skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people know that stories can be flagged on Hacker News, but I didn't know until today that stories can be silently and opaquely de-front-paged. I posted this op-ed on Facebook, and it eventually caught on and made the front page, probably because a Facebook engineer commented and called attention to it.

So, there I am hanging out, browsing around the web, watching a little StarCraft 2, discussing the article and comments with my friends on Gmail and GChat - when poof, the story is gone. Not dead gone, like it had been flagged by a moderator or a bunch of users in the normal fashion. Not dead gone like you could tell someone had flagged it.

Instead, my story has been silently assassinated. It's still live, and it still shows up under New, but it no longer rates the front page, even though it outscores other articles.

Lame.
I was disappointed that this wasn't referring to autonomous cars.
The economics prize wasn't in the original group, it was added some 60 years later.
I love it when the religious point out the atrocities of other religions, but seemingly lack the introspection to do it to their own religions as well.

That said, this article is OT. I think we can do better than to post articles that end with "I am not questioning here the holocaust, nor saying all jews are evil" but starts with a giant image of a racist caricature.
Can you make games like those showcased for Flash 11 on WebGL? I, for one, am looking forward to WebGL games replacing Flash games.

Since WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0, can the code from iOS or Android games be mostly re-used for WebGL games?

What about making games directly in Native Client?
> an example might be a mammogram analyzer.

These exist, google for "mammogram computer aided detection". While the data on their efficacy is equivocal at best, I well tell you that they are useless. I do get to bill more for reading a mammogram if I run it through a CAD machine, which my group owns, so of course I do it.

Strangely enough, patients are reassured when the learn that the computer didn't detect any problems. And, more importantly, ignorant juries can be swayed by this piece of information. "The computer didn't detect anything? Then there is no way the radiologist should be held liable for missing that little tumor!" I'm not joking.

Little do they know.
Silicon Milkroundabout, round 2 - 30th October, London
It could be an argument for using automatic formatting (not only automatic indentation while typing, but reindentation of the whole code before compile for ex.)
how biased it is? it is mentioning the truth, even if TC writer did not mean it he should not compare Islam to Sanatism. " "Is Islam the new Satanism?" how wrong and bad this statement.

second, TC was backing google to post the "fitan" movie a movie full of lies that falsely accuse Islam of terrorism, and said google needs to "decide between free speech and global jihad.” but when it comes to jews, or criticizing Israel Arrington says "“The first amendment doesn’t apply to private companies.” and demand stuff that criticize the jews to be removed. this is a prof that TC is anti islam and biased to jews Zionism and israel
No Glasses 3D TV from Toshiba
Show HN: Weekend project- quicker than Maps for checking next bus time
ifttt is fantastic, it make automation mind numbingly simple.

If you're looking for a different, more advanced kind of web automation, http://fakeapp.com/ is incredible.
New Book from me: I Was Blind But Now I See
I remember seeing this in the Dropbox YC application as a possible risk (this is online somewhere, cannot remember the link now). It's interesting that it took Google this long to offer this, seems like a no brainer.
You can always use what I call "old school" sharing - just copy & paste the relevant URL in a status update.
For anyone who found this tale interesting, "Poorly Made in China" is a well-written and eye-opening account of similar antics.

http://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production/...

Much like the kickstarter project mentions, this book covers repeatedly broken promises, misleading claims (like the laser etching that turned out to be CNC), continuous reassurances followed by convenient disappearances, completely mythical factory sites and machinery, supposedly mechanical processes that turn out to be skilled hand-labor, and the need for vigilant and cynical quality control. It makes a convincing argument that once you account for the cost of all these shenanigans, export manufacturing is nowhere near as good a deal as it seems.
Really an interesting topic and news. Google Docs is little bit confuisng and difficult. Let us hope this Google Drive is simple. As I could understsnd the drag and drop facility will be more easier than the conventional one.
Would you really run the risk of accidentally letting a random person into your Facebook account?
No. All that says is that TC recognizes a difference between preventing the de facto censorship of a film, and culling trolls and flamewars on discussion boards.

Even if you could reasonably derive the meaning you have from TC's posts, so what? They're allowed to think that, what is your point? I think Islam is evil too... right up there with Judaism and Christianity. Big whoop.
And what if Facebook decides that apps no longer need permission to access profiles? They don't care about using privacy /at all/. They purposely make the privacy controls hard to use.
UK firm denies 'cyber-spy' deal with Egypt
The Economics prize is a Cold War creation intended to emphasize Sweden's association with the economic system and values of the West. Alfred Nobel's heirs have consistently criticized its association with the original Nobel prizes.

The official name of the prize is "The Swedish Central Bank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".
No, the dichotomy is better described as r-selection (worse-is-better) versus K-selection (the right thing)[0].

