skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't want to be rude... ;)
Earlier I posted a somewhat-related post at Ars Technica about using MS Office as a programming language in the way I describe above. You may find it interesting as well.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/preview-office-for-an...
I think the problem has more to do with mass production and marketing than it is with privacy concerns, etc.

If Google glass sold for $100~$200 price range and could be purchased everywhere (like Chromecast which I got in India for $40) it would have been a big hit.
> If you write code for 1.0 now, it'll compile on a future 1.0 release.

Almost: it will compile on all future Rust releases to the end of time (unless Rust wants to commit suicide). Languages cannot ever make breaking changes once they reach a stable version (unless they have relatively little adoption). This is even more crucial for "low level" languages like Rust, as they are often used for projects that are meant to last for decades, and are often chosen by programmers who want don't have the patience for this kind of thing.
> But adding a camera that could be recording ON LINE in front of my face... wow, it its creepy and weird

It wasn't that long ago that we thought the idea of phones taking pictures was creepy and weird. Give it a few years and these fears will go away.
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not rude at all! very helpful :)
Actually, it is - literally. As the article mentioned, Newton was born on 25th December, so he often comes up in Christmas-related discussion and so this time of year is a good time to mention him.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=newtonmas
we did hire a designer. doh!
1&1 is the scum of the internet.
Why I Walked Away from a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch
Thanks for your reply. I've been working with maven and make so far. I'm not used to do much stuff in Ruby, so that's why I don't consider Rake files for a big benefit of my working process.

Anyway I consider your points valid, although I also think you can remove a lot of the boilerplate ( Copy-Paste code ) by introducing some variables to your Grunt build.

I personally use Assemble [1] and I find it pretty decent for generating static content websites.

Good to know there's a good alternative in the ruby world.

1: https://github.com/assemble/assemble
Other people pointed to the design so let me mention one other thing - copy text. That page where I can see your team members made an awful impression on me. I understand you wanted to be cool and light-hearted but this should be at least a little work related and POSITIVE. Right now it's strange at best.
I probably shouldn't ruin the fun, but for those that missed the joke,
the name "American Fuzzy Lop" is actually a breed of extremely fuzzy
rabbits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fuzzy_Lop
thanks, mate. I'll fiddle with it some more to move the button higher up. I'll also try to cut back on all the colours, it is probably overwhelming to users.
I live and work in San Francisco and have tweeted many times about the extreme lack of public restrooms and the overwhelming amount of human waste littered across our beautiful city.

We have an incredibly large transient population and yet there are hardly any public restrooms. It's an all too common site to see someone squatting down in the middle of the sidewalk relieving themselves.

We pride ourselves on being the Florence of the Digital Renaissance yet we can't provide for the basic human needs of our citizens.

For a while I've been looking for ways that I can make a big difference in cleaning up our city and this project is the catalyst that I've been looking for.

This morning my mind is on fire w/ ideas thanks to the inspiration provided by http://www.lavamae.org/.

As a person which has adopted San Francisco as my city and the place where I'm raising my son I thank you greatly!

:-]

[EDIT]

* Fixed broken URL
No need to mix it with mercury. An aluminium-air battery is a thing. And among the best anodes for metal-air batteries is aluminium.
It's being done on behalf of Google competitors who have been complaining loudly in Europe. And it's being done on behalf of German publishers who want some extra extortion money and they're using the government to get it.
The only thing I’ll remember from my acquisition
The European Parliament Just Voted to Break Up Google
Yeah, too bad that I'm referring to a PAID Apps account

This happened to a friend of mine:

Shut out of their account for some days, with a "we'll look into it" and no good explanation.

Calling did not help
This contains no definite info. The victim/user doesn't even know if he accessed the SSL version of the Blockchain site.

Blaming it on Tor is presumptuous. It could just as easily have been a local exploit (keylogger/malware), not accessing the SSL site, an exploit of the Blockchain site itself, etc.
Compare it with screenshots of the old explorer:
http://old.reactos.org/en/screenshots.html

http://www.reactos.org/screenshots

Information about the old explorer:
http://www.foxplanet.de/explorer/
I think there is too much going on there, in terms of text, and colors. Try moving the video to the top just below the main headline. Also a span12 grid with 3 cols would look better since you want an opinion.

"Use this knowledge to build strategic relationships, sa.." text looks really out of place.
How about trying to run it under compatibility mode?

http://i.imgur.com/jrueyYG.png
Yes.

You've got two options. One is the straight thermal route, the other is to run the aluminum oxidation process forward and backward, in which the aluminium is the cathode and oxygen from the air the anode. It's just like any other battery in that you're creating an electric potential difference and current flow directly.
Its not the first time. Their status page is not trustworthy. When there was an issue a few weeks ago concerning the HVM? many instances were restarted. Status page showed green as if nothing had happened. They probably change it when its well known.

