skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice-London flight here, it was slow and unreliable too. Instant messaging worked reasonably better than checking websites, but upload speed was rather slow (1 min to share a picture in WhatsApp).

Still, it's an amazing service for free, the one you expect to pay extra for.
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I cannot see any problem with using kibit.

Quite often my experience when learning a new language is "Am I doing this right? Or even close to right?"

If kibit can turn your code into idiomatic Clojure then you have a tool for exploring your solutions and how close they look to Clojure as it might be written by a native.

It can also prompt questions "Why do it this way rather than this way?" which could be a good learning opportunity.

I see no harm, only benefit.

Matt
> I don't think that participating in electoral politics is an effective means in reaching my desired ends.

And then I read from Peter Thiel:

> Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

And then I think that there are waaaay too many people in the tech industry who have gone completely out of their minds.

The anti-democratic rhetoric seems to be growing louder and it is starting to get pretty worrisome.
*HN edition http://jsfiddle.net/Fq8F4/275/
interesting that television predicts "conduct problems" but video games do not
That's something we're working on for Chrome. We'll have something soon.
Ditto. Slightly annoying that Firefox isn't even acknowledged on the blog or website. Pretty sure that must be a FAQ?
> "the US is even worse"

This is exactly what the Reference News and Global Times have been trying to express in these years.
Ask HN: Most responsive VCs/Angels/Advisors
I am nearing completion of my MVP and I have started reaching out to VCs/Angels/Advisors to start discussions around seed money, advise etc. I am trying to put together a list of folks who almost always respond to random questions from crazy entrepreneurs, so that I can keep reaching out to them at different phases of my product development. So if you guys know of folks who are responsive, please share. I will start.. Brad Feld from the foundry group always responds back with comments/thoughts. I always use him as a sounding board for my crazy ideas.
Slightly off-topic, but is it common for an hacking team nowadays to have a facebook page? I could understand twitter for announcements, but the facebook interaction feels out of place, or is it just me?

Also, "We wanted to prove that nothing in this world is not safe" has a double negation, so they wanted to prove that there is something out there that could be safe?
http://37signals.com/remote/

>REMOTE, the new book by 37signals, shows both employers and employees how they can work together, remotely, from any desk, in any space, in any place, anytime, anywhere.

Maybe attacking Microsoft for the exposure works as a marketing strategy, but it's a particularly bizarre one considering their own take on remote work. Scott Hanselman had an excellent take on the whole thing yesterday:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WorkingRemotelyConsideredDysto...
'Less likely to kill again' isn't the only metric we are going for here. Some people like to assuage their own conscience by believing in rehabilitation only, but prison sentences are actually for more than that. They exist to punish as well, because otherwise the victims feel no sense of actual justice - the victim didn't matter, the only real problem here is that we now have someone who might kill again, so let's fix that and then set him on his way.

The length of this sentence is absolutely a cultural thing - perhaps some would feel that 7 years before unsupervised weekends is a fitting punishment. I can guarantee you that most Americans do not - if you want to see a rapid increase in vigilantism in the U.S., try reduced sentences for things like murder.

Oh, and I would fully expect to have the court system hit me the harshest penalty they could - they hate vigilantism. But that's irrelevant to the decision that got me there.
This is great.

It reminds me that I need to clean up my github account.

Unfortunately I use github for two separate functions -- putting up projects some other people may be interested in and for throwing up scratchpad projects. So I end up with a lot of garbage on my account.

The bulk of my really interesting stuff is in private accounts.
I really hope my competitors adopt the 'work can wait' mantra.

(btw great marketing - tip of the hat to 37s)
I'd like to know opinions on IPB actually.
Personally, I don't see a need for banks at all though. It is legalized theft and nothing more. I gave up my account at the start of the 2007 bailout and have survived just fine ever since. I have never been in debt in my life either, which I do not see as being unrelated.
Trouble is no one is 10x all the time - a few years ago I Was one of two developers who did a RAD/DSDM project and implemented in a month what another part of the company had quoted 2 years for.

For that month we where both 10x programmers and for that one month I did more useful work than in the preceding decade I had worked for that company.
Sure, the solder who pulled the trigger, the commanding officer who gave the order, the general who made the mission on direction of the prime minister all share in the responsibility as well.
Regex is nice, so you can do something like ignore everything in bower_components\/.* or .*?\.min\.js. I'm not convinced you want to select each file you want to skip manually and one by one.
That said, maybe there's a hybrid approach available. Our implementation in Chrome is definitely not final (and it's a little ugly ;) and we're collecting feedback before we iterate further.
Update, in case anyone refers back to this thread

I spotted 3 more offending plugins today, still up on his site class.pm, that's 7 so far that he appears to have taken from CodeCanyon and is passing off as his own.

