skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We kill foreigners 24/7 around the globe for all sorts of reasons (war on drugs, war on terrorism, who knows what else), they could just internally label him an intellectual property terrorist, Obama signs off on an assassination order, and goodnight."

Seriously, what are you suggesting? That the US assassinates prominent citizens of allied nations inside allied nations for no other reason but to support the business interests of large multinational corporations?

Are we really seen to be such a mafia state as this, now? Honestly, when has this ever happened?
Comparing computer illiteracy with analphabetism seems a little exagerated. I remember seeing this same divide between geeks and people who couldn't care less ten years ago.

And about the quote: "The kids I have, and that is roughly two dozen of the brightest young digital artists a semester, often have no idea what Microsoft Word is. They can't tell a Mac from a PC. And forget Excel," he says. He struggles to get his students to use basic computing etiquette."
Maybe they should raise the bar for entrants to this course... really.

update: how can those students be the brightest digital artists if they can't even tell if they are working on a Mac or PC?
Actually they do. My method prevents attackers from being able to access phpMyAdmin in the first place and thus if an attacker cannot access phpMyAdmin, then they can't exploit any of the vulnerabilities within phpMyAdmin.

Prevention is definitely better than a cure in this instance; preventing the unwanted from accessing phpMyAdmin is better than fixing all the vulnerabilities and hoping that an attacker doesn't discoverer a new exploit.
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"at least not until I get funded"

Having money in the bank means that can afford lawyers, but it also means that you are a more attractive target for litigation as you are then worth suing (if they are after cash).

[NB The startup I co-founded years ago was involved in deeply unpleasant litigation soon after getting our first round of VC investment. Fortunately our lawyers made them go away.]
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In the post keynote workshop, they noted that this is not entirely fixed. They have made improvements but they also acknowledge they have some distance to go to have it perfect.

I don't have the technical details of the updates, and I doubt anyone will for a short while.
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1. To build new operating systems.

2. To modify existing ones.

3. It's easier to write than assembly language.
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Maybe that explains why it's $299.
It has to be said that we only have what the article calls social literacy - i.e. a largely correct assumption that everybody can read and write - because there are laws in place that make it so. Everybody has to learn reading and writing in school.

I don't think social computer-literacy can be achieved without making it a mandatory part of everybody's school curriculum.

So the question we have to debate is whether computer-literacy should be such a mandatory part of the curriculum. I am not completely certain on this, but my instincts tell me that the answer is Yes.
So you build tools that attempt to make it easier to make mobile apps (PhoneGap, Trigger, Titanium etc) and the geeks cry "use native code!".

I'm looking forward to the day where we can build any website/app/program/idea by simply having a conversation with our computers (or the cloud). 12 year-old: "I want a mobile app that finds my friends on Facebook nearby", comp: "Sure, how's this?", 12yo: "Cool, I want to be able to post a message to all nearby friends", comp: "Here you go. Do you want it to send an SMS or a push notification or?"...etc...

As much as 98% of HN will hate this concept, the faster coding can become more modularized and easy enough for the mainstream to build whatever idea comes to mind, the better off society will be and the faster humanity will progress.
people use the twitter website?
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Paranoid delusions seem to be a significant occupational hazard at top levels of play.

Any theories on why that is?

Maybe having super-charged pattern-making ability makes for great chess AND great paranoia.
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It seems more and more people are realising it: if you value your friendships, get off Facebook.
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Depends on what's your definition of value. Yours seems to be "profit".

In the typical entrepreneur sense, you are selling/renting something that the other people want or need without any coercion whatsoever.

I bet the people being sued didn't want or need to pay lawyers and settlements, short of being forced by the system.
If we ever build computers smart enough for that, they'll probably also be smart enough to tell us to go f* ourselves. Even more probable if by that time we are still preoccupied with social networking trivialities.
Key highlights as stated by Guillaume:

- a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the correctness of your code,

- static compilation for the performance of the critical parts of your application,

- modularity, splitting the Groovy JAR into smaller feature-oriented JARs and letting you create your own extension modules,

- JDK 7 Project Coin syntax enhancements, so that Groovy is still as friendly as possible with its Java cousin,

- and JDK 7 Invoke Dynamic integration to benefit from the support of the JVM for dynamic languages.
true but I like to stay on the safe side until Greg gets back to me.
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What is that logo from (or parody of)? ESET has very similar logo, but I think there was one with these colors.
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There's something I don't understand about this. My impression is that grandmasters don't play quickly (against each other). I'd be surprised if it was uncommon to spend more than five minutes on a move, for example.

