skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about adding the ability to drag the slider, so that the widget acts as it should act, that is to say as other sliding toggles? It would then be perfect! Rationale : that's again the problem of half-baked UI elements, which confuse their end-users, while the developpers feel satisfied and enjoy long drinks.
Write & Draw (Notes Taker and Sketchbook for iPhone and iPad) 
Description
* With this amazing app you takes notes by handwriting or typing, draw sketches, create colorful drawings or technical diagrams, convert your notes to PDF or image format, store your notes or share it with others through email or Facebook.

An amazing app with great features.
It could be a possibility that they are willing to take a loss. The greatest threat that the Kindle Fire poses to Google is the removal of Google's services.
> Plus the above wont even work as is, since $(date) contains spaces.

This would be "more direct" part.
> And because of implicits, the type-system is also more powerful than what's available in Ocaml and even Haskell.

I don't think that's true. You do the same thing (e.g. collections that choose better representations) via type families/associated data types in Haskell. E.g. in [1] or [2]

That said, what is true is that Odersky has modified the Scala type system in quite interesting ways, specifically to support his collections library. [3]

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/adaptive-containers

[2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate

[3]: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~odersky/papers/fsttcs09.html
I don't think Evernote will find anyone more motivated than him. Nice job.
Grandpa and Facebook
What happens when your grandpa finds out about social pages on inernet...
In the US, you have protections if you have a union contract. Otherwise, you pretty much need to be considered a protected class (varies by state), and your sacking was related to your class status.
The other thing to note "all funded pitches were mobile centric"
The Timeline Of Accelerating Change
I don't see why you are assuming that a wireless headset is necessary and will not be included.

Wireless VR is very important. Getting tangled in cables while you're physically thrashing around sucks. Trust me (owner of original Virtual iGlasses).
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With an r^2 of 0,5 this model only explains 50% of the variations in the dependent variable. In other words, this model is not that reliable.
Off topic but how is it more beneficial to add your name to the change.org petition vs the e-petition service offered by the White House (https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions) / Her Majesty's Government (http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/)? From what I understand the "official" ones at least guarantee your petition to be discussed by those in power once a certain threshold is crossed.
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I disagree with you here.

There are some areas where I am quite frankly talented. Once I get Perl coding on accounting software, there is very little that can stop me and quite frankly I can outperform nearly any programmer I have ever worked with.

On the other hand, there are also things which I cannot do very well no matter how hard I try. When I was in college for example I used to be able to help struggling students in areas like analytical geometry understand the problems and go from getting C's to getting A's. But I couldn't get above a C myself.
Yes it is arbitrary, but it's a claim many people have made in this discussion previously. I'm just reiterating it here.

I don't however see how changing these behaviors would make the web a worse place.
The Emperor of All Maladies was a great book. Even with all the weight it carried dealing with such a serious topic, I could hardly put it down.
As an Indian whose mother tongue did not originate from Sanskrit, I find the attempt to project Sanskrit as a national language disturbing.

Independent India has already gone through this once. The original constitution mandated that Hindi should be made the national language. For obvious cultural and political reasons, when the time came to implement it, there was a backlash from states where Hindi is not spoken. This is especially true in Tamil Nadu, where the pro-Tamil movement altered the political landscape for ever. Congress, the largest political party in India has never won an election in Tamil Nadu after the pro-Tamil movement. in 1963, the constitution was amended to make it explicit that English and Hindi could be used for communication between state and central governments.

I think the status-quo works out well for everyone. I see no reason to impose a langage on people who does not speak or identify with it.
On another note, this site is seriously well-designed. It may be the best-looking videogame website I have seen.

Even if you aren't a videogame person, you should check out the site for its smashing look.
Let’s stop calling Alan Turing a “codebreaker”
There is no talent shortage. There is a shortage of Berkeley/Stanford/MIT grads.

Just look at the difference between grads of those school, who basically get money thrown at them, and the rest of graduates, who have a hard time finding a job at all.
maybe you're right - I didn't catch that.

Apologies to aes256 if I misread his comment.
I suspect it refers to the Nexus Tablet. I really can't see Google offering to maintain manufacturer specific Android front-ends like Samsung TouchWiz, and I can't see manufacturers dropping them for 'vanilla' Android.
The Chat Roulette of political debates?
The "from now on" part is giving me hope, but you are right, it is most likely something trivial like that.
I recently posted a similar question to HN and just found this thread. Incredible suggestions.

Here are mine: http://farhan.org/?p=22
First of all, welcome to the wonderful world of Startup Weekends!