Its conflicting for a company to show its own status page I suppose. Its in its own interest to get it to be green as much as possible, even if its just for display's sake as a false sense of security.
Right. I understand it. I thought the main goal was to get rid of templates and configuration, just place the markdown and get HTML -- and that could be done with compiling.
thanks for taking the time to write all of this, I really appreciate it. So it looks like I have a lot of work to do, mostly clean up the design colors and fix the copy, formatting. There was actually a lot more text in previous iterations believe it or not! I'll work on it. Thanks again for the candid feedback.
Here's something to consider.

Being lonely by myself hurts. Being lonely in a group of people hurts more. Learning about algebraic topology doesn't hurt.

I think it's a bad idea for people to be by themselves, but I can more than empathize with the "I would rather not" sentiment in this thread.
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Hi Mszyndel,

Thanks for commenting.
1 - Can you please clarify that you were talking about the landing page (interactions), or about the team page (whitesmith.co/team).
2- What do you mean about being "at least a little work related and POSITIVE"?

That would help us see where to start solving the issues. :)
Do you have any reference for an IPCC claim that global warming will cause deeper cooling??? I've not seen it, though I've read all the IPCC summaries. Reference, please.
The centerpiece of your landing page seems to be mock-security cam footage of a room full of brogrammers ("he uses his guitar to pick up girls") and an LED light that changes color. I have no idea what you're selling me, other than hype.

It wasn't until I found your github repo that I realized you're a ruby/rails web development shop and that your definition of "full-stack" means both CSS and Javascript.

The worst thing is, if you're a web development shop, you're selling your ability to communicate, to engage users, and turn them into customers. My #1 take away from that page is, "how can you sell my product if you can't even sell yourselves?"

Kudos for not using Yet Another Bootstrap Landing Page. But there's a reason that so many people use that template; that standard landing page makes it easy to communicate an elevator pitch about your product and invites a clear call to action. That should be the minimum bar for you to replicate.
I actually find it really annoying to look at this website. It seems like I have to wait for an animation effect every time I want to view information. Then, when I get the information, the copy is confusing.

You definitely need to spend some time in Mixpanel or Google Analytics & work out where people are bouncing (most likely the home page).

Something to reduce bounce that you can look at implementing: Add sections to the bottom of every page that drive navigation through to a next relevant page. For example, at the bottom of the About page, include a section such as 'View our Projects >'.

Which brings me to the next issue - where are your projects? Where is your work? Where are your clients logos, testimonials? Where's the copy of the challenges your client's had & the copy of your solutions? You need to do more than one 14px, 30% transparent heading (on a white bg btw) to show 'Happy Clients'.
How much are you paying?

I'm based in Lund, studying at LTH at the moment, but know some very skilled C++ developers - this sounds very interesting for myself since I do C++ and game development on my free-time while studying, never worked with UDK however. My friends have though.

Visit http://www.thegameassembly.com/ for fresh students, the program is very good and most people get hired by DICE, Massive Entertainment or Avalanche.
Tech. 22 technical. 8 management. Wouldn't be hanging out here if I made coat-hangers for a living. :)

We accrued cash and bought a commercial lease with a decade to run from a bankrupt company - prime real estate in the centre of a creative city. Before here, we based ourselves out of a squat, and after we left agreed a retroactive amount of rates to pay the council to turn a blind eye to our having been there. It really pays to shirk estate agents and to instead do "huh, that building is suddenly empty - let's call the owner".

Insurance is also surprisingly cheap, so long as you indemnify yourself against consequential loss, which in our business is a must.

"Extra overhead" runs to not much - maybe a few £k a month.

Oh, and this isn't included in my figure, but is something EVERYBODY WHO RUNS A TECH BUSINESS IN THE UK SHOULD BE AWARE OF - R&D Tax Credits! HMRC cut us a cheque every April.

I'd actually rather we spend a bit more and perhaps become unprofitable for a while, as I want to invest in growth more heavily, but my partner, the loveable tightwad that he is, needs deep justification for every penny spent.

And that's the crux of it. Go into business with the tightest person you know, and spend forever fighting about it, and end up with pretty optimal budgetary decisions, as everything has to be thought/fought about.
Some of the paragraphs, ie. the first and second, are really good. Some others, aren't.

>Physicist Richard Feynman voiced the feelings of many a self-absorbed scientist when he wrote a book titled, What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Did he? I finished the book a few days ago, and there aren't really anything self-absorbed about it.

