skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Thanks for the post.

I really enjoy scifi books that focus on how technology can integrate and augment the human body. Though these books often talk of brain implants and genetic modification, the path to that destination (if we do achieve it) will almost certainly start with non-invasive versions.

I think that smartphones with ubiquitous internet and gps were the first big step in this direction. Some of the next steps will be discrete/invisible headphones that we can always be wearing, glasses/contact lenses with a display, and (hopefully) some sort of easy input method that doesn't require talking out loud or looking at a screen. Combine this with the ability to record and search our entire lives (if we so choose) in addition to the internet and we're 90% there with easily foreseeable technology.
Since everyone on HN uses an Ad Blocker anyway, I'd recommend the Free + Spyware business model instead.
If this way of publication can't keep up with reality anymore, then I'm afraid it's not a viable business model, and should be scrapped, not kept on life-support with increasingly ridiculous monopoly laws which ultimately harm humanity as a whole.
I hit it from one of our EC2 boxen and got this: https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/8q5k9/skitched-20120401-14...

And oddly, got the Jersey comic from my Dallas-based Linode https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/8q5m2/xkcd-umwelt-chromium
> I highly recommend a visit to the Museum of Flight in Seattle where you can see a real SR-71 Blackbird

There's also one at the Pima Air and Space museum, near Tucson, AZ. Considering that and a minuteman silo are the only things worth seeing within 100 miles of Tucson (kidding, but not by much, the "Landmarks of Tucson" article on wikipedia is 10 entries long, with 3 entries actually in Tucson), I'd recommend keeping it for when you need to go to this hellhole, and doing more interesting things in or around Seattle.
Edit: Title asks for downsides (but it seems like tue kind of title that might be changed)

Disclaimer: I really like Julia, and loving it for some numerical stuff right now. That said...

Potential downsides:

- Very new, standard libs are still in flux

- Matlab-like syntax, which I have mixed feelings on

- Clustered parallelism uses ssh for transport, which I find slow (vs MPI)

- 1-based array indices (for Matlab and Fortran familiarity)
I'm actually especially interested in taking the [web server](https://github.com/chzyer/JuliaWebServer) and building out a lean-and-mean MVC framework.

Though it's designed as a scientific language, their goals of having C-like speed and yet Ruby-like beauty make it the perfect target for such a project.

Anyone else interested in trying it out with me?
I'm surprised the aerodynamics work at scale and slow speed. Very nice work! (Incidentally, I'm always amazed at the eyesight these guys seem to have, I'd have no idea which way it was pointed)
Or when they created it. The first manned flight was in 1903. In less than sixty years we had this plane. That's unbelievable.
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Thank you! This is the point I was trying to make in the article. I don't think I articulated it all that well. The technology exists, it's just branded incorrectly.

I regret that I only have one upvote to give.
You can keep playing after you finish. It seems to get much harder around level 80, with multiple orange dudes, and you end up losing multiple lives a level unless you've strategically placed your orange and purple turrets.

(I finished the game with 91 life remaining - I screwed up a little when the first new path was added, didn't expect it and didn't have enough money banked to build adequate defenses - but didn't lose a life between around level 10 and level 80. Then I started losing about 5-10 lives each level at 80...probably would've died at about 90, but I saw the writing on the wall and gave up.)
How the Retina Display Gave an Android User iPad Envy
Online community experiments with making all users Pokémon
Either you don't really have a Mac or you've been plugging your hard drives to the video out.

FireWire has had a grand total of two different plugs.
Ask HN: Who is using Functional Programming in Production?
Looking through the last couple of Who is hiring threads, I've noticed most of the software stacks seem to revolve around a "web friendly" language such as Java, Python, or Ruby, a RDBMS, and extensive Javascript--with the occasional NoSQL or Scala mention to round out the pack.

