skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with you that having kids is the best and patently designed for us way of achieving immortality, but I'd still love to talk to someone who grew up among the Ancient Greeks. Yes, people change with time, but some memories stay. I would be plain curious to find out which ones do. Reading (perhaps less so with watching recordings) doesn't quite give you that information, as evidenced by the fact that there are plenty of scholars out there who read a lot of material yet who utterly disagree with each other on what the Ancient Greeks (or Hebrews) were really like.
At first I thought "what demo, there's just a screenshot here" but wow, nice demo.
URLs are targeted today at geeks. "Normal" people write everything to google search.
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You can compile your LESS so that no JS is required in the browser.
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> Should I sell it to the government agency that governs the hospitals?

I don't think you've done your market research.

> Which language would be more beneficial and easier to sell?

Neither. In my experience Java is the big language in Health IT these days. Just write in whatever language you feel will give you the best product.
Since we're listing alternatives, I prefer Stylus (https://github.com/learnboost/stylus).
Most high school graduates have no idea what college can do for them and what they want to accomplish in life. Giving them $100K to do start-ups ain't helping. College -- for many -- is a time of exploration. A liberal art education provides the essential ingredients for a well-founded life. It's more than just getting in, learn the skills and get out to get a job. Further, college provides an environment where you meet and learn from your competitive peers.

Thiel and you probably seem to think that colleges are like vocational schools. But they don't.
I say plan all you want if you're going to execute on those plans.

Otherwise, think tactically.

It's making lots of plans that distract you from simply acting that gets you into trouble.

This is just based on my own personal experience, though.
Pinstagram is a wonderful site and I use it all the time to view my wife's Instagram photos!

But are you guys worried at all that the name infringes on Instagram's trademark? It's one thing to rebrand a website, but it's a lot harder to rebrand an iOS app.

Or maybe you guys are already talking to Instagram and/or Facebook about joining their team, and they're ok with you using the TM in the meantime?
Thiel is convinced that college in its current form has become a waste of time and talent for the smartest students. He agrees with the "signaling" model of education whereby the primary "benefit" of having a degree is just that it proves you were the sort of person who could complete a degree; this project serves as a test of that model.

If these kids do well, eventually "skip college and do something useful instead" might become a socially viable alternative to the default expectation that the smarter you are, the more time you should waste in college before you go out and try to do anything.
I think a lot of people don't understand risk, however.
There's this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526144
A self-updating feature in redis-cli? Sure, why not. All the cool kids are doing it .. (=>in: 2007) ;)
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It's also "economical with the actualité" to put it in parliamentary langauge

A number plate recognition camera logging everyone entering London is owned and operated by the contractor providing the billing for the congestion charge - so it's not a government camera. But you don't think the government could have access to the data?

It's like saying there is no government cell phone monitoring - the monitoring is all done by commercial cell phone companies.
Does anyone have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that gamification is good for teaching STEM ideas in the long term? I am wary of rewarding the brain with in-game loot for memorizing the rules of algebra rather than with the deep satisfaction that comes with understanding. Obviously, this latter type of reward cannot be as consistently provided and requires a certain maturity (maybe), but ultimately I think it's what drives most insightful people.

Here's a good example of what bothers me:

>As the game progresses, you’ll start seeing cards that are above and below each other, with a bar in the middle — and you’ll learn to cancel these out by dragging one onto the other, which then turns into a one-dot. And you’ll learn that a one-dot vanishes when you drag it onto a card it’s attached to (with a little grey dot between them). These, of course, are fractions — multiplication and division — but you don’t need to know that to play the game, either.

That last sentence is especially telling.

To me, gamification is suited for making necessary but painful tasks fun (e.g. cleaning your desk, tagging media, memorizing facts), but not for deep learning (e.g. algebra, quantum mechanics, object-oriented programming). But maybe, at 26, I'm just not with the times.

EDIT: I think ColinWright is getting at the same worry, and his comment is more fleshed out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106567
Thanks, I must have missed that. I got that info from my publisher dashboard, which still says this:

http://cl.ly/1O1F011f1H3p1T2h0j0Z
The entire portion quoted there was from ifixit.com, not my mouth or brain. I just happen to agree with it.

The thing that you forget is that the moment that the warranty expires, those points become EVERY user's personal criteria.

You'll take it to a non-vendor sponsored repair shop and they'll say "no chance - can't fix it".

And for ref, I bought my HDTV (Bravia 26EX320) dead and repaired it. I recently bought a new car (2002 Land Rover Discovery) dead and repaired it.
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It is a real issue. A human and personal issue.

