skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son is mistaking a smartphone for his mother
Yes. But the word "science" is very broad.

Sciences are generally classified by "hardness" or (perceived) quantitative rigor. In that respect, from "hardest" to "softest," the sciences are usually ranked roughly like this: Math (yes, math is as much a science as anything else), Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, and the Social Sciences.

Computer Science is, as most things are nowadays, interdisciplinary. As such, it really depends about what aspect of Computer Science you're referring to. Some areas of computer science are more rigorous, and have a lot in common with math and physics. Others, such as "software engineering" etc. fall on the softer end of the spectrum.

With that said, I don't think that all programmers are necessarily "computer scientists." They're practitioners of an art. Just like not all doctors are medical scientists - some are, but most are just practitioners.
That's the massive downside to every implementation of bubble cursors / something similar I've yet seen. I'll label them "naive" implementations, because they're so mindlessly implemented: it selects the nearest clickable item, with no respect for any relation to movement or chaotic spots where you can select different things with single pixel movements.

Though I do see that this could be useful once they're more polished. I just don't get why everyone's drinking the same implementation kool-aid, rather than seeking to improve on it.
No kidding, now if MS would just give up the whole Silverlight waste of time (no we do not need another flash-like proprietary format).
Just for the experimentation really, to get some first-hand (pun not intended) experience with it. ('it' being both rfid and implanting stuff). Body hacking for hacking's sake, if you will.

It was quite anti-climactic, really. Turns out there aren't really any good applications for it, except for the 'fun' things like the 'hidden vault' I mentioned. It's quite an undertaking though to make something like that production quality. For example you need a way to unlock the vault even when there's no power. It would probably require some hidden mechanical mechanism that is actuated by a certain series of events. Like most experiments, I mostly lost direct interest after the proof of concept worked. Still if I ever have a proper workshop and a few weeks, or if I ever build a new house for myself, it would be nice...
The article that blog cites doesn't say anything about iPad.
Can anyone that has submitted their site to Killer Startups quantify the number of solicitations they received from vendors? I ask since I almost submitted my site a couple weeks back but was turned off by these lines in the Killer Startups' Terms of Service:

"You herein consent that The Company will disclose to any third party your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number (you may opt out of this by not submitting your startup), except to the extent necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws or in legal proceedings where such information is relevant. The Company reserves the right to offer third party services and products to you based on the preferences that you identify in your registration and at any time thereafter; such offers may be made by the Company or by third parties."
I personally roll sans-Dock, so I like it, but it should definitely have an option to turn it off. Seems like this one isn't even half-risen, let alone fully-baked, but it's tasty enough (extended metaphors are fun).
Thanks for submitting this, John, you beat me to it!

I was with some friends from Twilio at a hackathon one night back in January, and we were all lamenting how hard it was to share a URL with other people at the table w/o knowing everyone's email/IM/etc... and bit.ly links are impossible to pronounce correctly. Someone came up with the idea of sharing a plain english word as the short url key. So, 9 months later I whipped it up. Hopefully a few people find it useful :)

EDIT: I should add that adding + to the end of the key will show you a preview page like bitly links.
The rock star accountants are all in jail.
And through Growl.
affbuzz.com is an aggregator of all the affilate and internet marketing blogs. It's a relatively young industry, and the content creators are young as well. I expect you are seeking deeper intellectual content rather than how to make a quick buck, but you should find it interesting nonetheless. Searching through some of the blogs will find you many intriguing case studies, trends, and unexpected marketing avenues. The most popular ones are on top.
using google apps premier two factor auth and create a new key for it so you dont have to give it your real password and can revoke at anytime. (assuming Sparrow supports google apps email?)
The Soviets destroyed huge chunks of the German army, but had the Germans concentrated their army in the West instead of the East it wouldn't have changed the ultimate outcome of the war. There would have been a lot more allied bombing campaigns in Western Europe, a lot more civilian deaths, and potentially the use of nuclear weapons in Europe, but ultimately the Germans did not have the ability to fight against American logistics.
No, atheism is the outright rejection of the idea of God. It is a religious belief in itself that requires a faith in the non-existence of any sort of God. It does not ask for an explanation of God, for if it did it would have to accept the possibility of a God.

This is pure nonsense. Kindergarden logic.

I am an atheist because I don't have god in my life. I live without god. It's not a non-belief in god. It's simply that I don't believe in this thing that someone claim exist any more than I believe that we are living in the matrix or that advanced aliens created us.

