skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That fails to indicate that doctors don't read peer-reviewed journals, and it fails to indicate that uneducated parents can make better informed decisions than doctors."

Probably because I never said that doctors don't ever read journals, I just said that they got their information from marketing literature-- a claim which I've now backed up with 5+ sources.

Secondly, I never claimed that an uneducated person could make better decisions than doctors, my only claim was that someone following the recommendations of the academic research would on average get better treatment than they would from a doctor. And again, I've backed up this claim with multiple sources.
That would only make the decision simple if you absolutely had to use only one search engine. You could just as easily use Google's encrypted interface for insecure connections and Bing at home IF you thought Bing was better.

Only Semi-Related: Everyone who uses Google SSL should be aware of this: http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ssl-search-referral-data
Yeah they're IRENE scanners. Pretty amazing, actually. Able to lift sound off the most delicate old recordings. Probably a lot of possibility for repair of lost fragments visually:

http://irene.lbl.gov/

And there are laser turntables for commercial purposes as well. Not a visual product, in interesting still...
These scenarios are just not analogous so there's no way to be hypocritical or not hypocritical.

On the one hand you have Flash, which has been around for ages and you can't just take it out without breaking a lot of the web. If someone found an open way to render Flash (like if Flash Gordon somehow got good enough to do it), I guarantee you that Google would remove Flash. They would much prefer this to having to bend over backwards to render it in a different process and blah blah blah. The only reason Apple was able to remove Flash was because they entered the mobile landscape, where having a browser that couldn't render Flash still rendered more of the "real web" than most competing mobile browsers at the time. However, you don't see them dropping support for it in Safari (and not including the plugin on some macs is not dropping support). If you couldn't run flash at all on a Mac, ever, it would be disastrous.

H.264 on the other hand is a brand new technology, there is still time to make the right move before we end up in the same position as we are with Flash today: everyone wanting it gone but it not being easy to remove it (similar to the GIF situation as well). On top of that Google controls the biggest video supplier of the web, thus they have the additional ability to make the transition less painful.
This professor is indescribably awesome.
I think these interviews are really great resource, but prefer to read than actually listen.. so I'd like to try to help organize and transcribe these. If people are interested in contributing https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AglVabA_hHYAdFFzZXl... Just mark, and hopefully Gabe can add them.
"Why do you think they are going to enable WebM parts?"

I don't. I think Apple will resist WebM for as long as they can. With h.264 support coming to Internet Explorer, I reckon Apple thinks h.264 is going to retain the majority of web users.

"Vorbis has been there for years. Why do you think Apple never supported it?"

Apple was the first to offer video on the desktop, I think they still consider themselves the authority. They have always preferred proprietary codecs (ALAC, AAC, h.264) over FOSS (FLAC, Vorbis, Theora), probably to keep control of their IP. I doubt that's going to change anytime soon.
Are these typically free apps the consultants are developing? (Like say, Yelp's app).
And for the record, there are some pretty unique distortions here. I know a lot of artists who'd be pretty excited about the samples themselves...there's something special about them being a byproduct of a unique process as opposed to a clicked button or three in protools.
Thank you--will do!
Any HN'ers doing the Facebook Hacker Cup?
Did anyone go through the qualifying round last weekend? Any comments or discussion on the event so far? Has anyone gained insight into how facebook expects output and source code to be submitted? (During the qualifying round, when you were ready to submit your answer, a pop-up window would appear for you to copy-and-paste into. I just copied and pasted my answer and didn't submit my source code. They seem to have let me through on that basis as far as the qualifying round, but I'm sure that won't be permitted during the subsequent rounds.)
Yes, I am two quarters and a half, and so is my fiancee. Our child will have a nationality in 5 continents.
Well, having a desk job does tend to make me stay in one place for the most part. If I know I'm going to be sitting there for longer than an hour -- I plug it in.

In the car? Plug it in.

etc.
Well, I came away with the opposite conclusion.

HFTs don't like to hold stuff at the end of the day. Or hour, nay second. Further, HFTs that stayed in (some were obligated by their market-maker contracts with major exchanges to do so) helped the recovery back up.
Any roaming plan is stealing tons of money from you. The way to go is to just buy a local SIM card wherever you travel. Many come with a data plan too. It ends up much cheaper then roaming your own number around.
This guy obviously wrote this question to provoke this exact response from people. He's duped all of you into obsessing over nostalgia and thinking/saying you've got a leg up on "today's youngsters."

Nobody who asks this question would need to go to a StackOverflow site to get it answered.
Well, as true decentralized bootstrapping is still an open problem (as far as I know), I'll give them a bit of a pass on that.

