skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the leap...while it has not had as much adoption as the team had hoped, the effort being put into it is still significant. The latest SDK update addresses a number of shortcomings that the initial implementation had, making the hardware that much more viable.

That all said, the biggest issue with all of these new interactions is the lack of a solid, low fail interaction model that can seamlessly replace our current interfaces.

Looking at the leap, while it does a number of things right it has to always get it right, or as close to always as possible to be as good as a mouse click or a keyboard key press.

This looks interesting, but watching a promotional video doesn't show me how often a person has to flick their hand or swipe the touch strip to get the desired result. I have a leap and while I've gotten fairly proficient with it, I still find it's failure rate to be to high to make it a real replacement for my mouse and keyboard.
I own one. Granted, the Leap has better latency than the Nod, but it's still not great.
Hindley Milner type system makes strong typed languages also quite pleasant to use for prototyping.

I mentioned UNIX, because on Windows my to go language for private scripts is F#.
I don't think the issue is if we need to respond urgently, but rather if we want to respond urgently. Sure you can wait an hour until the end of lecture, but maybe you want to develop a capability and a reputation for putting out fires quickly. Do I really need to justify the value of this to the professor?

The question is if I'm paying for a lecture is it reasonable for them to mandate my own non-disruptive activities in lecture. I don't think so.

We also need to consider that professors are egotistical creatures (as all humans are), so they're going to oppose anything that detracts from the perceived value of their work. What's the balance here between improving student welfare and making professors happy?
Isn't this what phones are for?
Heisenberg Developers: Observing developers alters their behavior
On the other hand, video can be stopped, rewinded and you have more time to think about the question and find the answer by yourself.
> That said, touchscreens still feel less satisfying than physical buttons, so maybe I'm just being nostalgic.

Or just pragmatic :)

There are dozens of articles/papers/essays I could put you, but here's one: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
That's a non sequitur. If an emergency comes up, and your phone rings, you leave the room and answer it.
A few hundred years ago, nobody expected to go anywhere faster than a horse could take them there, why must we go faster now?

Life changes. If people don't like that, there are still some very nice remote forests they can go live in.
I found it difficult to scour the web to find the most shared links when building trendn.com. You will find that the top news sites get the most shares, and the little guys never get to the top (unless your scoring takes that into account).
Moving a Static Site to S3 Before My Girlfriend Got Out of the Shower
This hack is classic clickjacking. I created a transparent iframe containing a product page on amazon.com that had been carefully positioned so when you think you’re clicking on my page, you’re actually clicking the “Buy now” button on their site instead. Here’s the link to the code for the no longer working proof of concept: https://gist.github.com/joshfraser/819308dbae43ff70d892
y u make something i have to wear?
Wondlan Wireless Follow Focus
8tracks API is down
8tracks API is responding with "You must use a valid API key."
Gallium Arsenide (speed metal)

Dragon Snot (punk rock)
Wisdom: Regular periods of fasting are good for mind and body.
"Science": You should eat 6 small meals every day to keep blood sugar even.
Now: See TFA.

These recommendations don't actually conflict. Maybe it's best to eat lots of small meals when you're eating, and still fast periodically.
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> So why are we hiring designers mainly on their Photoshop skills and maybe knowing a few tricks for optimizing conversions on landing pages? What a waste.

> Of all the social sciences, the following seem to be disproportionately valuable in terms of creating and evaluating startups:

> Psychology / Social Psychology

> Internet Psychology / Computer Mediated Communication

> Cognitive Development / Early Childhood Education

> Organizational Behavior

> Sociology

> Education Research

> Behavioral Economics

> And yet not only is no one hiring for this, but having expertise in these areas likely won't even get you so much as a nominal bonus.

The core argument of this article -- that designers at top startups are not hired for their CogSci/etc chops -- is patently false in my experience. Has this person gone actually gone and talked with design leads at startups?
thanks. we're using https://prerender.io/ to create static files for the crawlers and still fixing up the seo.
> If an emergency comes up, and your phone rings, you

fail the course.

Some are even known to demand everyone place their phones, very much powered off, in a box on their desk at the start of class.
>
If you can't concentrate because the person next to you is on reddit you're going to have a hard time in an open office.

