skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked that they did research on play styles. That was really cool, I'd be curious to read all their findings.

But the themes they chose seem to be more informed by stereotypes. Vet Surgery! Hairdressing Salon! Horseies! Surely for true role-playing they should be giving alternative roles. Default offices are great play spaces. You can play with secretarial works OR CEO stuff. What's wrong with Computer labs or Retail? They're all fairly genderless, flexible environments, but instead the sets seem to be firmly targeting the stereotypes. I half expect the bigger set to be a castle, or maybe a day-care.

Perhaps we've (the social we) selected stereotypes that express themselves naturally, or are re-enforced strongly, or perhaps the designers took the research as a challenge but added all the themes themselves. Maybe, too, they're exactly what will be most popular even in a social vacuum, but surely catering to a more general level is the best place for a toy to be? No-one should be prevented from role-playing stereotypes if they want, but neither should they be forced to make greater allowances if they want to violate them.

(Violate. Huh. It's telling that that's the word often used to describe not complying with stereotypes.)
Off topic. If you're bored:

insanitology.com

[just a few funny interesting vids]
If you disable Cookies and Javascript you will stop probably 90% or more of tracking. How much tracking is done without using Cookies and without Javascript? KISSMetrics? What else?
There was a story on TIME claiming that plumbers can make up to 250k: "Americans want and need working pipes, just like they want and need their trash collected every few days — sanitation being another service always in demand by consumers and not always in demand by job-seekers, and typically pretty well paying as a result.
That said, a plumber's earnings vary widely depending on the region in which they work and whether a plumber owns a business that employs others. Journeymen in cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston are in higher demand and command higher prices — up to about $250,000 a year." [1]

[1] http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1851673,00.ht...
This is nice for just exploring Python (and modules).
tl;dr: If everyone is famous, no one is.
statistics

WTF? So analytics packages will somehow have to exclude these browsers from all reports? Some reports? Can you count impressions from these users?
It happens to be the first thing that comes to mind for me because it happens to be an anecdote I reread moments before submitting this piece.

Real life example: In a college class, my Egyptian professor would ask me three or four times "How do you know that?" every single time I answered a math question. It became blatant enough that he was being obtuse that a male class member blurted at some point "She has obviously already worked it out in her head."

Best I can do for now as I have to go.

Catch you later.

Thanks.
The other day I changed my Linux window manager to stumpwm (also tried ratpoison but stumpwm works slightly better for my particular case). It's definitely helped me focus, and the fact that I have to run a command or keystroke to get to the Internet gives me just enough extra effort that I can stop myself.

However, I also find it somewhat grueling to go without any distractions for a long time. After about 4 hours straight I'm surprisingly drained.
Long live the Beowulf cluster! Yes, I'm keeping my eye on this project. I love distributed computing, especially the idea of taking it to space for massive galactic grid computing, and a cluster of these on Earth driving the whole thing would be spectacular.
I like 25th frame theories as any other geek, but this is absurd.

The hands are at 10 and 2 because it looks aesthetically pleasing and visually balances the clock face. Calling it a smile is a heck of a stretch. It's more of an OK/checkmark then that a smile (and this is also a stretch).
The following line is not correct: "it has to be a UK co owning a branch in the States, not a US co with a UK office"

It can be either way around. But your general point is true: the L1 visa is great. I moved over on an L1A visa (the US company is the parent, with branch in UK). I just got a 2 year extension after the first year. Now in the process of getting an expedited green card.
The problem is that nobody is ready to determine their career path at the end of grade school.
MPAA: Piracy is Not Theft After All
Aren't all "nice guys" well-meaning? The key is the presence of the phrase "well-meaning", which implies that the results of the nice guys actions are actually negative. It requires some linguistic inference that can be frightening(rightly so: Many people use language too sloppily to safely make these kinds of inferences). However, based on the context, it's safe assume she wasn't just talking about all nice guys - rather she was talking about a specific set of nice guys who, through ignorance, perform net-negative quality actions.

