skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a good point - there can be a good middle ground that's much less complicated than the current 'standard' remotes, but not so extreme as the Apple remote shown above.

On that note, I somehow recall seeing TVs shipped with 2 remotes - the 'full one' and a simple one like you describe, with the expectation that people will choose which they prefer, and members of the same family might have opposite preferences.
TinCan[1] does that, at least with text. There was a discussion here a few months ago about using AFSK to control external hardware that spurred me to hack together a script that allows this (output only) on iOS Safari[2] and I use it to control some Arduino projects.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hubski.com...

[2] http://sixteenmillimeter.github.io/Javascript-FSK-Serial-Gen...
Have you tried setting up a HTPC with xbmc? It's got a twitch.tv add-on that makes it easy to do exactly what you describe.
The absence of suits does not mean the absence of trouble. If that article is to be believed there were executives and managers in relationships with their subordinates. Assuming no pressure was applied (a big assumption), it can wreak havoc on the morale of others in the office, and seriously degrade the respect people have for their boss. Especially if the subordinate seems to get favorable treatment (whether it's actually happening or not).

Also, a lack of overt pressure does not mean there is no covert pressure being applied. Perhaps the new assistant knows what happened when the last one refused the advances and doesn't want to get demoted/fired. Placing subordinates in a position of apparent helplessness can be just as effective and harmful as real threats of violence, job loss or loss of status.
Not seeing anyone here talk about it so maybe no one has had it happen to them, but how is everyone dealing with the disk failures? Seems like your one to two man startup could have a fun day ahead of them. Not to mention if it happened on your launch day. Coming from someone looking to use DO for a future project.
I work for an NGO that has IT programs in Rwanda. I would love to see some package similar to this that would somehow integrate a screen with Pi. I just love Pi as a concept and I really want to include it in our programs.

As it stands now, we're in the same boat as you. Second hand laptops / netbooks are a far cheaper and simpler solution for us than getting PIs and figuring out what to do with screens, keyboards, etc...
What about the middle? I think bitcoin has a myriad of great uses, but is also addled by inherent problems that prevent it from being a standard currency.
it's nice to just harsh it out now & then! ;)

gotta be polite to the open-source guys but why keep up the facade for these opportunists?
Launching developer Q&A on Stack Overflow
That someone is you. I missed the link until I read your comment, thanks.
Nielsen.
Don't publish links to pay sites.
This company shows the worse in human beings.

"Let's take one of the best thing human has created to share knowledge and fuck it up and make money while doing it."
Reading though the comments, I wish there was an easier way to fabricate electronics. Even etching a basic board is an error prone process involving nasty chemicals, and surface mount soldering can be like threading a needle without hands. I don't know a solution to this, maybe more home pick & place robotic arms and using reflow ovens, and some kind of way to print on the paste, who knows. It is a shame that this has all escaped an easier DIY level of skills. I want to be able to do this sort of thing, but it very quickly approaches the point where the time and cost involved to do it outweighs looking around to have someone build something for me instead.
"It was originally designed for traffic lights and vending machines, whereas it ended up fueling the computer revolution" ... I thought silicon chips/cpus were designed for military purpose initially, such as radars ?
Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired of the constant onslaught of feel-good "code for the children" stuff?

After discovering at least three different non-profits dedicated to teaching children to code, I am starting to think it is not children that need help, but adults.
I don't think it's a matter of adding a smiley at the end of each comment (although I love smileys, so I do that too :-)

I think it's more a matter of saying "Yes, good job on figuring out how to do p + kv recursively! Here are links to {papers|books|lectures|other code} that go further if you want to explore this topic more" rather than saying "Oh, you figured out how to do p + kv recursively, just like millions of other CS freshman. Good for you".

