skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're best off prefixing (to get a .com) or going with an alternative TLD. Don't get a .net or .org though, because they just don't have the same appeal. Maybe try one of the new TLD's (.academy, .guru, .sexy, etc)? Also, don't worry about the effect your domain may have on SEO. Focus on solid content marketing and the SEO will come - use paid traffic and a good autoresponder series if you have to spend money on marketing.
Comcast is dumb, wealthy, established and has a huge reputation for being actively hostile to customers because of geographical monopolies.(possible that they do it because they are dumb but I put my money on the monopoly)

amazon competing would be a win for consumers most likely since they are pretty actively customer focused. It would likely be a loss to the people selling through them though. I like amazon as a consumer for the most part but apparently their tactics and policies toward retailers is less than shining.
I still want that vibrating compass belt.
Yep, Activision Is Bringing Back Sierra (And Kings Quest)
Pfft!
You could 10x your pricing and likely still be lower than all of the commercial API management tools out there.
Tracking tool used to follow you to websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn
I have a landing page for an application I've made which users then click through to navigate to other websites. This single page gets around 1-2 million views a month and I'd like to place an ad on the page if possible. However, Google AdSense denied me being that the page doesn't actually have enough content for them to automatically determine relevant ads.

What other options do I have to get an ad placed onto the landing page?
I'd go with advertising, since you might get some drunken clicks. I doubt you'll have enough user data to be able to sell it anywhere, and you're not collecting enough user data to connect it to other data (e.g. the way Facebook collects both personal info and like/share/location data).
For a better treatment, I turned to The Chicago Manual of Style (sixteenth edition), used by the vast majority of publishers of American English books. It says in Section 7.19 to omit the s "...when the name of a place or an organization or a publication (or the last element in the name) is a plural form ending in s, such as the United States, even though the entity is singular."

And cites these as examples:

the United States' role in international law

Highland Hills' late mayor

Callaway Gardens' former curator

the National Academy of Sciences' new policy
A Simple Data API for Everyone
Not to fear-monger, but there was this article on the BBC linking to laboratory-verified airborne transmission of Ebola. The summary describes it as large fluid droplets being passed through the air (airborne in this sense being a gradient rather than yes/no).

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423
I've always wondered how someone born blind is able to wrap their mind around the concept of color. It appears you've done so -- how would you describe color?
Registration required: the eternal debate
Visualizing Dijkstra's Algorithm
Is there any way you can find out who the real owner is?

The broker doesn't want to take your offer because he won't make much commission. He'd rather hold out for a bigger offer later on.

Circumvent the broker. Owner may be more likely to take your offer.
The Case for Object-Oriented JavaScript
Two questions:

1) Didn't see the HN discount, any chance that can be applied to my account retroactively? tim@onarbor.com.

2) There is alot to fill out on this one form. Can I save a partially completed application? What happens when I hit the submit button?
Well, perhaps I'm not terribly up-to-date on the issues I mentioned third, either. FWIW, there is a comment on why GNU libc defaults to Merge Sort for qsort() on Reddit:

> The reason we made qsort() default to using merge sort was, indeed, that it always makes fewer compares than quick sort. We thought that in the common case, people would sort small objects (numbers, pointers) rather than large objects, and that therefore the performance would be dominated by comparisons rather than data movement.

Link to full comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1jxq4/ask_reddi...

Since you say "pivot sits in a register", you're also talking about very small data. It looks to me like the two of you disagree. (OTOH, that comment was 7 years ago.)
Your analogy textbook <-> mathematical software does not hold. Think it through. It's not a copyright issue. I can explain in detail my point of view if you like.

It's not a noble pursuit when the gain is too one-sided. Wolfram and his company would accrue to much material advantage at the expense of an open and public mathematical discourse. This much is plain to see, watch out for rhetoric of the kind on display in that post!
Waho, I was looking for replacement for Fireworks (My early love). Weird that you guys haven't much more traction on HN.

You have my upvote though! :)
I thought it was something that literally projects a material physically onto a surface. It's much more disappointingly mundane than that.

Bottom of idea barrel===scraped.
And the much (!!) better (and functionally non-fiction) book it was based on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone
> The expense of distributed method calls comes from the [need to] run all method calls on the place where the object lives

Which is exactly the same in functional as OO languages. If service A has some data, and service B needs to make use of that data, then service B needs to make a call to service A.

The OO/functional axis is orthogonal to the monolithic/distributed axis.
Opportunistic encryption between endpoints doesn't necessarily require STARTTLS. That is merely a current convention. It could change in future, with the development or invention of some new crypto paradigm. Case in point: opportunistic IPSEC. Okay that wasn't the answer either, but it is an alternative in principle, albeit not in practice today for global SMTP.

