skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. Learning to program myself, and pushing beyond the initial jargon barrier is painful. I keep looking for practical tutorials, but they don't really seem to exist. I want purposeful, hands-on learning. Without that in the beginning, there's nothing to attach the theory/knowledge to and it falls out the other ear. Show me what these things do and my brain will want to do it!
Righthaven Experiment: Journalist Wonders If Copyright Troll Was Right to Sue
My camera gives me descriptions too, but they're in terms of quantized frequency coefficients of 8x8 squares.
And what about Company C that puts in 80 hours? And Company D that puts in 100 hours?

The math adds up, at least up to the point when it hits 168 hours ;)

This is really the wrong model. There is a sweet spot of hours vs. productivity somewhere, it's probably different for everyone. I guess for me it is even changing on a daily basis. Some weeks I can work through the night or on the weekend, othertimes I can't seem to get stuff done and be exhausted on a wednesday...
Open Science, Open Access and Open Source
reminds me of Feynman's cargo cult science's rat mazes http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
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I'd go to RubyJax and meet up with the Ruby programmers. You'll have a lot more in common with them than you will with Enterprise .NET or Java programmers. And who knows, you might find that you like Ruby too.
so who is going to be the first to convert this all to DCPU?
I'm still using it

...in the Desktop mode, all the time. Never touching start screen if possible. Going to install Ubuntu.
Lotused? What's that?
"If you’re a psychologist, the news has to make you a little nervous—particularly if you’re a psychologist who published an article in 2008 in any of these three journals...<snip>...Because, if you did, someone is going to check your work.'

Can somebody in the field comment on this statement? Is it really so out of the ordinary to attempt to reproduce work in psychology that this kind of statement is warranted?
This sounds similar to the edw519 approach of "talk to people, see how you can improve things."

I think there's a lot to be said for it. I suspect we (as a species) waste a lot of time because we're ignorant of the big picture.
I suggest you stay away from "The Truth Wears Off" by Jonah Lehrer. It's filled with errors and exaggerations, and it seems like Lehrer's concern was demonstrating the existence of a Gladwell-like bogus "phenomenon" which he calls the "decline effect".
This is a much more polished version of something I whipped up when first learning Node. It's eerily similar; If my code wasn't (selfishly!) locked away in a private repo, I would have been suspicious

Very nice interface.
The relationship terminology looks neat, but the ASCII table looks pretty messed up for me.

Maybe an HTML <table> tag is the right tool for the job here.
Morality aside, choosing steal is foolish unless it works, then it seams pretty sensible.
Let's talk about the mobile only world: would a native mobile app be self-verifying in that only a mobile phone could download and use the app - so every review requires a real smartphone to post the review. Although "reputation" companies could game this situation by buying 1000 smartphones, but then you would have 1000 smartphones with the same pattern of up-posting such that it would be easier for an algorithm to recognize these "planted" phones.
C'mon, Notch, even Apollo supported interrupts:

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/hrst/archive/1678.pdf

"It is first appropriate to briefly describe the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). This processor is a general purpose, sequential, digital machine. Its word length
is 16 bits including parity. The random access memory consists of 2048 words of
destructive, read-write memory, called erasable, and 36,864 words of non- destructive read-only memory called fixed memory. The memor’y cycle time (MCT) is slightly less than 12 microseconds, with two MCI’s required to execute an add
and four MCTs to execute a multiply. As is typical of real-time control computers, this machine has a set of special input-output channels with which it controls the
spacecraft and observes the state of its environment. The interrupt structure consists of ten program interrupts with associated priorities, which are used for program
control transfers. In addition, twenty-six counter interrupts with associated priorities allow for input-output servicing. The instruction set consists of forty-two
regular instructions and nine involuntary instructions. Figure 1 indicates the number and diversity of systems with which the AGC interacts"

EDIT: Apparently, as of six or so hours ago, Notch has implemented cutting-edge 1970s technology ( http://dcpu.com/highnerd/dcpu16_1_3.txt ). :)
While it is a lovely sentiment and I know I do personally prefer quiet pages, it is also the case that if you love A/B testing you will notice that clutter works. Each distraction is a chance for the consumer to swap from consuming (which costs us money) to whatever the profitable activity we are pushing is.

This is part of what I think subscription sites could offer, though I don't know of any that do. If consuming content makes you money, you can optimize for enjoyability of content consumption.
Google has made some great advertising lately. I hope they keep it up.
Making Firefox Search Snappier
It looks like a bunch of app icon silhouettes
Point: there isn't much malware for Linux (and the virus scanners for it scan for /windows viruses/), and there is no easy dtrace/strace/lsof for Windows (afaik...sysinternals tools aside kinda.)

