skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tip. I've just been looking at Learn You a Haskell, it's nice to have some specific usecases when learning a new language
Will do! My "all goes well" was more about estimating the "when" than about the outcome (which is already fairly positive anyway!).
Very right. A lot of people do something naive like just hashing passwords with a standard cryptographic hash function, figuring that they're designed and implemented by experts, and they end up with a careful implementation of the wrong algorithm.

Of course, in the case of password hashing, the answer is pretty easy. (Spoilers: scrypt if there's an easy library for your language of choice, bcrypt otherwise, and PBKDF2 if you need to justify your decision to someone who habitually wears a tie.)
I disagree. Not knowing how it works makes me not want to use it.

I don't know if you're right or not, but certainly YouTube and desktop iTunes is only a subset of AirPlay content. This doesn't really scale without providing a spec for content to follow.
E-Book Privacy
Apple's own audio recorder will record with a blank screen, which is probably necessary to keep long lecture and presentation recordings practical. I wonder why people didn't/don't just use that. Of course the instant remote upload feature is convenient (and not yet possible from the voice memo app AFAIK).
We hope.
They already released US state secrets and he's been under house arrest for over 500 days without charges.
Rails Freelancing Handbook
Definitely, there is no plausible way that the look of that page is intentional. The text is really messed up, overlapping, poor composition, things don't line up...
You'd be surprised to know how often it's just the username encoded in base64...
I would definitely make that mistake multiple times if
I was drunk at a party. If there was a lot of crap music at the party, I might even use it as an excuse for 'accidentally' changing the music.
Artemis - a simulated spaceship bridge game
Bitcoin is an actual thing that works (just 2 years after invention). Homeopathy has found no supporting evidence in 150+ years and it completely lacks even a reasonable mechanism. Apples and oranges.

That paper you mentioned is complete bollocks: http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/10/why-i-am-nominating-...

And finally hiding nonsense behind "everyone believed the world was flat" is quite aggravating. Scholars have known the earth was spherical and even its approximate circumference for over 2000 years.
the sort of casual home-based cooking for others as a small enterprise works well in india (any big city where people flock for work has tons of people working to keep them fed). however, in the usa i believe commercial kitchen requirements would make it a very high-overhead enterprise.
Exactly. The more familiar you get with the Android API the more you think things like why does the activity I'm starting have to be on the same device? Can't I fire Intents to devices on my local network? Wouldn't it be cool if the YouTube activity I'm using on my phone could be migrated to the TV with all state preserved?

You get problems in terms of where the data to drive it comes from, especially if it's the class of data you'd normally store on an SD card, which may be one slightly more reasonable explanation of the ludicrous cloud dependence of the Q.
Principles For Building Successful Mobile/Web Applications
Validate if he/she's a good fit for your team first. Usually it takes time. Equity has a permanent effect and you don't want to make a decision in haste.
Would be nice if there was an affordance for transparent, this is a common problem for JS color pickers I've seen recently.
These language enthusiasts forget that the best language is the best one for the task at hand. They'll get it eventually IMHO.
Buy a roku for $50, and use Plex. On the fly automatic transcoding and folder watching, no mess no fuss.
Thank you so much! Wow. Just seeing this response.

I'll definitely check out your eBook. Thanks again!
For a while, retina versus non-retina displays, lower spec camera, less storage, and different case (new vs classical).
Houston We Have A Problem, Patient ID Theft
University of Texas reported A stolen laptop back in April. Nearly two months later, the M.D. Anderson cancer center finally reaches out to patients involved. This incident raises concern over the need for proper database security among health care providers.
Right, but the point of an elevator pitch is to have a polished, 30-second-or-less summary of what you do.

Filling out the questions with any level of detail will get you way over 30 seconds, and it'll probably be poorly organized and unclear. Our job is to take your description of the business and distill it down into an effective pitch.
What is Linked Data?
Why would anyone recommend using bcrypt and then say to not use bcrypt ($2a$)?
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=itunes+remote
I've been in a similar situation.

I found another developer with the same feelings about our (lack of) code quality as me and we put our desks opposite each other. This allowed us to exchange ideas and implement them in a positive environment. This worked well, and we quickly improved our deployment and testing practices.

But refactoring the code was harder. Developers that had been there 10 years knew that starting to pull at X would break Y, so they were afraid of change. Of course they had experience to avoid most problems, and this knowledge was what made them valuable to the company. At any other company they would have been sub-par developers.

Our improvement progress slowed down. We got tired of having to work really hard to get to the most basic industry standard, which were still far from stuff we could be really proud of.

In the end we both quit, and it was the right decision.

If you feel you have the support from other developers to make a change to your situation, then stay and do it with energy. But otherwise just move on, there is no point in wasting your time when there are so many better places.
There's a huge, huge difference between:

a) a system in which paying a third party to spend their life understanding that system aids in better navigation of that system

versus

b) a system in which you must pay representatives of the system in order to engage with the system.

