skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Ted Selker was at the MIT Media Lab, he directed an augmented reality smart kitchen project called "Counter Intelligence". http://web.media.mit.edu/~selker/ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=87D...

"ABSTRACT:
The kitchen is a complex and dangerous multi-user work
environment that can benefit from augmented reality
techniques to help people cook more safely, easily and
efficiently. We present Counter Intelligence, a conventional
kitchen augmented with the projection of information onto
its objects and surfaces to orient users, coordinate between
multiple tasks and increase confidence in the system. Five
discrete systems gather information from the kitchen and
display information in an intuitive manner with special
consideration for directing the user’s attention. This paper
presents the design of these systems and results of initial
evaluations."
There are challenges, and there are avoidable challenges. If a given challenge (e.g., for this author, being in London) can be avoided then the right thing to do is to avoid it. I'm sure there will be more than enough challenges left for him to relish.
That's a pretty nice starting point, but unfortunately the code base hasn't been updated for years and the data import process is extremely time consuming [1]. That said, rolling your own geocoding solution is the most restriction free service you can get. Just be prepared for the maintenance and the time consuming set up.

[1] https://github.com/geocommons/geocoder/wiki/Installation-Ins...
It's be cool if the 'annually' version could also take into account reserved pricing, since doing the 1-year reserved thing would be the sensible option if you wanted to use a machine as an always-on VPS-style box. E.g. the m1.small instance is $797.16 annually (what the page currently reports), but with 1-year "heavy utilization" reservation it ends up being a more reasonable $291.64 (including both the cost of reservation and the instance cost).
You're mostly right that it's great for prototypes. However it's seriously great for building webapps where design doesn't matter. such as when maybe a half dozen people will ever see/use it.
Hammer is a nice, well designed product, kudos to you and congrats on it. I was actually surprised it doesn't net you a larger income.

Do you think you guys are missing on marketing, or that you're hitting a niche that's too small (frontend osx owning developers that can code, but not enough to set up small dev environments)? I'll admit that I'm mostly a frotnend dev / designer myself, but since I have enough ability to set up things like git, bower and grunt myself hammer seems to aim at a skill curve just lower than myself. That said I bet I'm underestimating the amount of people that still use php includes for simple static sites. My guess might be that their might be more in the Windows world, though that could be a prejudice.

Good luck on your work and continue building cool software!
Or Win-X + letter on 8/8.1. For example opening the Disk Manager is Win-X + k, Event Viewer is Win-X + v etc.
Totally agree - very valuable resource, and in general not nearly enough people out there actively sharing research about startup failure. Thx for sharing.
Thanks for putting this together! Do you have any links to scripts or examples for doing the packaging as you mention? I've been trying to keep my eye on this for a while and never seem to find anything.

I think really the holy grail for a lot of people is an app built with web utils and running on node - but having some type of packaging system to create executables that look just like any other desktop app.

I know there's various options out there but it seems like Chromium is the cleanest - Just everything I found wants you to install it as a browser "app" or plugin or whatever.
Imagine a situation in which someone in 1980 is paid a premium price to build a premium product. Say a automobile with heated seats, electronic door locks and AC... Then in 2014 it has migrated from high end (and premium paid) labor to being common place and performed by low end (and marginally paid) labor..

To me that situation is a decline in labor prices, despite the low end worker in 2014 making more in absolute terms than the 1980 worker.

A 2nd analogy, If I make 10 widgets an hour and earn $10 an hour in 1980 and then 30 years later make 100 widgets an hour for $25 an hour ($10 plus about $15 inflation, we're not talking inflation here). I would consider that a declining labor cost-- The labor cost per widget went from $1 per widget, to $0.25 ...

So, when I pay less or the same for a greater good, I consider that declining labor costs.

Aside: this illustrates a major flaw in the CPI, you cannot compare a 2013 TV to a 1960s tv to try and say "the price of a TV has deflated by X" ...
Does 1+2+3... Really Equal -1/12?
Even with less or sass, a basic, modern grid will have at least three levels of DOM-level logic that determines presentation, so you have things like this:

<div class="container">
<nav class="row nav-header">
<div class="col-sm-2 my-logo">
<!-- your stuff -->
</div>
</div>
</div>

that you could perhaps use mixins to replace some of the elements with (you could mix-in "row" to "nav-header", and "col-sm-2" to "my-logo"), but regardless, you still need three DOM nodes, and trying to fit those into a purely semantic separate-structure-from-presentation box can get extremely tiresome.

I definitely don't like this. That said, the speed and flexibility of frameworks like Foundation/Bootstrap are just so vital for my front-end speed that I can't imagine giving these things up.

