skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a strong positive correlation between creativity and kinkiness that can definitely be a lot of fun to explore.

For example, in the area of hackable unconventional sex toys, ideas I haven't seen here but that may be worth exploring: solenoid valves (to control fluid or air flows? — test! — have emergency release valves!); linear actuators and a few pumps (see above); in-line flow meters (to measure them? Interesting elements of breath control possible); pin lattices with solenoids/linear actuators/similar (programmable textures?); and, of course, inexpensive accelerometers.

Things I have seen, and played with which have been variously modified include certain TENS units (not really a fan) and 'violet wands' (a fan!).

There might be product ideas here, but they're likely to be kind of… niche. Still, kinky people can host quite dedicated niches sometimes (and that's about all I'm going to say about that here! <g>).
Hmm, interesting. I'll check it out, thanks.
In your research, how many other companies has built a Cable System in Baltimore? If its non-exclusive only on paper, and in practice a monopoly, what actually effects does it have on quality, service, and price?
Thanks!

That means a lot to mea, if even a few people get a kick out of it then it was worth the effort.
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Yes, I am halfway to assemble it (done the mechanics, now comes the belts and wires).
Thanks. I'm really surprised they didn't link the cartoon from the article.
The nice thing about bees is that they aren't that hard to keep. I am doing a bee keeping course right now and we'll get a few hives in the summer. A small effort which will introduce 20-100k bees in our neighbourhood. And produce 20-40 kg/year of honey too. We also have planted a bunch of perennial plants about 30 sqm and I could count more than 100 active solitary bees and bumble bees in the garden plot at any time last summer.
Gads, the even got the title wrong. Should be "Disproportionately common professions by Name". Or, actually, all we can tell from the little on that page is that the title contradicts the subtitle. So maybe the subtle that should be reversed. Who knows? Data is fun!
> "Many companies give employees a 10 year exercise period after they leave"

I suspect many companies don't do this, as there'd be no need to advocate for it otherwise.
Who said it was in title II? I said it was the result of well-meaning "pro-consumer" types who have created a thicket of requirements that makes going into the telecom business highly undesirable.

See, e.g., Google's blanket rejection of such requirements as a pre-condition for deploying Google Fiber.
That scene had a pretty big impact on me as a kid. Here was a movie with time traveling assassin robots, but that scene always seemed totally believable and possible. I think about it a lot, for whatever reason.
Those are some amazing examples. Super impressive.
Their support is as good as mine. If you pay me, I'll take your call at any hour. Otherwise, fuck off.

I recently had an issue with Google Apps, and contacted them via email for support.

I received a phone call almost immediately and the issue was resolved in minutes. I live in Fiji.
What is an impossible truth? I think Bertram Russell would disagree with Twain.

Perhaps he meant something closer to 'the probable' or 'the plausible'
The Paris Review did in their piece on the observer article. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/12/a-kind-of-slea...
>the typical stunts marginally smart people pull when they try to manipulate the public using "science".

Absolutists in the other direction frequently display a certain inability to wedge in ideas that run counter to scientific dogma. This, even to the outright dismissal of evidence to the contrary. At a certain point, this adherence to dogma becomes a religion unto itself, complete with all of its faith-based articles.

It seems that you missed the entire tone of the article, and got stuck on the numbers (and your analysis there is partially incorrect, by the way).

Did you notice the evolution in science? What was initially supposed has since evolved dramatically. Sagan had a view that was widely accepted in scientific circles. Then, the narrowness of that view became increasingly apparent until the original assumption was rendered scientifically meaninglessness. Are you saying that didn't happen? If it has, then does it have any bearing on your strict adherence to scientific evidence or absolute certainty? Or, are you saying that we now have it 100% correct?

Did you also happen to notice quotes from Fred Hoyle, Paul Davies, John Lennox or any of the rest of it?

But, here's one of your comment's biggest flaws:

>Also, extrapolating "probabilities" from N=1 is obviously impossible

No one is talking about the search for life in other universes or even the search for other universes. You're confusing the relevant terms in your equation. Let's just stick to the one universe we know. It's the premise of the article, the search, the assumptions made by Sagan, etc.

I don't really want to refute each point. The bottom line, again, is that there's been an evolution in science that continues to this day.

>disproving A does not prove B if there are other options available. For example, we might be living inside a Matrix or another artificial experiment

Sure, but it's pretty amazing that you are so selectively willing to allow for such "extreme" possibilities, but not ones for which thousands of years of history and some evidence exists. Wasn't that you who just invoked Occam's Razor?

First, you're dubbing religious people insane. Now, you're saying we might be living in an artificial experiment. You're willing to allow that there's some sort of "intelligent design", as long as it's not the one "propagated by religious people".

