skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... people would rather watch someone unbox candy on youtube."

That made me laugh out loud. Then it made me sad again.

Look, I get we can't all know everything. I mean, we can't all be mechanics, right? But every driver should know how to check their fluids, air, etc. Maybe change a tire.

Same with computers. I don't think everyone should have to learn to code. I think that's not an ideal scenario. But I do think everyone should be computer literate for some basic definition of computer literate.
"I have the higher ground"
Benefits of market movers.
> Only the original mac team would know.

Are you aware that the stories on folklore.org are written members of the "original mac team"? In linked story -- by none other than Andy Hertzfeld -- describes Jobs as acting "in his role as our esthetic compass".
Yes, you are an atypical user. You also don't work for Facebook, so you don't have insight into all their priorities.

Facebook is a data-driven company. They've publicly discussed the process that resulted in the current tab bar design. In initial tests, they saw a drop in newsfeed views; they solved it by badging the newsfeed tab when new content arrives.

Requests get their own tab because adding friends to your network is probably a critical priority, and if you really want a user to do something, you give it a top-level navigation item.
Give them all copies of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Maybe they will spot the connection between John's behavior and they own.
Dare I suggest that the "gear" menu, so ubiquitous on Google pages these days, suffers much the same problems as the "hamburger"?
It's refreshing to write software with these languages and not having to deal with standard OO.
I posted this earlier but forgot to account for the west coast time difference, I really believe Sean could get some great feedback from you all.
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I think you've got it right here and I hope this gets seen.

US Border Patrol denied my entry to the US once because a coworker and I were coming over to oversee the installation of a number of electrical devices our company built/designed/tested and shipped to the client. We didn't have the adequate paperwork to state that this was a contractual "job" and we were simply there to assist local tradespeople in the installation should they have any questions since, you know, we designed the thing.

When we were turned around at the border it was explained: without the paperwork to detail what we were doing, that this was agreed upon ahead of time and likely a bunch of other legal matters they had no method of knowing whether we were hired to save wages that would otherwise go to an American citizen. We weren't being paid for this work, it couldn't be done by anyone else (short of them taking the design work and learning it from the ground up over several months) and we were still denied entry.

OP, work, even if free, is still work. Contact legal aid for what you are and are not allowed to do.
I've thought about this a lot after reading some material about satellites and thinking about the consequences.

What do you think would be the best strategy for defending the current fleet? It seems like 3 "tanks" in highly elliptical orbits could provide some defense against space based attacks, but not really against ground-based lasers.
I tend to think computer literacy is the wrong approach. I think the right approach looks like "interfaces that don't require literacy" (one of the reasons why I think human-quality NLU for command & control systems are going to be amazing). Most people don't need most of the functionality of a computer.
A huge proportion of the population doesn't have the knowledge to make healthy meals.

A huge proportion of the population does not know how to manage a few acres of crops, raise chicken and cows for milk and eggs, etc.

How about we try to solve them simultaneously?
To add modern storage to some legacy device?
Smalltalk-72 (well, Smalltalk before Smalltalk-76) did not have inheritance. And I believe Alan Kay is on record indicating he felt that inheritance in Smalltalk had often been misapplied or not well understood, and spoke well of Self and other experiments with classless object models.

If we're in the "OO" world, and need something analogous to inheritance, I'd rather have an object system with tools for explicit delegation over a system which tries to conflate delegation of behaviour with subtyping. IMHO this is one of the greatest uglinesses of Java (C++ has it too but it's not used much these days.)
It's very interesting that Apple just adopted a hamburger menu for their apple.com redesign (mobile version). They even told everyone not to use hamburger menus at last year's WWDC! [1]

[1] WWDC 2014 Session 211 Designing Intuitive User Experiences @ 32:00, available here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/

Addendum: It's a responsive design so you can see this even on a desktop browser just by shrinking the width of the window. The top menubar collapses into a hamburger.

Addendum 2: Illustrated transcript here: http://blog.manbolo.com/2014/06/30/apple-on-hamburger-menus
Uh, this isn't the abstract of that nature paper at all
I really don't think down voting is very helpful for the community unless people are being racist/sexist/obvious troll. Better people comment on why they disagree, clarifying ideas rather than a no response and arbitrary unlike.
Not really age-ist. I am a member and invited to this app but I am over 30. There are lots of members of this particular community that are over 30. The only qualification was having attended the last summit, or presumably attending this years summit. It is an exclusive community which you get for the ticket price. So, you're mistaken.
> "Maybe I'm wrong, and food, housing, transportation and communication really are primarily supply constrained where I live."