But it is not a systemic issue that represents the state of patent law.

If for example the child's Ipad was taken away because it was found out to be stolen property it would have an equally negative effect on her development. It would still not be a call to arms to change legislation.

Appeal to emotion is wrong in an adult debate.

I feel very bad for the mother and I wish her and her daughter the best. But if the story was about a guy who lost his fortune to copycats and thus can't feed his handicapped daughter, it would be equally as sad and equally as manipulative from my point of view.

That said I do believe the patent system needs a massive reform. I just appreciate honest and fair debates.
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Good point about teams before ideas. There's certainly nothing wrong with these guys - one is a close friend - but I'm unsure about some of the ideas. How do you separate ideas that can be solved and those who would take too much effort to steer away from?
The text is part of the blog post. Guess they've change the policy for the cleanup.
And they do - there hasn't been a single Zeppelin raid on London since the introduction of CCTV
You're not an idiot, you just like Apple and have enough money not to care about getting ripped off.

This design decision has nothing to do with reducing "volume, weight and cost". It has everything to do with hosing the customer on memory, as that has been a very lucrative business on the iPad.
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Teardown
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Did someone challenge you to see how many trademarks you can cram into a single name?
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Displ...

- MacBook Pro with Retina Display 15" Mid 2012 Repairability Score: 1 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair).

- Proprietary pentalobe screws prevent you from gaining access to anything inside.

- As in the MacBook Air, the RAM is soldered to the logic board. Max out at 16GB now, or forever hold your peace—you can't upgrade.

- The proprietary SSD isn't upgradeable either (yet), as it is similar but not identical to the one in the Air. It is a separate daughtercard, and we’re hopeful we can offer an upgrade in the near future.

- The lithium-polymer battery is glued rather than screwed into the case, which increases the chances that it'll break during disassembly. The battery also covers the trackpad cable, which tremendously increases the chance that the user will shear the cable in the battery removal process.

- The display assembly is completely fused, and there’s no glass protecting it. If anything ever fails inside the display, you will need to replace the entire extremely expensive assembly.

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I like the ease of responding to (posting to work log + emailing submitter) of a ticket, and except for excessive whitespace the look is pretty attractive, too.

That said, it is lacking so many critical features any business of significant size would need to take it seriously, and to be honest, the market is glutted with good options of all costs and capabilities so I'm curious to know what your intention was in creating this?
Wrong. By your rationale every person in charge of a business is a philanthropist because they make other people's lives better. Like, let's say, British Petroleum, Bank of America, Electronic Arts, Blackwater, Heckler & Koch, people baking bread, and so on.

They are still a business, and they still make money. When they return some of the money they earned back to society without expecting them back, THEN you can call them philanthropic. That's how it works.

Don't try to rewrite the definition of a word just to fit your nice picture of the world, and please don't give us this upside down logic of "oh I'm such a philanthropist because I allow you to buy my products". Sorry, Jobs was not philanthropic. We are not inside the church of Apple so you'll have to deal with it.
"but they don't want to invest the time into you know, actually contacting the domain owners."

That is not a viable option to tar them with accusations of not taking. I am sure the vast bulk of domains have amounts of money set aside grossly less than the cost to either party to even start talking to each other. If you want to hand me $1.21, I don't even want to hear from you. (There's hardly any way to do that anyhow without losing most or all of it to fees.)

No, the only other possibly alternative is to return the unused money to those who gave it, but that may have its own problems.
Laptop CPUs have been soldered in for as long as I can remember. We've all come to accept that as a perfectly reasonable compromise. With the exception of some high-end gaming laptops, GPUs are also soldered in.

Apple have made the perfectly reasonable decision to maximise portability for the 99% of users who never upgrade any component, over the 1% for whom upgradability matters. To dismiss people with different priorities to yours as idiotic is, to be frank, the reason nobody liked you at school.

The benefits of Apple's approach are obvious - they have substantially reduced the bulk of each generation of machine, whilst still improving performance and battery life.

We've already been through this debate in the automotive industry. Cars used to be readily maintainable and modifiable, but miserably unreliable. Electronics and sealed units hugely increased reliability. Auto enthusiasts lamented this change as an assault on the amateur mechanic and the march of disposable consumerism, but the market never looked back. Most people don't care that they can't remap the ECU in their car and most people don't care if their RAM isn't replaceable. That's a perfectly reasonable viewpoint.
Technically, no one owns one of these yet, so the expressed remark is directed at the design, and decisions behind the design. Also, the reasoning is provided as well. If it crosses the line, it's mostly because of the profanity in itself, though I don't see the need for a reprimand.
awesome! way to go guys. props for shipping something so that you can iterate.

where do you think you are going with this? is this just a hackathon turned into a nighttime hobby? or do you think you can build a real business out of this.

consumer facing stuff always scares me because it always seems like a hail mary to find a business model.
It depends heavily on the type of information, and how secret it is.

