skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been lurking the Ethereum forums for a couple of months waiting for something like this.. I read about the "The People's Republic of DOUG" [0] and found it a nice reference ethereum app... but this is much more interesting..

It will help us kickstart some projects we have in mind... I'm beyond stoked.. Thanks for your contribution

[0]https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1009/the-people-s-repu...
"It is foolish to think that Microsoft can make the screen much higher resolution, have a similar chip, and not have serious performance problems in terms of responsiveness."

Sure. It's not, however, foolish to wonder why they'd RELEASE a laggy device. Hoping that an already small market will shell out $1000+ for a device that might get a future SW update to work as well as the last model is ridiculous.
If you remove the questionable assumption that most of the ideas are good, isn't it rather kind of institutionalizing "throw enough shit at the wall and some of it will stick?"
Object Subscripting in Swift
I mean for the U.S. Gov.
Interesting that the Surface Pro 2 did so much better in terms of "feel" and "lag". I wonder if the switch to the nTrig panel is behind the regression (I have an old HP TX2 with an nTrig panel; it was always terrible, but maybe they've improved since then...).
Eris is an attempt at a first run of a solution. We have no idea, but we would love to hear everyone's input and critiques.
Excellent writeup on how GPS works
Was just investigating the source code and noticed it's a fork from daformat, would it be better to open issues here?
I worked on a project that used the Google C++ Style guide for a while - I found it quite painless and mostly sensible.

Conversative style guides are useful when you are coding in a team of people with various abilities.
The birthday paradox at the World Cup
Even Intel, behemoth of reliable server hardware, wasnt able to fix Sandforce problems.

According to Intel representative Graceful Failover of SSD drive means you _kill_ the drive in software during a reboot :DDD and not switch it to read only mode (like you promise in the documentation).
Nice video! It really shows the perceptual difference well.

However, I'm not sure it's fair to call it a "touchscreen" when it's most likely a touchpad input surface aligned with an overhead projector. It's impossible to say from the video how feasible it would be to achieve the same performance with an actual touchscreen, let alone a high-resolution mobile device. But I'm looking forward to it. :)
Ha - you should've seen my Twitter feed when Josh won. Craziness. :-)
Amazon Kindle dictionary is sometimes useless
Less parallax when drawing too.
Indeed. I remembered incorrectly.

But the only reason you need a federal permit for making the fuel is so you don't go making any demon rum on the sly and avoiding the tax.
Not necessarily - one issue facing poor USA is the Financial Cliff of coming off of welfare. In some tax and unemployment environments, working that 2nd job actually nets less cash, because at a magic number ~27k, unemployment benefits kick out , and a little bit higher and income tax burdens raise ( there was one deduction in particular the last few years)

So, to make working a second job "worth the jump" it needed to bring in $5k+ more, which very few jobs do on the outset.
Django + Bootstrap 3
I'm really torn on this; on the one hand I think it will greatly hamper innovation if these apps are highly regulated; on the other hand if these apps were regulated maybe Google wouldn't have been able to fuck up Maps on Android so much in the transition from 6.x to 7.x.

The previous version was much safer to use in a car setting; requiring single clicks where the new one requires many clicks (and thus much more user attention), the new version also has a tendency to constantly ask you dumb questions at bad times (sometimes in modal dialogs that must be addressed) about whether you want it to dim the screen or not, whether or not you want to switch to a faster route mid-nav, etc.

Fucking Google Maps, man. You used to be so good.
Yeah I actually haven't synced Dropbox, though I can't seem to reproduce this on a consistent basis. Huge fan of this though, definitely going to be something I use on a consistent basis.
Great points. Eris is agnostic as to what happens outside of the blockchain system. We have purposefully built it so that it could be as centralized and linked to a legally incorporated entity as users like or it could be as decentralized and independent as users like. As to how contracts work, they are simply code. What we would recommend is that if people are interested in having smart contracts that for the time being they would have a coded contract married to (and integrated with) a "normal" contract which conversely integrates the coded contract. Doing such would make it relatively straightforward (we think) for a judge to understand what was happening.
My advice is to strive for excellence and let the rest come in time. "Excellence" is a journey you can do alone, and it will make you feel better regardless of what happens for you socially.

Ok, so what does this mean? You mentioned you don't speak English well. So the obvious choice is to go to classes to learn English. Definitely do that! But also follow the path of excellence: teach others English. Go to conversation groups and try to help people as much as they help you. Read books and share your favorites with people there. Why do you like them? How did they make you feel? Become more thoughtful. Which English words are your favorites? Memorize your favorite passages and poems. This is going for excellence. It isn't easy, but it's powerful.

Why does this work? Well, it turns out people who love what they do are fun to be around. Now when someone says, "what do you do", you can tell them this: "I'm really excited about learning English. I've never had a chance to really focus on it until now." Then ask them what their favorite words are, and they will join right in. Your energy and love of what you are doing will be fun to be around and interesting.