I've emailed the authors concerned.

http://codecanyon.net/item/owl-unobtrusive-css3-notifications/408575
http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classynotty/

http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-lightbox-grooveshark-style/526922
http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classylightbox/

http://codecanyon.net/item/powercontext/551656
http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classycontextmenu/
Did Microsoft really advocate for getting work done while driving?

But the MS bit still sounds very much like it's selling to upper management the potential for them to grind more work hours out of salaried employees. Which still sucks but seems less funny.
Chris Sawyer wrote Rollercoaster Tycoon in Assembly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon). I don't think even he would recommend this though...
I'm quite interested in suicide prevention, having lost several friends to suicide over the years. I'd do it pro bono. If you're interested, let me know - my e-mail is in my profile.
You may find https://www.firebase.com/ or http://www.meteor.com/ allow you to do it all on the frontend
Incorrect. In my game, the expected value is infinitely good. You just have to keep flipping heads consecutively. The break even is after 20 consecutive heads.
An Adobe engineer is working on a patch for Chrome DevTools for this. I agree it's useful. It actually does use the same conditional breakpoint backend, so any stories you have about the not-working-right are very appreciated.
Anonymity can be used to stalk but it can also be a necessity to be able to use the internet WITHOUT being stalked for a lot of people. That's not a bland case.
As an American who grew up during the Cold War, this article really isn't news. We were always accusing the Commies of hyper-sensitivity to international perception.

And yes, the US denies entry to "radical" figures.

Academics and political experts engage in self-censorship here also, lest their dreams of tenure slip away or they find themselves uninvited to the DC cocktail circuit.
I was thinking about meteor, I'm just not sure how complex it would be to implement on a mobile app.
I can see that as a viable interpretation, but I don't see that as the interpretation.

For a fact, there are times when it is better to listen in on a meeting from your kid's soccer game, if the alternative is missing it altogether. For sure, a day working from the park is better than working from the office.

For as much as the negative interpretation could be true, in that Microsoft seeks to engage in wage slavery whereupon all its workers are attached to the company with Office 365 as the tether, it speaks equally to the notion that those decisions don't need to be as hard any more, and that you're now free to work an appropriate amount of time from a now increased bevy of places.

Is it poorly delivered? Yes. Is Microsoft really advocating slavery through software? I think most reasonable people should be able to agree that they aren't. Is it perhaps pandering to the Type A workaholics that would rather miss their kid's soccer game than an important meeting? Yeah, I think that it is. I also don't think that's evil.
> In a further crackdown on what Mr Cameron referred to as ‘the darkest corners of the internet’, Downing Street will tomorrow announce that a national database will be created to give every illegal image a label.

While we're at it, why don't we do that with videos, too? The label won't contain any content, just some "metadata" that we can use to "verify" whether or not an image/video is illegal. [0]

We should also create an easily-queried database for all of these, just in case we aren't sure whether or not a particular image/video is actually illegal.

Then, we can create a tracking program, or "tracker" to keep tabs on who is in possession of these images/videos at all times, and broadcast their IP addresses publicly[1].

I think this would be an excellent use of government money.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker
The Need For Speed (Perfect alignment of strategy, process and tools)
When you pay down bank debt, the money just disappears, hence no recipient.

Similarly, if you save money at your bank, your bank doesn't actually get more money. At best, you're shifting it from a checking account to a savings account.
I can't find any statistics -- my impression was that the US capital account surplus with Japan was more diversified than that with China (though Japan would still hold a substantial chunk in US treasuries.)

As I can't find any stats to back that up, I guess I'll leave it as my possibly untrue impression...
Brilliant!

We all get Microsoft's point, that you're able to use their technology in all kinds of ways, everywhere, any time. The whole campaign is IMO almost (humorously) taking itself too seriously with the whole 'balance your work/life with our products'. Just silly with the examples used (soccer match, and what it looks like to me: being on a date).
Why are you worried? Don't you think it is even possible that some other form of societal organization will upend democratic majoritarianism? Have you actually read any books on the subject like Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter or Hoppe's Democracy: The God that Failed?

There's real arguments behind being anti-democracy, so rather than just complaining about me like a bother, insta-downvoting, and declaring it "simply wrong", maybe you should tackle the issue in a substantive way. It's very "anti-hacker" to just accept democracy as the pinnacle of perfection and think it will last forever.
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Give it time. You will be safe from everything soon.
This is great - I'm getting it.
It's an improvement in one way: It creates a strong incentive for various companies (or the airlines themselves) to offer deals to the airlines to install suitable equipment in order to get the roaming fees from the passengers cellphone operators.
The idea of the campaign is sound, but the way in which they pitched it comes off somewhat dystopian. Rather than showing how you can now work in situations where you normally wouldn't (and it'd be considered rude), they should have emphasized that with 365 you can work wherever, whenever you want.

