skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yet I wonder how this premise can fully accepted when so many entrepreneurs are still chasing capital to fund their startups and even when money is 'so easy' to raise in this market, VCs are still seemingly exhalted?"

Because it doesn't really work like this author is describing. Silicon Valley just likes to make claims that it's different.

Sure, because of the do-it-yourself minimal-capital requirement of software (what now underlies what we know as SV), venture capitalists are able to fund ventures on a smaller, more personal level. But at the end of the day, it's a bunch of rich guys lending money to people who do the actual work. Always has been, always will be.

Even the "angel funds" are becoming a commodity, and are adopting a "spread it around and see what works" model. Just like banks do with mortgages.
Mixing together: python, json-rpc and some erlangish code hot swapping
It's an issue of definitions. Of course you cannot build an electronic device using only a single atom, because you need leads, interconnects, power supplies, measurement equipment etc.
So when you talk about a single atom transistor, what's meant is that the critical, behaviour determining region of the device is a single atom. If you took that single atom away, you would not have a transistor any more.

In much the same way we talk about 32nm transistors in computer chips for example - it's understood that this number refers to the gate length, not your whole processor.
Although I've never participated in a hackathon, and it's not something I'm particularly interested in, I can completely see the value in them.

It's like a jam session for musicians. It's a way to immerse yourself in the art of creating. 99% of all jam sessions are probably crap, but maybe, just maybe, you'll get that one killer riff that will be the basis of your next hit song.

In the same way, yes, I'm pretty sure that there won't be any Angry Bird 2.0's coming out of a hackathon, but maybe the beginnings of an idea that could lead to the next great app will be born from one.
>> I personally don't expect to die of old age.

> Something said, I suspect, by every young person since the time of Hammurabi. I suppose that expecting to live forever in this world is no more irrational than expecting eternal life in another world.

One could argue that this is the crux of the world's oldest story, "The Epic of Gilgamesh".
You can use this trick to listen to anyone's voicemail (by identifying the calling number as the recipient's number) if they do not have a password. Anyone. Talk about security hole.
The Haskell ones were modeled on the OpenBSD ones, by the way. (I used to maintain the Haskell ecosystem in ports).
> Even supposing that social networking is some sort of vice, it's easy to think of much more harmful alternatives.

If a vice is less harmful but more widespread is it better or worse than the alternative? E.g. Facebook vs. World of Warcraft
Spicing up the console some more.
The first two are the same, with a different syntax, yes.

They would both become:

objc_msgSend(self, @selector(bar));

However, your examples are basically explicitly passing a message (1 and 2), vs dynamically building a message to pass (3).

For the second to work, the objc_msgCall function would really be:

objc_msgSend(self, @selector(performSelector:), @selector(bar));

(The first example is saying to self to call the selector (method) named 'bar'. The second example is telling self to call the method 'performSelector:' with an argument of 'bar'.)

The runtime may or may not be smart enough to optimize this out. It has never been a bottleneck for me to bother looking into it, and I haven't come across anything to indicate one way or the other.
How would you propose we do this? Suppose we could scan the state of your brain exactly and transfer it to a simulation on a computer. How would we now transfer your consciousness to the simulation? It seems to me that rather than making you live forever you've made a clone of you live forever. This relates to a basic unsolved question: how does consciousness work?
Good point, I was looking at it from the perspective of a client wondering "how much will I pay." As you say the lawyer doing the work won't be taking home nearly that much. I didn't know it would go as low as $20/hour though. My conservative estimate for a new lawyer in the US would be $80K/2400 hours = ~ $34/hr. How do the expected hours compare in the UK?
Did you read the article? I did, and unless I totally missed something, yes, this drug has the ability to erase specific memories.
According to sods law, some helpful post office worker will very soon knock on your door holding a thousand or so of them :)
Ripe for success
Of course it wouldn't be a soul. I'd be totally okay with that.
The level of helplessness in those rants suggest they are.

In the real world you are THE responsive professional, and you tell people that the important thing is going to be wrong, politely but repeatedly, and they actually listen to you. And when you repeat it in simple words long enough, they eventually would understand.
That's how it works.
Or at least you land on better terms so you don't have to make a deal with your conscience.

How they know if it won't work if they didn't try? They just sigh and go on spending their time doing busywork, spending corporate money or failing projects.
now it works :) +1
They aren't talking about MDMA. That was mentioned as an example of a drug which is used similarly (but doesn't actually erase memories). They are talking about PKMzeta inhibitors.
And Perl. And Javascript. And Ruby. There's lots of precedent.
I need 4 lines to do the mergesort correction. What's the way that is expected here? I would do,

if i = len(left):
result.append(right[j])
if j = len(right):
result.append(left[i])
Plus, that is again a naturalistic fallacy.
It's very interesting because we already knew this list from tests that have been done that identified tracking dots on output from printers from these manufacturers.

http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...

