skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only goes half way, sadly: noisy tabs will only be shown with the symbol in your Window list if they are the active window in that tab. If you have another tab open, it's that tab that will appear there, so you will still have to hunt down all your windows and then look for a tab with the symbol.

Disappointing.

Similarly, I can't believe it's still not possible to name an entire window, e.g. "Hacker News", which would contain all my open HN tabs.
Thanks for the response: this is exactly what I was looking for.

So in the meantime, how do you get by? Are you working another job? Did you save up before starting the company?
Great article overall. I particularly liked the three mistakes you pointed out:

I nickled-and-dimed a client on change requests, alienating that client and making myself appear less professional. ... I would have been better served by her loving me than making a little more money.

I completely agree. In fact, this is part of the reason new freelancers often regret setting their hourly rate too low. It's important that you set a high enough rate that you can throw in unbillable work now and then without destroying your earnings. The best freelancers consistently under-promise and over-deliver.

For pricing my services, I need to start high and work my way down. I generally start client conversations on my hourly rate at what I would consider a reasonable ultimate number, and then allow myself to be driven down from there — generally because the client wants a long-term contract and expects to save on my hourly based on the length of the engagement.

Constant haggling will make every new project a frustrating experience. I usually recommend setting a fair rate and then holding the line when clients ask for a discount. That's tough to do with your first few projects, but becomes easier once you're more confident about your rate and abilities.

More projects, less hourly. When starting as a consultant, I was really selling only my hours. Now Symonds & Son is a business in its own right, and I’ve hired designers and developers to help with my workload. Working with other talented individuals makes much more sense on a project basis, where I can package their (and my) hours together.

This depends on what type of projects you're looking to take on. Landing pages and presentation work will probably pay more if you charge per project (since clients won't believe you can more 10x faster than cheaper devs), but building new product features for startups is probably better at an hourly rate (since startup clients always change what they're looking to build).

If anyone is looking to get started as a freelancer/consultant or just looking to expand their existing business, take a look at our startup: http://getlambda.com.
Oh and on the Nest acquisition itself: I think the author is right. As the number of people joining the internet reaches saturation, it's no longer a high-growth category. But the number of devices—things—is limitless. I think this is a small mark in history as companies will turn their focus towards the internet of things.

Watches, Glass, tablets: all of these are only secondary displays. Nest, it strikes me, is one of the first successful pure-play "internet of things" companies. I think that's why they commanded their price tag.
By the rest of us I'm guessing a small number of people who have high ideals outside of reality? Your definition almost literally means no one has ownership over anything when it is your "right" to take it as you please.

How shall we define the act of taking property without due compensation that the owner of said property expects?
This is absolutely correct and something that I didn't think about at all. For whatever reason I had assumed that "0 income from my startup" meant "0 income" which is obviously not the case.

Shows what I know when it comes to startups!
i don't think that's pretentious at all.

if my university implemented a scheme like this, i'd feel exactly the same way.
One of the principal issues raised here - and not squarely addressed in the post or the article to which it links - is the extent to which average subjective ratings of courses and professors should be permitted to dominate the decision-making processes of students.

Note that Yale's complaint included concerns over "the prominence of class and professor ratings", and the student developers' response was to remove "the option of sorting classes by ratings". Subjective five-point ratings can be useful in many contexts, but in the context of education they can also give rise to genuine pedagogical concerns about the way in which students choose their courses.

Looking at the screenshot in the post, it is not difficult to see that the pattern of enrolments might very quickly become skewed towards those classes with higher average evaluation ratings (whatever such ratings might mean). If that happens, it suggests that some students may be making decisions about the courses in which they enrol based principally on factors other than their interests, abilities and future career paths, or without critical thought. Whilst other factors are relevant, including those for which an average of subjective evaluation ratings might be a plausible heuristic, that does not mean those factors should be the primary or predominant factors.

Without seeking to defend or condone Yale's response, there is more to the story than the tale of student censorship presented in the post.
Not necessarily. A lot of Rails contracts tend to be multi-month, and if you play your cards right your rate should be upwards of $150/hr.

Doing just one 20-week project a year (FT) could net you around $120k, which leaves the rest of the year to do whatever with the family.
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If you actually go to http://coursetable.com you will be asked to login through Yale Central Authentication Service, which sends you to:
https://secure.its.yale.edu/cas/login?service=http%3A%2F%2Fc...