I'd be thrilled to have access to a complete real time data of every financial transaction.

Imagine looking at any object around you, and being able to tell how much each component cost, the source of the component, and the company info that transformed the parts into an object, recursively all the way down to dust.

That would be amazing. Even more, that would be enough for me want to make my financial info public to the world, rather than just credit card companies, and everyone that buys that data from them.
To point 1, that's how all laws work. The person breaking the law rarely gets to decide the legality of their action. Even with a warrant, the suspect isn't the one determining right and wrong.

To point 2, I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. I'm somewhere near the nothing to hide camp, but it's just a matter of picking battles and honestly not expecting everything I do to be private. I do not benefit in any way from wiretapping.

I draw the line as anything some guy with a fake mustache following me around could observe is fair game. I expect my "letters" to be private, my goings about in public spaces are not.

The article does a good job of bringing up processing power and collation of info, which is a concern. Overall though, I'm more worried about actions taken based on intel than on intel gathering itself. You are always going to be broadcasting some "signal", so let's focus on the active use of such data, rather than the passive gathering.
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You misunderstood. The lack of the feature (of clocking down the GPU when it's not used) caused his issue. He did not enable it.
>Apple has been a leader in this industry shift.

Actually, Apple has been a follower.

Ubuntu and the Linux world in general has had app-stores long before Apple came to the party.

The Apple app-store is nothing more than a Sony'fied software repository.

Where Apple have succeeded while "The Linux scene" has floundered is, Apple have put the app-store, physically, in peoples pockets. Sony/Sharp could have done it sooner, if they'd made better hardware and been cohesive with their late-90's/early 21st-century Linux/e-Tron strategies, but make no mistake, Apple are a newcomer to the vendor-supplied online software repository scene. Albeit, a very powerful, sexy, one.
The no scroll edition:

* MacBook Pro with Retina Display 15" Mid 2012 Repairability Score: 1 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair).

* Proprietary pentalobe screws prevent you from gaining access to anything inside.

* As in the MacBook Air, the RAM is soldered to the logic board. Max out at 16GB now, or forever hold your peace—you can't upgrade.

* The proprietary SSD isn't upgradeable either (yet), as it is similar but not identical to the one in the Air. It is a separate daughtercard, and we’re hopeful we can offer an upgrade in the near future.

* The lithium-polymer battery is glued rather than screwed into the case, which increases the chances that it'll break during disassembly. The battery also covers the trackpad cable, which tremendously increases the chance that the user will shear the cable in the battery removal process.

* The display assembly is completely fused, and there’s no glass protecting it. If anything ever fails inside the display, you will need to replace the entire extremely expensive assembly.
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Time to test my soldering skills...
Could you perhaps back up your assertion that "trolling can lead to a higher level of tolerance" as it specifically applies to this case?

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/06/dear-inte...
Where are Ebay and Facebook ?
A more sensible idea would be to just disallow software patents and patents on business methods. Like in the European Union.

Not patentable are:

"discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;

aesthetic creations;

schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers;

presentations of information."
Apple would never release a laptop with a 1.5 hour battery (wifi web browsing)

That's too bad. I use my laptops as portable desktops, seldom away from a plug. So I have to heft around a giant battery because Apple decides that only one usage model is right?

RIM devices have, generally, dramatically more endurance than Apple mobile devices. Apple seriously compromised battery life on the burgeoning smartphone market because they prioritized other things like a nice interface and a bigger screen. They weren't the leaders in battery life, and it's weird that you compare them particularly to Samsung when most Samsung devices have comparable or battery performance.
Holy crap. Just when you have faith in the system...
Alternatively they have made an expensive professional tool into a disposable consumer gadget.
Not only do we not require you to set third-party cookies to read comments (we never did afaik), the new version also allows all users - regardless of cookie settings - to comment. It just won't remember your session between page refreshes.
Panda punishes "thin content" pages, so it's unlikely that they are making any money off Google search results. From what I've seen, all but the most common domains don't make much money off of type-in traffic, either. (Sedo, for instance, shows traffic to the domains parked with Sedo when you run a search for a key term on their site. The traffic is nearly always negligible.)

