skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting. Proofreading as a service could be used by so many content companies out there.

I guess for something long like a book it would make more sense to have the same person proofread the entire thing, but for blog posts and other text, parallelism could be very powerful.

I'm not sure how the pricing will work out though:

$0.004/w = $1.4/page = $350 for my book

this is 1/6 of what I paid to my copy editor. Who will work for such a low wage?

Last but not least, does it all have to be through-the-web. I find I catch a lot more mistakes on paper.

Either way, I wish you good luck with your business and I will be following the developments closely.
This is true, but shouldn't it be fairly easy to develop a system that looks for these groups of voters and discounts the total volume of their votes, rendering their gaming of the system as moot?

Also, seeing as discussion is so important to HN, I assume that active discussion is just as valuable as votes. I'll often comment on an article but forget to upvote it.
..that's how we will build our user base and data-sets for ML algorithms and perform beta/stress testing, and, of course, would never announce any fees, we promise.)
I'm really happy that executable size doesn't matter for server software. Because Yesod produce really big execs.
I understand where you're coming from; I get similarly annoyed when people that are not UX experts design UI mockups that look cool but have no consideration of usability, feasibility, maintainability, etc.

On the other hand, I love concept videos.
Because you enjoy it.

I find the idea that you need some other "justification", or that some justification might lead you to continue to read science fiction when you don't enjoy it – to be a "wait, what?" kind of question.
I also did some benchmarks previosly, for the nginx alternative that I wrote in Go, boxcars: http://github.com/azer/boxcars

comparison of nginx and boxcars: https://gist.github.com/azer/5955772
Thanks for this, appreciate the summary. Made me go have a look at the full article.
Feminism discussions in tech circles never go anywhere good anyways, because a huge number of people have a warped perception of feminism that they rally against and it just ends up being one big shitshow where no meaningful dialogue occurs.
Sometimes copyeditors fix really subtle problems, sometimes copyeditors fix really obvious problems.

This should help fix the obvious problems, and make their time better-spent!
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Your comments reek of ignorance and stupidity. Your comment and attitude are harmful, and in no way helpful. Practically every sentence is either just outright wrong, or worse, so completely wrong that anyone taking it to have any merit will be harmed by believing it.
I think the question simply stems from the fourth paragraph:

"The man deemed responsible for these technological feats also was labeled a spy in the 1999 Cox Report issued by Congress after an investigation into how classified information had been obtained by the Chinese."
Thank you for having the balls to call out immature and idiocentric opinions for what they are.

If people were more willing to do that in real life, we wouldn't have libertarians parading charity over welfare and disaster capitalism over funding relief efforts.

Unfortunately, people can waltz through life espousing selfish and socially harmful opinions and never have to face social repercussions, reinforcing the opinion, thus never having to call them into question.

Libertarians like to think they have a monopoly on rationality, but what they have a simplistic and inherently selfish ideology that values property rights over human life. Thus he is childlike in his view of the world, as it has to fit quaintly into his narrow narrative, and what follows from such story-telling to one's self are the sociopathic beliefs and behaviors inflicted on society.
I think they might sell a bunch of them this Christmas, since they got in retail stores and pretty much everything sells out. I'm excited by the idea that I can get my game on there for the kids who get one and want something fun to play.

Either way, I like what they stand for and it really is a good little platform for indie development!
ahh yes, real programmers twiddle bits on their hard drive with a nothing more than a tiny magnet:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
What are your credentials? Otherwise, your just a worthless blowhard intent on causing harm.
I can't imagine what that deal would have looked like but I guess if they were clever enough they could have caused him to fall under suspicion pretty easily.
To me the hilarious/horrifying thing is that if these guys with access to the most powerful spying apparatus in the world would simply give their passwords to a coworker, that well and truly means we cannot trust them with access to the most powerful spying apparatus in the world.

So if the intelligence community is lying about how he got access, it is an extremely stupid lie that makes them look like idiots. If they're telling the truth, then it clearly makes the case that their operation is a humongous liability and should be shut down. Either way that explanation/story is bad for the NSA.
Man! What are you doing!

I was hoping this was "Bob's Game", the RPG, that maybe you'd started a kickstarter to finally finish the thing and publish it for PC instead of DS, but no, you bring us this.

It's my suspicion that if you were a bit ballsier and capitalized on the already substantial publicity from "Bob's Game" you'd make more money faster than with this apparently halfhearted attempt. Why would someone pay for what appears at a moment's glance to be yet another Tetris clone?

The life of an indie dev is hard and pointed towards failure or development hell by default, I wish you luck, but I think you're making mistakes with regards to your use of time and existing publicity.

Maybe you wanted to do a smaller project to make quick money to fix the bigger project, but this isn't really appealing, its just Tetris, even if that's not true, its what everyone thinks.