Market testing and customer validation was really emphasized at the last SW I was at. In our team, there was one member who had absolutely no technical background, but that was okay. When we'd come up with our initial idea, he helped a lot by getting out there and talking to potential customers to get a feel for what they did/n't want in a product and what they'd pay. That kind of info guides what you're building, and makes your case stronger when you're presenting!

So I'd say bring a traditional (as in paper) notebook with you, as you never know when you might be out in the field!
Also note: the author may not think it's hateful, but it's using memes that are part of a culturally transmitted animus, with callous disregard for the fact it's (1) directly and immediately hurting people (2) reinforcing ideas whose application hurts people, and it's doing this because the author cold bloodedly cares more for the joke than the lives of trans women.

IOW, it's hateful.
I can see where they are coming from in wanting to verify that a user is Human, and getting them to play a game is a great idea.

However, that solution does not work for everyone.
There are those who use smartphones, tablets, or are stuck behind corperate networks that (cannot/will not) allow you to even view or interact with the game.

I love the idea of not having to type in captcha's all the time, but the solution will have to be a universal one; making it easier for the user to verify they are human, while still keeping all the bots out.

In the meantime, at least recaptcha is doing something useful with the time we spend figuring out the captcha's.
As someone who is currently reading SICP, this is a great complement. Thanks for putting it together.
Very nice ! so much motivation & style ! Good luck but I'm not too worried ;)
USSR was not moon rock-poor, it had a reasonable amount of moon rock extracted by automatic space craft (more precisely, space craft not inhabited by humans). The point of reaching the Moon is different, it's to spark the imagination and inspire. And one of the reasons the USSR collapsed is, btw, the ideas it was based on were not inspiring any longer (an understatement!)
wow. this was negged? there are some really cynical people on this site. Peace to all sentient beings ('hackers' included).
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Oh even the Gordon Brown public apology mostly talked about him as a 'codebreaker' in World War II
Extremely interesting points. I wonder how the rest of the Google ecosystem factors in.

For instance, they are making what appears to be a pretty hard move into productivity apps (Docs + Gmail). This is a potentially lucrative market, although I doubt they're making much money yet.

These things seem to be able to move from the consumer space to the enterprise (a la the iPhone). So is a subsidy at this point worthwhile in the hope that widespread device adoption will drive business for the productivity offerings, in addition to music and video sales?

I really don't know. Interesting to watch, though.
"In the meantime, at least recaptcha is doing something useful with the time we spend figuring out the captcha's."

Can you elaborate? What do you mean they are doing something useful? I'm not familiar with how recaptcha works but, I have used it on many sites before.

(Thanks!)
It's "key/value store": http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-did-slash-become...
Also just to add, If he did start providing evidence as to why he didnt break the laws (UK/US), it would show that he has a reason to extradited. (in order to defend the claims against him)

"His extradition hearings are based solely on proving he has a case to answer in the US" - [1]

"O'Dwyer cannot present an in-depth response to the allegations he faces during his extradition cases, as these need only prove he has a case to answer and the actions" - [2]

[1] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/24/richard-odwyer-extr...

[2] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/24/richard-odwyer-lega...
The point is less what it is than how one feels when it's heard. Sounds and music are often perceived passively and subtly influence your feelings at the moment, particularly the sort of "creepy music" the linked sound resembles most closely.

If you are only analyzing the component noises there's a good chance you'll miss the emotions evoked, similar to the way a joke isn't funny if you dwell too much on the explanation.
> Your code iterated more than once.

Uh... no.

*edit The first element is iterated three times, the second two times and the rest once, making it O(n).
Be Over Flickr, But The Alternatives Aren't Much Better
+1 Twilio!
Same for torrents and no one seems to care. On the other hand, I remember HN readers protecting megaupload (which DID host the copyrighted content).
I'm in a pretty similar situation (30 years old, no full-time programming on my résumé, but a long history of technical problem solving).

One thing I'll add is that, at least for me, the problem of employers only looking for people with X skill right now is not as bad in SF as it is elsewhere. I'm in Washington, DC and the only interest I've gotten has been from companies in the Bay area.
Starting a petition counts as help these days? Lets start a million petitions declaring hunger and poverty to be a bad thing, that'll have the problems cracked in no time.
But if that's the case the problem is different than it is portrayed to HR and that's the problem.

What you need is someone for a) is someone who is both a software engineer (i.e. thinks hard about design) and is a coder/developer. The amount of experience doesn't really matter though experience is an important guide. What really matters is attitude. How does the programmer approach design questions? Is the individual someone who just wants to code? Or is the individual one who is always addressing his or her code for maintainability and pursuing perfect in that regard?

