skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general I wouldn't mind downvoting, except for the fact that the text gets lighter as you go below zero. I know I often skip over such text, not because I know its been downvoted, but it gets much harder to read (although on occassion I'll highlight it to make it easier to read).

If we got rid of the font effect and maybe did something like just put the karma score for comments below one, I would be almost completely indifferent to downvotes.
Well, it looks like it was a panel at the Wharton Gamification Symposium, so probably assumed to be something like, "all the stuff the previous and subsequent presenters are talking about", which judging by the venue is heavily on the biz/marketing side.
>a discovery so profound as first contact must have some impact to their belief. But then again, my guess is that when this discovery is made, the larger part of the world are secularists.

Explored in the film "Contact" and the Carl Sagan book upon which it was based. Though apparently the ending differs significantly between the two. (I enjoyed the movie, but haven't gotten around to reading the book).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/
This looks like a cool geek thing but sounds like it has the potential to be a user-interface nightmare.

"You have no application configured for removing red-eye. Please select a photo editor for removing red eye from these 1000 choices."

For everything I might want to do?

Eventually they'll have to pick sane defaults from the most popular choices and at that point it seems like we're back to where we are now.

Either that, or it's a security/privacy nightmare. I don't want any site sending photos (for example) anywhere I haven't explicitly given access to, every time. I don't consider myself overly paranoid, either.

I do assume that Facebook does have some level of privacy controls in place; it would seem to make this desirable for a user you'd have to defeat those controls without asking.
To be sure, the "bullshit" comment could have been toned down.

Suggesting that probably would have been fine, particularly if you had other interesting comments to add as well; including a personal attack earns downvotes, though; that doesn't add anything.
Great guide, but I wonder what is the authors' philosophy on rendering in plain anchor tags the call-to-action to follow them on Twitter/sign up for email?

http://imgur.com/BXIxG

Is it to differentiate it from the visually-distracting call-to-action buttons? I suppose a follow on Twitter/email is less important than an actual download
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That browsers will mediate the cross-app communications is a great step towards capabilities-based security and a safer web.

Also, it seems like a natural feature for jmiller's Locker Project.
Are you kidding? It's the most perfect response I can imagine. It follows the OP's metaphor even more rigorously than the OP does, it's useful and it's exactly right on every point. If that's outsourced, I would like to get me some of that cheap labor.
half of success is showing up? :-)

I really like to see my childhood friends' reactions when they see me dance, after having witnessed my robot dance of high school years. I was not really genetically programmed to dance that's for sure, but I got quite good with some good practice. Just to say for all nerds out here that have 2 left feet and think they can't for their life learn to dance: practice trumps everything, even in dancing. You need to overcome the initial pain of feeling ridiculous though.

Regarding salsa challenging mental acuity, salsa is challenging on a physical and you might say on an intellectual level, but for me it's really not what matters.

As you say, just way more fun than being under the fluorescent day sun.
I actually worked for a company making a product exactly like this, but for Argentina. They launched almost 6 months ago: http://www.123seguro.com.ar
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So was I some time ago when i suddenly realized I should google it (and found this). Not that I actually use it though.
Utility is relative to curiosity. A butcher might be interested in animal husbandry, but maybe they just want to cut steak. To a Rails dev, this is all "what happens to the cow before it's steak" stuff.
Pointing out that your (literal) fantasy is not reality is hardly being pedantic. In fact it worries me that this even seems to be necessary.
No, incompleteness and its generalizations fall within computability theory, not complexity theory.

In regard to your second point, you say "other problems in computational complexity". Again, you mentioned computability theory, not CCT. They are different endeavors. Aaronson was careful to say that this is not another essay on philosophy and computability.
To validate this list, pick some developers you admire. How far along are they on this list? Are they much further than you?
I wonder if that is why scrolling in Cyberduck is extremely slow. http://trac.cyberduck.ch/ticket/3799

I don't have a problem with using different UI toolkits as long as they look like native apps. The problem is these toolkits are always a step behind in exposing features of the platform you are developing for.
"Levelling up" as a developer doesn't rest on checking off a bunch of points on somebody else's list (though many of those points may still be relevant to you on your journey), but rather a combination of a constant need for self-improvement and critical self-analysis, combined with a massive genuine passion for the field of programming, irrespective of which areas your interests lean toward. If you are never satisfied that you have "made it" and you are regularly not only getting excited by new ideas and new possibilities in this field, but also putting a lot of time into exploring your skills and constantly trying to improve them, there is very little chance that you're not going to massively improve as time goes on.
I really don't like the "wins" and "awarded" terminology that is used with patents. I saw a commercial recently where the voice-over said something like "so great, it was awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office", as if it was some kind of 4H competition.
This doesn't sound like it is referring to files uploaded, does it? "such communication or material"?

