skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Chaos Theory to Predict and Prevent Catastrophic ‘Dragon King’ Events
This is a completely unfair characterization of the people on the chrome team who deeply believe in the web. It's also a non-sequitur for a thread that should be about discussing Mozilla's announcement and not sullied by this.
Oh that sucks, will need to look into that - thanks for bringing it to my attention.
people will want to choose their own language forever. not building some low level spec like asm.js or a similar bytecode like language is just a marketing strategy.
sorry for misquoting.
The point was not to trash talk, but to show in what culture he is governing; Even if he meant "indecent wealth", some people will have "indecent wealth" and are still a part of the people he is supposed to govern. Don't think you should say/fell like that :)
Yeah, I spend even less than that. The price would have to be somewhere around half of that to make it attractive for me.
Any infrastructure or implementation details for HN userbase? Like where do you store videos (S3?), approximate costs, etc...
This is really good in one way - security will not be at the mercy of laggard device vendors (though HTC has picked up lot of speed lately - they delivered 4.3 already on the One across multiple carriers and have promised 4.4 within 90 days.) and browser / WebView is one of the biggest attack vectors (considering many apps use WebView), which will be patched automatically just like any other app would be.

With this - we now have most of the important OS components updated via the Play Store -Keyboard, GMail, Play Services, Chrome, various other GApps etc. Technically they should also be able to ship the ART like that - but I am not holding my breath on that one!
Unfortunately this is the internet, and you have no idea who I am, so I can't offer my personality as a counterpoint. I definitely understand the idea that catering to the overly sensitive part of our population is a losing battle.

However, to even bother posting something like that, you have to be trying to do one of two things:

(1) Trying to convert others with differing opinions to your side

(2) Make yourself feel superior and smarter by talking down to those with different opinions

#1 seems to be a more meaningful use of one's time, so I was offering some insight as to how to be more effective in doing that. If #2 is what you're after, then by all means, please continue.
That's why I qualify all of this with a legal system that is able to seize the assets of debtors when needed. In that case, it doesn't matter whether you want to pay $1,000 or not, you will be made to.
Farting or burping is something that is involuntary, natural, and brief.

Smoking or vaporizing is something that people choose to do for extended periods of time, and doing so in an enclosed space, especially many people doing it at once, can fill air in that enclosed space with the byproducts, which may be harmful.

If people drank something that made them burp constantly, permeated the air with the smell of those burps, and that vapor was harmful, then absolutely that should not be allowed (beer does not quite count; you don't generally burp continuously while drinking it, though it may cause an occasional burp, and it doesn't cause a lingering, carcinogenic vapor to permeate the space).
Given the screens are sized 7 and 7.9 inches, how is it 43% larger?
>when tested in laboratory experiments.

Isn't that the rub?
His speculation seems more than fair, since we know they at least had a rat problem.
Go create something that enriches society, rather then whining when someone steals your obvious app that exploits humanity's most despicable traits.

It's poetic justice that one of our most vile, vapid celebrities has stolen your vile, vapid idea.
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Thanks! We're definitely open to implementing our own login/accounts system and I'm sure we'll do this sooner or later.
> I'm glad to see so many people disagree with me. It means I'm on the right track.

Does anyone else find this "first they ignore you" style of belief-reinforcement to be vaguely troubling? Don't get me wrong, you shouldn't just believe your critics without further inquiry, but the presence of critics shouldn't be used as supporting evidence in and of itself. You risk creating a kind of insular belief system where any threat can be transformed into reinforcement.
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I thought this one was good "Stanford - Red + Smart" = Berkeley
I saw and opted out of a full body scanner in August on an international flight at LAX. What gives?
Yep. Interested in trying it out, not interested in using social-media logins.
That would make perfect sense if software grew on trees.

In the real world in which we live, people have to work hard to create new things. There is no magic software fairy. Software is not a right like air, water or food or speech.

Remember, the world does not owe you free software. ("free" as in "free beer")
Then it's up to the community to read it and flag it. Having mods change title's is one thing but this if the first I've ever seen links change (and it's actually only one of two articles today where I've seen links change). Although I'm against mods changing things there should at least be a system where it's made clear that a change has happened.
I recommend you add [pdf] to the title as per http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Totally understand and will definitely implement an alternative soon. Thanks for the feedback.
Anecdote: My family ate together at the dinner table nearly every evening. I look back on our engaging discussions with fondness.

I grew up in the '90s.
The disruption is the prep work and cleanup. I dream of a kitchen in a way that cleanup takes less than three minutes and my veg is uniformly chopped for me while I'm on my way home. (I'm quite capable of doing each, but I'm slow, and getting my mise en place takes far too long.)

