skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beats earphones. Really good, price is $100, though been having issues with my laptop detecting microphone recently
The background you provide is helpful but doesn't really seem incompatible with Simler's essay. It seems your reading assumes that the distinction between emotional inception and cultural imprinting is the level of consciousness & rationality implied, but that is not the only interpretation.

Emotional inception vs. cultural imprinting might instead be considered a partition of the subconscious "association" space into first and second order effects, which are of course concurrent, and both of which are "quick" heuristics. Cultural imprinting is then the simulation mechanism underlying self-image manipulation, as you mention.

(as an aside, more Kruglanski references would be helpful, and maybe less ad hominem)
It’s Official: There Is a 3D Printer in Space
It doesn't have to be that way. It certainly wasn't for me.

The cool thing about running your own business is that you can run it any way you like. Yes, you can work 120 hour weeks, lose your wife, and have your heart attack at 45. But you can also work one 8 hour day per week, with a quick 10 minute email spin on the other weekdays, and spend the rest of your time enjoying your life.

Both of those routes will get your product shipped, fit it to the market, and ramp you up to a full time living if you do it right.

The idea that you have to work yourself into the ground is just a story they tell people to scare them off. The reality is that entrepreneurship isn't particularly hard, particularly stressful, or particularly scary. Unless you want it to be.
Interesting internal shot of what I presume is the fuel tank? Clearly some sort of liquid. I note that the Wikipedia page [1] had this one as an F9R mission but the rocket did not include the landing legs. In theory the next mission they will try to re-land the first stage on something solid. I am so looking forward to that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_launches
What would you say is an appropriate amount of time?
Nonuser Experience
Interlace is a total hack solution for short term gain. Do it right from the start and HW can target right goals. If it's just for mobile, then it's still a hack for mobile that will infect everything else.

At the very least, non-structured patterns which our eyes fixate on, should be used to subsample images to deal with the bandwidth, power, rendering limitations.

It seems as though the facebook "must have a mobile solution" virus has infected Oculus and instead of taking the path of proving a successful product at a smaller pc/console quantities first, they're going for the whole "mobile" enchilada with all the requisite hack solutions.
Velodyne vQuiets, which are noise cancelling and on sale for about $69.

http://velodyne.com/vquiet-noise-cancelling-headphones-black...
That's what it looked like to me. I wonder what they wanted from that shot; looking for slosh, remaining fuel, or how the remainder of the fuel influences the momentum of the craft after engine cut-off?

If it's something operational, I'm kind of surprised that they would show that on the public stream.
Flickr now give you 50GB storage for free. You can set your prefs to make all your uploaded photos visible only to yourself. So it's a bit of a no-brainer to use as an additional backup (but obviously not your sole backup)
That looks good. How's the noise cancellation? Obviously, given the price, not sure how it compares to others.
How is bsd exploiting people?
The tragic thing about this is that anyone affiliated with an academic institution already most likely has free JSTOR access and those who do not can find a large number of significant papers on sites like gen.lib.rus.ec, visit a local university library, email someone with access to the paper or can do any number of other things.
Great project!

I've done some python code optimization recently and I was fairly disappointed in the profiling options; more precisely the profiling visualization options. Standard python provides pstats, which is basic and has an awkward command based GUI. I've tried runsnakerun and snakevis which do provide a nice graphical view but little else.

Easy to use, hierarchical list, clear output. I like this. I never used live profiling before and I can already see where it could be super handy.

Remarks:

-how do I pass arguments to my program. profiling seems to absorb all parameters

-Is it possible to access standard input/output when live profiling?

-Is it possible to reset the profiling statistics when live profiling? Eg.: I profile a webserver, profile a request, reset stats, profile another request,...

-I'd love to see an integration with IPython. Interactive optimization could be great: I profile some code, tweak it, profile again,...
OhShit.
On the Ethics of “My” Art
Yes. I've already taken that leap.