Besides a couple of "big names" like Ericsson using Erlang and Jane Street heavily using OCaml, I haven't seen many places advertising their stack as being based on a functional programming language. Hence, I was wondering if FP is gaining ground in production environments, and if so, who is using it.
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How does Elegantizr work?
The source is really small ( http://code.google.com/p/elegantizr/source/browse/trunk/elegantizr.css ) and I can't figure out how it works.
Why the Key to Apple's Future Is in the Clouds
This is very true. And any language to language transfomation is going to have some impedance mismatch. Nonetheless, it does not follow that since JVM was built specifically for Java, the impedance mismatch of Lisp -> JVM would result in a less expressive lisp than Lisp -> C or Lisp to x86. There are many variants of lisps and clojure is not specially disadvantaged due to targeting the JVM.
This comment is funnier than the original post. You should write it up as a bug report. Quick, there's still time!
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My standing question for the last several years has been "if we know absolutely everything about absolutely everyone, will some taboos disappear?" Depression is vastly more common than some people think, and if we're going to lose all privacy it'd be nice if we understood each other a little better.
Are you familiar with Pow? http://pow.cx/

It also happens to be written in JavaScript
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Total linkbait title, real story clears it up a bit:

"Hester was using Facebook . . . She jokingly posted a picture of a co-worker’s pants around her ankles and a pair of shoes, with the caption “Thinking of you.”"

I would be concerned too as a parent if a teacher's aid did that, and really if you have so little self-awareness that a public FB posting like that could get you in trouble you don't deserve to be employed around my kids.
Richard Branson is going to the center of the Earth.
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They made a choice, why should he be trying to shield them from the consequences of their choice?
How clever can people get with a set of API's, do something questionable and/or scary, and not get publicized? That's what scares me. So many open API's out there and clever people will keep their mash-ups confined to a closed circle audience. Makes me wonder when companies that offer open API's will be more discerning.
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What's the difference between URL and URI?
It's one of my big fears too. I've had friends who had to go through physical therapy due to RSI issues from programming.

Some simple precautions can help. First, take breaks. :) Stand up, stretch, don't work "tense". When I get in the zone I will just hunch over for hours. That's bad. Other than that, I found that I just have to use an external keyboard and mouse and then I'm basically fine. Typing for a long period of time on a laptop keyboard causes me problems.

The other thing that helps is sitting at a proper desk. If I try to work from the couch, I will feel it the next day (but mostly back issues). Move to a proper desk for doing real work...
MDCC: Multi-Data Center Consistency
not to mention that if I can get "hearing aids" made for music but still looking like hearing aids I can look confused and yell "HUH!?" every time someone I don't want to talk to says something to me.
Playmobil Apple Store Playset shows Steve Jobs presenting
IANAL, but it seems as though an employer asking for a site password (consenting to which would cause you to violate the site's ToS) would be at a minimum guilty of tortious interference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
I might be biased because I recently spent a couple days wrestling with it, but I think the Turkish case is more interesting. There are two vowels that use the letter I forms:

İ/i and I/ı

So the lowercase and uppercase are essentially split into two letters and then a new uppercase and lowercase form is created based on growing or shrinking the originals. I'm sure it seemed quite the elegant solution in the 1920s when they were working on the latinized Turkish alphabet.

The implication of this is that unlike the Dutch case, this affects all text-transform actions (uppercase, lowercase, and capitalize).

When we were doing our Turkish localized site I started digging into this, and I was horrified that no browser actually supports proper Turkish capitalization rules. Firefox in particular had a bug open since 2004 (now finally fixed as well). Asking around with Turkish web developers I heard of some crazy hacks (custom fonts!), but I got the feeling that Turkish web designers just avoid text-transform. This was not an option for us as we rely heavily on text-transform in our design (http://tr.mubi.com).

In the end I was able to piece together a surprisingly robust javascript replacement method with some help from Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/8743095/8376
I don't think the point is audio quality. Hearing aids do more than just have good audio quality; they serve multiple purposes, like connecting to phones or TVs. Presumably, one could build vastly better headphones by making them easily connect to whatever device you want, wirelessly.