One other advantage is that, if you're working with other front-end developers who have used your same framework, there is a lot of knowledge sharing that happens automatically (knowing when and where to use containers, for example, can save a lot of headache when two devs are working on the same front-end layout).
I would suggest focusing on how you're different from your competitors. At a first glance from your site, I have a hard time distinguishing you from say, Freshbooks.
That's actually just a name to identify the API key, the actual API key is a 40-character automatically generated string. The idea is that you will be able to create an API key for each of your projects and revoke them individually as necessary.
Let's see. There's a few somewhat passive channels for us.

We just launched our product Blogvio (http://www.blogvio.com) which is yet break even. Right now we're only partnering with platforms to white label our Editor and widgets, but we'll soon release a pricing plan for all users of the website.

Our 2008 marketplace Flabell (http://www.flabell.com) (flash products... I know) is still going strong, although we too think Flash is dead. People still buy those components, so we still provide support for them. We stopped advertising though a few years back. :-)

Same goes for our Flash Components on ActiveDen, these still sell a couple of hundreds every month. So it's still passive income after 6yrs+. :)
> Yale dean […] apologizes

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I do not see an apology behind that link. A detail of Yale's reasoning, but not an apology.

> However, I disagree that Yale violated its policies on free expression in this situation.

I'm not sure what "[Yale's] policies on free expression" are, but my understanding here is that Yale blocked the IP address of a site because it was using some data that Yale published, and modifying it in a way Yale disagreed with. There might be an argument to be had under copyright, but I don't think it's important at the moment. Yale states this:

> the developers violated Yale’s appropriate use policy by taking and modifying data without permission, but, more importantly, they encouraged students to select courses on the basis of incomplete information.

Abusing the fact that you have power over the students' access of information to prevent access to information you disagree with is what people have a problem with; this is especially true when you label something like this "malicious activity". These concerns are not addressed by the dean's letter.
It seems like the author is surprised that the fledgling tech scene in London (and the UK) isn't as well developed as that of the place with the most VC dollars invested per sqare mile in the world, it's taken silicon valley 50 years to get where it is now so give it time. Also, and I am in a minority here, I don't think London has the geography or incumbent mindset to rival SV in the future - there are other places in the UK more favourable to setting up the UK's tech hub with a greater history of innovation and prospect of nurturing a startup epicentre BUT capital is even more stretched in those areas.
His newest album is an example of this as well. Ghostface has had a cult following but limited wide appeal. Death Grips gained a cult following in the past 1.5 years, and much of Yeezus sounds like a bad Death Grips album.

Claiming that soul beats weren't a thing in 2000 hip-hop is silly. Released in '99: Mos Def's Black on Both Sides, the Roots' Things Fall Apart. Hip hop started with soul beats, and soul has always been a part of hip-hop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music
I think the point is that frameworks can be more effective now thanks to tools like LESS and SASS (it's certainly possible to use Bootstrap this way, at least with the sass translation). Compass is another example of a framework that SASS enables.

Bloat of a hundred framework rules? - None of these will be included if you use mixins and selectively mixin the stuff you need.

Unsemantic grid sizes - Personally, I think this is something where utility trumps perceived "cleanness" of semantic HTML, but if you want to you can use mixins for this as well to hide the grid stuff in your CSS.

Not responsive - SASS and LESS don't do anything specific here, but this is definitely an outdated comment - Bootstrap's responsive grid is probably better than anything you could code yourself without devoting a lot of effort to it.
> I just got a BeagleBone Black and am playing with it. I was comparing with RPi

Sliding off-topic... Is the hwRNG in the BBB accessibel in user-space yet? Last time I looked it wasn't but there seemed to be people working on it.

I have a use in mind where the better CPU power of the BBB would be a benefit (and the better video support and so forth of the rPi would be meaningless) but only if the RNG is easily accessible (the Pi's is exposed as /dev/hwrng once a simple module is loaded) and pumps out bits at a good rate (~550kbit/sec is what I got when I timed the Pi which is far more than I need but I don't want too slow a rate obviously).
Fantastic work, I've been using Freemind up to now and I haven't been able to find something web-based that is comparable until now.
Not quite same thing, but the Optimates who killed Caesar genuinely thought they were liberating Rome from a tyrant (they called themselves the Liberatores) and stuck around expecting to be hailed as saviours. They were not.
Steve, as a regular (and speaker) to HNLondon meetups, totally agree. You are one of those people who _has_ made an impact through your efforts on HNLondon and HackerJobs. I applaud you for doing something I couldn't.
We have actually had a few people mention that recently and I definitely want to look more into it. How has your experience been with it?
That's impressive. How do people find your site? It isn't on the first page of google results for 'solitaire'.
Well, your explanation seems completely at odds with what is currently the top-voted comment in this discussion. The linked discussion of the patch he built to fix the problem indicates that the dispatcher does just do CPU feature detection. Here is the URL for reference:

http://www.swallowtail.org/naughty-intel.shtml

According to that, the code simply does a feature check for SSE, SSE2, and SSE3. Except it also does a check for "GenuineIntel" and treats its absence as "no SSE of any kind" even if the CPU otherwise indicates that it does SSE. That check is completely unnecessary and does nothing but slow (or crash!) the code on non-Intel CPUs.

