skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh. Thankfully, no.

I was really hopeful that the Leap Motion was going to be 'the right thing', but I'm pretty sure that anything that requires you to move your wrist to use is going to be a lose.

I'm not 100% sure we're going to get a pointing device into the v1 product. I'd rather ship a good keyboard than not ship a better keyboard.
Here is a live version http://runnable.com/UqkIJXqriJwGAATm/basic-count-example-for...
College is like white horses or expensive sports or boats. It's a positional good into which the wealthy will sink endless resources.

The essential cost of a college education is not very high. However, increasing the price of the degree can also increase the perceived value of it, since what people really want (they won't say it, it's not socially acceptable) is access to a higher social class.
Dan's MOOC class was outstanding - better than most classes I took at Berkeley or Yale.

I do think that he tends to idealize and romanticize the "traditional" 4-year US college experience, which he did not himself have.
Maybe by the time we get SteamOS they'll finally let customers change their account names. Without losing access to their games. Pretty please?
Under methodology:

""" Return from Attending College: The main financial benefit of attending college is the gain in income received by a college graduate over a high school graduate. However, by choosing to attend college, one is giving up 4-6 years of income one could have received if one went straight to work after high school. Therefore, we calculate the gain in median pay over a high school graduate (Earnings Differential) as the difference between the 30 Year Median Pay for a 2012 Bachelor's Graduate and Weighted 34-36 Year Median Pay for a High School. """

Unfortunately, they fail to take into account that the people who go to college probably would have been more successful anyway.
To offer shares for sale, you would need to exercise them first. Depending on whether you're not you've left the company by that time, with looming tax bill you're in the unfortunate position of needing to sell with buyer potentially using that to their advantage:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/17/facebook-shareholders-suck-...

"Then you have to figure out a spread. So the seller has to agree to $30, the buyer $31, and the dollar in the middle is split 15 ways. Its 30 million shares so that’s $30 million in the middle and everyone feels this is the transaction of a lifetime and they need to get a piece. And then, all of a sudden, the secretary of the mistress of the random king wants to get at least half of the spread in the middle or will block the whole thing. So everyone needs to get on the phone again. At 11 pm at night on a Saturday. And hagggle out fees."
Most creative and original idea in this thread. Congrats.
I borrowed the Robin Williams book from the library and read the first part of it. As a non-designer, I found it to be highly accessible, and it also ringed true. I guess I lost my motivation before I finished the book. But I would finish it if I needed to do design.
Yeah, I know. Done it myself. I was mentally filtering nude selfies out of the set of files I would want to move about. I draw a distinction between "here's a sweet recipe for chicken alfredo, better save this for later" and "here's a picture of me naked, better make a copy in case I need this later", but I guess others don't.
I think the thumb layout is more comfortable and easier to use.

Kinesis users I've put in front of my prototypes come up to speed pretty quickly.

Non-kinesis users seem to come up to speed a lot faster than they do when confronted with the kinesis' bowls.

Also, it's a lot more portable.

And it's really, really fully programmable.
And what is your relationship to https://www.hirezstudios.com/smitegame/home ? I ask because it seems like you share a lot of material. Game studios get a bit twitchy about that when it isn't part of their PR plan.

Hmm, if that were the case I'd expect it to show up in the Transparency report though.
Wait, we don't have spottily here in india.
So its back to the LPs. Or maybe the mp3.
A Journey through Middle-earth
Pkgng is indeed the default in FreeBSD 10. That page is a useful collection of notes on changes in the base system, but isn't an official changelog of the release engineering team.
Basically every Platform-as-a-Service uses containers. They're much more efficient than VMs (resources, spin-up/down times) and the underlying infrastructure is standardized anyway. They may not very well not be relevant to a couple of home systems. We're talking about large-scale infrastructures.
Yes, iBeacon could spell the end of paging through germy old issues of People magazine before your doctor’s appointment.

No, smartphones already spelled that particular end several years ago. And if you're trying to do geofenced DRM, a rather evil concept in itself, why not use GPS?