I hope I don't give the administration any good ideas here, but I would seem that they have a much more efficient way to disable the site.
> It doesn't matter whether you control the user environment to covertly install the MITM certificate. You simple notify your network users this is happening with instructions on how to install the certificate.

Respectfully, I disagree. This is certainly possible, but from an operational perspective this would be a nightmare. Even setting aside the likely backlash that would follow in response to such a sweeping policy change, university networks largely consist of diverse, user-managed devices, and supporting a transition through such a change would have a non-trivial cost.
How do they prevent you from participating? Do they stop you at the doors of Disney World? Can you not watch Disney movies whenever you go to the theater? Oh, that's right, you just want it for free.

Although, I agree with you on the copyright laws, they shouldn't be extended like they have been. But that's an issue to complain to the people who write the laws, not the content providers who take advantage of them.
I saw that and just registered/tried.

Although it has Clojure (my target language), you still send code instead of an answer, and you get problems like not knowing what's available in terms of libs and whatnot.
Nice work guys, looks very useful
They claim that's the crux of the issue. But consider: if they're concerned about outside access, why are they blocking access to the site for precisely the set of people who actually are authorised to view the information?
the people that decide the policies that IT services implement are usually the ones that know least about IT.
I played with this at CES. The "mother" bot is basically just a router. The little things only sense motion, and when I asked the lady said they had no plans to add any other types of sensitivity - temperature, moisture, light, current, etc. Compared with the other 'internet of things' kits out there battling for visibility, this one doesn't seem original or more useful, only visually striking. The tags are also pretty big for what they do. A useful thing for $50 maybe to buy once, but really doesn't seem like a worthwhile 'ecosystem' to buy into in any big way.

Also, I was unhappy to learn upon close inspection that the face is a sticker.
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I wasn't using it to asses the value of the feature in general. I was just curious how often that user ran into the problem that makes it a problem they have been trying to find a fix for since the beginning of tabbed browsing. A tiny annoyance that happens 10 times a day, everyday? A huge annoyance that has happened only twice... but just got him fired from his job? This person made it sound pretty serious to them so I was trying to get a better understanding of what they thought was serious. The issue is so not serious to me that it is not even an issue. Not wanting to sit with just a sample of 1, I thought I'd try to get additional info.

But since you asked... there have been many times when I used my wipers thousands of times each day for several days on end. But we're experiencing a bit of a drought right now so I've not used them in a couple months.
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Could make it a viable side project by charging a fee to enable easy exporting, then be able to reinvest that money in improving the project.
I went right to Pink Floyd playing over my imagined scenes of Huxley's Brave New World... the face itself is terrifying. https://twitter.com/jitl/status/423241986267557888/photo/1/l...
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Why not?

Downsides:

* It isn't a great gaming computer

* It isn't great value for money

Upsides

* It does give pretty decent performance (notably, it outperforms the new Mac Pro on some workloads)

* It looks attractive

* A prebuilt OS-X system means less futzing around with drivers etc

I don't play games (beyond the occasional Minecraft session with my son) and I'm not particularly price sensitive. I've built (many!) of my own computers, going back to a 386DX40, and I'm happy to do it again if I see a good reason. But at the moment I don't.

Desktop computers that seem attractive to me at the moment:

* Intel NUC

* iMac

What am I missing?
Wait, is this real? It seems like commentary on the current zeitgeist, not a real product.

> Mother. Mother knows everything.

> She's like a mom, only better.

> Sense: the meaning of life®

edit: I see they are based in France, so perhaps the branding didn't translate well.
Thanks Des! It's come a long way since we showed you guys last month. Matt and I are very happy intercom users over here too :)
Similar to, "So, if I keep my cell phone on during take-off, I can interfere with the navigation system".

edit: Wow - why all the downvotes? It's the same kind of policy. Making your weakness "not allowed" is not fixing the weakness.
> we reinvented mothers

> Mother knows everything (in red text at that)

> She's like a mom, only better

The branding of this is either creepy or crazy. Maybe it's a bit of both. But I'm certainly not going to forget it, and the idea itself seems pretty interesting.
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Concept is stupid as FK. Why you need sensors just to know some basic stuff such as taking pills, tracking health etc. You can use app also. All they are doing is using sensor( motion sensors in particular) and send message to your phone. So why would I spend $222 for something where I could just it with $10 reminder app ?
> I'm not sure but I think it's not a real sandbox, the code is still executed like any native code

It is actually quite different, read: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

There are fact several layers of sandboxing, which dramatically limit both the ability to create exploits, and the damage that a successful exploit can cause.