No, it's purely a governmental accountability problem. The money, the will and the goods are all there. The only problem is we're all dilly-dallying when it comes to holding the government accountable to provide basic life necessities to the needy. We all talk noble, but don't throw eggs at politicians for lying to us, or stick them in jail for causing (or allowing) the homeless die of starvation on their watch. I exaggerate a little, but really, as you say it's 2015. These should be solved problems using existing structures in place, without even discussing such things as universal basic income, or anything remotely that radical.

>"Regardless, we'll agree to say fuck basic income. I like this even more radical idea: There must be <= 10x total income spread within any company. (I have no idea how to handle the obvious loopholes)"

I understand that you mean this in a noble and well-meaning way. As a libertarian I don't deny that government programs, and the societal-backing behind them are not motivated by noble intentions. But you also have to understand that implementing such a suggestion fundamentally means that you don't believe an individual deserves (or is allowed to keep) all the products of his/her own labor and knowledge. Do you not see anything at fault with that?

Perhaps, rather address the existing issues that plague our society (if you agree that it's a problem). Almost all government regulatory laws have the unintended consequence of promoting larger institutions in the market, rewarding individuals with large accumulated pots of capital, and increase the barrier to entry for small-competitors.
Interesting this article was bumped from the front page so quickly. Makes you wonder...
If you click through the parent company, you get .tk, .ml, .ga, .gq, and .cf as free options. All their websites look identical. The most famous free domain out there is .ml, the Malay extension because of it's use in machine learning.

Other free options this year were .party and .xyz, but those offers are mostly dead with most registrars, I think.
Check out freenom.com; is seems .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf and .gq are free/gratis?
https://jclouds.apache.org/

Apache jclouds® is an open source multi-cloud toolkit for the Java platform that gives you the freedom to create applications that are portable across clouds while giving you full control to use cloud-specific features.
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Whenever I read articles like this that touch on the Kessler syndrome I'm reminded of Planetes and that one day it just might be real.

Fiction becomes reality.
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Classlessness in OO systems was around a long time before JS was even conceived of.

I recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=9...

"Prototype-Based Programming: Concepts, Languages and ApplicationsMay 14, 1999
by James Noble and Antero Taivalsaari"

The first OO language I learned was the embedded programming language of LambdaMOO ("MOO"), which was used to extend the virtual world. It was prototype based, with a single delegate called the parent subbing in. It still had inheritance, but a different kind.
It boggles my mind that there are so many things we've put in to space that there is a danger of them colliding in to one another on a plane that is larger than the entire earth.
Which is why most right click menu options also can be found in another place. The right click menu is a shortcut much like hotkeys. Not essential, but convenient.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863152
Right. The various interpretations are not so much science as philosophy. At best, they're scientific hypotheses, and that's only if they turn out to be falsifiable.
This may get a better audience under "Show HN:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_following
It was unintentional (and I dislike abuse of the word), but if "we" is a simple majority of the world's population, I suspect "we" would prefer to keep space war mongers away from responsibility.
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This looks like it would make for a very nice course -- a good middle ground between the hardcore practical course ("let's learn C") and the hardcore theoretical course ("let's do denotational semantics with Scheme" -- or whatever).
It shouldn't be, but I've found https://twitter.com/ylastic by far the best way to find early info on AWS issues.
I think the author meant "closer than ever" in terms of the probability of the event of space war. As in, the probability is closer to 1 than it has ever been.
Sounds good.

In fact, I think we are trying to solve them simultaneously.
Ha, "laterally challenged" was a new and fantastic label, I'll try to apply that to myself whenever I get left and right wrong.

It's an interesting problem though, I have excellent sense of direction and I'm good at 3D visualization and map reading. I don't get the directions wrong, I get the words for the directions wrong.

I can happily point the left, know we should go to the left, and say "let's go right!"

So it's probably a very different problem from, say, people who lack sense of direction, my problem is more like extremely narrow aphasia. I don't know of anyone who confuses up and down in the same manner though, it's interesting that it's just left and right, and that it's not that uncommon!
I went with my Dad for neck surgery like 5 different people asked my dad if he was there for neck surgery. Now I understand the purpose.
one without any commands
theres a bot in ?programming though that has some functionality like !google etc.
By default, firejail seems to allow read access to my entire home directory. I believe you have to use the --private flag for it protect you from the recent firefox exploit. And if you want persistence, you can use the --private=directory flag.
> “We are in the process of messing up space, and most people don’t realize it because we can’t see it the way we can see fish kills, algal blooms, or acid rain,” he says.

Well, if this is what he's comparing space debris to, then we're so screwed. We can't make most people notice or care about fish, acid rain, deforestation, etc. because the consequences are already too abstract - and space trash? That's gonna be an order of magnitude harder.