How about show a guy working at desk in his "office", only to get up and walk out the door of an Airstream trailer in the middle of Yosemite Valley. Maybe show someone in the zone while on the train, checking off their work to-do items, only to step off, put away the phone, and reunite with their friends happily knowing they don't have anything left to do.

But this? It just all seems a little bit backwards.
As a person who knows nothing about beer other than it's damn tasty, this is awesome.
I also happened to go to the launch party (friend of a friend) and they walked me through the booklet, the kit, everything in maybe 5 minutes. I felt like a beer expert and I ended up signing up for one as well.
It'll be interesting to see how easy this is for my challenged self once it's all in house. Sam, will you be offering any FAQs or support once the kits do ship?
Just because someone can overtake you in the conversational straightaways when it comes to their specific area of study does not mean you cannot outmaneuver them in the chicanes of general knowledge. :)
Also the linked YT video.. brought to you by "your-key-to-success", created by dtamarketing. This comes across spammy as hell.
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Not in time for Christmas but I'll still keep an eye on this one. I think this is great for anyone who wants to get their 4 year old interested in electronics, but isn't comfortable handing them a soldering iron. My girl LOVES stickers.
I've always been baffled by the tendency to use "YOLO" as a justification for ignoring risks.
Hey Hipster_unite, thanks for the feedback. You are right, there are plenty of better journalistic pieces out there that's for sure but I simply write these blog posts to 1. Help me makes sense of the things I read 2. Improve my writing 3. Point others in the direction of some interesting reads. I'm currently unemployed but do some freelance content work mainly video and social media management so I don't think I have much to be smug about! Thanks for reading anyway, enjoy the rest of your day - Cem

PS: Yes it's an affiliate link, you're a great analyser but I'm not laughing all the way to the bank just yet :)
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A skilled painter cares about the origins and chemistry of the minerals and oils used in his/her paints. A skilled guitarist cares about whether the pickups were made with alnico or ceramic magnets. A skilled knife-maker cares about the type of stone used for grinding steel.

Tools are important to the craftsman. Plus, some people care about the entire process of building and not just the final product.
Air friction myths
"Maybe attacking Microsoft for the exposure works as a marketing strategy"

Watch and learn. I just got more exposure to the 37signals brand.

"but it's a particularly bizarre"

Bizarre gets plenty of attention. Hence why something like this would be known as a marketing ploy. The irony of it all is very attractive.

Might also be that some people actually like to work. I'm sure many hackers reading HN and/or spending time on side projects don't consider that work (although their significant other might).

Likewise some people do like to work and are interested in trading short term enjoyment for (what they think could be) future gain.

Nothing wrong with that.

Guess what? I don't find it enjoyable to be at a sports even (some people do of course and I recognize that) I'd rather be "working" (if you want to call it that). I'm not suffering at all.
> Maybe attacking Microsoft for the exposure works as a marketing strategy,

Bingo: it's straight out of their book:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Have_an_Enemy.php
And in the world I live in, I sometimes have to make choices between attending social events and having some work availability. More mobile access means not having to make that choice as often. That's the point that Microsoft is trying to make (poorly).

The ads are ridiculous because no one wants to have to work at their kid's soccer game. But there are, I'd suggest, a fair number of people who'd like to attend the game but don't have that choice. Framed that way, remote work is freeing. The trouble with the ads is that they frame that work as some kind of virtuous shackle-extension rather than an arguably-necessary evil. That's a frame well worth pushing back on.
How the does this work with consensual kink? I mean, like, what actually counts as "rape porn" - simulated consensual non-consent? Any bondage at all? This is so fucking stupid I don't even.

Edit: That said, this is the Metro, who are basically the Daily Mail lite.
Wait, so do you get the pot to boil in? The carboy and piping and pressure doohickey etc? Bottles?
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Art + Technology = New Art Forms, Not Just New Art
Statin drugs are nearly entirely generic now, with a 3-month supply being $12, made by competing manufacturers. [1] This is not a profit source for big pharma like you might think.

Statin drugs have fewer side-effects than OTC painkillers. (Heard this on NPR the other day).

