skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this - but I'd say the technologies that came later (aka flash) were actually a step backwards.
Neanderthals? Yes with them our cousins there is the possibility of interbreeding having occurred, but most likely is that as a species as a whole they went extinct from competition. If even with our similarities and closeness there was enough competition to drive them extinct, I can hardly imagine any (land) species could have been thriving in coexistence with us.
I can't be the only one that was confused by the name Last.fm when I discovered it. I thought it was about FM radio.
Bah... Hackernews is mainly about web apps and mobile apps. Sadly.
The kind of programming language that stops you learning new programming languages will condemn you to being a tool.

The eduation you undertake to be truly independent is one you take part in every day for the rest of your life.
Not sure what you're talking about.

My father drives a Honda Civic GX (the only car factory built to run on CNG available to the general public).

The car gets slightly more mileage on a tank of CNG than a similar car gets on a tank of petrol (although this is a difficult comparison to make due to the differences in fuel, storage, tank size, etc.).

Point is, it goes just as far and it's much cheaper.

I don't understand your argument that these vehicles are somehow less efficient than their counterparts.
Site:economist.com "little wonder"
> Lack of SSD surprises me, one would think Gary Newman (creator of Garry's Mod) had need.

I don't know if a quality SSD would play well with the size of modern games.
Perhaps I have this backwards, but these "why I left Company X: they suck" articles just remind me of people who leave games in a huff and a puff and a flurry of forum drama.
..."nimble"? That's pronounced... nimble? What?
Because we aren't looking close enough yet. Reverse the question, an alien 200 light years from Earth, using technology at our current state-of-the art would likely not see any life on Earth either.
I was under the impression that Iran has a pretty decent higher education system. And that it includes female students as well - with a noticably high percentage of female students in fields that are male-dominated in the west, like computer science.

No idea how they are doing in mechanical/aeronautical engineering though.
potential fraud (without giving any reason to suspect the transaction) some how has a greater net effect of holding on to something like 1000's of transactions worth of money for 21 days. I call bullshit. "randomly" (as there is no evidence as of yet that suggests they target them for any other reason) picking transactions to hold as some way to prevent (???, nah, no sense made there either) the potential threat of fraud is retarded. Is fraud prevented? maybe. Is commerce prevented? definitely. Does Paypal make money off of this policy? Yes, and a great deal of it at that.

Ultimately it just goes back to the age old internet saying of "Fuck paypal, everyone else, their mother, and that shady guy over there are all more transparent with transactions then the aforementioned crooked lot"
C is a strict and beautiful. Pascal is "Here you have your ugly break; because you too weak to live without it".
well, does not seem too different from other big companies i met over the years. but blaming "the system" is just the easy way out. it is your job to be productive in an environment, if you can't, leave, better sooner than later - you are just becoming part of overhead you are complaining about.
There are still custom, thematic stack exchanges.
> and suffered many reverses.

I think this is a crucial point. If all of humanity had been wiped out in a famine in Africa fifty thousand years ago, there wouldn't be anyone sitting around today wondering, "Why is it there aren't any civilizations?"

And there were probably millenia that went by when the odds of that happening dwarfed the possibility that we might survive long enough to develop a writing system.
The problem is, you can't do any real work in Pascal without resorting to the same unsafe constructs.
Delphi is a kind of useful Pascal and it totally does have those.
New Study Finds No Evidence for Dark Matter in the Milky Way
When I said lottery I was referring to a fair draw. You cannot beat the math.
It took me fully 5 minutes to figure out where the "create a filter" option was since I couldn't figure out the magical combination of what to select when to make it appear.

Very annoyed.
Samsung GS3 specs are contantly getting "leaked".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3...
I can't know for sure that it is intended because of this, but it is a good default for linux because of the way copy & paste works. Not to select the whole link enables you to copy something by selecting it, change the url, go to that page and insert the prior copied text with the middle mouse button. The windows-setting is wrong in that context, disabling that workflow, even though it's inconsistent between platforms. Sometimes that's a good thing.
I guess the question is then: why are we the only ones with language?
"you need to spend probably some days thinking about and prototyping it"

I would _guess_ that "thinking about it and researching it" will be time better spent. Inventing the wheel often is a lot of fun, but it also can be a waste of time. I do not know the literature, but it would not really surprise me to learn that there is some cheap knowledge to mine from it.
The odds that we all evolved to that point of technology at the same time is tiny. It's far more likely that there are many civilizations in advance of us and far enough away that we'd detect something. Unless they already went quiet (deliberately or through extinction).
And the problem with those designs is that they constantly evolve to become worse UX-wise. The web is very much gullible to fashion change and, unlike fashion in clothes, there seems to be no safe middle ground (like denim, for example) that would always be relatively the same and never out of fashion.