So now you are learning English and loving it. Do more. Apply this principle to work (master an area, really master it), to exercise (join crossfit, a climbing gym, martial arts, or dance). Follow your interests most of all. Try to put yourself out there 100%. It will take time to find mastery, but as you improve others will notice your energy and be drawn to you naturally.
This looks to be a great declarative/reactive template engine. I've been working mostly with the Meteor Blaze template engine the last few months. Both of them use a "normal" template language for writing views and (potentially) let you choose if you prefer writing your templates in Handlebars, Jade, or Haml [0], which I find far more easy to use than React JSX format. I think
Blaze beats Hamlet on the runtime rendering engine.

First, Blaze does not require to set a root element in a template, which could be a source of bugs with Hamlet because for instance the `each` child is a template, here is a snippet of problematic example from the Hamlet README:

- each @items, ->
.first
.second

This works perfectly fine in Blaze. IIRC Blaze uses comments node on the DOM that are never rendered in browsers in order to define some "domrange" that keep track of n children in a single parent group.

The second runtime issue in Hamlet appears when a third-party library directly modifies the DOM, without telling the template engine. Basically the modification will be erased on the next template redraw which make this system incompatible with all jQuery plugins for instance. Blaze has "fined grained DOM updates" which mean that the modification of a single element in a template does not require to touch any other node in the DOM. For instance if you have a each loop of inputs, and the user start to enter some data in one input field, and for some reason the template is redrawn the text will stay in the input with Blaze, but will be erased with Hamlet.

Blaze also support reactive SVG (I'm not sure if Hamlet supports it but I haven't seen any particular mention in the code).

I think all of these features can be implemented in Hamlet drawing on Blaze and ReactJS runtimes.

Nevertheless I find the Javascript model declaration cleaner in Hamlet than in Blaze or Backbone or React. The only thing I'm not sure about is writing the js events in the template and not in the model, I actually like having all events of a given template in a single place but I don't have strong opinion on this.

[0]: Meteor support Spacebars (which is quite similar to Handlebars) by default https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/spaceba..., and there is also a package for jade https://github.com/mquandalle/meteor-jade (disclaimer: I'm the author). It also seems that it wouldn't be difficult to support other languages than Haml for Hamlet.
Any ideas of applications for object subscripting?
Same here... a DAO's framework is what we've been waiting for... The current examples (ethercasts, etc) were "too light".. hopefully they'll make one about Eris!
One of the points of the article is that our welfare system is very expensive for the poor in terms of time, cognitive bandwidth, and opportunity cost.

It would be cheaper to just give everyone free money. In fact, that's the basis of the the various Guaranteed Minimum Income ideas that have been floating around for the past 45 years or so.
>building product X and selling the company to Google for a billion dollars.

Oh no! it was my secret business plan which i have for several years been working on in my mind during all these hard-to-stay-awake afternoon hours in my cubicle ... opsss... at my desk at highly collaborative (ie. noisy) and innovative (no sane person would do such a space for him/herself) open space at BigCo-s
The people's republic of DOUG is based on an older version of the very same core DOUG functionality which operates sort of as the kernel of the DAO. We definitely look forward to your comments.
Edwin Brady – Idris: Programming with Dependent Types [video]
Sort of. It's kind of institutionalizing the process by which you acquire and throw shit. And this is what should be institutionalized if you agree with Scott's premise that "success in the start-up realm is mostly luck".
US wants to regulate navigation apps, including Google Maps and Waze
U.S. Military Wants Laser-Armed Humvees to Shoot Down Drones
There's a documentary about that called "The Knowledge:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYZcG2mY9Fs
From the homepage:

"Due to the discovery of a serious security issue a decision was made on Sunday 15 June 2014 to take down the website. The full extent of the issue is still being investigated but in an attempt to be as honest as possible to our members we must make you aware that we have reason to suspect that all or parts of the database may have compromised. Passwords at Project Euler are strongly encrypted using a one-way hash, but if you use the same password at other websites then it is strongly advised that you change it. We are extremely sorry for this inconvenience. At this time we can provide no more information and there is no indication when Project Euler will return."
To 6 Migraine Triggers
Plenty of people born into well-off families squander their time, life and fall victim to the same ails as the lower classes.
Anyone has an idea how to create such smooth animations?
Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS image for Google Compute Engine
Also, redo isn't working for me at all.
I hadn't seen Mithrill before, but from checking it out now it looks like it has a lot in common: small runtime, trying to be as close to plain JS and DOM as possible, and safety by default.

I'm not sure if it provides as much magic as Hamlet's auto-dependencies and template syntax, but those do have costs and tradeoffs.

