skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I setup something similar to this today, but for Dark Souls instead. (Pokemon to Dark Souls -- that escalated quickly.)

It was actually pretty fun, but the Twitch delay made it difficult. We managed to kill a bunch of enemies and slowly make our way up various staircases, but the cliffs always got the best of us.
Please, tell that to some of my clients.
I think both started on the same day (due to both authors being part of the kernel "kabal" and already in the known about the upcoming bk debacle).

Mercurial was usable earlier though ;-)

(the first git versions were really really low level, and did not include features like packs, while hg had high kevel command line and its compressed storage format from the first release)
The search world is very big :) 5 mil records is nothing if you index logs (which is not Algolia typical use-cases) but for example this is big from an e-commerce perspective.
I think one of the reasons is that iOS devices and some android ones don’t support autoplay (presumably to prevent battery drain). iPhones with iOS 7 will play videos only in full screen, hiding the rest of the website.

There are services which convert gifs to videos to use the much more efficient encoding: http://gfycat.com/about. So we’ve come full circle once again.
Related... Recently Comcast claimed that they did an "internal audit" and found that I was not charged a monthly fee for the modem I rent from them.

The only wrinkle is that I provided my own modem.

Then they insisted that I "prove" that I purchased a modem, I suggested that if they charge me for something that they have to proof that they sold me said service.

Anyway, I haven't heard back since. Waiting for the next bill.
Has anybody else experienced this, seems like a scam to me.
What do other thinkers think of Daniel Kahneman?
Can anyone here provide any explanation of how the changes in HTTP2 might not be idiotic?

The changes discussed in the post just seem dumb to me, but I assume there has to be some reasoning behind them.
Only if you enable and set up that feature. My Moto X doesn't.
How is this different than swiftype? I ask because I am a current switftype user and am trying to understand what your case to switch might be.
Also try this:

"Futurama holiday" shows one results which has the word "Episode" in the description. Try "Futurama holiday episode" and you get no results.
I am in my middle thirties now, and I feel that I'm probably the best I've ever been. Part of this, I think, is that true understanding comes from the ability to contextualize ideas into some larger framework of knowledge. I find myself revisiting things that I've learned earlier in life, but am now able to see them in a more meaningful way because of the experience and knowledge that I've gained in the interim.

In some ways, the idea that knowledge in combinatorial is perfectly obvious, but it can be really encouraging to realize that the things you learn today are making you more capable of learning and internalizing new things later.
I enjoyed this article in that it seems fairly balanced, unemotional and included hard data. It does raise the question about how much of Bitcoin's interest in the press is driven by it's usage as a currency vs its appreciation as a financial asset.
Yes, compare the absolute stagnation of HMD development over the past 20 years to the leaps and bounds from the Carmack demo at E3 2012, DK1 in Q1 2013, Crystal Cove at CES 2014 and DK2/CV1 in Q4 2014. IMO, we're in for a wild ride.
This is a late reply, but your point is exactly spot on and why I assume all of us are "hackers." In America at least, when you're an employee you don't get to decide when you pay taxes. Taxes come off of the top and THEN you get your earnings which can be reimbursed later if you qualify for a credit. There has always been an advantage as a business of being able to spend money and pay taxes later on whatever is left. But complaining about this in the case of the NFL is just silly because it is an advantage enjoyed by literally every business making enough money to justify itemizing their tax return (which isn't much).
Right now just games and mobile but the focus is to open up other categories/platforms as we hit critical mass.
If you really lived in the UK you would now that lots of people complain about everything, all the time. Especially the NHS.

Now, that doesn't change the point that universal health care exists in most countries, and they are better of for it.
If you disable their CSS, it works much better.
Real-time blur in HTML5 browsers (canvas, JavaSscript and mipmap)
Have a link or a video?
"I was hoping the [$499] Surface Pro would cure my desire for a new 13 in. retina Macbook Pro"

A Surface Pro is the wrong device for someone who is already happy with their tablet and laptop, is not invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, and does not need an ultraportable work / drawing device. However, if one or more of those applies, giving the Surface Pro a shot may be an eye-opening (even if flawed) surprise.
Using auto-Rickrolling routers to spread "gay propaganda" in Russia
Have they fixed the quality issues with this? I backed the original run of these on KickStarter, and while they were neat, two of the three I received lasted less than a week. We were sent the newer versions, but they frequently had to be removed and inserted to get OSX to see them.
How do you mean? My target customer audience?

Right now it falls into two groups across two dimensions:

1a. Small-medium businesses

1b. Individuals with many web projects

2a. Already use the Google Analytics frontend regularly but feel that this recurring process is too cumbersome (often 20-40 clicks per property) and would rather have email reports to save time/effort.