I've seen many sites with similar clauses for communications with them -- mainly so they can use your email as a customer testimonial, I believe.

I'm okay with that, but certainly if this applies to the files uploaded, that's a deal-breaker. Facebook's similar clause applying to uploaded content is why I don't upload photos directly, just links to albums I host myself.

Edit: I looked at the terms more closely. Those sections just need to be rewritten; they seem to be cobbled together and not quite regularized to make sense.

6. Intellectual Property Information: defines "content" to include "message boards, chat, and other original content", then (huh) has this: "all content presented to you on this site is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws, and is the sole property of Kicksend, Inc. and/or its Affiliates." Well, no, that's a direct contradiction with the definition of content, especially since I assume people can share public domain material.

7. Unauthorized Use of Materials: much of this seems like a cut/paste out of terms I've seen referring to messages that users submit to a company (saw something like this on an Adobe site) -- e.g., feature ideas that you "transmit to us", NOT original or public domain content uploaded to a sharing service. These terms are a bit scary in the current context.

HTH.
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I'm not so sure about that because CoffeeScript is a very fast moving language (one of its benefits) and it doesn't make sense to slow down the iteration cycle by integrating it with browsers directly. Then you would have to worry about which CoffeeScript features you could take advantage of, instead of just compiling to the lowest common denominator of JS, so to speak.
Stick the word "nontrivial" on the rest of the achievements and that number will drop rapidly. CS students do a lot of these things, but often not with much depth.
Interview street looks fantastic. You probably don't need a system like this for dev hires with a tool like that.

And you're right about designers - I look at portfolios more than anything else. This system does save me having to look at resumes to figure out whether they have a portfolio or not. It at least weeds out that third :)
You are assuming that somehow people will have faith in the fairness of the court system and fight it out till the end.

People don't have faith and they are offered a plea bargain where they plead guilty so they end up being the losers.

This is basically a game of chicken between an individual with $50K worth of assets and a large behemoth with $50B worth of assets avialable. The longer the fight the higher the stakes. Eventually individuals cannot take any more risk and cannot afford to pay any more fees. It also not just a financial cost but time (i.e. opportunity cost). One's lifetime is limited but a corporation can just keep hiring warm bodies as long as the sue-and-threaten model keeps being profitable.
One part that piqued my interest was Carmack's interest in using functional languages. Of course he goes on to say that it would be hard with people making the switch and all that after.

“It's not because people are no good. The very best programmers always make mistakes. This is something that I've really internalized; that, no matter how good you think you are, you are making mistakes all the time, and you have to have structures around you to try and help you limit the damage that your mistakes will cause, find them as early as possible, so that you can correct them, and the earliest possible time is at compile time. So I'm all about trying to be much more restrictive on what we can do, here. And on the one hand, I would entertain programming in—I'm very tempted to want to move to—a functional programming language; start programming in Haskell or OCaml or something, but that's not a credible thing to do in the game industry.”
Good points but I think the answer is to pick one (I'd vote #4 but I'm open to debate) and enforce it at a regulatory level. Issues arise when you're allowed to change how you value assets based on what's most favorable at the time.
> "No two companies' bulbs were compatible so most of the time you were not able to find a replacement bulb..."

Standardization would be much easier for LEDs than for CFLs simply because of the size of the package. We have plenty of standard bulb bases that could potentially be used for LEDs, e.g. E-10 or PR-6. The biggest issue is ensuring enough contact with the heat sink.

> "The reason is that the extra cost of manufacturing them in a replaceable fashion costs more than simply tossing them."

There's no way to know this without seeing the manufacturing breakdown. The additional cost may be negligible.

> "The LED die and perhaps the driver is probably 95% of the cost of the bulb"

That may be true now, but I personally don't care. Given the choice between replacing an entire bulb and replacing a small piece for slightly less, guess which one I'll choose.

Furthermore, this situation will change quickly as LED bulbs are made in greater quantities. Ultimately the cost of the electronics and the LED will be cents. Think about what's happened to LED flashlights. The cost of the aluminum and plastic fixture is fixed.
"But can anyone convince me that credit card companies produce wealth by charging exorbitant interests to people who use the money to buy beer and chips?"

How using my credit card to buy beer and chips produces wealth:

1) My rewards program immediately reduces the price by 1%.

2) If the chips are moldy and the vendor won't let me return them, I can cancel the payment.

