skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen the kind of abuse that is dealt to Davis whenever he shows up, writing incoherent prose all over? He has come and gone on just about every programmer forum out there, even on 4chan's, and every single time he depleted the patience of their hosts and has been either banned, ran off the place or programmatically ignored, like here (or 4chan, with userscripts).

He is a public figure already, as you say so yourself, regardless of whether we can hold him responsible of it. If anything, this piece served to humanize him, and spreading knowledge of his condition may, at least, serve to secure better treatment for him from his peers.
What I meant is that it's a product that's here to stay. Maybe I went too far with the word big , but it's a success in that it has gained enough momentum to be really useful to a large amount of people.
Terry Pratchet 'The last continent', but it is 22-nd book of a serie 'flat world'. You should start from the begining. It's a really funny fantasy, and easy to read.

Another variant is 'Rework', authored 'DHH' for example - it is easy to read and usefully! Have a great vocation :)
Ohio school gunman arrest caught on camera
Is it possible to have a smart discussion about whether people are getting dumber in casual, 300-word increments? Perhaps the worst offender is the essay by Erin Jackson, a stand-up comedian, which is neither smart nor funny and relies on phoned-in anecdote and hand-wavy syllogism to prop up her conclusion that people are getting dumber. But even in the essays that extol a more methodical approach to the question, like Steven Pinker's piece, we're left with appeals to evidence that must be taken on faith because there's no room to include them.
Collecting Interest on Technical Debt: Five Levels Of Ignorance
There is a segment of developers that came from the UNIX editors to IDE and we like and prefer the IDE. while I will agree that the editors are fast and configurable they don't totally outweigh the IDE. There is a lot of value in a good IDE and that is why they exist. The article talks about plugins and I would argue that that is a strong point of the IDE, I know some of the UNIX editors have pluggable architectures but a whole lot more effort is going into IDE plugins. For someone in a commercial software shop this can be a good thing, because workflow can be optimized without having to tinker with ones environment there are a lot of people working on workflow type issues in the IDE's and this efficiency is being passed on to others. The trick is finding a good IDE and everyone has their opinions, I personally like Netbeans as it has the workflow that I like and it supports all of the languages that I use. I really think there is some dogma in the anti-IDE arguments and I think it tries to unfairly biases people against good solutions. For some people the UNIX editors are right, for others IDE's are right, to call them dangerous is a little dubious in my opinion as it is rhetorical, the article makes some good arguments for using an editor, and I think it's defense should stand on those merits and not on building the perception that IDE's are a bad choice.
I can't help at being annoyed at the part where he has a group of programmers churning out 5 iPhone apps a day.
Wow, really? Can you provide a source for that claims? Maybe it's in the article but I didn't see it.
Unfortunately, the statement is incorrect. Holevo proved in 1973 that n qubits can only store n classical bits of information. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holevo%27s_theorem

The statement about performing logic on all that data in parallel is misleading, at best.
I think being on level
That's really true And you are right about over hours. Why should I work more hours and receive money only for 40 hours a week? But sometimes(I mean my case) if you like your work and project and it is intereting to you to do this job, why not to work a little more for example, because sometimes you should finish task today - for your own purpose - not to forget smth. tomorrow. But I said that only for 1-or max 2 hours a day and only sometimes, and you can use this hours if you want for example leave work in friday earlier.
Surely you recognise the irony of that statement?

Just in case someone doesn't, there are two diagnostic assertions in choro12's statement: low self-esteem, and sociopathy. This just goes to show that we as a society are dependent on psychiatric labels, even if we profess to hate them. We need them because they help us understand human behaviour. I'm not saying that this is good, and we should not try and develop an understanding of ourselves which goes beyond simple taxonomy, but that we should not be so hasty to disparage those who formalise and act on these categories, because we all do it, and we have always done so.
Journey from idea to app in 1 week
You can pretty much Know C inside of ten years of using it professionally. I swear after twenty years of using C++ I still come across things I've never seen before, the rabbit hole very deep indeed.

Now with the new C++ there's a ton of new stuff to absorb.
Davis relentless in his work, as you can see from his OS, but that also applies to his posting. He can easily drown a forum in a few hours by posting hundreds of messages, with most of his content being generated by his, very naive, random text generators.
I can tell that all you've gathered from my comments was the words "run off." Your story isn't exactly related to what we're talking about though, at all, considering the person in that story was incapacitated. Weird though, poor lady.
This guy is just missing the point of the leaks as well. Some of which is revealed in these emails about Wikileaks itself http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releases.html
Interesting data point:

I know a good guy who's a lead developer on one of MSFT's very large and visible projects.

