skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems the author is unwilling to acknowledge the impact money has on satisfaction or happiness. But utility and happiness are two different things.

I don't doubt that walking to work makes you happier, but you can't go to a shop and exchange that walk for a bigger house or a nice vacation. Money can do that. If you're unhappy with the communte, you can spend the extra money on getting more happiness out of other aspects of your life. That is utility.

It's silly to argue that money doesn't provide utility; nothing provides such flexible, universal and measurable utility as money does. But does it buy you happiness? Only if you're poor, other research has shown. Once you have comfortable wealth, money stops providing additional happiness.

So overpaid CEOs should take a pay cut to be able to walk to the office.

(Would he accept an hour-long communte for $500 extra per month? Of course not! That's pocket change to him. But for 40% on top of his already excessive salary? Probably.)
I'm looking forward to changing from gmail to a more secure mail service, maybe you could recommend something that's not US based and, at least as of currently known, secure and possibly encrypted, similar to how lavabit was?
> But my! I’m not the author of that piece.

Ah ok, sorry about that!
It took them this long to figure this out? Do these academics actually know any poor people?
It's a completely pointless task that will just hurt innocent people.

Bitcoin transactions are by their nature traceable through the blockchain- but ownership of them is not. In it's simplest form I might sell a coin to somebody for cash, the blockchain does not show this change of ownership and an outside observer now thinks that they are still monitoring the same persons transactions. If they were "blacklisted" then suddenly the sold coins are worthless, even though the original seller has had no adverse impact.

It has interesting extensions, where you are able to destroy other people's funds by tainting them with your stolen ones. The Bitcoin system does not, and can not support a system where the user can accept and reject funds. You can ignore inputs, but that gets very messy very quickly.

You end up in a situation where only institutionally "clean" coins are allowed, and the system collapses. How this ever came to fruition I'll never know.
i just recently tried an Android device with a 1Ghz Dual Core, 800x480 4inch screen and Android 4.1 and it was quite painful to use. Not very responsive, scrolling lagged on the browser or content heavy apps like facebook/instagram to the point that it was really annoying.
Seems to be more of an Android problem though, as a similarly priced and specced Windows Phone didn't have these problems.
So your argument is lets create a new version of a protocol, but make it less capable than the version which proceeds it, so that there are very valid use-cases which cannot be solved using the new protocol-version, forcing us to rely on multiple protocol-versions for what should be the same thing?

How on earth do you make such an argument make sense?
I dont like being forced to log in with Facebook.

Also typo on the front page: uploded -> uploaded :)
The UI on the website is really bad, you might want to consider changing it. It's EXTREMELY confusing to use
Bitcoins don't have a "true" value by definition. The value is the belief of the Bitcoin crowd.
I don't think you lack vision: I think you simply see what many others see - that Snapchat will be one of the many Myspaces of mobile.
Even if it stays afloat, it will soon be valuated much, much lower than it is now.
won't bittorrent sync do this and a lot more in another 6 months, for free?
There is still one problem with using the blur filter in CSS. It's all about the edges.

As you increase the blur the edges shrink inwards. This makes it difficult to get a frosted glass effect with more blur. Try setting a higher blur, eg:

-webkit-filter: blur(20px);
filter: blur(20px);
1. There's no problem with "backing". Gold is backed by gold. Bitcoin is backed by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not broken while being in the open for plenty of people to exploit it. Just like anyone interested may try to synthesise gold at a cost lower than the market price.

2. Every early venture is also very volatile. Facebook, Twitter, Google, the web itself and the internet were volatile in the beginning. A lot of uncertainties, legal issues, security issues etc. Only when they reach half of the potential market, they start looking stable and glorious. I bet when gold was started to be used as a currency it was uncertain, competing with previous currencies and prices were fluctuating a lot.

3. Bitcoin can't be suddenly worth 1$ tomorrow for economic reasons. Only for technical reasons (but then it is more likely to become worthless). Economically, no big holder of bitcoin is going to crash the price by cashing out publicly if there is a way to sell steadily and/or privately. Which happens already. SecondMarket's BIT gets all its coins and money purely privately, without anyone noticing much changes.