Point is, I think it's naive and unwise to assume that the crypto upgrade/wrapper is and always shall be TLS and then to build this assumption into standards in a manner that isn't future compatible. We are due a great many innovations in end-to-end crypto over the next few decades. For example, I'm hoping that new and interesting uses will be found for DANE. Maybe we can even bring back network-layer opportunistic encryption.
I'm also in for an Android version.

It would be great too if in the settings, you could set a notification time for each day. For example, I could set it to ping me at 7:30pm with a notification reminding me to do an entry for the day. When I clicked on it, it would auto-load to entering the log for the day.
Seduction Fail
I am not blind, but I do occasionally get migraines with visual auras, as do my wife & mother. Exactly once in my life that I recall, I had a migraine that caused total perceptual blindness (oddly, this has also happened exactly once to my wife, before we knew each other). It's extremely odd- one's visual field (at least in our cases) steadily contracts, until there's just nothing left. It's not an annulus of darkness closing in, it's juts nothing- the field you can see is smaller, and there's still nothing outside of it, just like there always isn't. Like what the back of your head looks like, as the article says.

In the end, you literally see Nothing. It's truly bizarre[1]. It's not an experience I particularly want to repeat, but I'm kinda glad it happened just once, for the empathy value. It's not really something that can be effectively described if you haven't (not) seen it yourself; even now, I have trouble re-imagining the experience, 'cause my memory wants to fill in blackness or grayness or whatever. But at least in theory I now know exactly what the Nothing from _The Neverending Story_ (doesn't) look(s) like. :)

[1] What makes it even more bizarre is that migraine blindness is a strictly neurological effect- there's no damage to your eyes or optic nerves- which means you can get temporary blindsight. In my wife's case, this meant she managed to walk a couple blocks home from a friend's house, crossing suburban streets and so forth, totally normally, while all the while convinced that she was completely blind. Which, as far as conscious perception goes, was the truth!
What the hell _is_ tam?
I think it's very plausible the datacenter will be capable of storing five zettabytes by the end of this decade (yottabytes are impossible, short of the NSA having wildly advanced technology we know nothing about yet; the energy cost alone based on today's technology would 'bankrupt' the NSA). I'm skeptical it got up and running with that kind of scale on day one. It'd be ridiculously far beyond their storage needs for many many years. I wouldn't be surprised if it was designed with that kind of scale in mind however, as the NSA would be thinking 10 and 20 years out.

Five zettabytes would of course be enough storage to allocate roughly one terabyte for every person on the planet the NSA could even theoretically hope to grab a single byte of data on in the next 20 years.

In ~20 years I have to suspect 5 ZB will not be nearly enough storage for what the NSA has in mind (due mostly to the expansion of information being stored in ever higher definition video and plausibly in some VR format within a decade).
Strange that the article doesn't mention the blind spot that everyone as.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision)
Bitcoin exchange business embroiled in non-payment scandal
Actively damaging? A little dramatic perhaps? I didn't say it doesn't serve a purpose, I said there is nothing to see here. Quite literally. Until they do a larger study why is it news?
I've also been really interested in using one ever since reading about them last year. Seems like it'd be a good Kickstarter opportunity.
I figured-out God was the feature -- God's official endorsement. I can do miracles and prove He endorses it.
Google may also not be the best party to listen to for some of this advice. Google has an interest in ensuring they can index as much as possible. If they can't, it's their product that is less valuable. There are enough prominent sites not doing this (facebook, quora, etc.) that it seems Google may be mixing up what's good for you with what's good for them.
Just gonna leave this here... http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/using_deis/using-dockerfiles/
PS4 Sales Increases As PS TV Release Date Set for November 2014
I don't get people trusting shady exchanges with thousands of dollars at once.

Buy bitcoins in pieces and transfer them to your own storage ASAP.
Use the "reader" button (the three lines in the corner). It's a little known feature but great on sites like this.
Someone had to say it.

Though I've never been banned, I know quite a few friends who have over the years. A couple of them deserved it (asking for clicks to support etc) but some of them not so much.

Like one guy getting banned because there was a thread talking about guns in his forum. His forum was definitely G-Rated, which is a requirement for adsense, but this one thread got him booted, and all his earnings yanked. Had they warned him (which they do more of now) he would have just deleted the thread but instead it was shut down with no appeal.

