skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ATMega328P is pretty low power. I could probably save a bit more with a smaller more targeted MCU, but I wanted this board to be as close to the Arduino Uno as possible. I'm not sure what you mean by a central server. It's possible to use an ATTiny series chip to sense the reed switches and transmit to the nRF24 board.
I've never really cared for API versioning, especially the "/v1/" or whatever in the URL.

Come up with a decent API design from the beginning; commit to backwards compatibility, non-breaking changes, thorough testing and fast fixes; and stick with it for a decade or so.
Its not ;)

But there is a js version on http://fontly.com/sandbox/spiro.html
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Its part of the TrueType specification from Apple in 1987, which calls them 'components' - they are in all modern font editors.
Well, if the story got more upvotes, it wouldn't be a problem. It got some time in the sun, then went away. I think the algo (assuming that's what it is, and it probably is) works pretty well and it's not a huge loss that things that are purely about discussion don't sit on the FP for a really long time.
Have you ever worked with POS systems before?
I'm waiting for someone to make a life sampling application.

N times per day, for M seconds, turn on all my phone's sensors and take a short video capture of my computer screen.

Then upload that data (preferably to my own server, not yours).

Every couple days, I'll log on and tag the data. At 17:56 on 12/05, I was sleeping, working on X, talking to Y, going to Z, etc.

Sample 3-4 times a day for a year. Should get a really clear and interesting picture of your life after 3 months or so.
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I don't think it's just the number, but more about the number of top level threads and the depth of those threads. So if there is one thread with many replies, it's probably a flame war, or just a back and forth that isn't very productive.
my parents had a 3+ hour flight delay/re-routing in 3 consecutive years coming back in the same holiday period - not frequent fliers, rather frequently delayed
For additional reference, the introductory computer vision course I recently took was based around these two freely downloadable books:

http://szeliski.org/Book/
http://www.cse.usf.edu/~r1k/MachineVisionBook/
Even if stealing is zero-sum, it won't stop thieves. Thieves tend not to be utilitarians.
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I considered this but we already have fancy light switches with motion detectors in our bathrooms and our company is strict about leaving the doors open when you leave so that hasn't been a problem. An added bonus of this is that if the last person is leaving and about to lock up they can see if a bathroom door is closed and check to make sure no one is still in there, where as the light could still be on.
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Why should you hire a polyglot programmer?
I did this a few years ago, but I simply bought a motion detector and hooked it up to a light in the other room. Cost me like $25 and worked like a charm. Buuuut one of the girls at the office complained because she thought it was creepy, so we had to take it down. Somehow, someone standing around outside the door waiting for their turn is less creepy...
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Build something essential yet convoluted that only you can understand.
Then suddenly quit.

'nuff said.
That's not accurate at all. Many introverts, like myself, like socializing and hanging out with friends, but "recharge" by spending time alone.

I can enjoy myself at a party, whether I'm a wallflower or not, but after prolonged socializing I need to spend some time alone.

Please do not mistake introversion for social anxiety.
I would like to see this story rewritten from the point of view of a super hacker who likes to visit bug lists, track down the programmers assigned where they work, and psychologically hack those programmers into finding the solution. He protects his identity wearing only a hoodie.
I agree. My family income was in one of the bottom three ranges, and I had a score much higher than what is displayed for the top range. Looking back, it is a huge factor in where I've come from there.
Don't version. You'd be surprised how easy and powerful such a thing is.
> Don’t ask me for names, I couldn’t spell those for the life of me.

Sounds like escitalopram (Lexapro, Cipralex) and bupropion (Wellbutrin, etc), often used together.
right, because patching one of 1000 is the right solution? please give back your engineer card.

- just download this file to see your gf private messages. ok, lets remove download from the browser (actually, ios did this)

- just run this long string in the address bar to see whatever. ok, let prevent javascript: schema in url bar (actually, android stock browser did this)

anyway you go at it, is ineffective. the only solution is to educate. trying to prevent idiots from harming themselves will just lead to annoyance to the non-idiots and more sophisticated attacks until you cant prevent them.

people who implement those dumb thing disgusts me. your comment disgusted me.
Amazon talks about deploying a drone fleet for delivery and everyone thinks it's amazing, despite Amazon having a ton of information on all kinds of people.