Since almost no one is holding Bitcoin-denomitated debts, no one is hurt by having Bitcoin price rising unexpectedly. It only boosts interest. So if it stays around $430 for the months or grows to $1000, no one will be hugely disappointed. Even if drops now to $300, only a fraction of holders will suffer losses, while majority of others is still well in profit.
There are lots of useful applications which should prove at least harmless, if not even beneficial.

For example with an EEG sensor you can do neurofeedback training to improve attention, which has been shown to help with ADHD and even epilepsy, among other things. For this purpose, the Neurosky Mindwave Mobile with its low price tag and bluetooth interface is certainly a better choice than any homegrown amplifier.

For EMG, besides controlling something, feedback training is also possible. For example when EMG sensors are attached to your shoulder muscles you can teach yourself to actually relax them. The computer can then alert you to unconscious tension building up, during typing for example.

I don't know if ECG (I think that's the correct English spelling) has been shown to be useful in biofeedback, but the trainability of heartrate is well known.
EFF Appeals Chevron's Speech-Chilling Subpoena
It's astonishing that the Dart IDE is Eclipse-based - it seemed to me that Google learned its lesson after rewriting Android Studio on IntelliJ Idea, but I've been wrong.
and everyone here is asking this : WHY/HOW "Facebook is willing to pay that much and investors are willing to invest at that valuation"?
Running fine on my "work" laptop :)
(Win7 64bit i72760qm@ 2.4GHZ 8GB RAM)

I just realised that my company laptops is A LOT better than my desktop at home :/
> Looks like a lot of reflection. At that point, I would just stick with express and node. All that magic comes at a cost.

There's one use of reflection[1], and it's to ensure that the argument is a function.

Reflection isn't inherently bad; using it at the drop of a hat is.

[1]: https://github.com/codegangsta/martini/blob/master/martini.g...

[edit]: Looks like I missed the `inject` import (thanks breakpete)
Stop Secret Copyright Treaties
The lenovo x1 carbon (and probably others) charge from 0% to 80% of battery in about 30 minutes -- which is really helpful and does a lot to compensate an otherwise lackluster battery life.
It's curious that they call it 'SDK' and 'tooltip'. Is it to mask the fact that you have to learn a new very non-mainstream (at the moment) language? It would be more understandable had the Dart VM been marketed as universal.
polymer + dart brings component based web development - finally. This is awesome.
The strength of something like this becomes evident in the optimistic future when governments (or at least accountants) decide to help opted-in users to report their taxes from Bitcoin-related transactions.

As others mentioned, it's not practical to try and enforce this on people who want to circumvent it, but there is certainly value in improving convenience of accounting for those who want it.

The Intuit-for-Bitcoin market is still practically non-existent, so expect to see more such announcements as the promise of Bitcoin's legitimacy continues favourably.
More layoffs coming to AMD?
8 Life Hacking Lessons From John D. Rockefeller (The Richest Man Ever)
"Nice straw-man. Unity 3D does WORA very, very well. It's been used successfully for cross-platform development by many shipped products. To my initial astonishment, all built on Mono/C#."

Not true. Unity engine is made using c/c++. You control those components using Mono/c#, which is totally different.

If Unity was made in Mono, it would be 1 frame per second. We made lots of experiments using mono for doing 3d and animation in our company as it is fast to program with, but with all the market machine of MS, c# is not designed for some things, but some people just can't stop trying to use the only hammer they have.
You have to remember that Dart Editor was started before Google moved to IntelliJ for Android (at least publicly). Dart Lang is a relatively small team compared to the people working on the Android dev stuff, so my guess is that it probably was a matter of not dividing resources for an unnecessary transition. In my experience Dart Editor works quite well. Of course that's just anecdotal... Perhaps a Google engineer can shed more light on this matter.
Looks a lot of fun!

