skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are getting the horse and the cart in the wrong order (to continue the horse analogies :) ). I started Academia.edu, after finishing my PhD at Oxford, because I believe that science, is too closed, and too slow, and that I think that we can build a faster, cheaper, and better system for disseminating research. You're wondering whether I'm asserting the things in the post because I started the company, but really it's the other way round. I started the company because I believe the philosophy expressed in the post. One has to be the change one wants to see in the world.
My heart says create, my body says consume
As a man, I can't say I fully understand this. However, I do respect the feeling of wanting breastfeeding pictures up on their facebook pages. It's a beautiful thing, and I don't see the "porn" or "obscenity" involved.

I also support the freedom to protest (breastfeeding in front of facebook offices). However, I have to admit I kind of "face palmed" when I heard that that was their plan of action. Whatever, their right. And I won't be there to take it away from them.

One last thought. In no way does facebook "have" to let women show pictures of them breasfeeding. I feel some people are quick to jump the gun and pull the "freedom of speech" card on websites like this. By signing up with facebook, you are joining a club and swearing that you'll follow the rules of that club. If the club decides to ban something, its their right. Just like stores can refuse to serve customers.

Interesting read, thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbXgsMxOPtI A quick google revealed this which seems to be the video in question (or relevant to "saying no to science" by invoking God, at least.)
It's another argument for constructivism, pointing out that Khan Academy is non-constructivist education on steroids.

As much as I agree with this argument, it underplays the fact that constructivism is a paradigm shift that will require gobs cultural readiness and energy that we don't seem to have. It's like, Why don't we live in domes? Well, because people expect houses to be rectangular, zoning laws assume they'll be made of sticks, and we don't have enough energy to blow past these things. Or, Why do we still use imperative programming languages instead of functional languages?

Once it was different: the constructivist program by Seymour Papert to put Logo (which, as it happens, is a functional language!) in schools. It was a fad in the early '80s and failed monumentally. So monumentally that today the power of computing is equated with making textbooks interactive
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
and backpacks lighter. Both Jobs and Gates criticized various 'computer in the classroom' initiatives in the '90s for this very reason, but they didn't mention (or didn't know about) Logo.

One constructivist aspect of Khan's program not mentioned in the article is the "flipped" classroom -- watching lectures at home and doing homework in class. This is a far superior use of classroom time that allows questions to come in the context of work, work to be a social activity, etc. And last I heard, K.A. were having real trouble selling the idea. It's too revolutionary for many schools.

What's often not understood is that schools are incredibly diverse institutions. The parents, the students, the teachers, the unions, the administration, the local, State, and federal governments... all sit in class each day. There is no way to improve classrooms by decree, or even by offering powerful alternatives like Khan Academy or Logo. The entire society must come along.

The article criticizes Khan Academy for not employing teachers. But failed to mention another constructivist act par excellence: they just hired Vi Hart!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=e1a6Bxc0OYQ
He's certainly a fanboi, but he's been very insightful too.
Not race (since that is a uselessly vague concept), but there are specific genes that correlate with elevated or decreased risk of alcoholism. Perhaps identifying at-risk individuals could be used for some social good, but I’d wager any such efforts will ultimately be flawed and harmful.
Coding (or watching the game)? Why?
I use Yoda Conditions[1] in C-oid languages, so the error would be visible even without warnings (because the program would refuse to compile).

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/new-programming-j...
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You'll notice that I didn't actually say that Khan was the "most dangerous phenomenon," but rather our own obsession with it, and the misinterpretation of what it can do. Khan itself is great, but using it for what it wasn't intended to do is a real problem...and one that schools & districts are beginning to pursue more and more.
This isn't standard HTML markup... It must be some sort of custom zoom.it markup. I'm afraid you'll need to find someone familiar with zoom.it markup to help you with that.
Four Levels of Idea Theft
- It's a beautiful thing, and I don't see the "porn"...

If some people are using this as the case against these pictures, that's just plain stupid. Porn has more to do with sex and lust. Breastfeeding isn't pedophilia.
I'm curious: why exactly is being a "consumer" such a bad thing? I'm not necessarily saying I disagree, but I'm having trouble coming up with an explanation, and it seems like everyone is simply assuming that consumption is a bad thing.
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"Let's Just Kill The Advertising Industry"
Totally agree with everything you said here. I think it's important for people to realize that facebook is completely within their rights to take down any pictures they want. There are no civil rights violations occuring when facebook chooses to take down your pictures. Personally, I don't think they should be taking down breast-feeding pictures; however, there is nothing illegal or unethical about them doing so.
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>>It is pretty amazing how complicated our bodies are, but I think the expiration date is there to prevent overpopulation - if our ancestors didn't die, the planet would be overpopulated

That is an argument based on group evolution, largely disproved (some unusual edge cases might exist).