So what takes so long? I assume their process is roughly "consider all possible moves, decide how good they are". So if they only look one move ahead, that sounds to me like when they evaluate a potential position, it can take more than a few seconds and they do it without reading possible future moves. Which seems unlikely.

Am I misinterpreting "one move ahead"?
Thinking about it, this is the same model as the app store.

Here is an analogy with WWW vs. Minitel case.

Does Apple allow multiple alternative app stores? If not, then Android should eventually make it obsolete, since you do not have to 'ask Google' to create and market a mobile app there.
True, computer literacy today is harder than it should be (because we are only in the early days). This being said, the core of programming (being able to formalize what you want) is a rare and valuable skill that isn't going to be automatized away any time soon.
The solution is peer-to-peer. We should all have direct connections to our friends. Facebook as a means of communication is weird. It's like sharing your private conversations with your friends with a bunch of strangers... Facebook employees, Facebook advertisers, and who knows who else. The latest email maneuver is yet another slap in the face. Facebook are snoops!

Imagine if Facebook allowed you see who was accessing your profile. Some early social sites had that feature. It was useful and fun. But those sites were not like Facebook. Why do you think Facebook never will have this feature? Maybe because the people accessing your profile for information about you are not necessarily your friends or people you know? Lots going on behind the scenes that they do not want you to see. It all starts with Zuckerberg and his attitude. He's sociopathic at heart and as such he really has no business being in charge of so much personal information.
I wish handlebars had this. I have to usually resort to having a property tell me if it's the last item in the collection =/

Regardless, I wouldn't even consider Walrus until there was server-side support.
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Those pictures do not properly reflect the dramatic difference in design. And I suspect you picked those deliberately.

But more importantly, the next generation of Nano's looked a lot more like the original mini, including the metal and the colors.

So this "bold move" seems like a mistake Apple quickly corrected.
Adobe is still providing bugfix versions of the 11.2 tree for NPAPI linux.
What you said doesn't make sense. One guy's cost is another guy's revenues, not value.

A good way to put it would be: "Patent laws and companies created a market for Patent Trolling that is worth $29B per year."
Aside from the fact that this post is mostly pointless, it's also totally misinformed.

The OP started off by stating his reasons for dropping FB in this "experiment".. namely losing touch with the people for which he originally signed up under.

But he clearly doesn't engage with them if he's not seeing their updates.

Your social graph needs fine tuning. It's like any good bayesian filter, it learns over time what interests you. You can of course give it a push in the right direction by putting people in acquaintances, or hiding specific people from your timeline. (People in your acquaintances don't show up as often in your newsfeed).

This post just shows that you most likely don't understand the full feature set of Facebook and how to best optimize your social graph (not that this is your fault). Facebook has some of the best machine learning for figuring out what is relevant to me. I'd probably argue that you click on too many memes and don't interact with your friends as much if this is what it is serving you.

Don't drop Facebook, just learn how to use it.
I personally don't use Facebook for interacting with that many friends. I have about 96% of my friends as acquantiances. I have a small set of about 10 people as friends, and I subscribe to about 100~ people.
My newsfeed is so rich with really good content.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. No necessity means no invention. Right now, we're building an entire generation that will be unable to produce computer innovation because they've become complacent: they believe that facebook is the end of the computer world. That would be fine if facebook actually were the end of the computer world, but it isn't. In thirty years we'll need those people to manage sprawling databases, automate more and more complex systems, and generally bend computers to their will, and they'll be unprepared and inadequate.
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You don't want logic in your templates so you can share the templates both client and server-side. For example, in my Backbone.js app, I use the same Handlebars templates on the server when serving content to the search engine crawlers since they can't run the JavaScript.
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This article is badly argued. The point about the assembly line isn't the fact that people were turned into cogs but became much more productive, the point is that the benefits of that additional productivity were and are shared very unequally. Writing computer programs has no inherent value any more than reading or writing itself does. We only read so that we can "hear" what somebody else is saying. If in the future the average person does not need to learn how to read in order to acquire knowledge or to write in order to make himself heard that is not an inherently bad thing at all. What matters is how the benefits of additional wealth generated by new technologies(eg no need to spend many years learning how to read and write) are shared.
I don't want to 'optimise my social graph'. Especially given it used to work properly and feed me the relevant content that I wanted about a year ago.