For a practical example of worse-is-better software becoming popular, look at the World Wide Web in relationship to Project Xanadu[1]. For a practical example of The Right Thing software being popular, look at Python. The argument is broadly that New Jersey worse-is-better produces software more likely to become successful than the MIT right-thing approach. That doesn't mean that worse-is-better is always more successful, or that the MIT approach can't produce successful software, or that there's not a time and/or place for both approaches.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
I watched the first 6 videos and I have to say it is a bit boring. It feels more like vocational education on using man made contraptions than a university course. I was hoping for a course on how databases work: indexing structures (B-trees, COLAs), query optimizers, transactions, column vs row storage, etc.
Obviously the present ideal use of face book rather than keeping in touch with friends is the hiring process. Facebook is good for those who inteligently sell their capabilities by exposing them as easily in a resume. So from Late 2012 it is going to be official!! Nice idea.
The thank-me-later pull request
I worked at a more research-y branch of my school so we did things a bit differently than everyone else, but I'm going to try to sum this up in a way that I think applies to everything.

1) We have purchasing limits that are strictly enforced via method of payment. For instance we couldn't spend more than $5k per purchasing-card transaction, and no line item could be above $3k. I'm not sure if that applied to physical assets only because that $3k mark was where we had to sticker inventory. Beyond $5k we had to make a departmental purchase order, and beyond $10k(?) we needed a longer PO form (more approvals).

2) We preferred long established vendors, particularly those who were registered with the school. That cuts down on paperwork should we have to go with a DPO. We'll add a new vendor if it's worth it.
Anecdote: A friend of mine helped get a T-shirt vendor on to the approved list. The vendor gave his club ~$5k in discounts for helping him get on the list, so it was obviously worth more than $5k being on the list (There's only 3 or so approved shirt vendors).

3) We're concerned about product licensing.

If you're what amounts to an impulse buy, we'll buy it regardless if we think it'll save us more than your product is worth. $100 license for a research scientist making $65,000? Done if he stops complaining to us. Granted, we had a bit more money than the rest of the school departments.

If you're established, we know we can upgrade later or get support.

If you're not established, we either want it to be cheap in case we have to implement something else later, or we want source code, etc so we can maintain it ourselves if you go bust. That takes the pain away (slightly) of you disappearing.
As a UI designer, this is something I need to tattoo on my forearm. Sometimes I'll spend so long banging my head against a problem that my bike-racer colleague will take me aside and remind me of the principles of overtraining.

Of course, I ignore him 80% of the time because I can't stand to step away from a problem before it's solved, but he's always right.
I don't think you understand communities. People acting in a group will act similarly and be derided by you as 'sheep.' It it is the type of thing that motivates group action that determines whether you think group members are 'wolves.'

Wolves move in packs, too.
This is precisely what people in the early-mid 1990s were predicting would happen, with 'intelligent agents' and 'autonomous agents'. Wired was all over that kind of stuff, as I recall.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Letizia/AIA/AIA.h...
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/search-engines/
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/NextLink/Expert.html
Am I likely to learn anything of immediate practical benefit on this course? I'm not a computer scientist, just someone who writes lots of scripts to work with Unix/Excel/RDBMS/XML for a finance company.

(not that this would discourage me from taking the course, I'm just curious whether it will give me some new tools on my swiss-army-knife of programming knowledge, for my day job)
Wouldn't that be giving FB more data? You need to send either a driver license, national ID, passport.
Flash 11 looks nice, but with WebGL you can make games like those in normal OpenGL. Best example is Quake 3 in WebGL by Brandon Jones - http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/
During onGameStart conference he also showed Team Fortress 2 level (200mb of assets) in a browser, running smoothly at 60 fps. The map was parsed from original game file.
You can't easily port C++/Objective-C/Java games to JS, but you can use the same assets and GLSL shaders (as long as they are ES 2.0 compatible). I haven't tested NaCl yet, so I can't even say if it supports WebGL.
Oops, so be alert. You may be hacked at any time!! This is a real dangerous situation whic will lead to anarchy in future. Even though we all know this type of things occurs every now and then, this news is really a hurting one. So beware you are being always watched by the Big brother!!
For people that are just 'starting out' and also people that just want to keep their hand in, it's really a good idea to practice writing small pieces of intricate code like tokenizers, string processing etc., rather than just selecting the closest library to hand.

Obviously, if you're writing code commercially, you may want either complete control over some code (write it), or you may want it now (use a lib), so writing all your own code may be an impossible luxury.

Here's a small example snippet I just did. I've been doing software since 1988, but often just gluing (MFC) api's together, and not doing stuff that really benefits me as much as it might. Anyways, here's a gist that implements a 'good enough to use' version of an iOS 4.0-only api as a category on NSData, allowing string searching of arbitrary data:

https://gist.github.com/1238869
This guy is clueless about what we really need for awesome HTML5 games. Operator overloading? Really?