This is probably a consequence of newer browsers redirecting queries they can't understand to search engines vs. auto-completing a domain name.

From what I can see, most of these folks are just hoping some sucker is willing to come along and pay money for the domains. Sometimes it works; most of the time it doesn't, but that doesn't stop people from doing it because they figure one "big hit" is worth all the money they spent buying domains. Sort of like buying a lottery ticket, but slightly smarter.
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It might be of use in CSS debugging, not that I have a huge problem debugging LESS files. But eventually perhaps there will be LESS -> CSS/variables we can test with.
Are you saying selfishness is a negative personality trait?
Pinstagram pixel pusher here, right now we're just focused on building something useful and solving some pain points that we are hearing from our users.
Honestly, it seems the server-side solutions for css meta-syntax that supports variables are still more suited for this type of thing (such as SASS).
What, if any, API are you using to interface with Pinterest?
Brett Victor writes:

When most people speak of Math, what they have in mind is more its mechanism than its essence. This "Math" consists of assigning meaning to a set of symbols, blindly shuffling around these symbols according to arcane rules, and then interpreting a meaning from the shuffled result. The process is not unlike casting lots.

This mechanism of math evolved for a reason: it was the most efficient means of modeling quantitative systems given the constraints of pencil and paper. Unfortunately, most people are not comfortable with bundling up meaning into abstract symbols and making them dance. Thus, the power of math beyond arithmetic is generally reserved for a clergy of scientists and engineers (many of whom struggle with symbolic abstractions more than they'll actually admit).

I think gamification is a great way to teach symbol manipulation, and I think (contrary to Bret) that symbol manipulation is a prerequisite for deeper STEM ideas.

I do also believe that harder mathematical problems can also be gamified, but this process is much less well understood, and you'll probably want a few theorem prover experts around if you attempt a system like that.
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I'll clarify here for you.

Whilst I agree people do useful work relating to MacBooks in general, I do not find that this MacBook is worthy of purchase and outlined my reasons why. I do not specifically slate all MacBooks as a whole, but the general approach being taken on their design which favours consumerism over pragmatism, practicality and convention.

My comment derided the machine and branded it as only suitable for an unimportant segment of MacBook users who produce nothing of value with it and to whom it is a fashion accessory or trinket. It's analogous to the old comment about celery taking more calories to eat than it provides.

Is that a fairer deconstruction of the point?
why wouldn't "youtube" be valid hostname?
The demo and screenshots on disqus.com are a little behind our latest design - but the nav bar has been toned down a lot. Take a look on avc.com or slashfilm.com.
It's not the profanity, but the intent behind the statement with the profanity. Remove the profanity, and it's still not a civil comment. It poisons discussion.
I am curious as to what sort of companies would use a service like this? I'm thinking that startups would contain very enthusiastic individuals who would have lots and lots of names popping into their heads. Who gets someone else to name their kid?

Big businesses would normally have brands and/or already have their name so wouldn't need the service.
.art struck me as odd. Is there that much commercial value in art online or is it so desirable for more sentimental reasons?
deep learning: abstract, apply mechanical rules, concretize
> certainly no harder than any other first position chord except perhaps Em

Or, of course, Em11, although you might call that 0th position.
And just to point out you don't have to go the Ayn Rand route to come up with an alternative...

No, but one should probably consider what Rand had to say about selfishness, when considering discussions of this nature. Her ideas make a lot of sense; and have been a positive influence on a lot of people.
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I'd say initially it will be substandard in some ways, noting a lack of streetview for example, however it's very likely to receive constant updates to bring it into feature parity. Interestingly (or rather) surprisingly Apple maps already has 20M more business listings than Google. Apple maintaining robust business listings is required by Maps and Siri, which currently is lacking business listings outside of the USA. (The two are also an obvious pair for the user.)

Both Google(Where2, ZipDash, Keyhole, Endoxon, ImageAmerica, Quiksee & Zagat) and Apple(Placebase, Poly9 & C3) have formed their mapping arms via acquisitions. Both companies are large and well resourced enough to innovate here. It's looking good for both platforms.
Ripped off is subjective. I want someone else to take care of that stuff for me, so that makes Apple's direction a good one for me. I don't like tinkering with my computer, I don't like fucking around with it to make it do what I need. I do what I do with it and it works, it works better than any of the heap of garbage PCs that I sunk countless hours into before I switched. That's why I use it, and I'm neither an idiot nor ripped off. I get what I expect and more and I'm happy to give them my money for it. Levelling slurs at people who happen to be in their market makes you look like, well, you know.