It's the little details that make online communities pleasant :)
Customer USD -> Customer BTC: 1% + $0.15 (Coinbase)

Customer BTC -> Merchant BTC: $0.06 (transaction fees, currently abnormally high due to price spike)

Merchant BTC -> Merchant USD: 0.99% (Bitpay)

Total: 1.99% + $0.24

Compare: credit cards and Paypal (2.9% + $0.30)

So even there it works out fine.
It's the greatest place on ear^H^H^H the internet.
Hi Steve, that advice was for banners that used typical ad networks, and Google handles the vast majority of typical ad network banners correctly.

It looks like your links are direct hyperlinks, so I would recommend using nofollow on the right-hand links or ads.
Explain the Human Genome Project as if I was 5...
Not that I have any clue how to even start.

Start with Hollywood. Perceptions can be changed through entertainment. It has worked well to promote equal rights. Bit by bit, entertainment can acclimate us to new ideas.

White House Down is an interesting example of a starting point:

[spoiler alert]

Instead of the terrorists coming from the Middle East, they come from the military industrial complex and secret service.
The laws would have to change to allow you to fly these over populated areas. There's a reason the blog post is about flying over someone's private farmland. As a commercial company you can't even charge a farmer to fly over his land, the owner of the land has to do it himself.
The shot at the end with Danny Brown's fro sidelit to look like the Dylan's Greatest Hits picture is pretty hilarious.

edit: http://i.imgur.com/BkQaAIt.png
Just because you don't "buy it" doesn't change the science.
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Thanks. The only part I would potentially look into is MVC5, and with your comment, seems like I'll just get it via Nugget.
For me, slackware & gentoo were my introduction. Certainly copy-pasting didn't teach me much, but the gentoo build process was wildly unstable at the time, and fixing the many problems that arose was what really taught me about linux.
As I understand it, and bearing in mind I'm not super statistics girl:

'For example, in 2008, the high-scoring managers saw less turnover on their teams than the others did—and retention was related more strongly to manager quality than to seniority, performance, tenure, or promotions. The data also showed a tight connection between managers’ quality and workers’ happiness: Employees with high-scoring bosses consistently reported greater satisfaction in multiple areas, including innovation, work-life balance, and career development.'

If their scores predicted those things, then they were measuring something real, regardless of whether they went looking for what they wanted or not. The question then becomes one of whether altering those scores alters the dependent variable or whether you've just created a correlation by doing evil to your numbers.

Which... they did look at their results down the line and I'd imagine they'd have looked at turnover, it'd seem really odd not to considering the other things they looked at and the obvious business case for doing so.
It sure doesn't, but it's what happened.
U.S. Regulator Opens Probe of Fire in Tesla Electric Cars
That the "armor plate" they are using to protect the battery pack isn't strong enough to deal with some road debris. They seem to have underestimated exactly how much energy they were dealing with. And they could have made that metal thicker but it would have negative affected the range.
hah. nice try, satoshi!
Well, part of the difference is that the Apple TV device isn't going to be changing channels, so it doesn't need the whole list of buttons I just mentioned related to channel-surfing. It's basically just the Guide without the numbers. So we're down to just pure menu-nav and the volume-control.

So really, the Apple TV remote isn't that extreme. It's just a remote for an Apple TV set-top box and not a television.
Satoshi's pleading to not port bitcoin to big endian machines is shocking. Hopefully that has been fixed!
You're missing the biggest part of the whole equation:

Google shows ads, because by every metric Google knows how to throw at it, people who search on Google WANT to see those ads.

Google tries very hard to show only high-quality ads. That's a win-win-win. It's good for the users who find what they're looking for, it's good for the businesses who get a sale, and it's good for Google.

It's like you're pissed there are ADS in the YELLOW PAGES.

Yes, AT&T would list businesses with a vanilla entry, or a business could pay to show up a bit more prominently. The difference is, AT&T didn't give a crap about whether people found what they were looking for, or how high quality the ads were. It wasn't really their fault, there was no feedback loop.