I would like to see an interactive demo on the site so I could get to know it better by messing around.
Lots of people in developing countries have access to cheap Android smart phones but no computer these days. Fortunately that's all you need to use Bitcoin.
For those of us not working on cat photo sharing products for the ever shifting consumer market there is considerably less luck, throwing random stuff at the wall, and pivoting involved. B2B SaaS is pretty nice. Join us on the dark side :)
Pivot as per the blog post seems to be a mix of extending, innovating and leveraging what you have. I am not bothered by the exact strategy since the concepts are all relevant.

Before the word pivot was being bandied about, Microsoft had Hotmail and Hotmail had something like 200 million users (over decade ago).

Microsoft released a Hotmail notifier that got prime real estate in your system tray (next to the clock). Most companies knew that the the system tray and the desktop were both prime real estate. The Hotmail Notifier tray icon solved a genuine problem: users knew right away if new mail had arrived.

In a future release the Hotmail notifier got extended to a chat application: MSN Messenger. Since Hotmail had lots of users, it managed to take over ICQ and AOL fairly quickly. MSN Messenger tried hard to market other services and products via a constantly displaying ad unit.

Messenger then assigned a blog to every user that could be activated within a few clicks. A new blog post by a user would be indicated by a star (internally they were referred to as "gleams"). I recall Microsoft claimed to have become the largest blogging network shortly thereafter though this was probably a numbers game because very few were active bloggers. Microsoft also had other ambitions such as Passport, Shopping, etc but they failed to translate/convert users from the chat window to the browser window.

I am not sure if either of those scenarios qualify as pivots in the classical sense. MSN outlived Hotmail though not for long. Passport got mixed reception. MSN shopping didn't take off but Microsoft threw a lot of things out there, hoping something would stick. This is also what Scott's post seems to suggest though I am not sure if this is such a great idea as its costly. MSN has made a loss in nearly every quarter.

One observation I drew from this is that if you have passive users, you can do a lot more with them. Social browsing is passive (chat, FB and even email back when chain mails and mail groups didn't face competition from Orkut or Facebook walls). You can throw games, videos, pictures and interest-based activities like restaurants and reviews at passive users. Mail is not a passive medium anymore. That's why Google Drive seems to make sense only some of the time, when I need to collaborate on Google Docs. At other times, it gets in the way, for example, when I want to download certain attachments.

Active users rarely deviate from their goal. This would be mostly Google Search users who want to complete the goal of finding something as quickly as possible. These users are definitely much harder to funnel into other services.

To capitalise on active users it seems that innovation is key. Google search added the calculator, conversions, weather, scoreboards, etc. I suppose the pivot here is using the search box as user-friendly command line sans the strict syntax. However, forcing these users down a different funnel such as Google+ didn't work well.
It's a mixed bag really.

I prefer cloud based solutions where load is going to be an issue, but only sporadic load. You can easily spin up a new instance, pay for what you use and not be paying for it the rest of the year too. With the load balances available, this can even be made automatic.

It's also good if you want a dev environment which is exactly the same as production. spin up an environment for a day, then spin it down and only pay for usage.

But there are also downsides - you also want at least 2 servers of anything up at any time in case of a datacenter outage or upgrade. But I guess the availability is the upside of that.
that is how evolution and natural selection works. Beats intelligent design, at least in the long run and on a large scale.
Success simply can't be predicted to any level of statistical comfort.

There are, however, a small percentage of people that consistently succeed. I met a guy like this, and I came to find out he had eliminated a lot of the risk of his software ventures by having a ready-made market for his company among his friends in the venture/banking world. I saw him do it a few times and realized that it was cheating, in a sense. I could replicate the first N-1 steps he did, but that last one required an in with the right crowd, which I didn't have.
I'd say instead it provides a guarantee of the safety of your existing shared sate. Normally you write a shared state program and you just have to convince yourself it's correct. This enforces that correctness.
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Convey computer has something that looks like a useful FPGA development model. Basically you move critical sections of your code into the hardware using a hardware description language(with some help from the sdk), and when writing the software , you just call that section almost normally , and convey system manages this transfer of control between cpu and FPGA as needed.

Using that you create a unique "instruction set" that can generally fit a number of applications in the same area. With that programmers can program normally and still benefit from a decent speedup.

BTW it seems that convey has a deal with DELL, and also has developed a memcached acceleration kit. This stuff will probably be available only to big cloud providers, giving them another big advantage on the DIY guys.
Amid Stratospheric Valuations, Google Unearths a Deal With Skybox
In this context, who are the hackers?

Programmers who tell themselves, "A stylus? Implementing that would be a piece of cake!" (I have to admit I'm guilty of this exact thing myself.)

"asian knock-offs" seems odd in this context. Wacom is a Japanese company.

