skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This relates to something I've been feeling lately.. we're losing so much of our digital culture.

We're losing a huge percentage of what's being created, but the overall percentage preserved is going up lightning-fast... it's weird as a historian to try to go through history, knowing it's incredibly incomplete. Landmark global-defining events regarding the early Roman Republic, Mongolian Khanates, etc, are incredibly poorly documented, and scholarly works on the topic contain tons of speculation and guesses about what happened to fill in the blanks.

Like, really basic trivial stuff that wasn't recorded because the price/benefit ratio wasn't worth doing when capture and transmission of information was so expensive.

While we're losing a lot, the rate at which we can and do keep things is growing tremendously... it'll be an interesting future, for sure. (Sorting through all the mess, on the other hand, is going to become much trickier...)
It worked so well for Gnome
The problem is that, in most cases, the user is unable to judge quality. The difference here is software anyone with knowledge can audit and software only the vendor can.

If the vendor is in control, you aren't secure.
‘Girl Thing’ Science Campaign Video Deemed Patronizing, Insulting
well, there is a promising HP project Moonshot, which was going to build on this platform, but it seems that they recently decided to switch to Intel solution.. http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/project-moonshot-take-two...
I think the problem is that they moved that setting. It used to be in the Sounds section where you would turn the alert on and off all together and then repeating was in a different context.
"While I think you're way out in the ozone with the idea that consumerism evolved as a reaction to Communism".

A few months back I would have said the same thing. Then I watched this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

It actually appeared to start post WWI, just the Cold War accelerated the effect.
That bit wit the sunglasses is quite clever. A mirror without announcing to others that you're using one. I'll keep that one in mind.
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Ella Moss Women well in this season I also talked about a lot of glasses that are in use in the community http://www.squidoo.com/ella-moss-women-s-jewel-box-underwire-bra
What an awful, misleading title.

A) Apple is innovating the user experience. The author even specifically says that Apple is far ahead in the game, but doesn't seem to acknowledge that this is precisely because of past innovation.
B) It's not even necessarily Apple who have to innovate. There are tons of developers writing libraries for iOS that make UX and user experiences better. Tons of developers meaning more developers than exist for Android.
C) To claim that Android designers are innovating is just such a weak claim. Most Android apps I see are either ports of legit iPhone apps or really awful designs, note that I specifically mention the design.
Wikipedia's founder calls for UK hacker extradition to be stopped
Agreed on both counts.There is some neat stuff going on with Voroni diagrams in this thread[0] that I am probably going to try and work in next. Any suggestions for how to label something like this[1]?

[0]https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/d3-js/wSAoKPg125s)
[1]http://bl.ocks.org/2869946
Would you care to share the model? I've never encountered any that I thought worked well for voices.
I agree with a lot of what you said above. I just don't think it changes the general picture that much.

> Please explain under which conditions the US government would become unable to fulfill the promises implied by its debt.

At the point where the choice would be a) currency destruction (10-15% inflation), b) default.
Purina hides FDA warning text from search engines by posting text as images
that Shadow Physics demo looks much more impressive than Perspective.
Mobile Hacker? We're changing how business communicates. 
SendHub (YC W12) is looking for a Mobile Hacker.

We're looking for a talented and determined dev to push our mobile efforts.

Skills:
Objective C and the iOS SDK | OO Javascript, we use Backbone | HTML & CSS | Git

Nice to have:
Experience building hybrid native/js app | Python, or a desire to learn quickly (we use Django) | Heroku experience

About us:
We're building simple tools for business to communicate internally and with their customers. We have thousands of users, real revenue, we’re sending hundreds of thousands of messages a month and we’re growing fast - 60%/month across users, usage and monetization.

What you’ll be doing:
Working closely, and at speed, with our small team to make best in class mobile communication apps. Due to our small size, you’ll be involved in almost every part of the software life cycle from specs discussion to implementation to testing and pushing to production. We push multiple times a day and you’ll likely push to production within 24 hours of starting.

Our Philosophy:
We believe in building a wonderful product and taking care of our people. To ensure our team executes - you’ll get autonomy, recognition and regular feedback. We expect a lot of each other but we wouldn't want it any other way. We're hungry and we need you to be too.

Benefits:
Health, dental, meals and smart colleagues who will challenge you everyday.

We're based in downtown Menlo Park, CA (very close to the caltrain station) and while we're flexible on remote working, you'll need to be around the office.

If you're interested in being more than a cog in the machine, please drop us a line: jobs [at] sendhub [dot] com
I assume that if the government were to expropriate all the capital owned by shareholders of Apple, you wouldn't be out there saying that they deserve to keep it?
That's his point. Political categorizations seem arbitrary from a scientific perspective.
Red Sex, Blue Sex: Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant?
People keep bringing that up and I agree. I am trying to figure out how to make it general though. Ideally someone should be able to call this function on any svg element, whether it's a point (circle), path, or what have you. Still thinking through how to make that work.
Diversification
Misguided argument. TLD limitations should've been abolished altogether. A domain name should be able to end in any string, and registered by any registrar.