And brings back fond memories for me. Back in the 90s as a high school student I made a Will's Voxel Editor for the Tiberian Sun games. Was wonderful. Found a screenshot: http://www.ppmsite.com/newspic/vxlseIII12_big.jpg
Wow it cool. Where is your startup located in Nigeria?and far have you extend your plan?
OP here: user arrow keys (so yes, you have to use a keyboard, [space] for flowers)
I don't see how this video shows anything which supports your .. fears? Obviously, you shouldn't short-circuit capacitors. You shouldn't short-circuit any power source.
Wow it cool. Where is your startup located in Nigeria?and far have you extend your market in there?
This one has a gasoline engine
As of last week's AngularDart announcement, it sounded like the size of Dart to JS compiled code was still rather large. I'm surprised a 1.0 release has been cut if that is still a problem. I know dart2js can and I'm sure will be improved later, but people are going to make judgements about Dart the language based on its current performance.

https://github.com/jbdeboer/angular-dart-js-size/blob/master...
Show HN: Collaborative Flower Planting with Snowmen in the Browser
Samsung Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 zero-day exploits
Virtual desktops, not machines. That being said, those have been in Windows since at least NT4 as a feature of the window manager and plenty of implementations that use other mechanisms to work around the drawbacks of the native method (e.g. being able to move windows between desktops).
The best introduction is probably Integrate You Logistic Processes with OpenERP, a free ebook written by OpenERP S.A. themselves[1]. It's slightly outdated, since it was published in 2011 and meanwhile version 7.0 has been released, but the changes to the stock area where limited (except for the UI).

We have a demo instance for version 7.0 [2], but it's in Portuguese (though you can change the language). OpenERP S.A. offers a free trial.

[1] http://www.brain-tec.ch/ebusiness-de-2/openERP/logistic-proz...

[2] https://demo7.thinkopensolutions.com/?db=demo&user=demo&pass...
Thanks @cowls.

My reasons for forcing Facebook login is to know more about my user in order to serve the relevant/personalize content. It's a chicken/egg situation...
Yet it had a superior GUI mark-up language and supported more than one back-end language (C#, VB, F# to begin with).
OP here: use keyboard arrow keys to move and [space] for flowers
Also, if there are fields you'd want besides the usual ones we show on the results page, please let me know.
- It reminds me of pastebin.com. I see people using it, just how they use pastebin. For everyone, the link to the project is ~> http://textuploader.com/
As someone who works in the advertising space I can tell you with a great deal of confidence that SnapChat will not be able to monetize in the way you describe and make enough money (without pissing off users) to justify the price tag.

Unless they've got a very clever model that is more advanced than what you've described or that FB or Twitter have ever used it's a very long shot. Unless the owner has a personal issue with FB and didn't want their money for this reason I do not believe this was a sound business decision.

I'd love to be wrong but I don't think I will be in this case.
Dart is also supported by other popular editors

IntelliJ and Webstorm
http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/webhelp/dart-support.html

Netbeans
https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/dart_and_netbeans_id...

There's also a Sublime text package on github.
weed out ‘bad actors’ – like the Dread Pirate Roberts – from the legitimate Bitcoin business world

People of the world:

For the greater good please send all your Dollar bills and coins that were ever used for illegal activities to my doorsteps.

This is you last chance to win the war on drugs, terrorism, children, religion, or whoever else your demons might be!
How Twitter's new expanded images increase clicks, retweets and favorites
They were doing what they were told, and would therefore get whatever benefits obedience brings.

Whereas the women now had:

- a bunch of male scientists leering at them [1];

- some photos in the hands of those scientists that could be embarrassing;

- the possibility of those photos being stolen and distributed;

- a strong sense that they have no right to privacy or dignity in the highly male-dominated Ivy League world.

That last one would count as an educational bonus, at least.