For example, many gyms have TVs playing, and have a small FM radio station so you can tune into the audio with your MP3 player. Perhaps wireless headphones could support this seamlessly. Or your headphones could pick up an audio track played at a national park or tourist attraction, giving an audio tour.

We can do all these things currently, but they require hacks. Perhaps headphones could support them natively instead.
A few more links that helped me understand the difference (the ajaxian explanation is very good):

http://ajaxian.com/archives/uri-vs-url-whats-the-difference

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4913343/what-is-the-diffe...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176264/whats-the-differen...
You don't know what the picture actually looks like and also why would you even be looking at a teacher's aide's facebook? Don't these parents have better things to do and complain about. Waste of time.
Man, why doesn't everything target Fortran?
A list for a programmer and a list for a computer scientist would look quite different.
I'd be curious to hear what some of his "firing practices" were, if you wouldn't mind sharing.
You seem reticent to get into details, perhaps not to add fuel to the fire - but these were practices he spoke publicly and proudly about, on the record, if I understand you correctly - and I'm curious just how people like him tick (if only so I can learn to avoid them).
I only partially agree. Overblown stories like this can also cause the issues in question to be taken less seriously, because the stories are inaccurate and, well, overblown.

For instance, the author complains: "But did any of those apps get shut down by a barrage of vitriol from concerned citizens? Did young women stop checking in and sharing their location with anyone with a 3G connection? Hardly."

But the fact is, creepy apps like this are shut down all the time, including the Girls Around Me app referenced in the article. Already gone.

I also think it's hilarious to see any kind of threat in an app which supposedly tells you the age and gender of people you are in a bar with, using face recognition. Um, I can usually tell the age and gender of people I am looking at by, uh, LOOKING AT THEM. So I fail to see the heinous threat here.
There's one big problem with continuing to make headphones smaller- until we can connect directly to the nervous system, the smaller the 'phone, the harder it will be to maintain audio quality. (At least using traditional audio reproduction methods)

The only thing that crops to mind other than nerve stimulation would be mounting a driver on your eardrum. Think of how a piezoelectric transducer works, and replace the discs with your eardrum.
Aren't there plenty of very good headphones out there already? Just look at an Audiophile forum (and they won't be recommending Beats. That's just marketing/hype/stupidity).
Google does a barrel roll
Existing hearing aids have directional microphones, can distinguish between talking and background noise

Not very well - they can perform well enough to make speech intelligible (and it doesn't take much, human hearing is geared toward recognizing patterns) but the quality is fairly low. That's fine for hearing aids, because low-quality intelligibility is better than no intelligibility, but the technology is nowhere near ready for the quality that consumers with normal hearing would expect.

This might make a decent research project for the MIT Media Lab or Fraunhofer Institute, but it's an idea that's a long way from being ready for primetime.
Building a Minecraft city: A collaborative timelapse
I still think Whitespace is one of the most practical languages around, comments are free:
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
Me too! It's like Mah Jong meets Dr Mario. My only qualm is that it's a little too easy to master - but that could be easily changed.
A projector.
If you have enough power, almost anything will fly.

$100 (US foam kit, order electronics etc., straight from HobbyKing in Hong Kong) or so and few evenings work and you can make something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPATzx-Nx-4

Just google for 3D foamies, I have one and it's enormous fun. Can be flown like a regular r/c aircraft also, not just for stunts, and they will carry keyring cameras easily, just tape it on.
I've found The Little Schemer[1] to be very approachable and effective for grokking common CS concepts.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Schemer-4th-Edition/dp/0262...
I recall President Laporte doing an interview at CES with a company producing headphones that already perform this functionality, and then some. I can't recall the name at the moment (CES was basically 85% headphones, too many to recall), but I know the TWiT CES coverage is up on the YouTubes for anyone less lazy than I.
I love it. It wakes up parts of my brain that'll soon lay dormant until awaken next April.
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"Programmer Competency Matrix" is also a great resource: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...
Haven't politicians, leaders, and many others in positions of authority been doing this for millennia? People have been studying this (rhetoric) since ancient Greece.
He's going to fit in very well at Zynga.
> Having the application's functionality split across two completely separate menus does not constitute a usability improvement.