I have seen projects built by people who coded for a dozen years and never got to the point of actually thinking hard about design and maintainability. I have even been stuck in the nightmarish position of maintaining such code (and of course deciding to refactor with a chain saw!).

Again a lot of it is a question of priorities and, I hate to say it, ego. One has to both have an ego enough to question prevailing wisdom but have a small enough one to understand that one's coding style is never perfect. Such individuals are rare, in my experience.
Yeah, it's mostly the British press but I've seen US newspapers talk about his AI or codebreaking works with no mention of e.g., Turing Machines
"reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly."

More at http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore
"I had an opportunity once to sit down with Don Knuth and play Halo on the X-box." ... best thing I will read today.
Hopefully with less male nudity.
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So it could be argued that it's possible that the ICE intentionally made misleading claims (eg: he earned $230k) in the hope that it would force him to address the claims and then cause justification for the extradition?
Well that's boring.
Should read: " China, the most populated country with the second highest GDP, trumps Elon Musk and James Cameron, two individuals who self funded their own exploration company and project."

What was the cost to China for this stunt $1b, $2b? I bet they paid much more then Elon and James.

"Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for China's manned space missions said the program, which began in 1992, would cost a total of almost 40 billion yuan (US$6.27 billion)."
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Hi, I made this extension compatible with Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-open...

On Github: https://github.com/xpressyoo/open-graph-redirect
Yep. Well, I went to a similar sort of small liberal arts school (actually they have great business and nursing programs that are only recognized in the local region). I got interviews from Amazon, Cerner, and a few other big companies, but I was completely unprepared for job interviews (my fault, I know). It's not so much that the talent doesn't exist, it's that businesses only want to hire the very best, and they pass over people who show any sign of weakness or being unsure.

I've got a great job now programming all sorts of things, but it's not purely CS, there's a lot of other stuff there too. Perhaps more BS-CS degree earners should look into industrial applications, they're not ashamed to hire people from small colleges.
I'm not sure if you're serious but it looks exactly like any other videogame website if you ask me. Nice graphics but static content and feels a bit old.
http://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm/

A good book, not hugely in-depth, but enough to bootstrap some learning.
Well, not entirely. He also explained that the original test counted sub-domains that the primary page owner also controls as non-upgraded third-party ones, whereas someone performing a SPDY roll-out would most likely also upgrade them. The table then showed exactly how many resources that were counted as "non-upgradeable" were in fact most likely upgradeable (most or even almost all of them).
I hope someone with some experience can help you answer this question.. I am curious about this as well
> According to Thide, OAM should allow us to twist together an "infinite number" of conventional transmission protocols without using any more spectrum. In theory,

I don't know much about the science, but anyone who claims their new breakthrough has an infinite capacity immediately sets off my skepticism.
Sure, Audio Technica ATH-ANC7B
Why do password strength requirements exist?
Well, it was front page news - in China. I think internationally there are equally (if not more) important stories happening right now. Manned space-flight isn't a new concept...readers may not be that interested in it.

There were a multitude of important stories happening on Sunday outside of China: Egypt democratically electing its first president, for example. Editors make a call on which stories readers will find most interesting. The front-page is what sells the newspaper.

It is not as if the story was ignored - I think most Western news sources gave it coverage (certainly the ones I read did). But I also think in many countries right now other domestic and international issues (the Arab Spring, the Eurozone Crisis, the US election, etc etc) are of far greater interest to the public. And that's what sells newspapers / gets hits.
Only one of the words is actually known and used to verify humanness. The other is an unknown scan from a book, and after a certain number of identical entries (3?) is considered known.
Ugh, no thanks. I don't want iTunes ruining my filenames and directory structure with its horseshit idea of what's right.

And to this day, iTunes doesn't detect new music that you add to your directory structure, which even EphPod did quite reliably. That's pretty pathetic.

WinAmp sucked because of the asinine "skinning" that turned it into a game of Myst just to use it.
Title is incorrect. There is nothing about SpaceX or James Cameron in article. Even more: there is nothing about price in relation to SpaceX and as far as it is known to me SpaceX is cheaper. James Cameron reached 11000 kilometers while China reached only 7000 kilometers. Please don't invent your titles if you are not sure about the topic.
If the price point is correct, this puts it in direct competition with the Kindle Fire, which has sold reasonably well (despite being a rather mediocre device).
corin_ hit the hammer on the head with that.

Sory, I should have tossed a link in when I made that comment.

There are always two words that you will see. One that is known, and the other is unknown.

Once enough users (lets use 10 for this example) type the same responce to the unknown word (and correctly identify the known word), the unknown word will move to a known status and be matched up with a new unknown word.