2b. Have GA and like the idea of it, but never remember to check it regularly so they miss out on the value of analytics unless they get regular email reports.
I am confused,
there are JIT compilers for C:

http://code.google.com/p/asmjit/

http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/soft/xbyak_e.html

How is asm.js different to those?
This raises the question - are there fields in tech or software engineering that are mostly empirical or mostly conceptual?
Engineers don't look at a finished product and see something that's a few pixels away from perfection. They know all the kludges and hacks that are hiding behind the scenes. As a designer it's your job to help them get past that.

Being able to communicate is one of the most important skills a designer can have. If engineers don't understand the importance of good design that is your failing, not theirs. Talking about delight and pixel-perfection to the wrong audience just makes you sound like a Jony Ives wanna-be.

Merely asking everyone stops to sprint towards a perfect design shows a lack of empathy towards your team mates. At launch time everyone has features they needed to cut or temporary hacks they never got to fix. Telling team mates the most important thing is to "perfect" a vision they haven't bought in to is not a convincing argument. And viewing their hard work as a "sloppy version of my design" is not likely to win favors either.

The most effective designers I've worked with have been able to create and also sell their design. They can express both the motivation behind their design as well as the importance of implementing it well. They haven't just dictated design from up on high.
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I think the author of this blogpost has a few things off:

- HTTP2 != httpbis. Both work is being done by the same working group "httpbis". http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/charter/ covers this. httpbis (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9105639/httpbis-what-does...) was originally chartered to revise HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616)
The working group will refine RFC2616 to:
* Incorporate errata and updates (e.g., references, IANA registries, ABNF)
* Fix editorial problems which have led to misunderstandings of the specification
* Clarify conformance requirements
* Remove known ambiguities where they affect interoperability
* Clarify existing methods of extensibility
* Remove or deprecate those features that are not widely implemented and also unduly affect interoperability
* Where necessary, add implementation advice
* Document the security properties of HTTP and its associated mechanisms (e.g., Basic and Digest authentication, cookies, TLS) for common applications

As for the HTTP/2 work, here's a snippet from the charter on that:
The Working Group will produce a specification of a new expression of HTTP's current semantics in ordered, bi-directional streams. As with HTTP/1.x, the primary target transport is TCP, but it should be possible to use other transports.

- He seems to think the httpbis folks gratuitously redefined 301. It should be noted that RFC2616 (which, by definition, predates the httpbis work since httpbis is defined to revise RFC2616) had already noted the issue with 301 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.3.2):
Note: When automatically redirecting a POST request after receiving a 301 status code, some existing HTTP/1.0 user agents will erroneously change it into a GET request.

- It's unclear to me whether or not the author acknowledges the existence of buggy implementations as noted in section 10.3.2. It's an open question as to what to do in the presence of buggy implementations. From a server standpoint, if the client is buggy, and you don't want to break the client (willingness to break clients probably depends on how many of the server's users use that client), then you will attempt to work around it, irrespective of what the standard says. Therefore, it's simply pragmatic to ignore the spec if it doesn't mirror reality, and pragmatic spec editors may update the spec to acknowledge this difference.

- As far as current status of the various 308 usages, Julian (author of the 308 draft) is lobbying major user agents to adopt this, and has written up a status update on the Chromium bug tracker: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109012#c....
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All evidence suggests that the opposite is true as well. Apple does not buy large companies. They don't buy unless it fits their strategy very well. So you cannot expect them to blindly buy Tesla for the sake of it.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is the future of real-world AI. Bear my words ;) RL has been around for a long time, it is the mix of optimal (in the optimization sense) decision making along with machine learning (ML). It does benefit of most recent advances in ML. As such it is likely to power the next batch of 'intelligent' applications and services.
That does not mean 6 managers for 10 developers. That would be ridiculous.
That reminds me I still have not finished Dark Souls, thanks!

That game is so hard sometimes, and I love it! It's more fun when you play with others, because if you are alone it's easy to get frustrated at not being able to do something or not knowing where to go.
Is there something like HN for the Israeli scene?
My guess is that when StackOverflow finds out that StackWho is scraping up all their user data to get around paying for a $1000 per month service, they're going to shut it down pretty quickly (whether by legal action, blocking access to StackWho's IP addresses, etc.).
Not a good idea. Nicotine gum is not too good for gingival health.
Nicotine patch is consider the safest form of nicotine delivery. Also the most expensive.
E-cigarette is a good 2nd option. Vape unflavored or menthol, because the health effects of flavorings are still out there. Vendors have mostly stopped using diacetyl in their flavorings. Diacetyl gives that vanilla aroma, but also responsible for popcorn lung.
Still they're using acetoin which could convert to diacetyl in small amount uncertain conditions. There's also the issue of vegetable glycerin (used as a carrier) converting to acrolein under high heat. I think this is a non issue if you don't let your atomizer gunk up, which inhibits heat transfer from the coil.