Yes, open offices are a terrible idea because many people lose a lot of their productivity in those distracting environments.
The tribes that practiced cargo cults weren't wiped out.
I appologize if that came across in an offensive way. It’s just that people seem to delude themselves into thinking that talking about minute design flaws in Apple products would sustain their high quality UX more. It’s extremely likely that they don’t listen at all to this kind of critique.
Price is not the issue for me. It's the service quality and convenience. I used taxi's to get home from bars and I would say 50% of the time I would have a problem (card machine doesn't work, don't go to my address, won't accept 3 people). Uber eliminated the friction.
No, my point was that it's hard to realize a meaningful windfall as a startup employee. It wasn't that you were dealt a raw deal, or that stock as a form of payment is inherently bad.

My response to you simply observed that when employees fail to convert their stock to cash as soon as possible, they are effectively investing the proceeds of a capital gain in the stock of their new employer.

You mentioned that you had a deep background in markets and trading, so I'm sure you're well aware that lots of very intelligent people make irrational investment decisions. With that in mind, you might want to consider that the number of people who opted not to immediately cash out stock received in an acquisition (betting that it would be worth more in the near future) far exceeds the number of people who took all their cash from an all-cash acquisition and purchased stock in their acquirer in the open market. This is a result of perception, not logic.
Isn't that what huffingtonpost.com is?
Alcohol, Activism and Donations. Give a #FridayDonation to a cause, not a bar.
The "no latency or speed penalty over IPv6" thing is true for me in San Francisco for major sites (Google, HE.net, Facebook, Wikipedia).

Are you sure that you're not running over a Teredo tunnel? (Is the IPv6 address you're handed in the 2601::/28 range [native IPv6 for Comcast], or is it in the 2001:0::/32 range [Teredo tunnel]?)

Does some of your networking hardware handle IPv6 poorly? What happens when you plug in a IPv6-enabled computer directly into your cable modem?
Why did it take months for Amazon to fix it?
A good point! After my comment above, I started thinking, well, a hundred years ago we expected response times in days or weeks via mail, rather than within hours via telephone or email. With the introduction of the telephone, there may well have been some people who felt communicating that quickly was needlessly rushed.

I guess I still retain the wondering, though; with possible response times reduced to effectively instantaneous, are we losing anything? Is it good that anything we are doing can always be interrupted by something else?
Looking at all the attention openSSL is getting these days, I'd use another solution in my production servers (if security was an important concern).
>> What you realize, though, is that partnerships are rarely a real thing.

>This is tangential to the core of the article but I can't stress enough how true this is.

Agreed. I'm in a different business—I do grant writing consulting for nonprofit and public agencies—but the line was so important that I immediately emphasized it in a blog post (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/in-business-there-a...), before even reading this thread.
I would hope my blog would be easier to hack than Amazon. Playing on cliffs and rock climbing is fun, btw. :)
SkyNet – API for the Internet of things
I don't think I've ever been in a scheduled meeting where at least one person wasn't actively using a laptop. Hell, even in the mid-90s, when I'd visit my dad's offices, I saw people going into meetings with what then passed for laptops all the time.
Because tradition isn't knowledge. While tradition could be (valuable) source of leads, everything inside must be tested, experimented on and see why it does or doesn't work.

That article is perfect example - lots of cultures have fasting. We look at the fasting results and we find something interesting about how out body works. Now we have knowledge that we can build upon.
If everyone’s an idiot, guess who’s a jerk?
The Morbid Fascination With the Death of the Humanities
academicians are outsiders looking in, fascinated by phone usage because it's a relatively new experience and they see how the world is changing.

Kids are the insiders. They don't need someone to tell them that something fascinating is going on in their own world. It's the only world they've ever known. They don't know of anything else.

The literature is written by the reporters. The kids using the technology are on the battlefield. They don't need a reporter to tell them what's going on.
Nicely done - I like the simple styling for pulling in a multitude of news stories and presenting them in a format proven to work for news sites (The Daily Mail uses this for example to pull readers in to other stories). Unfortunately the content doesn't really live up to the website, because it is popular content, not quality content.

I'd love exactly the opposite of this - something celebrating slow news and thoughtful reactions to the world around us. Unfortunately it seems all the pressures in our society militate towards instant and ephemeral bite-sized nuggets of information, and we enjoy novelty and excitement above all. I wonder if there is a place somewhere for quality, even if it is not popular, it might be worthwhile.
This is a very good article. It is interesting how it is in large still relevant.

Fault tolerance and reliability is something that doesn't get enough attention. It is only after a pattern of failures and spending time late debugging segfaults, one starts to appreciate fault tolerance.

Sadly over the years we have been conditioned that software crashes and, well, that is how it is. You just restart. Fix that dangling pointer. Hire another 5 engineers to hover of the code and squash bugs.