Facebook talks about deploying a drone fleet for internet and everyone thinks it's a creepy invasion of privacy.

What a difference image makes.
I don't think they added the blocking script to actually keep people out.

Rather, it makes more sense for them to add it so that if someone does debug their site, it gives Netflix a legal precedent to press charges against them for hacking their site by bypassing a security system.
Hm, we did send an email to all Checkout users. If you didn't get one, please let me know. (patrick@stripe.com.)
Yes, I always interpreted introvert vs extrovert as being about where we get our energy from.... introverts get energy from being alone, while extroverts get energy from being with people.
I worked on and supported a pseudo-API at PayPal for 7 or 8 years..."Web Accept" and "IPN". 10s or 100s of thousands of integrations. 10s or 100s of millions of payments.

No versioning.

It works really well. Once you add versioning, it's too tempting to add breaking changes and just keep versioning. It becomes a total mess for everyone.
Sadly, yes (retrofitting NFC into them, basically the inverse of what Square does, in 2003)
Nobody talked to us about imaginary or complex numbers, or bayes theorem, decision theory, or non-trivial mechanics problems until I was in college (age 16+)

For the benefit of those not familiar with the UK school system:

- Compulsory education goes up to the age of 16 (roughly 11 'grades')

- Many people continue at school until around 18 (an additional 2 years, called the 'sixth form')

- These final 2 years of school can be taken at a secondary school (~= high school in the US) or at a college (which may specialise in these 2 years only, or may go beyond). This college is not the same as a university, although there are some areas where they may compete for the same students

- Most people who enter university as undergraduates do so after completing these additional 2 years, and the exams which partially determine university acceptance are taken when people are about 17 or 18
Add me to the choir
The "most popular" ones you're referring to are SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), which work by binding to 5-HT2 receptors in your brain and preventing (unsurprisingly) the reuptake of serotonin, leading to more serotonin present in the synapses. Serotonin is generally associated with positive mood, but it also delays orgasm, so patients taking SSRIs frequently report anorgasmia, or inability to reach orgasm.

I suspect the "second most popular" you refer to would be bupropion, tradename Welbutrin, which is mildly stimulating, and thus pro-sexual.
I am starting to wonder if I'm getting old in tech years as well, and I'm just 27. It may be a draw for people at an earlier stage in life when being affirmed/noticed/accepted by a group of friends is really important to you (high school, college, etc...).
Not hard at all. That's why the whole thing was done over the summer of '66 at CSAIL/MIT as a grad student project. Yes, nearly fifty years later it's safe to say that some progress has been made, but a solution to the general problem is still "just a few months away".
The guy who got world record of stick bombs explained on how to make them in detail[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiWxU3jXOFc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lTmFXOkcOc
Aye ! Susain Cain describes the distinction quite well[0].

Introvert/Extrovert describes how social intelligence relates to energy increase and decrease. Introverts are more rapidly exhausted in using their social intelligence, whereas extroverts are more rapidly refreshed when deploying their social intelligence. The "way we feel" about social encounters is a symptom of (and thus a correlation with) the rise and fall of energy as we are part of the scene — where typically when we are losing energy, we're less inclined to view the situation positively (social anxiety then is engendered), largely do to our own lack of introspection and the effects of our poor participation/adjustment.

It's more costly for introverts to engage socially, and so the rewards (take aways) are strictly only harder to perceive.

—

[0]: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts
It's on the way!

Long answer: Over the course of development there had been some thought as to whether or not the Softcover site would just be an informational site for the Softcover gem and a place for authors to get their sales stats, and then each book page would be its own separate thing that would be more or less fully-customizable by the author. Point is that most people would have had to be interacting with the site on a desktop because that's where they'd need to do things like install gems and run the server.

We've kind of moved away from the idea of having a Myspace free-for-all, towards something that is more of a designed garden, planning on allowing a good deal of customization on the book side – each book page loads a completely separate stylesheet from what is used on the rest of the site for that reason.

With that I'm going to be focusing on redoing a lot of the presentation side to meet what we'll need, and a part of that will be responsive styling.
Have you tried the app Reporter? It's going down a similar path. I think it uses 5 iPhone sensors and questions that you pre-set and just asks you to report at random times during the day. I've really enjoyed using it so far.

http://www.reporter-app.com
It's hardly new; people had commonplace books in the 1600's.

