skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the landscape content not being oriented to your eyes when your forearm is across your body, a la Samsung Gear Fit, this looks very nice. The orientation obviously depends on how you wear it (the screen on the top or bottom of your wrist), as others have pointed out.

I don't know how big of an issue that is with limited content, but it drives me nuts when a touch device isn't oriented the way I want (in bed primarily). They could give the user options to lock the orientation one way or another or detect how the user is wearing it somehow, but my money would be Microsoft to figure that out much faster than Samsung.

As a Pebble owner, and potential Apple Watch buyer, this seems to have the best of all smart-watch worlds technology-wise. Cross-platform is huge. Battery-life, reliable software, comfort and style (in order of importance) will make or break this.
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The self-evident fact that homosexuality is contrary to nature should be sufficient substance.
The OP states this:

> Here are three 9-minute screencast videos that I recorded to introduce beginners to a Unix-like command-line interface. If you're running Mac OS or Linux, then you can access this interface by opening your Terminal program. If you're running Windows, then you need to first download and install Cygwin.

I'm hoping to teach Unix-like CLI scripting for a class next quarter...but will Cygwin really be close enough to OS X/Linux in capability and syntax? Or is it just easier to have students install a virtual machine?

Frankly, I would love to just stick to OS X. Piping things into the `say` command is a great way to demonstrate the power of lo-fi scripting (and piping) with seemingly futuristic programs.
Totally true. I always think that eventually some kernel change may totally break how Redis works and I'll have to resort to implementing the same stuff in user space. A simpler parallel path is to use Redis Cluster / Sentinel and provide good safety for when persistence is disabled, and achieve data safety via redundancy in replicas. However even in such a scenario, it will be kind of handy that Redis can persist so that restarts performed with SHUTDOWN (for example for upgrades) will still retain the dataset when needed.
Awesome! Already found some useful things on it.

Your search doesn't work, and I can't figure out how to filter the board by tags.
Aside from police brutality, all the spying and erosion of privacy, corruption at high level (like regulatory capture), the medical and insurance situation points more to the fact that this country -- US, is not a civilized country.

It is a country with a high GDP, strong military, good natural resources, strong manufacturing. All those nice things. But it is still not a civilized country.
There's a big gap from the "only" to "the oldest and most well known".

I'm actually a citizen of a constitutional guaranteed secular democracy where politicians very rarely speak about gods or religion, where decriminalizing abortion² was done by popular referendum, where all drug consumption is decriminalized² and where self-proclaimed Christians are generally pro-divorce and pro-contraception.

Just because the US had a head start centuries ago, you shouldn't assume you're exceptional today.

¹ (I can't remember the last time it was mentioned. There's certainly no "god bless you" or any other clichés that you're supposed to say)

² (good or bad, they are issues on which religion - and especially Christianity - heavily influences choice)
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OK, thanks for posting this, because I thought I was going crazy for a second. My thought was, "Yeah what? Of course he is gay. Everyone knows that? He might be the first gay CEO of a trillion-dollar valuated company!"

At least I know I'm not crazy now and that it was in magazines and such at least a year ago.
There is a difference though between commiting a sin then admitting you were wrong and actively promoting a lifestyle that espouses sin. I'd have the same problem with an adulterer who didn't think that their adultery was wrong. In one case, someone messed up - in the other someone is actually ignoring the bible entirely.
- He said with a wide eyed stare, his nose bleeding accompanied by the unrelenting taps of his foot.
Taking words out of context is not very new. See Matthew 4:1-11.
Agreed. Yet not one of my cellphones from iPhone and my old Blackberry back though various motorola's have been waterproof and that worked out OK for me.

On a watch form factor this is kind of strange. These are the kinds of things that make me wonder what designers might be thinking sometimes or perhaps question the design process itself. Do they wash their hands? Do they cook? Have they ever had to walk a few blocks in pouring rain? Or bike? Do they go fishing? Swimming? Surely the question had to come up. Who said "no" and why?

I still bought them. I want to support this and see where it goes.

Is the Apple watch waterproof?
I actually agree with your proposal to get the state out of recognizing marriage (from what I suspect is a diametrically opposed political position). But you need to acknowledge that this would mean massive changes in many, many aspects of government policy. In the United States, state recognition of marriage is built into our tax structure, immigration policy, all aspects of social security, the regulation of trusts and estates, health care...the list is pretty much endless. Unless and until we change all of those policies, the failure to recognize same-sex marriages is discriminatory.
This is not informed dissent. It's delusion. "The evil one"? GTFO
I have an espresso before running or working out and Starbucks turns out to be cheapest and most convenient.

