skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Everyone,

Many thanks for the comments. Apologies, for another delayed response. We're approaching $500K for our Kicstarter with 40(ish) hrs to go. WE'll end up top 20 in design, to date.

Here are some responses. Mmm, I guess there something that makes you guys, err, just a touch critical. I think we need to organise a testing group of you guys for the Quadruple-blinded Randomised Controlled Trial, that I am working on for my PhD at Huddersfield University in the Spinal Research unit there, we estimate 3yrs to do a good job, (before anyones scepto-meter goes off I'm sure most of you know what quadruple blinded is aiming at but please google if not). Sometimes they let osteopaths to University in even if they are a bit alternative. Maybe I should call myself a doctor like chiropractors do, as that will give me a lot more credibility. You really think so???

Ok, bit cross there, apologies.

Mithaldu, Jeez! Marketing fluff, clumsy..woah.

You'll find my website if you google and I give a smattering of papers there to get people started. Doing a Phd means that you have to know more about your subject than anyone else in the world. You are creating new knowledge and it is the most awesome feeling.
There's a picture of a cucetani chair in the beginning of my animation. I thought mine was from 7.5k ago, but will check. I'd imagine there were others before that but that's the earliest I know of.

Mezzopiano, Thanks for the great questions.

sitting balls- 1. No height adjustment 2. Good for core work out, but all day long? 3. People look a bit of a plonker sitting on one...

We can make polymers last for a long, long time now, too long in most cases. How long do you think the fabric ones last?

I've been assiduously avoiding 'selling' The FreedMan Chair. I've just tried to tell the story in the best way I can and asked people make up their minds. I'm saying the world is round guys. If you can't see that you're living on a flat one...

I really hope you come along for the ride and give it a go.

Cheers,

Simon
SSL-enabled MongoDB instances in Beta
The chipset no longer contains the memory controller, the CPU does. To use DD4 you'd need not only a new motherboard but a new processor.
They mention in their video or kickstarter site that you have to be within 4" of the mag reader.
There are very few of them. I have one friend who doesn't work at Google who decided that he wanted to jump aboard the Google+ train since Facebook already passed him by. Strange.
Commits-since-fork might be a better measure than stars, e.g. most of the starred forks of brianfrankcooper/YCSB have no commits more recent than the mainline.
You're right, I'll tell China to get right on that.
With UnPitch, Boston's TightKnit Tech Community Sends Message
most of my tech spending is pretty similar to that of my wife.

In addition, the key metric is probably not tech spending, but tech creating, which is often not measured in dollars. We've all probably run into guys [1] who produce impressive code using a five-year-old laptop who don't spend much on "tech." Maybe a couple bucks a month for hosting, but that's really it.

[1] A note on the language used: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/hey-guys-read-this/ .
You're going to need a really big weight and a really big shaft.

Which means you're going to need a motor with a lot of torque to lift that weight, which means a lot of input current from your power source, right? Or, if your input is small, then you need a lot of time.
What method does the government use to subsidize NS or UP when they decide to build new tracks somewhere? The only thing I could think is eminent domain but I don't believe that's anywhere close to 90% of the cost in most areas that they build in.
A wH is 3.6 kJ (you'll need ~10-20 of these to run an iPad for an hour)

I'm pretty sure a whole iPad battery only contains ~7 Wh (1,900 mAh * 3.7v) and it can run for 10 hours.

Edit: OK I was looking at completely the wrong device for these numbers. Thanks miahi!
This has not been my experience with g+ at all. I went over this a bit in another thread, but I think it works great for keeping up with communities, almost as a mashup of reddit/twitter with less of the trolling/spam.
Oooh, and also a kind of beer!
It is literally a stopwatch. You click play, you click pause, you click stop and it behaves exactly like the Seiko hanging from your gym teacher's neck. The interesting part is that it works with nothing but HTML/CSS, and the animations are flawless while the design is clean.

