skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When introducing theory, be careful not to reduce his enthusiasm and excitement.

Agreed... unless he just plain shows a lot of interest in theory for theory's sake, I'd say to make sure to always have an application for any theory you introduce, that demonstrates the value of what you're showing. Or even if you can't literally demonstrate it, at least an explanation that's as context relevant as possible.

Example: If you start talking about sorting algorithms and runtime complexity, explain how a bad decision here could cause lag / latency in one of his projects. IOW, tie the theory back to something he can easily relate to.

Otherwise, if he already thinks he wants to be a developer down the road, I'd say you'd be doing him a favor by teaching him some of the things that you tend to not get in a CS degree program... that is,the "software engineering" stuff. Revision control, release strategy, testing, etc.

Anyway, it sounds like your son is in a pretty good place already, so you might want to be careful not to push him to hard, to the point where programming becomes a chore and he starts to tune out.

Finally, there are a couple of books that might help whet his appetite for hacking, such as Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution or Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine or Rosenberg's Dreaming in Code.
I read that as saying that OP had never seen the original version with narration. Personally, I've only seen the Director's Cut, never the one with the voice-over and them driving across the green landscapes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner

EDIT: actually, I don't think it was the Director's Cut, since it had the extra "violent scenes" (and which are important IMHO). But it couldn't be the International Version since it didn't have the voice-over, nor the Final Cut since it was before 2007. I'm stumped.
It's great to see that the list of changes to make does not include anything enormous, ground-breaking or incredibly difficult. The author is basically proposing a few subtle changes to the tone of the hackathon -- I'm glad to see it had such a huge impact.
Without the real names -- or at least names that aren't 'basketballstar69' -- Google won't have the same perception of authenticity as facebook.

They should reward 'real names' (first, last) with more Drive space and an opt-out of the nickname option.
[ Disclaimer, I bought a 'Replicator' [1] from Makerbot so its the only one I've got 'first hand' knowledge ]

The 'hobby' ones are still very rough. Think Altair/IMSAI level of personal computer. The lack of a reasonable filler/support material (so that you can print 'voids' and later dissolve out the filler) means that a lot of obviously useful shapes are unprintable at the moment (horizontal tubes for example). But the writing is, as they say, on the wall. My instinct is that plastic printing will overtake injection molding for small run products in as few as 10 years.

The biggest challenge to robotics in the US market has been organized resistance. Ford had the most productive auto plant in the world, in Brazil, because it was mostly robotic. They tried, and failed, to get it built in the US. But the depth and length of this recession has changed the politics on that to the point where 'any' jobs trumps 'no' jobs, even if the 'any' comes with the uncomfortable reality that nobody in the new plant will be able to work without at least a solid high school diploma and 2 years of apprenticing. The 'high paying' jobs will require a four year degree in manufacturing technology.

[1] http://www.makerbot.com/docs/replicator/
A standard already exists[1], widgets. Do a find/replace widgets with apps, then turn the xml spec to json and everyone will be happy.

[1]http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/
Juju: DevOps for Cloud Services
The Biggest Thing To Happen To WiFi Has Just About Arrived
The website looks great :) .

Also, I'd love to make 3k € / month ! . I'll probably be in Vienna for a few months next year, are there Hacker Meetups or similar?
If I was using a common password across multiple sites, that's the security issue, assuming of course that I engaged in the additional poor practice of using a common password for both sensitive and trivial uses.

But regardless of how one slices and dices it, my HN account does not contain sensitive information and the consequences of a security breech of my account are trivial. HN is not Wells Fargo.

After reading the grandparent comment about wanting my karma I changed my password for the first time since joining. But rest assured, the old password demonstrated how low value access to my HN login is.

It's foolish to introduce security where none is required, and even more foolish to introduce the overhead of a security apparatus which doesn't meaningfully increase security.
Obat herbal ambeien
Obat Ambeien yang paling ampuh dan tidak menimbulkan efek samping adalah dengan Obat Herbal ambeien Ace Maxs karena Obat Ace Maxs ini terbuat dari bahan Herbal
The triggering of custom events is a neat idea, I hadn't thought about that. Right now Accthub is just a data store, but being able to add some backend logic would be very nice.

Thank you for your review.
I see hundreds of APIs and beta APIs. There's no source code repository. The python scripts to download a SDK refer to Google "private_svn".