Also, "dynamic hot dog coupons". That's gotta be a $3B IPO right there!
You can view the data broken down my major per school once you click on the school.
If there's anyone on HN who actually believes this scientific study, please explain why. Right now I think this is complete garbage that I hope never reaches the eyes of young & impressionable people. Smoking is bad for you any benefit it may or may not have is completely eclipsed by the mountains upon mountains of evidence showing the damage to the human body.

EDIT: Removing quotes per comments below.

EDIT2: Ok, I guess even if there are 99 bad things that are caused by smoking it doesn't mean there can't be 1 or 2 things good from it.
I'd like to try an IDE, since I usually end up using vim due to the fact that my projects often mix languages (Python, C, Clojure, occasionally Scala). How do Intellij, LightTable, SublimeText, etc. perform on those sorts of polyglot projects?
Generally, he has gone to ground.
I take it you didn't read the article. Please do so now, paying special attention to the words "blackmail" and "extortion".
You also need to prove that the perpetrator knew the images were fakes, which is usually pretty difficult.
The Datahand is awesome. It does a lot of stuff very, very right. I was never really able to get up to speed on mine.

There's actually a hobbyist project to reproduce the Datahand right now over at geekhack.org
http://www.sharespost.com
http://secondmarket.com
It will either cost them billions or be worth single digit millions to do so, depending on the time of day!
Thanks! I'm pretty excited.
Nicotine is great. I find it very useful. The claims about its stimulant effects are perfectly plausible.

But there is zero need to consume/use tobacco to get nicotine.
Most stock plans have triggered vesting.

So it's possible to start a job on Monday, have the company acquired on Tuesday and immediately vest for all 4 years going forward.
I'm currently awaiting delivery of components to assemble an ErgoDox. The later variations show here display an encouraging similarity to a lot of the ErgoDox's features, although perhaps most interestingly a move away from independent positioning of the two halves.
I like the low barrier to enry. (read low cost). I think a lot of hobbyists probably wouldn't be around, and as others have mentioned the undeveloped countries would have a harder time getting domains.

I like the idea that my son could register a domain on cheaply and use it to learn.
like this? http://www.indysci.org/details.html
hey sambeau!

thanks for getting back to me.

there are some good points you make there. A button or switch to go into column edit mode would be most appealing to me I think personally. I like that idea and I will certainly have a play with it.

as for adding cards, where do you think this should live? some people have suggested at the bottom of columns. This does sound good, my only problem is that what if the user has to scroll to find this functionality? with an icon at the top of the column this is clearer IMO, if columns had a mode then I guess the remove column icon wouldn't be visible at the same time as the add item icon. I'd value your opinion on this part of the UI.

Thanks again for your feedback and input!
I really can't agree with that. We've built businesses in the pre-Google days when search engines were a hit or miss affair.
In the case of witness protection: The witness does not know every member of the mafia, but the mafia knows the witness. There is inherently an asymmetry of power in such situations.
I have the exact same keyboard (Majestouch, with Cherry Blues). Been using it for the past few years, and I love it.

Do ergonomic keyboards allow you to type faster? Or do they just let you rest your hands more naturally?
There are many, Eastern Germany is perhaps the worst example where 1 in 6 people were at least part time informants.
It'll be Cherry switches. Depending on who we end up with for a manufacturing partner, we may be able to offer a wide variety of switch options. If we can only pick one, I'd probably run with Cherry Browns. They feel a lot like the Blues, but won't piss off the people sitting around you.
The idea that it's OK to derive fun and profit from doing to other people what you would not want for yourself strikes me as exactly a sick principle, actually.
I think his point is that there are risk factors associated with choices and it's valuable to be aware of them and attempt to mitigate the risks.

Obviously the fault doesn't lie with the victim, but since the world can be dangerous it's important to be aware of that reality when making choices. If certain actions increase your risk (walking alone at night, taking naked pictures etc.) then it's better to consider that when making a choice in order to avoid potentially becoming a victim.