And the low-contrast-looks-beautiful fashion is just plain crazy. Whenever I happen to visit a pretentiously designed web site, I cringe in anticipation of hard to read text and my browser getting jerky when trying to scroll.
Because they are hiding the evidence. They don't want us to find them. I don't blame them.
The other side of that is that tech companies based outside the NYC/SV/Seattle area don't get funded at NYC/SV/Seattle-style valuations. (likely because those cities are where the tech company investors are). And to start a tech company, you do need your company to be based where your developers are.
> while it may seem that live evaluating a compiled language like C is far off, I believe that given the motivation someone will find a way

I wonder how close Cling[1] is to this ideal.

[1] http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/what-cling
Most mid-high level gamers use SSDs already, myself included, yes you cannot store TBs of games but why do that when you have Steam.
While GS2 is great phone many US versions lack next gen features like NFC. Also display for all versions of GS2 is HDPI . With Galaxy Nexus and HTC One x XHDPI (Extra high Density) displays are gaining traction.Therefore GS3 is coming a right moment. Get all the great features of phones launched in last 1 year (which is a big duration in android world) plus set new benchmarks for future phones.
Tetris on the MIT Green Building
TNW, and a few other blogs, support navigation by keypress. (left/right = new article)
I doubt it was done on purpose. I think it's what minifying does to your CSS files.
What colleges have startup mentality?
I'm a junior in high school, looking at colleges. I know Stanford would be #1 in startup mentality, but I'm looking for some more. I'd rather look at a list of colleges with top startup mentality than the USNews College rankings.

Note: By startup mentality, I mean colleges where the school and a decent amount of the student body is accepting of the entrepreneurial mindset and fosters the Silicon Valley culture (even if it isn't in Silicon Valley).
One argument I like is that alien civilizations are going to be either extremely more advanced than us, or extremely less advanced.

Human intelligence is only 5k years old, on a 4.5BB year old planet in a 14BB year old universe. Yet, our level of technological advancement means if FTL travel or communication is possible, we'll probably discover it in the next couple of hundred years, and we would probably get rid of the inferior EM waves as a medium.

How long would the average civilization be detectable by our current means under these conditions? Makes a needle in the haystack seem simple.
There's different kinds of consistency though. Make everything use the same palette? That's a kind of consistency.

Make everything use the same interaction design? That's a kind of consistency.

Years ago I had to use a piece of visualization software that was designed around consistency in the interaction model for the software. It sounded nice, but what it meant was that where there was intersection in the interaction models between visualizations it worked well, but where there were differences they either chose to just not implement that function, or bury it in some menu somewhere.

It was infuriating to know that a particular kind of visualization should offer a certain feature (like finding the average on an axis of a scatter plot), but because some other completely different visualization (a semantic graph) didn't have such a concept they just simply left it out.
Or because they plugged themselves into virtual realities that are more attractive to hang out in than physical reality.
Did you notice the bottom 3 rules? Maybe I should resubmit and change the title...
I think this article is both a bit too general and a bit too specific. It's too general in tying together all forms of online communication (text messages, e-mail, social networks), and too specific in focusing on the concept of "conversation".

IMO, the main point is this: "Texting and e-mail and posting let us present the self we want to be. This means we can edit. And if we wish to, we can delete. Or retouch: the voice, the flesh, the face, the body. Not too much, not too little — just right. Human relationships are rich; they’re messy and demanding. We have learned the habit of cleaning them up with technology." A better discussion of this issue can be found in this recent Atlantic article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/is-faceb...

That article expands on the point mentioned in the quote: the fact that people invest a lot of time in polishing their online persona, which is separate from their real-life persona. Because the two are separate we may come to like one more than the other, or choose to identify ourselves more with our online persona because it's easier to control and perfect.

And this has a converse effect. Other people polish their online personas as well, and this may (and does) cause depression (because our lives are not that perfect), which, in turn, makes us perfect our online personas further, continuing the cycle.
With all this renewable electricity, who needs yet another polluting fossil fuel energy source (the extraction of which, incidentally, will trash all of our aquifers)?
The longest anyone can bear Earth's quietest place is 45 minutes
I agree. Using these variable just places stumbling blocks in the way of understanding. http://imprompt.us/2007/foo/
There were other species with language (Neanderthals, other proto-humans). Some of these species coexisted, and there is some evidence that they fought one another, and maybe killed each other off.
Biwi Kisi Ki Aur Bacha Mera
Siri Learning Italian?
Isn't this occasional problem worth having in return for better search results? How often you copy the link URL instead of checking what's on the other side?
I seem to recall that's about the size you have to shrink it to to get it to collaps into a black hole.
Even if you assume those correlations are 100% accurate, you still have to remember that it's all averages. If I could know that by smoking I'd die five years earlier than otherwise, I'd absolutely keep doing it for the rest of my life. But the chances of cigarettes causing my death exactly five years before I would otherwise have died are very slim, who knows they might give me cancer when I'm 40. Or 90.