Also, does it really not work on the phone?
And presumably that 20 GW would require harnessing ALL the energy (e.g. bringing the current to a halt) - sounds suboptimal
I am sure they did this to offload the server.

I remember reading an article about some javascript games and how to find the balance for game state server-side check.

source : http://fugiman.com/blog/2013/08/17/on-click-fueled-javascrip...
I would probably carry the fob around simply to replace all the loyalty/membership cards that take up a large proportion of my wallet. It won't replace my credit/debit cards as they have chips but my less secure cards don't require the merchant to verify physical card or name etc.
Thanks for your comments; I'm glad you liked it. I'm adding places that I know & have eaten at, so the data is a little more sparse than it will be. I'm also going to add more "high street" places; I'd like it to be a resource that answers several questions:

* Where can I go for a nice vegetarian/vegan meal?
* Where can I go for a nice meal that doesn't exclude my veggie friend?
* I'm at place X and I'm starving. Where can I get something vegan to eat nearby?

Personally, I think that London is awesome for veggies & vegans. There's at least 10 specifically vegetarian restaurants that are really nice, and many other hole-in-the-wall places that aren't good for dates but are still serving good food. More and more high street chains are vegan-friendly. More and more places are specifically marking vegan-friendly dishes on their menu. (I also think that the reason that Mildred's has a young, vibrant clientele is because of its location in the heart of Soho, rather than because it's vegetarian.)

My aim isn't to change attitudes towards veganism or vegetarianism; my aim is to make it more accessible. I want to help the newly-vegan person who doesn't know that they can get a quick snack from Wasabi. I want to help the manager who's got a vegetarian staff member and is trying to find somewhere nice for the Christmas meal. And I'm trying to help veggies throughout London find new places to eat, in areas of London that they're not going to be so familiar with.
It's mainly between HarpJS.com and harp.io, where on HarpJS there's a command line utility that works like a static site generator, and on harp.io it's hosted. I think it works pretty well that way, just like Wordpress has a self-hosted platform as well as a hosted one.
You're right; and that's cool, I haven't seen that one before. These auto-testers kind of helped inspire the idea (we just wanted more useful output without going to the terminal).

Keep in mind, too, that GoConvey can automatically without the browser by using an idle.py script that's bundled in. If that's all you need, though, then something more lightweight like glitch looks good.
As a personal anecdote, one recruiter from a well-known organization did mention my Github page as an indication of drive and initiative, but it was by no means a deciding factor. Just another piece of evidence on top of a lot of other things.
Yes, I'm actually trying to figure out a better metric.
Looking forward to an awesome yoga experience!
The thing I most dislike about 0MQ is the overly conceptualized socket typing (ZMQ_DEALER etc), and the way the documentation tries to cram all the combinations in to idiomatic 'patterns'.

All I want to be able to express when I send() is:

1. Whether it's a Broadcast, Unicast or Anycast message
2. Whether I'm sending globally, or targeting a
subset of peers (subscribers to some filter).

Forgive me if these mappings are flaky, it's been a while since I used 0MQ.

Target Method ~0MQ socket type

Global broadcast -> ZMQ_PUSH
Global unicast -> ZMQ_PAIR
Global anycast -> ZMQ_DEALER

Subscribers broadcast -> ZMQ_PUB/SUB
Subscribers unicast -> ZMQ_REQ/REP
Subscribers anycast -> ZMQ_ROUTER
Did they carry a pdf copy of the lonely planet(s) on their ipad mini? How about the hitchhiker's guide, by D. Adams? Just for the mise en abyme, I'm sure there was no time to read...
✅ Obligatory IE bash
The library API hasn't changed much in the past 2 years, so why would you expect the bindings to change? Just for the hell of it?

The latest release (version 4) has added a few new functions, so all of the bindings are undergoing some minor revision now to support the new calls.
The end of mediocrity
Yes. Unpack the .ipa file (it's just a ZIP archive) and then use any ARM disassembler on the actual binary.