You're only in control of yourself - while we can and should strive to make changes to our culture and the system, that doesn't mean individuals should be blind to how their own choices may contribute to increasing their risk of being victimized.
>The brain works better when it gets nicotine - almost like an optimized computer. Nicotine is a "work-drug" that enables its consumers to focus better and think faster. The brain also becomes more enduring, especially in smokers: Nicotine experiments show that smokers in prolonged working situations are able to maintain concentration for many hours longer than non-smokers.

the same can be said about meth or other ADHD drugs. "Magic comes with a price" :) (i was a smoker of cigarettes for a decade and quit more than a decade ago)
I would love to find an ergonomic mechanical keyboard. I tried the Truly Ergonomic but sent it back because it hurt my wrists. I'm not sure I'd like the Kinesis bowls; perhaps I'll try it eventually. What I'd really like is a Microsoft Natural keyboard, but with mechanical switches. Is there anything like that out there?
There's not really a whole lot of incentive for a company to buy your shares, since they can always print more if needed.

Liquidity highly depends on the company. SecondMarket, SharesPost and MicroVentures have online portals for buying+selling, but they also have a mailing list with people potentially interested in a secondary market transaction, so worthwhile exploring that option.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the end of Bitcoin? It was created to keep us independent from Wall Street and governments and now when Big Money is interested in (profiting from) it, it's Game Over.
I've smoked on and off for about 6 years, with the past year being about 98% off. I can tell you that I do FEEL more focused and clear after a cigarette, but that all the negative side-effects that come with them are totally not worth it. If you really want a stimulant, stick with caffeine.

I've actualy been meaning to write a blogpost about it. Some of the things I've noticed from being on and off cigarettes:

Cigarettes (edit: nicotine, actually) are a depressant (EDIT: and a stimulant), they make the world feel less colourful (LITERALLY), less "noisy".

EDIT: I realize I'm being psuedosciency and imprecise with the previous statement. I'm not sure about the precise distinctions between stimulant/upper/downer, etc. What I CAN tell you is that cigarettes have the following effects for me and my smoker peers, as far as I've known ->

When I'm on cigarettes, my field of vision narrows, colours become duller, I'm marginally more focused on specific tasks, better able to "tune out 'random noise'". Whenever I go off cigarettes, the world feels a little overwhelming and chaotic for a while- my skin is more sensitive to the wind, my eyes are more sensitive to the light, the whole nervous system just gets overwhelmed (because the cigarettes kinda suppess them, in my opinion.)

The short-term gain in focus is nothing great. You can get it by sitting in silence for a minute, breathing deeply, psyching yourself up with a youtube video. Not worth the damage you do to your eyes, nose, gums, teeth, not worth the cough, not worth the smell, the taste... all of that is underreported because there's a "frog in boiling water" effect- the damage is so cumulative that it feels tolerable.

Yes, I remember when cigarettes helped focus my thoughts as a writer, or over conversations with friends... but honestly, taking a walk achieves superior returns, on both counts.

--

Commander Shepard: "What's your opinion of this? The drugs, I mean."

Legion: "These substances enhance short-term performance at the expense of long-term platform survivability. It is fundamentally similar to "over-clocking" geth hardware. We do so whenever necessary. However, should our platform be damaged by overclocking, we can be repaired. Why an organic would choose this is puzzling."
>He isn't arguing that privacy is inherently bad, or you should never ever have secrets. Yeah, if your trying to overthrow an fascist regime, it makes sense to have secrets. But again, that's a contrived reason. If you're MLK, that's not really the norm.

That's a contrived reason too.

For one, it SHOULD be the norm. "Be the change you want to see in the world" and everything. It's not just something to pay lip service to.

Second, it doesn't matter if it "only" affects only 1 in 100,000, because what those 1 in 100,000 do affects millions of lives themselves. Heck, MLK was 1 in 250,000,000 and he affected the whole of the US.