You can try defend the social graph, how much Facebook has done to improve it and so on, but for a lot of people it doesn't actually achieve what it used to, and that's an issue.
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They weren't forced by a nebulous system but by a for-profit company. Hackernews needs to be consistent - that for-profit company saw value there, and created that value. (In the ycombinator sense.) Do you really not see the difference between a broken window and a company getting people to pay it to install windows through legal pressure?

I'm disagreeing with the definition of "value" used around here - for normal companies, not patent trolls - and to show my disapproval with this notion I insist that the word value be applied here as well.
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Exciting. As a long-time Groovy / Grails user, can't wait to dig in. I think the new static features make more people coming in from static languages more comfortable getting into the language. .
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Exactly. And yet by the business ethics that are rampant here, they do create value (see my cousin comment). These aren't "the system". These are specific for-profit enterprises.

If an enterprise shrinks the size of the economy by $1b but in the process gets people to pay it $100m, then by getting people to make that payment it has "created 100m of value." Nevermind the effect on the rest of the system.

Please be consistent here.
You're right, which is weird (I don't know who he is). When my friend showed me, it's replaced with "Mark Zuckerberg".
I don't see the relation here. If there was no facebook or other apps, people would not use the computer, they would watch TV, go to pub, or stuff like that.
These people that use facebook, mostly, just don't care about computers, they want to interact with their friends and have fun.
What would you suggest? Making facebook harder to use? Making people learn to program to publish a message on twitter?

Users are just users, they don't want to know how it works. It was always like this.
The Youtube flash video player is displayed on top of the create event form. (On my MBP screen). Looks like they haven't tested it with smaller screens.
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thebulletlist.com - was supposed to be mind-mapping before mind-mapping software existed
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Maths is a mandatory part of the curriculum in the UK and I'm sure in the US and in many countries. Famously, we are not very good at it as a country. Teenagers are asking for 'real world' maths more, they don't like the abstract nature of mathematics as found in standard syllabi.

How about incorporating mathematical modelling as part of school maths? Using Excel/Calc or a programming environment such as Scratch?

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Any mileage? The history of school maths by the way is pretty political: no stats before about 1950 in the UK, and then only for the top 10%. Arithmetic for the workers.
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Yes you can dePend on a soulless money making machine to optimize your relationships... And hope they get it right

Or you can just take control of your relationships and nourish them the old fashioned way: calling, email, face to face, etc.
That is fair and unbiased, I would approve of this change to the title.
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I had a quick look at the screenshots, looks like a great idea to me. What if you made a social bent to it? Like 'words with friends' but 'stories with friends' ? Eg, the app comes up with a random first paragraph, then you have to write a paragraph, then your friend writes a paragraph, and so on. Could make for some hilarious stories!
until the people I know are actually on Plus,
G+ events are just going to be something else
just for the geeks

That should not a problem, as most of the people you know, have a Google account, and implicitly are subscribers of Google+
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when a company claims to have "created $50m of value" they mean that that's what they're producing is "worth" as valuated by their customers. For lean companies like those featured here, their cost doesn't enter the picture.
Groovy is really quite a remarkable language.

The static compilation and type checking features are quite stunning, and if they really work as advertised will truly put to rest the last remnants of my interest in Scala.

I would love to see some more direct support for doing a pure functional style of programming, but what is there is close enough and so much easier to grok than Scala, to be honest.
Very nice implementation of some of Bret Victor's ideas!
I'm not aware that the ycombinator sense of value is profit (or maybe income?). Not saying it isn't, I'm just unaware of that.