It's an interesting idea, but I'd agree that there are possible ramifications of repeated pseudonymous communication over Tor.
Off-topic - In China, they use the following format 1965-07-31 which to me as a geek makes a lot more sense. From largest unit to smallest. It also conveniently auto-sorts in chronological order if you name files like this.
$299 for the device + $500 for the sdk.
If you are using Python for web development there is a good chance you are using the Python 2.x branch. Why?

Because almost all the libraries that you would need were written in 2.x. This includes the some of the more popular frameworks.

There are a few things preventing widespread adoption of Python 3.x for web. This was one of them.

Most people though (including myself) are quite happy to keep using 2.x. We all know Python 3 is here and is the future. We also know upgrading to be relatively painless. But for the most part the Python community values stability and 2.x makes most people happy. So for now I am just keeping an eye on 3.0 and seeing what web frameworks are going to pop up using it before I consider any type of move.
The header area is very busy, I would eliminate some of the elements like "Swayable is a cool new way to help you make decisions online or on the go
Create a Swayable comparing anything you can take a photo of or find on the web.Let your social circle Sway your decision." Then make the video tour icon smaller. You have "Register" and "Login" in the header and in the nav bar fairly close to each other, you can eliminate one of the pairs to reduce clutter.
Should be titled "Rails Performance Testing Tips and Tricks"
Strict Mode Is Coming To Town
The hardest part for the children who do not make it to the top is that they feel like they have not made it anywhere.

There's more than one person close to me who feels this way -- if you've been raised to believe that #2 is the first loser, you may have a very hard time adapting to a real world in which success is often collaborative and has no end point.

I mean, think about bringing a fiercely competitive mindset to one of the many areas of life where in reality, if your peers/collaborators/friends/relatives (not competitors) do better work, that helps you towards your common goal.

I've been thinking & talking about this a lot lately, because I'm the father of an 17-month-old, and I want her to know how to work hard for long-term goals, without giving her crippling perfectionism (no, not everything worth doing is worth doing well...) and a permanently twisted view of life.
So let's say you're doing an everyday search for something such as researching a new camera. Would you consider the probability of someone eavesdropping on your communication times the amount of harm they could likely cause to you using that information to outweigh any amount of improvement in search result quality? I'm not trying to be facetious — just genuinely curious if that's how your utility function works.
Mirroring rocks! A point-and-click guarantee of defeating censorship.
I think the parent was meant as sort of a "Now the student has become the master!"
There are plenty of words in this particular universe that are thrown around a lot. You mention "openness". Another big one is "freedom". You can discuss to great length what these words mean, but I'm not going down that route tonight.

I don't know specifically what RMS has said and has not said. For the most of it I'm not interested. What I am interested in are the actions. Like him or not, but RMS has clearly done good things for anyone who believes computers should be devices that you and I are free to hack on on your own.

(I'm carefully avoiding your TFA quote because I have nothing useful to comment on that. Yes, I agree that the API only has value because it's coming from this one company. I don't really think this has much to do with openness).
Flowchart : Should you work for Free?
before you slam on the gas be sure you're pointed in the right direction.
Is it possible for him to just wait and see what community of users makes up most of the userbase and then slowly begin to focus the product on them?
It is a patent owned by a corporation that has chosen to license them in a royalty-free way, in the exact same way that MPEG-LA has chosen not to charge fees for end users of MPEG4. The main distinction would be source code access, but as stated by others, that is no guarantee of infringement of others' intellectual property rights. Stated another way: if you had the source code to the MPEG4 codec, would your objections remain?
because for this purpose, you are all using "old" for "more knowledgeable and superior"
I suspect that mobile in general will move towards services instead of applications. There's a lot of data crunching that you can do when you have a data collection device in every person's pockets, but doing that crunching on the client will drain your batteries it to time. I predict that the really interesting mobile apps will have a thin (but native) client that only does data collection & UI, and then the most computationally interesting piece will be hosted in the cloud somewhere.
Windows Everywhere? Wake Up, Microsoft. It's 2011
Also he scored the results subjectively.
A Comfy Helvetica frontpage for Hacker News
That is a rip-off of an even older User Friendly strip.
I could be wrong, and I love Perl, but I don't see how it could replace elisp. I think it would be cool though. I often thought that Vim should dump vimscript for a preferred language extension of either Perl or Python.
I'm not really concerned about RMS. I just pointed out that he isn't about "open".

To the extent that you're fond of free software and RMS, that's nice, but the topic is TFA.
The blink tag was a nice touch.
Your fear is only a result of your use of flawed languages, probably of the Algol family, rather using a flawless language like Lisp.
Yeah, I remember seeing the FaceBook moving and thinking "Did they fictionalize Shawn Fanning's name or something?"
An update on EFF's SSL Observatory project (video from 27c3)
Use this, please.

Oh and add a real search option.