So Google spends 6 months working on the next version and Firefox and Opera don't even get access to it until the next SDK and are 6 months behind, and they have zero input in how it evolves. That's not how open source should work.
How did this get on Hacker News? This is one man's opinion of what MIGHT happen within some vaguely specified time in the future, and it's quite a bold assertion. There is overwhelming evidence that the chances of us detecting alien life with our current radio telescopes (or even ones 10x as powerful) is slim to none. We're just beginning to scratch the surface of our own galaxy, but there are countless billions more. I suspect that if we ever do detect alien life (if it exists at all), it will be many, many generations from now when we might possibly (hopefully) have a collaborative effort towards a global space program with a lot more focus than current space programs are getting today.
Ah, I see. That makes sense. Thanks.
You communicated your intend clearly, I guess I failed on that. Let's take HN as an example. john.doe actually owns johnathan.doe at gmail. He now registers at HN with john.doe at gmail where no john.doe at gmail is currently registered. The real john.doe gets an email saying "oh, you're now registered to HN" and poor jonathan waits for his confirmation and won't ever get a password reset mail. At some point he'll remember that he actually doesn't own john.doe at gmail and register again, with the correct email. That means that the issue you're bringing up already exists, independent of how you design your signup process [1]

So the variant of always sending an email and always accepting the registration provides the required benefit with a minor drawback.

[1] Unless you don't send confirmation addresses at all which would be pretty much illegal for most services in germany since double opt in is required for pretty much everything of interest.

edit: Since this was regarded as a statement on legal matters I herein clarify to mean "pretty much anything of interest": I loosely intended to say "most things a commercial service might want to do with data, including but not limited to sending me emails which might be regarded as an offer or an incentive to buy any paid service or any promotional email." As has been stated further down it's not a legal requirement to confirm email-addresses in all cases.
How about just ignore him? How does this affect you? People lie about their resumes all the time.
Destined to be fired... now that the post about how horrible he thinks his employer is has gone viral.

Hope that carpentry thing works out.
I live in Austin and switched from TWC to U-Verse when it was launched. Many customers also have Grande. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that TWC's long dominance was from some government protection arrangement, but I'm not aware of it. Could you offer any specifics as to what gives TWC a monopoly and why it doesn't apply to U-Verse and Grande.
Which part? If it's that gun rights are fundamental to living a fulfilling life, well, lots of people live good lives without them, so that seems unlikely.

If it's about gun rights preventing government abuses, which seems like the more likely objection, well, how? I don't see government abuses being stopped or even slowed down by gun rights. When faced with a gun owner, police seem to simply shoot first and ask questions later. If they have even a hint of being outgunned, they call in a SWAT team or similar.
My gut reaction tells me that women are less likely to check that box than men are -- is that your experience?
Ah, minor mistake. Used `add` instead of `create`. It's been fixed in the blog post, and I'll push a fix to the app soon.
What's your market? Aren't you replicating the problem? (it's still a very niche market). I hadn't heard of guilloche before now.

Also, the website doesn't look professionaly designed - maybe you don't need it to, but it might help.
I strongly agree with contrast rebellion. Having said that, a bright white background and black text is harder for me to read than a light grey background and blacktext.

But the back ground shouldn't be darker than #cccccc

I think, but I do not know, that some people with Aspergers prefer a lower contrast. (See, for example, early websites using silver background with black text.)
Care to share your marketing channels? Are you spending money on Ads?
I had a car with built-in navigation before. For the very same reasons you've mentioned I got a new car without one. I regret it a lot!

Phone or portable navigation is such a pain to use. Charging cables, mounts, don't forget to hide it when parked in a not-so-nice-area, don't forget to put it back.

I miss always present, always charged and nicely integrated with the car audio built-in nav system.
These videos were created in part to help spread the word about the Knight-Mozilla Fellowships, which place developers, hackers, and tech-minded folks into newsrooms around the world to do open-source development, travel the world hacking the news, and much more. Tons of info here: mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/

The application closes August 11.
That's crazy. You'd think the business version would have more customization available, not less.

I take it you've logged into your comcast.net account and the box to disable it isn't there for you?
What's the point of forcing "real names", when they're not forcing REAL names? Google will throw a fit if I use Red Ghost, but not if I use John Smith. What value does that actually bring? A weak perception of legitimacy?
That is not true: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Rea...
Some people say "yes" straight away, some want to feel like they bargained for something. The 45-but-really-50 line works for both.
That's a nice, clean portfolio site, congratulations on that.
Have you tried using google alerts?
The biggest Turkish ISP blockes all porn sites. Thus the users need to use GoogleDNS.
I would say the jobs in 'cutting edge' robotics (no pun intended) are in surgical robots. Intuitive Surgical is growing very quickly. Proto-typing is at companies like Zmachines.