I know the above is pretty much common sense, but it just always annoys me whenever the topic of "dying an average of X years sooner" comes up.
Mozilla Firefox 12 released, no longer in Beta
I can put all my LoseThos files on a bootable CD-ROM. It takes 5 minutes at most. For $0.25 every day you could transfer and as a bonus have a backup history you need anyway.
A tethered/free flight revolution
Acquiring Instagram, Facebook increases its potential attractiveness in the photos online domain that has shown interest since the beginning of 2011, when its first offers were rejected.

At the time Instagram had only 5 employees and more than seven million users, but shortly after he entered the service on a remarkable upward curve, which allowed this year to negotiate the sale of a privileged position.
Page 29 of Levy's GooglePlex...
"The minimalism is that we didn't have a webmaster and had to do it ourselves" - Larry Page
Because a huge hard drive is presumably cheaper than the Garry Newman time spent deciding to remove games instead of working on fun projects.

It's the same reason I simply archive every email instead of deciding what to keep and what to trash.
Or maybe they don't need virtual realities anymore because they can reshape their world anyway they want through nanotechnology.

At that point I doubt it would be too hard for them to hide from us, anyway. They could cover their planet in a shield that makes it look and act like a non-planet to us ( whatever that would be).
... asking users to “verify” their account after transferring $10,000 over the company’s network. One can get “verified” by either handing over bank account information or signing up for a PayPal-affiliated credit.

PayPal has long described this as a “risk-prevention technique,” but that makes little sense, because even customers with perfect track records must comply

Makes perfect sense to me. If having a perfect track record on your first $10k of transactions was enough to let you bypass the verification process, they'd see lots of criminals running $10k of shell transactions -- just like eBay scammers run up lots of perfect-feedback small purchases to create a good rating for themselves.
No idea about life expectancy, but chances are your posture will be terrible and it won't do your back any good, which can definitely come back to bite you later on.
Natural gas can be converted to a diesel-compatible liquid, which is much more compatible with our existing auto fuel transport and retail infrastructure. We'd just need to get the motoring public to be more accepting of diesel engines.x
I don't care so much about self-posting (I do it all the time), but it was a little bit of a shill (and I'm guilty of that too, so I can't be too critical). I think the overall article was amusing and made sense... I see no problem with it (other that the plug at the end which wasn't a big deal IMHO).
I can't speak for other schools, but the University of Maryland is working hard to become a "startup school." A few examples:

At least five professors in our electrical engineering department have companies.

The business school has successful entrepreneurs that can meet with students (in any major) trying to start companies.

There's a whole institute at the university called MTECH which has successful entrepreneurs and investors who help startups get off the ground. They have office hours once a month so if you impress them they can help introduce you to the right people.
Someone might be really good at managing networks or keeping a site going under heavy load, but they might not be good at programming. Are they non-technical? On the same front, someone who is good at coding, may not be the best person in the world for keeping a Web app under heavy load and managing traffic from around the world. Someone with an information systems engineering degree, for instance, may know how to code, but not that well, and still have an extensive technical background.

If you want to know if someone can program, ask them if they can program, and then ask them to what extent, what kind of programing they do, etc.
Windows 8 Store: with 99 Metro Apps, is it Behind Schedule?
Samsung Galaxy Nexus tease
Looks like Samsung will be making some announcement on the Galaxy Nexus 3 tomorrow. No idea why the url is scrambled (spells out The Next Galaxy) - is that a clue?
Probably because we could breed much faster than the others, and the others either went extinct on their own by being too isolated from us (and no interspecies breeding) or because we killed the last survivors, or both.
Maybe we're galatic lottery winners wondering why no ones else has won the lottery? Our existence is a survivorship bias.

Also, take into account the possibility that other intelligent life might be more biological than technological (e.g. interconnected intelligence without technology like in Avatar).

Then factor in that intelligent life might be microscopic or just tiny.

It's really not hard to imagine that the search for alien life is a problem of asking a question for a rare/over-specified solution.
In the case of a fitness app, I could easily imagine it meaning 'my background is in human physiology and nutrition'.
I'm continually impressed by the reliability and quality of Samsung products. I apologize if that sounds like shameless astroturfing, but it ain't, and I am.
For what it's worth, I got to play with the app a lot this weekend. It exists and is going to be pretty awesome.
Replace "Microsoft" with $LARGE_COMPANY and most of the article still makes sense.
Criticism takes more space and attention than good things. When you like something, you just do. Maybe there are a couple of things that you really really like and you can write about them.