What they need to do instead of getting rid of stuff is instead supporting it for a long time (10+ years) and just not putting any new features into it / letting new people sign up.

Otherwise, they'll continue to lose developers' trust.
Ridiculously misleading title. Yes, OpenID 2.0 is being deprecated, yes they'd like you to move to Google+ Sign-In, but you can also move to OpenID Connect[0], which is a saner realization of OAuth 2.0 than OpenID 2.0 was.

And this is made clear right on the page linked to. There is no way anyone acting in good faith could draw the conclusion that you're being required to move to Google+ Sign-In.

[0] http://openid.net/connect/
It looks like the OpenID Foundation considers OpenID 2.0 obsolete and OpenID Connect is the new thing: http://openid.net/developers/specs/
That sounds nice, but in practice it's extremely difficult because academics have very little incentive to make their rigorous research discoverable, much less accessible, to laymen. I agree that arm-chair theorizing is almost always a waste of time, but a layman probably contributes more by trying to bring his own particular expertise (software engineering or whatever) to bear on the problem -- on the off chance that he makes a novel insight -- than by sinking himself in the literature.
Right - that was my point as well - but you can only do that calculation in certain scenarios. Unlikely with a fungible product that has a high-value compared to its cost of transporting, in which case you can do it in many more scenarios.

I first heard the word, "fungible" from Dick Cheney of all people. It was in the context of Canada selling Oil through its ports to the Chinese instead of building a pipeline down to the United States, and his was response was, "That's fine. Oil is fungible." - I.E. Canada Selling Oil to the Chinese would be just as beneficial to the United States, as Canada Selling Oil to the United States, because the oil that we sold to the Chinese, would free up oil from other sellers, which would then go to the United States. All that mattered was that oil was produced and placed on the "Global" Market.

Water, on the other hand, is expensive to distribute compared to its generation, so water from Crystal Springs Reservoir, all 70,000,000 m^3 of it, really only has value for residential use. There is no agriculture competition for it.

In the case of the Sierra Nevada - I think we both concur that water is useful for both residential or agricultural use.
I wish the US govt. would sponsor something for citizens to store a bit about themselves and their family indefinitely. Even 20MB or 30MB per person, which seems modest and feasible, would allow people to pick a few of their most important photos and write a bit about their life for the next generations to find. I don't trust any private company to handle this well when you're talking about hundreds of years of future storage.
> sorry, saying 4/5 doctors recommend X is not a rational cue to buy X

If we assume for a moment that 4/5 doctors really do recommend X, and that X is something related to one's health, why is it not a rational cue to buy X?
I see nothing on that site that would make me trust it with my data. It says it won't monetize through ads, but how will it monetize? Is my data involved other than through targeting ads at me? ? Why should I trust a centralized, unfederated service with my data as opposed to one that I could host myself (such as Diaspora)?

The site has a vague privacy policy of sorts related to its Google Analytics, but that doesn't have anything to do with the data that I would actually upload and store on the site for 'social networking' purposes.

Also the site itself feels very overproduced; back button is broken et cetera.

I agree completely with the criticism of other services in the "manifesto," but nothing about the site suggests its a viable alternative.
I heard a discussion about that thing a couple of days ago in a local radio show here and they talked about how promising and cool that new social network is. They also basically said that everyone who thinks it wouldnt make it is stupid and doesnt know what he's saying.

I don't think they'll be making it. I can't count the projects anymore that tried to be a "better facebook" or "better whatsapp". The harsh truth ist: people simply don't care. The number of people caring enough about their privacy to move to another social network just because of that (that seems to be ellos single selling point) is very very small. It will only be a couple of hipsters showing off how cool and different they are. In a couple of weeks, nobody will talk about ello anymore.