What we really need:

Better WebGL support from graphics vendors: fewer driver bugs and better sandboxing.

WebGL in IE, or at least WebDirectX.

Full screen mode.

Mouse capture.

Polling input APIs, Gamepad and multitouch support.

Decent low latency audio APIs.

Web Sockets.

Better control over garbage collection.

A few good libraries and game engines for JavaScript; or, even better, Native Client support.
DevOps in Milliseconds
right you said it, you think islam is evil.. this is ignorant from you, why do not be classy and say i disagree with islam and not calling it bad names. however the point here is the writers are accusing Islam of things under free speech and preventing other cretinism israel and jews.

for your misconception I suggest you read hhttp://islam-truth.com/
I really feel for all of the smaller file sharing vendors right now. I remember what I felt like reading about the so-called GDrive back in 2009 when I was experimenting with building my own file sharing service.

Mind you, the market for file sharing is already very competitive. It's possible that others might be able to retain their edge by staying small and focusing on the things that have attracted existing users (or by pivoting appropriately) but I have to wonder how they'll remain profitable when pitted against Google's massive delivery platform.
How Gears of War Handles War
China Inflation Numbers Show Hope
Unfortunately, I don't feel I'm qualified to represent Facebook on this beyond what I've said (don't want a tech news article/blog post misconstruing something I said into something bad about the company).
Ensure a reduction in TV license fees, perhaps, or schedule a big, expensive inquiry into whether the BBC is systematically biased in its reporting. After all, the people pay for it so the people have a right to know, regardless of how many millions of pounds it costs the BBC.
ORNL invention unravels mystery of protein folding
I have met a couple 'pen snobs' but I'm not sure the Hi-Tec-C falls into their category.

I write very small and the Hi-Tec-C's three or four tip sizes made it a good choice. The 0.25mm tip is insanely tiny and I actually had to kick-up one size to the 0.3mm.

They're relatively easy to find if you know where to look. I think the last time I purchased any, I found them online at JetPens.

I don't know why you need a $99 pen body. Pentel sells a slim, metal pen body that cures everything these guys are going after. Their only complaint may be that it's not 'substantial enough' in the writer's hand.
I have a business background and I taught myself to code after getting involved in startups. I'm in the middle of deciding whether it is worth it to go back to school and get a master's degree in computer science. I hope this course will help me make that decision.
I haven't signed up for the DB class so I'm wondering: what's up with the relational algebra?
How Bad Boards Kill Companies: HP
Yup, operator overloading. I miss it and I wonder why you don't.
Check link at the end of the post - http://codeflow.org/entries/2011/sep/11/webgl-and-html5-chal... it includes most of what you said and I'm a little to lazy to rewrite what this guy has already listed.
Full screen is coming soon to Chrome.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=73923
it's another to have it proven in a rigorous scientific experiment

Y'know, I don't think there can ever be a rigorous scientific experiment which will show, definitively, that running a pomodoro timer is more effective than not running a pomodoro timer, generalizable across all people, times and situations. But why the hell would you want that anyway?

If you're curious about the pomodoro technique, try it out. Get a timer, sit down and do some work, take a break. At the end of the day, see whether you've had an unusually productive day. If you have, then super, try it again tomorrow! Eventually you might return to normal as the novelty wears off. Or you won't.

It's pointless to wait for someone to do a fancy-pants study on a thousand people, when all you really care about is whether it works on you. This isn't an AIDS vaccine, here -- it's okay to do the science on yourself.

PS. I feel the same way about diets.
80% of financial resources in US are controlled by 10% of its population.
> PC-losering

Has any OS other than ITS ever fully addressed this?
Notes From the MIT Startup Bootcamp 2011
For a quick overview of some machine learning fundamentals, you could check out Hilary Mason's "An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920017493.do) videos. They cover classification & clustering, with theory and a quick intro to some relevant Python libraries.

For your purposes, one potential use could be combing through lots of financial data for transactions that look unusual. (Another very common use for classification is spam filtering.)
You can opt-out: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

Or from Analytics: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

And permanently delete your web history: https://www.google.com/history

And you can take your data with you when you go: https://www.google.com/takeout/

Privacy center: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/
I think all religion is evil. Don't feel so special.

This isn't ignorant, it is enlightened.

To say simply that I disagree with it is not being honest. I disagree with it and I oppose it. In crude terms, I think that it is evil. The same with other religions.
Sure, I like operator overloading as much as the next guy, but lack of it isn't going to stop you from making a great game.
Traveling with babies isn't as hard as it seems.

My wife and now-two-year-old and I mostly live in the French countryside now, but travel together frequently to Malaysia, the US, UK, and around Europe (for various reasons, sometimes work, sometimes family, sometimes fun... though alas that's less often than we'd like).