ICANN't has turned this idea into a massive scam and rip-off, squandering the opportunity to take TLDs to their logical conclusion and end this fake, asinine domain-name "shortage."
I imagine most computers in the world are idle most of the time, so that figure would make a _very_ significant difference if it were true.
The github API uses "\n" inside blobs for multi-line strings, and it works out easily.
How can a government agency stop a droid open source app from being used?
ASK HN: Support eCompuCloud startup please
The trading floor description strikes me as what I think of as the "cafe experience". In a busy cafe (e.g. the one next to the university, a few towns over), all the conversations can "blend" into a wall of sound that lacks much in the way of consistently distinguishable components. As a result, my brain stops trying to pick out the pieces, and my concentration actually rises.

It's still exhausting, though, over the long term. 2 - 3 hours, typically, and I am somewhat fried. But it's at a subconscious level, rather than e.g. the frustration of the cubemate who insists on making speakerphone phone calls, or the one who's personal volume is always set to "11".
The idea and implementation are clever but in essence it's just a custom-tailored Tor gateway, right?
انتخاب محمد مرسي اول رئيس لمصر بعد الثورة
For all of the innovation that Android claims to have going for it, is this Feel UX really the best that you can do? Honestly this is barely changed from the default android UI. You repackaged the widgets so they're on their own page which you could already do. You added a shortcut screen which can hold both widgets and apps and contacts which is the same as any regular Android screen and you put the apps on one page like the launcher. Changing the way the lock screen looks with swiping is cool but that's not all that special. That's a jailbreak tweak away from being an iPhone.

I've got no problem with Android but when you claim to be innovating over another platform when you aren't, that bugs me.
Thanks for the recommendation, this sounds fascinating. By any chance have you also read "Godel's Proof" by Ernest Nagel and James Newman? http://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6dels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/0814... It sounds very similar in scope.
Jimmy Wales call to stop extradition of Richard O'Dwyer to the US.
I would be interested in a review as well. Coming from an OO background, I've been looking for books/articles that focus more on "here's how you'd do that using functional programming" instead of just exercises going over syntax.
That is almost the same problem as having to prove one has been robbed at a solitary place. The police would have to look for a fishy-looking transaction, and see if there were indicators that the machine were bitcoins resided was hacked.

Yeah, there would be slim chances of recovering the stolen money, but that already is the case with cash, given a smart enough robber. The right way to tackle that problem is not to make the stolen goods easy to track, but to have preventive measures. In Bitcoin's case, these measures would be good security practices.
Innovate is a valueless term.

If you've got something basically right, the patience to refine it and the maturity to leave what is correct alone is more important.
Which machine learning classifiers are fast enough for medium-sized data?
The Internet : from 1969-1974
This is a really good article and I like the thinking, however there seems to be an underlying assumption that a company is like a disposable paper plate -- once it's been used for something, it can't be cleaned and reused like a china plate. A company doesn't have to be horrendously expensive to set up, and can even be dirt cheap in some jurisdictions like the UK. If the idea fails, so long as the company isn't otherwise insolvent it can be reused or even kept dormant for the price of a decent lunch, ready for the next idea.

The thing that bothers me about this pre-incorporation experimentation phase is liability. This advice would lead to a window of personal liability in the beginning for the founders. Although I'm not used to the same level of litigation risk American entrepreneurs face, incorporation in any jurisdiction can (in most cases) serve as a really cheap form of legal liability insurance.

I also wonder (and this will be highly dependent on the jurisdiction) whether the founders will be liable for their pre-incorporation actions. For example, if they write software that infringes on someone's patent, would incorporating later ease their personal liability for the time before the business was incorporated and IP rights were transferred to the company?
I'm interested in how this turns out.

Note that:

As of June 21, 2012, only the first chapter is complete.
This doesn't actually look fun to play, but it looks interesting. It's a toy, that could maybe have a game built around it.

Stuff that might make it interesting off the top of my head:

- moving things for the 2D guy to avoid/collect
- moving things for the 3D viewpoint to avoid/collect
- switches for 2D to throw that remove obstructions for 3D, and vice-versa
- sometimes you having to move 2D and 3D at the same time

The biggest thing for me that I can't think of a workaround for offhand is the constant breaking of flow. The video shows you doing like 3 seconds of platforming followed by a context shift into 3 seconds of FPSing.

Hopefully the students behind this have thought of all of these things and many more. Because the idea of "running around imagining Megaman doing his thing across the walls" is a nice adaptation of a thing a lot of people probably did growing up.
And the user has to trust that these 'knowledgeable people' are indeed knowledgeable. The exact same thing they have to do with a vendor.

