skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched the segment on TV and thought it made it obvious that there was some bad parenting going on there.

didn't bother to "skewer" unsupervised pre-teens.

That however, is probably because outside of today's age of helicopter parenting, unsupervised pre-teens is just a thing that happens regularly.
Reading a book, playing a game, Medidate? It is a very nice time to be awake
How's it clunky? Java GUIs are alien and clunky. ST2 is just alien (and could be a lot worse).
If the author is lying, what does he have to gain?

I don't know akavlie personally, but he's been on HN for a long time. I think he's a rational person based on his discourse here.
How did my teacher know?
I was late today in class and my teacher asked the reason. I said, I was having hard headache last night so couldn't wake up on time to attend the class on time. He said may be you have met some poet yesterday at some point and I was really met with one. It's driving me crazy as how he might have known this? Is he spying me?
Does TextMate 2.0a1 ?
What's the advantage of hardwood floors, if I may ask?
I just set up a cache of sounds to use in place of verbal responses today - mostly Coins, Lasers and Jumps. They just seem to say so many things better than I can. It has already gotten me into trouble. In other words, it's awesome. Thanks.
Judge Dismisses PlayStation 3 "Other OS" Removal Class Action Suit
WFH for occasional productivity bursts is fine.

But it's also pointing out a major failing of your office design.
Groovy still seems slow. I used it as the template language for webapps and it was slow. I switched to Japid and rendering was lightning fast.
Having no goals may work for this guy, but I think for most people it would mean projects that never-ended. As it is, it's difficult to finish a project with goals without moving onto the next shiny thing.
Can you help me understand how it's better?
SizeUp looks perfect for something like this.

Want to view two files? Ctrl-right on one, it's now on the right side of the screen.

Command-O, chose the new file, Ctrl-left on it, it's now on the left side.

I'm honestly very curious what Sublime/etc offer that is better than what you can do with the OS?
New Startup - Sundaybell Introduces A Great New Way To Connect With Agents
This already happens on college campuses. I've seen IP bans on websites take down access to every student in the dorms because of their NAT setup.
Really neat extension of sfxr, but man I wish there wasn't that inner scrollbar.
Yes, they did, though I don't know about "to better effect".

Chiat Day was another notorious hotdesking failure.
Amazon’s Jungle Logic
I've started using iMockup on my iPad for this. I've never had a good hand, so if I draw, I spend too much time worrying about those mechanics. The iPad gets me away from my desktop and puts me into much the same mode as a notebook would.

That said, I'm not a great designer (more of a product generalist: I can start with an idea and end with a complete product). I have to optimize for that path. :)
The fact that if you travel further down the blog stream for almost any of these practitioners, they always give it up for not working. (Giving it up because "everybody else is on a monophasic sleep cycle" is just a social-face-saving excuse. If it worked, you wouldn't give it up. You've got six extra hours a day to make up whatever the problem is!) The evidence that I've seen suggests that alternative sleep cycles are basically persistent urban legend more than anything else.

And yes, failing to mention the little tiny detail of it not working at this date is a reason to be "disdainful" of an article like this; it encourages one to wreck weeks or months of ones life on something that we pretty much know doesn't work. Negligent at best, evil at worst.

(Excepting "siesta", which there is some evidence for, but isn't the promised miracle, either.)
Distributed system development is a zero sum game. That is the dirty little secret/feature of NoSQL. It is great if the shifted work can be partially addressed; simply addressed; or entirely ignored (for your domain). But if you find yourself reinventing an RDBMS, it is time to re-evaluate your choices.

(I'm a NoSQL OSS developer/contributor and enthusiast.)
I thought that BitTorrent used TCP? If so, spoofing a connection requires being in a position where you can intercept the return packet in order to be able to complete the TCP handshake. Possible, but requires a spoofer to be very well connected.
Didn't Peter F Hamilton write about a future with "one time email addresses"? I like the idea of this, but I want to see it able to handle photos, video, and audio.
Affordable, Hackable PID-Controlled Espresso Machine
If you do layer 4 network address translation (NAT) - then a single IPv4 address can theoretically be used by circa 64000 people at the same time; depending on how multiplexing is done, by maybe even more.