It is cultural and priority thing. In some domains and applications crashing systems can be dangerous. Heart pacemakers, traffic lights, crypto modules, life support systems. Some less critical ones like phones as well. If my server crashes, I'll somehow accept it. But if my desk phone does, I will be very disturbed by it. The expectation is that I can pick up and talk on my phone, even though behind the scene there are quite a few complicated things going on.

> In the future, hardware will be even more reliable due to better
design, increased levels of integration, and reduced numbers of
connectors.

This is interesting coming from 1985. Has it though? It should have. But I think proliferation of home PC and blue screens of death, cheaply made and flaky hardware really lowered everyone's expectation of reliability threshold.

This is why languages and platform like Erlang are very interesting. It was something designed with reliability and fault tolerance at the top of the "todo" list. Can't say there are too many things like that out there.

Here is a longer read by Erlang's creator Joe Armstrong. It is his theses on building fault tolerant systems, mostly the famous AXD301 switch.

http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

Anyway an interesting read.

And note that supervision and isolated processes can be emulated in other langauges to a certain extent. Just spawn OS processes. Use IPC. Connect to other machines, set up watchdogs. So if anything, it is at least useful to study the patterns and the design approach. You can then apply it to any system.
Imgur link: http://i.imgur.com/P2q0nLH.jpg
Have you considered joining forces with Deis or is there a difference in philosophy for the projects?
Every program makes use of the OS. You literally couldn't do anything without using the OS.
Would you prefer an article from the times?

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/biology/article3667780...
Tetris Is 30 Years Old Today
I have no idea. Adding a single HTTP header seems simple to me, but I have no idea what their architecture looks like. It took them an entire month to send me a "thanks, we're working on it" email and that was only after I followed up with them.
> Implementing IPv6 means every device in the world has a unique, globally routable address with all ports open (no NAT).

Not necessarily. I've configured my IPv6 firewall to block all the things except for specific ip:port pairs. I didn't feel like leaving my network totally open.
That is a truly beautiful website. Product looks awkward though, my finger felt empathy cramps.
I would seriously appreciate a friend spot if anyone has one that they aren't going to use. I would sign up for this in a heartbeat but I just had to blow my whole paycheck renewing my license and registration. Happy birthday indeed.
Cyber Dating
Big Bang research blunder leaves multiverse theory in ruins, physicist claims
Mirage was also featured on the latest Software Engineering Radio podcast: http://www.se-radio.net/2014/05/episode-204-anil-madhavapedd...
Livin the dream.
Sorry about that UX faux pas. I'm still learning these things. I didn't realise it was causing problems. I'll get onto it straight away. Glad you let me know. Thanks.
it's startup time, not general speed
Thalmic Labs' Myo is more conceptually similar to this than the Leap. This looks cool but it does look laggy and inaccurate. The Myo alpha unit I got to test worked beautifully.
This is a self link. My hope is that it gives a different spin on how to view this problem, one more constructive than the typical hand-wringing, we have no real solution type pieces so often seen in the world. Those types of pieces seem to foster general criticism of how the world is going to hell without giving anyone any place to get a handle on any of these problems and move forward. I really loathe that kind of approach and it is very common.
I have been having intriguing discussions on Facebook with my friends. I think it's a matter of what friends you have or are paying attention to.
One could say visiting mediocre people who gossip about other people is junk food for the brain also.
thanks for the feedback. one thing to be aware of is that the apps run much faster smoother on device versus in browser simulator. we'll also be supporting more navigation options, as well as other native components, going forward.
Did You Pick the Wrong Web Framework?
Then what is it doing online? We don't have room for this non-American stuff - it will clog the tubes!
> What I personally found out was that if you stay away from sugar and sweeteners completely, eventually you get used to the new taste and no longer suffer from lack of sweetness.

I tried this a few years ago. It took about a month to acclimate.

Sadly, the adjustment goes more quickly in the other direction; eat the usual sweetened stuff every day for a week, and it's all over.
HippyVM
> Teachers who don't engage students -- and lecturing will rarely engage anyone -- are the problem ... If you didn't engage the students, no amount of banning things they care about more than you droning on in front of them will make them care.