All totaled, it just seems that you have a bone to pick with religion, as much as a simple adherence to "science".

But, I'll leave you with this quote from Sagan, which sums up what I've been trying to express with far more eloquence:

"To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed."
Wow, the co-found of ninite :D

I can't thank you enough! That program is _always_ the absolute first i download on every windows machine, period.

I think i've told all my friend about ninite by now, and everyone is super impressed.

Would you care to elaborate on how it works? do you download from each software homepage, or do you constantly have to download latests versions and then serve from your own server?

Any way you could make a free or cheap one-time pay, for a version that can use a private server to host, and then deliver programs to it this way.
Perhaps "corporate development" is biz-speak for "mergers and acquisitions", but from a literal perspective, a standard hire would develop the corporation.
... and try to charge me money for an editor ...

OK, make an editor that great as Sublime Text, put a msgbox that I really should pay $60 for multi-PC license, and be done with it.
This x1000. The last thing you should do is withdraw, and leave everyone high and dry. I've seen this situation, where the 3 remaining of the original cohort, for some reason, resented the new CTO, and basically abandoned the company. Only reason they're still here is they have an ownsership stake and are friends with CEO. They could've been hugely impactful to the success of the company, but instead, they're sitting back to watch the everyone else fail.

Also, with this crew in particular, they really weren't that good. They begat a lava layered monstrosity that doesn't scale and isn't maintainable. Make sure that's not you.
Oh hi!

The Samza ecosystem seems to be a magnet for this sort of thing these days -- the community's really committed to taking full advantage of Kafka, and not just papering over it so it looks just like any other queuing system. Really excited to see where all this will lead.
With Google's track record of customer service and product abandonment, I can't see doing business with them, except when there is no alternative.

Why would a company as rich as Google want to be in the domain business? It can't ever be material to them. I wouldn't be surprised if Google abandoned this business and transferred domains to, say, Godaddy.
Men certainly dominated the govt and positions in high society; however, this was really where the partiarchal dominance ends. The mother of the friends I stayed with in Aleppo actually played for Syria's national basketball team. The woman I stayed with in Damascus was widowed yet she was able to continue with her life as her husbands brother took great care of her.

I must admit that all of the families I stayed with were Catholic, but there was no difference in these families than the average American family in terms of respect between husband and wife.

I was trying to dispel the image that the culture of Saudi Arabia represents the entire middle east.
Want to talk large-scale transformations?

If you will cast your gaze at [1], you'll see a satellite view covering much of the Texas panhandle, part of north west Texas, and on my laptop, sections of New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Driving from north to south on that map would take two or three hours. The view is covered with small green patches; if you look towards the bottom left, south of Dimmitt, there are a bunch of them.

Each of those green patches is a (typically circular) irrigated field. Some of them are roughly a mile in diameter[2]. If you zoom in a couple of times, you'll find that essentially the entire area south of I-40 is a patchwork of rectangles---each rectangle is a agricultural field, mostly irrigated as well.

That part of the country was once known as the "Great American Desert"; technically, it is semi-arid grassland. Later, it was the Dust Bowl, although improved agricultural techniques seem to have reduced the number of dust storms from when I was a kid.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6467676,-101.5723564,240948m...

[2] The irrigation system: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.43037,-102.2239981,118m/data...

[3] For your enjoyment, here's a street view looking east towards the Rita Blanca National Grasslands:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.4142581,-102.5405722,3a,75y,...
As well as the commissary, which is often operated by a private company.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/magazine/what-a-tv-show-ca...
> "Looks like you need the reality check"

Please stop being rude.

EDIT: saying things like "If you think I'm wrong, you very well may need a reality check yourself" makes it seem like you're not open to dialogue. It comes off as rude, arrogant, and accusatory. That probably contributes to the downvotes.

> "I can find you $40 smartphones"

I can find plenty of $40 smartphones at Wal-Mart and Kroger. But this thread isn't about $40 smartphones, it's about iPhones -- and, in particular, the parent to your prior comment mentioned knowing people "too cheap" to pay for apps despite owning (implied: relatively new) flagship phones.

I know some people who are legitimately too broke to pay for apps, but they don't have new iPhones. Last year I didn't have a $40 smartphone, and definitely not a $500+ iPhone, precisely because it would have been a bigger investment than I could justify for a phone. I get that there are people for whom a $40 phone and $1 per app is too much money, but they don't have an iPhone6 or even an iPhone5, and they're not pirating the sort of apps that only run on those phones. The people pirating those apps aren't too poor, they're too cheap.
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These were my thoughts exactly. The guy cannot draw conclusions from the traffic and CPC numbers alone. The content's changed, the traffic sources probably changed (the sudden surge had to come from somewhere), the time has changed. I earn money on mobile app's ads. December is by far the most profitable month and I imagine it's purely because people buy more crap before Christmas, which drives up the demand for ad traffic.
Judging from the rest of the article, which argues for more time off because it'll make workers more productive, it seems to be aimed precisely at capitalists. In that context some ego-stroking historical revisionism shouldn't be surprising.