>The point Mr.Sivers making is - generally people have more secrets than they really need and in the process they're making their lives more stressful. He's suggesting trying to re-evulate your need for privacy (I'm repeating myself).

Given the widespread violations of privacy, such an attitude is harmful even on the personal level. It can be seen as essentially a "giving up" to pressure from the goverment/spying corporations like Google.

But it gets worse, because it's also quite trivial, and the example he gives is bad. His friend might not mind showing him her "private notebook", because he is just a friend (probably not even a close one at that, since all of the stuff she wrote, he said it was irrelevant to him).

How about showing that same notebook to her husband, her children, her parents, her boss, close friends, some person she writes negatively about etc? Despite her giving lip service to openess, there's a reason she reffered to it as "ultra secret".

There are lots of secrets people want to have. And not just some MLK types: hundrends of millions of people.

How about trying to smoke a joint in the privacy of your own home?

According to some stats, tens of millions have done it, including in states that it's illegal. Should they all go to jail?

Or have an affair without your partner knowing?

Or what if sometime you visited a prostitute?

Or tell your friend that your boss is a jerk?

Or watch porn? Perhaps even kinky Japanese tentacle stuff.

Or write a comment against GOP / Obama in an internet forum.

Or discover you're gay at puberty and not announce your friends/parents until you decide the time is right?

Are you allowed to all these "secrets" (and tons more)? Why the fuck should anybody else, and especially the government, have this information on you?

Only a puritan society, that thinks all such stuff as "immoral" would see as OK to not be able to have secrects on such matters ("cheating on your partner? That's bad, and they should now it").

As for, "how the gov't is going to go fascist" -- who said it isn't already in certain aspects? Fascism is not a "take it all or leave it affair", you can pick and choose from it's practices. A basic characteristic of fascism was spying on their own citizens. And there are lots of others (e.g the ratio of incarceration and the militarization of police force is unprecedented in a regular Western democracy like France, Britain and co).
As someone who has sworn by Microsoft's Natural Keyboards, you're on the right track!
Regarding the Datahand and Kinesis, which I just discovered in this discussion - how would one be able to get their hands on them to test them?
That isn't really relevant here, though. The contract in this case is essentially "We'll give you a good deal on high-speed Internet in exchange for letting us serve you context-sensitive ads. You can of course opt out of the ads, but then we'll charge you more." No element of this contract involves breaking the law, and no element of the contract places unusually burdensome requirements on the customer — you just decide whether you'll accept $30 to let AT&T show you some ads.

(The fact that AT&T's ad-supported plan is not a better deal than Google's fiber plan is not really material. It isn't generally illegal to have an inferior product or to charge more than your competitors for the same goods.)
Beautiful post, I know smoking always helps me!
I mean I understand the logic of optimizing for cases when you are going to be less than the lower-bound of data you can throw to the heap as you explain. I guess my question (I am honestly asking this one) is why not use the struct char array approach or some variant of it to optimize in the other direction as well (using 256 as the limit, for example, since it is closely associated with DB applications)? Is there a concern for wasted memory, or would it screw up their implementation of "union" or something? (I will, btw, willfully admit ignorance on some super in-depth C mechanics but I don't think it invalidates my point.)

I've heard of cases where Ruby performance supposedly increased tremendously because of raising some memory / garbage collection limits, and in today's world I always wondered why they don't try harder to make the sacrifice on memory footprint in order to gain speed. As a platform that is to this day routinely blasted for being so damn slow (I'm sure a lot of this falls on Rails' shoulders especially since ActiveRecord still was glacial when I stopped following... ~1.3 seconds of Ruby processing to render simple pages IIRC) why not start inserting some performance hacks or re-implementing with performance as top priority?

The answer to your question is that I'm sociopathic on the internet.
It is hurtful - they are now truly turning it into DotCom 2.0 - they way the media created a hype back then!
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"I don't like tobacco" = "People who like tobacco are trolls"
Indian Supreme Court rules homosexuality a sin
Unfortunately, they fail to take into account that the people who go to college probably would have been more successful anyway.