Thereby digitizing books!
(ever wondered why one of the words is clearer than the other? Now you know!)
Wow, beautiful art and animation (trailer: http://scrolls.com/media ). I've never played a CCG, but I'll check this one out.
I guess one thing that irks me a bit about the article is that it is so employment centric, and yet the logic one should draw from the comparison is to break out of that way of thinking. After all the first guy with years of experience didn't get them on the job.

The moral of the story I would take from it is that if you want to program make a name for yourself, and do so without regard to your employment.
Oh look! It's an iPad clone. At least Microsoft tried something different with the Surface FUDevice. Google just seem to have outsourced their industrial design to Apple.
Is there any specific reason why macros can't work in a statically typed language? How does Typed Racket handle this. Or does it not have macros?
It would be really nice if competition with China in these endeavours prompts a second space race (faster that just the SpaceX et al are going currently). Put some real life into plans to get humanity permanently into space, not just in Earth orbit.

Although, there is the risk that space becomes militarised, which would probably be worse that the current situation: scientific satellites would be at risk, especially Earth-observing ones, and we would have a second Cold War.
The original point was competing with the Soviets and generating national pride, sure. The point now would be to get practice with the harder problems of survival in space, as a trial run for the marathon that is going to Mars. Every time we as a nation do something that seems audacious, we raise the morale of the nation and energize the populace to work harder on pretty much everything else. We could certainly use a shot of national pride to the arm after the events of the past decade...
See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4061784

for previous discussion here on HN about how little is actually known about the Indus Valley civilization, which may have had very little influence indeed on subsequent civilizations. The language spoken in the Indus Valley cities is unknown, and may not be recoverable, as there is not even general agreement that the Indus Valley inscriptions are writing (as contrasted with proto-writing ornamentation, a phenomenon attested in several other centers of world civilization).
My partner and I always thought that paid is great to start with then organic traffic should take over.

We have real difficulty getting results from organic traffic. We now are regularly number 1 or 2 on google organic search for our exact key phrase. We're seeing very little traffic and zero enquiries which is very disheartening.

However if we run a PPC campaign for the same keyphrase we get 20 - 50 enquiries per day (dependant on our budget) and 5 to 10 enquiries.

Our paid ad is above our own organic listing and the paid wins hands down every time. If we stop the ads, another ad beats us to the click.

I think ads are being clicked far more than we realise.

We would love to rely on organic traffic but only paid traffic gets results.
DOJ vs. Apple, e-book publishers: Dispute heats up
Aaaargh. Mouse dexterity testing is incredibly irritating when you're using a TrackPoint (rubber nipple mouse) :P

On a slightly more serious note, this is awful for anyone who has mouse dexterity issues, like older or inexperienced computer users, those using assistive devices, or even people with shaky hands. It also relies in some places on culturally specific assumptions (for instance: put toppings on a pizza... I see some squiggly reddish stuff which seems like it's meant to be bacon, but in the UK bacon doesn't look anything like that!)

Good on them for trying to make the CAPTCHA experience more interesting, but this isn't quite a complete solution...
I just tested it on a mobile device and it actually worked great. I was surprised.
Yeah, I probably was pretty late to the party. I was still pretty young around that time, and my memory is hazy.

I know I used Winamp (some version) to play all my crappy Napster MP3s. I don't remember anything good or bad, just that I used it. And then at some point I remember hating Winamp...probably version 3 from the sounds of it. I think that's when I switched to FB2k
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Take a 4TB harddrive back in time to 1979, and tell them it is infinite. They will not argue with your assessment, even if its not completely correct.
HN, what is going on here? Why are the four comments which disagree with the article (including my comment) all being downvoted?

Downvotes are for comments that don't contribute, not comments you disagree with.
By "hacking" here , they basically just mean DDOS right?
It's hardly "trumping SpaceX and Cameron", that's pure linkbaiting.

What's notable about SpaceX and Cameron's sub is that they're both wholly privately funded -- that's a novel, and significant, development. That a world-power government can do these things is hardly news, and in no way overshadows the significance of SpaceX & Cameron's projects -- being important milestones towards commercial exploitation of the solar system & deep ocean.

Compare China's current position to the traditionally dominant players -- i.e. other world-power governments -- if you want the comparison to be even remotely meaningful.
For the same reason any other large enterprise does...so many special cases in their organically grown 'systems' that it would be cheaper to get something custom coded than try to shoehorn their process into an off the shelf environment.
"Increase Conversions:
PlayThru increases form submissions by up to 40% versus standard CAPTCHAs like reCaptcha. That twisted text annoys people so much that they stop filling out your form. Make it easier with our short, simple games."

I would looooove to see the numbers behind this.