skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nor is it exclusively for a UK audience.
Should we be deriving the percentages from the IQ points that are left?

e.g. 100 IQ becomes 90 for women and 85 for men, so men are 100 -85/90*100 less good than women as a result of multitasking?
You have a point - corruption is endemic to Jefferson County politicians.
Excellent. I was hoping technological progress in this area would be oppressed. The USPTO did not disappoint!
Sonsuz Sevgi
"please guys, can you all register an HN account and upvote this like crazy?"
For every two homicides committed in the United States, there are three suicides. The death rate from suicide is higher than the death rate for chronic liver disease, Alzheimer’s, homicide, arteriosclerosis or hypertension.

Depression is the cause of over two-thirds of suicides in the U.S. each year.

Depression is a terminal illness: it kills 15% of its sufferers.

Depression is no more 'wallowing in their own problems' than cancer or Alzheimer’s. Depression is an illness caused by an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain. It has physical as well as mental symptoms. It is very common in young white men (of all classes) and it kills 20,000 in the U.S. every year. I wouldn't be surprised if Depression was the biggest killer of Y-Combinator readers.

Depression gets a bad rap because it shares the word people use when they are feeling a bit fed up. Depression feels nothing like that. It feels like death.

Try living with a cancer sufferer. Try living with an Alzheimer’s sufferer. Most young men with a mild flu are a nightmare to live with. Tough shit: that's illness: it's grim. People with terminal illnesses are grim company.

Why is it OK to say these things about Depression sufferers? Would you say them about someone with terminal cancer? If you did you would, quite rightly, be called out as a dick.
> Apple: Takes risk, makes iPhone
> Google: I want some of that. Android Go!
> Apple: Takes risk, launches iPad
> Google: I want some of that. Android is tablet optimised
> Apple: Lets innovate here and add Siri
> Google: Voice? To control a phone? Lets do that!

It probably isn't like this at all but this is how it comes across. It seems that when Apple innovates, Google copies.

Bringing out your own version of insert item here is fine but it would be nice if Google didn't come across as plainly copying someone else. Apple has Siri, 3 month's later: "Introducing Siri for Android! I mean Majel!"

Would be nice if the next version of Android has its own killer feature people could shout about instead of waiting for someone else to invent it first.
Car models aren't like software—people aren't constantly producing new, accidentally-infringing works. I'm pretty sure this is one of those patents that will get licensed by all the other big companies, rather than sued over.
Plenty of browsers missing of that chart. I assume they have just selected the top 3 to keep it simple.
That sounds like exactly the kind of self-awareness and humility that will make you stand out and be successful in your profession. Kudos to you.
Well... It could be argued that these companies are not in the business of improving people that they don't want to hire.

It's, as you claim, painful, and the net gain for the company is close to zero. Why do it?
People of the Internet: we can fix the English language
Whygitisbetterthanx.com
What I have found as a designer/developer is that usability trumps design, and users I have worked with prefer having large, readable text and buttons as well as plenty of white space. 90% of what a web design should be is about the content, not the decoration. Yeah, it might look cool having 10 point text everywhere on menus etc in a highly compressed layout using every available pixel etc, except when you get to be over a certain age and need a magnifying glass to see it (I have great eyesight and prefer big text). I now often use 17pt text just for the body text alone and have scaled up other elements to suit. I do not think this is a negative trend.
Why is Bill Gates selling nuclear tech to China?
This was an excellent documentary even though it relied perhaps too heavily on the recent biography of Jobs. The title 'Billion Dollar Hippy' sums him up nicely and captures his chief contradiction.
Responsive history: discover history using mediaqueries
Have any third party XMPP clients implemented the proprietary X_MESSENGER_OAUTH2 authentication mechanism yet? Or is there a way to get the authentication to work with existing clients?

Is it on the roadmap for Pidgin (or libpidgin) or Adium?

I tried doing some quick Googling, but I couldn't find any answers...
I'd have to say that the American political system is broken. Just two parties, with similar ideas. You need to have more opinions represented. Right now, you're choosing between "bad" and "worse".
I think the blue is a bit distracting. Doesn't really go easy on the eye IMO.
Yes, lots of OO research happened and happens in smalltalk. Which is why it has such a flexible object system, and which is why it is so well suited for OO research :-)

The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) also uses meta classes; there's a book about it: "The Art of the Meta Object Protocol", http://www.amazon.com/Art-Metabobject-Protocol-Metaobject/dp...

Sadly it seems to be the only approachable resource on meta object systems, apart from a few research papers. If anybody has more literature reference, I'd be happy to learn about them.
What about prior art - DARPA grand challenge (2004-2007)?
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The abstract says:

"Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode. Transitioning may include stopping a vehicle on a predefined landing strip and detecting a reference indicator. Based on the reference indicator, the vehicle may be able to know its exact position. Additionally, the vehicle may use the reference indictor to obtain an autonomous vehicle instruction via a URL. After the vehicle knows its precise location and has an autonomous vehicle instruction, it can operate in autonomous mode."