I was stunned to learn that he uses vim - in his words, "the best development environment on earth." Very recently, he gave it up and succumbed to VS, because he found that for programming on Azure, he couldn't get by without it any more.
(http://imgur.com/DKwy4)

Works fine for me.
Why would it imply that they are more dimensions?
That kind of reminds me of when I applied to the RCMP here, they had a psychical test where you ran a course (figure eight, going over stairs, bars, etc...) six times, then had to carry weights over a certain amount of distance all within four minutes. When I applied, I looked at it and thought "piece of cake".

By the time I was done I was similar to yourself. I dont' even remember the last part of the test, just that I somehow did it and ended up in a chair with folks around me having that look that makes you wonder if someone should be dialling 911. They hook you up to a machine after the test to check your blood pressure and what not (I guess to avoid having people pass out afterwards?). I had to wait there for a 1/2 hour because the damn thing kept thinking that I had no pulse, which didn't help everyone's expressions (I was so out of it I thought it was funny)

Thankfully I passed with two seconds remaining, but the ole brain reinforced the idea that maybe doing police work just wasn't in the cards for me
This is true, but it does not mean that all unreasonable men contribute to progress. Most are wrong, and many are crazy. A few are right. Unfortunately, it's hard for us (and impossible for them) to tell the difference.
Ok, thank you.

I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory and that those could be properties of particles skewed into extra dimensions.

This is way over my math and physics skill, but it's still very fascinating.
Suse builds on Linux kernel 3.0 in major SLES upgrade
> This creates bad habits, such as relying on auto-complete. Instead of being a direct actor, we become some sort of operator of a big machine that does the work for us.

That's the point of having machines in the first place. Do you work for the machine or the machine works for you?
For anyone who's tempted to dive into my ClojureScript d3 wrapper (https://github.com/lynaghk/cljs-d3), hold up---there just might be Clojure/ClojureScript-native data visualization library open sourced at Clojure/West...
Flash to HTML5
It can certainly hurt if you worked hard to make something and no one appreciates it (or worse, are actively hostile toward it). If it happens enough, I'm sure one can develop some kind of mental illness. Especially if he already had issues with self-esteem.

Btw, it is perfectly possible to be honest, without being cruel or a jerk.
Twenity's representative is traveling to SF tomorrow. Anybody up for a drink? :)
Replace IDE with emacs and I feel the same way. Sure, it's confusing and slow when you first start, but once you customize it and get a flow going, you are a god. For a while I was against IDE's (or really anything that wasn't emacs), but that passed. Whatever helps you get done what you need to get done best is best for you.
I've only skimmed the article, but it looks like they're not actually integrating Siri so much as introducing an easy way to interface an iPhone 4S with the car.
I think I disagreed with just about every point on that post. Most of the issues the author describes can be fixed by using your brain and the tools at your disposal.

Your IDE adds metadata to your directory? SVN and git allow you to ignore files and directories.

It's not in the GUI menu so I can't do it! You're doing it wrong.

I can't pipe from my IDE to another program! What? My IDEs create files and these files and their output can be piped wherever. Maybe I'm in the minority but I've never felt the need to pipe directly from vi to anything else. I don't even know how or if that would work. I've piped the file I edited to something else before...which I can still do whether I use an IDE or not.

The whole blog post was just silly.
Ask HN: How should I respond to user feature requests?
I have an iPhone app, onsite time tracker, and I solicit user feedback. Initially I got some great suggestions, but now most of the emails I get fall into one of two categories: obvious ideas that I already plan to implement or ridiculous ideas that are either technically impossible or impractical. How should I respond to these requests?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onsite-time-tracker/id470803110?mt=8
Commercial Roofing: Why Slate is a Great Roofing Option | NJ Roofing Blog
The quote is both true and false.

A quantum computer takes advantage of quantum indeterminism. In a classical computer bit is 0 or 1. In a quantum computer, a bit can be indeterminate.

If you have multiple bits, a classical computer is in one combination. A quantum computer can be indeterminate between a set of states chosen out of the set of possible patterns. Thus 250 qubits can be indeterminate between some subset of 2^250 possible states.

The downside is that when we input the start of the computer, we start in one state. When we measure we see one state. And quantum computing has to go by the logic of quantum computing. For instance this means all logic has to be reversible. Thus there is no "if A or B then C" because if you wind up at C you can't get back to your original state.

So for practical purposes a 250 qubit computer can start with 250 bits of data, ends up with 250 bits of data, and in the middle does an unbelievably parallel computation.
I think a more realistic goal for our time is to aim at being at level 1 of ignorance (ignorance with awareness) [1].

[1] http://andrewboland.blogspot.com/2008/08/five-levels-of-igno... (just submitted on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3643445)
Is there something about Haskell-the-language that offers concurrency/parallelism benefits or is this primarily an advantage of GHC-the-implementation?
Show HN: a companion library to underscore.js - f_underscore.js
f_ is a library for wielding and welding iterator functions. It is designed to complement underscore.js' functions that employ iterator functions, like `map`, `filter`, `sortBy`, etc.