Open-source and closed-source software really isn't all that much different for users. All the differences require you to become a professional in the field, or a subset of the field before they mean anything.
Comcast Business.
I built my personal blog on Rails and use Heroku so hopefully people won't have an issue like that (Once I get around to actually posting something!)
What do you think will happen when a NULL pointer is dereferenced?
I'm not saying that Java is either.

Rather, that to provide the best user experience on each different type of device (i.e. to follow platform conventions and paradigms and take advantage of unique device capabilities where present), it's best to use platform specific tools and design your application to be consistent with the expected user experience for that particular device.
Design Details We Loved and One We Really Hated at Apple's Big Launch
For me, the topmost few tooltips show up flowing to the left and get chopped by the edge of the block all the dots are in; all I can see of the very top one is "?".

Safari 5.1.7 on OSX.
I think it says something pretty interesting about our idea of "masculinity" that throwing someone in prison to be raped and beaten for the rest of their life is accepted but turning off their sex drive is "abhorent and repulsive."
He's right. If you are engaging in an activity that contains suffering in its blueprint, it is cowardly and dishonest to hide from this.

Change your farking activity if you don't like this. Your complaints annoy other people and even degrade the quality of your own life.

"I expect to be hit hard. I expect to be kicked hard. I don't need to hide from those things." - UFC Fighter Chael Sonnen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mvB391KDTE)
It may have been true at one time that most Android apps were just ugly ports of iphone apps but in my experience that is no longer the case. Devs are taking the platform seriously and it its really coming into its own. Iphone apps on the other hand are starting to look like just mashups of each other all with the same generic looking animations and U X elements. New apps on my Xoom tend to be exciting and original. My iPad? More of the same.
Surface Tension: Could Microsoft Lose by Winning?
Members of the tech media are falling all over themselves to weigh in on the Microsoft Surface.
Dear MS you started the cyber security wars by refusing to make your OS non-backwards compatible, every criminal thanks you..

If that i snot th definiton of gambling site I do not know what is..
Whilst I like the service to the wanna-be-hidden uploader I think this puts you into too much risk yourself.

Imagine someone creates a torrent containing child pornography (of course taking the most extreme example) and uploads it to your server - YOU will be responsible for being the initial seeder of this torrent. I don't believe the laws in the Czech Republic will care that you tell them "oh, but it ain't my data - somebody anonymous uploaded it to my server". You still are seeding it to others.
I think CL works because to most end users, it's really no different than newspaper classifieds. Classified users expect to have to wade through a bunch of useless stuff to find the diamonds in the rough.
Hurd Payout Lawsuit Thrown Out
A startup founder on happiness & Richard Feynman
They may target interest rates, but they are perfectly welcome to target the money supply, they just choose not to.
My suggestions, of perhaps limited use/viability:

1) Work remotely/virtually. You may have to initiate this as a perk. (I saw your comment about this not being a ready option.) You've done particularly well during one review period, and they're seeking to reward you (preferably without spending too much -- if your environment is similar to some I'm familiar with). Introduce the idea/desire to work one day a week remote. One out of five may not seem too risky. Add some personal arguments, and the savings on commute expense (maybe the business has some degree of "green" initiative or attitude, however real or "for show" it may be).

If you get the occasional day remote, build a track record of its particular effectiveness and an argument for (eventually) increasing this. Ease them into it. And be very careful/mindful of avoiding breeding co-worker resentment. Keep your head down, and cast it in terms of "needed/required" as opposed to a perk.

2) Re-evaluate your need/desire to stay. You may have a lot invested. But, how much do you risk if you burn out? And how quickly will they, in turn, throw you under the bus if you do?

Akin to this: BE PRO-ACTIVE. Like a canoe-er or other river-goer, you have to maintain some forward momentum in order to maintain control.

I went through a series of positions and organizational changes that left me extremely exposed to disruptive noise. I compensated until I burned out. At which point I ended up "under the bus".

You don't want that. And, again, pay very close attention to the loyalty you think or assume is present on the side of the organization. Upon what it is contingent. And how quickly, and through how many or few staff changes, that might change.

Finally, I'll mention that there are some businesses that sell "background noise". One has CD's of e.g. fan noise, wind, rain, brook, clothes dryer noise (also good for some infants, I understand), etc. Another has -- or used to have; I haven't checked in a while -- a program with adjustable parameters that would produce specifically incomprehensible, pseudo-roomful/cafe-conversations type noise. They also had some pre-generated recordings, useful where one can't run the program (e.g. a constrained work environment).

P.S. Dug up a few links. I've purchased from the Ear Plug Superstore. By coincidence, part of Farhad Manjoo's NYT article may read a bit like a promotion for them, but at a skim appears to have useful information. And the top response in the Quora thread might be of interest.