If all you really need is a web browser, mail client, IM client/Skype, a PDF reader, and libreOffice (try it before you knock it)...Linux is great for non-techies in office environments, and can be locked down very easily.
The little-endian web?
It does try to interrupt you, but I'd probably do the same: ignore it if I'm not happy.

Maybe there could be a 'f* off' dismiss button that registers as an unhappy response?
I have to say that I loved his other post on the TSA's ridiculous password policy...

http://xato.net/passwords/worst-password-policy-ever

Their policy is:

1. Minimum password length is eight characters.

2. Passwords must contain at least one of each of the following: one alphabetic uppercase, one alphabetic lowercase, one numeric, and one special character.

3. Passwords shall not contain any two identical consecutive characters (example: 22apples, 14588904).

4. Passwords may contain no more than two identical consecutive characters in any position from the previous password.

5. Passwords shall not contain any dictionary word.

6. Passwords shall not contain any proper noun or the name of any person, pet, child, or fictional character.

7. Passwords shall not contain any employee serial number, Social Security number, birth date, phone number, or any information that could be readily guessed about the creator of the password.

8. Passwords shall not contain any simple pattern of letters or numbers, such as "qwerty" or "xyz123".

9. Passwords shall not be any word, noun, or name spelled backwards or appended with a single digit or with a two-digit "year" string, such as 98xyz123.

10. Pass phrases, if used in addition to or instead of passwords, should follow these same guidelines.

11. Passwords shall not be the same as the User

12. Password length will be selected to provide a level of protection commensurate to the value or sensitivity of the resources or data it protects, but not less than eight characters.

You just can't make this stuff up!
I have been told one of the secrets to really fast typing is to use whichever index finger is closer. With some preference for alternating hands so TB is a clear win for the right hand.
Passive income ideas
There are some details which facilitate confusion about what passive income ideas really is. I think this will help you understand it
Well, OPC (Other People's Code) is generally unpleasant to read. ;) Rarely do people try to write programs "for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute", as SICP puts it.

So, I think it helps to do more than just passively "read" it. I might create a private branch, run the sucker with lots of print statements, comment the hell out of it, take copious notes in org-mode, draw diagrams to leverage my visual systems, etc. (It might feel silly, but no one's watching.)

Running it repeatedly (with print statements) allows me to form little hypotheses and test them. The idea is to approximate having a REPL. Something like emacs helps to automate this as much as feasible.
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I'm the developer/researcher. Nobody but nobody reads captions... but if you did, you'd see this: "These are the places where mappiness users have most recently reported feeling happy."

I thought a miserableness map might be a bit morbid, so only happy responses get shown. I'm not certain this is the right choice, but it's how it works at present.

Incidentally, mappiness has shown up a few times before on HN: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mappiness
Show HN: Virtual Youtube video clipper
demo link: http://holoklip.blogspot.com/

I created this app a few months back and I keep seeing a real need for virtual video clipping. This makes it easy to consume long videos in bite-sizes, ie focus only on the portion of interest.

Please send me your feedback.
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EU lifts block on games tax breaks
It looks like Ron Paul will have the most delegates from Iowa
This, in my opinion, is the flaw in the argument. I don't think it's true for writing code, unless what you're writing is boilerplate which requires no mental effort.

Most projects involve both boilerplate and cleverness. Mine certainly do.

The cleverness I do while not tired. When I'm tired, and less productive, I do the boilerplate.

Suppose I work 60 hours, with 40 of them occurring before I'm tired. Then I get 40 hours of cleverness and 20 hours of boilerplate (while non-tired, you could probably do the 20 hours of boilerplate in 15 hours).

If you work 40 hours, you are probably doing 25 hours of cleverness and 15 hours of boilerplate (while your 15 hours are equivalent to my 20 hours). That means I'm getting 60% more hours of cleverness than you are.
President Obama ‘Slow Jams the News’ With Jimmy Fallon
No, he means Defect-Cooperate should give the person who lost less than he would have gotten from Defect-Defect.

For example, in the Prisoner's Dilemma you might get 0 years of jail time if only you defect, 1 year if you both cooperate, 3 years if you both defect, and 10 years if only the other person defects. Then, knowing that the other person will defect it is still in your best interest to defect as well.

In this challenge, if you know that the other person will defect you automatically get $0, whether you defect or not. In that case there is no particular reason for you to defect (except out of spite) and you are better off with the hopes that your opponent will keep his promise than with nothing.
What really surprises me is how UGLY that dashboard is. (I'm a professional designer, so I'm licensed to say that.)

The exterior is sleek and beautiful, so it's like there has been no common goal or oversight when designing the car as a whole.
The article suggests that drivers who kill people get off lightly in NYC and that may be true. But what statistics say is that the City has been progressively getting safer for pedestrians over the past decade.

There were 4.87 fatalities per 100,000 in NYC in 2001 and that number has dropped to 2.8 per 100,000 for 2011.