If we are to follow your line of reasoning then all believers who are only allowed to have one god would be going against their belief by not believing in the thousands of other gods out there.
Are you telling me I can finally have a Lean Startup AND save $1031 by encumbering myself with all these things I probably don't need by spending $42?!

Sign me up! (Hum. So I'm a bit of a "savings" cynic.)
I definitely agree. The menu bar isn't for every app to clutter up with pointless menus like the Windows system tray is (was?)
seems like it would have been easier to support imap first, and then it would instantly support gmail and every other email provider.
Why isn't there a commonapp for startup press coverage? Same set of details, no PR fluff, and sent to these sites + one designated person at a publication.

This would just make everyone's life so much easier.
It depends on how you define science. Personally I define science as a process, whereby one has theories and then tries to systematically falsify them. By this measure CS isn't really much of a science, it is more like Math or Engineering.

But it is not exactly a black or white issue. It is more of a science than, say, Political Science, in terms of rigor and logic.
This is super old news. Why isn't this modded off the front page?
Hey. Not I didn't used CappuccinoResource.
I considered every tools, but I think Cappuccino is simply the best for this kind of app right now.
Thank you.
Is there any way to open messages in the same window? It's highly annoying to have to open messages in new windows and have to manage multiple windows.
The graphics in this article is very misleading. The first three salary values are average values from SimplyHired.com while the last value for rock stars is the "average salary for the top 10 best paid music stars". If you use the same criteria to search for the last category (rockstars), you simply find an average salary of $54,000, not $50,000,000.

http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-(rockstar+OR+%2...

That's not to say the website's information is accurate or indicative of what people each of these categories actually make.

Salaries probably not a normal distribution, and the real high earners wouldn't be captured by guesses based on mean income. I would rather make the argument that the graphics displayed and information provided are really bad metrics. They are at best confusing, at worst misleading.
I upvoted you, but the general problem with these links is that they affect author motivation, whether or not they realize it. This is especially true for subjective listings such as this one, they are simply a brain dump of whatever the list author could think of. That's why you get SICP next to "Head first HTML", and that's why you don't get "Coders at work" at all, even though it's mentioned >800 times on this site, vs much less for other titles on the list.
the interface looks rad:
http://cinema.elphel.com/elphelvision
This Is What Real Analysis Looks Like
Maybe there should be a tag and thread on HN for startups that are launching or looking for alpha/beta users (like the ASK tag).
For those of us who don't need to do POS payment processing, the hardware can also be used to turn your iPhone into a reel-to-reel tape player.

(Reels not included.)
They have 2 options:

* Be able to point to some part of the Constitution that says (either directly or indirectly) that Congress can pass the law

* Coerce each state into passing the law, often by withholding funding from states that don't. This is how they raised the drinking age to 21, for example. Congress didn't pass a law saying "Persons under 21 may not drink", it passed a law saying "States that don't raise their drinking age to 21 will only get some percentage of the highway funding they would otherwise get." This method is very effective because federal grants make up about 25% of most states' budgets.

But most laws are passed in the first way. Justification often comes from the Commerce Clause (which gives Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce. But today, unlike in 1787, basically everything is interstate commerce if you think about it right.).

Sometimes it also comes from the Neccessary & Proper (or Elastic) Clause, which says that Congress can pass any law that is "necessary and proper" for performing one of the other powers. It was basically there so that people wouldn't view the Constitution as listing the exact laws that Congress can be passed. For example, the Constitution never said "Congress may setup a national bank", but when people claimed that the law doing so was unconstitutional, Hamilton claimed that a national bank was necessary and proper for carrying out the powers of taxation and borrowing, which are given to Congress in the Constitution.
looks like a neat tool for drug dealers?
There are many ways to differentiate from the big sites, going more niche or less niche than they are. If picsengine hasn't discovered its big differentiator yet, it will after interacting with users for a while.
News to me, I ran in to it today for the first time.

It's a pretty neat concept as far as I can see, apart from the issue mentioned by the other commenter in this thread.
One would suppose that the real rock star accountants are so good they are unknown by the public.
The best course of action for this company would have been to just say no we're not going to hire you.

How is that beneficial for the employer or the potential employee?

> Because having long hair in no way affects a candidate's ability to do this (or virtually any) job

But it does affect how the company is perceived, and that's not a result of the company but the people who use it. I don't have a problem with dreadlocks, but I honestly understand why someone might be a little weary of hiring someone to come into their home and move all their stuff if they look radically different to them.

