skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few points:

Do you have to resort to personal attacks? Really?

Look/feel: If you are going to use intrusive tech in public you need to make the tech non-threatening. That's basic UI design. The Google device is easy to ignore. His rig is, well, look at the pictures. I also imagine it having a bunch of wires hanging off of it going to a backpack or something.

If he was blind he'd probably have a cane (well recognized internationally) or it would be obvious through interaction. The people he interacted with, per his own account, had conversations with him, which certainly clarified that he was not impaired.

It doesn't matter if he is a university professor or the pope. Both can behave as complete jerks and produce negative reactions on other people. Pedigree does not imply common sense.

He should have GONE to the police immediately, not "contacted them" --whatever that means. The fact that the embassy, police and consulate seem to have ignored him is a very interesting bit of data. I don't know what it means.

It's a father on vacation with his daughter being so inconsiderate as to not leave his crap at home in order to enjoy a vacation with his family. That alone paints a profile for me. Sorry. I could be completely wrong, but I would not do that to my kids. It takes a certain mentality to place your geeky needs above those of your kids for self-serving reasons.

If my oldest son was going around Paris shoving cameras in people's faces in public or private spaces and got slapped around I'd tell him to not be an idiot next time.

There is such a thing as behaving properly while in public and private. Some might disagree, but I've taught my kids to not be loud at restaurants, while I see others that don't care about the rest of the people dining and let their kids be loud and not allow the table next to them have a pleasant conversation. Being considerate is part of living in a pleasant society.
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Surely the police could find a better way to do it than send in a guy with a camera-eye for lunch one time?
Curiously enough, there's still other conditions relating to pain. My own favorite obscure disorder is 'pain asymbolia': where you feel pain and know something bad is happening, but it's not painful. As far as I've been able to find out, it's not like this (or other nerve deadening problems like diabetes or leprosy) in apparently causing no serious injuries or self-injuries.

Relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/51f/guilt_another_gift_nobody_wants/
As someone else mentioned, Haxe is mainly used for games where the UI is always custom anyways. There are frameworks like ASwing which work with Haxe to give a very flexible UI but it's not a native look and feel.
"The extent to which genes matter to intelligence varies by social class (genetic inheritance matters more if you're wealthy, less if you're poor)."

It's always seemed obvious to me that this ought to be true - that is that environment will matter more if you have greater differences in environment. In the extreme case if you feed kid A and don't feed kid B, then kid A will end up with an infinitely greater IQ than kid B.
I'm imagining Autodesk's M&A team are right now getting a lecture on what "CAM" stands for by the engineers and that there will be some facepalming.
Facebook deactivating apps with no privacy policy? Generate one w/ the Graph API
One huge benefit I think people are missing about the notion of a protocol standard session mechanism, is that we can use HTTP auth much easier, and perhaps get away from this notion of every site having to redo the login process. Browsers can handle the "remember login" settings, and logging out is as simple as tab closing. No "remember this computer" or "don't remember this computer" checkbox confusion. No random sites saying "remember me always" and requiring manual logout on a borrowed computer. It certainly helps with the password wallet concept too.

Sure all that stuff has become semi-standard as it currently exists, but it is ugly, hacky, and sometimes doesn't work, and other times opens doors for hilarious malfeasance.
LivingSocial expands into Merchandise Sales, Curated Collections
I have the same problems with books. I think this is because books tend to cover a lot of material. A short course on the other hand can focus in a self contained subset, which you can expand later.
I've never been anything but a casual consumer of flickr, so I'm a bit out of touch--what is it that Yahoo changed to make it not awesome? Can anybody explain to me what changes they'd like her to make?
> they just need the familiar start button, and if isn't there (in linux's case) they'll be upset, which computer companies can't afford.

I guess they'll be pretty upset when Windows 8 comes out then.
I consider Adobe and Autodesk to be premium digital content creation tool company. It sort of (well, not really, but...) makes sense in that direction.
Cyber solutions: technology or finance?
Patent wars explained
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This is a bad joke.
For the love of god, please someone tell me what is so offensive about the semicolon.

When you replace a thousand of them with commas, nothing has been gained!

When you start placing them only at the beginning of certain lines, subject to JS's parsing rules, you are thinking more, not less!
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Wikipedia has a really good article on quines (self-printing programs): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29
Can someone please provide a valid, technical reason for not using semicolons other than "it doesn't say I hafta so I'm not gonna!" (that quoted bit should be read as if a 5 year old throwing a tantrum was saying it)
Marissa Mayer's first day at Yahoo
Well then read some medical books!

Sorry about the snarky response, but when a comment like this is at the top, I can't believe so many people have voted up what is basically F~cking Magnets, How Do They Work?
Cute, though does appear to be limited by browser initialwindow size.