That leads to me only cooking on weekends when I don't have anything going on. I'm a good cook, but by the time the brussel sprouts are roasted or the vegetable soup is coming together, we've eaten and I've cleaned up, I only have 2 hours before I have to sleep.

Disruption would be fixing that problem, not teaching people they should cook for themselves. (And it's similar for working class poor people, but compounded by the realities of working two jobs and raising children on a limited budged.)
Please see this discussion, in particular the response from "rob": http://discourse.soylent.me/t/comparing-soylent-to-existing-...

Summary: Soylent aims for something more ideal than a suboptimal solution. It's a day to day meal replacement for otherwise healthy, active people. Given the ingredients of Ensure, I wouldn't want to try to live on it for 30 days. It's like Google vs. Altavista, if you'll pardon the strained analogy.
I don't know about "food dystopia", and I don't generally concern myself with other people's poor choices, unless it directly impacts my life. I really, truly don't care what Soylent does. I'm not the target market, and I'll never consume it.

That said, Soylent falls in the sort of nerd lifestyle myopia that I find frustrating, and I admit to being genuinely puzzled by the buzz around the thing (I suspect that's where most of the hype comes from, actually -- not genuine interest, so much as curiosity). But when I hear the creator talking about replacing all food or providing cheap nutrition to the poor, I just get depressed: our aim should be higher than this. Disruption that intends to replace our food with flavorless goo is a disruption not worth having.
Is it also the case of all other nosql databases like Cassandra or CouchDB etc?
Phone Halo's TrackR devices make it harder to lose your stuff
What's the point of doing a 360 review if you're going to attribute away all the results you don't agree with to bias? Why not just do the reviews yourself and save everyone else from wasting their time :)
EVE Online is basically that MMO.
Free Spot gold JSON API
It's interesting how the word "nude" boosts posts to the top of the social hierarchy on HN, Reddit and YouTube, among other sites, even in cases when the content would be otherwise irrelevant or uninteresting to the communities.
Does Elon Musk want to challenge Boeing?
Caching with localStorage is not new, the whole point is sending diffs for changes instead of re-downloading everything. This improves performance even for very dynamic data that is constantly refreshed.
Apologies. Looks like the mods got there before me.
Sorry the experience has been sub-par. What browser and OS are you using? It works best on Chrome and Safari and the scrolling is typically smooth in those environments.
Their speculation might not be worth much, but if they succeed in setting up a bitcoin ETF it could definitely boost bitcoin's credibility.
This sort of thing is in fact exactly what I've been doing for the last year. (Took a widely used, but no longer maintained, program and sped/scaled up the important parts by 2-3+ orders of magnitude; this will soon become the official new version.) I'm looking for other high-impact optimization opportunities, so if you've got any problems which currently require supercomputers but you have a nagging suspicion that they shouldn't, that nagging feeling is probably right and I'd love to hear from you.
Different aspect ratios.
Very well said! This is getting a bit off topic from the original article but in the broader debate on what to do about healthcare you have explained something that many people seem to misunderstand.
"I dream of a kitchen in a way that cleanup takes less than three minutes and my veg is uniformly chopped for me while I'm on my way home."

Um. You can buy most vegetables pre-chopped. They cost less than Soylent. They sell them at Walgreen's!
The Australian Government is funding a BitTorrent Released Sci-Fi series.
"What is Internet, anyway?"  (1994)
The World. It doesn't work that way and neither does the vast majority of commercial software despite what you "want".
Looking forward to a low-carb version, anything in the works?
> This goes well beyond whatever policy pg was trying to defend recently. This is deeply manipulative.

YC has stake in Soylent (http://blog.soylent.me/post/64789154918/soylent-funding-anno...). I think people sometimes forget who's website this is they're commenting on.
> But according to some users it did not even used SSL!!!

It's never going to stop amusing me that Bitcoin's big selling point is how it's this amazing form of applied cryptography... and the people who actually try to do this kind of thing cheerfully neglect security concerns that seem rather basic.

It's not hard to explain this phenomenon, but it's still amusing.
HTML5 marketplace, Buy & sell HTML5 items with Bitcoin
html5-ninja.com is a marketplace where authors & designers propose their creations (themes, scripts... ) for selling.
HTML5 marketplace, Buy & sell HTML5 items with Bitcoin
I have to log in to get an example? No thanks.
Way off topic but one of my favorite iOS apps is CSVtouch. It works well with .csv files and it lets me keep my data is an open format (although it can only view files and not edit them).
I'm not a huge fan of it either, but we certainly get more for our public dollar than the US does which was my point.

Generally the emergency room works on a triage process so going there with a minor issue means everyone with serious issues gets treated first.

