skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could merge our efforts, someway. I provide some projects' metadata (along their history) via http://appdate.it . It's really a rough job to do... mostly web page scraping, because a structured way to present those informations does not exist and if it would exist, well, it should be embraced by each project.
Steven Sinofsky is the new Steve Jobs
Even being really good at [insert profession], doesn't make you non-stupid in areas outside of your expertise. It's not mutually exclusive. E.g., one can be a brilliant orthopedist, but can still be considered really stupid when it comes to forming a coherent general world-view.
This is politics and religion, it shouldn't be on HN.

But it's here, so... From a logical and humanist point of view I would say that the FBI looking out for people who adhere to violent and radical philosophies is a valid activity no matter if the background is islamic or not. There is certainly a point to be made that mainstream Islam is more radical than the mainstream of many other religions on the basis that it is one of the last mainstream movements violently opposed to human rights and democracy. Whether that is universally true I cannot verify and I doubt the FBI can either.

I certainly know a few Muslims who are about as pious as the average Christian who only goes to church when weddings and funerals are taking place. Whether those people are mainstream Muslims and mainstream Christians as opposed to "mainstream citizens" I cannot say and it would probably be counterproductive for law enforcement to make assumptions on what "mainstream" actually means in practice.
He does have a point with the third parties though. Software ecosystems controlled by a single (in most cases proprietary) entity are bad.
Adding more animations decreases battery life - this is a no-brainer. The problem is that Flash is everywhere, so enabling Flash will decrease battery life. If you replaced all online animations with the current state HTML5, your battery life would be EVEN WORSE. Yes, Flash still outperforms HTML5 so please stop using that argument.

http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/
I haven't tried PMD yet but recently come across 'findBugs' plugin and it seems to solve my current purpose.
Other than that JavaDecompiler plugin sometimes comes in handy.
I believe that anybody who is able to understand highschool level math is also able to implement simple algorithms and maybe write a small game. It's not rocket surgery.
I do not think you can just stop the test when you find something you think is significant

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html
'If instead of deciding ahead of time, “this experiment will collect exactly 1,000 observations,” you say, “we’ll run it until we see a significant difference,” all the reported significance levels become meaningless. '

Reading the stats.py it looks like you might be doing this.
There are literally dozens of languages that compile to JavaScript already:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
The Simple English Wikipedia is also for people with different needs. Readers may be students, children, and adults who may find it hard to learn, and people who are trying to learn English. Other people use the Simple English Wikipedia because the simple language helps them understand difficult ideas or topics they do not know about.

From: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
Many of my friends joined, and after an early burst of posting, have stopped using it entirely. Since everyone is on facebook, and google+ doesn't seem to offer that much more for the average user, it isn't worth the trouble waiting for your friends to make the switch.
I started a thread at the top level: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2999815
While timing in sales, as in most everything, is, as they say, everything, it's very difficult to optimize for this (in an enterprise sale, hurricane forecasting, stock market).. The variables (and processes) that a team can most impact, are 1) The product itself, and 2) The relationship with customers and clients. Of course, each informs (and enhances) the other, but teams would do well to optimize for these two variables (easier said than done) -- good timing may end up being the byproduct of a great solution positioned well to key decision-makers who know and trust and love what you're building.
P problems are considered 'easy' for computers to solve. NP problems are considered easy for computers to check the answers to them.

To improve clarity:

1. Avoid putting pronouns far from the main noun.

2. Use simple sentences. Reduce the number of verbs and prepositional phrases per sentence.

3. Avoid scare quotes. If you need to qualify a term, do so explicitly.

Consider, for the above:

NP problems have answers which can be easily checked. P problems can be easily solved.

(Maybe precede or follow with a quick definition of what you mean by 'easy.' But I'm not sure it's necessary here.)
Google acquires over 1,000 IBM patents
I think Dawkins was hoping for a different world during his lifetime and is losing patience with those that oppose the change.

He's an extremely smart man, compared to him most of us really are stupid but that's not a reason to be judgmental about it, if anything that will just make things worse, for everybody.

For people to lose their religion is a very difficult mental process it ties in with the ego at a very basic level (it has to, that's exactly how it has been set up).

I know some pretty smart people that are deeply religious too and I've always found enough common ground in the 'smart' bits to to overlook the bits in the religion department.

