions.

The next point is I don't hear about any design patents, so Joe's Evil Scientist Chemistry Set could be produced. Even if someone doesn't personally believe in patents, they still exist and are very much enforced.

If John gets thousands of orders how, when and where take on all the growing pains, not just cutting out panels. Unless John is an industrial process engineering genius, Asian manufacturers could do this for 1/10 of cost and in 1/5 the time.

Conclusion: All the best. Good luck, John.

[1] http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/issues/2007/december/thech...
I find it fascinating that people misunderstand data so much even 2013 that they end up implementing a totally inefficient solution without actual data modeling and design. The most missed point is usually querying. Focusing on the how do I write data first can lead to disasters like this. Why don't everybody start with the "how do I query this dataset in this shape?" question first?
Tough questions are welcome, but they won't sound like "Well, if you think a nationwide basic income is such a good idea, why don't you do it yourself?" That question is only tough because there is no underlying logic to respond to — it's a lazy talking point intended to impugn the other side's motives rather than address the actual issue at hand.
Bank of America now offers $0-Fee Mobile Cash Transfers
Google Glass explores music features
The PNaCl translator takes time to optimize the bitcode to highly-efficient machine code (which is almost on par with native performance). This only happens the first time you load the demo - afterwards the output is cached and the load should be instantaneous.

Translation time is one of the highest priorities of the PNaCl team and it should become significantly better in the future.
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Cost of production sets a floor on the price of goods, not a ceiling.
That's nice, but it is one hell of a side channel :)

Some people have been trying to implement detection for e.g. silent SMS or IMSI catchers in osmocombb (the first open source baseband), see [1], but there doesn't seem to be any recent progress.

1: https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/catcher/wiki
"Will people..." "If many people..." "If a person...."

Who are these people? Are they not you?
If they're not you, what makes them different from you?
If they are you, what makes you think you'd do those things?
Seems cool, this looks more impressive though - http://www.usepeak.com/. What are the main differences?
And Carbon Tetra-chloride! I'm not sure why I would want it, but I know I am going to have it. Do want.
Do the Math
> The image shows sulfuric acid right up front.

It also has sodium hydroxide, which is nastier (imo) than sulfuric acid.
Using the NDK [1], an Android app can already run C/C++ code. If Google really wanted to phase out Java (where did that come from anyway?), the biggest task is to port the whole SDK, especially the UI, and not to run C code.

[1] http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
Best of luck! Let me know how it goes! @aadilrazvi
A full-rewrite might take 2-3 months, but that doesn't mean you can't release bits of it incrementally as you refactor them. Release what you have now as version 0, and then release minor version updates as you rewrite. That's what I'd do.
Somehow, and I know it may sound nitpicky, when you make a point about privacy and then require me to 'connect with google' to create an account, doesn't feel good. I'm not that big on privacy, but perhaps this might be an example of a webservice that should provide at least a way to create an account without connecting to any other service (google / facebook etc).

I'd expect a bit more visualization or explanation on what info the e-mail would provide me with.

From my standpoint, someone that works with people with their own schedule spread over different locations this looks useful.
Guarantee you that you can do it with Keyboard Maestro somehow... http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

Best program I have bought for OS X in a long time! Amazingly useful and I know I have barely scratched the surface.
I down voted you because of your comment about "Reverse racism" that's not a thing. It's still just racism. You claim that it's only racism if the racist has the ability to exert power.

Racism is racism no matter who is doing it to who. Claiming that only whites can be racist is ridiculous and something racism apologists often do.
Custom timelines in TweetDeck
How about a relevant SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3106
Yes, depending on the bug source. But the bug source might be related to reads. Nobody knows. Splitting the risk across two different vendors / implementations seems to be good insurance.
I don't think it was ever made illegal to have or sell these things, just very inconvenient to sell them.
Thanks for the clarification, my interest was academic and piqued by the use of hierarchical structures. Best of luck with it!
Am I incorrect in assuming that Dylan is a faster and better designed ruby? At first glance that is what it appears to be.
Anyone uses Dart on production?
Seeing a demo email would be incredibly useful. As it is, I don't understand what it will show me and wouldn't sign up without knowing that information.
I guess we all just need a little more LeAnn Rimes. http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/the%20world%20-%20violence...
An Interactive Dynamic Shape Display that Physically Renders 3D Content
They sure took their sweet time. Didn't say they it was supposed to arrive like a year ago? NaCl should've worked on ARM from day one.
This might need to be an Ask PG. I wonder if there is a startup that he recalls passing on that influenced the way (minorly or majorly) he evaluates startups.
The way to improve the world is to have a global minimum income. Give every person on Earth $5-10k per year, no strings attached. If you are living and breathing, you get the money.
Bitcoin Price Checker (Personal Project)
Hey guys!