And I'm of Korean extraction. From what I've seen, the majority of the knock-offs happen to be from asia. Those are the facts as I understand them. Your "oddness" seems to be supposition.
The best advice I can give you is find a dance studio and take a beginner Latin/swing/ballroom class. Make sure to find the super-beginner variety, it will help to know that everyone is basically in the same place as you. It is a social setting and everyone is there for basically one thing, to dance! Approaching strangers and asking them to dance is not only not awkward in this context, it is absolutely encouraged. It has the added benefit of you collecting a skill that most men do not possess, the ability to dance. All women love to dance, so you will instantly become attractive, regardless of whether you are physically handsome or can speak English, you will immediately climb the attraction ladder.

Seriously. Go out and dance!
PSA: Microsoft’s ban on using its services to promote guns
Jk, I was using the wrong shortcut :)
Oh wow, people are actually using these new TLDs.
And I was going to use a Surface Pro tablet with Ubuntu Linux.

If even Microsoft cannot make the device work right the first time around, even while apparently trying hard, I wonder how bad will the situation be on Linux. Still going to try; maybe later, when touch support on Ubuntu will be more ready and Surface Pro's will drop in price on eBay (I'm thinking of going with 256MB+ Surface Pro 2, unless they will make a newer generation of smaller tablets)
Wow, that page has a 2.5mb png as a background image on one of the elements.
Looks really interesting. Anyone find any links with actual info, as this page is pure fluff!?
Lets take alcohol away from everybody that claims Social Security!!!
This may be an issue with ssh trying to resolve reverse DNS on your server - you can check by turning off UseDNS in ssh settings and logging in again.
He is well-known in gaming circles moreso than tech circles (there is some overlap of course), and I can't confirm or deny he is a millionaire; frankly I have no idea. Famous has an imprecise definition; but as you conceded, "mainstream people" might not know who he is. This is why I consider it a stretch to call him a famous millionaire; I'd hesitate to use the same label used for Cliff Bleszinski or Paul Graham. Krahulk is influential in specific areas, but famous millionaire as the frame seems like a personal issue you're projecting.

And regarding your challenge to find a more high profile person using the SP3 -- it is not released yet. The only people giving public thoughts on it are tech reviewers and Microsoft employees. In that regard, Microsoft used Krahulik's works on their website, so he may very well have augmented his millionaire's gold coin swimming pool with Microsoft money. Despite this, Krahulik still plainly voiced criticisms of the SP3 product, and Microsoft's surface team addressed this feedback in positive way. Of course, they want to leverage his influence. The impacted users would all theoretically benefit. I doubt that the result will be that he alone is getting a Krahulik hotpatch for personal use.

As a developer working with vendor software, I too get prerelease access and are offered an avenue to submit problems I find to the vendor. The primary differences here are that I am strongly discouraged by the vendor to share my experiences with prerelease software.

Lastly, Microsoft showed him that they can address somethings, but he was clear that issues remain. By contrast, the product team didn't respond with a suggestion to "just avoid holding it in that way".
Airbus 3D Printing technology transformation underway
>> it was the federal government's mandate and responsibility to provide exactly this for its citizenship

The federal government's attempts to do this are the primary reason college tuition price increases have drastically outstripped inflation since the modern student loan system. When a lender will provide essentially unlimited money to unqualified borrowers to spend at a third party, the third party is incentivized to raise prices. And the horrible consequence of this is that to combat this, politicians have essentially just made those federal loan terms more onerous on borrowers, under the naive belief that most of those taking out large quantities of student loans are sophisticated enough to understand the burden they put on themselves by taking out unsecured debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy (and this should have been painfully obvious, given that credit card companies have been preying on unsophisticated college students for decades).

I was one of those unsophisticated young people, but I (luckily) got out before I spent a truly life-ruining amount of money on a degree I had no plans to use.
Original headline: "YUI Gallery Deprecation Announcement".

The current headline here ("Announcing the first step to the end of the YUI library") appears to be inconsistent with HN's policy on headlines (as it is editorializing that is not justified by the headline or content of the source article.)
As someone who used to be a much more introverted person and have sense became more extroverted in the past few years. The way I did it? Pick-up artistry. aka Learning the art of dating and relationships. This not only helped me with dating and love life, but more than that I learned how to be the best version of me. Now usually when I am with friends that are extroverted I am usually the more extroverted one! the most helpful was the base of my growth and learning which was by a man in the pick-up world known as David DeAngelo. His videos called The Mastery Series was probably the most eye opening and influential group of videos I have ever seen in my life. It helped me to look at my own "holes in my emotional armor" and be able to fix them. I highly recommend these. I also found that it makes being able to sell much easier and better too. =P
Congrats! I just hope the acquisition was all cash, and not for stock.
Silicon valley extravagance or sound biz decision? And how's the food at your startup? Best I've had was at DropBox.
Wow - Google Prediction like API with CIO approved corporate drones? Check! Only took them 4 years to catch up.