>Newton never wrote a memoir, but if he had, he probably would have called it I Hope I Really Pissed You Off, or maybe, Don’t Bother Me, You Ass.

What does this even mean? From the article itself, it sounds like Newton didn't want to socialize, not that he wanted to piss people off.

>He had come into the world on December 25, 1642, like one of those Christmas gifts you hadn’t put on your list.

I.. what? Surely, for a parent to get his/her child is a present indeed. (I might misread this, but gifts I don't put on my list are gifts I do not want!).

>They certainly weren’t close—in all the writings and scribbles Isaac left behind there is not a single affectionate recollection of her.

The fact that there aren't anything doesn't mean they weren't close (one can be close without expressing it in writing!).

>The lonely but intensely creative life he led as a boy was preparation for the creative but tortured and isolated life he would lead for most—though happily not all—of his adult life.

The author seems to assume that everyone have to be surrounded by people to not have a 'tortured life'. I can't really say I agree.

>But Newton was not cut out to be a farmer, proving that you can be a genius at calculating the orbits of the planets, and a total klutz when it comes to growing alfalfa. What’s more, he didn’t care.

It sounds indeed like he didn't care, not that he simply sucked at it (though he might did suck).

All in all, I'm not sure I liked the article in its entirety. Somehow, the author thinks (or knows, but without backing it up) that Newton was a bitter, arrogant misanthropy, because of a bad childhood.
Are there independent services that monitor a range of hosting providers, cdn, etc. and keep a history that can be used for reference? I'm thinking someone like pingdom could do this.
If you're going to impugn someone else's integrity, could you perhaps sign your name to the comment? I have no idea who you are. I'm just going to assume you work for Alibaba, or Vk.
Qt Weekly #21: Dynamic OpenGL implementation loading in Qt 5.4
NB: This PDF seems to be consistently missing the letter 'f'.

xpdf and evince under Debian.
The Clockwork inside Game of Thrones
It really is readable, to me at least. I just wanted to say that because some people will perhaps read your comment and take it as true, because they too struggle with it at the moment, and then discard Clojure. But I'm just in love with it---yes, the syntax.
Light paper
"The scheme comes at a time of heightened tension in the city, fuelled by the tech boom which led to charges of gentrification amid exponential rent rises over the past two years."

It is too bad things have to touch some sort of bottom for a reaction to occur.

Treat one another with grace and humanity.
It's certainly a feel-good story, but I'd like to hear more about how they intend to handle the "dirty details" that effectively destroy public restrooms. Is it basically like a public restroom with a full-time attendant who polices and cleans full time?
It'll be amusing to watch you try to build an intellectually coherent narrative out of (a) insulting strangers for supposed conflicts of interest, as if it was possible to do that without directly questioning their integrity, and (b) openly suggesting that coercive force be used to shut down a forum that happens to host arguments you don't agree with.
Yeah, they need capital because they're pissing money away at an amazing rate, and as someone who has, y'know, actually done this, and built a business (well, several) from scratch without funding which works and profits and grows, I might know something about this, rather than some pundit who runs a startup that has never, and probably will never, be an actual business.

If you're not filling an efficiency gap, and you're not making money, you're not a business. You can fail one of those criteria and be either a parasite or a charity, but you need both to be a business.
Did Newton himself ever complain about loneliness? I 've never heard anything of the sort, yet this writer assumes it.

Try to picture the genius of Newton in the dark ages in which he lived. He found patterns and understood the world in astonishing ways. I think it was genuinely impossible for him to find a soulmate other than himself, even among his educated peers. He found patterns and understood the world in a profoundly different way than others. Should we not assume he was happy with discovering the unimaginable? Is that even comparable to the petty joy of socializing?
Very cool site but I was also lost. This website is also beautiful but it's easy to go navigate: https://www.chaordic.com.br/es/

nb: I don't work there.
https://cloudharmony.com/ does to some extent, though it's not exactly what your talking about
Worth noting that it is quite common these days for USB flash drives to be nothing more under the shell than a SD card with a USB adapter
Your friend can repeat what you've said to others without any device at all. He can also make an audio recording of your comments while pretending to fiddle around on his phone. Hell, he can do it without taking his phone out of his pocket. People are a-ok with this state of affairs, but are appalled at the idea of being "surreptitiously" recorded by someone wearing possibly the least stealthy device ever created by man.

Why? Because a legitimate fear of being recorded isn't what lies at the heart of mainstream hatred toward Glass.
It's an inherently pulsed design, so the duration of energy production isn't a problem. It would be the same short duration in a production power plant. Many other designs are also pulsed.

What is a problem is that they simply measured the energy output of a small portion of fuel to the energy absorbed by that fuel. If you take into account things like the large energy losses in powering the lasers, they're actually pretty far from breakeven.