I am a long time lurker who is just finishing up the initial release of a personal project: a bitcoin price checking website & Android app.

URL: http://pricebtc.com

The mission of this website/app is to provide a current price of BTC as quickly and easily as possible.

The Android app is under 30kb, and uses the internet only to retrieve a <1kb txt file that contains the prices. As far as data usage goes, I think this is probably one of the best in the world.

I'm interested in hearing any feedback you guys might have, be it about the design / user experience, or additional functionality.

Thanks!
I don't believe he actually said that. I believe what he actually said was that there exist programs of giving which can only be effective when practiced on a large scale.
My first long-range FPV flight over water: debrief + video
That's what he's saying, though. You're either in the Matrix or you're not. Neo still has powers, ergo you're still in the Matrix. That's it. Neo can see even though he's blind? Still in the Matrix.

No twist, no paradox, no confusion - there was an extra layer.
Capitalism combines the right to property with the right to return on investment. It's certainly political, but the idea that you should be able to keep your stuff and the proceeds from your work seem universal to me.
Now that's an outstanding man! I lived in Africa for almost half my life and not once did I step foot outside of my comfort zone in the north west. If anything I feel ashamed but thankfully enlightened and looking forward to take the initiative to do something, anything.
Adapt or Die - How The Marketing World Is Changing
I buy online as does a coworker using Zenni. My main beef is that the dimensions are nonsense resulting in glasses arriving that are comically narrow.

I also think I have gotten some lenses that were off either with blurry spots or the focal point not being in the right place. That happens with glasses from brick and mortar vendors as well. I don't think the industry standards are very high and if you complain you can't really prove anything.
You're writing a new web app and a new desktop spreadsheet? Very ambitious. I'll check back in ten years.

As for animations, users like animations. Only a small fraction of users know the program well enough to outpace the animations. And they can simply ignore the animations, like I do.
Microsoft axes 'stack ranking' in massive overhaul of employee review process
LLVM bitcode is quite large and not really suited to being a transport format. The bytecode they did come up with is probably a LLVM frontend.
There is nothing random about it, the term was invented during the Renaissance to describe exactly such people.
Actually, they announced PNaCl many years ago. What they did is release PNaCl in a stable build of Chrome.
Stack ranking is created by management's inherent inability to trust people.

And that, in turn, is created by management's inability to trust in their own abilities. This is proved to be true in case of Ballmer and overall Microsoft's performance while under his leadership.

These changes are surely a positive sign for Microsoft.
I haven't had much experience with Dart, but from observation and brief casual use it strikes me as if Google looked at JavaScript and decided that the way to fix it is by removing the "Script" part.
Will Shuttersong's Sound-Embedded Image App Prove Its Worth?
Arguable, some things cease to be a trend and really end up being classic design, and thus, timeless.
While he claims he is a devout fan of capitalism, he fails to address the capitalist role in sustaining poverty and warfare. Africa is still completely colonized by the IMF and World Bank, whose policies over the past half century have forced its nations to take loans they can't repay, and as a result, they are forced to sell under-priced foods. This food is then largely wasted in developed countries where Capitalism commands that people consume more than they need to survive. At the apex of the Capitalist market is the arms industry, selling weapons to tin-pot dictators in African nations which have the opposite effect and only serve to increase poverty and suffering.

Meanwhile, Gates attends "private clubs" full of the men who run these banks, are shareholders in those same arms companies and who dictate the foreign policy of the developed nations. (e.g. Bilderberg 2010)

If not disingenuous to the point of turning your stomach, he is just naive and sees the world through a very narrow scope. I suspect it's a bit of both.
I'm happy to edit my comment, sorry for doing a disservice. Can you explain to me what makes it not roguelike? You might want to edit the Wikipedia article for it, as it's described as roguelike and part of the roguelike genre. My understanding was that randomized maps with permadeath was sufficient to consider something roguelike, this isn't to say it is a direct descendant of Rogue, but maybe I need to learn the lingo, so I'd appreciate your clarification.

