skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Host your own public YUM repo using Google AppEngine
Here's a cool chart showing Gini coefficient versus GDP.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Gini_coe...
Labeling the paper with the epithet "hugely nurturist" tells nothing about the paper but everything about what you are doing. You are attempting the early dismissal of some viewpoint you disagree with on a more or less political grounds but this has not very much to do with science.

Most cognitive tasks used inside an MRI are about as meaningless as benchmarks. It seems gratuitous to turn this into evidence of intentionally dishonest malfeasance and frame the whole thing as some kind of pseudo-political debate. Just engage the data, please?

Setting aside the political tone you've taken here: the idea that nature and nurture are dichotomous (or can even be meaningfully separated) is not supportable.

It has been observed many times that because heritability includes a genes x environment interaction term, it does not mean that something is 'genetic' - and real-world examples have been provided in this thread.

You cannot build an adequate understanding of development on the caricature that there is a dichotomy between 'nature' and 'nurture'. DNA and RNA cannot do anything without a developmental environment. You do not have any organism without development, which necessarily occurs in an environment. There are strong adaptive reasons for learning in big primates and it is well known to occur. On the other hand, you do not have development or learning without machines to implement them; these are not built without genes but neither can genes build them in a vacuum. It is a perpetual interchange and the components are viciously complementary and embedded in the same feedback loops to a point where it is nearly meaningless even to argue about nature vs. nurture.
The Pi has been a great show in the perils of poor supply chain management. I woke up early on release day to try and get one, failed, continued to fail for quite a while, and never ordered one.

It would cost me, in the UK, £29.50, and take '5 weeks'. For £39, and a little quicker, i can get the all-winner a10 based MK802, which has;

* a much more powerful 1Ghz+ A8 processor
* a much more powerful GPU (mali 400)
* much more memory (1GB vs 256MB)
* wifi
* a case

The pi surely has it's niche still (gpio, community), and to be fair to the crew, their aims have always been separate from ours-- aimed at education and not hackers. And it did start all this. But IMO, at least until they can get the model A out at lower cost, there is little attractive about it today for someone looking for a tiny arm computer.

Interestingly, if they had used kickstarter (or just taken pre-orders) they would have been able to get manufacturing off at 100K+ quantities, and wouldn't have had these problems.
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There isn't much "liberal" about Obama restricting civil liberties, continuing the use of torture, continuing the use of spying against American citizens without warrants, stepping up the assassination of leaders abroad (without trying them in a court) and killing civilians around the world. Perhaps the only difference between Democrats and Republicans is the number of people killed; Bush had the chance to kill more Iraqis, Clinton fired missiles on a Sudan factory in Aspirin, Obama prefers to use drones to kill Afghans, Yemenis, Somalis and Pakistanis.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/obama-has-prosecuted-...

If you just happen to be an 18 year old male kid in an area and Obama wants to bombya, you're not a dead civilian, you're a dead militant. Previously they would assume that you're a militant unless proven otherwise. Now 18 year old male is a proven militant by definition.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/05/how-obama-changed-definition...
Nope they aren't. But for damn sure they know the difference between "Amazon" and "Google".
Some funny and frightening stories from Wall St.
Agreed! And the best part is being able to discuss specific parts of a book.
Compete's numbers are pretty good, you just have to understand the source. Digg showed more traffic, because Compete's datasource is US ISP logs, and any site with a digg button was added to digg's traffic.

The comparing reddit/digg on compete doesn't make much sense because of the digg button penetration. Just like comparing linkedin to google plus is stupid because many google properties make requests to plus.google.com.

Compete is a valuable tool, you just need to learn how to use it appropriately. Learn when it is reasonable to compare sites using it.
Oliver Sacks book: "An Anthropologist on Mars" covered a case of this happening.

There is an interesting writeup with some background at:

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/visblind.html
The actual title of article is:

"Canada's Top Grossing Finance Mobile App Generates Barely $80,000 Annually"

Isn't it likely that there are financial apps built in other regions that gross more?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc is one of the classic logical fallacies[1]. You persist in the assumption that poverty causes lower IQ, rather than the possibility that both poverty and lower IQ are correlated because they share a common cause.

[1] See http://www.skepdic.com/posthoc.html
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Cruise Lines Los Angeles: The Port of Los Angeles is one of the busiest cruise ports. Cruises out of Los Angeles and Los Angeles cruise lines.
Telstra T-Hub price and Features
Javascript testing in parallel with WD.js and Selenium
With paper money, mostly. Canadian real estate prices are hitting new highs, which is arguably unsustainable.
Get your next hire on Craigslist, has best ROI
I thought you would be interested in the stats for a recent Marketing Manager position that I posted on LinkedIn, Craigslist & Facebook.

36 people applied,

15 via Linkedin

12 via Craigslist

4 via Indeed.com (which must have mined my posting elsewhere)

3 via Other

2 via Facebook (I posted in the DC Tech startup community)

Each of the first 4 channels produced 2 candidates worth meeting face to face.

