skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find concept videos like this often grossly over-simplify the problem of contextual computing, or even personalization for the matter.

I think today we already have plenty of context -- A paypass-equipped credit card can already provide context. And NFC-equipped phone, or even your wifi or bluetooth fingerprint. All of these things are already capable of providing the same level of uniqueness describing your person (Or at least arranging the transfer of enough uniqueness to qualify you).

I think the biggest problem that every entrepreneur always misses is: "How do we define context?"

"How do we organize it?" "How do we make sure that your personal information is open, tailored to you, and not limited in so much as Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook is willing to sell you that expression of identity which you will be LIMITED to being, as they see fit."

I think it comes down to a much more broad question that I don't think the industry has yet to answer at all.

What is the GRAMMAR of this context -- that will make it so fluid that everybody can integrate with it, seamlessly?

This is not something the industry has tried to answer, because we're still arguing over Apache's "Web of Things" vs a Json "Web of Things". We haven't even prescribed machine-understandable meaning to these free structured Apis yet -- let alone write a system that can automatically understand what a trunk is, how it works, and the entire context and meaning of a car.

This is not a move to context -- it's a limited gesture, and one that isn't based in the realm of context any more than a key understands a door.
I can see why this is a useful tool but this has such potential to be part of the slippery slope. After reading this I thought I would Google the NSA wiki page. I was surprised that illegal domestic wiretapping issue is not new but going back to the 60's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET
The Internet Structure
you should short it obviously - it'd be free money for you!
I believe you mean 90 megameters.
In my career, and maybe this is just the kinds of problems I've been presented with, I've found that assuming normality is, by and large, like drinking tequila. It's fun at the time, but I end up regretting it in the morning.

EDIT: its this kind of experience that make me reach for things like nonparametric tests and the bootstrap.
You didn't overfit. You fell in to the trap of assuming that past performance dictates future performance. It does not.
I wonder if they have thought of making the road go around north-east to Acandi and then connect with Hw 62 around Chigorodo. It won't be as direct but it would avoid the environmental issues of cutting through the Darien National Park.
A popular way is via yacht to Cartagena as someone mentioned. It will skip a bunch of beautiful countryside though.

Less well known are the small villages along both sides of the coast.

On the Caribbean side there is a small town called Capurgana on the Colombian side with a few nice hotels that offer hikes to the village La Miel on the Panamanian side. So it is possible to cross the border there quite safely by foot.

http://www.brendansadventures.com/paradise-found-la-miel-pan...

The area looks beautiful. Since I first of heard of this it's been on my bucket list.

That still leaves you with the question on how to get there without flying. The hotels in Capurgana offer boat rides to Turbo in Antioquia where there are good roads south.

While I know Panama well I was actually surprised to learn from Colombian TV of the villages on the Panamanian side. I nor most of my Panamanian friends had never heard of these.

So your best bet would probably be to go by boat along the coast from either one of the San Blas islands or more likely Isla Verde a bit further west.
I think this article is auto-generated or pseudoscience.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. PA is very much a family. And they are a content and events company not a software startup. They need coders but for them it's a cost center, not a profit source like at software companies. You can make a decent living at PA, definitely, but don't expect the sort of wages you'd make from a software company. Even when PA is in a period of expansion and growth that growth is nothing compared to what is typical at a tech startup.

As a rule nobody works there because of the money, and there are many examples of how PA makes decisions which lower their revenue (they could easily raise PAX ticket prices by 3-4x, for example, which would bring in over a million dollars in extra revenue per year per employee). It might be that asking a dev to forgo the sort of pay levels they'd expect from working elsewhere might be too much to ask of anybody, but time will tell I guess.
Even if you are independently wealthy, there's risk of failure: Health reasons, financial reasons beyond your control (e.g. currency hyperinflation; draconian tax measures as happened in Greece and Argentina and will likely happen in other places as well; Significant loss of finances to fraud, as in the Bernie Madoff case)

It's never possible to eliminate all risk. However, there's a difference between taking a calculated risk, and being reckless -- and reckless people more often than not believe they were taking a calculated risk. This is especially true of people with gambler personality.

(Not making an opinion about original poster - I have no info to base an opinion on. Making a general statement)
> That said, the remaining 10% really do want something more.

Yes, but those 10% are better served by going native. What's the problem in going native using the platform's native SDK?

OH, if you're going to say that native apps don't run in the browser, well, the browser's inherent advantages over native are that (1) it runs everywhere, on every platform and (2) it's based on standards with multiple implementations.

But NaCL for all intents and purposes is native to Chrome and not part of the web (it also doesn't run on ARM chips). NaCL will never be a standard accepted by either Microsoft, or Apple or Mozilla, because it's not portable enough and because it's so freakishly complicated that writing a spec for it is really, really hard and the jury is still out on its technical soundness. And sure, it's open-source, but that's not enough.