If it's in service of bringing about better worker rights in the US it's... I dunno, justified, I guess? Ends, means, and all that. Still gross.
As far as I can tell everyone thinks HTTP/2 is a good idea except one guy, whose HTTP cache software doesn't even implement HTTP/1.1 fully.

His reason for why HTTP/2 sucks is that it's not ambitious enough, yet when the WG chair says "v2 isn't perfect but we can always do a v3" he also gets upset.

Apparently this guy's hobby is boiling oceans. I think we can give it a rest. There's no real controversy or drama here. There's just one guy who is very vocal.
OSX takes me about 40 minutes to install and I still speak pretty damn well about it.
Definitely! We don't have a lot built out for this yet, but hope to have more connectivity options available is crowdfunding is successful.

One of our beta testers even managed to set up a remote console for his partner:

"My partner VNC'd in to control [it] from 1500 miles away. That was a treat!"
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Nobody has time for all that. Humans just don't have the attention bandwidth to solve problems like this. Not in conjunction with everything else going on in the world.
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> I don't think I know any of them who are devoted fans of Apple's application (rather than system) software.

I fail to see the difference between OSX and Windows then. Legacy Win32 APIs probably are still there, somewhere, but they've built a fairly solid system on top of that. PowerShell is one major argument in favour of Windows platform: it really makes resource management and scripting (and remote administration) quite nice. Meanwhile, for practically anything other than core system services (and sometimes for those too...) you need to install 3rd party applications.

It's exactly the same on Mac OS: I had to install Spectacle just to make the system support the most obvious shortcuts for positioning and resizing windows. Homebrew/mac ports are nice and I know of no Windows equivalent, but I think they target very specific kind of users and are rather limited in usefulness.

In any case: I'm a Linux user, have been using FreeBSD on the desktop before that for years, worked on Windows earlier, and now I'm being forced to use a Mac for iOS development. I see no real difference between OSX and Windows7/8 in terms of OS capabilities: out of the box they're both rather weak (for my purposes, anyway). With some tinkering and 3rd party applications both can be made into workable systems - but the tinkering is both harder and more limited than what's possible on Linux.

Other than mentioned homebrew and some degree of POSIX-compliance which makes compiling many *nix programs natively under Mac OS possible, what makes it nowadays better than Windows (I mean core OS functionality)?
Congratulations! What platform did you use to build it?
and the guy from novena laptop just posted recently that in china, you can get much more models with much more interesting hardware.
One company, a good friend of mine was employee #1 and I was something like employee #40. After the IPO it turned out we'd gotten the same package equity and options-wise, which is to say, not much... Being an early employee, 99.9% of the time! means getting screwed.
"UCLA, Cisco & more join forces to replace TCP/IP" http://www.networkworld.com/article/2602109/lan-wan/ucla-cis...
I think you've hit it right on this. I'd also add that the cost variations probably do play a big factor into what piracy does exist. I'm a lot more likely to take a shot in the dark on a $7 indie game or even a $30 indie "blockbuster" than I am a $60 AAA game (where half the cost is marketing anyway). Piracy probably just appeals more at the higher price points.
The Dutch have a strong Protestant work ethic too, and are pro-business, good traders and still consider five weeks holiday normal. What is needed is people to realise that those five weeks is not lost business, but happy productive employees for the rest of the year.
Gorgeous UI and artwork!
I'm not familiar with Malwarebytes Antirootkit, but TDSSKiller from Kaspersky searches for 1 single rootkit, TDSS, and performs a removal. I haven't done this type of work in a while but 3-4 years ago it was the defacto tool of choice for dealing with MBR infections.
I expect it's down to a 'computers do inexplicable things all the time that I will never understand, so i better just put up with it or something worse might happen' mentality, which we (as IT professionals) can do something about. Computers should be as obvious, understandable and predictable as physical objects.
Some context for this code can be found here [1] in Lammers' great book.

Gates specifically says that "not a line of code went out that I didn't look over" for the BASIC 6502 product. At the time (1986) he said he considered BASIC for the 8080 his "greatest achievement ever in programming" and admitted that he no longer programs himself but does was still looking at code and discussing algorithms with his 160 Microsoft engineers.

[1] https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/
Cool stuff. I used to 'play' regularly with LN2 and LHe back in my grad student days (experimental condensed matter physics).