[1] I'm only guessing that the scientists were male here, but I think it's a safe bet. Even nowadays, but more so then.
But the rich guy hoarding metals is also funding other businesses (the mining companies), as does the guy buying the SUV and cigarettes. Everything is effective spending, while saving kinda slows that down.
- Yeah I second that. I think the app will be nice, but I dont like being forced to log in with facebook neither. Can people just sign up?
- Im also interested in learning what machine algorithm you used.
Punch drunk from the abuse, how much worse can it get?
I have been under the impression that doing this kind of thing is not that difficult (as explained here) but somewhat "dangerous" in that if you get the wiring at all wrong and accidentally apply even a small amount of current you can confuse the heart and get it to damage itself. I do not see any paragraphs here of "dire warning" or even any specific mentions of parts of this process being dangerous, just a comment that "it seems to me almost impossible that anybody could injure themselves", which I'm finding strange ;P.

Here is a much older article from 2003; it begins with a dire warning.

http://www.eng.utah.edu/~jnguyen/ecg/ecg_index.html

> This device requires you to strap electrodes across your chest. This is inherently dangerous. Both because of the pain caused by sticky tape pulling hairs out of a person's body and also because even small currents can kill. Do not attempt this experiment unless you fully understand the potential problems with this device.

Here is another article from 2007; again, it begins with a dire warning.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070324054626/http://www.e-dsp.c...

> Before I continue to explain what I did, I would like to WARN you! 500mA (miliAmps) on 220V will completely destroy your nervous system (so run it from battery supply), check everything twice and you are responsible for it on you own.

In this article from 2013, there is a rather extensive back/forth paragraph ;P.

http://www.swharden.com/blog/2013-04-14-simple-diy-ecg-pulse...

> If you’re worried about electrical shock, or unsure of your ability to make a safe device, don’t attempt to build an ECG machine. For an ECG to work, you have to make good electrical contact with your skin near your heart, and some people feel this is potentially dangerous. Actually, some people like to argue about how dangerous it actually is, as seen on Hack-A-Day comments and my previous post comments. Some people have suggested the danger is negligible and pointed-out that it’s similar to inserting ear-bud headphones into your ears. Others have suggested that it’s dangerous and pointed-out that milliamps can kill a person. Others contest that pulses of current are far more dangerous than a continuous applied current. Realists speculate that virtually no current would be delivered by this circuit if it is wired properly. Rational, cautionary people worried about it reduce risk of accidental current by applying bidirectional diodes at the level of the chest leads, which short any current (above 0.7V) similar to that shown here. Electrically-savvy folks would design an optically decoupled solution. Intelligent folks who abstain from arguing on the internet would probably consult the datasheets regarding ECG input protection. In all cases, don’t attach electrical devices to your body unless you are confident in their safety. As a catch-all, I present the ECG circuit for educational purposes only, and state that it may not be safe and should not be replicated There, will that cover me in court in case someone tapes wires to their chest and plugs them in the wall socket?
Looks like the prices in FAQ and Pricing don't match
Upon reading this post, I immediately thought that your service was similar to Sift Science, so I am glad that you mentioned it in your TextUploader link.

My second thought was about privacy and that the fact that you might be selling aggregate information about visitors of your clients' sites. I am glad that you addressed that as well.

I am concerned about your attempts to distinguish yourself, especially by your suggestion that it will be "more hands-on, less machine-driven". Since I would want to stop fraudulent/malicious behavior while/before it happens, and since I can review user actions after the fact by myself, I am not sure whether your service would be the best fit for someone who might pay Sift or a similar company.
Playing video games can actually make you more productive
The goal should be to customize as per the company or person you are sending it it. Its after all a way of learning more about you, in the appropriate context.

I think a short resume that goes exactly in what experience they are looking for would be best. Saves time, and at least shows your focus.
Its almost Terry Pratcher'esque. I'm seriously depressed about how shit our system is.
I imagine a major reason for the semi-"surprise" announcement is that the team wanted to pre-empt buzz around EMCAScript 6 which contains some features also in Dart. Just a theory... (PS I prefer Dart though.)
Super fast and fluid on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, 8GB RAM, Core i7 QM, GT630 2GB. (yeah beefyish box but it does work great)
They also don't have a particularly sticky product. Once people slow down using it, the content literally evaporates.