It'll be harder, but not impossible to do (as we've seen by the twitter app API secret leaking some time ago).
Safari Extensions Gallery: half-baked
"Make her" show you around? And why does the person flying have to be a guy?
true, but it would be fantastic to merge those two cultures together. Having non technical people involved in open source projects is a good thing, and it is something that we are trying to encourage.
Speech Isn't Free When Terrorism is Involved
Cool Sensor + App Tracks your Basketball Misses & Makes
Step 4: Get DMCA'd for "circumventing" a "copyright protection system"
You mean a flywheel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage

They're in use for a number of applications, namely in datacenter UPS systems.

The main downside is a catastrophic failure mode. Lots of mass, spinning at high speed. Just apply imagination.

Their energy density is pretty good relative to batteries, which is to say terribad compared to hydrocarbons. Good ones are pretty expensive, and they require periodic servicing for bearings, gaskets (for vacuum sealed systems), etc. Generally limited to niche applications for now, but there are various pilot projects to look at them for train system energy recovery and grid storage.
then you should leave your phd program for a garage.
A physics puzzle: underwater turbines can generate energy from tides that are mostly the effect of the Moon movement. Energy can not be created (energy generated by the turbines needed to be lost somewhere). How the energy lost manifests itself in this system?
I really liked this post! I sometimes feel the innovators and thinkers of this world are not getting their fair share of attention.

I also feel like companies should team up together and do crazy things share the risks as a group.

If a group of key companies team up together to make nearly impossible things they would also create a "hype" in an instant around this. It doesn't need to be the Hyperloop, it could be much much more "down to earth"
I'd like to see if it's decreasing margins over time on products or if it's due to a shift in product mix sold.

Would product level information be disclosed if I submit a request for the full prospectus?
The Failure of Udacity
This just in: Westerner demands that thriving civilization, centuries older than his own, adopt his culture's standards of human rights.
I am not going to lie when I say that I am afraid to enter the USA because of your jail system and abusive police.

Perhaps I am wrong, perhaps your country really is the land of the free. But I would never in my right mind cross that border south of me.
I am very excited for this project to start!! It is going to be so amazing!
are you implying the only worthwhile fine art is the 0.1th percentile?
They're probably generating the level with the seed. I don't think it's very useful, other than testing on their end (so they can check afterwards what the level was).

By the way, if you liked this, there are more posts in that series: http://www.stavros.io/series/winning/
You certainly can and should use the underlying concepts, keyframes and pseudo content "in prod". You could use this stopwatch as well. Why not? It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

If everyone is worried that the tech is too scary or unstable or "wrong" TM, then we will never push the web forward into new territory. Remember when all form submissions forced a page refresh? If people were too afraid of front-end validation and AJAX calls then this would still be the reality.
There are energy storage systems based on flywheels.
A valid point.

Perhaps what's compelling here is that Google's core business is not selling books, that they have super-sized legal resources and that they chose to devote siginificant resources to this even when it does not appear to contribute much to their bottom line.

Would you feel better if Google had the donated funds to libraries to allow them to scan their collections and to defend themselves against any legal challenges? Honest question.
The buttons don't work for me in Chrome 31.0.1650.57 m
In 2009, when Farmville was the New Hotness, I checked it out to see what all the fuss was. After all, it was rumored to be minting $1 million per day. Soon after, I saw that a lot of my friends were playing. Girlfriends were getting boyfriends to tend their crops for them while at work. They were very scrupulous with the design of their farm and tending their crops. But I wanted to just be at the top of the leaderboard.

Unlike later games, it was possible to keep leveling up and making money by farming only instead of inviting friends. Plow fields, plant crops, and then harvest them hours later -- repeat as fast and as frequently as you can. TONS of tedious clicking. Of course, I wanted to automate it, and I wasn't alone. Searching around, I found a Perl script that someone had written and I adapted it for my PC.