Yes, in both situations, more resources will get you better results, but process matters. System A is a whole lot closer to redemption than System B.
¿Qué es Buffer y cómo funciona?
On comments, Facebook and Disqus #discuss
None of the on-the-ground transhumanists take Ray very seriously. While he might genuinely be attempting to bring about advanced technology, I don't see how "get lots of publicity" is a viable method to reach his purported goals.

He hasn't really worked on OCR since the 70s. Apparently, that's his claim to technological progress. Oh, also he did some electronic noisemakers. Still, I wonder about the 40 years between then and now. 40 years is a long time to work towards transhumanist technologies. But instead he has squandered it into publicity on top of his OCR accomplishments?

There is a growing sentiment among transhumanists that his cheerleading and publicity campaigns aren't going to materialize advanced technology. We have to build it ourselves. But we already knew this, it's just that the "sit back and wait for it to happen" fairytale is very seductive. In fact, that's exactly what people want to hear.

For somewhat-unrelated criticism regarding Ray Kurzweil, there are these emails from Paul D. Fernhout: http://heybryan.org/fernhout/ But to be fair, you can still spot TSiN on random bookshelves when you go to hackerspaces. It's almost cute, really.

Bias: irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap ("sponsored by George Church" just like everything else)
Looks like a great service.

I think i found an error in your example at https://www.getbridge.com/learn/examples

see: http://i.imgur.com/vYUyL.png
Spotify on iPhone works this way as well. Tap a song while playing a different one, and the new song immediately starts to play. Swipe to the right and press the playlist icon and it gets added to the queue. I've messed up song requests, to the ire of friends listening.
Anecdote.

Two years after I bought my Samsung TV (I paid 100€ more for the same model but with DLNA) I cant stream videos from my PC to the TV.

I'm pissed because I have an StreamToMe.app (which is like 3$) on both iPad and iPhone who runs smoothly and eats everything: mkv, mp4, avi, divx, xvid, multiple audios, multiple subtitles and subtitle formats...

Again. Anecdote.
I've done several of these online courses so far.

The Udacity ones are definitely the easiest of the bunch. I think they aim to be. That's ok, it seems to be their market, at least at the moment.

Cousera courses seem to be more challenging, though I suspect they still fall somewhat short of the demands of the actual Stanford classes. But I get more out of them and prefer them to the Udacity classes.

The best class, by far, was the MITx Circuits class. I found it very demanding and felt a genuine sense of accomplishment when I completed it. Again, I'm sure it wasn't as tough as the actual MIT class since the exams were longer and open book, but it was by no stretch of the imagination easy.

If all the classes at the various options were like the ones that have completed thus far, I'd pick the EDx (formerly MITx) courses hands down.
The biggest disruption is zero cost, better lecture format and systematic approach.

1. Zero cost.

Yes, there are plenty of web-accessible, paid educational material. Many people make good
business from it (e.g. lynda.com). Zero cost is a differentiator.

Also, the paid material is usually vocational (e.g. teaching you how to use photoshop), not physics 101, the kind of material you study in college. I assume that's because college already exists, gives out diplomas so for-profit enterprises don't try to compete with colleges.

2. Better lecture format.

There are free, high-quality lectures (MIT's OCW etc.) but while the content might be high-quality, the experience is awful. At first I was excited about OCW but just couldn't bear to sit through 1 hr lecture with paltry written notes.

Udacity uses the format pioneered by Khan Academy of short videos, has supplemental like exercises and has a clear path from start to finish.

3. Systematic approach.

Again, compared to previous initiatives like MIT's OCW, Udacity's goal is to provide complete courses. Clearly they are at the beginning of delivering that but I think that we can all agree that their Minimal Viable Product has been very successful, which validates product-market fit, and it's also clear from interviews that Udacity has much bigger goals and they are executing pretty aggressively on them. Remember, Facebook didn't have 600 million users on the first day.
Then go and ask Americans basic questions like the one above. Or see how many Canadian provinces they can name. Or Mexican states.
PG is only an existence disproof of the statement that all rich people are horrible, which nobody really claims. The claim in this article is that, all else being equal, more money has a negative average effect on certain personality/social characteristics. That's not even incompatible with the same people having created real value through their businesses.
Seems like it's easier to get hackintosh.
A Victory for the Internet
Note: I don't want to be the [citation needed] asshole here, but this is the first time I've heard of the distinct schools of homeopathy and I'm skeptical (of course).