I thought I might comment rather than leaving you to wonder why you're getting pageviews and not donations.
Are you suggesting that she shouldn't be daydreaming?
France Broadens Its Surveillance Power
I don't really understand why you are kickstarting the puzzle game when there was way more interest in your RPG (even if most of it was a publicity stunt)? Is the idea that the puzzle game will help fund a larger project?

The game looks interesting in the footage you put on the Kickstarter page (would've been good to edit it down some, though, maybe make an effort to highlight the gameplay variety), but the actual description doesn't give much in the way of real specifics, and the screenshots are kind of undermined by the fact that the framing stage backdrop is there in every one.

Ultimately I wish you had made the effort to get this out there earlier. (Maybe you did and I never saw it?) Given that it's the last hours and you're so far from your goal, that will probably discourage a lot of people from backing who might have otherwise.
It's not really "yet another Tetris clone," it is a puzzle game builder where the user can define custom puzzle modes, including any variation of existing puzzle games.

I can see why people would get that impression though. I unfortunately don't know a better way to get people to realize what it really is.
Lots of gymnastics to "prove" Android fragmentation isn't as bad as it looks. Pointless.
James Watson for starters
>> , which allows you to submit a pull request

well , it would mean you can understand it at first place...
Aaronson's talking about a much narrower field than Adams though. While success might beget passion in the case of science, I think that would happen in childhood and the seed would already be planted. If you make it to adulthood and pursue a career in theoretical science then I think you must have a very deep well of not only passion, but probably obsession to have any success at all.
How come that children in, say India have survived without any medication or even diagnostic of A.D.H.D?)

The answer is, probably, in that the environment and conditioning has a much more to do with these dynamics than medication, so in a less stressed and more friendly environment (which Hindu/Buddhist communities traditionally have) such "disorders" are "self-corrected" by some natural behavioral "therapy", and, perhaps, much less frequently developed in the first place.

In contrast, in social shitholes like Russia number of so-called "problem children" is uncounted, and traditionally the traits described in DSM for a full spectrum of so-called "disorders" are considered quite normal. It is very common scene in Russia when a kid cries "hysterically" non-stop, while parents just scream back or and hit them. This is not exactly A.D.H.D case, but an illustration of what environment does.)

hint: before down-voting try to estimate the population of Hindu and Buddhist countries, which accounts, roughly, to a half of the population of the globe, compared to 300MM of Americans.))
Why do you say he couldn't get a job? I'd say this demonstrates pretty clearly that he's capable of applying himself and making things happen.
See what inspired Boston Dynamics' Big Dog
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Right, looking at crowdsourcing (the main proofist site) was born out of my frustration that most copyediting comments are for simple mistakes that anyone could have caught. I want to make ours cheap enough that you can get 10-20 pairs of eyes per piece of text and without the usual wait.

This game is an experiment to make it free, and if we get mass, can get the desired level of matching. (In just one hour, we're already a hit with educators in math/science!)
Buying a Next Gen Console?
I am not, at least for this year... Backward compatibility killed it for me.
Best of luck to you with this! The idea sounds interesting and the visuals have a cool sort of Jeff Minter vibe to them. You might want to change the name, though. I was confused at first, and I have the advantage of knowing about Bob's Game. Many people don't even have that context.
Why not link to videos of the game? After reading the copy, I still have a very incomplete idea of what the game is like.
Related: the Soylent Word Processor ("It's got humans inside!") from the MIT CS & AI Laboratory:

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/soylent/
I'm thinking more in the form of technological trade.
Programming Your Brain: The Art of Learning in Three Steps
- It's so funny to see "developer's advocate" being used...I would've sworn that that was a term that has only recently been coined but there it is, in a 20 year old email.

- the connectivity of today's Internet is cool in its ubiquity, but emails were so much more engaging back then, even through text terminals...today emails have become such a mental burden, what with its connotation with spam and the implied demand of instant reply...that I can't imagine ever again writing the kind of thorough email as in the OP.

- too bad Woz's biggest hacker years were a little bit before email. Given his willingness and generosity in responding to just about anyone today, you could imagine him sending the Apple BASIC source and his chip layouts all over the Net if it had existed back then
>There are a lot of deals between two governments...
What kind of deals are you referring to?
I'm pretty sure that is built into the price.
> Treatment of ADHD can be lifechanging and allow someone to succeed where they were struggling and suffering before.

This. 1000 times this. At 33, I didn't think I could just now be diagnosed for ADHD. Low and behold, I have ADHD and OCD. Being able to get help for both...

Yeah, life changing is a good way to describe it.

You mention you are an author focused on adult ADHD. If you ever want to talk, I'm more than happy to share. If I can help one other person like me, it would make all the struggle worth while.
The puzzle game will help fund the rest of the RPG, yes. I am not too comfortable funding that using Kickstarter because it sets some hard limits that I might not be able to meet.