Thank you.
The short answer: no, from what I understand. A more thorough explanation was posted as part of a bit of a diatribe on Ruby development in general to HN a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059964
I was either hoping for Gay Robot* or Electric Dreams, but this is quite cool.

* Gay Robot was created when his inventor accidentally spilled a wine cooler on the motherboard.
I have not used mongodb for anything sensitive (just log and test analysis), but my experience is that while at least the index stays in ram, things go relatively well, and degrade much worse than mysql once it does not.
> The hard part of almost any space-based power consumption is the difficulty of later dissipating the wasted heat energy. ... Without lots of clever technology, then, your space-based laser is a double-edged sword.

Not if you design it like a mine or a one-shot munition. Cheap high-powered lasers and targeting systems will pave the way for laser-mines in space. Without air, there is little need to pulse your lasers. Your weapon might as well expend itself ASAP to do maximum damage without prolonged tracking and risk of retaliatory fire. If you can only sustain pulsed fire at say 6 shots per minute, that gives your enemy a lot of time to triangulate and return fire, potentially with more lasers than you have. However, you could simply expend your munition by firing it continuously for a minute until your mine overheats and its systems fail.

If you're lucky your mine might survive the battle through a bad retaliatory shot, or by destroying the target. If your mine survives, it could well live to fight another day. It will eventually cool down, and assuming you'd provide it with solar panels it could well charge itself up to repeat the process next time you're attacked. It's also nice to point out that smaller objects dissipate their heat faster, so attaching your weapons inside your ship may only serve to hamper your efforts to fight effectively.

If you're actually defending something, like say a asteroid mine then you're likely to have enough spare material to afford heat sinks, or you could use several meter wide asteroids to mount your lasers. Drill tubes and heat-sink into the asteroid (it doesn't matter what it's made of, but a metallic asteroid would be ideal) with copper-rods and you could fire for even longer periods. On top of this, you could use the asteroid as a heat-sink for the enemy fire. If you know a ship-mounted laser only fires once every 10 seconds, you could simply realign so that there's a high probability that your enemy will be hitting rock and not a vital system.

I doubt we'll be using them any time soon, but I think what people fail to understand is the incredible vastness of space, but also the potentially endless resources we will find there (at least from our present perspective where we can't strip-mine our planet because of all that inconvenient molten-gooiness that is containing precious materials).
one thing about coding by punchcard is permanence compared to floppy, hd, online ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/247968267/
I think the instant search function of google makes it much much more convenient than bing. See now I can type my search terms and look at the results as I am typing. If I am not liking the results, I just keep typing (i.e., narrowing my search), or change some misleading search terms.

This real time searching, is much faster, or at least feels much faster than the old way of typing a query, hitting enter, waiting for the results, thinking whether you should change your query or just look at the next page of results, etc.

At this point Bing just kind of feels like the old generation of technology.
Alright, we're discussing "open" vs "free". Right now I don't care too much about semantics..

For anyone reading this that don't know what we're on about ,
read --> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...

(edit: I generally agree with RMS's points. I might confuse "open" and "free". For anyone not native to English these words might be interchangeable. I'm not a native English speaker. It becomes clearer when you define the words such as done in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h... , but in a day to day conversation, it's easy to get the exact definitions wrong)
I think he had the millions of iDevices in mind in that sentence.

A driver update isn't going to suddenly make iPads play WebM in hardware.
He won the court case at the end of The Social Network. In the little "where are they now" blurbs at the end, it says that his initial share pre-dilution was reinstated.
I wasn't previously aware of Forrst. Looks like it could be neat.
(yea I realized my distance from the TFA half way through my first post.. but decided to post anyway. (possibly a bad decision). And it has lead to a bit of a discussion. Which is good -- which is what I like)
I would imagine that his shares are all public record as a matter of the court case. Wikipedia lists the court as having reinstated the 7% initial share; presumably 5% is what that would be after subsequent dilution.
You mean this: http://www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch/
Because they contain a nice argument? Duh!
Touretzky is also one of scientology's biggest online critics:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/

I believe CMU's lawyers are well-acquainted with responding to legal threats against him.
Any idea what those ~2Hz distortions are? In the a and c series recordings, they have a very strong pitch change, coming in groups of 4...
I suppose that's what I meant without realizing it. I'm more likely to alter the search terms than go to the next pages.

So, I guess the goal is to make a search that more accurately guesses your intention, without you having to make it clear. I suppose that goal is obvious but I'm not sure whether it even make sense.