Granted, I never have any of their blended offerings which they're known for.
A retro way to create and share mixtapes online
Chocolate of course has theobromine, similar to caffeine with similar effects. Cheese? Any idea why that might be similar?
Basic reading skills -- Fail.
Without the code being Open Source, I consider the "encrypted" feature incomplete.
Sometimes even to create the HTML you serve itself, many DB calls are performed: tens is not very uncommon.
how many dudes have you fucked
> There’s Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Bitcasa, SpiderOak, Wuala, Transporter, and I’ve missed a bunch. It doesn’t matter because they’re all pretty bad, and nearly all have the same problem, which is that any data you upload can be decrypted by the provider. In the event of a bug or a breach, anyone could have access to your files.

Both Wuala and SpiderOak do end-to-end encryption, so this statement doesn't apply to them. All their servers ever see is encrypted blobs.

Wuala seems to be the only encrypted file sync service that does team sharing though, which is a requirement for me. Does anyone know any alternatives?
Male-male homosexual intercourse significantly increases your chances of contracting HIV/AIDS. Is that destructive?
As everyone else has mentioned, ask your peers to introduce you directly to the manager. A couple of things:

Include a brief but enticing paragraph on why you are awesome. It makes it a lot easier for the "intro-er" to forward or reword it.

Be respectful of the other's time. Depending on the company and job, some people really welcome a break for coffee for a potential hire or an interesting person; others are swamped, and the triviality of a "coffee date" will be easy to turn down. Try to gauge which this is.

Coffee meetings can be take, take, take. Try to give back. Maybe you have something the other could learn?
In many fields of science is so difficult to get to some core concepts that IMHO you will surrender before getting to the essence of it. There can be exceptions with high performing people, but for example Einstein spent seven years with Minkowki trying to develop the concepts necessary to formulate his theory in the language of differential geometry.
I think the Jawbone Up might fit that description; I know Fitbit Flex does (the Fitbit tracker ethompson must be referring to as a "Fitbit"; the other 3 shipping Fitbit trackers all have displays, as do the 2 that aren't shipping yet). I just did 20 jumps as if jumping rope and my Fitbit Charge counted 20 steps, so I bet there's a way to get your killer feature.

I work for Fitbit in site engineering; I don't speak for Fitbit -- this is my opinion, not necessarily my employer's.
Thanks for posting this. It is pretty cool!
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BFS – The Brain Fuck Scheduler by Con Kolivas
In this Regard, Redis is the first system using it the proper way I guess ;-) I mean, all this copying is not discarded but used to create a point-in-time snapshot.
Make sure your mistakes never directly affect your consumers. Don't spam them, don't overload them with ads, and don't leak their PII. Quickest way to lose customers.
It is funny that he is pretending to have only realized what this patch "is" as there were claims from TIGHAR several years ago that this piece of metal could be that patch. As I commented on another article, yesterday, I am highly skeptical of any of their claims as they seem to draw highly fanciful conclusions from very little evidence.
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That's a lot like when people wheel out Ada Lovelace as a token example of women in tech. It doesn't help people now who don't see anyone who shows they're allowed to be a part of something.
Think playing cards with CC images, or business cards with CC logo. Small things with no room for the possibly-large attribution url.
> As before, I don't yet wish to announce the API widely at this point, so please don't tweet and blog about it.
Man, I'm sorry, but what sort of job do you have where seeing the word "Fuck" is like an actual job risk?
Every one knows the importance of DRY but only few follows it genuinely. This article is a good reminder.
100% agree. I have no clue what this does or why I would need it, and furthermore I feel like I would have to do a fair bit of research before the website makes sense.
Thanks, I spent a while with the LOPSA discussion mailing list giving great feedback.
> Is it okey to ask someone (my peers) to give out someone else’s (the manager’s) number?

I generally get these kinds of invites via either email or LinkedIn. I wouldn't appreciate a cold call.

After that the only etiquette I'd expect is:
- ask to meet close to my office, I will not travel. I usually invite people to the office
- Expect no more than 30 minutes
- You do the running during the meeting - don't expect me to drive the meeting. If it looks like you'd be a fit I'll have my own questions.

I'm Irish/based in Ireland.
The integration with other apps is still vaporware: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com.br/2014/10/google-fit.ht...
Yep.

Now if only we could remind people that there's nothing wrong with having an unpopular opinion.

After all, Brendan Eich has done more for computing than Cook ever will.
I have generally enjoyed using BT Sync since about June and haven't run into some of the CPU problems other are mentioning. I use BTSync primarily for files that I was never really comfortable leaving my machine-- paper I scan, my work files, etc-- but would like to work on from multiple machines and have multiple copies of.