Can you point me to an article about this history?
ESR: Cisco provides a lesson
Can I Install and compile non phonegap applications too?
Facebook Dating: This Site Rounds Up Single Friends of Friends
Zaptech Solutions Announce The Latest Updates In Web Development Services
I think I met this team once; while I was a little dubious at first, seeing how they laid out the page makes me much more interested. I like the concept and I think our team will give it a go.
Lessons Learned from Implementing Paxos
Online user experience should not be an afterthought...
Who's freedom are you maximizing? The freedom of those who put their money in the bank or those who manage that money?
The AI class experiment wasn't even a year ago. Udacity as its own entity is barely 6 months old.
SaaS. http://dumper.io/ and http://uptimer.at/
A bit more meaty read is the followed blog post by Stephen Wolfram (which is linked to in the posted article):

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/07/a-moment-for-particle...
Same here, I downloaded, and it requires Adobe Air, then I stopped...
Analyzing Android 4.1 Jellybean's potential
Yep, it turns out our theories are true and there's no magical way to create an anti-gravity field or go faster than light. Disappointing, but definitely not unexpected...
The most depressing thing about this article is the top comment(s) on how this somehow is justification for an argument for intelligent design.
I agree this is the best way; it's still dynamic sql (the database is not paramaterizing the columns, the application is). I think you accurately summarized best practices, but it always comes down to implementation and people make mistakes.

(See another person discussing this here in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4203929 )
Announcing The Google Analytics App for Android
Rename the font 'Comic Sans' to 'Comic CERNs'
I don't enjoy it either, to me even though some principles are quite different, it seems like a series of mini waterfalls.

The other thing is that it seemed to remove any creativity of control from the developers. In some cases this is a good thing because developers get stuck in ruts and heads way in the sand. But small tweaks improvements that only show themselves to be available when you get into the code, can't' be done. They'll be put in the backlog, and generally never lifted to the top. And if you put them in, then it 'adds risk to the sprint'.

Ultimately it feels like it removes a lot of fun from the role of developing. Granted a lot of the above stem from the company and not necessarily the process.
RSA is an interesting example, because that definitely seems to fall into the territory of "you can't patent math". "Oh, it's just some multiplication, how hard can it be? You can fit the whole thing on a single whiteboard."
You need a MAC address to install an iPhone app.
Unfortunately, the article isn't yet open-access (PNAS has a 6-month-embargo "delayed open access" approach), but the abstract can be found here, which gives a little more detail on what precisely they're claiming: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/21/1118373109.abst...
I really like Octopart and this feature is great. But was I the only one expecting to find out how much a 6502 cost in 1975? Or how much the original x86 chips cost on launch? Was the 80386 cheaper than the 8086 when they were introduced?
I love that for rearranging items in lists with user-defined orders. It lets you update the entire set with two commands - one to give the moved item its new position, and one to increase the position of every item after it.
Nice. I really like the UI for both of your sites. Good luck.
i'm sure other people have mentioned but it doesn't work in IE9 or below. You should at the very lease support IE9. If you wanna throw away IE8 or below, it would make sense to just use canvas rather than a base64-encoded image.
Often we forget, that "higher education" is just as much about building networks and adaptation, as learning traditional material. You learn what's acceptable, what kinds of people are successful, and what kinds of people you work best with.

You meet the people who are going to find you that dream job. If you're an entrepreneur, you find the people who you'll want working for/with you. You meet the people who'll help you get things done.

The question here really shouldn't be about whether Udacity is a good educational model. It should be about how far it can go - and I absolutely do not believe it is a replacement for traditional "higher education".
That's a good point--Udacity courses are 7 weeks--it seems unfair to compare them to a semester long course.
Oh, you expected silent failure from a crappy library. :) I think Java (or rather, the library you're now using) made a much better decision to not blunder along.
We are also doing SaaS. http://jackpotbuddy.com and http://diglig.com

Looking to work on third eCommerce business soon.
Nobody forces investors to put money in these companies. If poor governance impacts the price more than the long term benefits of keeping the central vision, then the shares will drop in price. This will in turn hurt the founders.

The issue is more nefarious when there are poor governance provisions (example: poison pills) and the CEO isn't a large shareholder.
This thread is a little stale but magnars' .emacs.d repo isn't quite sufficient to explain what's going on. Follow his instructions for installing slime-js and swank-js, then you'll need the ``setup-slime-js.el``.

I modified his version of it to decouple it from what I gather are a couple of his other repos (specifically js2-refactor, and another unknown). You can get it here:

https://github.com/mattdeboard/dotfiles-emacs/blob/master/se...

Simply put that file somewhere on your ``load-path``, then add ``(require 'setup-slime-js)`` to your .emacs/init.el. Reload everything, and you should be good to go.