If you want to go to the emerg room with a minor issue and get treated in a reasonable amount of time you may want to consider whether one of your symptoms is having trouble breathing. A quick run before going to the emerg if you're out of shape quite often produces this symptom.
What? Noooooo. I don't upgrade the doors until I'm well into looking for luxury upgrades after my core build. Shields are another luxury as well. Definitely favour a teleporter or a good weapon, followed by weapon systems (just enough to use all your weapons except for your missiles) and engines. Always go engines before shields!

Intruders and fires are basically a non-factor once you learn to use the pause button promptly and often.
Judge Lind of the Bradley Manning trial visited my college yesterday
> What's your definition of 'need'?

You're being weird. I'm using the word in its normal sense.

> If your belief system relies on not compensating other people's hard work, then it is destroying the social fabric of society.

Work does not intrinsically need to be compensated. The world does not owe you a living. It is up to you to do work that actually deserves compensation. It will not do to complain that everyone is using your work in ways you did not intend; it is for you to find a business model which takes the actions of people into account.

It is also your duty as a member of society to engage in actions which does not, on the whole, damage society.

> By not acknowledging software as property, you are entrenching the power of those who control other forms of property

Perhaps. But this does not leave you destitute; property is not the only form of wealth. You have the ability to work, which you can sell. You do not need to go the roundabout way of working to create software, and then create this constructed form of property so you can sell this new form of “property”. You can just as easily sell your labor directly.
While the mentioned companies don't donate, others do. Including Mozilla/GoDaddy with $10,000 a piece.
Very cool benchmark.
We might have different concepts of what "90s grunge design" is, but I'd place it squarely in the bucolic/naturalistic/romantic/bohemian tradition, something harking back to a time when geometry (Mother of clean design) hadn't been discovered yet. So I'd say the odds of an eventual comeback are quite high.
Fantastic work. I really hope pg has accepted your application to ycombinator. You clearly have a talent for hard work, perseverance and knowing how to market your product well. Even if pg doesn't like the idea, he should realise the team is very capable.

I have a question though Karen, did you know you were going to do this project before you created this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w ? (I originally saw it on r/GetMotivated when it went viral originally) or did you decide to build it due to the popularity that the video got and the requests from people wanting to achieve similar?

(Just curious from a marketing point of view whether you planned for the dance video to go viral to boost your idea or whether you saw an untapped market due to the popularity of the video and decided to fill it)

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[EDIT] - Just got my question answered by watching this : http://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=9m57s - I'm glad that it was an idea that came out of the viral consequence of the original video, rather than the original plan all along.

Also just realised that the woman learning to walk video I saw today on r/GetMotivated was submitted by you / part of the same project.

I can see pg's mind turning over in the office hours video, trying to understand the concept and how big it can grow - I think he's right in the fact that you should see how people use it and allow yourselves to pivot if another idea emerges out of where you're at so far.

I guess the issue is that one of the reasons for the successful popularity of your original dancing video was that it had a nice balance of unique story, being told in a short enough manner that the viewer keeps watching, combined with the final scene coming together perfectly with the music / train / nailing the dance which in my opinion was the 're share' moment - where the user thinks 'I must re share this!'.

The problem is in the 10 second videos it's unlikely I'll want to 're share a single video' - so it's the compiled story at the end which becomes the thing I want to share as a user - but that's not automated / easy to produce. That said, I did enjoy watching the journey of you guys producing the product in 100 days (10 second clip at a time) so, in a world of transparency and people wanting free publicity it does seem to work. (infact I would happily continue watching the journey for 10 seconds a day, to continue the journey past launch out of interest to see what happens next).

Either way, both you and Finbarr have produced, marketed and launched a cool product in 100 days which is a pretty amazing feat in itself.
I really disagree with quite a lot in this article.

I mean, for starters, if he (or anyone else) thinks that the plains of support are somehow greener on the other side, I got some bad news for you.

Hardware compatibility is a game of give and take. If you have an ultra-closed platform like OSX, you get to develop for a small set of hardware, and with that small set of hardware, you generally have a more reliable product, at least at that layer, but...

If something breaks on an ultra-open platform like Windows, replacements are plentiful, and you have a lot of options, driving prices way down and availability way up.

The PC gaming scene is actually growing while the console marketspace is shrinking, and while things like patching Dark Souls with DSFix and other such hacks are something you never need to do with consoles, if you think it's 'hassle free', that'd be inexperience talking.

Finally, I don't think tablets will be replacing PCs any time soon in the office. There are serious disadvantages a touch interface vs a mouse interface that would kill productivity; the mouse isn't going away. The desktop, maybe, but at the very best, you'll see Surface or Surface-esq computers replace desktops...with mice attached.

That said, there are a lot of things I can totally agree with. I despise Windows 8 with every fiber of my being for all the reasons listed. TechNet shutting down was a really bad call. Microsoft's rationale for change makes no goddamn sense ever.