You need to realize that the personal computer market was all DIY and academic demos until Lotus 123 on the Apple came out. That filled a niche in business. When the PC came out it was supported by a 'real' company (Apple was not considered much of a company then). I would expect a similar trend in 3D printing. Some niche will open up and cause a lot of 'enterprise' money to be spent there and then one of the printer companies will jump in with the kind of product these things will evolve into. (And you'll get to complain to your grandkids about all the beige 3D printers are so boring, you remember when they were innovative and quirky)

Much of the AI stuff has been in pick and place robots (see the Japanese competition on this) and the military's use.
Is mirroring on the same machine really more reliable?
Seriously, it's pretty messed up. Maybe IE6 didn't actually have a float drop error, it's just that my arms were too fucking long.
Possibly the same thing you would have done if he/she had done it prior to acquisition.

Other than that, insufficient context details. Please elaborate.
Am I the only person who really enjoys YouTube comments? It's obviously not the place to go for high-brow discussion.

But the fact that it's a no-holds-barred space means that occasionally some genuinely hilarious and unexpected stuff pops up. I really wouldn't want that to change...
A few weeks ago, more salt was better for you. Now, it gives you cancer
Marissa Mayer, Google - Don't Kill Projects; Morph Them
http://crypto.stanford.edu/ssl-mitm/
When people post FB links, all the comments are about how they don't have a FB account. Even back when Zuck's wedding announcement was posted, nothing but "Can't read it no FB account. Alternate link please."
I think the thing to keep in mind is that Amazon is a company of extremes. There are parts of the company, maybe a large fraction of the company, that are at least in the direction of what you described (although the drug dealing bit is a one-off if it’s true). However, there also parts where there are many people that have been at the company over a decade (namely AWS). I’ve been working here a few years, and I won’t deny that I got lucky with what team I work for, but outside of maybe being a college hire you should really get some idea of what you’ll be working on and who you’ll be working with before you actually work there. I work on things that are really interesting to me, and yeah, there are some crappy parts like oncall and occasional bad management, but the first gradually improves and the second tends to resolve itself.

Also, my experience with people leaving/coming in my part of AWS is that people who leave the company entirely almost exclusively weren’t doing very well. The more experienced people tend to just transfer elsewhere within AWS. Also, Amazon hires a huge number of ex-Microsoft employees, whereas I only know of one person personally who left to go to Microsoft.
Workplace Collaboration Tool Asana Raises $28M At A $280M Valuation
I'd say you'd be doing him a favor by teaching him some of the things that you tend to not get in a CS degree program... that is,the "software engineering" stuff. Revision control, release strategy, testing, etc.

That's a great point. I wonder how many high schools (or colleges, for that matter) teach the "software engineering" stuff, the practical, "vocational" skills that software developers need.
What is the reasoning behind this? It sounds like this would encourage people to pirate more games.

Perhaps now that it's free, they won't feel an obligation to provide support?
"The death of US manufacturing is a little overblown (though not entirely) - what people are really talking about when they bemoan the death of American manufacturing is the death of American manufacturing jobs."

Exactly, if you look at manufacturing output, America has remained a leader [1], but the number of people employed by manufacturers has gone down. The recession did put a dent in that increase of course.

[1] http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2010/02/17/usa-china-and...
So the variant of always sending an email and always accepting the registration provides the required benefit with a minor drawback.

Ah OK thanks, I understand now. (have a headcold that is confusing me right now, so if in doubt, it's my fault ;)

I think that the only thing were quibbling about is what a "minor drawback" is to each one of us. For me, it's not such a minor issue, but it's been an enlightening conversation with you, so thanks :)
I agree with you there is reason to be skeptical that real identities make advertising more effective. This presumes many things such as there are accurate models of human behavior, and that harsh policies won't drive people away or move them to go to more extremes to hide their identity.

I am sure many advertisers think they want real identities, certainly that would appear to make their jobs even easier as they can then pull property value reports and criminal records searches for random people who happen to visit their site. Just because someone thinks they want something doesn't mean it is more effective. For example, many companies are losing in the marketplace because they can't compete because they can't hire qualified workers because they think they want a long list of acronyms rather than someone who is intelligent and has a history of getting the job done.