I just fired up Farmville, and here's what my farm looks like: http://i.imgur.com/nrtkitJ.jpg. It's almost all crops (maximize $) and it requires the farmer to be trapped within hay bales. Otherwise, he walks to where you're clicking and can sometimes get in the way of the click. It would mess up every now and then, but was fairly reliable -- just run the script and let it do its thing for a few minutes. The trick was to flip the game into full screen mode, zoom all the way out, start at a known (x, y) position on your screen's resolution, and then loop through all crop positions by incrementing/decrementing (x, y). Only slightly tricky because of the isometric view and avoiding clicking on some non-crop positions. Picking the right crop was important too, to maximize yield. I just wanted to do two runs a day: first thing in the morning and then in the evening when I got home from work.

I moved up fairly quickly and quit when I beat all of my friends. Got some jeers from those who thought I was actually playing Farmville so much, but had a few requests for said script ...
Wasabi's tofu curry and rice is to die for.
To me it's too close to reality, working a room to me can only refer to my observation that it's about trying to work each person over in most situations, which I'm sure has more direct negative connotations. Then the icing on the cake, "you can too!"...

I would be more interested in a conversation about the unintended impacts of becoming better at self promotion.
I don't know if it makes society more aggressive, but women are the limiting factor in population growth so the excess men are essentially expendable, or would be but for their parents needing support.
I don't believe the story, for the simple reason that they should stink a lot after some time in the same clothes.
The only drawback I see with pumped-storage hydroelectric plants is that there could loss of stored energy due to evaporation.

I don't know how much loss does it amount to on a sunny day.
Would love to chat to you directly about all this. Your contact details are hard to find!
Top 5 trending GitHub Projects: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide, Ink & a Martini
We Are In The Collaborative Soft Era & The Mail Client Is Still In The Stone Age
Political Logos and Brands
For all you designers out there, an interesting blog that looks at logos of political parties around the world.
Mozilla has no plans to sell consumer Firefox phones in the US
Absolutely, and I wish you all the best. Look forward to using it!
O Que Você acha de Ganhar $100 DOLÁRES ou mais por Dia
> I can't believe you're serious.

I am "serious". I'm very, very,
very serious, fully, 100%, iron
clad, totally serious. It's one
of the most important lessons I
had to learn in life, a lesson
I didn't know and had to learn, the
hard way, a very, very hard way,
and the cost was high, very high,
a major fraction of my whole life.

What I said about babies is a
slight exaggeration of some recent,
solid research. It's correct.
Nearly every parent with anything like
an open mind and both boy and girl
children comes to the same conclusion,
finds that such differences between
boys and girls are so totally obvious
that no one should fail to understand
them.

The girls like dolls, and the boys
like fire trucks. And this usually
holds even if the boys and girls are
treated just the same. Why? Early
in the crib, the girls are interested
in emotional connections with people,
and the boys are interested in things.

Tannen describes some more research
on the differences already at age
5.

I'm correct: What I'm saying about
nearly all girls and women is
100% absolutely, positively, totally
rock solidly correct. Sorry 'bout that.

You are very, very different. I've never seen
such a girl. As I indicated, I've seen
girls who could do technology very, very
well (I was married to one; she
was Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude,
Phi Beta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson,
NSF, and Ph.D.), but she didn't like
it. The story did not end well.

If I had a daughter, then I'd encourage
her to be a very traditional female,
including thinking about clothes,
hair, and makeup. But I'd also
try to get her well informed on people,
men, relationships, marriage, family,
parenting, emotions, psychology,
socialization, and art. And for
a career, I'd suggest something
involving people, maybe being
a bookkeeper, accountant, CPA,
nurse, K-12 teacher, etc. No way
would I sacrifice her life trying
to shovel sand against the tide.

There's a big reason I don't have
a daughter or any children or now
even a wife: I was far too slow
to understand the usually rock
solid differences between boys
and girls.

Maybe someday I will write a book
covering what I wish I'd known --
Girls 101 for Dummies -- Boys.
Could do a lot in 100 pages.