So you know, those 10% that want more, can only find comfort in NaCL if they only want to target Chrome's Web Store, which isn't different from targeting an OS. But that's not the open web. For the open web, those 10% have no choice other than Javascript, which is why Asm.js is so awesome, because it exists.
That's already happened. The bitcoin software has been forked thousands of times and there are hundreds of alt coins out there currently.
So a job that advertises terrible working conditions is suddenly morally upstanding and ethical just because you know what you're in for? What if you need money to feed your family and the job ad says that as a precondition to getting hired you need to give them one of your kidneys?

This is exactly why labor law exists and why libertarian/extreme capitalist societies could never function. The argument "it's a free market" doesn't hold water. Without a system of checks and balances exploitation will always take place because there are always people desperate enough to do anything to make a living. No matter what you say about "free markets" and "voluntary agreements", you can't convince me that it's right and ethical and a good idea in any capacity.
If the copyright enthusiasts can misuse legal terminology to refer to copyright infringement as actual theft, I say let's go ahead and call this a theft as well. We'd be closer to the truth.
For a normal ligature, if http://golang.org/src/pkg/unicode/letter_test.go?h=ToLower is anything to go by, then no for your question, but yes to your code, just not the way you think it works. Which is to say, strings.ToUpper("\u0133") appears to produce "\u0132" as a result.

But \u00DF appears to be a special case, as there's no uppercase for it. If I had to guess, I'd say it should return \u00DF. I mean, if I uppercase "+", do I expect something else back? Doubtful.
I've had a chromebook (the Samsung model) for the past 4 months I've been travelling around the world. It has proved to be a practical, light (1 kg) and powerful little computer. Using crouton, I've installed lubuntu so that I can have Linux and ChromeOS running at the same time. I've been able to work coding Clojure, installed GIMP and Inkscape, watched movies and I could have installed Open Office but I didn't really seem to need it. Maybe the chromebook hasn't found a market yet, but I think it's the most practical computer I've owned. I think I would prefer a Macbook Air but the price is 4+ times the one for a Chromebook, which might well be worth it but I don't have the money for now :P.
a poll should NOT be a forecasting device. do not go out and buy bitcoins because people on average hit the 1000-2000 option. unless of course, you mark one of the 1000+ options independently of the results of the poll, then you should go speculate in them (hell, if you were one of the several that marked 10k+, you should buy a ton!)

imo, bitcoin is very speculative and volatile, its a crazy market and these posts don't help that fact...
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VILH-d6LcFg&feature=youtube_gdata
Merely following the law doesn't turn a bad idea into a good idea, or justify a program, but it does say something about whether people are acting in good faith.

I think this is where we have slightly different points of view.

In the general situation we're discussing, i.e., state surveillance, the people who make the laws and the people who should be following them are the same, or at least closely related. In that context, to demonstrate good faith, I think you need to make good laws and then follow them.

There is an interesting wrinkle in the US that we don't have here in the UK because the US Constitution is theoretically out of reach of the current government. However, as usual actions speak louder than words, and as an outsider it doesn't appear that having a written constitution is a reliable safeguard any more (on many issues, not just the surveillance one). Again, the people who might be acting unconstitutionally and the people who would judge them are cut from the same cloth.

Because of these inherent conflicts of interest, I don't think that merely following the letter of the law is sufficient to demonstrate (or, equally, demonstrate the lack of) anything very interesting.
Thanks for the writeup but people are getting smarter now, afterall we are living in 2013 now. Personally I dont see the need of this post, even I feel like my comment is also a waste.
Talk to some recruiters. Seriously.

Although they are considered the spawn of Satan by most devs, they know exactly what you are worth because their business depends on it.

And they will be willing to talk to you, because you are their meal ticket.
Sorry, I mean that there's an internal pointer in Go's in-memory representation of the string, not that there's a naked byte pointer directly visible to the programmer.

Go's GC's support for internal pointers means it can use a pointer-and-length representation for substring references. Java's lack of support for them means its string representation needs a pointer to the start of the char array and a separate offset and count in order to do the same substring-reference trick. (And, I'm saying, that helps explain why Java and Go now do substrings differently.)

There are other places where Go's ability to use internal pointers is exposed more directly to the programmer: for example, Go lets you take the address of an array element or struct field and pass around the resulting pointer.
Just keep hanging there. Things would be all right in due time.
I feel you should always give somebody props for brutal honesty vs. hiding the truth, so good on ya Gabe & co for at least laying it all out up front.