The large-scale translators on the headends are the reality for quite a few service providers already.

So, the "IP address does not correspond to an individual" is not just a mere viewpoint gaining momentum, but an emerging hard technical fact. ;-)
Thanks, I will have look at it.
Presumably he just installed the php-apc package
I just received a polymer $100CAD bill the other day, I thought it was pretty bad ass. I had no clue that it was produced in Australia, and that this technology has been in circulation for a couple decades.

I do notice that when I had the when the bill was in my wallet that has a money clip (I hate big wallets), and when sat on, it produced a visible crease that's not as prevalent in the fiber notes along side it. Overall, I do see it as being more durable.
What makes you think this is a civil privacy case? It is quite possible carrier iq was violating federal wiretapping statutes, which will put people into prison for years if convicted. In a criminal investigation you need to, you know, gather sufficient evidence and justification to get a search warrant so that you can dig into bits that are not out in public; a manual describing what the software actually does is one piece of data that would help in this case.
Facebook aims to help prevent suicide
This user made theme should be the default on ST2 for Mac as far as I'm concerned.

Cure for ST2 ugliness: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme
Sure, you can open other apps and target applications with different link types, but you can't interleave functionality with nearly as much ease as in Android.

Any time you click a web link from an email, or a YouTube link from Safari you see this: the current app is backgrounded and there's no simple way for the two workflows to interact. This is a major difference between the two OS's and one advantage for Android, imo.
That the FBI gets data about supposed criminals from mobile carriers? That they usually have something like a warrant or probable cause to do so?

I'm all about carrying a torch & pitchfork when it's necessary, but I find other government-sponsored BS (SOPA, for example) a bit more compelling & troublesome at the moment. From everything I've seen in corporate spy guides, it seems unlikely that the government is watching your every move if you're not doing something wrong or at least suspicious. It's not a perfect system, but it's not something to put Carrier IQ out of business for, either.
For a hack, maybe.

Fighting your toolchain is an upfront penalty. Once things start moving smoothly, they tend to continue to work smoothly. And that's a problem that can be solved by further development of the toolchain.

Poor aesthetics/readability? You pay that price every second you work on the code.
Actually when I first tried TextMate, in the low 1.x versions, it felt like watching the grass grow between each character press and the glyph appearing on screen.

Probably a multi-ms delay due to regexes for syntax highlighting.

And TextMate is not designed like a standard OS X app, either.
Oh come on now, I know that so,etimes the guys at 37Signals can sound a little trite but give 'me a break. He's just saying "push it to the limit" (and I always end up getting that song from Scar Face stuck in my head when I say that). To be honest though, sometimes I'm not in the mood for their style of motivational speaker type posts and today was one of those days so I get where you're coming from.
Resetting your mysql root password
Thanks for the suggestion, but still not ideal. It performs a global lock on the DB which would block all operations while it computes.
I believe this is a fallacious argument; performance inefficient introduces significant costs at lower scales, too.
In the model I was referring to, the browser doesn't go away. Only the built-in web does. Replaced by a more general virtual machine with reasonably low level access to the underlying system. We are, more and more, treating the web this way anyway. It is becoming a pointless abstraction.

There is no particular reason for HTML, CSS, etc. to be built-in components, but that does not mean the web has to go away completely. If your network location wants to load an HTML document, you can command the browser to fetch an HTML renderer over the network. But you can just as easily serve an application of another kind, depending on your desires and needs.
You think the FBI is bad, you ain't seen God! Mind reading sucks. No porn. Not even lustful thoughts, allowed.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\HUCKFINN.TXT

t."