Eh... I don't know about that. We hammer the "you must go to college to be successful" mentality into every kid these days. A lot of people are going to college these days, and many of those people would be better served pursuing a career in skilled trade IMO.
Is your presupposition that the TLAs are better at this than you are? There's a huge project right now at DARPA (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=0d71fc7...) that is being led by program manager whose graduate work is increasingly suspected of being completely artefactual. http://raphazlab.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/seven-years-of-ima...
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Yes open transparent society, this the future I'm looking forward to. I would no need to hide my credit card number, bank account, sexual quirk, etc, If anybody trying to abuse that, they will be easily tracked.
Heh. Even though I work for IBM I wouldn't bother mentioning AIX on HN; it simply doesn't exist inside the echo chamber.
I was shocked to learn that this was legal (in other states) in the first place. Disgusting.
If you read the article, he argues that the essential cost is high given the services provided: housing, healthcare, education, etc.

Imagine you're going on vacation for four years. How much would that cost? Right, if you compare that to college, you would say college really is quite cheap. Now, it's an educated vacation; you get lots of things, but the amount of stuff that you're getting is really quite incredible, so the experience is amazing. I don't think it's expensive for what you're getting.
What I'm contending is that somebody, possibly you, will always feel that way, no matter where the line is put.
Hard to say from averages of details, what a whole campaign would (should) look like. $99 pledges were popular; $100 almost twice as popular. Should both be included? Or did successful projects have one or the other? And so on.
About half of my friends post every move they make throughout the day, photo-illustrated, to Facebook. They also have numerous short conversations with their friends, that are clearly just between the two of them and would normally be of no interest to anybody else. It's the equivalent of having private conversations out loud in front of everyone each of them have ever met in their lives.

I do not understand any of this behavior. I'm said to be a 'private person.' But it's clear to me that the zeitgeist is definitely not on my side here. I also wonder what all of this will be like in 20 years, given that Facebook has only been in widespread use for an utterly paltry 5 years.
I'd stop Gmail from somehow grabbing tab focus in Safari once it completes its in-page loading bar. I had to disable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail because I don't want to be typing elsewhere in Safari only to suddenly be firing off a bunch of unintended Gmail actions.
But college shouldn't be going on vacation for four years. It should be lectures, essays, reading, and exams. All this is not too expensive to supply.

I'm sure you think the high prices on textbooks and medicine are well deserved too?
What methods do you recommend?
Actually, I _started_ from an ErgoDox. :)
( http://blog.fsck.com/2013/01/pinkies-and-your-brain.html )

The ErgoDox is really the two halves of a Kinesis flattened.

Keyboard.IO is a little bit different. There's a splay of a few degrees between the columns that map to each finger. A bunch of the work you do with your pinkies on the ErgoDox or just about any other keyboard moves to your thumbs. And yes, it ended up as a single keyboard. I really, really wanted to do something that was two separate pieces. Between the risks it would add to the mechanical design and the fact that I found myself intensely frustrating that the two halves of the ErgoDox were never in quite the places I expected them to be, we've decided to run with a single-piece unit, at least for the Model 01.
And hello, sockpuppet.
How about dominatrices? Are they evil?

I think consent is the issue, not whether you would want it done to yourself.
Why you'd say that? I have reccuring billing for several services, like Dropbox, Linode, Digital Ocean, AWS, auto-domain renewals, some subscriptions to digital content, etc.

It's not only illegitimate businesses use recurring billing!
It depends. Where do you live?

(And yeah, I spent a decade carrying a MS Natural Elite with me all over the planet. I used to order 'em in four-packs.)
what makes it disgusting is not so much the nudity, but the lack of consent and the aggression/humiliation

Is that not intrinsically obvious to everyone? Is there anyone saying, "We must shut down Hunter because he is publishing nudity"? I thought we were all angered because of the lack of consent, aggression, and humiliation?