The RPG was definitely not a publicity stunt, I genuinely did work on it full time for five years (now 10). The publicity stunt I did sort of backfired in that the internet sort of forgot the legitimate work and focused entirely on the stunt, which damaged the credibility of the project.

Thanks, I didn't really have good enough equipment to edit on so that's a major factor. I actually had to borrow a machine to get that gameplay footage, as my Macbook can't really run and record it at a decent FPS.

I have been trying to make efforts to get it out there, but I just haven't gotten any traction.
How to make people like you
Why Responsive Design Matters
Do tell how the free market would solve the problems inherent to modern day global capitalism.

Seriously, you might win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
I will. I don't care about backwards compatibility. In fact, I'd prefer that they completely cut the cord and make titles only for the new consoles which truly take advantage of their capabilities.
I worked on 757 flight controls design back in the early 1980's. I'm not a pilot and I'm not familiar with the Airbus designs.

The 757 flight controls were hydraulically operated, and were controlled by cables operated by the pilot that opened valves on the actuators (hydraulic rams) on the control surfaces. The pilot's controls did not directly feel the flow of air over the control surfaces feeding back into the stick, like a light plane would with the cables moving the control surfaces directly.

To correct this, Boeing designed a "feel computer" that would push back on the controls as if actual wind were pushing on the controls. The idea was that as close as possible the pilot's controls should "feel" like he was directly connected to the control surfaces.

The feel forces generated could be well over a hundred pounds, if I recall correctly, though Boeing had to reduce them in order to accommodate female pilots. Note that for a high performance aerobatic plane with direct controls, it is a physically exhausting task to control it.

My father flew B-17's, which were probably the biggest airplanes without hydraulically assisted controls. You had to be a strong man to fly it. It would fly with only one outboard engine running, but the force required on the rudder pedals meant the pilot and copilot had to constantly relieve each other.
Thank you! It is confusing but by now it's a bit late to change the name, hopefully people will eventually get the context. It gives it a cool back story too.
There is a video of some raw gameplay on the Kickstarter page. That's about the best I can do with the resources I have at the moment, otherwise I would just work on the game and sell it on the OUYA without bothering with the Kickstarter.
I think this landing page design is great. First glance shows:

- their tagline and what they do "$0 commission stock brokerage"

- why I should sign up "stop paying $10 for every trade"

- clear call to action "get early access"

- giant iPhone graphic gets cutoff and leads you to scroll down
Can airships revolutionize transportation in world's harshest environments?
You keep reading an awful lot into a single line, taken from an interview after the accident, possibly with translation and/or language barrier, without even knowing how the question was phrased.

Would you feel better if he said he was "not concerned at all" with landing the airplane?
This is normally the kind of question I ask about anything involving HTML/CSS only or JS only =D PoC's based on low-level concepts are the ones that make you curious about everything from top to bottom. Even though assembly is the least abstract and most esoteric of programming (some would argue opposite) spaces, the program actually reveals itself quite quickly knowing just a few tid-bits. This is how you get to see that even the most low-level aspects of programming are quite accessible.
Alright, but how do you explain the instructor who had 3,200 hours on the 777 who was sitting beside the pilot not making any mention of a too low airspeed or incorrect landing configuration right up until it was to late? Makes me wonder if there was some ambiguity in the instrument display or procedures for neither pilot to make mention of any problems.
real programmers use butterflies http://xkcd.com/378/
Speed? Security? Browser improvements?
I just check the front page, the first ask page, and the first new page. Usually doesn't take more than 30 seconds if there's nothing good on it.
The Steam Machine - Valve's new gaming system unboxing.
And thread where the OP is answering questions: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1swi29/the_steam_mac...

One neat thing about it is that there are 300 holes on the side with 1 drilled to designate the beta tester. Pretty slick!
For me it is difficult to understand what's depicted in these few photos with their captions in tiny hover text. I see that there is a relevant report at Foreign Policy's web site from a month ago. One of these photos is the main illustration for that article.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/13/we_live_and...
Agree, AT&T syntax was just not designed for human reading. I doubt this is too optimized for size, since there are obvious tricks that it misses.

Another observation: the strlen code is incorrect, as it also counts the \0. We can fix this, and make the code 1 byte shorter (in glorious Intel syntax):

lea esi, source ; depends on source
xor ecx, ecx ; 2 bytes
salc ; 1 byte
cld ; 1 byte
_back:
scasb ; 1 byte
loopnz _back ; 2 bytes
not ecx ; 2 bytes
This article was incredible. A clear and simple handling of a difficult subject. Brilliant.
Here you go:

http://www.kyllikki.org/hardware/wwwpic2/src/wwwpic2.asm.htm...