However, I have had at least two cases where a file somehow didn't completely sync and it was corrupted, totally unrecoverable. I am left feeling that versioning is the killer Dropbox feature that BT will never replace. I'm not sure what I'm going to do... I'm still using BTSync for a lot of stuff, but it has lost its trust.
"Small" is relative -- at the "small startup" I run, our email volume is low enough that I BCC myself on every email the site sends. Poor man's monitoring and it won't scale, but I usually notice within hours if something had been broken.
Quoting the comment guidelines:

The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything? There are two ways to do that: by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned, and by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience. Whereas comments like "LOL!" or worse still, "That's retarded!" teach us nothing.

I do believe simply offering a different perspective falls under the guidelines of a good comment, without the need for elaborating prematurely. That would be like pre-mature optimization; I might guess incorrectly what to elaborate on. Feedback gives me greater direction in what to answer.
Honestly, I still have no clue what it does, even with the curl example.
The other side can argue that Africa has been ravaged by HIV/AIDS caused in large part due to unsafe sexual intercourse (male-male sex is leading cause)
Now I'm just waiting for int64.js, which should appear when ES7 value objects come along http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects2
Science has shown it's not bad for children: http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/parenting.aspx?item=11

People who continue to make this argument are ignoring a very well-established conclusion in the social science research.
Millions of Christians don't take the Bible as the literal word of God. Several Christian churches have no problem with blessing the marriage of gay couples.

A Christian is just someone who believes in Jesus Christ as a messiah. You are referring to something much more specific.
I have had a lot of current/potential candidates ask me to get coffee and I usually avoid it unless a) they come highly recommended from someone I trust and/or b) they appear to be exceptionally qualified. Unless one or both of those are met, I think the meetings are more often than not a waste of time unfortunately. However, if it's someone who comes recommended from someone I trust and appears to be a great fit for a role we are hiring now or in the future, I'll jump at the opportunity to meet and prioritize that.
What's more crazy to me is that 50 years later, we have not built an air-breathing aircraft that surpasses the SR-71 in speed or altitude. We clearly have the capacity to achieve great feats of technological ingenuity, but that doesn't mean those feats get done.
command-F -> "alarm"

Timer & Alarm
Time your laps around the track or set an alarm to wake you silently.
So many have done it willingly, in advance of any pressure, that religion isn't a credible defense.

edit: I just realized I got dragged way off topic by a troll. Whoops.
I am looking for an opportunity to continue working on my own product. It looks a way better idea to work part time rather than to dilute my equity share just because of money. I want to find hardworking teammates first and then conquer the world with VC. Until that moment I am thinking about sharing my knowledge and applying my skills somewhere on part time basis.
> The author includes SpiderOak under this statement

Is it really? From your own quote:

> and nearly all have the same problem

(emphasis mine)
Hell, even the Moto G is a cracker for the money. I got mine, which is the newer 4G model, for GBP120.

It may not have the "industrial design" edge over iPhone or HTC's One, but it does the business for me and was a major upgrade to my four year old HTC Desire :)

I agree it'd be a real shame if Lenovo messed around with these two models.
Sure, that is what I said in another comment: if you argue homosexual couples are somehow unfit to raise children, you would also have to question other people's fitness.

But I think you are wrong about adoption. I think it's one of the main concerns opponents of gay marriage have. What other rights would people be concerned about? The other one I can think of is the right to bring your spouse into your country.

Are people going to the barricades because they don't want gays to be able to visit their partners in hospital? I rather doubt it. Adoption is one of the big issues.
I can't help thinking that

[
{ "op": "replace", "path": "/baz", "value": "boo" },
{ "op": "add", "path": "/hello", "value": ["world"] },
{ "op": "remove", "path": "/foo"}
]

would be better described as

value["baz"] = "boo";
value["hello"] = ["world"];
delete value["foo"];

Why go to the trouble of defining your grammar as a strict subset of JSON documents, which are themselves written using a strict subset of JavaScript syntax, when you could just limit yourself instead to the strict subset of JavaScript syntax that encapsulates the operations you actually want to perform?
Assuming he isn't desperate for a job, isn't it better for him to be himself? Then at his job, he could be confident being himself.

I read the 'Go Fuck Yourself' post and became more interested in him. If I were looking to hire a software person, I would investigate to see if he is a match.
I disagree. I think this falls under the realm of "I don't want to work with people who disagree with who I am as a person." - I see that argument tossed around by people who may have tattoos, crazy hair, piercings, etc.

Sure - if you're having a tough time finding a job, you will need to make sacrifices; but for some people that isn't worth it. Max may want to show who he is as a person and not compromise.

Also - if you read the article, it's actually quite humorous.
Few things make my blood boil more than people that robotically say things like "It's the policy" with the kind of compassion and empathy that a robot would show, and then go about their business without a care in the world.
When you're on an active weight loss plan these devices can help a lot. You don't even need it to be perfectly accurate in its calorie estimates as long as it is consistent.