If you still think that's wrong, could you post the relevant code to show it?
Not exactly.

"ZIP Codes are commercially sensitive... proprietary information"[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6685917
At some point I need to steal contact details from you - How awesome would it be to have the real Brian Blessed record a voice-mail greeting?
> Many of them would prefer to go to the USA but the USA's strict immigration policies keep them out.

Given the political untenability of the various other policy changes Obama could push through before the end of his second term (such as gun control or marijuana legalization), I think it's quite likely that he will focus on immigration reform. It's the least controversial, and big business will lobby the GOP to support it.

A large part of the attraction of Europe for tech workers from other parts of the world is the relative ease of immigration. It will be interesting to see what happens to that if immigration reform is actually realized in America.
It's strange, but it seems kind of fitting for Douglas Adams to have had a computer that would tend to "halt and catch fire".

It's as if the poor thing was depressed and was trying to put itself out of its own misery. As usual, the pesky humans kept pushing it to do things it clearly did not want to do.

Typical.
Silly question, What is "RR"?
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the packaging just works, just type `npm run deploy`. It uses https://github.com/mllrsohn/grunt-node-webkit-builder behind the scenes.

You'll get a native executable for Windows, OSX and Linux32/64, ready to ship and double-click-able. Isn't this what you want? :)
See my previous answer [1], obviously it's impossible to compete directly with Google and especially not at this price point. Our goal is to return a geo coordinate that is at least on the correct block and as close to the street number as possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7095467
Besides what others said about him not always being rich, there is more to risk than money. Doing something crazy on TV or coming out with an album nobody likes could make hundreds of millions of people think differently of him, say he is going downhill, whatever. That is pretty risky as far as I'm concerned.
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You mean nftables, right ;)
They're really useful, and been around forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_(graphic_design)
No. A positive story about a black person or a girl (which is good) does not require a negative slant against white men (hypocritical and bad). It is the unnecessary focus on race/gender and the negative angle that many of us are opposed to.

For your information I am the proud father of a mixed race baby girl. She will have every opportunity a loving father can provide for her. However I see no reason why she should adopt a victim mentality (which could only limit her potential).

I am only making you guys play by your own rules. If you really cared about black/white/insert-race (or male/female) relations then you would not feel the need to create opposite sides and then play one side against the other. The media, it would seem, has a completely different agenda than what they claim to offer. These behind the scenes lurkers and puppet-masters are the real villains to watch out for.
Which trackers do you sync with? Could you list them here, I think that would be helpful. I also found this helpful http://blog.nudgeyourself.com/health-tech-and-food-nerd-blog...
If you believe in the rule of law; Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and even Powell would all be on death row - the heads of Bank of America, HSBC, Wells Fargo and Wachovia (former) and Goldman Sachs would all be rotting in prison.
Pause the baby-photo gawking for a moment and consider the argument that's still valid. There's an interesting reason why it is not entirely possible to separate content from presentation: one cannot be abstracted from the other. And this is interesting rather than a commonplace because -- mark this closely -- we're still doing something, some useful work, when the HTML and CSS are put in separate files, even when the classes are things like 'span-27'.

So what are we doing?
Not everyone acts as rational machines, professors' egos have to be stroked too. They'd like to think that they can't just be reduced to a number between 1 and 5.

Besides which, I think exposing rating systems for courses creates perverse incentives. It's been well studied that students who get better grades rate courses higher. Is that really what we want to be measuring professors against?
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I totally agree and it's the reason I stuck it out for so long. But even someone who is as motivated as I am, I'm modest enough to know that even I need help.
Please turn on the help pane by default. I tried creating a new node for 2 minutes with various gestures.

I don't think many people know where to find the insert key on their keyboard.
The London scene is a huge mix of people from across Europe and Oceania. I think at a grass roots level it's very exciting mix (as an example see http://3-beards.com/ ).

I think the OPs issue was more to do with where the source of the money. Bankers should probably be investing in the 'safer' property market than dabbling in the London Tech VC market.

There are some amazingly hungry developers in London. What is nice is that the incubator scene seems to be growing in the London. Unfortunately less so outside of London.
The wrong side of a progressive history, maybe. If Martin Luther King is the benchmark for someone on the right side of history, I'd advise finding an online article about him, published on a major newspaper site, and reading the comments.