Stuff like that needs to be addressed more and looked at. After all what's the business sense in having LESS advertisers? I can see weeding out obvious offenders but as of now it seems they are a little to quick with the ban button.
I have a mid-2012 MBP that started spontaneously crashing with GPU panics this past week. I've already had 3 crashes today:

Wed Aug 13 12:37:03 2014
panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff7faaa34f7c): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 5 0 a0 d9 9 8 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0x102c00000 0xffffff821772d000 0x0e7150a2, D0, P1/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.6.22/src/AppleMuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
WW3 SHall BE ENDLESS WAR,SEZ OBI ONE
I wonder if it could be done more subtly, perhaps with a few vibrating motors embedded in the skin around one ankle.
Why should the concept of color be harder to wrap one's mind around or describe than the concept of sight itself? Or, considering any animal with any kind of sensory receptors other than those you yourself have, wrapping your mind around or describing the concept of the data produced by such receptors? [A bat's echolocatory sense, say, or magnetoception...]

["Oh, it's easy to understand the PHYSICS and BIOLOGY of color, but can the blind really comprehend the EXPERIENCE of color?", some might say. Alright, fine, shades of "What Mary Didn't Know", but I'm not keen to get into that.]
As a non native speaker, I had to look up the definition of succinct, which was the very first thing I saw on the page. And I consider myself a very good English speaker.

So you might want to change that word to something a broader audience would understand.
Looks interesting!

It would be useful to have some sense of the relative importance of the sites on your list. Maybe Alexa ranks, as a start? Or data from e.g. compete.com
Can you recommend a fix which will reduce the average response time of police to under say 5 minutes in a geographically huge, mostly unpopulated rural area?
Find another one.

Don't get fixated on things. A business must evolve and adapt in order to succeed.
If you are stubborn about a simple name, the web domain is the least of your worries.
I believe they are grasping in the right direction, but what they really need to do is let go of the attachment to object oriented development. I don't mean to start the flame war, but if you insist that the architecture reflects the intent of the application, then why choose OO? If the architecture requires messages and buses and adapters, etc. what does OO bring to the table? Why do I think I need distributed objects? Am I choosing micro-services just because I want to try to get distributed objects working again?

It's not a language issue either. At this level we are talking about frameworks, models, domains, contracts, protocols, etc. This layer is not language dependent, although some languages are better designed to build frameworks that support these intents.

A classic example of how these assumptions creep into your designs is seen in the first chapter of Head First Design Patterns where they discuss at length how to create the perfect object model for a duck computer game. When I read that the first first think that came to my mind was, "Wait a minute, you are designing a computer game! Everything on the screen is a sprite. Sprites are moved around the screen by their coordinates once per game loop. How does the perfect duck object model help me here?"

Sounds very much like a hammer looking for a nail to me.

[edit] fixed a few typos
I will do that without a blink of eye, but I don't think that's possible. Both the website and the whois redirect to the broker.

I can double check whois history or website history on archive.org but I don't think I will find anything of value.
> I don't. I just want the words.

Me too. But I don't know what else to do other than reading longer articles through Pocket/Instapaper and sending everyone I know [0] as a reminder every once in a while.

[0] - http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
It seems like the color of the furniture would have to be white, or nearly white, in order to project a full range of colors. Do they have a way of dealing with this?

Presumably the room also has to be dark, which might make it a bit harder to understand how the furniture will look in context. I'm curious: is there any projector technology that could make something like this work in brighter rooms?
In Latest Restructuring, Cisco Will Cut 6,000 Jobs
I think there is a bug on the pricing page. It appears that the startup plan is more expensive during beta.

http://i.imgur.com/CtWIytj.png
Yes, we are working on that.

But, the odds that the other ideas we can have in a .com are still already taken are pretty high. I will be thinking that's a common issue.
I suspect you experience true blindness (briefly) during laser eye surgery, when the flap is cut in the cornea. I remember how odd it felt - the feeling of seeing nothing at all, not even darkness.
> “When the belt experiment was over, Wächter felt lost”

It seems slightly cruel to me to give someone a device to augment their senses without some provision for them to continue using it if the experiment is successful.

I suppose it's also possible that Wächter didn't want to continue using / being reliant upon the belt despite the loss of the spatial sense it had provided.
TAM is Total Addressable Market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_addressable_market
Taskworker: simple, efficient and scalable
You should add startuptabs.com
I think the experiment was still in progress when they took it away, since they observed his reactions to this.
Later they might have given him the device.
Well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'd rather type out "Ethiopian" than waste time finding out that someone said "bee" instead of "dee" or accidentally putting "e9800998" instead of "e9800098".

I've got a ton of pre-arranged neural circuitry, evolved over centuries, trained with decades of live data, all geared towards noticing typos and touch-typing words... It seems shame not to leverage it.
> Except maybe not: if you happen to do this with GnuPG 2.0.18 -- one version off from the very latest GnuPG -- the client won't actually bother to check the fingerprint of the received key.