That's putting it mildly. A split menu may be correct from some design point of view (e.g DRY principle) but from a usability point of view, it's recipe for frustration.

On a more general note, does no one else consider Mac-style "alt-tab switches apps" and "global menu" usability mistakes? (on grounds of being modal)

With both Unity and Gnome adopting these, I no longer have a compelling reason to switch from Mac back to Linux.

Which is a pity really, because Gnome 3 is one of the prettiest and most usable desktops I've seen: I love how the windows key gives you access to the dock, all windows, workspaces and search at the same time.
I wonder if the author also refuses to go to bars, because there have been people beaten at or abducted from them, or drive a car, because there have been cases of road rage, or avoid churches because they have been boarded and burned, or schools because there have been shootings, or...

People shouldn't base their lives and decisions around imagined scenarios that involve sociopaths. This is just more shoddy, fear-based 'journalism' piggy-backing on a scare wave. It does nothing to improve people's understanding of their privacy settings and options, and does everything to exploit a trend for more page views.
Perhaps headphones could support them natively instead.

You're basically talking about expanding the use of telecoil technology.
GNOME 3.4 doesn't eliminate all title bars; it just introduces the ability for applications to specifically mark themselves as not needing a title bar when maximized. Specific GNOME applications do so when they have appropriate levels of integration and UI such that the title bar really does become fully redundant.
Some code I wrote for Apple II computers failed on //c and later //e machines because the 65c02 they employed turned all undocumented opcodes into NOPs.

I think I still have the annotated listings somewhere.
Show HN: Search engine for web apps
I disagree. In a single breath the author has:

- accused people who use check-in services as "narcissistic"

- cynically insinuated that said users (stereotyped into "social media-happy women") are too stupid/apathetic and will continue to "hit the snooze button" on privacy concerns

Author also doesn't seem to realize that both Facebook and Foursquare allow you to limit checkins to only your friends/family, exactly as she sees fit.

To people who aren't using check-in services, this article says nothing that they're concerned with. To people who already are, the author's hostile and accusatory attitude will convert no one. To take an oft-used redditism - this is circlejerk for people who are already opposed to the whole concept of check-in services.
Today I learned to remove the battery from any wireless device _immediately_ after stealing it :P
Or Apple's Airplay
Android 4.0.4 leaked for Nexus S 4G, lets Sprint users join ICS party
Zeroturnaround releases new JVM language: Frostbite
This whole "Girls Around Me" thing has been blow way out of proportion. Every site seems to imply that this is the go to app for rapists. However, to play devils advocate, I would argue that you are actually SAFER with this app than without.
There are three scenarios that can play out:

1. Someone opens up this app, looks for girls nearby and pics one from this app. In this case it would stupid for the rapist to go for the girl because her whereabouts are known so the police would know the area where she was abducted and therefore it would be easier to identify the rapist/murderer as they can check nearby security cameras and know where to look around.
The conclusion would be that if the rapist/murderer/whatever was following logic he would avoid people listed in this app.

This leads us to the second possible scenario:

The rapist/murderer does not follow any logic and just commits his crime based on primitive instincts (ever heard of rapists who have intercourse with sheep and kettle?)
In that case you loose any way because that person strikes at random and thus the chances are not increased because you checked in somewhere.

and then there is the final and third scenario:

Someone is trying to murder or rape YOU specifically after picking you out from this app. But lets be reasonable the chances of that happening are ABYSMAL because guess what most people don't want to rape you.

Also relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oww4Ap3YZA