We got the baby a passport before she could even sit up (the photo was tricky), and as long as we just plan a little better than we would with just adults, it's not hard.

A few things helped an awful lot, for anyone considering this.

Nurse instead of using formula/bottles/sterilizers/warming up/etc..

Buy a good carrying sling and learn to tie it; strollers are a PITA in so many places and ways.

Put time into associating peeing/etc. with a noise or word. Long before a baby is potty-trained, you can still save tons of diapers by holding them over toilets frequently and letting them go.

Let the baby sleep in your bed. It's hard for little ones to adjust to different sleeping environments -- in our case, changing to a new bed half-way around the world still looks almost the same, because her parents are still there just like always.

YMMV (all kids are different, I imagine; I've only parented one so far!) but this has worked great for us, and our daughter enjoys the new places and people. And she can already swear in at least 4 different languages....
> Every browser should ask user, if he allows website to run WebGL content.

I doubt most users would understand the warning, most would probably just click through it. WebGL may have some security issues that need to be addressed, but just adding a warning seems like a cop-out.
did they actually receive $281,989 in funding or is that a bug on kickstarters side?
Well I could live without IE, but your list is good. In my opinion though, the mouse capture is the most important one. Playing a game and not being able to spin around, cause the mouse hit the edge of a screen is bad.
It's not splitting hairs at all. It's the definition of the pattern. The pattern was created for stateful UI systems, and it can't be emulated with request-response frameworks without UI state kept on the client side.

But that said, the fact that Rails (and Pylons, etc) called themselves MVC has rendered any definition meaningless, so it just kind of doesn't matter. Truth be told, it was already getting there long before web frameworks entered the picture when Java coopted the term to mean something it didn't in the 90s.

I prefer to use different terminology to avoid confusion, but if you wanna keep using "MVC" for your own stuff, I'm not going to fight city hall.
Why is there a patent on an algorithm that was developed using tax-payer money? Or maybe more importantly, why is it "available for licensing". Technically, I already own a small portion of the technique!
My startup may be of interest: a HTML5 game editor for Windows (www.scirra.com) which solves some of these problems (easy to import artwork, animations, set collision masks, add physics, low GC overhead engine, etc). </shameless plug>
It's surprising that the PDF I looked at (the first one) doesn't contain any access-log data at all. Shouldn't it contain the time, date, and IP address of every time she's viewed a page on Facebook, at least as far back as they keep HTTP access logs? Or do they not log the user ID when they log HTTP accesses? Someone (in Europe, therefore not me) should ask the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to get an answer to these questions.
They got a lot more than they ever expected and I think that's the right number. I remember checking it a few times and couldn't believe how successful the campaign was.
That does not really cover it as all FUTURE people are listening as well. Time has a funny way of obliterating context.
Just as a reminder for folks, there's a spreadsheet of HN readers who are taking part in the classes at http://bit.ly/pLCRzg

There are 120+ HNers on there so you might find folks nearby you'd like to get in touch with.

Edit: Obviously, if you're doing any of the courses feel free to add your details too
I'm always skeptical of the kind of snob who claims that the best X in the world just happens to be the X which is only available in some country on the other side of the world.

That's a convenient coincidence, isn't it, Mr Snob? Because y'see, if you tell me that the best pen in the world was (say) a Parker that you can buy down at Staples for sixteen dollars, then I might have tried it and be forced to disagree with you. But if you tell me that it's some random Japanese pen then I'll have to smile and nod and bow to your superior knowledge of pens.

Somewhere out there is the town that brews the best beer in the world. This must be frustrating for the beer snobs who live there.

edit: Oh, incidentally I am a big fan of Parkers, and you can indeed get one down at your local Staples for sixteen dollars. I don't like the "gel" type pens, which always seem to come out blobby, I like ordinary ballpoints. I think investing tens of dollars in a decent pen that always writes without the need for drawing half a page of ovals is a worthwhile investment. But that's as far as my pen snobbery goes.
Multitasking is a Myth - Tips on Staying Focused
Sorry SalesForce.com, but Database.com is not Open
V3 = M1.multiply(V1).add(V2);
// and even worse
V4 = V1.add(M1.multiply(V2));

...I don't code in JS often, but am I missing why you wouldn't just use this?:

V3 = M1 * V1 + V2;
V4 = V1 + M1 * M2;
I'd also recommend Programming Collective Intelligence (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do) which is filled with lots of python code showing how different algorithms and techniques can be used.
Why Facebook is undervalued
Are there any explanations about why China is like that?
Back story?
Is It That Bad? Stock Market Needs A Vacation Bad. . .
V1,V2,V3 are vectors. M1,M2 are matrices. Javascript doesn't have built-in matrix math.
Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time