Which is more valuable for serving ads that are valuable to advertisers? An anonymous user who you track with cookies and ip address (which gives general location) and have a profile of based on their interests and things they search for? Or someone who you have forced to give their real name, so they have switched to Tor and now every access they make comes from a different ip address, none of which appear connected and none which are related to their real geographical point of origin? Or how about the user that simply unplugs.

This is not just theoretical supposition. In the 1980s supermarkets started using shopper loyalty programs. The stores would raise prices of many products, then offer to sell it at the normal price charged by competitors if the customer agreed to use a card linked to their real name and address, confirmed by state ID cards. This card then was used to track all of their purchasing habits and behaviors and form models of the customers in an attempt to influence them with more targeted coupon offers and direct mail advertising. At the same time, WalMart chose NOT to do that at all, and instead charged lower prices with no tracking, but did instead do much more difficult data analysis of purchases by store and region and date in order to find larger trends of what to keep in stock. For example, before a hurricane in Florida people buy a lot of beer WalMart's algorithms figured out and so they analyze weather data and send trucks full of beer when Florida is about to get hit with a big storm. Which approach worked? The manipulative one where customers were identified, monitored and targeted personally, and punished with higher prices if they refused this? Or the alternative where a more intelligent analysis was done of data without lazily requiring actual real id?
I did the same 9 years ago in NYC. I dropped myself in an unknown location with very little money and worked my way.
It can be a recipe for disaster or it could also be a great recipe for a nice adventure.
>Google recently announced that its Nexus Q streaming media player would be made in the U.S., and this put pressure on Apple to start following suit.

So Tim Cook announces Apple's intention to do this at the end of May, and this is somehow "following suit" when Google hadn't even announced the Nexus Q yet (June 27)?

>We can only guess. Autodesk CEO Carl Bass says that just as we have created new, higher-paying jobs in every other industrial transition, we will create a new set of industries and professions in this one.

What are average humans capable of that robots aren't?
How to bundle a HTML5 game as a Mac App
Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon
How about checking out airbnb.com - some housing solution are really cheap (shared rooms etc.. sleep on a couch/sofa).
After playing with them all, we went with Angular for what it's worth. Less lines of code, IOC is pretty neat, and it just "feels good". We're happy w/ our choice thus far.
US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts
Author here: Cool to see this here, bpierre. Thank you. I really hope some HN readers decide to give this book a look; it's really shockingly good, all the more so for having been written in 1997. I'm a decidedly amateur programmer, but even I found myself nodding my head, thinking: "Yes, that's it. That's it!"
It's very meta.

Guy lies to various media outlets and feeds them bogus stories to prove that various media outlets will publish anything that will get them more pageviews/readers/circulation/whatever, regardless of the quality of the story.

Then similar various media outlets cover the story of the guy who lied to the media outlets to prove that they'd write any sort of stupid story like about a guy who lied to the media outlets to prove....
Having to deal with confidentiality and secrecy on a daily basis in my product design job one thing is immediately clear.

If I am designing a widget which requires a pin I need to talk to a supplier about the pin. Typically the supplier will ask me what the pin is for. I could tell him exactly about the product or a subset of the product functionality and that would give him a pretty good idea of what the pin needs to do and he and I could draw up the specification for the pin together. This is lazy and potentially shifts the design of the pin away from the desired design and more towards what is already possible (this is how suppliers tend to work - they need to use their existing machinery as it is less risky than developing new machinery and processes). This is not how iPhones and ultraslim lovely shiny Macbooks are developed. The uncertainty on the part of the designer allows the supplier to steer the discussion.

If I've done my homework correctly and worked out what diameter the pin should be, material, hardness and the shape of the tip of the pin I could tell the supplier all of those things and he would be none the wiser about the product. He can still supply me with exactly what I need without him having to know about the rest of the product. This is a good outcome.

If I don't know the diameter of the pin I should order 15 different diameter pins and test them all until I get the right one.

What it means is, as a designer I need to own the process of finding out those parameters about the pin which means I am richer because I own that information and the process of discovery regardless of who is supplying me with pins. It also gives me the power to go to any pin supplier and get the same thing which also keeps my costs down. Double win (even if I've developed the new pin making process there should be nothing to stop me taking that process somewhere else as long as my contracts are in place before we start talking).

Secrecy has many advantages as well as the surprise WWDC factor.
I have had many users complain about password and login problems. I've had zero users complain about someone being able to figure out they have an account.

Sometimes security is important. Other times its just a waste of energy.
I'd be very interested if you could provide a link to the Uni experiment you're talking about. Tried google without luck.
Thanks