It validates that there wasn't something that went unnoticed on manufacturers that don't employ tracking dots.

However, there are several printers who use tracking dots who it seems have done so of their own prerogative and not because the SS asked them to. Notably Dell, Epson, Lanier, Lexmark, NRG, Panasonic, Savin and Toshiba are doing it voluntarily or because of contact with some other agency.

Tracking dot free printers may be obtained from Samsung or Okidata, the two Korean companies. Clearly years of living under a military dictatorship and now being a free country have had an effect on what Korean companies are willing to do for government security apparatchiks.
One could also get a PogoPlug4 for $100 right now, put Arch Linux Arm (ALARM) on an HDD, and then use the node.js package from the community ALARM repo.

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4

https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/tree/7e648426d9e73...
Wouldn't "Turing's Tiger Stripe Conjecture" be a better name for this? Considering there was no prior evidence for it until now?
Brilliant stuff, but ignores the fact that the market rewards the first mover, not the guy who came later with something better.
Actually the same people have essentially already worked that one out: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/64.full?rss=1

But as has already been mentioned, the biggest practical hurdle is temperature. This single atom device is measured at milliKelvin temperatures, and fundamentally could not operate at room temperature. It still has important consequences, but building computer chips is not an immediate one.
After seeing a few of these I think it would be great to have a more generalized open source project that any app could use fairly easily, preferably done in a way to give decent cross platform support.
> If you're going to be working 40+ hour weeks for a boring soul-crushing job, then you might as well get a few perks out of it, such as health insurance.

Part of the problem is that health can even be thought of as a 'perk' in the first place. Most of the safety net effect could be achieved simply by removing the link between health cover and employment. Just do what most of the rest of the world does (where employment status is irrelevant to health cover) and a major disincentive to innovation is removed.

Unless of course, the objective is to entrench dependency to large organizations. In that case, the present system works just fine.
IIRC, this same flaw was used by Murdoch's papers to hack various celebrities'/deceased individuals' voicemails.
Interesting. I can't imagine that computers would have any trouble computing the log of a small integer many times per second.
Well worth reading and really considering before people assume 'death' is a fact of life:

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Here is the wikipedia article on Turing's paper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogen...
You can do this from any SMS gateway, as there is no real verification. However most gateways do not allow their users to spoof the sender because predictably the carriers do not like it.
You could make the same argument about education. Life is all about risks, why should I have pay for the risky behaviour of parents of poor children. Abolish public education funding.

However, the reason it public school is a good thing (who runs the school - private businesses or public servants is a seperate matter) is because it creates human capital. Startup launching - or entrepreneurial "education", should be included in that human capital creation function that governments provide.
Because presumably (I don't have the new XCode to check) you can do things like:

[someObject dictArg:@{ a:@"B" } arrayArg:@[1,2,34]];

So if they were both using "{" to set them off the parser doesn't know which one you mean until it hits the first ":" (and it can't guess from the type when the type is "id"). Now that's not impossible to write a parser that looks ahead to figure out what you mean, but it's much easier to parse if they have completely different syntax from the outset. And the "{" vs "[" distinction is very standard amongst the higher level languages, even if it isn't in straight C.
That rule doesn't hold for some languages. For example, a Python lexer needs to remember a stack of indentation levels to know whether a given line's indentation should be tokenized as an INDENT, a DEDENT, or no token at all.
If you freelance you should never do your own taxes. There are so many federal, state and city rules that could bite you that you aren't even aware of. And if you make a mistake (which you will), you saw what happens.

If I ever get elected president, I'd insist the tax code get smaller by 10% each year. If congress/senate can't figure that out then every item whose number ends in a particular digit would be automatically deleted (eg all ending in '3').

Over $12 billion is spent each year on tax preparation. That is a huge waste and there are many many better places for that to be spent.
Who cares? The point is not that he's calling women names.
If you want to say that then fine but you should read the rest of what you quoted which makes a different point entirely.

So if he had left out "Golden Uterus Complex" then it would
be ok?
I'm sure you would love to argue the fringe cases of specific liberties, but you are claiming fascism.
The first time I ever took a graduate math course, I did my term project on precisely this theory. Analyzed the PDE's, did some numerical experiments on it, gave a lecture on it. I had to tell my audience "Well, we think this produces tiger stripes and giraffe spots, but honestly we're just blindly guessing."