University students who have no interest in a course's material have no business being enrolled in that course. These are adults who are there voluntarily, and should be expected to participate in their own education without instructors jumping through hoops to engage them. A lecture is an opportunity for students to hear from an expert about a topic that should be of interest to them. Of course teachers should strive to present information in a way that's accessible and captivating, but even the driest lecture is no excuse to space out. It is not really feasible to compete for students' attention with the information equivalent of junk food while presenting and explaining serious, in-depth material.
>> if the students are going to actually go to the trouble of watching them they may as well actually come to class where they can ask questions, get feedback, and get involved in class exercises.

I strongly disagree. Many lectures aren't structured to include or allow these activities, and many students don't need or want to participate in them. Those students are the ones who sit behind their laptops the whole period, and everyone would be better served if they didn't have to come to lecture in person.
The Algolia API allows for 10,000 calls per hour so you wouldn't get IP banned for your use case.
I preorderd a Myo, and that was the last I heard from them about it. Glad to know that its working.
I'd like to see performance vs. Stripe Checkout, which we use. Like this: https://stripe.com/img/blog/posts/checkout-new-features/blog...

I would also like to see any analysis of which of these many changes made the difference. Did only particular thing account for most of the difference?
How about teaching students not to distract themselves?

I am serious about it. Students are going to live and work with Internet and all distractions. They need this ability that like others it is learned and nurtured.

I mean, something like this:
http://www.lynda.com/Business-Business-Skills-tutorials/Gett...

There are lots of good programs out there. Today this knowledge is as important as Mathematics. Probably more important for some people.

I have studied a lot in order to be able to work productively from home. It is very easy once you know lots of little things.

I could scientifically proof to any person how much she destroys her productivity just multitasking, using very simple things, like video cameras(which everybody has in her phone) and paper, because I have studied the psychology that fools ourselves into believing we could watch facebook and a lecture at the same time.

In my experience teaching people this works wonders. Without it, they are lost. They want something(get good grades, work with less effort), but they don't know how to do it.

About a programming class without computers, I will fire the teacher whose idea is banning laptops instantly. I am engineer and program computers for a living, with experience teaching people. They are incompetent if they can't control students with computers. If they are so boring the students prefer to browse Internet in class, then the problem is the teacher, not the student.
You're bang on the money. This was a very very very early stage test to see what people thought of the idea and if they valued it enough to pay $5. Round two of development will involve more work on the business model and adding the examples of job posts and credibility factor. Thanks for much for the feedback. It's invaluable.
I banned laptops ages ago: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-di... , and for reasons further described here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-shallows-what-t... .

I agree with the comments about lectures being bad (usually) and teachers needing to engage with students, but electronic distractions also make it harder for teachers to effectively engage.

This is not meant to denigrate the posters in this thread, but I get the sense that most a) are different than the average student and b) have not been teachers. The second point in particular is important because people who have faced the challenges teachers face may have domain knowledge that non-teachers lack.
I agree. Will change that now.
Assume the garden is somehow provably what it is claimed to be. Further assume that it is not cleaned manually because the usual culprits for blackening the inside, by pure chance, happened to be absent or long dead.

I am curious how one might go about reproducing this exact ecosystem in other bottles by cloning the original, without adding contaminants.
Under these assumptions selling clones could become a commercial proposition.
Now that these items are all in, it might be interesting to see him run a multivariate test to see which of the factors actually contributed to the 60%, and if all of them are net positive.
Orange Releases App In Kenya
Orange Kenya has released an app to make managing Your Simcard easier. It looks pretty plain, but it is nice to not have to use codes.
great to hear! thanks.
Bitcoin Could Change Voting the Way It's Changed Money
Wish they had more technical details instead of breathless marketing. Looks like a gyro mouse, as a ring. Definitely neat, but hardly revolutionary. Gyro mice have been around for years (http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=gyro%20mouse ); they're rather frustrating to use. The ring doesn't look small enough to wear all day, and the latency looks pretty terrible in the demo video.

What I really want more than another gesture thingy is a one-handed, portable, and eyes-free text entry device; something that could really replace a keyboard for a mobile device, even for demanding activities like programming. Is anyone working on that?
StatsD might be better since you are just recording datapoints + text field I'm assuming.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-statsd
I was also thinking that it would be negligible for slideshow gifs, but the iPhone example went from a 1.5MB gif to a 500KB WebM. Using video means you also remove the 8-bit color restriction that is imposed on gifs. (without hacks, at least)
Well, I have a flying robot company but out of respect we went with a different name :-)

Cool stuff. I'm going to go bug them in IRC now.
Great info. It's beyond the call of duty but wonder if Pud or anyone else could quantify any of the individual changes?
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