I think QS is probably more popular in communities like hacker news because there are a lot of people here that understand:

1. Computers think faster than you
2. Computers remember more than you
3. You can use the above to solve interesting problems.

Combine that with pervasive computing/surveillance and you enable yourself to remember arbitrary amounts of things and mine insights from them.

Empirically, it's probably a young person's thing, because people tend towards conservatism with age, and the technology required is going to be something young people are more comfortable with. But there are plenty of older people involved in QS.
Well, actually more than how you put it, its actually the language people use INSIDE OF THEIR BRAIN that matters.

An average person, talks to himself multiple times in a day, evaluating decisions, simulating how things are/should be, thinking about course of action etc etc.

This is done in a language, which often ends up as mother tongue to the outside world.

But the missing link here is the mental stamina. The brain has a native locale language, but if the information is coming in any other language, which needs to be understood (decoded) first into the locale language, it consumes stamina & time.

But in the case of it being actually in the language in brain's native language, less time & stamina would be consumed in the same conversation, and more time and stamina would be left for actual thinking/analysis/evaluation/etc.. leading to better understanding between people.

Peace!
> Seems crazy though, I don't feel like I live in that world anymore.

The games take just as much time and effort to develop. The artists put just as much care and love into the each character. The programmers take just as much pride in their intro sequence.

Sure we don't have generational jumps anymore, rather we have developers and designers who now have the tools to bring into being an immense array of visions.

That those visions are now possible does not make them any less valuable!
Throwing out backwards compatibility should be an absolute last resort, you may as well start a new project that is written clean from the beginning.

No function should be promoted to the core API without serious consideration. Instead use something like /alpha/function-v2.2/ for testing functions that may disappear or be updated, making it easy for clients to write workarounds for these non permanent functions.
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So couple of comments on stripe checkout.

2 big issues.

First off, the entering of email addresses and remember me stuff is confusing for my customers. We sign up people for a free trial and take their credit card details before we sign them up as users. Even quite technical people have dropped out of the flow after signing in with stripe thinking "I've given them my email" and so people haven't properly finished the signup process because of this (I'm guessing I can probably get this email, however I'd still need to prompt them for a password).

The second big issue is that the constant changing of the form kept breaking various integration/acceptance tests that I had written. This was pretty frustrating as it seemed that I would get a different box from time to time and my tests would start failing.

I get the desire to A/B test, and the desire to build a network of users who have already given their credit card details (obviously amazing for mobile) but it would be nice for us customers if we had a flag where we could switch it off.
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Here's the relevant section from Getty Images' Terms of Use:

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Embedded Viewer and/or Getty Images Content. You may only use embedded
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Content may not be used: (a) for any commercial purpose (for example,
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or sponsorship; (b) in violation of any stated restriction; (c) in a
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Full terms here: http://www.gettyimages.com/Corporate/Terms.aspx

So, if you don't want your images to possibly disappear at some point in the future or be replaced by ads, you might just pay or find a free alternative. But this move seems like a pretty fair way to let bloggers/tumblrs use the images with attribution.
No it doesn't apply, and thus the substance of whatever you've said doesn't appeal to me. It fails a heuristic of mine I'll call "throws out false accusations after misrepresenting what I've said".
Exist co-founder here. The Narrative Clip is on our radar, but seems to be more of a lifelogging/journalling use case. For now we're focused on making your data useful but we have had a few people ask about the possibility of a lifelogging/journal angle so that could be where we end up down the track, who knows...
I think jamiesonbecker was implying that this new user would have sudo restricted to just doing the tasks required for its individual purpose, not completely open sudo. I disagree with their point, but yeah, that would have nothing to do with guessing the account name.
There's a difference between being "busy" and being "self-absorbed".
This worked for me: https://www.capitalone.com/credit-cards/secured-mastercard/

There is a fee though. Plus of course, you have to secure the card. I deposited $500 and initially got a credit line of $700. A few months later it was bumped up to $1300.
Good point. We didn't plan on making the campaign public quite yet as we've been focused on giving people on our waiting list first dibs. Since everyone knows what's going on now, we've adjusted the home page to make the process of backing Exist more simple.
It says in the linked article "The primary responsibility for information protection ultimately falls on the Target Information Protection team, a group separate from Target Technology Services that reports up through Bjerke to Target Financial Services, an arm of the company that handles credit and noncorporate financial operations, the person said." So the woman who is the scapegoat wasn't even responsible for data security?
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> He may be in an introvert but he's a damn good writer!