1 - http://www.consumerreports.org/health/best-buy-drugs/statins...
Somebody tell Jared: This Subway takes bitcoins
I like this, but I think for it to be sticky, you really need to focus on a follow up to the previous week's favor (i.e. reaction videos, photos, stories, etc.). People definitely like to do good things, but they want to see the impact more. That feedback loop will also motivate people to help the next ask.
Almost nobody self-consciously refer to themselves as sexists, racists, bigots, exploitative capitalists, corrupt, selfish or greedy. So those things don't exists. And if you happened to think that they might exists, after all, you certainly can't use these terms, because you would only ever refer to people by the terms they self-consciously refer to themselves by.
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As a long time low level bit twiddler, I would have killed for this in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. It would have been my killer app :)
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Interesting idea. I am pretty sure I might put up something up there someday.
Ah from the same people who brought you the cookie law - some one wants some pork from the EU budget I bet BULL (french national champion) is slobbering at the thought.

AWS has servers based in ireland and is subject to existing eu dp law presumably.
Is it just me or this whole thing seems to be a big misunderstanding? To me it seems that the point the ads are making is : if you really have work that needs to be done, you can do it anywhere. Not necessarily you should work everywhere. Here it feels like 37signals is just tagging along the campaign for free publicity.
You too can have the keyboard that inspired the ergonomic revolution after the first RSI lawsuit loss. Woohoo!
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-02-28/business/fi-36989_1_l...
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I'm thinking of doing that in a blog (e.g. blog.ask.io, which isn't live yet). I plan to follow up with every favor.
I think I would be more open to the idea if regular working hours are accosted -- the constraints of 40 hour workweeks and the 9-5 daily grind is fairly unpleasant. It's common-place, but why? Are we just so accustomed to it that we cannot fathom anything beyond it?
I do like that he's pointed out Google stating the exact same thing on their Google Apps pitch page. Sometimes it feels like our outrage is mostly fueled by preconceptions (Google = free thinkers! Microsoft = baaaad)
I agree with that. If all that happens, I would love to see the way the project grows. It will be like a nice /r/AskReddit thing with no BS.
Relevant video by Louis C.K. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za7jQ1s1BV0.

Porn or anything involving only consenting adults might look like something else, but that doesn't make it something else. It's still consenting adults and putting the government between them doesn't seem to me to help anything.

Things not involving only consenting adults are another story, but this law (not that I'm an expert on it) seems to miss the distinction.
Thank you for this. I could re-work all of their graphics from Remote in similar fashion which would make their advice seem similarly insane to MS's.
Full respect to 37signals for showing big guts and with very worthy reasons, too.

Although in my personal opinion both the matras are a bit extreme (1) Get it done and (2) Work can wait, I would anytime buy 37signals' reasoning over Microsoft's.
Yes, the opportunities for forensic analysis on BitCoin are much greater than in a traditional currency where money can disappear into the void and re-enter the economy somewhere else without any word on what happened in between. In some ways I wonder if criminals of the future won't prefer the dollar to conduct their illegal activity.
An Arduino project:

http://scanlime.org/2012/11/hacking-my-vagina/
How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
Since you seem to have a good grasp of frontend, I would definitely checkout https://parse.com/products/data as a backend solution.
Seriously, I thought the Microsoft images were the parody for a second there.
No I'm not. I see on there instantly:

Expensive, poorly designed decade resistance boxes that use pissy little SMT resistors that will catch fire if you have an accident rather than get a little warm: https://www.tindie.com/products/Atlanta_Robotics/decade-resi...

What the fuck? Multimeter anyone? https://www.tindie.com/products/Steves_Hobby_Store/the-stopl...

Flashing crap, most of it no better than $2 chinese plastic junk: https://www.tindie.com/products/category/wearables/

This is precisely what I don't want to see and I wish people would stop worshipping.
I genuinely love Scott's style of blogging. He has a real knack of putting across a cool and thoughtful article whilst not pandering to any one tech following...despite being a Microsoft employee.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this measure makes the consensual rape kink even more popular.

To answer your question:

> How the does this work with consensual kink?

Even the possession of consensual porn will get you locked away, at least according to the article:

> Mr Cameron is targeting websites which show videos and images of rape – whether they claim they are ‘simulated’ or not.
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Hell no. It's based on the Zend framework which is an even greater pile of rot!
There's a whole sub-reddit that's dedicated to exactly the same thing at /r/favors

That's not to discredit this project though. Some things might work better on Reddit and some might work better on a dedicated website.
Google selection process (not only theirs) is dysfunctional

You say that, yet they consistently field top talent in the industry. The fact is that all hiring is dysfunctional and imperfect in some way. Google's is less so than most everyone else's.

I think that at the end of the day, people don't like being rejected. That's understandable, but it's going to add some biased memes into the public consciousness that you have to mentally discount to a degree. I focus on the results they have.
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How exactly would parallel construction have helped here? To effect a search, with or without "parallel construction", you have to have probable cause.