It seems like Microsoft is fighting the battles of the last decade. If Bing came out in 2001 it would be a lot different. Do they have anything more innovative in the cards than a 'better Google'?
It's my belief that eventually you'll be able to do most general blood tests at home via a connected device that will keep a log of all your blood levels. If you start to get sick an approved practitioner can pull up your prior tests via an interface similar to time machine and see when things started to go awry. Think Chem 10 + Lipid Panel + CBC once weekly...
I signed up to help write, and I hope others do as well. It's a shame that the poor documentation is such a barrier preventing Sproutcore's adoption. I was hoping that with the formation of Strobe that things would get better, but they really haven't. Hopefully this effort will be able to bridge that gap.
Make CSS3 buttons like a boss
Why did they choose an 8 bit look? While it's good for nostalgia, I'm not sure that's smart if you're championing the future of gaming.

PS: I actually think the 8bit looks is kinda ugly.
I am not a good person to take Engrish usage advice from. Honestly don't know why I omitted "a pair of" there.
Hmm... no blinking in Chrome. I think I'm happy about that "feature"...
Oddly enough on Geohot's site and the professor's mirror it states "do not mirror file, link to geohot.com".
I know, I know. A gross over-generalisation which I conceded in the original comment. But clicking around on his blog, I found a quote from his interview by Tucker Max which shows that his inspiration was definitely Machiavelli.

"I pitched to him an idea about the timelessness of Machiavelli which ended up turning into the 48 Laws of Power."

http://www.powerseductionandwar.com/archives/the_robert_gree...
By that logic any court setlement bound by nondisclosure would be public record.
Although I'm sure it's simply because I'm used to it, I like the current design better.
Happy to give HN members invites - Kyle at forrst dot com
CMU's lawyers most certainly had to vet this before it went up publicly, so lets raise a toast to those attorneys, and most importantly Touretzky, for their efforts.

This was not a spur of the moment thing - these guys did their homework.

"Ding"
I agree - I entered a game in the contest and was very worried that it wouldn't hold up to the rest of the entries because mine is very simple in comparison. I tried playing ~12 of them and couldn't believe how complicated many of them were!
Other than not being directly integrated, what's wrong with http://searchyc.com/ as a search engine?
I am of the same opinion. It sure gets the point across that the page is about games. But for how long you can tell somebody spent working on those graphics, they just don't do it for me...

I DO dig the trophy with the joystick though.. it's mainly just the little spaceships and guns that look out of place.
Reddit Grew 230% in 2010 at Digg’s Expense
"if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me."

I suggest that in exchange for being paid, he will not help crack the PS4.

(I don't actually think that was the spirit of his remark, of course, but it probably is literally true that if Sony hired him, he would likely not help crack the PS4, while as it stands, he may well do so.)
His capitals seem too large...
Okay - for all the Kurzweill naysayers - how about going out on a limb, and telling me which of his predictions are ones that we'd "eventually have" (+/- let's say five years or so), and which ones are just plain wrong.

For example - I think a _lot_ of people in 1990 would have (and in fact, they did) say that voice data entry would be the majority method for communication with computers in 2010. Totally and completely wrong. Kurzweil admits that he was way off on that one. (By at least 10 more years, he figures) But, at the time - it really seemed to be much more likely that we would automate voice entry, rather than teaching the entire human species to touch type.

So - go for it - tell me, right now, which of his many predictions are "obviously going to happen." and which are "Totally foolish".

Alternatively, do you have some that he hasn't seen?

What drives me crazy about the Kurzweil Naysayers is that

A) They Nitpick - overlooking his general correctness.
(I include myself in that category, btw. )

B) They do it after the fact - I'd love for them to
pick a few of his future predictions and say that
(1) They will never happen or (2) They are obviously
going to happen.
> I'm gonna go with the analysis of the guy who said his B-frame implementation gave x264 the project's single greatest encoding quality improvement over the guy who thinks the release date of VP3 determines which patents encumber VP8, thanks.

Over both of those I think I'll take the implied legal opinion of the Google's legal team. In pushing WebM so strongly, Google obviously thinks it can withstand any attempted assault from the MPEG-LA. And unlike any of us or even Dark Shikari, they are lawyers who are qualified to make judgments about patent issues, and they know about exactly what hand Google is holding.
For load testing, I use tourbus: https://github.com/dbrady/tourbus
Not sure why, but I was expecting something nice like http://feedafever.com/
I'm going to stick with the current design.
The antidepressant reboxetine: A headdesk moment in science
Requiring registration (or Facebook / Google / Twitter account) before seeing anything is a major fail for many entries.

If some sort of account is indeed necessary (rarely the case), please give us single click demo account, or at least show us screenshots / videos from the actual gameplay.
Yes. I've got a BS CS & worked in industry as a developer for 4 years - mainly C & C++.
This happened to Foursquare, and resulted in a lengthy outage. See http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/th... for the full details (including why recovery took so long).
The point is that no one important is apparently objecting to lack of Apple back-support even when it's something something (relatively) simple like an x86 driver update for (relatively) expensive Mac hardware. There is no evidence they would take offense at lack of a firmware upgrade for comparatively cheaper iOS devices.