So it does not patent "driverless vehicle", but a particular method of transition from mixed-mode to driverless mode.
actually pretty good read
About the 'manually editing the DOM', in backbone.js you'd still want to include javascript template which is very similar.
Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone
French President’s Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy
Should we vote for the greater evil instead? Not vote? I think that in a first-past-the-post voting system the best option is to vote for the realistic candidate you think is best, then spend a lot of time and energy loudly making your beliefs heard.
This patent is about switching between manual and automatic driving, not the autonomous driving in itself.
Well, there are clear prior art examples for driverless cars, but that's beside the point. The real issue here is that a driverless car manufacturer is going to absorb all liability for all accidents while with a driver, the driver absorbs that liability.

I seriously doubt Google will monetize this patent before it expires.
The Browser Cold War
Here it is: https://github.com/thelinuxlich/knockout.model

Initially when choosing between Ko or BB I made a small experiment trying to tie them up together. It seemed to require a lot of glue code to actually make things work. I guess I haven't been trying hard enough. Someone ultimately got these two frameworks work in sync with this full-featured Backbone-Knockout bridge: http://kmalakoff.github.com/knockback

Looks quite promising although it doesn't seem to have any users at the moment.
Anyone been to netscape.com in awhile?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk...
I'm starting something new...
Chrome updates itself automatically, so you probably running the latest version.
I seriously doubt Google will monetize this patent before it expires.

How does this opinion square with their lobbying efforts to legalize driverless vehicles (e.g., in Nevada)?
>If you spend a lot of time writing copy for the web or answering support emails, you know what I’m talking about. When you start a sentence, you can feel the nausea coming on from a mile away: there’s no gender neutral third person singular pronoun.

Technically, there is such a thing. "it" is a gender neutral third person singular pronoun[1] and even more amusingly it is not part of the proposed "replacement" list. It does sound very weird in most cases - and would definitely look dehumanizing in a support reply, but technically speaking the language is not broken.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_%28pronoun%29 . Example given: "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Show HN: GitEgo.com - GitHub Stat Tracking
Two weeks ago I wished I knew how quickly the watcher count on some of my repos was growing. Now I can. In addition to watchers, I'm also tracking issues, forks, and repo size.

I find it fascinating to watch how issues trickle in throughout the day for large project like Rails http://bit.ly/rvsNLM. Also interesting to see how Node seems to be rapidly growing in size http://bit.ly/vstVN9.

Let me know what you think http://gitego.com/
The patent is about reading a symbol on the ground that triggers the reading of a QR-code to get precise GPS location. Roughly.

Actually, the QR-code (or equivalent) is used to fetch "instructions for performing the autonomous vehicle instruction" (which could be anything).

And the QR-code can be replaced by a lot of things (radio signal, etc).
As is pointed out in another comment here, Google has been working on Voice recognition for a long time now and had voice commands prior to Siri. It was not conversational like Siri, that was mentioned int the article as well - but to have a conversational AI is not something new either (there are probably hundreds of these).

Secondly, voice recognition and conversational AI is not a new product that was invented by Apple. You seem to overestimate the importance of Siri in terms of the originality it brings. It indeed seems awesome to have and interact with, I have not done that yet. I have an Android, and I am not even waiting for something similar because I find it unnecessary to have one and it might be intrusive to use in presence of others. So probably for the few who are like me, it is not a killer feature - not even close.
Entrepreneur support
How much effective if Y Combinator in supporting Entrepreneurs?
I'm taking business classes right now, so I can comment on some of your points, in particular this one:

"Pick up a book on sales, and it'll most likely tell you not to cannibalize existing product lines "

Current books explicitly advice to be willing to cannibalize, for example Jakki Mohr's (I took classes with her):

http://books.google.com.uy/books?id=8LJwaPuuQagC&lpg=PA8...

based on this paper: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3152166

I also took a course on Strategy, and it did endorse Amazon's strategy, by focusing on the shift from the traditional "choose a generic strategy" (as in Porter's framework) to developing capabilities (such as Amazon's logistics) and then entering sectors where you have said competitive advantages.

We also talked about umbrella brands, its pros and cons, it's by no means a given that extending is bad.

Some of your points are indeed presented that way (for example it's still common to recommend outsourcing), but others are now taught differently.
I think that with typical US "glasses" on, 56% is more or less equal to 100% when it comes to taxation. :)

Of course, this is me being a bit prejudiced, but I think there's a least a bit of truth in there.
I believe "The Now Habit" book by Neil Fiore covers the level above the good old "practical" advice and it does that pretty well. I mean the top down approach that starts from your psychology rather than buying a planner. The roots of motivation, the roots of procrastination, tricks for managing your mindset and so on.