> then maybe they should be allowed to require men to be clean-shaven;

Yes.

> maybe they should be allowed to require women to wear skirts;

Yes. You should be able to define the uniform you wish your employees to wear.

> maybe they should be allowed to prefer men for certain positions

Yes. You should also be allowed to prefer women for certain positions.

Here's what I don't get.

One, you don't have to be hired. You're not entitled to every job you apply for. You're also not entitled to the job you have.

Two, certain requirements, such as shaving or your hair style are things that you can change. Perhaps that conflicts with your religion, but that's something you have to deal with. That's your decision. You can still be a Rastafarian and not have dreadlocks, be Muslim and not wear a hijab, and be a Christian and work on Sunday. At what point do you stop accommodating irrationally held religious beliefs and start treating people as if they are adults responsible for their own decisions?

Three, employers are responsible for who they hire. If they don't feel comfortable having that person represent their company, they should be able to not hire them. These laws remove some of that responsibility, but still place all the blame for the actions of that individual with the company.
Cargo cult practice in effect.
You should make it such that links with expired keys send you to a page with an ad.
Most Ocean Life is Unknown
The article mentioned OpenJDK, which contains JVM, but overall I agree that I wouldn't this call to action particularly inspiring.
IOS users are ten times more likely to download apps than Symbian users
Agreed--these guys have been around for quite some time. I do think they are really just starting to take off though. I just got my reader about 3 weeks ago (It had been on order for almost 3 months).
Check out jstal http://code.google.com/p/jstal/
Good eye zck. I will fix up the blog bug here asap. As for the chord location, the text version of the chords are spaced out correctly. You have to turn off the chord diagrams from the bottom tool bar to see this.

I am still perfecting translating that spacing over to the chord diagrams themselves. But, hopefully I will have that rolled out soon.

I really appreciate all of the feedback. Thanks a ton!
Well, I think the reason that things expire is so that he can then reuse those words (since there are only so many short words that anyone can spell), but that is a good idea for ones that have expired but now yet been reallocated.
This is what I think he means.

Considered as a whole rather than individual persons, humanity understands how to apply quantum mechanics, in particular, to collapse the wave function. However, few or no individuals actually intuitively understand the subtle details of modern quantum mechanics.

If you can take the perspective of humanity as an entity which can "understand" things, then humanity knows a lot more than any individual knows.
there's something eerily calming and horrifying about playing back the reports and watching the red bites appear on the map.
I didn't single Django out, I think all server-side template languages are hideos and largely unnecessary. JavaScript templates, with some work, can be better in a lot of ways.
spades were very effective when "unarmed" soldiers were used
to pacify civil uprisings, for example in 87-89. It worked like Rome soldiers' short swords in the crowd of the battle.
"notebook cannibalization from tablets"
The UR Programming Language
I thought the same. I posted cakesy.com last night and have already received over 10k uniques via HN. Even if it hadn't made it past top 10, it would still be 500+ uniques. Wouldn't compare against 80k hits via TechCrunch but it might end up a better plan if your potential users are hackers.
The Leanpub books are full books; see my comment below.
I wonder if bread and circus won't come back in vogue. As long as consumer goods keep getting cheaper, and the unemployed are content with a standard of living that doesn't put too much of a strain on us, why should we care? Is it really worse to let them watch Two and a Half Men reruns than send them to some "dig a hole then fill it with dirt again" Keynesian job? Or worse, wait for them to commit a crime and then pay to keep them jailed?
Are there enough words?
Understanding jQuery’s impact on Microsoft and ASP.NET
Downvote all you want but I honestly don't see too many other use cases for this besides "peddlers" of things. Would you really ask a client to swipe their card into your phone like this instead of writing a check?
Good thing ShoutKey gives you the key as opposed to you choosing it. I can imagine someone ShoutKey squatting otherwise.
~19 employees in this warehouse-like office space?

Seems to be a little less than indulgent. Not the sort of office space you'd expect after hearing countless "lean & trim company" narratives.
The Linux kernel, for example, uses the following definitions for page-table
entries in different levels of amd64's four-level page tables:

typedef struct { unsigned long pte; } pte_t;
typedef struct { unsigned long pmd; } pmd_t;
typedef struct { unsigned long pud; } pud_t;
typedef struct { unsigned long pgd; } pgd_t;

That way, even though they're all represented as 64-bit values, the compiler
will catch you if you try to mix-and-match different types without doing
appropriate work.