And when I said system, I meant the law forcing the companies to pay, not the troll using the law as a tool to create profit.

We could enter murky territory on whether other forced forms of income (taxes or fines, for example) provide value, they are forced but on the other hands they are supposedly used to common benefit, instead of private profit.
I don't actually see the problem. The analogy between learning computer programming and learning to read and write is flawed. The written word is a tool which, to be used, requires both parties to know how to read and write. There is no way to use written media unless you know how to read. Computer programs are not like that. You don't need to know programming to use programs, and there is really no problem if most people don't know how to program. The real analogy would be programming, and knowing how to operate a printing press. You need this knowledge to produce the end product (programs and printed books), but not to use it. And that's fine, really.
When you finished being the janitor, you could be the web developer for a moment and fix the navigation which floats above the text of the article on my Android phone when zoomed in via double tap.
It needs to be pointed out that there were legal struggles last century over the right to repair automobiles. Car companies didn't want third parties to be allowed to fix their cars. At the time, governments generally decided in favour of consumer rights to their own purchases and the benefits of competition.

As a disturbing sidenote, the "right to repair" issue has re-emerged with the computerization of cars: http://www.r2rc.eu/
Oh, there is nothing like the smell of Luddites in the morning!(people against change mixed with fear and mixed with "those were the times...").

So I assume this person really knows how the clothes she wears are made. Of course if she wears socks or a sweater she will know knitting, or at least how to manage a sewing machine(everybody should know just the basics).

Of course she will also know how her car works and repair it when needed, if she had ever flied she will know how to pilot a plane.

Look at mee!!, I AM A GEEK! I know how to do all of the above so everybody should!!

Now you also need qualities that are not geek nature. It seems like we have to be everything, from playing good the piano and being a good lover to being the funniest at the parties and work in your job like a machine, while we are the best parents to our children and the best givers to the community.
Expect to see a lot more of this, this is exactly how we're developing the first computer-photographed feature film at Fohr.

We use Houdini's digital asset technology to seamlessly develop two version of each asset: one for the gaming engine, and one for the film-quality renders. We use the gaming engine to do all of the camera work, set dressing, initial lighting setups, etc. We can easily create any shot, just like Pixar does with their animated films. We use this ability to iterate on the story in the context of the fully edited film as we constantly increase production value in each scene.

Then, when a scene is solid, we move on to film-quality lighting and rendering. Our facial capture is done at 120fps with up to four RED Epic cameras, each with special stereo hardware we've developed (so up to eight 5.5 MP images are captured simultaneously 120 times a second). Along with the mo-cap data for actors, this allows us to finish the film entirely within the computer.

We're currently looking into Crytek's engine, and I guess we'll look into Source Filmmaker now too. It's a great time to be making films with the computer.

Sadly, the VC industry is completely dry in this area. I wonder what's up with that?
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Someone would have to program the computer either to the point that it can learn by itself, or that it can do everything already. Lots and lots of programmers would still be needed. And bug fixing would be an honored and stable vocation done by programming masters, it would be like the most minute and delicate brain surgery.
That's interesting. I like Google+, but none of my friends use it. Inviting them to events would be one way of getting them started. Would be even better if I could invite people without Google accounts by e-mail, to make it generally usable for everyone.
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This argument could be applied to any technical progress.

Email for example: "Sure you could dePend on a soulless money making machine to optimize your communications... And hope it does it right. Or you can just take control of the situation and do it the old fashioned way: letters and stamps."
I doubt this quote is to be taken literally. I rather think he means that good chess players are very, very good at deciding which moves to think deeper about based on intuition, hence reducing the need to visualize.

He's being witty, is all.
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It's possible that the 8GB is slightly below "cost", and the 16GB slightly above "cost" so that, based on projected sales breakdown of the two varieties, the range as a whole will break even.

I put "cost" in quotes because working out the unit cost of a single item produced by a large organisation is a complicated accounting exercise with competing methodologies like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity-based_costing.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4163714 <- comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166652

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166722

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166912
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Yet another step towards massive adoption of Groovy as an alternative to Ruby and JS for startups. I can't wait to try this out with Vert.x and hopefully get away with never doing JS on the server.