The duke bristles up now, and says:

"Oh, let UP on this cussed nonsense; do you take me for a blame' fool?
Don't you reckon I know who hid that money in that coffin?"

"YES, sir! I know you DO know, because you done it yourself!"

"It's a lie!"--and the duke went for him. The king sings out:

"Take y'r hands off!--leggo my throat!--I take it all back!"

The duke says:

"Well, you just own up, first, that you DID hide that money there,
intending to give me the slip one of these days,
Few things to notice here.

Mono's new gc is quite solid now. Mono for Android customers use it by default.

Yes, performance is not the best nor does it support a concurrent mode. But a garbage collector is one of those projects that is never done and always have an infinite amount of work left. Our gc has been improving a lot and the next release, for example, features a lot of scalability and performance work.

Said that, if you compare it to other gcs offered on mobile environment we're doing very well.

Mono features a much simpler JIT and runtime and this is a competitive advantage for us or do you think MS ships its desktop/server VM on winphone? We do, and it has teached us a lot about how been slim and simple makes you much more adaptable.

Now on the subject of AOT, mono features a much more sofisticated system than .net, it's the only one that supports running without a JIT while retaining generics.

BTW, I work for Xamarin but those are my personal opinions on the matter.
Kaggle is pretty awesome and I hope to use it myself one day.

The article makes a good point that a lot of the most interesting data sets just aren't that big. This is worth pointing out because I've noticed that there has been some conflating of "Big Data" and "Data Science." These two buzzwords are related but one does not imply the other. Big data is just that, working with really large data sets (I think with the implication that the data are unstructured).

Data science can include Big data as well as little data. It also seems to cover both structured and unstructured data.
>In fact, photons don't interact with each other at all.

They can. It's a non-classical concequence of Quantum Electrodynamics. If you are interested in the cross-sections, check out Berestetskii et al., 1982.
Looks like a useful app. I'll give it a whirl. How many nested url shorteners does it follow to get to the real content?
This should work: http://jarqu.es/dl/TextMate_r8930.tbz
Have you try out Soda[1]? It makes Sublime Text 2 feel a lot more Mac-like for me.

[1]: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme
I might have worked at one of the mentioned companies and employees were running their own servers with torrents in company's racks. Not to mention that couple of the boxes were parts of botnets and spam farms.
7 Free Alarm Clock Apps for iPhone
Here are 7 great alarm clock apps which will turn your handy into a digital alarm clock. They have all the features that you might want: custom background image or music, theme colors, weather feed, built in flashlight.
FTC offers fake AV scam victims $20 rebate checks
Not that I am a fan of sexism:

"I am a woman. I want to work at a startup. I don’t want to have children."

But to me she is just genetically a woman ..
> wish schools taught math leading to statistics and probability instead of leading to calculus

This is silly. All probability distributions are cadlag, so how can you even teach probability without the notion of right continous with left limits, which means you have to resort to limits & derivatives => Calc.

Actually, the argument for combining Calc & Stats is very compelling, because there is too much synergy. How can you teach a continous probability distribution like say the Gaussian without teaching how to integrate under the curve for the cumulative distribution function, or obtaing the probability density function via the derivative, or obtaining the variance aka second central moment via the moment generating function, which means you now have to teach atleast some fourier transforms which again means Calculus. At both UChicago & Stanford where I learnt all of my probability, calculus was quite intertwined with the teaching of probability. I believe its the same case in most other schools as well.

Without calc in probability, you can do "lame" stuff like discrete distributions ( Binomial, Poisson etc....but even there, the key insight is to show how the CDFs of the discrete distributions, which will generally have terribly complicated formulae with giant factorial expressions, can be very nicely approximated by the continous distributions for large n, small p etc. ( aka continous correction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_correction ). So for a large number of coin flips trials, you use a Normal to approximate the CDF because otherwise the original binomial CDF is too hard to compute with your TI-84s (because you have one giant factorial divided by another giant factorial and the numerical overflows will kill the computation unless you are very careful about how you go about computing the result).

