skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lost friends to WoW. To my perspective, they could literally be dead and I would have the same experience - I know they are online but they are completely inaccessible inside their game world.

That Bruce Willis movie with the immersive VR was a catchy prediction for the new opiate. Large portions of society are waiting for the chance to lose themselves in a deterministic, programmed world that is more pleasurable than their reality. It's terrifying to consider the ramifications of this. If you can plug in, feed yourself some poptarts and hydrate every 8 hours, and otherwise float in limbo being someone you love more than your real self, we're going to see entire classes of people disappear, just like my WoW friends that I'll probably never chat with again.
Elektrik Mühendisleri Odasi aka EMO

its legal basis is stated here

http://www.emo.org.tr/genel/sss.php?grubu=%DCYEL%DDK%20%DD%D...

basically if you engage in anything that is considered to be an engineering task (inc. computer/software/biomedical) you have to be registered. They are basically taxing you every year for graduating from your discipline.

edit: They claim to have 40,000 members I think, at 65 a pop that would be 2.5 million dollars a year. Not bad. Of course, as many Turks try to avoid taxes a lot of them skip these payments as well.
Why it takes OEMs months to deliver Android updates
Could you allow us to view results without making an account? I was going through the process until you asked me to make an account and/or link to social network. I need to see proof of usefulness before taking that step. At least a view of what results might look like. If there was one, I didn't see it in my sign-up process.
What's not to like? This can be really helpful in many cases--especially when merging command-line scripting and web services.
No, it's exactly what that means. Search for the youtube link to the Aeroperu recording above and you'll be able to hear how much blaring there is.
Tell HN: Local politicians and Web in India
When we started with a small startup basically dealing with brand ratings. We received a call from a PR agent. He said he was excited about our idea (we had discussed this with him in a casual chat) and he has an investor for us. We were a bit surprised because we had not even done a proof of concept yet. We had a call with the so called investor. He turned out to be a local goon turned politician. His proposal was simple. Build something that will promote him and his party as savior of the people and bash everyone else. Create spam on his competitors pages and websites. Money is no constraint he said take as much as you want. However if you don't accept this work, since I already know your idea I will get it implemented from someone before you do.

We refused saying that is not the way geeks really work.

Since then I have been meeting many people who tell me how the local politicians are asking to do such things and if they don't comply threaten to create existential problems before the business.

A politician wanted a certain book to be falsely promoted as best seller on the homepage. Someone wanted to create hundreds of fake twitter users and make some ridiculous things trend on twitter and so on.

It is hard to get funding of even INR 5 million for a legitimate project but these people are easily ready to shell out even INR 10 million for such things.
Twelve ways direct mail can fail
http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html

Caroline continued. "So they learn where the pleasure points are by hook or
crook, then stimulate themselves directly. And when they get it right, they
never do anything else. They get everything maximized, tuned up, and they just
sit there forever enjoying it."

"Right. Now is a creature that is doing that, not interacting with the world
at all any more, human?"

Caroline thought about it. "No."

"Prime Intellect thinks otherwise. But it has its doubts."
I think this is a failing of our educational system at a fundamental level. The way it is currently structured--by treating large groups of students as one whole and then teaching to the average or median student--doesn't work well for anyone except for those students who happen to fall very close to the totally average/median.

A much more tailored approach is needed, where students falling behind are helped in their specific problem areas, and gifted/exceptional students are allowed to progress at whatever rate they're capable of. This doesn't need to cost more, either, this is not a matter of setting up an exponential number of schools/classes. Technology can easily do most of this, but a large number of sacred cows would need to die.

Ultimately IMO this boils down to the fundamental problem facing our society right now--vested interests controlling the political process to maintain the completely outdated status quo. You see this pretty much everywhere you look.

But it always awesome to see gifted kids like this young woman overcome the system to do incredible things. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does next.
Stereotypical Asian Father is much older than reddit.
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Congratulations to the Evernote team! A great product that I use all the time. Glad to see them being recognized. I don't even use any of the premium features/expanded limits but I still pay for it because it's just that good.
Upvoted primarily for the Shearer's potato chip plug.
Apple is hiring engineers to build the future of Siri
$1M is not enough to never have to think about money.
I often wished for some kind of professional certification scheme when I was interviewing for developers, because so many of the people I interviewed were just wasting my time. It would have been a useful filter, so long as it were implemented well (which is a big if).

Since then I'm not so sure. The definition of "developer" can get a bit murky. For instance I now work in an R&D team; the researchers need to be able to code up prototypes, but the important thing for them is to be good at research rather than coding.
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You should watch The Social Network - it's basically a HOWTO guide for your current situation.

tl;dw Steal their idea & make billions.