Thing about prime numbers - ask yourself this question: Does the universe operate on base 10!

Endless fun aint they.
I would say mixed opinions, but considerable skepticism. Some of the skepticism is of how university administration will handle it; there is some suspicion there is no real plan and this is being done for purely "brand" reasons, so the university president can talk about "cutting edge" initiatives. Some of it is of the concept in general. Some of it is that it's a for-profit company, not a nonprofit with clear charitable goals. Worse, it's a for-profit company whose business plan is still unclear, so one doesn't know what their long-term intentions are.

But a lot of people are just undecided, waiting to see how it'll pan out. Probably not a lot of outright enthusiastic professors, except from the relatively small number who are actively looking to either jump to one of these startups themselves (like Sebastian Thrun), or at least co-found one (like Daphne Koller).

The Chronicle of Higher education's occasional guest op-eds are probably a decent representation of the range of opinion. Here are a cautiously positive and a somewhat negative take, respectively:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/next/2012/07/11/moocs-arent-a-pan...

http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/whats-the-matter-with...
Oh, it was a God sent when it came out! I use it inside the company I'm working at as a part of video series that all developers new to JavaScript are required to watch (during office hours, actually). I also give some overview talks in person that address some particular details of the language and the ecosystem. Thanks to this video and some others my job became a lot easier in recent years.

So far I got only positive feedback regarding this particular talk. It goes in some peculiarities and gets quite deep at some points but in general it gives a warm welcoming feeling to people new to the language. And as such it's really great to show it to newbies as quickly as possible. Some of the developers have doubts about whether JavaScript is really a language worth learning. Especially those server-side people who heard quite a lot of great things about GWT. But after this talk many of them change their minds and at least decide to give JS a try. Alex is telling them:
- Look, here's JavaScript. It certainly can't do lots of things yet but it's really a nice language that is desperately willing to become your friend. Just don't be hostile to it and it won't fail you!

The part where Alex talks about inheritance with traits is particularly eye-opening for people coming from Java, .NET or PHP background.

At the moment Alex is more focused on Shadow DOM - a bit lesser known part of new web APIs - and he's overly a great guy and one of the most unbiased Google representative in standards bodies. I have a lot of respect for his work and wish him all the best.

Thanks, Alex!
Social network alchemy
Skype was originally a swedish company until it was aquired by eBay.
Dropbox users' email addresses targeted by spam?
edit: I updated the title to more specifically address the issue.
Here’s to the PHP Misfits
It's very common for javascript compressors to reduce statements to expressions if that's possible. Even uglify-js does that and that ones is not particularly amazing.
Where did I say that the attack was justified?

I only said that it is quite possible that he is being inconsiderate and inviting friction due to his insistence in forcing his tech upon everyone around him.

What we don't know is what really happened between him and the staff other than his account of it.

I very seriously doubt that someone resorted to physically attacking him out of nowhere (as he seems to present it) without some provocation. That is simply not the way people behave unless they are criminals. There had to be an exchange of some form between them that led to that happening. I can't even speculate as to what took place, but I'll place my bet on that he wasn't an angelical figure that simply got his food and sat down to eat and then, out of nowhere --as he implies-- got attacked. The French are not that crazy.
He speculates his brother committed suicide because of this condition, so I'm pretty sure emotional pain is there. Probably also why pain killers don't help with feeling sad.
ok, so I grpk the idea correctly it is something like "send the cookie-like-data from the client only on the first GET, if you are doing it over HTTP/1.1 single TCP connection" - that sense (and could be easily made into an extension to HTTP/1.1 - [though it creates the dependency between the different GET requests] - have the server will just send "X-Dont-Send-Me-More-Cookies-in-this-TCP: yes!" header from the server, and make the compliant clients react to it).

What I do not understand where's the win on the privacy front here. You send the random ids - but the site owner will re-correlate these random IDs with your identity. So, you would not win anything here - or, what am I missing ?

My take on the privacy:

There is no problem with someone collecting a bunch of info about me and using it to improve their services.

There is a little bit of a problem with someone collecting a bunch of info about me and another million people and keeping that in a big blob.

There is a big problem when that someone gets hacked and this bunch of info about another million people gets to the bad kids.

It's the centralization of a lot of data that is bad for the privacy.

Store the data locally on the clients and give it to the server only when it is contextually needed. e.g.: my shipping address, I am happy for my browser to supply it to you from my local storage to you every time you want to ship me something. I am very happy if you do not store and sell this address to someone who will later send snail-mail spam to me. Or store without the due diligence ('cos time to market and all that) and then get hacked and then I find myself "having paid" for the helicopter spare parts.