I'm pretty sure they think the same way of me (well, maybe except for the smarts ;) )...
You could have used the device tag until 3 days ago when it was deprecated in favour of the media capture api: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/

It's not implemented anywhere yet, but it is part of the spec.
neat, but to much haskell to make an objective-c dev ok with using it.
Thanks! I didn't know about jot on OSX, I'm gonna fix that. I'm thinking of making the keys configurable via command-line parameters (as well as some other things in the game). I picked the "wasd" keys from FPS games :)
One of us is having a bad day :) You may not actually mind talking to me normally, if we met across the street. But that's just the optimist in me speaking.

And one of us is refusing to read & discuss the portion of the post that is actually interesting for an engineer.

I am not so hugely popular to do be able to disservice to my country with a short post on HN. Since we are on the subject of countries, I hope you are not from the US. Because, my friends there have an awesome HQ (hint: they actually laugh heartily watching Colbert Report and Daily Show).

You have a fertile imagination, I agree, but in the eagerness to call me names, you've let a word slip: s/imaginary/imagery

Can I post this exchange to the readers of DNRC ? Can't keep so much fun to ourselves, can we?
most people are not intelligent enough
to use modern tools (computers) effectively

Most people have never been taught how to use computers effectively.
what else would you call them? them : "who doesn't see presented/available evidence and just think that no matter what, their beliefs are true."

edit: Forgot to mention that, sometime these are the people who govern us, make law, treat us and in process of doing these things they try to enforce their belief OR have strong opposition towards anything which contradicts their belief.
The process of getting rid of google is very much akin to the process of getting rid of closed source. You may lose some functionality or maybe some polish or convenience but on the whole it is definitely doable.

The hardest ones to get rid of imo are adsense, adwords and docs.

For everything else there are reasonable replacements.
When I search for "my search term" in GMail, I am taken to https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/my+search+term

So, try setting up a search engine in your browser that goes to https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/%s
Google loads up on IP again, buys 1,000 more patents from IBM
Please tell me you didn't sell this to your client.

Every single day I have to deal with vendors pushing bad technology on the Department of Education because they are trying to make a buck. In cases like this, it is not the businesses fault. They saw something they thought was cool, some vendor told them "sure, we can do that" and a few hundred-thousand later, guess what... it doesn't work.
Point taken, thank you!

So, if it OpenSolaris based, then nothing to see here. Community is too small. Who will write and test up-to-date drivers for all new hardware that vendors are pushing to the market each half-of-year?
The problem is the majority of people using it now, are people who do not like social networking too much in general. But they were just excited about it in the beginning because it was made by Google. I am one of them.

But if Google+ wants to succeed they need to get a LOT of mainstream people on board, and get them all at once. They need to make them hear the name Google+ in all mainstream channels: TV, radio, magazines, from celebrities - EVERYWHERE. They really need to do a big advertising push, or something to get the attention of mainstream people. And they need to get a lot at once, so it doesn't feel deserted for each one of them.
It's far from clear. Everything I've seen says otherwise. Please provide a citation.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/google-plus-too-much-un...
spiritually challenged?
Yes - I'm just saying to consider also the timing factor.
I still find it intriguing that Francis Collins, who in 1993 replaced
James D. Watson as head of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health, is a religious person [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins_(geneticist)#Re...]

I'm not judging anyone here, I'm just saying I find it striking, and slightly unimaginable.
Computers are not like cars. Cars have a well-defined purpose, for which they have been ruthlessly optimised. Computers are more like writing. Writing is a means for expressing and conveying ideas (and here's the key bit: any ideas); computers are machines for executing instructions (and here's the key bit: any instructions). Saying that only a few people need to code today is like saying that only a few people needed to read and write in the 1500s.

A poor analogy and geeky wishful thinking, IMO.

Computer programming is not like writing in any way. Writing is a facility of language and a way for us to leave behind our thoughts in the past and disseminate them to others. A computer program on the other hand describes a process on a machine. They are two completely different patterns of thought. Language is literature, poetry, ideas, information, and a tool for immortalizing ourselves. Programming has been around for a mere half-century and already many of the programs that brought us here are forgotten and interesting only to a select few. While I like to read programs myself, I hardly find it an essential skill (and some days I'm afraid to admit, I wish I didn't understand it at all).