I've been using this on personal projects but just spent the weekend tidying it up and writing tests and documentation.

Documentation and sample code can be found here: http://krisjordan.github.com/f_underscore/
I have this book on the "top-tier" bookshelf just above my monitor. It's situated between "The UNIX Programming Environment" and "The AWK Programming Language" and couldn't be better company for those classics.

This book converted me to OpenBSD as it was the only OS that has many of the classic build tools mentioned.
Yes, I missed the qualifier about the psychiatrist. Sadly there are many MDs that will prescribe psychotropics when they have no training in doing so.
Ask HN: Rent a car for pycon?
I am attending pycon for the first time next week, and visiting the valley for the first time. I was going to rent a car, but thought I'd ask first. I've rented cars at some conferences and driven every day, and sometimes it sits parked at the hotel the whole time. Any thoughts on whether having a car at pycon is worthwhile, or is there plenty of public transportation and ride-sharing available to see a few parts of the valley?
Yahoo claims Facebook infringed its social networking patents
Chevy Volt battery life fail? Or Fox News fail? Somebody has the math wrong
I think you're actually booting both your computer and the Cotton Candy from their internal storage, then using something like VNC on your computer to access Cotton Candy.
3 Types of Wholesale Clothing That Should Be Hanging in Your Closet
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The manufacturer's product page: http://www.fxitech.com/products/
The End of Faith, Sam Harris.
The Growth of the Cloud (Infographic)
Holy jesus crap! I am incredibly impressed. I'm also very interested in seeing any blog posts etc on how this app was developed. Usually large apps like these have creative ways of organizing code and building architecture.

I'm curious, what are the functionalities of photoshop that are giving you the most trouble reproducing in HTML5? Obviously HTML5 is not powerful enough, but it can do the basics. For instance, your spray tool is a clever hack, but it doesn't give nearly the same power as photoshop. I'd also consider using things like gaussian distributed sprays, which shouldn't be difficult.

Great job and I think many of us here would be interested to know the details.
Necessary. Here's the pathetic voice assistant they used to use on the S-Class : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bateVoomrTY
Why Switching to Classical Music is like Switching From Windows to Linux
It does exist:

The Redditor:

http://www.reddit.com/r/theredditor

I think they're digital only at the moment, though.
Different types of variables in Java
Does this mean the Benz's in-car computer will run OS X?
you get a bad deal when you negotiate without leverage.
Most of my experience here has been in Indonesia and Malaysia.
This interview is from November 2011; ClojureScript tooling has improved since then.

Evan Mezeske's lein cljsbuild plugin (https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild) is a great place to start.
My best guess is that it is using the Siri keyboard speed-to-text feature and the app just does its own interpretation on the text?
The really interesting day from a privacy perspective is the one when you can search and the algorithm will be advanced enough to do even partial face matches or even non-face matching identification.

There are quite a lot of people who upload photos of themselves to places like /r/gonewild (or send such pseudo-anon photos of themselves through unsecure MMS or email networks) that they think are non-recognizable because they only show the bottom 20% of their face or whatever.

IMO it won't be that long until you can plug in a photo of someone and get matches with fairly high degrees of confidence that don't even show the entire face (maybe none of the face at all, if the photos are high enough resolution and the technology gets advanced enough to do real 3D mapping it could be based solely off of small moles or other skin markings on eg. the neck).
And on nearly a weekly basis I encounter other programmers who say, "pssssh, I could do that in a weekend."

Hehe, I guess some of those also ask: "Why can't you just parse the HTML with a regex?" ;-)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
WebSQL apologists?

Could you point me to such a simple JavaScript library? When IndexedDB was anointed that was the argument -- that the benefits of WebSQL could simply be layered atop. So where is it?
Where did that number came from? I think that such a percentage is exactly the same for pro-authoritarian people. Should they get authority for themselves they became anti-social in an instant.

And I think that really this percent is not 99%, not even 50%, closer to the single digits really. It's just that these anti-socials impact pro-social people much more that other pro-socials.

PS: pro-social is just an opposite for anti-social. Nothing complicated.
If there are no cost of overtime, I think the company lack a feedback on how well planning, estimation and execution do.

With no feedback there are less reason to change the company for the better.
I believe most of his "quotes" are markov chain output (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain) or somehow otherwise automatically generated. It seems he thinks randomness provides a communication channel, something like if he generates messages while incorporating randomness then god can influence the output and encode messages for him.

That's just the impression I have gotten though.
Can you file bugs, or email me testcases at <my username>@mozilla.com? We definitely want to get this stuff right :-)
My experience with HIIT has been jogging/running outdoors. It works fantastic until you injure yourself - and you injure yourself pretty quickly if you don't flat-out sprint that often.