Is that you?
Yeah, I feel like there's no way they'll accept a late application a month and half late. Rough. Do you think there were any drop-outs that left an open spot? I think I could catch up to speed with the rest of the students quickly, they haven't really done actual work yet.
I wonder if this might have anything to do with more people trying to use hacked up BT clients in the hopes of avoiding ISP crackdowns supposedly imminent in the US (and already in effect in other countries):

http://www.seba14.org/2012/01/03/hacked-sb-innovation-vuze-e...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-is...
CapROS is a real-time operating system that provides orthogonal persistence.
In Australia it's spelled "tire" as far as I know. I've never really seen the spelling "tyre" used here before, hence invalidating the claim that any country that relies on British spelling all use the same spellings for words.
I'm not socially savvy but I try to apply the 'golden rule' as much as I can to make up for it ;-) (I've found the key is knowing about one's flaws and working out techniques to get around or diminish them - I have enough!)

The key reason, however, is I've found being polite and well-meaning produces the best outcome for my pursuits. I used to be quite argumentative but empathizing with people's positions has led to less anxiety, helped my business, and has given me a better rapport with partners and customers. These are selfish reasons to be nice on the surface, but I've found it eventually becomes a default, natural position to approach people and problems with.

(Oh, and being British seems to help. For some reason people often assume we're going to be polite so it doesn't seem so odd ;-))
Markov Chain Monte Carlo and the Eurovision Song Contest
Hmm, not bad. Actually, not bad at all. Very intuitive. I wish you could change the theme color though.
Wikipedia is a mostly toxic environment. You might be able to survive as a gnome, just going around tweaking only obvious spelling errors and typos and weird punctuation. (Some of those corrections are going to be rolled-back by some over-eager 14 year old.) And you might get a few templates calling you a vandal.

Any greater level of interaction needs people prepared to spend considerable amounts of time wading through bizarre WP:SPAGETTI.
Hmmm. How is this different from an incubator? Maybe the similarities are more interesting than the differences.
Like eljaco, I was using Chrome on Android. When I switch to the built-in Android browser, then I get everything on a single page.

That seems like a really fragile way to build a mobile site, and I don't really understand how splitting the article over 13 pages would be better for "least common denominator" mobile browser...
Owning a patent on digital television is like owning a patent on trees. It's not like people didn't know digital television was coming, ridiculous.
I was. I've known that CS was what I've wanted to do since about 6th grade. Perhaps more exposure towards careers in required?
Germany finds your argument unpersuasive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:High_schools_in_German...
I think he (Thiel) is probably right.
There seems to be a lot of chat related apps coming out of the works, this other one is pretty cool: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000283 - nice work dude.
http://www.ihatecpap.com/oral_appliance.html

Mine is "TAP". Two thousand bucks later I feel alive again.
The Story Behind Payment Disruptor Stripe.com And Its Founder Patrick Collison
The policy is strict. No late submission.
Whole thread was deleted, submission link just redirects to group's main page now.

Ah... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000244

Assuming it's legal, awesome hack.
A/B Testing Tech Note: determining sample size
Great post, but I'm not sure we should wholly credit the Romans with ensuring we have a 'modular script'.

Before the Romans, the Greek and Phonecian writing systems (and derivitives) were taking hold, and more complex scripts (like Chinese logograms) had never simply never been common near Europe, with the single notable exception of Egyptian heiroglyphs (which had complex logograms, but could equally be used with simpler phonetic characters).
Anyone on here know why the fuck Twitter images only load on full moons?
Twitter images are by far the most unreliable core aspect of a huge web app I have ever seen. I love Twitter but I have no idea how they manage to get away with such a buggy experience here.
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Very few people are ready to determine their career path at the end of high school either. Studying a trade doesn't mean that's what you're going to do for the rest of your life. It would be nice, though, if high school graduates could have a choice other than going to university or bagging groceries.
Yes you can change the colors.
http://docs.bpython-interpreter.org/themes.html
Yep: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/05/16/young-maker-nabs-thiel-f...
I really like the "instant" auto-completion. Can someone throw light on how it was done?
There was someone on Kuro5hin some years ago who called k an Excel replacement. The more I use kona (which isn't very much), the more I believe he was right.