Some of this stuff seems almost fabricated, or totally inaccurate though.
I personally see food in two lights a necessity and a luxury. Most of the time it is simply a necessity and Soylent will do. The rest of the time it is a luxury and I'll go cook a nice meal or go to a restaurant.
This is the longest "Repost!" comment that I have yet seen.
Probably not, considering when quick rise yeast came on the market and the necessity of electric stoves for that kind of speed. In most places, you would have a central stove and going to and from would take ten minutes at the least. ;)
Nothing I've seen about the Soylent project makes me imagine that its founder lives on quite the same planet inhabited by most other humans. He has an interesting idea and he certainly seems able to execute, at least so far, but I can't help but be a little more skeptical than I would be otherwise; the first time I saw mention of it, it took me a good fifteen minutes to convince myself that it was what it appeared to be, and not a prop for some sort of "alternate reality game". Even now, I still find myself waiting for another shoe to drop.
What if I told you that medical/accident/disaster expenses (even just counting deductables and co-pays when insured), are not "borrowed to live a comfortable life" but are treated by the credit system the same as unbridled credit spending?
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Oracle GlassFish, or Why You Should Think About Open Source Again
This is a very clear and perfectly acceptable Raison d'être. It is unsurprising that Dart is by and for the same sort of people that gave us and use(d) GWT. I say godbless and godspeed, but it is very much against the grain of the web and personally I find Typescript, EC6, and projects like Angular and possibly Meteor more exciting by far.

To each his own, this does fill a need. The conspiracy aficionados Dart attracts however sure are unfortunate.
> asm.js javascript offers subpar performance on non asm.js platforms

What kind of browser do you consider a "non-asm.js platform"? Chrome for example is not detecting asm.js specifically, but still optimizes for the types of patterns in asm.js code. As a consequence it can run asm.js code very well, on par with Firefox in many cases, for example

https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0A...
Like "the West" had escaped anything… Justin Bieber? JLS? Even goddamn Take That are still outselling everyone else except newer manufactured pop acts.

People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Pure JS in-browser Excel file parser
Passphrase Stretching in the Browser
> That's why I qualify all of this with a legal system that is able to seize the assets of debtors when needed. In that case, it doesn't matter whether you want to pay $1,000 or not, you will be made to.

Sure, if you have a legal system that has zero cost, zero risk of not getting the outcome you expect, takes zero time to operate, doesn't include bankruptcy or other avenues of discharging debt, and debtors never have multiple competing claims on their assets that are not part of the same package being sold... if all that is true, then the amount a third-party purchaser should be willing to pay for debt should generally be the lesser of the face value or the total of the debtor's assets.

However, those assumptions bear basically no resemblance to any set of conditions that applies in the real world, so its all meaningless.
The current case has zero problems with technical security - it's the ages-old problem of someone holding money of consumers and then running off with it.

There's a single solution (that bitcoiners tend to dislike) - regulate all such entities, requiring them to (a) verify their identities, and (b) post bonds/statutory capital in proportion to all held funds, to ensure that depositors are paid back if the company folds or turns out to be a fraud, i.e., the same rules as banks have to follow.
Checking the forums, it's indeed only an update to MonoDevelop. I stand corrected.
Zuckerburg will drink Soylent only if he can kill it first.
Justin Bieber-Backed “Shots Of Me” Launches Selfie Sharing App
Even in pop-science books, there's often a list of citations at the end.
The bias you speak about is evident in the article's title.
"Why Japanese Web Design Is So ... Different". The baseline is by implication English design, since the article was written in English. Probably also some subset of English sites that the author feels is representative, and expects his/her readers to resonate with. This is fine, but the problem is that this bias is not made explicit. It feels a little like asking "why are all these foreigners speaking funny languages?"

Since Japanese sites apparently look like they have not evolved since they were last like English sites around 1998, the better question might have been what factors have been driving evolution of English sites which did not affect Japanese?
You may add other languages, but I'll just stick with Japanese since it is referenced by the OP.
i like my missed opportunities in logarithmic:

https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?showDataPoints=f...

btw, isn't the point of bitcoin system is that all transactions are forever traceable, ie. bitcoins can't just disappear, they only can be moved from one known place to another?
Very true. You can't use the fact that someone has something bad to say about you to actually improve your perceived value. It's strictly[1] more probable that you're worse if there is criticism than if there isn't.

[1] EDIT: as pasquinelli noted, I didn't actually mean "strictly" here, I meant >=. Also, pasquinelli, you've been hellbanned.
Though this will tie you onto a different platform at least initially, have you considered integrating with vine/instagram in any way? Could be a good way to acquire more users.

Best of luck helping people achieve more.