(just in case it's needed... no. not a serious suggestion)

edit: somehow missed e1ven's post. do that!
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The money is just for this one competition. When it comes to productization, she'll probably get a lot more.
I would gladly pay four times the amount I pay now for their service. It's one of those things that has integrated itself so much into my life that I don't know what I'd replace it with if I ever had to.
This is a very well written piece of article. But I also believe that we cannot control everything that happens. It's OK to sometimes lose control and go with the flow. It might lead to newer horizons. Having said that, it's a call of the person and the situation. Going with intuition is perhaps the best solution in such circumstances.
The email would be helpful if the person you are giving the feedback to wanted to ask you a follow up question. Also, it'd provide a way for you to track all the times you've given anonymous feedback or asked for feedback in one place.
I'm that guy who quit his job. Here's a web-app I made.
http://nwtronix.com/life/index.html

It's been done in a very short period of time to scratch my own itch: a usable life expectancy calculator, preferably one where you don't have to fill ALL THE FIELDS.

I had first mockups in Illustrator and JS engine done within two days. Another four days were spent on slacking off and bringing design + functionality together.

It uses jQuery UI too.

What do you guys think?
done just a few minutes ago, added it to the blog post.

use: 20demo@binkmail.com / twentypeople
What happens if they're fighting each other?
Thanks.

Having read the paper, it seems its more specialized to cisco IOS config files - they're building a library of patterns you can match against, the paper doesn't explain how you can add your own. And it does seem to be CFG rather than PEG - there's a separate token library.

Ward's work looks more usably generic than this, it's not cited so I presume they weren't aware of it.
By longitudinal diff, are they referring to repeated diffs à la `git log -p`? Then it isn't really different from repeating a diff algorithm on adjacent snapshots. Better tools to diff tree-like structures is still good news.

Specifically for conffiles, there's already Augeas (http://augeas.net/), a good, practical tool to map many Unix/Linux formats to trees of text.

(I'm referring to the paper: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2011-705.pdf )
Well argued rebuttal of Apple's claim about Samsung copying its tablet design. Although I disagree on color. Before the iPhone, and after, electronic devices have been all sorts of color. For example, the Kindle debuted in off white. Moto Razrs came in pink. Black is not the only logical solution.

As the Nokia Lumia 800 has shown, there is still a lot of room for design in smartphones that don't resemble the iPhone as well. Samsung has no excuse.
The author invested quite some time to make his point, however, I disagree.

First of all, if this is the only possible way for a tablet to look, why did all the other Microsoft tablets up to the iPad look vastly different?

Second, there're two famuos quotes:

"The obvious is always least understood."

and

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei

The problem here is that Apple invested a lot of time and thinking into designing a fantastic solution to a problem. But that doesn't mean that it is the only solution. Instead, people are now seeing the world from this point of view, and can't fathom that there is any other solution to this problem - just like before the iPad everybody thought that the Windows Tablet Design was the best solution.

Does the author really believe that the iPad design is the answer to all questions? The final? I bet there're better, more intriguing, more beautiful, and more usable designs that yet have to be discovered.
They combined the worst parts of Java with the worst parts of JavaScript.

- Verboseness

- Patterns

- No type safety (combined with that dishonest “optional typing” non-sense)

- No traits (didn't they get the memo that single implementation inheritance didn't work out?)

- Map being no Iterable

- No HOFs in the collection library

- nulls even for primitive types, ...

I don't like superlatives, but I'm pretty confident calling Dart the worst language I have seen.

The only mistake they missed are probably Checked Exceptions.
Great mobile apps useless in Europe
I'm sorry but this just doesn't seem of enough importance to warrant the article. A student and professor's poster presentation? Many more cool/interesting things have been done on GitHub.

From the article:

"...Gabriel Weaver, a Dartmouth graduate student who, along with Dartmouth computer science professor Sean Smith, is creating the variants of grep and diff. Weaver presented the new utilities at a poster session at the Usenix Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, being held this week in Boston."
I never got far enough along to learn about wing icing I ran out of money for lessons

Hey, me too! (And 9/11 happened which made it a lot harder for foreigners to fly.)

But I did have the opportunity to get a lesson in how to avoid carb icing without carb heat when I pulled the carb heat control straight out of the dash on our 152. ;-)
Apple exploring Kinect-like 3D input for controlling Macs
What makes you think they've exhausted growth potential with consumers? What makes you think this isn't suitable for companies?

I don't really see your point.
Motors can fail.