I'd recommend reading "The Selfish Gene", it is an incredibly fun journey in beautiful English (Disclaimer: I'm a non-native English speaker.) It will probably change your world view.
Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Enterprise Version
My kid is in the autism spectrum and we have seen 3 doctors, 2 psychiatrists, 3 ergo-therapists and 2 logo-therapists. They all seem to agree that when a kid cries with no reason (you learn how to distinct that by experience) you just ignore him until he learns that this is not the way to get attention. It's not that we never give him attention, we just don't overdo it so he won't become manipulative.

They've also advised us that night sleep must be complete, as I mentioned in my previous post. That we should not encourage him to wake up by letting him getting up or giving him food, and it worked. When he has 6 months old, we switched the night milk with water or tee and after a few nights he stopped waking up in the middle of the night. Since then, me and my wife can get some sleep at nights and some rest instead of being wrecked every day.

As far as where is the limit, how far to go? You don't have to go anywhere, you just have to use some common sense, if it has a real problem rush to help it, when it doesn't have a real problem don't encourage it. Yes, be there the first time it will try to climb the tree, but not every time it gets into its mind that it wants to climb a tree. Of course you don't have to start beating it. Duh! I'm a little shocked myself that you find it normal to wake up every night for 16 months.

How else do I know that I'm right? I see other people's kids. When parents rush to serve every vice their kids have just to avoid the crying, the end is that their kids cry all the time and they are never satisfied with anything. Parents that set limits and don't continuously run behind their children, not only have some time left to enjoy their life, but their kids are more polite, they are easier satisfied and happy, and they also make friends easier, since they are not obnoxious.

You say your kid is fine anyway, don't know you-can't confirm it, maybe it's an exception to the general rule, which is if you let crying to be a bargaining card, the kid will cry all the time. Maybe in your country there is no sane parent left for you to see the difference, maybe you should plan some vacation time in France.
"Need" is a slippery word, and while it is indeed likely that many or most nanoscale tools of future medicine will be fairly directly derived from cells and cell components, and we could probably achieve all of the design goals for agelessness and disease immunity with those, "medical nanorobotics" is not a nonsense term. It explicitly refers to the design and construction of non-biological nanoscale-featured devices - which is a concept far removed from enzymes. There are some things you can do with these designs that are impossible for presently available or plausible biological machinery.

See, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte

http://jetpress.org/v16/freitas.pdf

http://www.nanomedicine.com/
Wouldn't it be more expedient to get the FTC to go after them for false advertising, or get the justice department to go after them for fraud?
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Even worse (in my opinion) than security holes, their whole series of Readers has gotten progressively more bloated and update-needy over the year. I used to use Foxit as an alternative but the same thing happened to it too. Now I'm on to Sumatra.
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Here's the dirty little secret that people like you overlook - spending four years hacking around and hanging out on HN will teach you nothing about Big O notation and how to analyse it or about advanced data structures. What it will teach you is plenty about chasing low hanging fruit and very little about tackling big and difficult problems.

Sure, someone who's very driven will learn the same amount regardless - mostly by reading all the same books that someone who's gone to school will have read. But most people are not that driven. Most people are happy to hack around building webapps on the back of other people's libraries and then deluding themselves into thinking that gluing together a bunch of libraries and adding a pretty frontend counts as a significant achievement.

Frankly, with your attitude you're doomed to hire the mediocre while the people with the brain and skills to do any form of non trivial analysis go elsewhere - as they well should.
For me, It isn't so much about being a consumer as it is resigning myself to a mentality of not putting work and important things first. I'll read one article on HN, then another, then check techcrunch, then mashable, some blogs, and before I know it I've wasted two hours and haven't accomplished anything productive.
Implicit in your comment is the claim that the current state of software engineering is good. Just because a lot of helpful/entertaining/profitable software has been written doesn't necessarily mean the industry is in a good place. Especially outside the startup world, I suspect a lot of money and time is wasted because software projects run over budget or over time.
These 3D printers can even print out other 3D printers. I kid you not! http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/06/10/the-3d-printer-t...
There is even a clear and concise list of specific goals in biotechnology you could be working on or funding, all of which have many intermediary points of viable product and opportunities for incremental profitability:

http://sens.org/sens-research/research-themes

Use the links in the table in the middle of the page above to find explanations for the layperson, references, etc.
Funny thing about the right corner: if you hover over it and circle down the inside of the page, you'll see the left-inside corner pop up.
I'm not sure if that's exactly the angle Facebook et al. are taking but I wouldn't be surprised if they pull that. Frankly, if you're "facebook friends" with any underage kids and you think it's irresponsible for them to see picture of you breastfeeding, either don't put them up or un-friend them.
This is almost exactly what ASP.NET and IIS do in recent iterations.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tmarq/archive/2007/07/21/asp-net-thr...
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This is a paradox. People create/produce because they want:

1. to be powerful. Being powerful makes them able to consume more, hence being more happy. People do everything to be more comfortable.