To be clear: I work for Mozilla, and I think Asm.js is a great project with a lot of potential for developers and the web; however, Google did a lot of innovative work to have a great security foundation for NaCL, which was not a real goal for NaCL AIUI.

> a "beta product" shows that it's not 100% safe

There is no correlation here.

> in the context of an interpreted, thoroughly tested JS engine, which is very much more secure.

> but since JS engines are heavily optimized, it makes the security problem disappear completely because JS is an old language, so all security problems are already known.

The continuing drive for JS performance has lead to new avenues for serious exploits, some of which are poorly understand are only have been partially mitigated by widely used engines. For just one example, see http://www.matasano.com/research/Attacking_Clientside_JIT_Co...

> The fact android uses java for its app is another demonstration of the easiest path to security.

I lol'ed.
Why is text navigation in terminals so bad? Maybe this exists, but what I basically want is a text editor where I can highlight and execute different statements
> certain operators such as Ryan Air will only accept a passport as photo ID

Is this some special case? I always fly with my national id rather than a passport and yes, I fly ryanair. Never had a problem with that.
And this is only the very, very beginning.
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we don't need to go far back.

the most shocking realisation for me about the Snowden leaks was how apathetic people were toward their own civil liberties.
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Exhale as deeply as possible and keep it this way as long as you can. After that breathing restores with first few rapid big inhales. Restarting your breathing this way is also restarting your brain in a way so the thinking becomes calm. Works every time.

Another tip is to eat 1-2 bananas half an hour before the event and maybe a glass of fresh orange juice. Banana works as a natural beta blocker reducing anxiety. While on stage, plain water, no juices..
Yes, with regards to the demand side; no, with regards to the supply side.
Since many are using Steam as an example of DRM - the important difference is that Steam is a free product, but is not open-source (though it can be used to distribute open-source). It is produced by a company as a means of distributing their products.

It is not even a valid comparison to the blinkard pig ignorance of the secret DRM requirements in HTML, which is an open standard.

I'd just like to know what dipshit at the W3 signed off on this.
Yes, but CAS is a single sign-on system likely used throughout their internal network, so they're probably not able to disable it without disrupting authentication to a large number of other unrelated systems.
This is the single creepiest thing I have seen in the last month.
Switch it to Cloudflare to obfuscate the source
I'm not sure that upping the base price and then discounting it is a winner for Uber. They advertise on their base price -- they want it as low as possible.

The existence of taxis as a very ready basis for comparison makes it different than airlines. Uber can (and, you know, does), say "We're 30% cheaper than taxis!" Then, sure, surprise, sometimes you see that actually they're 3x more expensive than that. But at that point you've got the app open and are seconds from doing the hailing -- that's gotta have a certain level of stickyness.

If Uber said instead, "We're twice as expensive as taxis!" significantly fewer people would even open the app to find out that actually, right now, they're way less expensive.
...creepy...
Just yesterday I posted a quasi-luddite rant about how these smart devices and services are infantalizing.

And now they're naming one Mother? I can't tell if I should feel vindicated or offended.
So odd just a bunch of random tutorials with the word "flat" in it, and i didn't like to be asked to follow certain people on twitter to get the code examples and the demo
Your example is about experimental HTS, not computational simulations which the parent requested.
Best quote from this, hands down is: "You can even nickle plate your crack pipe".
I don't think IQ is same as speed of thought. I think IQ is defined ability to adapting to various environmental challenges.

Again I don't think that having twice as many experiences is going to help. Sure you have twice as many experiences and twice as many thoughts but you still require time to sort those experiences into meaningful information.

Basically if your computer was twice as fast at absorbing information, it means instead of X information it absorbs 2X information. Then when it process it it process 2X information and 2Y speed of processing information, you'd get same performance overall. Parallelization again yields only good results on problems that are parallelizable. Each node in a parallel network yields diminishing returns (i.e. The Mythical Man Month) because - surprise now there is more communication than processing.

I mean this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_creativity#Stephe...

Thaler's work on the subject indicate that creativity might be actually a byproduct of damage/noise done to neurons, i.e. imperfections and noise. So we make a perfect super fast computer with average intelligence that can't think of a solution to fix their predicament.