If I did have a daughter, then I'd
conclude that
she needs a good life; for that she
needs a good marriage; and
a good marriage is based on
"offspring, security, and care taking",
and extra credit for knowing the
source (hint: it was a woman, and
past President of the American
Psychiatric Association).

Knowing and liking Linux won't by
itself keep you from having a good
life as a woman, even an otherwise
quite traditional woman. Still,
nearly no girl or woman actually
likes technology -- they like
people, not things.
The button fonts aren't loading for me either in Firefox 25.
The problem with Minerva
TL;DR - If you want to stand out in the world today, why would you seek merely an updated version of the same rubber stamp of ages past?

My wife is big on education. The fact that I did not have a degree was likely one of the biggest items that gave her and her family pause prior to us getting married. Part of it's cultural and part of it tied to the fact that her father was a College Physics Professor in a land that didn't have many such positions. So my interest in investigating this grew out of that, my wife's desire that I, at some point, get a degree.

Personally, the draw for further education where the overriding aim is either a degree or prestige, has never really been a motivator.for myself. I attended two years at the University of Utah and, while I very much enjoyed the resources for learning that a University offers, there was little else to compel me to obtain a terminal degree.

To my point on Minerva, why would someone of note, interested in novel and everything about the world that's disrupting the old model, why would an exceptional and genuinely mold breaking person like that have a desire to create a new prestige centric institution? Why create IVY 2.0? Why try and create a degree on par with the elite when the whole purpose of modern learning and tech culture is that it's what you know and can do than what kind of rubber stamp you can obtain?

I read their application and wonder 'Who of those really seeking a new order are going to really swallow some modern iteration of the same worn out concept of an elite rubber stamp setting you above everyone else principally due to your being able to win at whatever rigmarole they have, in an a way that is a priori arbitrary, set up?

I'd much rather the validation of market forces and natural selection as a stamp of the value of my past doings than I would like any, even if well intentioned, modern rendition of the old mortarboard and folded document.
Yes, the over-conceptualized abstractions can be annoying. However if you read the RFCs that specify the patterns, http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:28, http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:29, http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:30, and http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:31, you will see that each pattern encapsulates more than just the routing model.

When you send() you also need to express how exceptions are handled -- what happens when there are no peers, and what happens when their buffers overflow.

Martin Sustrik did a fine job when he designed those patterns because they are (so far) watertight containers for rather tricky semantics.
This is called flywheel energy storage, if you're not familiar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
There's a difference between a potential candidate putting their Github profile on their resume and having hiring managers filter out all candidates who do not have a profile.
Because men are usually the pursuers in our culture. You can apply it however you like though i could care less.
Looks good. Wish it wasn't tied to Dropbox though. I'd almost definitely use it if I could work out of my own WebDAV server.
Jumper cables for the mind
Not sure how many lines of js it uses, but here you go:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
They've got em. High speed flywheels on magnetic bearings in vacuum. They use them in (buses)[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus] and you can get one for your (house)[http://theenergycollective.com/tyhamilton/189396/enbridge-ma...]
Or gears.
"Our romantic relationship intact, Jeff and I boarded the Heathrow return flight as closer friends than ever (despite the questionable state of our undergarments)."
> The state does own land, which you lease for decades at a time (this is the same as Hong Kong, which is quite capitalist, btw).

In capitalist America, you can "own" land, unless you don't pay property tax or the government needs to build a bypass. A distinction without a difference.
Reeduction Through Labor is nothing remotely like the US prison system. It is in fact an alternative to the normal Chinese penal system, in which people can be sentenced to 1-2 years of hard labor with zero due process, entirely by the fiat of the police.
Good point. The problem with a tier limited by the number of people is that you take away one of the best parts of a free chat service. Being able to freely invite _anyone_ into a conversation really opens up what you can do.
+1

An open source project is a human thing. Github forks and stuff are neat, but to have a real project, some coordination is necessary, and I really wish that Github would provide more tools to encourage this. It's really dismaying to see some project with 2343232 forks, many of which are newer than the 'main' one, and see little to no coordination between them.