2. to solve peoples problems, make the world better place = to feed their internal ego, prove the world that he/she can be helpful. This is a subliminal instinct of humanbeing having the main goal is being powerful among other species. Being powerful - see point 1.

3. to make money. Having more money makes people able to consume more, without any problems.

Aren't there any producer without a goal gaining power to consume more? I don't know, maybe. Don't we always say that if we want people use our products first we should ask ourselves would I use it? If yes, this means you are a producer, because you made a problem-solving product. But this also means you are a consumer, because you would like to use it. Mark uses facebook. Is he a producer or consumer?

Do you know any producer that don't consume 100 times more than avarage consumers?!
but OTOH semantics of GET allow e-mail servers to implement a link scanner that e.g. checks all linked pages for phishing.

That breaks (and likely is broken already in practice) when pages don't respect semantics of GET and unsubscribe/verify, etc. when page is merely displayed.
I agree. I was really happy when I saw this commercial. I thought it was very well done.
Ideally "action" would be seperated into two different methods, one for manipulating resources (like state machine transitions, or other processing), and one (utilizing GET) for aggregations and computations on collections or resources.

They have done that. See 5.6. Query. Just a mistake by the parent.
Good thing Chrome has a built-in secure PDF reader.
I wouldn't say it is about boredom and entertainment, your kid is in the survival stage, fill basic needs, stay close to caregivers, etc. So, in fact, the crying had a function when we were apes in the Savannah, it was to call the mother in case she lost you. Now this need is deprecated, and the babie will have to be separated someday from parents, so letting cry for 5, then 10, then 20 minutes is a good compromise, imo better than teaching early your kid that whatever they want is easily obtained through loug crying.
You've never been cancelled, I take it? I was -- with the same "we've reviewed it and the answer is still no", until my friend Howard Tayler happened to note it in the comments under his Web comic, and marvelously it was re-reviewed and found to be Just Fine.

Google's "review" process is automated. Everything possible at Google is automated. If you don't get the attention of a human, you've got no recourse, and that effectively means if you don't have popular friends, you've got no recourse.
Some of those patent ideas are really cool. Having your phone being able to unlock your door is a bit scary though.
> Which is a shame because after traveling and drinking a lot in different countries I've found that drinking games were one of the most interesting thing.

In case you were planning to visit Poland or some post-USSR country, we have no drinking games at all. We just drink, and we drink to get drunk, 'drinking games' don't make any sense for us and are generally subject of disregard so it's not even a thing worth mentioning if you are here.

The only quasi-sensible (by our standards) game I recall is 3 glasses, probably too hardcore for most nations of the world (well, it is hardcore even for us). You put 3 shots on the table - one filled with water, one with vodka, one with spirit. You have to pick two, you drink one and wash down with the other, good luck if you wash down vodka with spirit.

> Also in France it's common courtesy to bring a bottle when you come to a party, meeting and to share it with everyone

Here too. Loosely translated there is a rule "you shall not come empty-handed" aka you need a "glass ticket" to enter a party. And it's not 'courtesy', it's a big deal, even if you're broke or lost in the middle of the night in a neighborhood you don't know, you should bring whatever you can afford at the nearest 24h or gas station.

Cheerz.
I think it's important for people to realize that facebook is completely within their rights

Yes, it's within their rights, so it may be legal, but...

however, there is nothing illegal or unethical about them doing so.

How does this imply that it not being unethical? There are certainly plenty of cases where something is "within your rights" and "legal", but still unethical. If I plagiarize an out-of-copyright author, what I'm doing is unethical, but it's still within my rights, as wrong as it is.

Let's not perpetuate this stupid "it's legal, so it's okay" meme: not all things which are "legal" are perfectly ethical, nor are all things which are not "legal" unethical.
Nice effect, but the fact the page becomes blurry when I have my mouse over the "next page" button is annoying. I have to move the mouse away while reading and back when I want to turn the page. I'd prefer to just not move the mouse and roll a scroll wheel. (Actually, that's a lie - I'd rather not touch the mouse at all and just press j.)
What I meant by medicine is that it cannot help person to get well. Drinking medicine should be maintained, or else the patient will hear again the voice that is only in his mind. Not like flu or fever, a patient can get well if he drinks the prescribed medicine.
Syria is attacking their people. Spread the word. (NSFL)
A multithreaded runtime for OCaMl will be realy cool. I do not need that threads be surfaced as an API but the possibility that parallelism exposed by the functional style can be exploited by the runtime (perhaps based on options used to start the runtime).