On the other hand I have read the book and I still procrastinate (although maybe a little less.) So maybe it really boils down to just getting your ass moving and plowing through. Hrm, speaking of which... it's back to work for me now.
Chrome has had the most popular unique user agent string for a while. The latest version of Chrome with Windows XP is always first, followed by Chrome on Windows 7.
I loathe this chart. I find it impenetrable and hard to understand. Am I right, or is it useful and good?
The demo is pretty cool but I have a few questions:

- Since all the templating is done on the client-side, isn't it bad for referencing? Note that this isn't specific to Knockout but to all javascript templating libraries in general.

- data-bind seems to be an HTML5-only attribute. I guess this means Knockout documents require an HTML5 doctype. Can't this cause problems with older browsers, at least for validation? (The knockout website mentions compatibility with IE6+).

Otherwise, it seems really fun and easy to use and feels pretty snappy. It probably won't replace server-side templating for me yet though.
US really needs to ban donations from corporations and cap individual donations

Unfortunately, with the Citizens United ruling it feels like we went the extreme other direction here. It makes me wonder if things will ever improve here (as far as our politicians go).
So we're trading a browser from a company with a desktop monopoly for one with a web search monopoly. I'm trying to get excited here. It's a shame Firefox couldn't win, but it's tough going up against a determined multibillion dollar behemoth, especially when they get to leverage their monopoly (sound familiar?) by advertising on one of the world's most popular webpages, google.com, for free.
I'm not an expert. I didn't claim to be. I'm saying, there's always another way. Another option. And my modus operandi in dealing with it is informed by knowing what happens if you're too soft and tiptoe around someone's feelings who's considering it.

I don't know anyone who's survived an attempt, or who's been depressed enough to talk about it, who hasn't had better days afterwards. One of my friends is still -- well, sick, I think is the word for it. I've seen how too much sympathy just feeds suicidal thoughts and self-absorption. Talk about anything other than their problem. Get them out of the house. I've seen how being occupied with something brings her back to reality, and makes her 99% better. I'm not unthinkingly being a righteous loud-mouth; I realize my approach to the subject may rub the wrong way on people who think that talking can solve everything.

I don't know if you've been in a situation where you've been thrown into being the default "therapist" for someone you love, who refused to seek help and was telling you that they were considering killing themselves. I have. You'd probably think based on my statements that I'd be such a rotten bastard, it's hard to imagine anyone confiding in me, but it seems to work the opposite way. Maybe people want to hear something blunt. At any rate, there's nothing I've said here that I haven't said to a suicidal friend, in basically the same tone.

I know it does no good, at that moment, to become angry with a clinically depressed person who's out of their mind and talking crazy/suicidal. You want to throw water over them or slap them and snap them out of it, but you can't. At least, in my experience, anger at that moment doesn't work. What you can do is keep them alive, stay with them, distract them, and talk them back to reality. And as soon as they're back, hold up a mirror and show them how scary, stupid and irrational they were being. Make them admit they were being crazy. Make them swear they'll never do it again, even if you don't believe them. And of course, tell them why it scared you, and why it was a place they need to learn to stay away from in their own mind. Warn them when you see them changing that way again. Remind them of the last time. Sanity a muscle. Anyone can learn how to exercise it.

The secret to being sane is just don't go there. Take the option off the table, and start dealing with the world around you, and fixing the way you look at it, until you make it a tolerable place to be. Lower your expectations until you're happy just to wake up in the morning. Horrible? Yeah, but there's no rational alternative.

This isn't me "disrupting", it's not an excuse. It's an alternative way of dealing with the subject. I realize it probably sounds barbaric and medieval, but it's just practical. This is just the only way I've found to deal with clinically depressed people on a long-running basis, and the wall I've built to try and keep people I love -- and myself -- sane, alive, and improving.
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Somewhere in those steps you should add "make a name for yourself." Marketing yourself and your company can lead you from a good idea/MVP/prototype to a successful business. I've seen it first hand on several occasions. It's not about what you know, but who you know. Numerous articles on HN have been targeted towards the difficulty of traction. "I have a good product, but I have no traction." There comes a point when a good product is not necessarily enough. This is especially true for niche markets. Marketing, marketing, marketing. And I don't mean the kind where you hire an agency. All they have is connections; you can make those with effort. There are all sorts of guerilla marketing tactics if you're looking for cost effective ways to get your name out there.