Perhaps City officials found it more useful to make safety improvements and changing the behavior of all drivers than to harshly punish drivers who made a fatal mistake after the fact.

http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4...
If there's a way to poll the students before hand, I'd recommend that. Let the majority decide. You want to teach them how to do things that presumably are not "learn how to use an Operating System". Don't get in the way of that. Another factor is what operating system they're already using. If they can't take your lesson home and replicate it on their own hardware, what's the point?

Also depends on your technology stack. What's the burden for getting the tools you need onto OSX? If it's higher than installing .dmgs, or using Homebrew, then compare and contrast with that same level of effort on a Linux platform.

It might be that the argument isn't even Linux vs OSX, but which flavor of Linux. Debian is great, and has tons of packages, but if you're wanting to support newer packages, Ubuntu might be the way to go, for example.

A point in favor of OSX might be that Linux developers are likely going to be able to grok OSX greater than the other way around. But in the other column, Linux is going to work on a much greater variety of hardware.
From what I've seen, the majority of Windows gamers who are technical run pirated copies. The rest of the non-tech users who buy prebuilt PCs won't have the inclination to switchover.

For that reason and seeing that PC vendors get an adequate commission from Microsoft, it shouldn't bring any change to Microsoft's bottom line.
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Yes, the response to this has been far beyond anything I dared hope before launch: over 3 million responses from almost 50,000 volunteers.

One of the key benefits of getting panel data using the app is that it doesn't necessarily matter if we get people who are more or less happy than the average. In the analysis, I generally use only the within-individual variation to estimate the effects of different things on happiness.
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Just curious how they knew this given how young the computing industry was at the time that this was used.

Were there some "Well, that's interesting..." moments where we launched something and realized it was affected by cosmic rays?
What I don't like about the article is how he goes into how "great" or "stunning" and "amazing" it all is without, like you said, any details. I can understand if there are limited things that can be said at this time, but I read enough fluff words on the internet as is without any backing to show for it.
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Kahneman's getting a little more press lately, with a bestseller on the shelves.

His story is interesting - he was given a lot of responsibility at a young age, because he was doing officer evaluation for the newly-formed Israeli army. He has to produce real, repeatable results, and has a wealth of data to test his earlier conclusions, and perhaps the sheer newness of the entire enterprise makes it safer for him to be honest. In a few years he realizes the vacuity of his own psychological results, and by implication, many of the methods he's been taught. That's what kicks off his whole program of investigating sources of bias and error.

Would this have ever happened in a standard academic setting?
Nice post, but probably the thought goes much beyond websites focused around content consumption only.

Take search for example. Google has sold a completely dry and silent web interface for long. And it does work well for them. On the other hand there are companies which have adopted skeuomorphism to an extreme and yet made a buck. Apple, for example though an exceptional one by all means.

In the wild, there are also websites that make millions with absolutely terrible interface; even to the point of being called retards by many design gurus. Apparently the decision to have or NOT have a quiet interface depends on a lot of parameters, and not just "coolness".

What you're probably trying to emphasize is to focus on "wider audience first", "loyalty" second and then "monetization"? It may or may not be the right approach too.

Perhaps you may want to evaluate your design process from the perspective of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. And then there is always difficulty in striking a balance between intent to reach a wider audience and to make money from that audience too.

Many entrepreneurs lose it at this stage, even with great products or content.
Agreed. I keep a windows install around mainly to play games. I also use it to test Windows desktop applications that I occasionally write, but I'd happily use a VM for that if I didn't have a windows install.
Seems like it would be easily automatable with Greasemonkey, or dotjs.
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54 hours a week is still over 10 hours per day of a standard 5 day work week.
I'm the developer/researcher. For some background and early results, see my TEDx talk (from January 2011): http://mappin.es/TEDx
Superficially, choosing either Steal or Split gives you two sets of equal, 50% chances:

Steal: 50% Everybody looses, 50% I get everything

Split: 50% Everybody wins, 50% Opponent gets everything

In very basic, almost evolutionary terms, the dumbest thing to do is both choosing Steal, because that would mean that there are two losers. Only choosing split yourself makes sure that there is a winner.

Steal only seems sensible if you care about winning yourself.
I'd be curious how many 'throwaway' passwords are "sesame".
If you grill people hard on "why do you need all that complex, expensive crap anyway?" you can switch them over to Google Apps, or Zimbra, or LibreOffice + Evolution + SLES and have all the same functionality. Share point? What does share point do that WebDAV + Samba + Apache + some kind of CMS + MediaWiki can't, besides requiring an expensive share point admin and lots of licensing fees?