Its a bit sad but thats how it is. Just look at all the other approaches that have failed already. Even app.net that had a lot of media coverage failed in the end because people just don't care. Even the oh-my-god-we-are-so-awesome-and-invite-only trick won't do it for them if they don't satisfy a very strong need for the users - and they don't; because there is none.
https://diasporafoundation.org/
https://uradura.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/hdfd-buffalo-bills-...
https://uradura.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/hdfd-buffalo-bills-...
https://uradura.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/hdfd-buffalo-bills-...
I upvoted this comment, but it would be a lot better without the condescension. Seriously, what does that tone add? You can easily signal your expertise without it.
Soft Metrics That Have a Significant Effect on Your Bottom Line
Everyone wants to increase sales and grow their business – that’s practically a given in the marketing world.

Increasing sales numbers and related key performance indicators (KPIs) is typically the main task for most marketers. And it is almost definitely the one that your boss cares about the most, regardless of whether said boss is the head of the marketing department, the CMO, or the business owner. And if you yourself are the owner, then you definitely focus on the sales numbers and corresponding profits!
And what exactly McD achieved by this except fame on HN as a maker of annoying ads? So you eat in McD more in general or breakfasts specifically? If not, that ad failed.
According to Wikipedia, the Pennsylvania Dutch are actually from southern Germany, and have no connection to Holland or Dutch.
I have not. Why? Because I don't repeatedly break the law, since I don't want to go to jail.

Hence my comment above, if you can't do the time don't do the crime.
I just jumped the gun, because many tend to think stronger typing that what C offers is a synonym for managed.

Regarding the interoperability, it really depends at what level OS, GC or RC services are available.

If just on the language runtime, yes it complicates the distribution of libraries. As it raises the issues how many copies of the runtime one gets and version compatibility issues.

If the OS offers the services, then any language on that specific OS, can enjoy exposing libraries that interoperate with GC or RC.

COM (now WinRT) is a possible example of such OS services.
Yes, it looks like Google is moving on from OpenID 2.0 to OpenID Connect, which is the new standard [0]. It appears that OpenID 2.0 login will be kept for compatibility, though [1].

Google+ Sign-In is an implementation of OpenID Connect, with some nice features built on top:

"Google+ Sign-In is built on the OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols. It supports over-the-air installs, social features, and a sign-in widget on top of standardized OpenID Connect sign-in flows. Google+ Sign-In works for all users with a Google account, whether or not they have upgraded to Google+." [2]

[0]: http://openid.net/connect/

[1]: https://developers.google.com/+/api/auth-migration

[2]: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login
Shell-conduit: Write Shell Scripts in Haskell with Conduit
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers Exhibition: The Future of Mobility
> A warmth appeal like a Coke ad with smiling faces will reliably create an association between Coke and positive emotions

If it's all just associations, then when I want to feel happy, I would go look at Coke ads, not buy Coke.
Not just built-in headphones, but also built-in positional audio APIs (possibly with hardware acceleration?)
I hope the moderators can change the title to "moves to OpenID Connect". As it stands, it's just linkbait to something that doesn't care about clicks.
Nice use of keynote to directly present requirements to engineers throughout the display supply chain, especially in large companies like Samsung.
Hint: if you are starting a social network, let people sign up as soon as you go public. The number of users you have is what will make or break you. Denying immediate entry is turning away your customers, most likely for good.
Great short intro! One other useful thing I'd add is that you don't have to have the register window open to see the contents of registers --- they can also be printed like other variables while you are in 'layout asm'. Or you can use 'layout split' which shows both source and assembly.