I'm alarmed at the ubiquitous use of aldehydes in flavorings. Most of these have no solid research proving the safety.

If money is not an issue, I would use the patch everyday instead of e-cig.

Nicotine, I've found, is the only sustainable option in the long run. Methylphenidate, amphetamines, other dopaminergics, caffeine, modafinil, they all poop out eventually.

I'm also convinced that nicotine is the safest and most effective nootropics known at the moment until cortex gets around to releasing their ampakine.
The structures of which are all under secret, so we self-experimenters can't even get it custom synthesized.
Why can't they make the process a little more elegant than a shakeweight-esque motion? How sensitive is the accelerometer inside the pebble? I applaud them for their ingenuity though and I'd like to see them further develop the vision for motion based controls.
Don't worry it only gets better soon with ECMAScript 6 Modules
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules

or does it? http://calvinmetcalf.com/image/75296462861
If you're wondering if Algolia is right for you, just ask them. Within 5 minutes of initiating the chat window I had the CEO, Julien helping guide me through the process of getting my XML into JSON to see if it was right.

Then he asked me more about my use case and actually steered me towards an Elasticsearch solution since it sounded like a better fit.

All in all we went back in forth communicating for 3-4 days for him to lose me by necessity and I already feel like a satisfied customer.
There are many arguments supporting the fact that some countries [more than others] are close enough to a corporatocracy.

"Literally" is certainly a stretch, but at least indirectly, corporations spanning many sectors are very heavily influencing the government - for example finance, energy, food, military.

Just to make a very immediate example, bankers who had a central role in the 2000s financial crisis, are now executives or advisors of the government.

Process-wise, the HSBC case showed who's in charge between governments and large banks.
I'll be one to say that my experience with the device and the stores has been the opposite, so it can be either way.

It is, indeed, not a laptop. It works well on a desk, or a small tray in a classroom, or, if you have an SP2 with the second angle, it makes a decent, but not amazing, laptop.

It's really designed to be a device that can be used in a variety of scenarios, and is decent at all of them, but not great at any of them.

I personally like mine, and it's worth a shot if curiosity sparks. The Microsoft Stores are super friendly, and will let you basically take the device from the display and use it around the store. I put Vim on one and experimented with it on my lap, and found the experience to be decent enough.

That being said, it's top heavy and overall a strange device. If you love 100% of everything about an MBP, you probably won't like this. But if you don't, then give it a try. Can't hurt anything.

Just as a fair warning to anyone who reads this to take it with some salt ;)
Yes that is a good idea, actually I already tried to create branches per topic (design, dev, etc.) and push all the folders into the repo. But Github does not show empty folders. I had to put a .txt file in each one in order for them to appear...
http://www.twitch.tv/naiyte

There should be some vods on the channel, I think...but it's not that fun to watch, since it's about 5 hours with long stretches of nothing happening when people got bored. We had about 50-100 people in chat at most times.

I may do it again in the future, but I'm considering looking into a streaming service with a shorter stream delay.
Swiftype is a great tool to search for webpages.

Our focus is to search in a database (for example products in e-commerce website, persons in a social network or CRM, ...).

We offer features dedicated for that use case, you can have a look at these two demos for example:
- http://www.algolia.com/ecommerce
- http://demos.algolia.com/rapgenius/
Self built pc (E8400, 8GB, 128GB SSD) which I will upgrade in the next year or so. Two 24" monitors, thinking about upgrading to two 27".

Windows host, running VirtualBox images with Linux Mint. I run several images, each major project in a separate VM.

Almost 100% Clojure development.

SVC: Git mainly.

Editor: Eclipse + Counterclockwise.

For services, I use mostly Heroku and Github.

The best improvement I had in the last years was to buy a corner desk (such as this http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60251335/ ) instead of a regular desk. It's miles ahead in comfort.
"Episode" is actually part of the HTML label used for display, not the description.
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I'm not going to answer your question because I feel like what I said (not tried to say, but said) was obvious, but I will point out that things like this kinda throw a wrench into the whole "hg's UI is better than git" don't ya think?
If an "anti-pattern" is something that seems useful but eventually isn't, and a "pattern" is something that seems useful and immediately is, we need a phrase for this third state, where it's a pain in the ass to start with and only becomes useful later.

Technical investment, by analogy with technical debt?
>"Finally, and perhaps a contributor to my decision to return the Surface Pro, the recent browser usage statistics from New Relic show that IE is down to a paltry 14.8% share across more than 2 million application instances. If that’s not a signal that Microsoft's role as THE predominant client is beyond repair I don't know what is."

I don't see how IE's browser share is relevant to the Surface Pro or Windows as a client OS. Windows Vista, the disowned stepchild, even has a higher market share than OS X[1].