Do they have a 'HIIT mode' on exercise equipment yet? Attempting to do the intervals on stationary bikes or treadmills while mashing the down button after a sprint is difficult.
Learn by copy
Also, when people do find effective treatment there is a tendency to feel they are healthy, and cease treatment. This results in an endless cycle of being symptomatic and not getting help, getting help and managing mental health issues, and letting go of the help that is making someone healthy.
IBM makes significant breakthrough towards scalable quantum computers
The problems listed in the linked page have little to nothing to do with localstorage, but rather are implementation problems. Localstorage is scoped, so if an implementation is blocked on irrelevant meebo data, the implementer needs to fault themselves.
One of the biggest pluses of an IDE is the contextual access to the API. This helps a lot when learning a new language/framework.

I haven't used many IDEs lately by when I was learning Java, netbeans was my best friend.

Aside from that, maybe the easy access to debugging. Although tests have made debugging less necessary for me.
A quick Google search confirms your claim, at least for his new blog on The Daily Beast: https://www.google.com/search?q=stratfor+site:andrewsullivan...
I don't think Siri will take orders from you and give them to a Nevada self-driving car - at least not for a very long time. I think Google's voice software will much more likely be the one taking and giving the orders if we're talking about the domain of self-driving cars.

But yes. I can't wait :D
10 Must Have Tools for Developing Smart, Beautiful Websites (slides)
I generally disagree with the author: good IDEs (and, by good, I mean IntelliJ) are a huge productivity win, and are the principle justification for static typing in a language.

However I think that the author is absolutely right about two points:

* IDEs should integrated more tightly with the environment they are in, like VIM. The One-Tool-To-Rule-Them-All thinking ends up handicapping IDEs: something that would be simple to do via some other tool becomes a copy-paste-exec-copy-paste exercise in frustration.

* IDEs are generally too heavyweight. IntelliJ, the best IDE in the history of all possible universes, grinds like hell opening up a significant project the first time, building up the caches that allow its refactoring and lightening fast find-usages to work. And it demands a project file/project dir. It's bad enough that I end up using TextMate (which I hate) simply because it gives me a browsable tree on the side and decent syntax highlighting whenever I just want to look around in a project.

I think there is a middle ground here: an IDE that is designed with an 80/20 mindset: no caches, no project files, no state, instant open. Offer code completion (which shouldn't require a disk cache, just a parse), jump to definition (same) and then offer a find-usages that is really a grep-then-parse. Not as fast as IntelliJ, but still better than just a grep. And, addressing the first point above, very tight integration with the command line.

I think that's going to be my 40's project.
Vimbits: share snippets of your .vimrc
Rich people that have never been poor can be, but not all of them.

I have a relation who was incredibly right-wing until the crisis hit him and his family real hard - financially speaking.

He wasn't bitter about it, most of the bad things happened because he was rich enough to be lazy about taking care of the important stuff - until it mattered, but of course that was too late. But he came to realise that Banks and the like are very friendly when you have money, and eager to kick you when your down, if you don't have money.
but Mother Jones isn't about to acknowledge that it's better that 4000 marginal workers have jobs than not.

I don't think that's the issue. Whould the cost lowering productivity or making for better social conditions be so high for companies that already make so much profit? And if yes does it have to come from public pressure or enacted laws? Can't a company establish acceptable social practices by itself.

I don't care if my stuff comes in a day later if it can ease up the horror of people working there. There is something to be done in connecting people using the service with the ones making it possible and at what cost. This is just nuts
$199? No way. At $75-100, I would think about it.
Thanks for the info on The Faith Instinct. I knew I couldn't have been the first to suggest this idea.

Another idea I might add to my original thought would be people's fear of change. I would guess that goes back to before the days of agriculture, where you had to move with your food source. Any change could be dire to you tribe's survival. Change in food source means learning new land, hunting techniques, poisonous plants, etc.

So I think that anyone challenging authority is also challenging the status quo and is seen as one that wants to bring about change. The primitive (lizard) brain cares about two things: survival and reproduction. Change threatened survival in the past, and that fear is still with us, causing us to condemn the changers. People who are in a position to prevent social change (like, say, a psychologist) will do anything in their power to feed that fear of change because they like the way things are. "Things right now are the way they are supposed to be," their lizard brain tells them. And so they close the minds of individuals who might have otherwise had a great impact on society.

What gets me is how people never learn. Socrates was condemned and executed for questioning religious and governmental authority. Soon after the Greeks regretted it and erected statues in his honor, yet that same mistake of casting out the independent minds is made every generation. Sad, really.
I can't decide if this is one of the best things I've read/seen lately or if I think this person should spend his hours on something more useful.

edit: does anyone else think he should throw it on Kickstarter and see how far he can push this?