I'm curious how much you paid for the 20 liter dewar. Here in London, just renting a dewar as a one-off and filling with culinary-grade LN2 was amazingly expensive (several hundred pounds). I wanted to do some LN2 demos and also LN2 ice cream at my daughters' party, but instead opted for much simpler and cheaper (and less fun) dry ice.
I think I'm going to need one in buttplug form. With bluetooth and preferably wifi modules.
I like the idea of a random, or semi-random, feed of content that the user has no real control over.

You don't get to build yourself an echo-chamber.

It's actually mostly inspired by postsecret.com in that way. People submit things, a feed is generated (or curated, in the case of PostSecret).

EDIT: I think later on we could introduce a form of upvoting, which would influence the odds of a given thought (or further thoughts from that author) ending up in a feed.
Frequently in VC backed companies, founders are removed from the CEO role if they aren't showing the ability to monetize and determine "what's next." Sometimes the founder goes to a glorified secondary tech role like a fellow, and sometimes they leave the company all together.
Apple refuses to sacrifice logic and profits at the altar of marketshare
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Uniregistry is great but they have limited TLD support, sadly.
A comedy channel in the UK decided to rename the channel a few years back. They bandied names around, then someone said. "How about Dave? Everyone knows Dave, Dave's your mate." Dave it was. As it turns out, David has been in the top 3 names from 1954-1994, so reality is if you're a Boomer, Gen X, or Gen Y, you really do know a Dave. (Stats table here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.h...)
That sounds good too, but aren't you presupposing that this course of things is normal. The OP is saying things turned out differently than expected, and such dissonance really bugs him. Why would he work harder to communicate when working hard has failed so poorly in the past?

Second and third world people probably have similar problems too.
Thanks! It was built in Unity3D
It's important to understand it's business, not personal. I strongly dislike the comments in this thread that say "Leave". That's an emotional reaction but it doesn't help you advance. In fact, you'll slide back down the ladder. You should just explore what is the best option in front of you and do that.

Really, if you want more responsibility, you have to sell someone else that you're the best person to have that responsibility. No one should give it to you out of loyalty because that is a disservice to all the other people in your organization that are relying on you to fulfill that responsibility.

It doesn't sound to me like you know what you want to do--mostly because you have not explored your options. I will hope you have a good relationship with the founders. In that case you should have an open and honest conversation with them reflecting about your experience so far, that you're proud of the range of experiences you've had, and hence why you think you're ready to do something more--but you're not sure what.

If they are friends, they'll help you. You can ask them to give you feedback on what they felt you did well and what they felt others could do better, so they hired externally. This will give you something tangible you can work on.

If they are really loyal back to you, they'll create an opportunity for you to develop skills that will lead to advancement.

Of course, this conversation is very shocking and anxiety inducing for the founders so how you frame it is important. If you are not accusing them of passing you over, but really genuine about learning and developing yourself, most people will want to help you.

If not, you may find a better opportunity elsewhere. Again, it's just business. Keep in mind, sometimes you have to sell yourself into a role that you're not quite sure you can do--and then do it.

p.s. If you asked me, it sounds like you're interested in a engineering management role, which is not the same as a CTO role. If you have a conversation with the founders, you could focus on that.
Many / most doctors don't take the Hippocratic Oath. Amongst other things, the Oath forbids surgery.

A large number of doctors don't take -any- oath, as such.
That is a very nice tool for taking screenshots. Thanks!

Your website had me thinking the tool was going to perform an automatic scan for usability issues. You could be a little clearer that the tool allows users to note usability issues.
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> There's no real controversy or drama here. There's just one guy who is very vocal.

Isn't that how tech-centered controversies work? Especially in cryptography.
the funny thing is, honey bees are only one species of more than a hundred and there are plenty of bees that are solitary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee#Solitary_and_communal_bees

maybe i'm understating it a bit, but my guess is that if honey bees died off, efficiency drop in agriculture would be temporary, except for honey industry.
Actually, I've gotten pretty fast response times on normal business days with Google Domains.
Exactly.

Hey look:  -> "App store... (3 new)"

Pretty sure I bought this laptop. ($2000) But there sits an advertisement, right in my GUI. Yes, this one is pretty harmless, but it is still there.
Do you know if .CO (originally Colombian) is treated as a top-level domain by Google, just like .IO is?
Publications from the academic project that spawned this work can apparently be found here: http://stratosphere.eu/project/publications/
How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices
The former visual arts and film professor, whose contract was not renewed by MIT in 2011, said he had no regrets and wasn’t afraid he would do hard time. “This latest project is akin to ‘bank robbing for dummies,’ ” he said, noting that he expects to get probation.

Rather than probation, I think he's more likely to get locked up in a psych ward. There's definitely something going wrong in this guy's head.