Use mechanical feedback. Not necessarily rigid connection, but at least some kind of elastic coupling or something. Or, heck, connect them rigidly.
Facebook knows what movies you watched last summer. Are you prepared to share?
Stack Overflow is the kernel from which all of this has grown. That was a community by programmers, for programmers.

The question now is, can the structure SO built there scale across a variety of human communities. I tend to think not.
Complete nonsense. The iPad design only seems inevitable in hindsight. If you want to appreciate the iPad's originality, look at the crap tablets that existed before the iPad
Microsoft - stop waiting for Win8 to build a tablet, use Windows Phone's OS.
Show HN: Jongo, a RESTful JDBC Interface Server
What he means by "evolution at the cellular level" is that every cell in your body normally performs a delicate dance of differentiation, replication, and death to keep all your organ systems operational--this is why skin and bone heal after injury and your lungs don't outgrow your ribcage. It is somewhat akin to how organisms at the ecosystem level perform a dance of diversification, reproduction, and death in equilibrium with their environs.

Cancer is when certain cells in your body become "greedy" about their own survival without regard to the survival of the organism as a whole, and begin to literally compete with the rest of the cells in your body for resources. Normally there are regulatory switches that tell cells to kill themselves when they become damaged beyond the point of repair, but tumor cells have found a way to bypass these safeguards (either because of chance DNA damage at exactly the right sites, genetic susceptibility to malfunction of the safeguards, viral infection, or some combination of the above). As an example of how tumors compete with your other cells, they usually secrete growth factors to create new blood vessels feeding them at the expense of surrounding tissue.
Yahoo Board Could Blow The Silver Lake Deal
The irony of this story is that IBM makes > $2 Billion / yr in royalties by their "legions of lawyers" enforcing the numerous patents they own.
More Transparent Tracking—Why Is There No App for That?
1) If you struggled with it, it means you already know that the name isn't good. You have to think about the mechanics of how the name is exchanged. People need to remember the word "really" in order to get this right, which is very prone to being forgotten. Something better like "honestanswersfor.me" something like that.

2) You will quickly realize that most people ask other people for opinions, not because they want to follow any advice but because they want their feelings validated. When someone asks their bff "what do you think about my boyfriend", they don't want to hear "I think he's a douchebag" they want to hear "he seems really great." So this is why answers get rejected. "You just don't understand! When we're together, he's completely different!" Or even better "I know you're right, but...."

I don't think most people are evolved enough to really care about getting honest feedback and exploring it by forwarding it to others, etc. There is a small subsection of people that will, but chances are they already know the answer and they don't need the feedback mechanism.

There may be some incremental enhancements over Yahoo answers, but neither the core concept nor the enhancements seem very useful.

I don't want to just shit on your idea, because I know you probably put a lot of hard work into it, so I want to come up with some other suggestions. But not trying to be mean or rude, I'm not sure there's enough of an idea here to add suggestions to.

Maybe instead of having anonymous answers, why not copy threewords.me and have people give 1 or 2 word answers to respond to the question, and use their real name. That might be enough for the person to engage in a followup using your enhanced feedback mechanism.

For example, if someone asks "What do you think of my boyfriend?" and their bff says "mean", the one-word answer might have more impact than a huge paragraph filled with flowery language, and that might be enough for the question seeker to follow up with "what do you mean? did he do something?" and it's enough of an icebreaker for people to actually engage in a meaningful conversation.

I have no idea if this will actually work or get traction, but it feels like a bit of a different spin than just a Yahoo answers clone.
That's a pretty strong statement. If the simulation is good enough, what part of our reality-honed brains would be uncomfortable with it?
One, quite important, fact is missing in this article. That is, that Apple bought the trademark in 2009 from IP Application which is Proview's child company. So this ruling was actually about validity of that sale.
Agreed -- The iPad is already available in white, and IMO looks even nicer than the black one.
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Phil mentions as much in his post: "This might include...working on a Windows client for GitHub"
Knuth and the Unix Way
i seriously thought to prevent command errors everyone has to speak the international aviation language

It's only international over radio. In the cockpit, you can speak whatever language you want.
> Almost all VPS hosts have login keys to your machines.
> All colos have physical access and could
> gain physical access to your machines.

That is true.

> Once the server is out of your possession,
> trust starts to become an issue.

What I had in mind is that you could host with
people you trust -- friends, family and hosting
companies that are advocate privacy.
Say 'no' to bullsh*t meetings - use this checklist as your filter
My socialization while I was homeschooled was much healthier than when I was in public school. My friends were nicer, mainly. We and several other (Christian) homeschooling families would get together on a weekly basis and hang out. I developed all my social issues from not knowing how to deal with the jerks in public school. There's also church.