3) I pay no interest. The credit card bill is paid in full every month.
So far, the lower courts have set the precedence that IPs are not people. If I catch an IP doing something wrong, I can't yet say to the ISP account holder "Your IP did this, therefor YOU are guilty," for the very same reason red light cameras need to identify the driver of a car running the light instead of only the license plate.
I’ve always liked this idea, especially if moderators could move comments into the “meta-“ section.
The Growing User and the Perennial Beginner
A more directed approach would be good, but it's not that bad. Breadth of useful knowledge is actually a good thing, if maybe not the best thing. Breadth of topics within a single conversation (which is basically what advertising is) just makes you sound like you have a disorder.
You should have applied your advise to your post. There was a lot of unnecessary ornaments around your point.
Dan Goodin, the reporter who wrote this, is the real deal.

It is very likely to be heavily edited. Interviews always are. There are probably more Q&A's left out than that made it into the article.
May I ask, why is implicit scoping bad? I think it is very good for a dynamically typed language, where variables do not need to be declared beforehand.

What other solution do you propose? Demanding all variables are declared? That's a very good idea, but it goes against the spirit of javascript and other dynamic languages.
Isn't this the same story as was reported months ago?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621091

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620677

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622189
If anyone else was surprised to see anonymous functions in PHP... apparently this is a new feature as of PHP 5.3.0 (released June last year).
What does "having a UI that doesn't suck" to do with using native controls? When I look at the top 20 paid apps (germany), 13 of them don't use a single native control (most of them being games). Most sucking applications in the App Store suck even though they are using native controls.
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No, I agree with you; I was just trying to clarify the thought behind doing it.
> Improving one's grinding skill can improve gold per hour marginally, but understanding the economic meta-game has a much, much better ROI.

Excellent advice. But, you're assuming the OP wants to play "business" game instead of "programming" game, which is not necessarily true, and is not implied in the post.
The words "guilty" and "plea bargain" do not quite fit since these are not criminal cases. I humbly suggest the replacements "liable" and "settlement". I hope do not mind my mentioning this.
tl;dr
Essential complexity is essential. Also, not evil.
I think you have nailed it. Structured is key. You have a pretty good idea of what is coming. There is a protocol to asking a woman to dance (confidence but a protocol nonetheless). I think this means that I need to seek out more unstructured social environments (but part of me thinks that even the extroverts, they aren't leaving their circle-the-wagons huddle of friend in a big open party).

Also, I think geeks think they can crack the code of dancing, find the secret but then grow through experience to realize it is really dancing not pre-programmed moves (though every lead has a set of proven moves).

Maybe I need to stop thinking about this so much and just enjoy it.
Can you find me a recording of any Democratic officeholder saying they're "for Big Government"?

The ideological split is not between Democrats and Republicans. They are wings of the Washington, D.C. Nationalist Party. The Democrats are the emotionalist wing, the Republicans are the rationalist wing, but the motto of both wings is "We're from Washington, and we're here to help!"

1999 wasn't that long ago. We had a surplus.

Funded by a bubble.

The ideological split is mostly the result of opportunism by Tea Party commentators/legislators ...

The Tea Party is one public face of the decentralist sentiment that opposes the Washington, D.C. Nationalist Party. By their very nature decentralists do not organize national movements like the Tea Party until the situation is completely out of hand (as with the Regan Revolution). They give the centralists a real thrashing, spend a few years chainsawing the worst crap out of the government, then go back home. The centralists then start rebuilding power for the next showdown in another 30 years.
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Meh, it's a smaller problem than most, but it's also far easier to solve than most. Why avoid making the world a tiny bit better if it costs you nothing? If making minor tweaks to our word choices could avoid violence to Syrian children, too, that'd be grand, but alas...

This is not exactly a response to you, BTW (since I can't imagine you'd be convinced) but for other readers.
"It also means that we never had the opportunity to prioritize that customer and fix the situation (in which case we possibly had a chance to keep them as a customer)."

No, it means you didn't get a SECOND opportunity to fix the situation. You got your first one.

And you don't seem to have realized it, but many customers don't complain in the first place. They just go away. You should treat every customer complaint as a warning that they are leaving you.

In a few rare cases, that's going to be okay. You probably want them to leave. Some customers are too expensive to keep.

But in most cases, you probably aren't doing enough.
I think the more accurate statement is that most first-time customers don't give you a second chance. Personally, if I have had good times with a company, I am more likely to tolerate issues than if the bad thing happens on my first try with them.
Hi Blake, any chances we get into the beta?
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That support will be a long, long slog of answering the same set of questions asked largely by people who are both less than expert at using computers and perhaps not their at their most eloquent or polite when urgently trying to complete a task.
Off-topic, but this is the scene that separates Gladiator from your average action flick. I'd also say it's a pretty good spot-on depiction of angry nerd rage.