For example, "p/t $rax" will print the contents of %rax. Printing the floating point registers can be a little awkward, since they are written as a long union. But "p/f $xmm0.v2_double" will show just the two doubles, etc.
Fixed mindset vs. Growth mindset
This keynote was by far the highlight of the entire conference for me

Second were the amazing demos on the Crescent Bay prototype
I just want to see a release date for the consumer Rift already, it's getting annoying.
Why would it be an extra API layer? This appears to be building an HTTP API directly onto postgres, so that instead of:

app <- http -> web middleware <-> libpq <-> postgres

You would just have:

app <- http -> postgres

HTTP is also pretty secure, compact, and bug-free, and has the added advantages of being the universal firewall tunnelling protocol and implementing every authentication mechanism ever invented. It also does compression-on-the-wire, which postgres still doesn't have for its byte-packed protocol, and you don't need as much extra code to interact with it because everybody has an http client already.

What is the reasoning for using the postgres protocol? I'm not really seeing any advantages compared to HTTP.
Depends how much access you give the Archive Team. I'd say 6 months to a year, depending on userbase size.
Homoiconic Faq
The State Of Investments In Europe: A Review Of The Last 5 Years
So you believe yourself to be so intellectually superior to everyone you've ever met that your ideas are beyond them.

How then do you expect humanity (mere chimps to you) to accept or implement those ideas? Charm perhaps?
This is laughable. Government has not incentive to properly store this information and not allow it to be misused.
Focus emotions
Isn't that exactly what the article said in its Drano example? If McD wanted to say "guys, we have new breakfast menu", they succeeded. Being remembered for years though is useless for that purpose. If they had to do it in annoying form that may have to do more with justifying ads budgets or seeking artistical fulfillment on the side of the ad makers than with its effectiveness.

Brand recognition is definitely important but I don't think there's anybody in US past the age of 6 that doesn't know what McDonalds is. Well, maybe excluding Amish, but even that not sure. So all that theory "you told you friends about McDonalds" sounds nonsensical - I doubt there is somebody on HN who didn't know what McDonalds is and if there is, this information is probably useless for him as he doesn't have any McDonalds around him anyway and he never traveled anywhere where McDonalds is (because otherwise he'd already know about it). Of course, there's a marginal case of a traveler from a remote rainforest village coming into US for the first time and immediately visiting McDonalds basing on his past HN experience, but come on - does it really happen often enough for McD marketing to spend any time thinking about it?
It's a transparent attempt to cast Google in a negative light by pretending they're requiring use of some proprietary API instead of an open standard, and it's working beautifully (see top-level comment by seanp2k2 and thegenius's reply).
Super Bowl ads cost about the same per viewer as prime-time TV slots ($35 per thousand in 2014). Both cost about four times as much per viewer as daytime TV.

Primetime: http://www.tvb.org/trends/4718/4715

Daytime: http://www.tvb.org/trends/4718/4710
And now, number 1. The larch. The larch.
I appreciate the joke at least!
Of course, you are right. There are other solutions, but I think this one is the best one. It's Google for health care.

As an aside, I'm really glad Google is getting back into the field with Calico because cheap long tail health care (an obvious externality of the idea) is the ultimate positive use case / justification for their company's total information awareness philosophy / strategy.
Thanks for the insight, and thanks for the effort you put in trying to build a network !

I was aware that building your own fiber network can be extremely expensive (though there are tales of villages doing it, such as this one [0], because noone is willing to come to them. Yes, that case is special in that it's extremely rural), but I didn't know that you couldn't even use telephone lines because they're unreliable.

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-rural-community-is-bui...
App.net – State of the Union [May 2014]
Reasons (not) to trust Apple's privacy promises
The irony of a person being "attached to a brand like Apple" and claiming he is not influenced by advertising is so rich it's hard to take it all in one setting. I may have to ask for a takeout box to take some home with me.
The invite-only thing works when people actually are compelled to sign up for your site. What is compelling about this? Seriously, I'm already inundated with a bunch of equally terrible social media sites, why would I indulge myself the chore of signing up for this one or fish for an invite to it?
I'm just getting "Please enable Javascript" Checking out the console I'm getting two "SecurityError: The operation is insecure." errors during the localStorage access, probably due to me disabling cookies. Can't find which domain the cookies are under so can't play it now.
the little known ssh -t option is not documented to take an argument, i'm not sure this works the way you think it does.
Not necessarily, Facebook started in the MySpace-era and was restricted. Sometimes exclusivity can be a perk.
I almost chocked when reading this.
Ask HN: Struggling to market our first SAAS - any tips?
TLDR - Built a SAAS early adopters like but struggling to get the word out… any suggestions?