I wish there was a good way to make people care about things that are actually important; as things are now, the general population pays attention in inverse relation to issue's actual importance.
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Structure embedding is not inheritance. It's just structures as first class types. This becomes clear as soon as you create a structure that contains two strings.
You see the problem there is that development and test are gateway environments. They lead frequently to other environments such as staging, and production, at which point you find yourself dependent on Oracle's latest stuff and it can be time consuming and expensive to get yourself clean.

Next time you find yourself Jonesing for the latest features and someone offers you dev & test for free, just say no.
The blame for obesity lies squarely on the enlarged shoulders of the obese.

It certainly isn't Coca-Cola's fault.

The level of blame-shifting in our society is amazing.
China(Shanghai, Beijing) will be a good place to go to find IT job that require English communication (good pay), and don't have to worry about visa issue. Just go to linkedin, and find local recruiter there.
Berry paradox
I imagine your tanks as a little speck in the center of a 100 meter foam doughnut. but i guess it really depends on what the debris is like. I'd guess most would be with a few hundred m/s, faster would rise and slower would fall, right? Not sure how much kinetic energy could be converted to breaking chemical bonds.
I always thought, hamburger menus are

1. the small screen version of big footer menus which conflict with infinite or long scroll on mobile.

2. The new "site map" menu, flash web sites loved where you dump the navigation of your pages hierarchically.

3. Another "design by committee" tool similar to carousel. As a designer you say "yes" to any navigation request and dump it under the carpet (hamburger)
The prime sieve algorithm in chapter 3 is not the real sieve of Eratosthenes. Which is kind of funny because the person who pointed this out to the FP community is also a professor at Harvey Mudd.

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
Ask HN: Why does not HN have a mobile friendly site?
It seems to be pretty easy to make. A work for one or two days for simplest styles for mobile.
Currently, I visit the site from android mobile phone and I really like it. But the site looks very unfriendly on my phone: tiny fonts, desktop layout, everything is small.
Make it guys :) please.
P.s. I know about apps for HN and android.
http://www.azulsystems.com/zing/pgc

http://www.azulsystems.com/technology/java-garbage-collectio...
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Air controller study shows chronic fatigue
I'm wondering if it is feasible to create an autonomous/remotely piloted Garbage Collector that would be knocking the junk down into atmosphere?
Coworking from a Caribbean Island for a Month, Launching Work from Curacao
"As for "getting my facts straight" I was using actual Titan X numbers I have seen for real applications (e.g. nbody simulation)... it only gets around 4000GFLOPs single precision compared to their advertised 7000."

Nonsense. I regularly get ~5.5 TFLOPS out of them running cuBLAS SGEMMs in neural networks. You can get that down to ~1.4 if you do your best to choose stupid small values for m, n, and k, but that's a relatively minor bug and I think it's fixed in cuDNN's latest kernels.

But even if it isn't, if you're willing to download Scott Grey's maxas: https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas, you can hit 6.4 TFLOPS with his hand-coded SGEMM. Similarly, one can do the same for convolutional layers with Andrew Lavin's maxDNN: https://github.com/eBay/maxDNN

Your hubris is amusing, but I reiterate that until you have a shipping chip, all you have is a powerpoint processor. I'm sure you disagree. Good luck with that. But do come back when you have numbers (real numbers on real DNNs like AlexNet, VGG, or Googlenet as opposed to synthetic fantasy networks that fit your architecture well). See Nervana for a company doing this well so far.

"If you know about NVIDIA, you should know they have a long history of bullshitting numbers."

I know them very well and, well, pot.kettle.bs... IMO they're going to stay the leader in parallel computing technology right until Intel stops sniffing its own tailpipe and/or AMD hires a better driver team (they have promising HW). And both of them need to study NVIDIA's engagement with the academic community and one-up it rather than deny its efficacy.
Based on the content of his article it seems to me like he has a good grasp on the material IMHO. In any case, I generally don't equate the job title on someone's resume to the definition of what they are.
Intercom is (1) user profiles and event tracking like a MixPanel Lite, (2) live chat, (3) in-app and e-mail drip and segmented messaging, (4) customer feedback/polling, and (5) support/help desk.

Zendesk is a support/help desk product that recently acquired a chat company.

They're not alternatives unless you're only shopping for a help desk solution. Intercom does more, and the additional services they provide are easily tied to customer acquisition and engagement, which makes them valuable and easy to justify spending on.
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Geography of Emotion: Where in a City Are People Happier?
Spectralink in Boulder Colorado is hiring
Are you or someone you know looking for an opportunity as an Embedded Engineer?

Can view full details of position at http://www.spectralink.com/company/careers.

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The personal preferences of Jobs were possibly the single biggest contributor to making Apple the most successful consumer technology company in history.