This reminds me of being in the running for a job at WOTC some years back, not being terribly fanatical about the card game, but wanting to move to Seattle to be with friends. The job was very similar, a sysadmin+build-our-website+fix-the-printer AND bring-me-coffee(NOW DAMMIT! NOW!) type gig, but back in the mid '90s when web developers were about as rare as a VengeVine card.

Things kind of fell apart when they wouldn't even match my salary at my (then) current job nor cover relocation.
The guy I was talking to kept trying to talk past that impress me with how cool it would be to work for them and how that would MORE than make up for such mean concerns as a paycheck scaled to the size of the job and cost of living.

In the end I failed to be sufficiently impressed and politely turned him down, which he scornfully assured me would be a career-ender(and what's up with that?--why do these things always seem to end with "You'll never work in this town again!!!" type closings ?).

To the young fanper(s) sweating over their resume for this job: Think VERY carefully what it would be worth to you to have PA as a line on your resume and where you intend to go with this all once you get there.

"Creative" companies seem to be like this a lot. They're used to dealing with artistic, creative people who need a LOT of self-validation and are willing to be treated like crap just for the privilege of being treated like crap by a specific person or group of people. They just assume that everybody in every field of effort is the same and tend to get very bent out of shape when you push back at them or just even have boundaries and requirements.
That confusables list is a good starting point, although you'll need to make additions, and probably scale back a couple of the over-zealous ones (eg. rn -> m)

I'm coming at this from a comment spam point of view, not usernames, btw.
That's awesome. People never cease to amaze.

To be clear, I was suggesting that someone setup a full-blown futures market; not a prediction market ( which is the most neutered form of a derivative market, as near as I can tell ).

If you denominated the contracts entirely in BTC it might even be legal...

And if you had some enforcement mechanism (anything from shaming to gangsters giving amateur dental work to defectors), it might even work.

The question of whether a Bitcoin futures market would be more volatile if denominated in dollars or BTC is left as an exercise for the reader.
umm... Intel DOES have a product fit for it, no? I mean isn't that what the post is about?
FYI:

Node.js - https://github.com/walling/unorm YMMV, but looks good.

It can also serve as a polyfill for the eventual http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-str...
That's the risks of entrepreneurship. I come from an extremely entrepreneurially inclined family and I vividly remember having sheriffs of the court coming to knock on the door when I was growing. Its not all rosy when you are in the inside. I remember the kids at school were impressed by the big house and nice cars, we had 3 but only 2 driver, but there are other things that happen behind the scenes.

Good luck man, keep the faith.
1) the key word in this is ALLOWS.
My car ALLOWS me to drive it off a fucking bridge, but does that mean it’s the fault of the car if I choose to do that?

2) define advanced. I’ve seen Java web apps that needed stupidly complex getters and setters just to be able to handle a form post with a variable number of fields. How much of what PHP does out of the box, does a language like ruby or python support, and how much requires a framework like Rails or Django?

3) You are a fucking idiot. That sentence has just as much weight as your third point, possibly more so.
reach out, this thread has support
Let's examine who they're targeting:

One that stands out has the cause of targeting as "The U.S. brought the 9/11 attacks upon itself", a view Ron Paul holds - I'd hardly call this appropriate targeting of terrorists.

The second one that is perhaps more inappropriate than the first:
"The US perpetrated the 9/11 attacks."
Who said this? A "well-known media celebrity". There are many far right-wing media celebrities who espouse this view. While it's an absurd view, I'd hardly call labeling them as terrorists and targeting them (with intent to discredit) an appropriate reaction.

Pretty disgusting behaviour from the NSA.
Unicode tells me:

•	Special Casing:
Lowercase: 00DF [ ‌ß ]
Uppercase: 0053 0053 [ ‌S ‌S ]
Titlecase: 0053 0073 [ ‌S ‌s ]

•	NamesList:
= Eszett
• German
• uppercase is "SS"
• in origin a ligature of 017F and 0073
→ (greek small letter beta - 03B2)
→ (latin capital letter sharp s - 1E9E)

(in origin a ligature of 017F and 0073 is not undisputed)

U+1E9E (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S ẞ) is not officially allowed in German orthography
•	NamesList:
• lowercase is 00DF
→ (latin small letter sharp s - 00DF)
•	Designated in Unicode 5.1
How software developers use Twitter
This is not the point of the test, the test is about showing you that the load balancer in GCE can handle that many requests per second and with a single IP address. Whatever the machines are doing behind doesn't matter since the load balancer job is to handle a ton of traffic. This is practically the only case in which responding with 1 byte makes sense in the test.
Remember that networked hard-drive by sea gate? We could probably use that here too. Instead of storing all data in cloud (and thus increase network delay) we could simply store it in a local hard drive which is accessed by these devices directly via LAN.