This. I would love to see a multithreaded Ocaml.
This is not "starting to become" for South Korea. The fact of the matter is that South Korea is far more democratic now than it was during the Cold War. These laws restricting the dissemination of North Korean propaganda have been in place for decades, and were often used with the tacit approval of the US in years past to suppress dissent.(In fact, until about ten years ago, it was technically illegal to import Japanese pop music into South Korea!)

The only difference now is that their use is becoming increasingly controversial. This, at least, is a good thing.
Huh, the back button worked perfectly for me in Chrome, OS X Lion.
I just did a quick google search and everything that I found suggested that the Inuit people are LESS healthy because they only eat meat. They have a lifespan 12 years lower than the rest of Canada.
I like how they admit right out that they pass off requests to a ThreadPool and that it's non-optimal for application performance.

Similar to IIS 6.0 (classic mode, a.k.a. ISAPI mode), the request is still handed over to ASP.NET on an IIS I/O thread. And ASP.NET immediately posts the request to the CLR Threadpool and returns pending. We found this thread switch was still necessary to maintain optimal performance for static file requests.

Author goes on to say it was done because static file serving is blocking, which ate away too heavily at a unified threadpool between IIS and ASP.NET.

I'd call out SEDA here again. Passing work items around between executors is in-advisable. That said, the typical problem to "you need a responsive request handler" is "offload the work item asap and yield," and done well there's many many right ways for that effort to look like SEDA.
tl;dr - Python bot plays online game via point and click. Source code here: https://github.com/Audionautics/Burrito-Bot/blob/master/Burr...

Not gonna win any awards for code style, but projects like this are the kind of things that make me glad I know at least one language really well.

The source is just a few hundred lines of extremely readable code that accomplishes something pretty remarkable.
Making it work. How to handle a 3 hour boss distraction.
Remember, they still sell the 3GS. Those phones are old enough that they probably cost next to nothing to make, but Apple still sells them for a few hundred (from the subsidy).

Having the older 3GS and 4 also means they can pull in customer who wouldn't have paid the $200+ for the latest model. How much of Samsung's profit came from people buying their $0-$100 (on contract) phones? How much did that go down when the 3GS became free on contract?

They may not just be making more, but cutting into their competition in areas that were previously safe profit centers.
The Do Not Track movement is Useless
Right, it not being unethical is my opinion; I didn't mean to present it as an objective statement. I'm certainly open to listening to opinions that this is ethically "wrong", but as of now I don't believe it is.
Currently you have no real user feedback on any of your buttons other than cursor change. When a user hovers over a button I would suggest defining a hover state for the button.

As for the "view plans and prices, get started" I believe a smaller button that is better positioned with a hover effect would get significantly better results. Even a simple change such as changing that text to something a little shorter like "Get Started Now", "View Plans" or " View Prices" will get you better results.

Ultimately I believe you would see significant improvements using bootstrap across your site. Some examples of what others have done with bootstrap can be found here http://builtwithbootstrap.com
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Ask HN: What are you hacking on instead of watching the Super Bowl?
haha flutter, like twitter but without the twi...yes i would use javascript if i make a project..
Incredibility sensationalist and biased. The 'BBC 5 investigates' radio program is even worse.
Substitution expressions for Twitter (node.js code on GitHub)
Two Steps to Honest User Feedback
A social network for stalking cheerleaders...
Remarkably, I know of at least one early-1990s film -- Rockula -- that was never released on DVD, but is available on Netflix Instant streaming.
Abandoned Game Archive
Unnecessarily inflammatory article. Back then, almost every single game released on the Amiga and Atari etc. had some form of copy protection, but the copy protections of that time were never a hassle or in the way for the user of the software, up until the point he or she tried to actually copy the software or crack it. The writer is painting a picture that the developers and publishers of that time had no way of foreseeing; trying to make their software run through an emulation-of-sorts on a largely incompatible platform. This just doesn't deserve to be bunched together with DRM as we know it today.
I had a similar experience as an intern in the IT consulting division of a Big 4 accounting firm. Hotdesking was the official process.

In practice, certain desks were "reserved". Mere peons who hadn't been in the office on the first day it operated could take their pick of terrible desks on any one of three floors.

... if there were any left by 8am.

So in practice you had to get up at 6, log into their utterly terrible booking system (IE6 required and about two dozen ActiveX controls) and book it first thing.