No one is going to argue he wasn't a rampaging narcissistic asshole. Even so - it makes no sense at all to ignore how much he steered the look and feel of Apple products, and of late 20th/early 21st century design in general.

He was the only person working in computing with a consistent interest in design. Microsoft and IBM had zero interest, DEC had a minor interest in making nice-looking minis and mainframes, and the 8/16 bit micros often had some product design applied to the casing.

No one else was thinking about software and GUI aesthetics at all.
I'm also a little disturbed by the x-ray technician. Are patients really so full of shit that often that it's normal to ignore what the patient says is obviously the wrong foot? I had a similar experience when my work required I have a very thorough medical examination including a Tuberculosis test. I was pumped full of massive amounts of the vaccine as a kid because I grew up in a third-world country, so the skin test would give a false positive. I told the doctor, they asked if I had ever had a positive result, and I said no because they always go straight to the chest x-ray. So they insisted I do a skin test first. My elbow swelled up like crazy, the nurse and the doctor freaked out and sent me to an infectious disease specialist. The freaking specialist still didn't want to see my vaccine records - she said I should have a chest x-ray and start strong antibiotics immediately. Chest x-ray came back clean. "Mysteriously", as the doctor said, I did not in fact have tuberculosis. It was like they were all deaf while I was explaining how many times I had been vaccinated, so OF COURSE it shouldn't have been a surprise that my blood was still loaded with anti-bodies.
Show HN: Scaling PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS using pg_shard
I honestly think a space race to Mars is a huge waste of time and effort. Literally the only reason to establish a colony on Mars right now is research, and that can be performed cheaper by robots.

I think the Moon would be a much better prospect. Lunar regolith can be refined into silicon, oxygen, iron, alumnium, and other metals. With hydrogen and a few other key metals imported from Earth, the Moon could become the center of space manufacturing for satellites, spacecraft, and other products that require an ultra-clean environment during manufacturing.

If a space war means putting mass into LEO/GEO is much more expensive because of armoring, mining the moon for resources becomes that much more appealing - especially considering it costs 1/20th the fuel to put an object in LEO from the Moon than from the Earth.
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>UI that isn't clear and visible on the screen is unhelpful UI.

It's unintuitive and undiscoverable, but I wouldn't necessarily call it unhelpful...
Maybe non-rocket space technology [1]. Totally worth it even if all it does is help Musk reminisce some more about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
[2] http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/elon-musk-lecture-at-the-...
I didn't know "technical liberal-arts" colleges really existed. That's cool. As a student at a more traditional liberal-arts college[1], it's something I've thought about before.

[1] albeit one with a massively growing CS curriculum that is on track to be its own major, instead of part of the math department
This is really nice. Fair play to those involved.
Ask HN: Good intro to stocks books?
I'm looking for a good introduction to stocks book. Something clear, well-written, but still not too simple. It doesn't have to be a text-book of any sorts, just that it's fun and enjoyable to read and, of course, gets everything straight. I googled around and found multiple lists of books yet none of the arguments for them made me buy one. It seems like there are too many options to choose from, and it's not clear what is for beginners and what is not.

What I want: to understand how the whole stock market works in principal and what are the major things one should know in order to understand IPOs, stock plummeting etc. better.

I don't need to get into stocks, I'm not planning to invest in anything. I just want to understand the whole thing.

Thank you a lot!
Usually when someone uses the phrase 'closer than ever', they are implying that an uncertain outcome is more likely to occur than it has been in the past, not that a possible future event is temporally closer (which, as you suggest, would be a trivial statement).

We are not 'closer than ever' to nuclear war, for example.
You can redef UX to mean something bad, but it's obvious that it is supposed to be UI + how stuff works instead of just the graphical part. Also, X's are sexy. Even that big rocket company decided to just take Space and put an X on it.

SEO might have plenty of snake oil vendors, but it is, unfortunately, a very real and immensely lucrative thing. Search engines drive traffic, which drives money. Search engines are gameable. End of story.
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Ask HN: If you could define a new CV “standard” how it would be?
I think the actual CV standard is dead. I got my last jobs by other means that I think they are more effective.
Would you rather showcase practical examples of work like many do with GitHub for coding or other profiles for more creative work? Proven data? Maybe the content can be or must be written and validated by a coworker?

How would you showcase education? Hobbies, non-work related abilities, volunteer work... Are they any important?

Would you show what you have worked on (specific project) and get credits for that feature you built or contributed to?

Don't think it has to be printed on paper, just imagine what would be your new CV "standard"?
I would love to see AMD jump in the ring, and there's even an OpenCL port of Caffe in progress: https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/pull/2610

But its performance is less than half that of a GTX 980 running CUDA. Still, AMD is silly not to try and improve on this IMO.