Some of the key points fall under the blanket of marketing:

* blogging, guest blogging
* submitting articles to HN, reddit, etc
* connecting to local startup/tech communities

Don't live in a bubble. Your startup should not be your personal safe haven that you keep secret from everyone. People need to hear about it, talk about it, criticize it, tear it apart, love it, live it, hate it... you get the picture. You want people to have opinions about your product, strong ones. It doesn't matter if it's a 50/50 split of those that love and hate it. People KNOW about it. If nobody knows you exist, there's no exit.

That leads me to my next big topic: CONNECTIONS. Chose them wisely and treat them well. You are your own personal sales guy. Why do you think the startup incubators are so successful? Their connections. PG has connections, go impress him. I'll let you in on a secret though: he has a very high bullshit detector and has seen it all. It helps to know your target audience as well. PG has a preferential tendency towards startup ideas coming from founders that have domain knowledge (and aren't assholes.. he blogged about it).

Last point: DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE. Be nice to people, don't talk about them behind their back, always say nice things. It's all too easy to get in the habit of gossiping or talking shit about somebody when they aren't there. Word gets around. At some point they'll likely hear about it through the grapevine. Wouldn't you rather have them hear about the nice things you've said? That's friendship. That's a connection.
Really awesome writeup. Easy to understand, very clear and full of valueable information. However, I really wonder aout one thing (not just because of this artcle but it reminded me):

When exactly are move semantics and rvalue references useful, APART from using functions that return complex types. I am currently working on a codebase and I am really unsure if move semantics are something I really want to use. Sure, I'd love them for new projects, but if there are naming conventions and even conventions of passing result objects by pointer, not by reference (not my favourite rule), I don't think I'd like mixing styles. I think differently about starting to use "auto" and lambdas, but this is not about C++11 in general.

So actually I really wonder if there is a just case of rvalue references other than move constructors and returning by value. Any pointers?
Alternatives to SOPA? Why not let the big entertainment companies fail, or do we still produce stuff by hand in order to keep jobs? We're in an era where it's easy to develop creative content. The copyright legislation is becoming more obsolete, especially when we are about to enter the 3D printing era [0].

They want a mile of censorship. Shocked, opponents refuse. They're angry, shout up and down, so opponents try to give an inch as a compromise. They're so happy, they tell all their supporters. And now demand a mile. Look at their history, they're relentless in everything.

Say no to groups demanding internet censorship.

Despicable hypocrites, demanding internet freedom everywhere in the world unless it's their own neighbours that they don't trust.

[0] http://reprap.org/wiki/EndOfIntellectualProperty
IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
How to Split and Merge a String Value
Opposing someone whose policies are opposed to civil liberties (like Bush) limits them far more than opposing someone who talks a lot about how important the civil liberties are but erodes them anyway (like Obama). So yes. Voting for the greater evil strikes me as a very rational approach here.
Higgs Boson announcement is for evidence, _not_ a discovery
One key sentence that stands out: "After the look elsewhere effect is considered in the ATLAS result, the confidence level drops to 2.3σ, according to Gianotti."
Perhaps not so much duped as (apparently, anyway) stuck with no good alternative.
I too would have liked Firefox to win but I think it's nothing to do with advertising the reason for Firefox declining and it's simply that Firefox has lost it's mojo. From version 4 they killed their browser.

They may have redeemed themselves recently but I wouldn't care to look, Chrome picked up where Mozilla left off. Chrome is a fantastic browser and I never have issue with it. Firefox 4 and 5 used to crash at least once per day. If it wasn't crashing then the ram usage was spiralling out of control.

I would rather put my trust in Google than Microsoft, I believe that Google have the interest of a faster more up to date web than Microsoft do and I go with their values.
I saw this talk (or one based on it) by Dan at Clojure/conj this year. It's a bit over my experience, but he's an extremely engaging speaker, and knows his material well. Very much worth the time to watch.
1) No, it actually gets better over time, and with jquery (which is still javascript) the problem is already solved. Still, you use the same language that you learnt 10 years ago

2) Learn a whole language and a whole api for one of the ~10 different mobile platforms vs 1 single language for every browser? That's a huge advantage. Seriously how much time you have to waste on learning different frameworks that do the same thing (display an app on a touch device)?

3) The backend problem is the same for both native and web apps; and PHP won't ever make your website snappier than an app because that's a browser problem.

"three completely different and unrelated languages."

What does that even mean? It's a stack of 3 complementary and orthogonal technologies that don't overlap. Don't you need to learn about layout and properties files when you do iOS development or android development or x development?

For me it all comes down to developer happiness, that is, achieve maximum effect in less time. That's why i m a webdev diehard and will never endeavor on proprietary closed frameworks.
Once again the laws that are pushed by the elite are only for the masses, not for the elite itself. How can they propose laws with a straight face that they themselves know they are constantly breaking?

I'm really starting to think we need to chip away at the politicians' immunity. Too often they try to pass laws that they themselves wouldn't be held accountable for breaking.