My favorite go-to guide remains the excellent Calc & Stat Dover book ( http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Statistics-Dover-Books-Mathem... ), which combines Calc & Stats from page 1. There is simply no better way to learn stats than via calc.
I was prepared to buy until the page loaded. Yikes.

1 used from $314.52

I hope there are some other publications on the subject of greater or equal quality that have yet to go out of print.
The JVM is one of the most advanced production-quality JITs available.

As for who is using it, everyone from Google to Twitter to Apple, as well a huge number of high-transaction business systems. The JVM is something that tends to get used quietly and widely.
By the same argument, though, apps will be obsoleted as soon as the next battery technology arrives, because, let's face it, installing apps, updating and uninstalling is a ghost long dead. As soon as Apis to access camera, microphone etc come to the browser, who would choose to program native?
Out of a group of 10 companies, the average YC company has a top valuation of about 220 million. Paul does not give the distribution other than 'a power law' distribution.

>> If 5 companies have valuations of $5, $10, $15, 20, $1000

A more likely range of valuations out of 10 companies is:
$0, $0, $0, $0, $0, $0, $3M, $11M, $55M, $220M

The YC average is quite decent. The median result is likely to be $0.

If this probability distribution scares you, it is time to rethink startup companies.
Agreed with most of your points except "mostly painless." Consider that an anchor tag is both presentation and event handler -- basically all necessary application logic -- in one line, and intuitively understood in its integration with URLs. The "one line" to start Intents in Android (usually at least two, and likely more, depending on how much other data you need to put in the Bundle or Extras or URL objects) is only the execution part, usually buried in the event handler which itself is attached to a View object which itself was defined in a layout.xml or some other visual declaration.

Heavy.
Microsoft is very interested in AoT binaries that don't require a runtime installed? Microsoft has specifically said they have no plans to pursue this path, even though they could obviously do so. The reasons was that they didn't want to deal with patching all these programs that had the runtime embedded in them. I found that sort of a weak argument; they probably just wanted to get higher penetration numbers.
This reminds me of the documentary "Wordplay" about competitive crossword puzzle players. Without a formal proof, my guess is that scrabble is faster to solve that a hard crossword puzzle for a computer. It's amazing that the human mind can stitch together patterns like these and internalize that in a meaningful way. A cool extension of this project would be to write a scrabble tool that generates arbitrary strategies that would be useful for a human player. So instead of generating the best play for a move, the program would recognize that "when the board is like X, then try and use strategy Y"

Awesome project @zephod!
I like Scala, sad to see that it is not gaining the required momentum. There are many people complaining about Scala and we don't see many people who are using it successfully talk about its abilities and elegance, I would love to see the scala experts/Typesafe respond with something that demonstrates the usefulness/applicability of Scala to the masses, and may be Typesafe/Partners can offer an easy to follow video tutorial?. I am also a little bothered when the Scala community answers these criticism with - "You are wrong.You haven't learned it properly" instead of trying to help.
By which you mean juvenile. I don't mean that in a condescending way. No one wants to work with a bunch of uptight folks. I think it's good too, but let's call a spade a spade.
Report: Android Apps Make Only 24 Percent As Much As iOS Apps
You can easily find a pdf to download, if you're comfortable with that.
What about textmate makes it better for quick navigation over something like macvim with nerdtree and one of those project search tools like command-t? Curious on this one not being snarky. I like text mate for the find and replace that can do counts on matches to make sure you are getting the ballpark of matches correct, and incremental replace is nice too until you are satisfied with your search terms. Any way to do this in vim easily? Plugin? Other than that vim is way faster for me.
I thought this was worth putting somewhere people would actually see it.

coldarchon 49 minutes ago | link [dead]

after being 5 years in research for brain activity during sleep and being a natural lucid dreamer and short sleeper myself, I can only warn anyone about polyphasic sleep if you never had a tendency for this in your life before.