The benefits over regular check-ins with a doctor are consistent daily feedback. Combined with tools like MyFitnessPal (which is mentioned on Microsoft's page) it simplifies the overall process of weight management.

I have Garmin devices, but I expect the process is similar to what Microsoft hopes to offer. The fitness tracking device keeps track of movement. My GPS watch and heart rate monitor estimate running and cycling effort. That all goes into Garmin's online system, and produces a relatively consistent and realistic estimate of calorie burn. That data is shared with MyFitnessPal, where I track my food intake. When I open MyFitnessPal's app I can see how things are going for the day, and adjust my behavior according to how active I have been.

It sound complex, but it's mostly automatic. And 45 pounds later I'm a believer in the potential of these tools.
I thought BTSync had an "archive" for previous versions. Or is that just deleted files?

Either way, it seems like it'd be possible to add (at the expensive of additional complexity and disk usage)
Yup. I've been using SpiderOak since Condoleezza Rice joined Dropbox, and it works fine as a drop-in replacement for Dropbox, at least for my personal files.
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Maybe the common thing that is irritating him is the milk products in Cheese, Coffee and Chocolate.
am I understanding this requires one to run Pg on every server that you want to run the query on?
Spoler alert : most people's downvotes will come from this single sentence :

> "We know that homosexuality is a destructive force in
> society."

Followed by an appeal to proof, then, followed by a long and aimless debates ("define 'We'", "define 'destructive'", "define 'society'", show some proofs, "#define DEBUG", etc...)

Followed by people giving up, making a sandwich, and going on with their mortal lives.
That stinks. For others looking to have children you may want to research short term disability options.

http://www.babycenter.com/0_maternity-leave-the-basics_449.b...
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Title appears incorrect; from what I can see there's no claim of this work being faster than cuBLAS in the article. There are some claimed speedups relative to clBLAS [note: "cl" not "cu"], and some references to other work which claims speedups over cuBLAS.
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I've been waiting to see a Drupal 8 RC for years...
I wrote a BTSync Docker (https://github.com/merlin83/btsync-docker.git) a week or two ago to help backup and synchronize some of data across several of my machines in the cloud and behind a NAT.

The biggest benefit so far is that it just works, even for machines behind a NAT.
>> It's not as if anyone truly imagines every part needs to be modular,

Are you saying that Project Ara will still allow the consolidation of separate functions into integrated SoCs, when it makes sense to do so?

Or are you saying that the consumer won't be obligated to piece their phone together? Nor swap out modules any more frequently then they currently upgrade phones?

Either way, you are right.
Brendan Eich donated money with the sole goal of denying equal rights to people based on their sexuality. There's nothing wrong with having an unpopular opinion, but I think there is something wrong with that. And I suspect you would too if it were you whose rights were being taken away.

Edit: Eich supported Proposition 8 which was _ruled unconstitutional_ for violating the Equal Protection Clause. Yes, his support was non-criminal, but he was fundamentally supporting something wrong, both morally and legally.
It's only the title that's the problem. You're going to work in a professional place, that means you have to be a professional. Any company is taking a risk by hiring you, and the risk that you're the kind of person who would tattoo "Go Fuck Yourself" as the highest priority item on your website is worrisome. Consider the title "GFY" instead. It's a little less grating and a shows you're capable of being professional when dealing with sensitive subjects.
> I imagine they are in a tough spot: how will they ever make any money off this product if it's fully open source? The whole point is that it needs no central server.

Every day we, as well as general consumers, pay money for someone to run something for us because we don't care to run it. I can run a mail server. But please, please please, take my money to do it. I like to sleep, I like my mail to work, and I like to work on more exciting projects.

Bittorrent should open the code with a license that permits them to run a service they can charge for, but anyone else can use for free.
Because it's much easier to implement?
It’s interesting how con men’s confidence games are now being upvoted and celebrated by the Hacker News community. The celebration of bait and switch tactic in these emails is indicative of how shady startup culture is getting.

There is no sacred ground to maintain trust. Social proof, vanity metrics, out right lying is all fair game in this wild west. This is how credibility crumbles. This is how the startup scene becomes overwhelmingly a market of lemons as honest folks get pushed to the wayside and sociopaths rise amongst the chaos.
Yeah, definitely. It would be a lot easier to have multiple redundant copies of my data if I didn't have to worry about securing each one.

It's one of the main reasons I picked Duplicity for backup.
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Nasty treatment. And in many places you can't even attempt to bank the sick-leave in the first place.
I'm looking to hire. Someone with exactly your skill set actually. Three things are holding me back from contacting you.

1) Your site says you currently run a startup. It sounds like you have a full-time job already.

2) The offensive blog post that others have mentioned. While it may not bother everyone, it will bother some people.

3) Your reaction to the feedback you've gotten on the blog post.