Your getting bored with it isn't by itself a convincing argument that it's not roguelike :P
Pivotal puts an enterprise PaaS in new offering
An interesting read related to the topic -- Sinovsky on performance evaluation and large orgs:

http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/11/09/realities-of-p...
> I'd rather not be born than be born in a place where I have a high change of dying of malaria, or dysentery.

Seriously? You prefer a 0% chance, over, say, a 60% chance?

But then I'd jump at the offer of a 4% chance of making it over a 0% chance any day, so I guess it's just a different mindset.
How many democracies have started wars against other democracies?

Others have cited Pinker's Better Angels of our Nature, so I won't rehash.

But I couldn't disgree more with your comment that "the world's deepest and most serious problems have always been political, and always will be, and will always be beyond resolution by better gadgets." Technology CAN help. It can't help everything, and I don't think he was claiming that. But if you think your live would have been better in the 14th century, you're insane.
> I'd suggest reading Hobbes' Leviathan

WELP. Time to find ourselves a king.
If you'd read the article, you would know that this only applies to Swiss citizens, not migrant workers.
Critical question unanswered by the letter: Is the bonus pool for a team primarily fixed in advance as a law of nature, or primarily determined by team performance as a whole, at the end of the period?

If it's the former, you're right and the details of how individual bonuses are assigned don't matter much.

The latter however would could up real opportunities: a team that gets together and delivers beyond expectations could all be generously rewarded instead of having the weird fight over who was the individual star performer that gets all the credit.
I wish I hadn't seen those somnoir glasses. Now I want!
They aren't as attractive a target for lawsuits because of their size.
What's your startup? Any name? Clues? Or do I have to sign an NDA because it's the next Facebook+dropbox+instagram?

Easy on the downvotes there kids, it was just a joke.
And has nothing to do with Dart.
In summary, the way I see it: A lot of hipsters that hunt and jump on the latest tech bandwagon hated that AngularJS team ported their framework to Dart. So they started spewing hate and vitriol at Google and Dart developers. The underlying sentiment I read was -- "you mean I will be stuck unable to tell everyone I work with the latest bleeding edge tech because there is a newer, cooler faster hemorrhaging tech out there, after I spent nights online evangelizing about how awesome this last bandwagon I jumped on is"

It was rather amusing and sad. The amusing part is how the stereotype of immaturity and childishness was just re-enforcing itself. The sad part is that here is Google spending man months (and heck, if you know me, I don't like Google's privacy track record as anyone else here) of work and giving it back to the community and as a thank you they got spit in the face ("how dare you release open source projects, that you spend money developing, in a direction I don't agree with!").
And in a team where everybody's used to that, and force is only ever used on topic branches where that's the expected 'done thing', it really doesn't cause a problem.

(on teams that like rebase I tend to do this a lot)
It is based on LLVM, but presumably they have to modify it for their particular needs. The PNaCl bitcode reference manual goes into more detail:
https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/reference/pn...
From my reading of his post, the one big failure of the system is that he had an access he didn't think he had. This is sort of like me typing find . | xargs -n0 rm -rf in the root directory and thinking "it's OK because it will only delete files I have permission to delete" but not realizing that I'm root.

I could certainly see the argument that the system should have made him more aware of the permissions he had. But it seems like instead he's arguing that he shouldn't have been given those permissions to begin with, which goes back to my point. Because one person was given many permissions and used them irresponsibly, now everyone's default permissions are more restrictive.
Yeah, no.

The article actually explains that the human eye can be used over time to collect data for a 576 megapixel image.

> How many megapixels equivalent does the eye have?

> The eye is not a single frame snapshot camera. It is more like a video stream [...]

> At any one moment, you actually do not perceive that many pixels, but your eye moves around the scene to see all the detail you want. [...]
> Then we would see
120 * 120 * 60 * 60 / (0.3 * 0.3) = 576 megapixels.
It would probably look a heck of a lot like a Thames and Kosmos product.

The thing about chemistry, is people who aren't chemists think its all about randomly mixing solutions, so the more chemicals the better.

The actual metric for doing interesting reactions is the number of tools, measurement devices, and apparatus you have. The actual chemicals are almost secondary.