LDAP and kerberos have Linux implementations, but throwing the *nix way of doing this out the window in favor of the AD route is a really silly idea unless you need to integrate with existing windows crap. Basically, Windows perpetuates itself, and the solution is to drop it entirely and across the board.
There's been some interesting efforts at that already. eg:

WordsEye constructs 3d images from text descriptions http://www.wordseye.com/

Sketch2Photo takes a crude annotated sketch, and creates a composite image: http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm

The output of wordseye isn't great - it looks a bit 90's POV-Ray. Sketch2Photo does a nicer job - more like automated photoshopping - but needs more assistance on the placement of objects in the scene.

I'm sure there's others.
+1 for using KeePass, 1Password, etc.
More than anything else, I'd just say that doing any task in Linux is a battle. Once you understand the system and configure things to your liking it is a dream, but as a new user you'll be spending hours in config files and searching Google, and users don't want that.

This is Hacker News. Most of us know our way around a terminal. But real users don't, any real users drive the market.
Makes me wonder if this is too little, too late. Anyone who is an avid steam user already has a Windows partition for their games, and probably has a large library of games that will not work in Linux.

It's great that Valve games will work on Linux, and it'll likely unify the Linux gaming experience, but Windows is the #1 OS for PC gaming and that isn't going to change anytime soon.

Heck, look at OS X. They've been a gaming-capable platform for far longer than Linux and they're still in single-digit Steam adoption rates.

It's a positive feedback loop - gamers choose Windows because developers support it the most, and developers support Windows the most because there are more gamers on it.
Psychology != Clinical Psychology, which is what you're referring to. None of the journals in this project are clinical psych journals.
The logo hints at differently sized apps or elements - I'm thinking of something retina/resolution independence related.

Retina display MacBooks and iMacs, for example.
In Boston it's safer to jaywalk than wait for a green light, since cars turn right without looking All The Time. Boston bicyclists are reviled, but their daring-do and disregard for the rules of the road are a direct reaction to following those rules being an excellent way to get yourself killed.
Except that might not be used by 'griefers' instead it could be a love note between two lovers.

'Greifers' is just a subjective term depending on which chair you're sitting in to watch the performance.
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The biggest reason it's not a real prisoner's dilemma is because the prisoners can communicate. Key to the standard prisoner's dilemma is that there is no way for the prisoners to talk to one another.

Like the post says, it's a variant.
You deserve it. You put a lot of work and effort into essentially helping people learn, which makes people's life easier.
Part of the problem is that the dev tools most game developers use are still centered around Windows. Visual Studio is still the hallmark IDE for Game developers everywhere. In addition, the tools developers in gaming studios still build mostly Windows tools that augment the IDEs the engine programmers are already using.

That ecosystem has to be disrupted substantially with viable dev tools for game developers on Linux before gaming on Linux can really become a first class citizen.
Wow ... their online security rivals their airport security!!
Could it be scaled by population density (or reporting density)? I have a feeling the map just shows there are more people in some cities than others; nothing about per-capita happiness.
The 4-day week is a great idea, and can probably work well in most vertically-integrated businesses. Ironically, it's probably most suitable for manufacturing work, especially if you're building to stock and not to order.

But if you have a lot of external dependencies, and need to interface with suppliers and customers on a regular basis, a 4-day workweek can really into the amount of time you have available to do so.
It's theoretically a felony charge in every state, but in practice, drivers who run over pedestrians or cyclists often get charged with traffic infractions or don't get charged at all.
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We have no better idea what the typical mind is like than we did a hundred years ago

I can't take this statement seriously. Have you ever even taken an intro cognition or perception class? Almost everything is about how minds typically work, and all of the findings are less than one hundred years old.
Putting tickets on sale at 5:30am west coast time was a pretty dick move.
What if Valve expanded "Source" from an engine to more of a platform? If you create your game for Source you can release on Win, Mac, Linux, and a SteamBox/console with relative ease?

It's pie-in-the-sky, but that would be a game changer. A linux steam client would be one piece of that plan.
Interesting, is there any discussion of this online?
cough $250 in sales from folks who chose "password" in 2011. I suppose I could tell them "Wait wait, put your credit card back for a second and listen to a complicated instruction designed to solve a problem you don't have.". Doesn't seem to be a huge upside, though.
Just had a go: it's great!
Valve usually doesn't say anything publicly about their projects until they've reached a fairly advanced phase of development(either very late alpha or beta).

There won't be much official word until they're either making a major marketing push, or are basically done with the entire project.

For example, the OSX port of Steam and the Source engine was announced in March 2010, and was released in May of that year.
My favorite is the DSKY emulator: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/yaDSKY.html
I used to use it as my desktop clock for a while.
Now a severe phobia can be cured for most people in about an hour. And it stays gone.

Details or a citation? I'm genuinely curious.
Its annyoing but I rather have cool stuff and people abusing at then not having that stuff at all.
and you know that because:

a) you store cleartext passwords
b) you use a static salt and have memorized the hash of the password+your salt ... or
c) ???
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