On the other hand things that don't work as you expect have some story to it - why don't you like them, what else did you expect, who does it properly, how is it affecting your workflow, how much you dislike that problem. I expect things like that to affect most reviews...
Ubuntu's Unity: the dark side of simplicity
In which the author explores how the unchecked desire for simplicity can lead to questionable design choices, with Ubuntu as a case study.
That would be amazing. I'd imagine it would be something like the difference between transatlantic travel by sailboat and today's jets.
US develops the "pain ray" what's next "death ray"?
Sorry, but grey on grey is unreadable.

I could install custom style sheets. But now I choose to ignore unreadable pages.

Perhaps other people are also ignoring what you have to say, but not letting you know?
> ...alien civilizations are going to be either extremely more advanced than us, or extremely less advanced.

Succinctly illustrated in http://xkcd.com/638/
As a smoker, looking at myself shows that cigarettes cause 0% chance of death in a sample of 1 - you wouldn't neccesarily expect your 1000 person sample to show results as accurate as a much bigger sample size (222,497).

But more importantly - this research was done on people over the age of 45, your 1000 people were aged 5-24. Using your age range I imagine we could prove that smoking 60 a day and eating McDonalds for every meal isn't particularly dangerous.
The Digital Audio Workstaton and the End of Time
The North Bay doesn't really count. You've got, what, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, and a few bedroom communities -- barely any tech at all. The Oakland/Berkeley/Emeryville area alone probably has more jobs than the entire North Bay, and that's not counting San Francisco or other Peninsula jobs.

You need to be either on Bart somewhere or on Caltrain somewhere. Then you'll have tons of options -- in San Francisco, or in the 'burbs/secondary technology areas -- and the commute can be on public transit (to avoid the awful traffic all around the Bay).

And you don't NEED to move before you find a job. Suck it up and drive for two or three hours to interview if you have to. Try to get several interviews on the same day in the same area if you can. And make it clear to them that you're planning to move for the job -- some companies don't care what your commute distance is, but others do actually care how happy their people are, and assume that someone commuting 10 minutes will be happier than someone commuting two hours.

Good luck.
One thing: transportation.
Ophthalmology
And the site is back up. Thanks for everyone's patience!
Hyperbolic discounting
Aren't both scenarios you are describing essentially the same thing?
> "Our communities are wildly different from language to language, so much so that idioms even contradict each other..."

> "The way Clojure developers work is very different than the way C developers do..."

This couldn't be more true, and makes the $200,000 investment goal a heck of lot more reasonable. Imagine the difference between developing and testing HTML5 games with Javascript and creating business CRUD apps with Rails. It's very ambitious when you think about it, which is why I'm just as eager to see how this project evolves in the next couple of months.

Light Table has a huge potential to be dynamically multilingual. Each of these languages and platforms have vibrantly unique communities, and being able to speak to all of them will be the "thing" that makes it worth using.
Pretty cool. Some fresh UX elements sort of in a spirit of Clear app(?)
As painful as it is for me to say this, the University of Miami isn't very startupy. We have a really great office on campus called the launchpad to help students start companies, but I haven't seen a single tech company come out of there. Most of our CS department is very theoretical and research oriented. However our ACM is pretty cool and we just had our first hackathon a few weeks ago. It was sponsored by twillio, microsoft, mongoDB, sendgrid, and a few other companies.
"If companies weren't so desperate to solve their widget making problems, the bubble would deflate, and people who don't know how to make widgets would be in demand again. Problems solved."
One of the things to look for in a made-to-measure shirt is the fabric selection. Look for brand names like Thomas Mason, for example. NiAlma.com is excellent and they occasionally have sales, too.
Tips on selecting an outsourced development partner
And, to my mind, looked best of the lot. They had a decent and consistent color scheme whereas most of the rest were all over the map.
So these kinds of peeks inside a large company are fascinating in a voyeuristic sense, but it's best to not to take them too seriously. Even somebody with no ulterior motives will only have a experience of a narrow slice of the company. And it's even worse when there is an obvious reason for bias.

Certainly much of what I've seen written about Google had little to with the reality I observed there, regardless of whether the source is a current Googler or one of the, err..., rather vocally dissatisfied ex-Googlers. So I don't see much reason to believe this story about Microsoft either.
Larry Niven has posited that perhaps all those red giants are just Matrioshka Brains - Dyson spheres enclosing suns and radiating mostly infra-red waste heat.
I would pay an extra 50% for cloned tissues (from cows to fish) because I don't like the killing and growing. Probably when the time comes to make the "real" meal a luxury item, the human empathy to the animals will be higher.
Little to no CGI to create a human kaleidoscope
A simple browser extension like Readability or Instapaper can extract the article and display it in a readable manner. That way you don't have to miss out on potentially interesting articles if you don't like the design or are distracted by certain elements on a website. It works pretty well :)
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