The background: two of us built our first SAAS service over the past 6 months. It's a poll and survey SDK for mobile developers (think a survey monkey 2.0, for mobile)

We made it to scratch our own itch - two co-founders are an game dev and app apps.

The handful of customers who have deployed it so far really love it and are use it every day now..

BUT… we're struggling with getting the word out.

Naively we thought if we build a great product traffic would just grow by itself (I know silly in hindsight).

So far we’ve tried posting about it here and product hunt, but not much traffic. We tried some direct emails to developers emails from App Store but low response rates.

It' quite frustrating - any suggestions?

EDIT: the service is https://polljoy.com
And yet of the sites I read, only one - HN - has rankings by customer feedback.

Slate, like most other online magazines, provides a curated experience determined by the editors. These have also been around for a long time, even though it costs the magazine "barely anything" to acquire a bunch of SEO dreck and put it on the shelves as well.

Planet Python aggregates blogs from people who mostly talk about Python. The selection is hand-picked, which makes it another curated experience - even though it could aggregate many more blogs for "barely anything."

I picked TJ's for a reason - where most grocery stores might have 5-10 brands for a given product, TJ's might have 1-3, and likely a store brand. This works because they do more curatation work to find something close to the Pareto frontier. I believe some people go to TJ precisely because it limits the effect of the paradox of choice. This also means customers switch from item brand loyalty to store brand loyalty, which is "bad" for producers of nationwide brands, but "good" for TJ and presumably its customers.

MCRed in this thread makes the brilliant observation that Google's GMail curates the email experience by removing spam - even though it costs "barely anything" for them to include the spam in the main mailbox. People love that curated experience, even though it doesn't help the scammers improve their operations.

Can you convince me that Apple would do better without curation? Not that it could work, but that it would be better?
What advantage does ello have over a popular and established ad free SN like diaspora?
Yup, I am looking at a starter package, something for a customer success team at a startup.
For Facebook, exclusivity was a feature because it was directly related to craved social status (belonging to an elite university). For GMail, exclusivity worked because it was directly related to craved features (large capacity for email attachments).

I don't see "lack of ads" as particularly craved by users. My wife actively wants to see ads (to the suffering of my credit card). Unless they find something else to latch on to, this will end up being yet another also-ran social.
The other Whatsapp, Telegram, is doing pretty well it seems in my environment with most contact immediately enabling end-to-end encryption. Maybe I'm in a privacy-aware bubble. True, there as also that other twitter people were enthusiastic about (even though it didn't do anything different from status.net). Diaspora didn't really become popular as well.
You need to learn to write grammatically, or proof-read, before submitting your articles to HN for wider consumption.
Interesting article. They just installed LED street lights outside my house and I had to buy a pile of black curtains before I could sleep again. People have even knocked over a couple of the lights down our street because of the negative effects.
Ask HN: Between jobs for two weeks, what should I do?
My last day at my employer of 10 years is fast approaching, and I'll have two weeks of 'unemployment' before starting in the new role. I'm at a bit of a loss over what to do with that time, so looking for ideas..

I'm torn between planning absolutely nothing and just let nature take its course vs. trying to use the time as fully as possible (take an intensive language course for example.)

What would you do?
This is the sort of thing that says "never employ an ex-Microsoft exec under any circumstances". Just how much destruction of Google's brand was Vic Gundotra responsible for?
OhLife is private, ArchiveTeam archives public - whats your point? I'm pretty sure their customer base would feel pretty violated/enraged if private journals were uploaded to the Internet Archive.