I think we are 100 years from modelling a proper brain simulation with all forty ion canals and various other subsystems. Super human AI is probably farther than that. We right now (presumably) know all about the routes of the brain. But that is like saying that because you've been on all highways in Japan you have visited the entirety of Japan's mainland.
If this gets popular, I wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised if Coca Cola sues them. That logo is a very similar red, and a similar "dynamic ribbon device".
Perhaps you should ask mother what to feel.
Yale has the same student feedback/rating data available in their official online coursebook. From what I understand, ybbplus/coursetable was simply aggregating it in a way that made it easier for students to use. If there is something fundamentally wrong with subjective ratings, it seems strange that Yale would provide it in one context and censor it in another.
I did it for a little over a year.

Here's my reasons, which include none of those

- Spent less time coding, but more time overall on overhead to make roughly the same amount when it's all said and done. That said, I was at the point where I could have begun raising my rates significantly.

- Nagging clients for payment. It's nice that payment is entirely decoupled from your work. Even if it happens every once in a blue moon it is somewhat disheartening, esp. when they give plenty of praise but "whoops, thought it was sent!" messages. This can be more of a reflection on their bankroll which should be less of an issue as you move further up the client food-chain.

- I hate to admit this, but damn that was lonely. Spending days in cafes, at co-working spaces, at the park, at home, etc, sounds wonderful at first - and it is - but the novelty of that can wear off quickly depending on how you carry something like this. For those less outgoing amongst us, a cool company with bright people is quite a nice thing to have around you.

- A unified 'big thing' to accomplish with said team. Working on very early stage internet startups to help get something off the ground is fun, but it lacks the depth of what I'm doing now.

I can see myself returning to consulting. But I don't see employment vs. consulting as one clearly being better than the other...
You're really bad dad if that is the best advice you can give.
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I don't think I quite understand what Awesomebox is. Is it packaged staging server with built in commenting functionality? What type of code can be pushed to it? Why is it that you push code your way rather than install a widget of some kind in existing staging environments?
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Your video is falling out of the laptop screen, to the right side, on an iPad air.
It's accepted because of things like:

- Great selection. Just about any game can be bought on Steam

- Steam sales. Amazing, unprecedented prices for games

- The DRM successfully stays pretty much out of the way for 99% of users

- Centralized game management. I don't want to have twelve different game distribution clients, each with one or two games. I would much rather have just one

- Centralized automatic updates. Less of a big deal today than years ago.
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There are many places where tech startups exist that aren't the Valley. I've lived in both places. Outside of the Valley I've never had a job search take less than two months (time to offer from start of search); most often it took four to six months. I haven't had to search for a job in the Valley yet, so I'll have to defer to the experience of those who have.
Actually, python interop was only a for quickly testing multi-threaded plugins.

See the issue tracker for examples of vimscript functions that can be added on top of the message queue: https://github.com/tarruda/vim/issues/2
"Only the Paranoid Survive" - Andy Grove. The best-managed companies maintain this attitude rather than getting complacent.
Disagree a bit. Even though google knows where am I or my cell phone data I have choice to turn off GPS, can turn off cell phone. Can you afford to turn off thermostat ? Also, as of now they don't collect data. What is guarantee that they won't do in future ? All they say is we have changed our terms and conditions and don't even ask or care about whether we accept or not. Having motion sensor that sense your presence and having that data on someone's server is always scary. Right now Google is king, but will it always be, given the race to top in SV ? So why won't they make further efforts to collect more data ? Not that I am naysayer but I didn't like the news when I read it yesterday.
This poll isn't very useful. Given that you can't even get a cheap apartment for much less than $2,000 per month in SF I don't see how anyone could live on less than 36k per year in the bay area before taxes. There has to be more to these numbers perhaps they have a large stash of personal savings they are living off or a significant other with a good paying job.
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I'm still waiting for the explanation of how it actually causes harm. Most of what you describe is not exactly harmful and is easily dealt with.

What's to stop someone from creating their own web client that doesn't implement that part of the standard? Where's it written that we have to follow every bit of the standard as it is written? Who gave this select group of people that much power over the open web?

Personally, I think the W3C was approaching being corrupted long before this issue. Maybe not in the terms you are describing right now but I've had issues with the behavior of various standard bodies and browser providers that happen to be a part of these bodies for a while now.

As for artifacts of culture being locked away from future generations, that is a potential problem. But we all know a silly DRM scheme isn't going to stop that. But that kind of thing has been in practice for a long time, way before we had electronics and the human race seems to be moving along in despite.

To me, a better solution is to show that people are willing to move on from these aspects of culture that everyone is so hung up on. If enough people show that these schemes don't work in the long run the content providers are more apt to change their ways. Look at the music industry, it's vastly different than it was just a few years ago and continues to change. Let these people attempt their schemes, in the long run it will matter little.
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