Quick and by no means comprehensive nor particularly ranked, but FWIW:

http://www.earplugstore.com/

http://www.earplugstore.com/whitenoisecds1.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/garden/noise-cancelling-de...

http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-set-of-noise-canceling-h...
I'm married with a kid, live in Mountain View and work in Downtown Palo Alto. Aside from rents I love it. The only reason I'd want to work anywhere else would be to save money. SF has zero appeal.
I don't think 'Android' is claiming anything. There was a story on here a few days ago about the online religious battles between the various tech factions, mobile in particular. It was kind of pathetic. When you start anthropomorphizing an electronic gizmo, maybe its time to go outside and get some fresh air. Just a thought.
Sounds like machine learning could be competitive here. It shouldn't be very hard to outperform a system that gives false positives for FSF.org
The difference is that, once you have chosen who to trust, you are not forced to trust them forever; you can change who you trust whenever you want and for whatever reason you may have.

Can you say "I would like to keep using Exchange, but I do not trust Microsoft, so I will switch to another vendor"?

PS: this has to do both with open source and open formats as well.
Haxe 2.10 Release Candidate
I grew up in a family contracting business.

It is hard to give any meaningful comment without more information.

Are you actually intending to build the house yourself, or are you contracting it out?

Is the design set?
"Children around the world are often blonde, but their hair darkens at puberty. So it is not just northern European adult skin that lacks pigment. It is also adult European hair."

The pictures posted by the author about child blondness look suspiciously like cases of malnutrition [1][2].

[1]http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(... (search for "vitamin")

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_color#Medical_condit...
Counting down for a new wave of PadMapper clones / CL scrapers to start popping up.
Off topic...

BadVista campaign pages were conspicuously absent from
Microsoft's live.com search results, even though the same
pages had been appearing on the first page of "windows
vista" Google results for some time. Many people contacted
Microsoft about this, and eventually the pages began
appearing as one would expect.

I wonder if services like DuckDuckGo, who aggregate search results across multiple providers, are effective at bypassing this kind of censorship[1]? For example if Yahoo started filtering out sites that are negative towards Yahoo, and Microsoft did the same for their brand, and Google did the same for their brand. I think DuckDuckGo would be able to provide a more balanced result set.

(Unfortunately the place where DDG seems to least effective is when I'm looking for a particular article by searching for a certain phrase; Google always seems to find it and with DDG I have to dig around. So hopefully that article isn't anti-Google...)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship
Yeah, I'm sure he'll be proud of that in prison;) This is not about the morality of it but about the risks for him.

Besides that, it's not the same. People are free to use any other service while comcast is the gateway and for many the only choice.
Is each page generally only categorised by one person?
There's another school of thought that attributes the variety of hair, skin, and eye color in Europe to sexual selection rather than the brightness of the sun. In brief, Europe during the last glacial period offered very little food for women to gather, so women were almost completely dependent upon men for hunted meat. As a result of this imbalance, women developed striking looks to attract men.

For an example of this line of thinking in the evolutionary literature see: "European hair and eye color: A case of frequency-dependent sexual selection?" (Frost 2006) [1]

Human hair and eye color is unusually diverse in northern and eastern Europe. The many alleles involved (at least seven for hair color) and their independent origin over a short span of evolutionary time indicate some kind of selection. Sexual selection is particularly indicated because it is known to favor color traits and color polymorphisms. In addition, hair and eye color is most diverse in what used to be, when first peopled by hunter-gatherers, a unique ecozone of low-latitude continental tundra. This type of environment skews the operational sex ratio (OSR) of hunter-gatherers toward a male shortage in two ways: (1) men have to hunt highly mobile and spatially concentrated herbivores over longer distances, with no alternate food sources in case of failure, the result being more deaths among young men; (2) women have fewer opportunities for food gathering and thus require more male provisioning, the result being less polygyny. These two factors combine to leave more women than men unmated at any one time. Such an OSR imbalance would have increased the pressures of sexual selection on early European women, one possible outcome being an unusual complex of color traits: hair- and eye-color diversity and, possibly, extreme skin depigmentation.

[1]: http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(05)00059-0/abstr...
> So yes, with an interest rate target of essentially 0%, they can increase the amount of reserves out there, but this does not translate to more money in public circulation.

Sorry just noticed this. This is a common misperception. They have been using QE to create more money in public circulation now that interest rates are 0, and there's nothing ineffectual about that.

To see why this is possible, just consider the question, could the Fed create inflation at the 0-lower-bound by saying they will print money until they get it? The answer is clearly yes. Actually the Bank of Switzerland did that recently to set a Euro peg.
Tanning is a recent phenomenon, started in the 20's as I recall.
Day 14- Content is the King
it's more energy efficient without all those pesky components :)
On the flip side, you will now have documentary evidence to support the assertion "that bug gave me grey hair!"