By contrast, the JET tokamak in the UK is expected by many to achieve real overall breakeven by 2020.
Damn man, not sure how I should respond. Thank you? Don't worry though loneliness isn't so bad once you get used to it.

I'm actually on vacation now and spent most of it in my room. Rented my first VPS, figured my way around Docker, set up nginx as a reverse proxy, kept tabs on my auth logs and noticed a lot of ssh login attempts from Chinese IPs. These are all firsts for me and I'm having fun. I don't think I'd trade those experiences for just to hang out with people who couldn't give two hoots about any of the things I'm interested in.

Ideally I'd love to share those experiences with others but if the choice is pretending to care about whatever topic I don't care about just for the sake of socializing and being alone and doing things that interest me, I'll take the latter every time.
Let them do what they want? http://online.wsj.com/articles/apples-irish-tax-deal-breache..., http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/14/european-commis..., http://www.zdnet.com/eu-plans-stronger-consumer-law-enforcem..., http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2014/03/european...
I am going to suggest that the best settlement is probably a tutorial on the layout of Google search result pages.
Thanks man. It seems like the general consensus is that there is too much going on which I'll need to address somehow. Back to the drawing board.
Couple indicted for Silk Road selling after their IP address was traced over Tor
They have a monopoly on downloaded music purchases. That has been weakened in the last few years. Prior to Spotify and Pandora climbing to substantial scale, iTunes had a very strong monopoly on digital music sales (spanning both the Windows and Mac platforms).
intelligence in one domain does not necessarily help in other one.
Parameterization Part 6
What exactly is an asset domain? The one you setup to point to the CDN?
A Preview of C# 6
Assuming you're right and it's not a recognized antitrust harm, what's your opinion of it?

Do you think it's ethical or good for society simply because it hasn't yet been ruled illegal?
You can quantify that. Look at your facebook feed. Divide the time that you spent reading something useful (i.e. something with actual impact in your life) by the total time it you took to browsing useless gossip.

I think, if you disregard the small amounts of self-validation we get, most of the socializing time is not beneficial.

(and no, facebook is not social life, but it's a fingerprint of it)
"Is this sorted" is useful but "<=" is not a good name for it.
Blocked piracy site list more than doubles after ruling
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Because they cannot afford the same things and they don't have to explain their expenses to any creditor or investor.
An interesting example I came across is documenting an xml schema by converting it to xhtml. I think it goes without saying that Javascript and JSON make react a lot friendlier though.
Some of our folks earn >50k, others <25k (boils down to skill and experience), and we do hire grads, but also very experienced folks.

Oh - and I am off, but not hugely - has crept up to about £95k with our current headcount of 30, but it's still a gulf apart from the numbers in the article.
First things first, what are you trying to sell?

Here you say that you are doing things for IoT, however there is literally no evidence of that in either the landing page or the homepage.

Your landing page give you a choice to look at "interaction" but it lags the living shit on my retina macbook. Still I have no clue as what you guys do. There was a temperature sensor on there somewhere. Thats a start.

So I try and press back, but can't because its disabled (ARGH!)

I then go to the website proper, and its lots of whitespace with a list of websites, with no explanation of what you guys did.

I finally noticed the menu system on the top right, clicked on it, and way presented with lots of mock static that once again lagged my browser.

The key take away here is that you need to show it to you mum/dad/sister/disinterested relative/partner. If they struggle, or ask, 'what does it do?' or 'whats it for?' start again completely from scratch.

If you are IoT people, why do you not have any examples of you work? I want to see hardware! (its not IoT unless there is hardware.) I want to see the problem you are solving. After all you might have thought about something in a new way that makes me want to do business with you.

I know its not fashionable, and in somecases orthogonal to what some angel investors are after, but be specific, down to the point, show your wares.
Yes. It's the same tech they use in things like hearing aid batteries [1]. The metal oxidizes, which can be harnessed to create an electrical current.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93air_battery
Dear god. Who is it that thinks these crazy visualizations add any kind of value to whatever message they're trying to communicate?
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I think San Francisco's former "bath houses" served a different function than that being provided by these showers. They were shut down at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
I think that the key to socialising is taking genuine interest in other people, not "pretending to care for the sake of socializing".
it's probably pretty useful for ppl who can't really bother to read up on climate change. probably a lot of ppl.

so yeah, sure, some jellyfish close down a power plant, but it probably causes loads of financial losses... i think this actually already happened? we are probably looking at complete collapses in housing, transport, sanitation and health in the coming decades if politicians and companies keep at the greenwashing. as an anarchist i don't care, but too bad for all those suckers who got kids and worry about their future.
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