It seems like a really nice little language. Much more agile than a "desktop spreadsheet program".
An interesting list would be tyre manufacturers by total load bearing capacity produced. For example, if a manufacturer makes 500 tyres, each of which can support 1000kg, they get a score of 500 x 1000 = 500000. It'd be a cool list because it might throw up some unexpected results, due to tyres for odd applications.
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Functional programming basically just means that you handle program state explicitly- All the other parts of FP follow from this fact.

Having explicit state is a good idea and _may_ become the default way to write programs at some point in the future- You would only deviate from this if you have a specific reason (such as a performance optimization.)
[W]hen people become risk averse the status quo dominates...

This is not necessarily a bad thing. Looking at history objectively, I don't think it can be plausibly argued that technological progress now is slower than it was 60 years ago. And we are taking big new risks on a variety of fronts, including massive experiments in the genetic engineering of worldwide agriculture, smaller but even more dangerous experiments with genetically modified viruses, and experiments in large-scale decentralized automation of large segments of our financial systems, not to mention the ongoing global experiment in CO2 saturation that we are conducting unabated. You can argue for the benefits of all these experiments, but you can hardly say we've become risk averse. In the context of the highly leveraged and interconnected world we are creating, I would argue that we are nowhere near risk averse enough.
Microsoft R&D delivers again. Name one feature in so.cl that wasn't a copy of what they already saw somebody else do, except given a slightly different name or capitalization in order to shave off the boilerplate. Is there anything left from Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon/Sony for them to copy, er, I mean, innovate in-house?

I also bet they'll claim it took a team of 50 people and cost $1B to create. Because taxes and accounting, of course.
Most plumbers I've come into contact with were self-employed. They don't meet the description under "Plumber I" at all. Assuming 50K GBP in 2002[1] (I live in London), that's about 100K USD today.

There's no doubt that there's bigger upside in becoming a doctor, and the median doctor almost certainly earns more than the median plumber. But there's also a lot of downside; most doctors I know are stressed and overworked.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2002/nov/03/wageslaves.caree...
Linux Kernel 3.4 Released
Unfortunate, but understandable.
Interesting counterpoint to "forget about the lone inventor in a garage". He is aiming to be disruptive and his 25% scale model is impressive.
Show HN: keyword filtering for RSS feeds
Student debt is impossible to discharge even through bankruptcy. There is zero risk to these loans because they are federally guaranteed loans. When the student defaults, the government repays the note holder as a matter of course, then the government goes after the student. The bailout is already guaranteed. The students will not be discharged of their debt anymore than the homeowners got their mortgages paid. What happened is the feds bailed out the bank losses, AND allowed the banks to evict the homeowners AND allowed the banks to keep the houses and resell them. But all this was only a tiny amount of the cost. On top of this were the CDOs and CDSs totalling, according to one estimate, one quadrillion dollars, more than all the assets in the world. The banks/investors/speculators are still being bailed out of these "losses" which were never real losses and only represented losses to unearned and absurd gains they hoped to make as part of a pyramid scheme.

The people stuck with the debt at the bottom of the pile don't get bailouts.
Wow, I was JUST reading this in my inbox a couple minutes ago. What I thought was more interesting (Linus noted no exciting changes) was the exchange between Linus and	Peter Zijlstra, in particular this Linus eruption:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/19/97
We made a decision to go with a handwritten font for that reason. It is gratifying to cross items off a list, putting pen to paper, so we tried to mimic that with the font and swipe action. That said, we totally understand wanting to use a sans serif. Helvetica and other options may be in a future release.
When you don't pay student loans, depending on where you live, you can have your drivers license and any employment or professional licenses revoked. There is also talk of revoking passports.
Looks interesting, but I don't have time to dig deeper into it at the moment. Anyone in the know care to tldr; this? I'd be especially interested to hear what are the innovations that make this different from existing small aircraft.
> If you have heard about Jubilee years, in large part they involved all debts being forgiven.