It will literally turn off your Mojo ..
Heads-Up: Lumus Shows Off 720p, See-Through Video Glasses
The comments here[1] suggest ahem alternatives.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/review/R3W1ZLVUQ1N867/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt...
To add to the list of potential hinderances, the onshore customs office that could easily be set up to harass workers going to/from this "different country".

... and do tourist or other non-work visas allow unlimited exit/re-entry?
One of the big benefits of better imaging is serendipity -- being able to see things you didn't expect to see or have to plan to see.

So, you could assume that the scene is static, but that's just not true in any scene.

Look up Debevec's Light-stage work on Digital Emily. One of the unanticipated benefits of fast, high-detail face capture is that we get to see how skin really deforms. This after decades of papers on how skin is supposed to deform.
Yeah I still use a migration system with mongo, for this very reason.
Modal editing is the killer feature for me -- and the lack of those special project files cluttering up everything. Even if TextMate had splitscreen, Vim used with the project-oriented NerdTree and BufExplorer plugins is a tough combination to beat for everyday hacking.

Sublime Text 2 with Vintage mode enabled comes close, but man does it clutter up your project folders.
Guys, there's a ton of evidence for polyphasic sleep just not working out. We're actually built for biphasic sleep though we can get away without a nap. As humans we are always trying to cheat nature but there are just some things we cannot control.

I saw this on HN before and I think it's a great read if you have the time. It really goes in depth and debunks these sleep cycle myths. http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm
Hey, Xamarin dev here...

Not that I want to defend Diablo-D3 (he's a troll), I do want to make a few slight corrections to your comment.

1. You are correct in that Microsoft's .NET VM performs better than Mono overall (at least in the general case), but Mono does perform better than .NET in some cases.

Unfortunately I don't have a list of the areas where Mono outperforms .NET handy, so I can't list them here. Perhaps one of the other Mono devs can follow up and provide details. Most likely SIMD would be on the list.

Whether Microsoft would be interested in taking Mono's implementation for these areas or not for their own VM is questionable. Likely not, as it would likely not be easily adaptable to their implementation anyway.

2. SGen is actually stable these days. It is used in Mono4Android and we are working on moving MonoTouch over to SGen as well.

Moonlight was also being moved to SGen (it started out using Boehm because that was the default GC when the project was started) when the Novell layoffs came along.

As responsible developers, we have been taking our time moving to SGen as the default GC because we don't want the move to break any existing apps if we can avoid it. As with all new things, there are still likely to be bugs here and there, but overall we feel that it is ready for use and we've been eating our own dog food.

3. As was mentioned in another comment already, Microsoft's AOT isn't quite the same as Mono's AOT which allows generation of binaries that do not require an external CLR to run.
How do you code looking at two files at one time? What's the point?

I've been programming for nearly thirty years now. For the bulk of that time, I had an editor which allowed me to do split screens, and I used it maybe once a year. I switched to TextMate in 2008, and have never once missed having a split screen.
Thank you... that does indeed work. The updates.textmate.org site is certainly non-responsive.
Anyone happen to have any advice on convincing the rest of your distributed team to use a chat room?

Our team lead has an odd aversion to using IM, which extends to distrust of any electronic messaging beyond email. However I really feel a persistent chat room would be a big help for the team.
I can't believe the number of "oh screw this i'm using <x>" comments sprinkled all over everything TM2 related these days.

It's as if people need to echo their personal choice every time TM is mentioned to give them a sense of reassurance that they made the right decision and to prevent themselves from relapsing back to TM.

I'm looking forward to see how TM2 progresses!
MixRank (YC S11) Raises $1.5M from Mark Cuban, 500 Startups
Just accepted into Code Academy; Tips, Advice?
I was just accepted into Code Academy, and as a person with little to no technical background, I'm curious as to what the HN community thinks would help me make the most of my time as Code Academy? Any advice is appreciated!