Of course, this would hurt the nouveau business models that treat the users as a product. And will make the analytics harder - because one would not be able to just run a select... But to me it could be a useful tradeoff.

(above, I use the term "client" to refer to the collective set of the devices that are "mine". As I wrote in another reply, storing the state on client does not imply the difference in the user-seen behavior, so the shopping cart should survive).
From what I understand, they bought it and then let it hang to dry despite a solid community with lots of ideas.
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4253935
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Using Backbone.js to create list views with multiple layouts
Using Backbone.js to create list views with multiple layouts
when I was at a McDonald's in Madrid Spain, it was the only place that a person at the front told me to put my camera away and delete the pictures that I had on my camera. I proceeded to walk out of the building. The man inside followed me for a few steps before letting me go.
Hacker news bug generates blank posts?
I tried to submit a link on hacker news several time, asked to other people to do the same, but the result is always the same. A beautiful blank post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255904

What's happening? Is this a bug?
flickr was the first of its kind. Huge potentials. It's too bad Yahoo! dropped the ball there.
Interesting. I was initially surprised by the largest food desert in my city of residence, thinking, "that's where almost every restaurant in the city is located; my wife and I regularly shop at the Trader Joe's (upper-middle-class discount grocery store) there." But this only highlighted my blindness -- almost all of these restaurants target upper-middle class consumers, not low-income; and the only other grocery store in the area is on the wrong side of a busy highway. The only food sources targeted at low-income consumers that I know of are a few corner stores on the main thoroughfare.
You can drag the number line to the left. I'm past 1000 and haven't found the highest prime yet.
Design for personality types and boost your conversion
> SNI issues aside

What SNI issues? In practice any client that supports SPDY is going to support SNI.
Watch what you say, on Skype
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"Paradigm-changing" Cancer Therapy
Its great to see my university (Illinois) finally on this list. We already do record the more popular courses and make them available to students (internally its free, but if you're not a student you have to pay for it). However, it seems like the course that would be most useful (Computer Vision by Derek Hoeim http://www.cs.illinois.edu/~dhoiem/) is not yet on the list. I wonder whether the university will make that one available because when I took it there were a lot of external students (usually sponsored by their companies) and I'm sure the Uni made a lot of money from it
OK, but I feel the need to stress that when I wrote "text only", I was referring to the user interfaces.

(And the reason user interfaces are relevant here is that telnet was the main way to export user interfaces over the internet in 1992.)
it can be eye catchy but says really nothing interesting about prime numbers nor their patterns
It may also be corrected when the image is projected into his eye.
This headline is misleading, especially given how much people love to argue about semicolon insertion. This has nothing to do with semicolon insertion. It's just about an artificial constant limit in how large a certain type of parse node (comma expression) can get in Opera's JavaScript parser. (Of course, Twitter should have tested in Opera!)
Guide to deploy node.js apps to AWS from Mac OS X (I)
Guide to deploy node.js apps to AWS from Mac OS X (I)
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I don’t like to think of a Brogrammer as a frat boy or someone that just calls everyone bro. But rather just a group of people that is becoming more and more diverse every day.

Great, but then drop the term "Brogrammer" and come up with a better one. How about Zengrammer?
Who needs Microsoft Office for iPad? Here are better alternatives.
The law of statistics and its regression to the mean tell me she will likely succeed, but should not be credited for this success.
It was designed to prevent companies from keeping new inventions to themselves as trade secrets.

However, with the patent office basically accepting everything as an invention, it has now turned into the opposite. The simple algorithm I could have come up on my own _without_ consulting any patent is now illegal for me to use. Without the patent society would have been much better off since many, many programmers would be able to independently come up with the same solution given the same requirements.
C'mon, they are basically police. Couldn't they just go fight some non-victimless crimes?
There are just too many product posts to be made where Yahoo! can "please make awesome again".
Skype goes open source: Flawless victory
NASA is publicly funded and its mission is to extend human knowledge. Why should anything there be more secret than at McDonlads?
The Web Is Not the Internet (You're Probably Getting That Wrong)
Not really. Confucianism is ingrained into Chinese society in ways the West can't comprehend. UU is a 19th century offshoot of NE Congregationalism.
I wonder why they couldn't (or didn't choose to) partner with individual professors on a per-course basis instead of entire institutions whose professors might not all be interested in participating. Is it because individual professors might not have complete autonomy to do so without the permission of the university? Or maybe partnering with an entire university ensures a greater and more recurring supply of courses? Or that the university might help incentivize what is surely a very time-consuming task by having a course replace some other service requirement?
Email thread patterns
It would look 2x nicer if they removed 0 ~ prime number branches and waves beginning from primes. Much easier to spot, less clutter.
I subscribed to Flickr Pro because I loved the idea of all of my photos backed up 'in the cloud' and available on my devices/computers without having to copy/sync, but it didn't work out that way. Flickr never developed any good connectors for uploading photos or integrating with photo software. Ultimately I tried a hodgepodge of different third-party attempts, most of which had issues. AppleTV's flickr implementation doesn't allow you to view your own private albums - another disappointment.