Even in it's long form, it's relatively easy to generate different keys that have the same fingerprint.
This is pretty neat from a technical standpoint. I've used MadMapper before and it was kind of a pain to setup to use to do projection mapping.

First you had to hand map each section of the object you're mapping the texture onto. This involved having the projector project a pattern and you'd move and deform various mapping polygons (using a mouse) until you didn't have any bleed or holes in the projection. If someone moved (or more likely accidentally bumped) the projector or the target object the polygons had to be manually adjusted. It seems these guys have automated the process of mapping the object in physical space, against a pre computed model. They had some bleed above the top of the chair in their demo video so its not yet perfect.

If you're Ikea and can set this up in the store, for buying a couch, and just have people click their fabric combination they want to see. I see this being very useful because they can't show every fabric. Granted Ikea's are huge to accommodate lots of floor models, but this would still be a draw.

If Ikea had a whole bedroom or living room with projectors all around, you could try out an entire decorating scheme without having to pull everything together. I'd take the ferry from Wall Street to Red Hook just to play with it for a bit.

So rock on VizeraLabs, and start talking to Ikea and BoConcept.
A very interesting take on the perceptions of blind people. I don't think I am acquainted with anyone who has been entirely blind from birth (which is a rare condition of life). I know a professor of psychology (who indeed does much of his research on human visual perception)[1] who has very limited vision, and thus is "legally blind." He began life, I think, with a bit more vision than he has now, but has long been visually disabled. In a personal conversation, he related that his originally intended research field was astrophysics, which of course can be studied by analyzing instrument readings from radio telescopes and other devices that don't necessarily have visual outputs. My wife is his piano teacher, and she has had to adapt her teaching to her first student who cannot read a printed musical score.

A much younger person I know who has very limited vision (and the prospect of declining vision as she grows up) attends summer mathematics programs with children running around playing soccer and Frisbee and seems to handle that with aplomb. To not even be able to recognize shapes or moving human beings, something that the blind people I know best are still able to do, would be especially challenging.

Aside: Have you all noticed that people who have acquired profound deafness that begins in adulthood have much less understandable speech than people with normal hearing? Apparently we all rely on feedback from our own senses to keep our speech behavior within the phonologically normal range of whatever language we speak as a native language, and habit alone can't maintain the fine tolerances necessary for readily understandable speech.

AFTER EDIT: Of course anyone can experience total lack of sight simply by going into a totally unlighted place. The human eye doesn't emit vision rays, after all (even though the ancient Greeks seemed to think otherwise), so if you are where there is no light, you see nothing with your eyes.[2] Studies on the human diurnal behavior cycle are sometimes done in deep caves with no source of artificial light.

[1] http://legge.psych.umn.edu/

[2] http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/03/50-of-college-students-thin...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/30/241906619/seeing-...
You can do that. It is in the settings.

It doesn't quite auto-load though.
Thinknum: https://www.thinknum.com/
I'm also very curious to find out how much you made today by being on hackernews today :) Would be awesome if you could share that tomorrow.
As you said, degree holders are more likely to do better. The question is why and there are 2 obvious answers:

1) People who are already more likely to do well tend to go to college.
2) Going to college prepares people to do well.

I think both have a significant effect. Certainly in my own experience what I learned in college has benefited me in the workplace and almost none of what I learned (graduated in 2008) is out of date. When I look at my most respected peers, several of them don't have degrees, but those who don't either went to college and joined the work force before graduating or took more than 4 years to develop the skills and experience they needed to compete with college graduates.

I'm not sure what kinds of individual traits you are talking about that are ignored by the sorting process or how this claim is supported by the few very high achievers that dropped out of college. I would expect some of the very high achievers to take the harder path of blazing their own trail.
> Maybe if email encryption was more like HTTPS more people would use it? Just transparent and easy.

Sure, but the point of a lot of comments here seems to be that It Can't Be Done.
Have you been to an online bootcamp or coding school?
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Amazon credit-card reader poses challenge to Square
It's a great idea and I can see a lot of people using such an app. But I don't feel like it's really productive, or even healthy to look too much at the past. Reminds me a quote "if you spend your day thinking about yesterday, what will you do tomorrow?"
Having reviews next to your shop would only be worse for your shop if you aren't a good shop to begin with. I think this is better for the consumer in the end (which is a motto Amazon also preaches), unless they turn evil and use their advantage to squeeze consumers, which isn't all that unlikely since they are a public compnay. But so far they've done a great job of lowering prices for many commodity goods, which most goods are becoming.
There is something similar to this that is already reality: people use a magnet on one finger to be able to perceive EM fields.

We have the ability to turn our senses off when we are going to sleep, so any "sixth sense" prosthetics should be switchable or at least not strong enough to disturb sleep.