I'm afraid a "mass-algorate," society would not be nearly as useful as a fully literate society. It's a skill that is not as generally useful to the human condition. Not yet anyway. We're still working on the numeracy part which has been building for a much longer time (and yet I'm afraid we might have missed the opportunity to reach mass-numeracy). Until such a time that a computer is as ubiquitous as paper and pen or a stick and some sand -- I think algorithms and programming will be skills relegated to a privileged, nerdy class of people.

edit: spelling
AMD introduces 8.429 GHZ computer processor: Parda Phash
Windows 8 has a new file system hidden in it...
:-) Hope you're not workin' at nuthin' all day, though.
The ability to see presented/available evidence depends to some extent on your frame of reference and how much time you've spent believing something and how deeply that belief is ingrained in your psyche.

Lots of scientists go to their graves defending pet theories in spite of lots of available evidence to the contrary.

This behavior has more to do with how much of the ego is invested in something than the ability to see or evaluate evidence as such.
The trouble is, right now we don't really have a web stanardisation process. We've got HTML5 and CSS3 in the works, of course, but the reality is that we're in the middle of Microsoft vs. Netscape, all over again.

If you want to use CSS3 tools, even those that are widely supported across browsers, you often have to code up the same effect 3/4/5 times with slightly different syntaxes.

If you want to use HTML5 elements, even just the simple semantic ones, you need to incorporate backward compatibility fixes for IE before version 9 (which is a very substantial chunk of the browsing public, since WinXP only goes up to IE8).

If you want to use the more interactive HTML5 elements, it's even worse. HTML5 video won't be a credible successor to Flash video until there is a standardised, high quality a/v format that all browsers support. Even then, the simple fact is that Flash video players offer way more powerful customisation and some features involving content streaming and protection that are still commercially relevant even if the "everything should be free" crowd want to bury their heads in the sand.

We have SVG and HTML5 Canvas technology to do drawing without relying on plug-ins these days, except that when you actually try to use them, you find that they aren't always supported to the same extent on all popular browsers, particularly the mobile ones where avoiding the weight of downloading a plug-in seems most advantageous of all.

Did I mention web fonts? (Not that it matters until the on-demand font services realise they aren't special and most of us are never going to rent a font instead of paying one-time fees like we do for stock images, blog templates, etc. Or until the rendering on some platforms means most of the fonts actually available don't like the rear end of an animal with stomach problems. But hopefully those issues will pass, at which point having a common font format would be handy too.)

All the while, Mozilla and Google are having a pissing match to see who can release some bleeding edge thing faster than the other, but since no-one else supports it the same way yet, it's basically worthless. Meanwhile, they keep pushing releases every few weeks, and they do break things, often those very HTML5 and CSS3 features we're all meant to love that are supposedly driving web technology development. (Google screwed up rounded corners for several successive versions. Firefox still doesn't get basic font rendering right on a lot of platforms, and the current version can't even look up locally installed fonts properly. Don't even start trying to do tricky things like using Java applets -- and before anyone chimes in about obsolete technologies, remember that there was a big push to improve support for applets not so long ago, and that many state-of-the-art programming languages run on the JVM.)

The recurring theme in all of this, of course, is that you can't write one thing that runs reliably everywhere today. Until you can, any so-called standards will just be marketing propaganda for one browser team or another.
I think I also knew at that point that while conversation on G+ may be more civil it will be a lot less interesting.

Real Name policies don't necessarily make discussion more civil. Less of the low-grade trolling (throwaway posts lined with racial slurs) occurs, of course, but when people have reputations to defend the flamewars that do occur get a bit nastier and last a bit longer. Arguments that people would walk away from under anonymous conditions tend to spin out of control. There's an upper bound on the ugliness of an anonymous discussion that people break through when real identities come out.

Wikipedia has something like a Real Names policy: various by-laws that pertain to personal identity. This is because (a) decisions are made based on consensus rather than correctness, and "sock puppets" corrupt this process, (b) they have a hideously badly-conceived "3 revert rule" which is supposed to apply on a per-person basis (but actually means edit wars are won by the person who has taken the time to cultivate/level-grind convincing sock puppets), and (c) blocks and bans are supposed to apply to people, not accounts. What this means in practice is that an easy way to shut down an opponent is to accuse him of someone else's identity, and an easy way to grab power one hasn't earned is to cultivate sock puppets that look like other people (as pretty much all of Wikipedia's "admins" do). It's a revolting failure, and community problems are the major reason why Wikipedia is starting to decline.
Weither the people in question truly are stupid or misguided wasn't the point of the question. I like how he answers about why he cares instead of mincing words.
> Keep in mind the headline is sensationalist, the article > itself says that Silverlight code is easily run as an
> actual Metro application. It's just to get it in the
> browser, you'll need to switch to 'full' desktop mode.