Note also that when your Pro lapses, they only let you access a subset of your photos, holding most hostage. I do understand the reasoning behind this, but the service wasn't meeting my expectations so I was frustrated having to pony up more money to access what I had in my account.

Flickr has such potential, if only they keep up progression.
I'm a 3-year-Pro user of Flickr...my first thought upon Mayer's new job was: "YES, my Flickr photos are safe"

But Google didn't do a lot of innovation in this space and maybe Flickr will be seen as a distraction to whatever Yahoo's new mission will be? Wouldn't be surprised to see it spun off. It has a large community but is way behind Instagram and Facebook in terms of becoming synonymous with photo-sharing.

And yes, the main problem is that the site has stagnated. In recent months, new features have been added...but not enough to make the site more share-friendly or visually attractive. I resort to using various IOS apps to manage my photos.
That being said, France is a civil law country, not a common law one.
Rails flash cookies finally found its use
I would imagine it is a talent acquisition. Autodesk has been trying to hire for a new cloud team in Detroit and San Francisco for a while...without luck, I think. (I was a reject)
Ask HN: How much would you price a template-based simple lead-gen website?
I am about to launch a template-based lead-gen website service. The template is simple but looks professional. The service includes the website (with wysiwig editing), web forms and notifications of leads.

I am considering a monthly-fee pricing.

The target is small businesses who do not have online presence yet, and need a simple website for lead generation purposes.

What do you think would be a a good monthly fee?
An identifier has privacy disadvantages over a cookie with the same duration. The least privacy you have is when the server has a unique identifier for you: then they can do whatever they want. With a cookie the site has an option to store only what they need, instead of something unique. For example if I'm running an a/b test I could do this with a cookie, setting it to "1" for half the users and "2" for the other half.

(I work on mod_pagespeed, and our experimental framework uses cookies this way: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/modul...)
The First 20 Googlers: Where Are They Now?
That is what you get for putting in backdoors for big brother.
What I don't get about these "I get shit done with PHP so booya" posts is that people get shit done with better designed languages too. So where's the advantage?

IMO, PHP is only "magically productive" when you're starting out and banging out scripts over FTP on Shared Hosting with Apache/mod_php. Once you start running a "real app", with servers/deployment/nginx/php-fpm/frameworks, it requires the same amount of setup complexity as Rails/Django/etc.

Disclaimer: I write PHP for a living. Not a hater.
Yeah, I zoomed as far as I could out and it worked really well. Good On Ya!
They consider it a bug:

We already knew that we had a limitation that other browsers don't have in the parser, and it was already considered important to fix. Breaking Twitter of course raises the profile of this bug.
I think enough photographers have moved over to 500px (http://500px.com) to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. And even still I feel people are preferring to do that through Dropbox now.

I'm not really sure what Flickr could even potentially have going for it anymore to 'become awesome again'.
LG Optimus 4X HD is coming to UK in August
Be careful about coming up with an explanation for a result, and then thinking it is obvious: http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/
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It shouldn't be necessary to write them in the first place.

Anyway in this case I guess some automatic code reduction tool has decieded that four characters can be saved by changing it to commas. I doubt it was written that way to begin with.
I didn't know that the Sieve of eratosthenes could look this good!
I think bundling makes it a lot smaller than 16MB. Rather something like 8MB (which is still a lot of course).
3^n sequence looks like fractal penguins
I'm not a big Flickr user, but I've seen usage drop (people I know that were using it, moved somewhere else), but the site is a cool as it was when I started using it back in 2006.

If they start making changes so the users come back, I'm afraid those changes won't be for good of the actual users.
Unity Developer here, just want to say thank you, and I can't wait to play with the API :)
When you have more pride in your tools than in your craft, you're not doing it right.

Anyone who's been using PHP long enough to be proficient in it should move to a more robust toolset simply to get more done. To sneer on Python and Ruby as being elitist is just the sort of thing a self-proclaimed "PHP programmer" would do.

You shouldn't aspire to be an "X programmer", but a programmer period. Learn more tools, more techniques, even those outside your immediate comfort zone, and you will be able to improve in ways that being locked into a single way of thinking will never offer.
Valve goes official with Steam for Ubuntu
http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-...
What do you mean? If you are interested in getting a package into the standard library, Guido is certainly qualified to explain the process. What other interpretations are there?
If they removed the wave beginning from a prime number what would the 2*prime number look like?
They didn't place the commas there by hand. What are you complaining about?