Commodus was a nerd whose dad wanted a jock son...like Maximus.
There's a joke that goes: If you need a backhoe, just bury a little fiber cable. One will be along presently to dig it up.
"Getting it" is usually the result of hard work in most cases.
Aside from the gratuitous complexity of SOAP, it was a pure message protocol. This is a web standard involving user-interface components.
Then you don't understand what the original author is talking about.

The essay "On Bullshit" means something very specific when it talks about bullshit and bullshit's contrast with the lies or the truth.

The point is that truth/falsity is at best an inconvenience for bullshitters, it plays no material role in the things that they say, or assert.

So, there is a whole range of possible statements that bullshitters may make that are either so squishy they don't mean anything, or are formulated in such a way that they can't actually be assessed to be true or false.

The article author, by making the claim that 'gamification' is bullshit, is asserting that 'gamification' is not an actual thing that we can evaluate.

He's trying to place the onus of explaining what 'gamification' is and what it's import/role in the world is on the people touting it.

I'd go so far as to say that 'gamification' is a fraught term, because it's predicated on a definition of 'game', and given that word's controversial past both within and without the ludology world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies ), 'gamification' appears to be a marketing buzzword more than anything else.

In other words, bullshit.
It seems to me that, since a few weeks ago, posting more than once a week makes your posts harder to reach the first page (they need more upvotes in less time). People that barely post seem to reach the first page with 3 votes in one hour.
I was just coming here to say the exact same thing.

Write a program in assembly language

Write an application in a functional language

Write an application in an object-oriented language

Write an application in a prototype-based language

Write an application in a logic programming language

Write an application using the Actor model

Write an application in Forth [C]

I totally respect the author's POV, and have no doubt that he is a hilariously better programmer than I am, but none of this would help me do the day to day stuff that all of my clients hire me to do.
I watched this over the weekend, great story.
Also be aware that anonymous functions do not close over variables unless you specify so: http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php
This feels similar to the advice I give my kids. When they get into circumstances where fighting feels like an option, I remind them to "use their words". I try to emphasize that not everyone they meet will "use their words" and that the smarter person should.

The down vote seems similar to me. Instead of down voting, try using your words. And when you're down voted, use your words. A down vote is a lost opportunity to extend the argument. It's an absolute with no explanation in of itself. In my opinion - worthless.
That's what you see on the surface; what you don't see is the family that owns more than half of the world's wealth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family. They basically run everything in the background for a pair of centuries. It's easy to doubt this, but google this.
> The real question is why do you think that can't be right? It's too high? I'm surprised it hasn't happened to one of my friends.

Exactly my initial thought. But now that I think about it, at 1 in 1200, I'm not surprised that it hasn't happened to one of my friends, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened to one of my friends.
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Ok, so you say you're not in Europe, and you say you're not a troll. So I would have to assume that you are misinformed (the other alternative based on the coherence of _this_ post, is that you are drunk).

> the fact that we are having this debate shows that legitimizing patents is still a challenge in the US

No. Hackernews and reddit are two places that don't consider patents legitimate. Outside of those two, there are fewer things in the US at large that are considered MORE legitimate than patents. (If we had a discussion here discussing how evil Zebras are, would that indicate Zebra innocence is still a challenge in the US?)

> it is Econ 101 that monopolies pass-on price increases.

No. Apparently, you've failed Econ 101. There's a huge difference between essential monopolies and inessential monopolies - if I open a banana stand, I have a monopoly over selling bananas in that stand. Does that mean I can pass on any price increases? Yes, if everyone needs a banana AND there is no alternative supplier close enough (making me an essential monopoly). Otherwise, no. Patents are mostly for very limited and inessential monopolies, and they therefore CANNOT do that.

> The point is that software are specifically on things that on can't easily work because they are so. And they sue the companies after their software is implemented.

I have no idea what you were trying to say here.

The important thing to note is that the baseline is not a patent-free world. The baseline is a world in which patents are legitimate, cheap, and let the patent owner set the value (including infinite value, stopping others from using that patent) without any increase to that cheap fixed value of the patent (beyond the costs of litigation)
The former mayor of my city (he had been out of office for a few months when this happened) cut through the only fiber line coming into the area with a back hoe while burying a dead dog. Knocked out long distance, cell phones, and the internet for about 12 hours.
These videos are also amazing from Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/shows/game-changers/