What a treat to read this! Shows that us mathematicians are often fifty years ahead of the times ;)
> they become mnemonic freaks

With heavy emphasis on the freaks. Messing with specific protein kinases by simply ramping up production/phosphorylation doesn't just give you better long-term memory. It severely alters normal plasticity mechanisms, one consequence of which being selectively enhanced test performance.

I'd say it might be viable, but in the 10+ year timeframe.

EDIT: In general, the implications of Nader's stuff (which wasn't really new, by the way) haven't been thoroughly understood. Mechanisms underlying long-term retention are unclear; we don't even know if LTP/LTD actually mediate LTM or are mere epiphenomena/sub-mechanisms. The whole picture is very, very fuzzy. We're far from magical drugs.
This might be a stupid question but, you know you should never shy away from stupid questions. What actual practical use would this have? To put another way, what purpose does this serve that could not be served by the normal lua interpreter?
Indeed, it's nothing new.
I've used this trick so many times with friends :)
Maybe I shouldn't have use the word "soul". My vision is, we do not have souls, we are souls. Body + Brain = Soul, so to speak. Death is when that soul is irrevocably destroyed (meaning, even the information required to reconstruct it is lost forever).

So, while convoluted, your solution sounds like it is acceptable. Be careful however to play a record of a past life, instead of, say, actually simulating a brain in a silicon chip, Gunm style. Because that simulation would most certainly be a soul as well (I don't believe in philosophical zombies).
notice that I said 'flat', which I believe to be the bigger issue.
Are there any drawbacks/pitfalls involved in creating a compiler that translates these literals to some other data structure library (such as glib, for example)?
Ah yes.

========

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 701, in __call__
handler.get(groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/s~pythonmeme/4.356927075625222638/hello.py", line 395, in get
normallist = item.all().order('-time').order('-vote').fetch(limit=20, offset=(pageNumber-1) 20)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2084, in fetch
return list(self.run(limit=limit, offset=offset, kwargs))
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2237, in next
return self.__model_class.from_entity(self.__iterator.next())
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2655, in next
next_batch = self.__batcher.next()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2525, in next
return self.next_batch(self.AT_LEAST_ONE)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2562, in next_batch
batch = self.__next_batch.get_result()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 592, in get_result
return self.__get_result_hook(self)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2317, in __query_result_hook
self._conn.check_rpc_success(rpc)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_rpc.py", line 1182, in check_rpc_success
rpc.check_success()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 558, in check_success
self.__rpc.CheckSuccess()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_rpc.py", line 133, in CheckSuccess
raise self.exception
OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.RunQuery() required more quota than is available.
No, Ecstasy (as it became known on the streets) is usually a mix of methamphetamine and MDMA. The mixture can vary but MDMA alone is not an upper. People abusing MDMA can't achieve the effects they want without the extra dopamine flush.

MDMA has a very low addiction profile and has had a horrible life of propaganda and misinformation thrown atop of it. MAPS is actually researching, with promising results, the medicinal effects of it with PSTD.

MDMA can been used in therapeutic sessions (i.e. marriage therapy) with staggering results. End of life treatment and acceptance (i.e. cancer) has been shown to be wonderful for couples wishing to "get everything out", so to speak.

MDMA isn't a drug you take to have wild manic sex and dance. Ecstasy is. MDMA is a drug you take with your wife once and a while to open the floodgates of emotion and talk about any little thing that could possibly be bothering you or hindering the relationship without fear of repercussion. It's a drug you can take to come to terms with dying and leaving your partner and kids while having a long, open talk with them. It's a chemical that breaks down your inhibitions and leaves you able to study what emotionally ails you without the anxiety that usually coattails along.

MDMA is a medicine and we need to start seeing it as that. Sure it has it's possible downsides (abuse potential, neurotoxicity) but we deal with these downsides with any drug we prescribe. We need to give these tools back to therapists so we can stop this cascade of emotional fuckery that we keep passing on generation after generation.

Why should we only focus on treating peoples physical symptoms and not their emotional state as well? I'm not speaking of mental illness, either. Along comes a drug that gives great power and insight into the emotional state and we illegalize it because a group of kids are abusing it. We need to pull our heads out of our asses and realize that kids are abusing every prescription drug that will give their head a tingle. We can't stop it, we can only attempt to educate and curb it.
Read it and here's what I think: It's a subtle difference. By overriding the trauma associated with the memory, it becomes possible to forget it, but it does not in and of itself cause you to forget the memory.