Google, fundamentally, is the largest feedback loop ever invented. Every human who uses it teaches Google how to help other humans find what they're looking for. A lot of the time, ads are the most relevant result.
> I am not sure how you can say the period 1913-1972 to be under the gold standard

He didn't say that. He said we were on the gold standard during the great depression, which is true.

> The gold reserve act of 1935[1] devalued the currency by 40% and outlawed the private possession of gold.

Which happened near the end of the great depression.

Nothing you've said disputes anything he said. What's your point?
Not from what I've read, but I could be wrong:

"The microprocessors that made the microcomputer possible had originally been developed to run traffic lights and vending machines. They had never been intended to power computers. The first entrepreneurs to attempt this were laughed at; the computers they had created looked hardly worthy of the name--they were so small and could do so little. But they caught on with just enough people for whom they saved time, and slowly, the idea took off."

http://www.fastcompany.com/3002810/aha-moments-made-paul-gra...
I do need to watch that.
Sorry Nokita, Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition is final
Isn't circumvention of terms-of-service a felony these days?
Salesforce.com goes to 1
Feel free to release a bunch of your own Thing in 30 lines, or to code-golf all the existing Things in 30 lines to 5 lines, or whatever.
The comments are closer to "Installing dropbox is not the same as building a cloud based storage solution."

This is a nice raspberry pi starter kit. If it was marketed that way, it would be fine. But it's not. The marketing is simply wrong. This is as much a "build your own computer" setup as plugging a keyboard, mouse, and monitor into a Dell desktop is, and people are very rightly calling bullshit on that.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/19/snapchat-users-upload...

Is Sanapchat being overhyped? it is a little ridiculous to consider it 'safe to be silly', with every modern smartphone have a screenshot option
If you view a change in currency as fundamentally pretty useless, then yes, giving massive amounts of financial control of resources and labour(which is what money represents) to people with BTC hoarded does indeed take away from others.

And if BTC were to become (for instance) a primary currency for a country, and that country were to experience economic growth, then deflation must necessarily continue.
Really? I thought every startup went just like Facebook!
I guess it's a little semantic at this point.

Though, there's services like pricegeek that crawl Ebay graphing the better deals. They piggyback of Ebay's existing affiliate model. They never solicit anything from the customer, nor does backlinking alter the price of the item. I guess the utility is of an 'aggregator', that makes decently priced items for more accessible.

My main point was that	'Your Product is Going to Fail if you Don’t Ask Users to Pay' seemed a little overtly broad.
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Who is this? Either way, thank you very much :D
>> That means the rate of inflation of bitcoins will slow down, thereby causing a spike in the value of existing bitcoins

Nope, the rate of bitcoin generation is fixed, it's nothing to do with how many people mine or what the hash rate is.
LG Smart TVs log and send USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
It's not building a computer, but there was a post on here a few days ago about a group creating 'sticker circuitry', which essentially consisted of a set of stickers that you could put together to make simple circuits. Seems like a cool idea that gets down to the fundamentals while taking out the hard-to-approach, error-prone aspect.
You can easy buy screen for raspberry pi just type "raspberry pi screen" in ebay. But they aren't cheap $60 min. and 8" maximum
Having a disability doesn't necessarily mean that the person is wheelchair bound.
Good sir. Please pause and think more deeply about what you are saying.

> To say that Google can't find a site with first marketing it is simply not true.

I did not say Google couldn't find it. I said Google will not rank it highly, which is true. Backlink profile is a huge part of the ranking algorithm and a page won't rank without good links pointing at least at the domain, if not the exact page.

So if you write a bunch of excellent content but don't develop a backlink profile, your site will be indexed on page 10,000 of results or whatever. Yes, people could technically find it. No, they won't find it. Revisit the studies where the top 3 results on the first SERP get 95%+. Hence the need for backlinks in order to drive organic search traffic. That is, marketing.