Though i am confused about why the focus just sensors? I see it as micro-controllers connected to the internet, thus enabling a lot more things.
Doesn't matter bro, you can get a job at many startups with a $100,000 salary in the bay area now. Failure is valued in the valley.

You know life is just the blink of an eye and then we are buried 6 feet under, it doesn't matter, so keep it up, get some savings again and next startup. ;)
Aside from not being able to sort profiles alphabetically, or by expiration date, or at all, or delete profiles what's this do that the iPhone Configuration Utility doesn't?
...but this comment which is sincere, genuine and offered to someone for whom this could be greatly helpful has made me seriously reconsider. Kudos.

I felt you'd appreciate an unhedged opinion rather than me adding a bunch of weasel words like "I had the impression, right or wrong, that you were a bullying cock..."

I meant to say, very sincerely, that I was moved by your offer of help and it very much made me reconsider my opinion, as that gesture of kindness is really at odds with that impression of you.

So - sorry for calling you a cock. I thought what you did here was very noble and I admire it. I just felt there was no other way of expressing what I felt without being cowardly and weasel-worded about it.
Does weiss == weiß ?

Yes and no. The swiss would write the former, other German speaking (writing) countries would write the latter. It is incorrect in Germany (after ie, au, eu, ... you must not write ss, unless it's a name, such as the city Neuss)

The upper case of weiß would be WEISS. But it's hard from the upper case WEISS to determine if the lower case is weiss or weiß. (This is why one should never write people's names in bibliographies in small caps.)
FWIW, I'm not a psychologist. I only studied it for a few years.

Personality theory is one of the weakest branches on the tree of psychology because of its historical roots and because of the difficulty of applying the full apparatus of science. There is no universal consensus for personality theories as there is about, for example, behavioural conditioning. Not even close. My personality textbook was very, very thick and nobody mentioned in it agreed with anybody else.

The strongest results in personality work so far come from aggregating work from different existing models; that's how the Five Factor Model (including the Intro/Extra axis) was developed.

The strength of the FFM is that it comes from multiple lines of evidence (lexical studies and factor analysis of existing personality tests regardless of underlying theoretical model). That is: it arose from what appears in the data, not from what appears to fit particular theories of personality. Indeed it finds support from work done on theories that flatly contradict it. Put another way, the FFM finds widespread support because it is merely descriptive.

Eventually, as I say, more work from the neuro direction will begin to tease out what, if any, correlations can be found with underlying neurophysiology. A quick squiz at Wikipedia shows some early fMRI studies with different brain activation patterns for folk identified as extra/introverted.
This is not an uncommon thing. Not everyone can immediately jump on the latest and greatest.
I'm not sure "intrinsically superior" is the right way to think about this.

It's fast enough. It's compatible with the existing web. It's platform independent. It runs in any standards-compliant web-browser. That's four wins right there.

It's fundamentally superior. End of discussion.

That said, the remaining 10% really do want something more. They want to write targetted architecture-specific assembly, perhaps.

If they do, they can go do it somewhere which isn't the open web.

When I use a web-browser, me and my devices aren't going to wait for you to fix your webpage to support the architecture I happen to be running. We're going to go somewhere else.

Imagine how impossible it would have been for early Macs and ARM-devices to enter the market if the web was already entrenched in platform-specific Intel x86 code. How many of those websites out there do you think would have been "fixed" in order to work on other platforms, years after the authors abandoned them? I'm guessing a tiny fraction.

They didn't have to though, because the web is cross-platform. This is by design.

We should thoroughly ignore Google's best efforts to reverse this with their proprietary NaCl. Why on earth would we want to change the best quality of the web now that it has already proven its value?
good advice, iteration works :)
Thank You Zed, you are truly awesome!!
Go Big or Go Home
almost 3 years ago I moved to Silicon Valley to work for an online movie company that shall remain nameless. It was Awesome! I learned so many new things. If I wanted to know, all I needed to do was ask and someone was happy to tell me about it, direct me or mentor me.

So when I quit that job and moved to Seoul, Korea and signed on to help a friend with his start-up it didn't surprise anyone that I was intense and driven. After all, that's how you get things done... right?

There are about 30 companies/families that control all the investment in Korea and really the odds that they want to support a company that goes against social tradition is slim. We've had some investment but when I heard what we were up against I turned my sights to the US.

For the product we are building there are so many more opportunities to get it in the hands of people who would really use it, love it and embrace it as passionately as we do. The down side is with an ocean between us getting investors to even let us pitch becomes so much harder the moment they hear Asia. Any ideas or recommendations from the masters or the general populace would be greatly welcomed. If I can get them to start to listen I know I can hold their attention for 12-15 slides.