My understanding was there was a conversion involved. If so I'm skeptical it'll be as easy, especially if you have a non-trivial application using a variety of existing libraries/frameworks.
I'm going to date myself, I guess.

"Best I can", Queensryche

"Circumstances" / "Something for nothing", Rush
In this quote I don't see anything about religion. He was just asked if he's bothered by stupid people and he stated that he's bothered by how stupid people influence children.

And even if the religion was implied by the original context then sure, Michael Faraday maybe was not stupid but his father might have been to some point and due this stupidity wasting his sons time.
Show HN: My midweek project - karmurl
Inspired by the following post by photon_off...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683309

I made karmurl last night. It's a simple app where you submit a URL for feedback, then for every piece of feedback you give to someone else's, you get to read one piece of feedback for yours.

http://karmurl.com
If you want just 1 or 2 mid-sized servers running 24x7 with traditional software on them like an RDMS, AWS is almost entirely the wrong choice.

A single AWS instance is not reliable, and isn't designed to be particularly reliable.

The real power of AWS isn't the ability to stop and start cheap instances quickly, it comes from services like S3 and Elastic Load Balancing, and SimpleDB.

If you build your systems on top of these extremely reliable services, you can achieve uptime much greater than you can achieve with 1 or 2 standalone servers (whether they've got the word "cloud" in their name or not), while not spending the massive amounts on high availability or fault tolerance that you previously had to pay.
You're setting up a strawman there jgrahamc. Dawkins does not equate religious to stupid. Anyone that has listened to him much at all is fully aware that what he was getting at here is those people that continue to indoctrinate children with rubbish like Intelligent Design/Creationism when they have been presented, repeatedly, with hard evidence for the reality of evolution and the fact that it does not require a guiding force.

That willful ignorance is what he is appalled at, and quite frankly I don't know what else you can call someone that is willfully ignorant, if not stupid.
I have an idea for an app that needs to know user's physical location. I have planned on using HTML5 geolocation api to access user's location (Using HTML5 will save me effort in porting the app to various mobile devices). I was little skeptical on the accuracy of geolocation api. But looks like it is doing pretty good work, and I think I can go ahead with using geolocation for my application :)
these international posts are great! Lovely to see how everyone share the common bond of being inspired by great teachers
This post makes the same mistakes many critics of the Laffer curve make. The Laffer curve, despite their simplistic criticisms, does not say that lower taxes increases revenue, it says that there is a "sweet spot" where tax rates maximize revenue; if your rates are higher than that, then lowering them will increase revenue, but if the rates are lower then raising them should increase revenue.

Similarly with pricing schemes; there is some price point which will maximize revenue, often it is lower than the seller believes, but not always. J A Konrath on his blog has discussed his experiments with pricing and revenue several times over the last few years (http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/).
Exporting VIM Syntax Highlight
Puts me on the opposite end of the country. Sigh.
Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart
the lack of a known polynomial time algorithm could be interpreted as evidence that P =/= NP, but it could just as easily be interpreted as evidence of our primitive state of knowledge with regard to algorithms. Suppose that P = NP, but the minimum complexity of any NP-Complete problem is O(n^(# of atoms in the universe)); we might never discover such a complicated algorithm, but that in no way implies it doesn't exist.

still, i see your point, but i think your phrasing is too complicated; i've changed it to this:

It is known that all P problems are NP problems; the proof
requires math which is too complicated for this article but
may be explained in the future. Many people want to know if
there are any NP problems that are not P Problems. That
means they would like to know if there are any problems
where the answer cannot easily be found by a computer, but
if someone says he has the answer, it is easy to use
a computer to check if that answer is correct.
Oh how I miss MH. :) I'd use it now, except I've really gotten used to html email.
GO Ubuntu Unity Launcher Theme for Android is Awesome
Why not list these on the landing page? There's not much on there to convince someone to share their data with you at the moment.
> Actually, I think since Longhorn there are signs that businesses are a bit more sceptical about these bold technology announcements from Microsoft. They used be able to pretty much control the weather but these days they have a hard time getting people to use things like Silverlight, WPF or XNA.

I have had the same observation, but it seems to me that companies are stagnating on technology rather than innovating on different platforms. They still use Microsoft, but they're using increasingly old Microsoft.
In reply, i will just leave this quote from Carl Sagan:

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion."
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