Along with what I would imagine is a sizable chunk of the best writers. Writing is rarely a social activity.
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Given that this has been available for years on Flickr (and others), Getty really doesn't have a choice if they want to stay the market leader.

Getty's competition is Facebook and Google. How many pictures does Instagram have these days?
ImageOptim also bundles PNGOUT, which I find to have exceptional compression when compared to the others (but it is a bit slower)
> I don't believe for a second this is about helping the user - more likely is that FB and Netflix want to prevent users running scripts that add features

How does that even make sense given that Facebook clearly gives the opt-out link which is easy to use, and works? I don't believe for a second that you aren't being completely cynical.
That service helped me once. I broke my laptop and HP shipped me an imaged machine overnight with my employer's image on it so I only lost one day.
I'm in a situation now where I might end up taking my first office job in more than a decade.

I'm actually kind of worried that the impact of having other people around will significantly limit my productivity. The few times I have gone to a remote office to do some work, I really suffered with the open plan situation.

I have to make a conscious effort not to be gruff and terse with my SO when he breaks my concentration, and I outright love him. I have to remind myself that other people aren't able to perceive what is going on in the virtual world.

Maybe it will work out fine, but in all honesty having to commute and be somewhere every day at a certain(ish) time is probably what's going to kill the experiment for me, not the other people.
How do you figuratively connect five other services?
My mother still recounts that at primary school (5-11) all I'd did is day-dream all day and they could never get me to do any work. That's not strictly true of course - I was reading "top class" books when still in infants and was never challenged by the maths we did, taught the teachers about electric circuits (perhaps they were just humouring me).

One of my favourite things to do is simply sit and stare out the window, or sit on the stairs but I'm always thinking about something. Always inventing something in my mind or doing some gedanken or other.

I wish this had been recognised as indicative of internal complex state rather than laziness and vacuity and then I might have been encouraged towards developing those thoughts properly.

... but then I'm prone to blame external forces for my failings.
If you have to run a local program to verify the code on your web page, why don't you just put the code you are verifying in the local program?
And if you don't agree with them, you get called a pedophile or terrorist. Paranoia does funny things to people's brains.
If you can't see what all of these have in common, then you probably shouldn't call yourself a software developer.

It's just syntax, people.
Never liked SSRI's (escitalopram especially), I prefer sex, drugs and systems programming.
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I honestly can't decide if being like this would make me more happy (because totally dedicated to something that fascinates me) or less (because can't enjoy personal time for itself).
Huh. This is the first licensing-related thread I've read on HN in months where someone said something I found interesting and informative before I gave up and stopped reading.

Thanks for your even-keeled comments here; helpful and refreshing.
yclist is at least a year out-dated. Should use my list instead: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies

If you get your project off the ground, send an email to tips@ycuniverse.com and I might write about it.
Anyone want to make bets over whether anyone will ever be legally punished over this?
He never denounced violence. To be as humane as he was you would have to resort to acts of terrorism that kill lots of people.
You really think that's the same thing? Bah!
Finland is indeed the best place on earth to live if you just want to be left alone. Also: saunas.

As for the cultural differences regarding the ritual of leaving a social event, I really enjoy hearing about how things happen in other places. I would have had no idea.

That said, I get the sense that the author is either in Canada (.ca domain) or California, where people leave parties without ceremony all of the time. It would actually be far stranger to make a big deal of your departure.
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I understand that you disagree, but I can't see why you have to be rude about it.
I wonder if the poster is referring to this.

http://www.theawl.com/2010/08/real-america-the-ceo-of-target...

Not so much affinity, as ideology?
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social obligation?
What does it mean to claim a bitcoin is stolen? It's not a claim based on the blockchains but on something else. It becomes a matter of proof based on something like server logs and testimony of individuals.

Is it even a criminal matter or simply a contractual dispute over ownership of some assets? Suppose there is a judgement. Who enforces it and how? A judge can't undo the block chain.

Who is going to testify that they received the stolen bitcoin? Surely not one or the other side in a Silk Road transaction.

Getting away with stuff is what makes bitcoin useful.
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when you test for both, its tougher to get a good measure on either.