Why would I loan you any money if I anticipate a "Jubilee" year?
How was it any of the things you mentioned? You are trolling ME now.
Visual Studio is not Eclipse either.

IntelliJ is on par with Eclipse. Period. Let us put a stop into that topic.
Why have offices at all? Since people won't be talking in person (are you going to walk into someone's office to interrupt them?), why make everyone commute?
Right, because everybody knows 50 years will never come, so nobody would think to take advantage of it on 48-th and 49-th year. Or do you mean it will always be 50 years in the future - like communism in the Soviet Union? Then it makes total sense.

> And then people with money to loan out can factor the coming jubilee into their credit decisions.

Can you venture a guess what that decision would be? If you have money and you know you debtor will be able to refuse to return your money in, say, 2 years - how willing you would be to lend it out? Now also consider that collection can take multiple years - and consider when credit markets would completely shut down? 5 years before the Jubilee? 10 years?
Will the banks also be allowed to refuse to pay interest on deposits in Jubilee - or if they are not, where the money to pay interest will come from if everybody would be defaulting on their loans at once? In fact, will the banks be allowed to just refuse to pay out the deposits at all - since term deposit is nothing more than a loan you give to the bank? And if not, where those deposits are coming from since these money are already given out as loans and forgiven on Jubilee?
this is a load of crap that gets repeated again and again, please stop.

advertising existed before every move you made was tracked, and it was quite profitable. There is zero reason that such invasive bullshit is a requirement.

HN user fauigerzigerk put it best:

I would like to agree with your idea of tracking
as payment, but I really can't, because:

a) Most of the time I don't have a choice. There's
no option to pay them money and even if I pay them
directly, they may still keep collecting tons of
personal information about me on top of it.

b) It's sneaky. I don't really know what
information they have and how they use it. I just
have a couple of completely meaningless words
from their privacy policy.

c) I don't know the price I'm paying.

The last point is the most important one.
The value and the risk associated with a
particular piece of information greatly depends
on what other information it is combined with,
but I can't control that. The company could get
acquired tomorrow by some ad behemoth that knows
a lot of other things about me, so the price I'm
paying could change after the fact. That's not
the way payment works. I have to know the price
I'm agreeing to pay before I enter that contract.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3751905
I think the incentives are pretty clear: fame, status and the ability to do something with your life (instead of being stuck on Earth).

Oh, and we are talking about a hypothetical situation in which money still plays a role. Having barely enough income to lead a dignified life (that should be the standard anyway, no human should be homeless or have to starve, no matter whether they work or not – but currently we try to achieve that with a complicated patchwork, at least in Europe) is not the best experience. There are tons of incentives to do more. Making more money would give you a lot more freedom to do things.

Also, why would you sit at home and watch TV when you could work on robots?
Indeed. But it looks like the actual patent [1] was not for "digital television." It was for a particular means to do frame interpolation, error correction, and motion compression. And it was issued in 1996, when presumably those methods were more innovative. It might seem obvious in hindsight, but step back 16 years and ask what methods of motion compression were state of the art.

If it turns out that these methods were obvious (or had already been implemented) in 1996 then the patent will be invalidated. But it's not like MIT patented the mere idea of digital TV -- as one might expect of MIT, the patent is a lot more nuanced.

[1]http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Well, it's more like taking free coffee Starbucks are offering, then having them start putting it in cups with an advertising message on them and bitching that now you're getting gypped.
Not sure about NZ & Oz but you would never see it written "tyre" in Canada and I bet most Canadian's would have no idea "tyre" was an alternative spelling for tire.
Of course.. zero, one, infinity strikes again.