Something else I've noticed is that homeschooling has given me a certain resilience to crappy teaching in college. I don't care as much, because I know I can just read the book and get what I need.
I'm nearer 60 than 50 (!), and after a quick scan the test did not strike me as anything especially hard...
Modernize the Post Office to Save It
One of my favorite Alan Kay quotes: "Make simple things simple, and complex things possible." And the Albert Einstein quote everyone mangles: "A scientific theorem should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." It's a matter of finding the sweet spot where the system is easy enough to learn to be accessible, and sophisticated enough to be powerful. In terms of usability, I've generally been happy with where Rails falls on that spectrum. The real challenge with Rails is learning the codebase well enough to make effective contributions to the framework.
A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier
Speak for yourself.

Most people aren't evolved to resist serious strains of flu, but when an epidemic happens the next generation will be those who were. There are probably people who are perfectly capable of adapting to virtual reality worlds right now, just as there are those who can avoid getting obese despite the presence of vastly calorific foods and can avoid mental diseases despite the highly unusual (from a historical perspective) nature of modern society.
Some unsolved math problems
Jongo is a Java server (with embedded Jetty) which provides CRUD operations over any JDBC supported RDBMS using REST.
So at least there's one thing that most big banks get right.
I mean, "Amusing Ourselves to Death" was published in 1985, and Nietzsche wrote in 1874,

Increasingly we lose this sense of surprise, so that we are no longer overly
amazed at anything and, ultimately, find satisfaction in everything—this is
what is called historical sensibility, historical cultivation. Stated
noneuphemistically: the massive influx of impressions is so great; surprising,
barbaric, and violent things press so overpoweringly—'balled up into hideous
clumps'—in on the youthful soul; that it can save itself only by taking
recourse in premeditated stupidity.

So I'm not sure what the point of the "pre-date" claim is. I am curious if you've come up with any good suggestions on how to 'fix' the problem in those intervening years, though.
Do you think WebKit should include VBScript bindings as well?

It's pretty transparent what Google wants here; anyone who forks WebKit (ie everyone not named Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft) to get Dart by default. Adding the VM is just a small additional step.
Are they profitable yet?
Congratulations Evernote Team!

What's interesting is that many people forget that Evernote is also a powerful cloud plattform with a solid API. The ability to save all your notes in a standardized way in the Cloud and then install individual apps for filtering, processing, or managing them has huge potential.

I think we've only seen the beginning of where they'll go. In comparison to Dropbox mostly because Evernote as a whole is a bit more difficult to grasp.
>>Black is not the only logical solution.

Given that Apple itself has tablets shipping in white, I'd agree with this.

This article does a good job of presenting how Apple potentially came to the answer of how a tablet should look, but as noted above, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the be-all and end-all of tablet design. It just means that Apple tablets sell well enough to "force" everyone else into their vantage point.
And in 15 years we would have a similar post on the internet about how someone should bankroll a competition that increases the safety of these drugs that are flooding the market with heinous side effects.

Clinical trials take so long because there are so many regulations about safety. You can argue that cancer patients are going to die anyway, so let them decide to take whatever drugs they want. On the other hand, this opens the most vulnerable people up to those that have the most to gain from exploiting them.

There is a lot of red tape involved in getting a medical drug to market, but a lot of it is there for good reason.
Bentley University Unicorn easter egg
Looks like some web developer was having a little fun...

Go to http://www.bentley.edu

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The Nature of Infosec: A Zero Sum Game
So I'm going to live till I'm at least 68 or possibly 80 ... too loose and broad a set of generalisations.

Anyone today in the west can be pretty sure of living to at least 68 (barring accidents) and possibly as much as 80 if you don't have heart disease and clogged arteries or are not morbidly obese. I've seen recent data suggest that people who are slightly overweight and are still comfortable (i.e. they are not restricted by it) actually seem to live longer on average.

I could have guessed this much myself.
This article is probably falling for the cognitive bias (whose name I forget), where what actually happened looks inevitable in retrospect, but looked much more undecided in prospect.

Contrast all the other tablet PCs and so forth which have had a tendency to be sharp-cornered and bulky with asymmetric elements like buttons. The idea of having no favored orientation, for example, is innovative. Most historical tablets had one way up, and it was SVGA landscape.
Did I misunderstand something or is this like Haskell type classes retrofitted to O'Caml?

At least the example application in the paper, a pretty printer, is pretty neatly solved with Haskell's show class and PrettyPrinter combinators.