Note that the in-emacs REPL is still pretty broken for me vis a vis entering code directly at the prompt. e.g. trying to enter an array causes swank-js to throw an exception. Not sure if that's because of my setup or not.
As Haldane said, teleology is like a mistress for evo-bio - indispensable, but shameful to be seen in public with.
From JAMA: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=202602

"19th-century homeopaths pioneered systematic drug-testing research, challenged the dangerously depleting procedures of mainstream physicians at that time, established rigorous professional standards, and valued advanced education at least as highly as their mainstream counterparts did. It was not without reason that homeopaths considered the bases of their approach to medical problems to be more logical and more promising than the inherited tradition of the ancients, upon which mainstream physicians still based their practices. [...]

This book will be useful primarily to scholars looking for specific information about particular people, events, and developments within the homeopathic movement during the period covered. Among other things, readers will find the names—and often the opinions—of hundreds of previously invisible homeopathic practitioners, publicists, and professors; they will follow fierce debates between the so-called high-dilutionists (whose therapeutic commitment to infinitesimally small doses of supposedly energized substances verged on spiritualism) and the low-dilutionists (who ultimately merged with mainstream physicians in the early decades of the 20th century); they will explore the founding and fate of homeopathic medical schools; they will listen to well-intentioned homeopaths defend themselves against attacks from the American Medical Association; and they will learn about regional variations in the character, reception, and legal standing of homeopathy around the country."

Anyway not to defend homeopathy, but I just find it sad that so many people view James Randi as a credible source despite the fact that he can rarely go five minutes without lying about something.
Sure, but Newton formulated Newton's laws, built the first reflective telescope, explained motion of planets, developed differential calculus, and wrote Principia.
Credibility isn't exactly the same thing as reputation.

Some authors have more credibility than others. If someone positions themselves in the realm of the incredible (which is what homeopathy is), they lose credibility, as they should.
> reduces carbon emissions from shipping goods half-way around the world

That's actually not true, as counter intuitive as it may seem. Local stuff uses more energy, not less.

Mainly because the large operations are so efficient, but the local ones are small.
Apple Gets 'Head-Mounted Display' Patent
Microsoft's Play To is DLNA:
http://digitalmediaphile.com/index.php/category/dlna/
Want to use it as a remote? Then use the remote app. Works fine and you can tell the remote iTunes library to use the airplay output from inside the remote app. Complaint solved! ;)
If it's really not finished to this extent, you don't put it into a journalist's hands, let alone those of the public at large. Bad first impressions can kill a whole product line, especially when its value isn't clear to people.
I like the use of Wheaton's Law ("Don't be a dick").
Interesting.

Does anybody know why the votes from France had a higher percentage for ACTA than from other countries?
The massive public success of these companies would argue against you

What massive public success would that be?

Let's ignore the underlying platforms that originally made them: search, ads, and arguably GMail for Google; and reaching critical mass on the social graph and ads for Facebook. Those were developed long before the developer culture we're discussing here. Since then, what massive successes has all this developer-led initiative produced?

Google has made or bought a string of flops, most of which have been shut down one after another. It's doing OK with Chrome and Android, but neither of those is exactly a shining example of high quality software development.

Facebook has... Well, what? Repeated changes to the UI that seem to irritate more people every time(line), repeated privacy lapses, and repeated backtracks in the face of widespread criticism from their user base?

Neither business seems to have any sense of direction. Google seems to be trying to consolidate under Page by aggressively cutting out anything that's not a big ticket item in the portfolio, which might well be a good move, but it remains to be seen how well they can innovate using anything other than the what-sticks-to-the-wall strategy that they've adopted in recent years. Facebook just seems to be trying to find more ways to exploit information their users have explicitly decided to make private and get away with it.
This [the Q] is a solution hunting for a problem.

We have a "problem" at our hackerspace where lots of people want to control the stereo. Usually there are 5-10 people in there working, there is always music playing, and the person controlling the music (or the "wubs" as they are affectionately called now) changes pretty frequently.

We should be exactly the target market for the Q.

Except we already solved this problem. We bought a really long cable off of monoprice, and we bought a bluetooth audio receiver. They both plug into a mixing board, and they allow everybody to play music. Switching between who "has wubs" involves going "hey, you want wubs?".

It works really well, it almost never breaks down, it doesn't require anybody to install anything on their phones, computers, cassette players, arduino shields, theramins, contact microphones, or whatever else we decide we want to play over the PA.

Most importantly, it doesn't cost $300.

...and then one of us bought one and brought it into the lab.

Here is what happened: http://yfrog.com/z/oe42wqagj
Why not just pay 300 bucks for an actual games console? They seem infinitely more capable of handling media than this.
Exactly. Newton is seen by many as the smartest scientist who ever lived. So I'm saying even those who contribute the most can have crazy ideas. It's typical. Not sure we disagree.

Or are you saying Kurzweil's contributions are very small in comparison?
You forgot the link for [1], mind posting it?
http://www.feedsapi.com fits well in this category