Bonus: runs on 68 bytes of ram. Not a typo, it's bytes, and it's a "complete" http+tcp/ip server.
Agreed. I learned this the hard/frustrating way when I tried to go this route with very little technical experience.
Definitely! Also, there are a couple of wonderful followup projects that think about how to make crowdsourcing affordable (each task still costs money): http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kuangc/
Show HN:GO clp-People don't like to be left in limbo, especially on the CLI
clp stands for Command Line Progress. It is written in GO and is meant to be an easy to use interface for progress updates on the CLI.<p>I'm posting this here looking for any feedback. I am trying to fine tune my code logic and organization skills and any conversation on this would be appreciated.
clp stands for Command Line Progress. It is written in GO and is meant to be an easy to use interface for progress updates on the CLI.

I'm posting this here looking for any feedback. I am trying to fine tune my code logic and organization skills and any conversation on this would be appreciated.
I agree. Pinboard is extremely simple and fills my need for a Delicious alternative.
The Future of Kitchen Appliances, Then and Now
Great points, thanks. Has this been anyone else's experience? Specialization makes sense to me (and I like the idea of deep focus), but I feel like most of the job postings I've looked at usually list a wide range of desired skills. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong postings though!
Indeed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eichin/7123623579/ is generated from that scanner (on a clean floor, you do surprisingly well with just assuming the bot moved where you commanded it, as far as doing naive mapping with one.) At the time I got a little bogged down in running it tethered, today I'd just slap a raspi and a USB battery pack on top...
Indeed he is, and not much better than the cop that pulled him over in the other story that he linked to. He lost all moral high ground to me, by assuming that fuck them, I can get away with it! attitude. I can be a staunch libertarian and renegade all I want, but if I blow a light and get ticket, I know I deserve the fine and I'll pay it. This guy, on the other hand, is so far on the end of the spectrum that doesn't realize he is just being a jerk. Things taken to the extreme are seldom good.
Could you go into more detail about the difference between the NBBO and what you were able to execute at?

My understanding is that the NBBO is, by definition, the best executable price. If you're able to execute for a better price then the price you paid was the NBBO.
I estimated >50% of our traffic was from search engine crawlers specifically (billions of requests per month) way back in 2010. It's only gotten worse since then. http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/07/15/great-idea-google-sh...
I have plans to try it in a side project. I too am skeptical about the rewards of setting up a CRUD system like that.

It isn't that we've decided that software architecture meant nothing; rather, we settled on one architecture that is Good Enough. The View/Controller/Domain paradigm of Rails works for many projects.
> We should expect to see 99 Ames or Hanssens for every Xuesen.

So you're saying the US government should make white guys the subject of their prime suspicion? What kind of idiots concentrate on 1% while the other 99% of vulnerability gets free pass?

If I were a Chinese intelligence officer I'll first hire a bunch of white guys to do the dirty work. Apparently some people think they can trust you if you have a pale skin.
An alternative layout for the NY Times front page
I don't even see the latest version of android (kitkat) in the data.

It bothers me a lot that nexus devices I purchased this year will be long forgotten months from now when Apple is prepping an iOS 7.1 beta for the iPhone 4 as we speak.

I know that google's model is to update core functionality through applications rather than via whole operating system updates but it's annoying that google doesn't strong arm the abusive carriers/vendors into allowing updates to the underlying OS in a timely fashion.

It gives the impression that an android device is what it is at the time it is purchased but an Apple device may evolve. I consider it extremely odd considering how Google has proven to themselves over an over that that upgrading people's common denominator platform is a great strategy (Chrome).
It looks like the mail exchanger is (currently) hosted on Digital Ocean in New York.

They also use CloudFlare in front of the site, which means all your webmail or API traffic will be subject to inspection and logging by a company based in the US.
Unprofessional, inappropriate, and misogynistic.
3.5 million people in the US experience homelessness in any given year, I think you would be suprised how many professionals have gone through a period of homelessness. Most people who have gone through housing problems don't tend to advertise the fact in work situations.
Ask HN: what ways have you sourced a prototype for your physical product?
Howdy!

I am a programmer looking to create my first prototype for a simple product idea that I have. It is about the same complexity as a Pringles can, has no moving parts, and will be made of plastic.

I do not want to order a 3d printer for this, and I am looking for ways that any of y'all have sourced a physical prototype. I will only need a few runs of the product in less than ~5 quantity.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated and I don't mind being pointed to a blog or being pointed somewhere where I have to do some heavy lifting (in terms of my own research)!
Doesn't this get you hellbanned?
Very cool. Part of my problem is that I'm impatient with myself as far as building my skills goes. But day after day I'm reminded that it takes time to become a "good" developer. I'm trying to take more of a long view now. Your story is a great reminder of all that, thank you.