He is still universally despised by the children of John Birch.
At least with Russian names, the algorithm seems to apply a uniform probability distribution over all names in its database. It results in way too many extremely rare names. In other words, a batch of Russian names generated using this program would not look statistically realistic.
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Finnish names were very good. Only thing that was a little off was the car models, which seemed very US centric. Car models have lot of regional variants (big differences in naming US vs EU vs Asia)
You start off fine by saying that in the context of addictions and other mental aberrations, people are not likely to act in their long term best interests. But then you say this:

> In fact, most of consumerism seems to be built on getting people to buy things that in turn does not help them to create even more value.

In this context, "creating wealth" is not about accumulating resources to create 'even more value' a la Capital. It seems like you're confounding wealth and capital, and they're very different things here. Here we're talking about wealth as meaning economic welfare. Society has more economic welfare--Wealth--when economic exchange happens because resources are allocated in a way that increases utility for everyone.

Life wouldn't be worth living if we worked for the sole purpose of creating lasting capital, in order to build more capital. Consumerism is necessary, so

>In fact, most of consumerism seems to be built on getting people to buy things that in turn does not help them to create even more value.

isn't really a bad thing.

So your first idea and your second idea are only marginally related, and combining them probably hurts your argument overall.
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small featherweight laptop Toshiba works as a main (and only) drive in the desktop box flawlessly -- no sound, no heat :)
You can download bootstrap, modify their variables and compile it yourself. That way you don't have load more than one files and have rules that will never get used.
> At no point post Windows 95 did any other company has a claim to go-to OS for ease or otherwise than Microsoft. It is fact, does not matter what your likes or dislikes are.

Personally, I prefer Windows to Mac OS X, so if I was stating my OS preference rather than my perception of the perception common in the market, I wouldn't have said what I did. But I don't think what you say is a fact at all -- its a claim that I've, in the course of using almost every Microsoft DOS/Windows version since MS-DOS 2.11, and most versions of Mac OS, and interacting with plenty of other users over that time, never even heard outside of this thread.

"Ease of use" and "familiarity to people who have been using it for a long time" are two very different things. Every OS has the latter, and Windows has by far the largest base of familiar people -- which, as long as nothing significant changes, is a strength (and MS occasionally gets bashed for breaking familiarity -- this happened with Windows 8, sure, but also with Vista and XP -- and even more often with applications and opposed to OS's.)
While I am really frustrated with this 7 day notice, I do feel the need to plug the Cubby paid service. I keep 0 bits in the cloud, but the accompanying Direct Sync service that comes with Pro is very useful...in fact, anyone know of any other direct sync services, sans cloud storage, that work well?
Is this to counter bad pr from yesterday's story about that guy whose files you lost? Because it looks that way.

No matter what hd you use, if you are corrupting files, it's all the same. Same with Evernote, if their sync is losing notes, and it is, everything else is less important.
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The core trouble I've seen with non-technical people on Windows 8 isn't Metro, its confusion/paralysis with a mobile-like interface suddenly on a desktop.

People had 5-6 years experience with touch computing on mobile devices. Pull here, touch here, gesture here to make X, Y, Z happen. 1 app at a time and its full screen. An app store is the only way to get software. Instant power-on, single user, very simple shell/OS/application launcher. People know what to expect and do with this interface.

Windows 8 force dumps new users into a mobile interface going against 20+ years of how they have used a desktop PC. It's jarring, its weird, it "feels wrong." I've seen this time and time again. My mom is a wiz on her iPhone, and she is just fine with Windows XP/Vista/7. I put her in front of Windows 8 and she had no clue what to do. All her reference points are gone.

It feels more and more that Microsoft should have focused on making phones/tablets running Metro, and a Desktop OS that iterated on Windows 7. They crossed the streams [1] and that's bad

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_pack#Crossing_the_Stream...
"RR" is recurring revenue.
They could've done that without Metro, though, so your hypothesis doesn't really fit the evidence any better than the alternative.
I'd be fine with a 100Mbps Wi-Fi which would be as reliable as a wired connection.
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I have about 15 droplets on DO right now and none of them are close to using a TB even over a year (but we don't use them for production). I'd bet they are banking on this for most cases.

I checked out Verizon's new cloud beta yesterday, and while they haven't announced pricing maybe they can do a good deal on bandwidth given that they own so much of the network.
>>important thing to him is actually having ideas

Kanye's very fortunate that "having ideas" are "the only thing that's really risky for me."

Personally I don't find a lot of value in his "ideas" nor do I agree that he's risking very much. For all his nonsense about liberation from evil, he seems hellbent on integrating himself with the fashion world.
The latter - I tried to keep the article short and to the point, mentioning several things without quoting directly. The specific quotes are at the bottom of the post.