I really enjoyed my undergrad quant class. So a "kit" that would entertain me would involve a ridiculously precision balance / scale, and a spectrophotometer, and a chemistry desiccant / dehydrator vessel thingy and several burettes and graduated cylinders. And the usual array of glassware. Vacuum sep funnel, distillation set, that kind of thing. Oh and I got a huge kick out of electrochemical machinery, I mean at least a precision pH meter but more advanced stuff would be cool. I'm not asking for an NMR or a FTIR spectrometer but who knows what a devoted makerspace could pull off.

Given that kind of gear listed above, I could find chemicals laying around a perfectly normal kitchen or basement to entertain me.

Number and type of chemical is a bad metric. Its like saying the best CPU to program on is the one with the largest instruction set, so a IBM360 is precisely exactly 9.1244 times "better" than a PDP-8. Well it just doesn't work that way. On the other hand a metric of tools and apparatus actually is a pretty good metric.
We've seen Peak, and it's encouraging that there are others in the automated productivity space. There are a few major differences between us and them, however:

Peak focuses on the individual. We focus on the team. There was an excellent article today (http://marcgg.com/blog/2013/11/12/peak-productivity/) discussing the issue with ranking team members based on their output, especially when information is far from complete. We're trying to boost productivity by demonstrating momentum, instead of by micromanaging individual players.

We are not a destination site; we're a passive email that does not interrupt anyone's workflow. Just check your email (on the phone, even) and you'll know what's going on with your team -- you don't have to keep a tab open and keep checking back to find out what's going on.

Finally, we're engineers, not a design firm. We move and ship very fast. We will respond to changes in user needs and behavior instantly, releasing/changing/removing features and applications as necessary.
It also opens the possibility of giving a team of all rockstars, if they're (as a team) performing highly, a bigger reward pool that can be split evenly between them.

I seem to think it's much easier to convince them your awesome team producing awesome products (and taking in awesome money) should get extra money to spend than it is to convince people you shouldn't have to rank any of your employees lowly when they all have to.
How does PNaCl differ beyond intermediate representation from asm.js? They both seem to focus on providing cross compiling into a browser environment with the latter already having compatibility across the entire set of javascript interpreters. What does it offer that hasn't somewhat been solved?
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> http://codepen.io/lbebber/pen/xrwja

I think so. I just updated to Chrome 31 and it brought up a UAC in windows, which probably means that it was installing the PNaCl runtime since it usually doesn't require a UAC.
You have it backwards. I'm asking "If you want peace, why did you personally decide to start shooting those guys with no mandate from the government?"
I'm a PHP user/fan and I find this as funny as it is true.
It's not. He's talking about something much more important.
true, lower castes are leeches.
It's always fascinating the gymnastics people engage in to deny the existence of turnover costs
Using the LLVM toolchain, thus probably better performance and language support?

I'd like to see the benchmarks before assuming that, but if this leads to letting me use Haskell in the browser, I'll be all over it.
Thanks to the law of averages, a "stack ranking" system isn't harmful as long as the size of the group is sufficiently large. Employees aiming to be in the top 20% of a 5000-person organization are incentivized completely differently from from those aiming to be in the top 20% of a 5-person organization.

I think what they've done here is to allow each manager in the chain to decide how to handle their organization's evaluation and compensation. You could be VP of a 500-person division and instruct your directors and managers to rank everyone in your org in a single pool; or you could delegate to your directors and tell them to do what they think is best for their groups within their own individual budget constraints, which you assigned.
What will I play during my Flash intro?
Rappler is a bit like the HuffPo of the Philippines.
The "guaranteed floor" version of a basic income has a lot of harmful effects — for example, any work that pays anywhere close to the basic income would be a ridiculously bad deal that no rational actor would accept. In the "actually guaranteed" version, a job that pays 90% of the basic income would still be worth doing because you're nearly doubling your income.
I find it shocking that any person living in US (not sure if you do) finds this shocking. Did you not notice; the drug "war", militarization of police, commercialization of prison system, stupendous expansion of seizure laws? Did you not think those have repercussions?
What's the state of the GPU union?
Thanks for the feedback! Would you feel better if we had a (semi-functioning) demo app for you to play around with before signing up? Since we aggregate information from all your team applications, your email would be empty without connecting at least one account.
I like to think they'd envision a big blue box stretched across the sky, with the words "This channel only available to premium subscribers." If nothing else, it'd capture the cyberpunk aesthetic nicely.
I remember seeing somewhere that failure rates correspond strongly with number of platters (Something along the lines that doubling platters doubles chance of failure within 3 years).