>To say SEO is required is to say that Google is stupid

No, that logic does not hold. To say SEO is required is to say that Google has a set of rules [1] it follows to rank pages relative to one another, and that webmasters who want traffic need to build pages/content according to these rules.

G doesn't publish its own SEO guidebooks for nothing.

I hear your position over and over again from developers who have a zealous disdain for marketing but know little about marketing. You presume that SEO is in itself something bad and evil that only evil bad people have to do, because good products speak for themselves and therefore earn merit.

Well, no. Google's algorithms are not sentient, they do not define merit subjectively based on qualitative things as humans do. Merit in Google's eyes is conforming to a certain set of rules. And SEO is basically just following those rules.

Google's rules are that pages with more links get ranked more highly. So if you want people to ever find your content through organic search, you must do some word-of-mouth to drive that initial traffic to your content.

[1] - http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...
"So if you made a human that did this, you would have a human that could refrain from eating much food for energy and instead choose to hang out in a nuclear reactor"

There may also be a surface area to volume argument that radiation could support a 200 pound pile of fungi, but only as long as the average thickness of fungus (or human) is less than 1/4 inch for maximum adsorption rate.

Also specific power per gram of fungi is probably pretty low compared to my leg muscles.

It would probably be more efficient to use the reactor to generate (eventually) visible light and use that and good old chlorophyll although that runs into the surface area/volume thing again where extensive past discussion shows all it really does is slow down starvation a couple percent. Chlorophyll is ridiculously inefficient.
I don't get this, what are you brining to the game? Isn't "interestin" something like a mix of medium.com, hackernews and quora?
British colonial hangover and the general Australian penchant for self-flaggelation has a lot more to do with authoritarianism in Australia than any philosophy the USA extrinsically promotes. Isn't the island borrowing its culture from Asia now, anyway?
Yep. You know the risks when you take VC funding. Their responsibility is to the company, not you, and it looks like in this case they fulfilled that well.
Looking at the site in question, it has been affected by Google's Panda, so our algorithms don't think it's a very high-quality site and that has affected the site's rankings in Google's index, at least. Personally, I would look to add more value than the article described.

And of course if you're looking to buy a site, whether on Flippa or elsewhere, you'll want to ask about any recent webspam action notifications from Google, as well as ask about any traffic trends in case the traffic to the site has gone down recently.
Or, you know you can watch "12 chairs" on youtube with subtitles, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNZkUt0ePas . Dunno if it works in all coutries, though.
make (n):

1) An empty marketing catchphrase that allows a product to join the "maker" bandwagon
No. Lori Drew was acquitted.
Car-stereos are another rant on their own (a particularly nasty one since we're going straight from '80s crap to toushcreens and skipping right over sensible car-appropriate UIs), but interesting car-stereo manufacturers always provide presets and don't require you to surf to find the content you want.
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I'm not disputing that, but I would suggest a recalibration of the author's other attitudes, then. The author revels in the pomp and circumstance of the border crossing... Just what does he think those are there for?
How is that "Build your own computer"?

This is how to build one's own computer: http://nand2tetris.org/

No kit required.
A "How We Developed POP.co Following the API Driven Development Approach" would find a lot of people quite interested too, I think.
Does Docker run on Digital Ocean?

I tried to set it up a few months ago, without success. Maybe things have changed since.

Something to do with DO using LXC with a setup that wouldn't work with Docker.
StackOverflow contains a list of documented "bug fixes". and I bet most devs find their solutions on SO anyways.

I find this suggestion more valuable within a medium-large company. An old employer of mine had a "Trouble Call" reporting system where you submit a problem/solution and can search the DB later to help with repeat issues.
It's hardly the fee-free utopia though is it?

And I can already transfer to other individuals for no charge.
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Just document the protocol.

Unclench, already.
You (and parent commenter, and others) should get together and have a website for "This is the stuff we need, and why we need it".