Passing small structs in registers means that Linux can do that, and pass around
`pte_t`s as parameters, without having to worry about paying a runtime cost for
their typechecking.
what excites me more is that open hardware is finally getting into mainstream devices. future is bright.
> human societies have drifted slowly but surely towards the left, with a constant increase in the quality of life for the entire population.

This is like saying that caged mice have a better quality of life than wild mice because they have more free time, a reliable source of food, and no predators: it completely discounts the value of freedom.
If the expiration is fixed to be 15 mins and this shortener is forced on all users, that will resolve all criticisms of shortener sites - Everyone will soon come to know how they are breaking the web, eventually forcing people to use this in the intended use case only (i.e. shouting across the room)

Sometimes the best way to break a bad habit is to enforce it
This is a good list to get started. I write for MakeUseOf - generally to submit your app there, use submit@makeuseof.com or if you want to send a direct message to me, dave@makeuseof.com.

Your app must at least be in open beta, and must be free or 'freemium'.
They miss an line right at the end. I would have spend quite some time to make it look more of a pyramid as you have rather than leave away the final peace of the puzzle as they have. Though to be honest I would have not played with the text in that way to begin with.
I'm pretty sure some hedge fund managers earn more than every rock star put together.
Similar to blogofile is Jekyll (http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki), which powers Github Pages. It's written in Ruby, so it doesn't meet your exact skill set, but Ruby and Python in my experience are fairly similar.
This captured my feelings exactly about the ubiquity of this term in wanna-be-trendy job postings. I've seen quite a few companies use it, and without exception, it has meant that the company didn't know what you'd even be doing. It also means the person that's hiring you probably wants to "jump on a call" to discuss things, to see how you can "build out" their ill-defined, overly ambitious projects with whack-a-mole feature creep.
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - Marc Hedlund's blog
What if the color of the selection box around the link changed according to how fast your mouse was moving and how far it would have to move before a different link was selected?
LG puts Android tablet on hold, says Froyo not suitable
Except that Gmail over IMAP never feels quite right. I'm dying for a desktop app that has the same experience as gmail in the browser. Fluid and Mailplane are currently the only way to do that, but I want it in a native app, not a hosted browser window.
"Rock star" is an overused term, sure. I don't know that its by hiring companies use makes developers think of abuse, though.
There are many things that humans know intuitively and have known for centuries. They just haven't known why something works a given way.

It's the ability to explain it that makes you understand it.
the relationship between the various components ... does not fit with the reductionist viewpoint.

On the contrary, that's exactly how reductionism tries to understand things.
The analogy breaks down when the author implies that rock star musicians (or really musicians of any kind) are paid a salary by the record companies. All the record companies pay are advances, and then the rest is just gouging the artist's creative output for every expense they can muster.

At first I thought that's what the article was going to get into: "We want you to produce amazingly high-quality output for an unfairly-low wage and relatively low performance bonuses." Instead it implied that rock star musicians get a significantly better deal than "rock star engineers," and that's pretty bogus. Just ask an aspiring rock star if they'd like to make ~$75K base salary with bonuses (i.e. equity) that reward the quality of their output.
agree.. you need to build a product in whatever you are most productive in , and get it done the fastest.
I do have a right to treat people however I please, and they have the right to choose not to interact with me. If I want to make myself a pariah, by whatever means, then I damn well have the right to do so.

And if by insisting to be referred to as a man, someone else makes themselves a pariah, that was also their choice.

Live and let live, I say, but that does not mean you should acquiesce just because someone feels their views are right (i.e., agree with you, heh, what makes your views any more right than mine, or the people who upvoted me?).

Just because something is important to someone else doesn't mean I have to give a fuck about it. For example, I am not going to be a vegan just because other people think it's bad to eat meat.

Also, calling me an ass really strengthened your argument. Kudos.
i don't think they started actually shipping large quantities of readers until recently, though.

In any case, if you're freelancing and want to accept card payments, it's pretty good. I'd been doing a project and had been using an authorize.net processor, but square is cuter and, more importantly, has much lower processor fees than most other places with not even half the overhead (i.e. crazy account setup/maintenance fees/etc).

I noticed problems with their card reader when using with an ipod touch, but on the iphone, it's been pretty good.
A robotic ball controlled by a smartphone