For the record, I have a Surface Pro as my daily workhorse. I do everything from classes to work, programming to statistical modeling to Photoshop. It has issues, but overall I enjoy it. The only thing it completely fails at is Adobe CS, as they refuse to fix issues with high DPI Windows screens and their custom interfaces. This article doesn't even touch on the merits of the device itself, or using it for anything.

I also had a fantastic experience with the Microsoft Store, as I accidentally broke my Pen within a few hours of getting it (my fault), and it only took a 10 minute call to get a new one sent out Next Day shipping for free. Most of that was confirming the issue was the pen, and not the computer (to know which needed a replacement).

[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
> Why would you think a designer would have no justification for a change beyond “it looks nice”? What would you assume designers don’t understand issues like pixel alignment or designing for multiple devices? Why would you think designers would be raising these issues based on Photoshop mock-ups?

You are right, they often have good reason, and can make the case by explaining that. Of course, they often to not have a good reason beyond spacing, it looks better, it is too crowded, or it is not crowded enough.
Reflex curiousity? If I got an unsolicited PhD thesis through the post I would definitely read it.
Well, I think the chat is set in slow mode, so you can only send a command once every 30 seconds.

I tried to implement a voting algorithm on the Dark Souls stream I did today, but I didn't have enough people for it to work. The idea was to have up to 10 actions queued at any given time, and requiring each action to have been voted on N number of times before it is queued. Eventually I just removed the voting and let people control directly, since it was going to slow with the 50-100 or so people we had.
yeah this is something I want to see.
i would think that the blur that goes on on the background part of the images plays some part in the 3D effect.

would like to see how it plays out without the white lines.
Google Partnering With Foxconn to Test Industrial Robots
Just add this custom css to the page and it should be much more legible:

body {
background: white;
color: black;
line-height: 27px;
}

#outer-wrapper {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande';
font-size: 11pt;
}
I think the number 1 thing that the US is missing is a pedestrian only square, with cafes and restaurants lining the perimeter. The children can run around the square, while the adults socialize.

Something like these photos:
http://www.carfree.com/cft/i056.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Piazza_Navona_Rome.jpg
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I would be astonished if 7 minutes per day provided even a measurable percentage of the benefits of exercising 5 hours per week (say 3.5 hours lifting and 3 30 minute runs).

Is there any evidence that it can?
The gum poses risk to the gingival tissues. It can cause gum recession. Not to mention it also taste terrible and hard to control delivery. Chewing it too fast can leave you woozy and nauseous.

The reason I prefer nicotine over other stimulants, it's oddly relaxing and motivating at the same time.

Caffeine either leaves me jittery or anxious or it doesn't work at all after 2 weeks. There is a ton of research out there proving the positive effects of nicotine.
I keep hearing this same line over and over, that Microsoft should stick with the enterprise which is what they are good at.

For anyone with more than 10 years experience, this kind of statement is hilarious because not that long ago Microsoft was laughed at as an 'enterprise' software company. Oracle, IBM, Tibco, SAS - these were enterprise companies and Microsoft was a consumer software company.

But that by and large is unimportant history for what they face now. There has been a sea change in the relationship large corporations have with their information technology departments. For most of the time since computers became a basic necessity for white collar workers, the IT group dictated what devices could and should be used. They bought specific laptops or desktops and that was it. If you wanted to use a personal information management device like a Palm Pilot or Windows CE device, you had to plug it into the computer at the office. That meant IT had to approve the device because they needed to ensure its compatibility with their Windows setup and your enterprise infrastructure.

I dont need to regurgitate what happened, but needless to say we no longer need that tether and devices now speak directly to the services. This frees management and workers to buy the devices they need and want. Upper management gets an iPhone or iPad and they want to work with it, IT has to bend. I have seen this in our consulting practice over and over - IT did not want to allow iPads but C*O level folks insisted and voila, we now support iPads. IT did not come around, they were forced by good consumer devices that just worked.

Microsoft recognizes this sea change and knows that they have to be a player and a big one in the consumer device market as this market is now dictating to IT, not the other way around. Consumer devices now drive the choices in the enterprise so Microsoft cannot give up here, they have to double down.
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How fear works
From a user point of view, you can be sure that a site with pictures, including GIFs, won't play sound, that's what I meant.

On the other hand, users don't have to know whether the HTML they are served have <video>s or <img>s, so this could all be done behind the scenes, I guess.
> Target breaches

That was plain stupidity and not a direct result of an exploit in software that was written. The malware used the default passwords on the embedded XP Payment software to gain root access and scrape the database.

> healthcare.gov

Although I tend to agree, I think this points more a flaw at the Government contract bid structure versus poorly developed code.
I have completely the opposite opinion. I think the only reason I read the whole thing was because it was a slideshow.