You'd have a suggestion of a package of RPi, keyboard, screen, etc. You'd give suggestions for what would be good, and what to avoid. You give a total cost, and the amount you can provide to that. You then ask people to donate.

You maybe put the faces of children on your request.

LIKE WATSI BUT FOR TECH.
So are there legitimate paid articles on wikipedia? Meaning, someone getting paid to write about some (non-spam, non-marketing) topic like how some open source developers get paid.
Great topic!
It reminds me of the times when I found out about the wonders of profiling my applications, where I could clearly see where the bottlenecks were (the 3%).
This also reminds me about the endless discussions about which <insert here a programming language>'s function/method was faster than the other and why you must change your code immediately to save a tiny fraction of a millisecond </irony>

I haven't read the book yet, but I believe the key to a mature optimization is knowing clearly what needs to be optimized. There is no way to know it if you don't measure it. But the thing is that you may be measuring the wrong thing. If you focus on a class, for instance, without the entire context, you may be trying to speed up the wrong piece of your application.
Make sure you measure the entire flow, from the user clicking something to him seeing the response. Sometimes you will find that what needs to be optimized is not even your code.
yes. the clarity of thought really comes through in the writing. nicely done!
Transparency in Search Results: See Page Signals Influence Search Results
Power Quotes on freedom, sacrifice and unity:Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"
What makes it interesting is that they are able to distinguish between the 3 different types of input. Most apps can't tell the difference between a finger and a stylus. This one can.

In addition, this stylus knows which end you are using. I suspect that this is accomplished using an accelerometer and the orientation data is transmitted to the tablet via bluetooth.
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He isn't grumpy, I assure you.
Bitcoin & the Byzantine Generals Problem
No. Just like shining a flashlight on a traditional plant doesn't make the batteries wear out any quicker or slower.

However, every gamma it adsorbs, is, well, adsorbed. Its probably not a very good shield compared to sandwiches of iron and water, but its probably better than empty air. Perhaps in the future you could grow a reactor core using a tree. This would make a good minecraft mod.

If it were very aggressive about growth, maybe it would physically block rainwater from hitting the contaminants and running off contaminating downstream. Rainwater hitting harmless fungus and flowing away would help, a little.
That link... All these resources for a six paragraphs article... http://imgur.com/3l4FuER
You still can't boot your own kernel...
It looks great, but: no ReSharper, I don't like JS transpilers, no way my employer will switch to something obscure. Promoting new languages is hard, even Google has a lot of trouble promoting Go and Dart.
Academic Scattering
Did anyone else read this at first as a very well executed parody website explaining all the benefits of using traditional paper and pencil? I sniggered when I read "Our adaptive palm rejection instantly knows whether it’s your hand or Pencil touching the page." It took me some time to realize that this was a real product...
HTML5 Canvas Fluid Simulation
She moved to Germany to provide housing, health care, and education for their younger children. Divorce came later.
To be fair, you could say that about most things. That's part of what keeps us creating though.
PennApps Spring 2014 is on February 14th
This is fantastic. I like the VH1 channel.

Just watched it a second time. This is legitimately beautiful.
Samsung: Galaxy Gear Smart Watch has sold 800,000 units
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Referendum in Switzerland to place upper limit on salaries
Splitting currency down like that is not a good answer to the monetary deflation issue, which is why he said he didn't think you understood.

It's not simply the quantity of available currency that is the problem with deflation, it's the appreciating value of currency compared to goods and labour.
So to summarize, the three important issues raised:

1. How do you collect taxes and avoid tax evasion.

2. Illicit activity control in the vein of what is done to curb online gambling (Visa/Mastercard act as enforcers by forbidding service to such businesses).

3. What kind of regulation would do the job (whatever that might be) while at the same time remain competitive with other nations. IRRC the needs for regulation focused mostly on consumer protection.
"Amsterdam" should be "Some guy in Amsterdam who managed to get some limited government funding for his foundation". But that doesn't sound as good as title, I guess.