When the memory loses its potency, it becomes just another passing detail. It doesn't have any power over you, it will not haunt you, and in time can be forgotten.
It's a lot easier to grow from 1 to 11 than 1000 to 10,000. There's just no substance to your article without actual numbers that back up the increase. It's nice that you see social media as a contributed to your business- and nice that you want to share- but there's nothing actionable in the article.
Check out http://appwithphp.com/cryptography-and-php/ - it's a beginner/intermediate overview of how to implement one-way and two-way hashing/encryption in PHP. The concepts should be transferable to other languages though.
Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data
I'm working on an MVP which displays geolocated data from social sites on a map. So far I'm importing json data from the following sites:

- Instagram
- Twitter

I'm looking for more APIs that I can use to get data for my app. The data needs to be public. Does anyone know of any other popular sites with publicly available geolocated data?
This benchmark missing java frameworks and grails.
Once we're debating the political correctness of a statement someone made of Twitter, we've already lost. Mark's comment shouldn't harm female developers, because they should be busy working on something with other female and male developers and not having fights on Twitter.
If you're building a project from scratch, I think you have to be more ruthless with your time than your objects. In the early stages of a product it's easy and cheap to refactor if you find your devspeed slowing down because of poor coding choices you've made.
"Kostnaden för sms:et är 10 kr plus eventuell operatörsavgift."

"The cost of the text message is 10 SEK plus possible operator fees"

10 SEK = $1.5 USD
Really? I could have sworn google weren't the first search engine on the block, and Apple wasn't the first person to make 'smart' phones.
Hmm, I beleive conjecture is used when you are speaking about a potential theorem (i.e. something than can be mathematically proven to be right given certain axioms). This is a biological/chemical/natural theory, and is believed to be true given certain findings in some observed phenomena (i.e. statistics are involved in a certain way).
I's sorry, what? Can you please provide some examples of developments in Australia that in any way match what the parent was describing? Or have you been misled to believe that our Internet is filtered in any way?

Australia has the sanest political climate of any developed country I've lived in, in large part thanks to compulsory and preferential (ranked) voting. Sure there's things like the manufactured boogeyman of "boat people", the lingering spectre of racism, and increasingly vocal tea-party-like factions, but not nearly to the same extent as in the US, UK, or even Canada.
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How Silicon Valley happened, the talent, ownership, personalities etc is far deeper than that. This is an excellent hour long talk at Computer History Museum titled "Secret History of Silicon Valley". It starts in the 1940s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
"It's an issue of definitions. If you took that single atom away, you would not have a transistor any more."

No, you would still have a transistor, albeit a non-functioning one, just like you would still have a car if you removed the engine. I appreciate your effort to explain, but your explanation is worded for people similar to those who work in your lab. Definitions should be correct, especially when they are put forth by the NY Times, a news source for the general public. People have already had their expectations raised over "jetpacks for everyone any day now" stories, so it's rather irresponsible to define something new with a name which is obviously false, and which tends to overrepresent, by far, the achievement that the name defines. I actually work with nanotech, but the average reader of the NY Times has little-to-no knowledge of "leads", "interconnects", "power supplies", "measurement equipment", "critical, behaviour-determining regions", "gate length", or even: "transistor".
Except for all the cases where the guy who came in later had his shit together (unlike the incumbents) and took over.
I'd ask him. Virding's one of the original inventors of erlang, and also an erlang with a lispy syntax called "Lisp-Flavoured Erlang", so I'm sure he has a plan. Or he was bored, and playing around with mutable state on the Erlang VM.
Noone "plays together".. People use Foursquare to broadcast where they are to the world, not play a silly game. Google Locations and Facebook already have this. Adding a gamified layer won't do much to attract users. On the other hand, putting a link in front of Google.com will.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/17/pinsanity/
How to Make and Use a Transparency Grenade
"I think the inclusion of "nationalism and often racism" is an editorial lapse here. Mussolini wasn't racist the way the Nazis were"

It is not, Mussolini was member of the Italian communist party but decided he wanted to create their own party, also socialist but nationalist.

This way it was totally independent from the socialist International(soviet Russia controlled) because he did not wanted to become a satellite state.

Racism was applied as Mussolini wanted to recover the glory days of the Roman Empire, the Italians as a superior race that "dominates the world".
Any decent SMS gateway should let you send messages from who the hell you want. Add far as analogies go, it works pretty much the range as email, and would take the same fundamental redesign to fix.
Neat idea, I was surprised by the amount of examples included in the repo. The htpasswdFS was worth mentioning, I'm going to try that one with our dev servers.
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No Epson? Well that is odd.