I don't see a lot of upside from $3B, but I've been wrong before...
Based on the text in the actual post, I am pretty sure that the submitter's project is not TextUploader, but the service described at http://textuploader.com/d3fk.
Ironic given that Bitcoin grew out of the idea of a 'Proof-of-work' token that was proposed as a FUSSP itself.
Buildbox now supports build artifacts
Awesome demo, but unfortunately rather slow on my (oldish) Macbook.

I also recently made a page with frosted glass effect, but opted for pre-rendered images because of those performance issues: https://eggerapps.at/pgcommander/fancy-index.html
(But I decided the effect was too playful for my website and so it's not public)
Yeah, this would be interesting to know. What employee wealth was generated? Why are these numbers hardly published?
Here's a screenshot for a quick view: https://www.dropbox.com/s/35060r2obuwse4f/Photo%2014.11.2013...

It looks better when you see it moving.
It's a heavily modified Barnes–Hut for clustering, lot of coding in python... used a lil bit of Levenshtein distance too.. alto is 20% of what I want to achieve but need to know if the concept has audience.
The price of gold is not exactly static either, and many people are predicting its imminent collapse. In the end, despite some inherent value, gold is valued for a unique and rare atomic structure in much the same way Bitcoin is valued for its cryptographic foundation giving it many of the same properties.
My reasons for forcing Facebook login is to know more about my user in order to serve the relevant/personalize content. It's a chicken/egg situation... how to get around it?
Its in Lagos, right now it has not much users. still trying to get more users and seriously need help with the technical part. I single handedly coded it, now i need a techncal person to help build it into something much bigger and better
A lot of hot sauces have vinegar as a core ingredient, which acts as a preservative.
Ability to search source code? (BB-39)
I've been a SpiderOak user for over 3 years. I like the "nearly zero knowledge" aspect of it, but the clunky, non-native, freezes-all-the-time user interface drives me crazy. Despite Dropbox's horrible privacy and security, I can't deny that it offers the smoothest file-storage and file-sharing experience that I've ever had.
IOS 7-style dark blur effect with CSS & SVG
a fork of "Frosted glass effect with CSS & SVG" (http://codepen.io/Matori/pen/JFzok) with blur increased and color darkened to simulate iOS 7-style effects.

Orig. HN post by hemezh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6730916
This appeared in reddit[1] before Hacker News and he has already been asked[2] how does this compare to revel and beego.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1qlfvp/martini_class...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1qlfvp/martini_class...
Ooups, someone has having success with XSS :/
here is the same .... but different https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731386 (in 2D and with snowmen and flowers instead of voxel) built on top of meteor.js (on github: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/snowmen)
I started working with Dart in April 2013 and find it a very promising approach for web development especially as I dislike JavaScript.

I like that Dart offers a feature rich open source IDE just from the beginning, also a lightweight but efficient dependency management, and a lot of other tools and frameworks (Polymer, Angular, ...).
The team developing Dart has very competent members and the community is very helpful and growing constantly.

At the beginning I hoped Dart would be more like Go but that would probably be to much difference to the currently widespread approaches to web development.

So I see Dart as a pragmatic approach to enhance web development and
IMHO way better than existing technologies and at least a great step in the right direction.
Version 1.0 is just the beginning I hope.
This is really cool, and probably a better solution than quadcopters for many applications. However, what we would ideally want in the end, would be a tilt-rotor of some sort which incorporates wings. Fixed wings are a lot more efficient than active lift, and is necessary if you want to squeeze more speed and range out of your UAV.
The problem isn't with compiled size in general, but with code that uses reflection because it's hard to impossible to tell what code is actually executed one the reflective APIs are called. Angular is highly reflective, and we are still working on ways to reduce the size of Angular apps. The Angular team is working on code generators that remove the reflective bits, and the Dart team is working on annotations and other methods to tell the compiler what code is invoked via mirrors. This work will continue post 1.0.
so, this company is trying to become the bitcoin sanitation authority? as I said before -- it would be a bad thing as there's never a way to know if the stain is valid 100%. and, where there's authority -- there's corruption. I hope it fails.