The winner came from Craigslist. This surprised me, as before, I had had success with Craigslist for less high profile postings, but intuitively, the high touch, social-network based approach of LinkedIn looked like it would perform better.

I'd be interested in hearing other startup experiences when it comes to recruiting.
> One explanation might be G+ international popularity

Google have been doing a TON of PR in Japan. They're doing a collaboration[0] with Japan's top J-Pop group (AKB48, with 200+ members) where they gave them all high-end Samsung phones and G+ accounts to post on. Some popular members used to post on Twitter and Ameblo, but this has extended to all members. They've also done exclusive G+ live streams of concerts, and when the group had their yearly popularity contest, Google+ had a live stream with live +1 buttons that graphed the mood over time[1].

I imagine they've also been recruiting other celebrities in Japan to drive adoption.

[0] http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/project48/

[1] http://www.akb48plus.com/senkyo/en/teaser.html
if you look the number on the axis they are pretty much the same, but facebook didnt have any spike...
Compete buys samples of traffic from ISPs as its primary datasource. Your toolbar theory is incorrect.
>I don't get it - I just don't get it. Is there anyone out there like me that would stay indoors tinkering with hardware and software over spending time rock-climbing or vacationing any day of the week?

No, programming isn't the pinnacle of enjoyment and/or pleasure for me. It can be an interesting way to pass time, but it's also a great way (for me, and I'd say for most people once enough time has passed) to become fat and boring if taken too far.

You have a hard time understanding why someone would not want to do one certain really cool thing as often as they can, while I wonder how you can possibly keep doing just one thing and miss out on everything your damn short life has to offer.

I'll go a step further in isolating myself and say that if I had an "unwavering passion" for something, I'd begin to suspect some sort of compulsive disorder.
You might also want to check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_lic...
AT&T's Next Ridiculous Move Is Going To Outrage iPhone Users
Isn't there a housing bubble going on in Canada right now? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18155405
It's not about when the company was founded, it's about the release of Squarespace 6, which compares favorably to WordPress.com's current incarnation.
So an article in TIME is three paragraphs now.
Well, you make a good point. For comparison, my 17" MBP is at 133 ppi (1920x1200), while the base 15" is 110 ppi, and so the Retina 15" is 220 ppi. If you wanted the 17" screen to be around 220 ppi, you could go with 3072x1920, which would noticeably easier to make and to drive than 3840x2400. Given that full-size screens are usually viewed from farther away than laptop screens, I think it's fair to offer this as a "Retina" resolution for a 24" 8:5 screen.

Similarly, the 27" 16:9 screen could come in at maybe 3584x2016.
PHPass, the go-to password hashing library
The government recently changed the rules to make it more difficult to get a cheap mortgage, hopefully this will keep things from spiralling out of control.
I haven't thought this through very carefully and it may be twaddle, but:

With pop(0) you have a queue, you always take out the oldest thing in it, and so you get breadth-first search.

Instead you're doing pop(0) then pop(1) then pop(2), etc., which means you're taking out "every other" entry from the queue. (Until the popping overtakes the adding, which happens around about the time when a typical newly explored pixel generates fewer than 2 new neighbours to explore, by which time most of the interesting pattern generation has already happened.)

Now, when any pixel is processed its (not-yet-visited) neighbours get pushed consecutively. That means that when the exploration process reaches them it'll only explore one or two of them. In the usual "early" case there are three such neighbours; half the time one will get explored, half the time two will. The other neighbours get left behind until the exploration wraps (i.e., "step" passes the end of the queue), which doesn't happen for ages.

Hence the branching tree structure you see: right at the start we explore only two of the starting pixel's four neighbours, and the other two get left behind; so now we have two growing "tips", and when we process each one we either grow it one step further or split it two ways. And we don't return to the other neighbours for ages, so the tree grows basically until it fills the available space before the gaps start getting filled in.

(There are plenty of details not explained by the above. More thought required.)
So it's ok to spam facebook as long as you are really nice ;)
Firefox 14 Released With HTTPS Searching and OS X Lion Full-Screen Mode
One of them has an ongoing relationship with the customer and probably a credit card on file.

The other is Google.
Are you seeing them as organic search results, or as "social search" features added into the mix?

I can't say I've seen a lot of G+ pages as organic results, but they do seem to feel free to inject links to social media profiles when they're related in some way to a search result.
You may not like it, but that is the way the law is written. It is why so many people disagree with the way the DMCA works.

There are many documented cases of large companies using DMCA takedown requests to suppress material that they just don't like, with no valid legal claim on it.
Three.js: render real world terrain from heightmap using open data
From the safety of my throwaway account, I have to ask a question of HN that's been bugging me for some time:

Am I the only person who, if not for the need to support my family, might blissfully while away his days playing games, playing with new tech, reading, watching TV or movies, and just generally goofing off? Maybe I'd regret my wasted life one day, but in the here and now there's a lot of fun to be had in the world today.

I love to code, but shipping is a lot harder, and running a whole business based on that code is harder still, of course. But from reading comments like the parent on HN, there are people who would make whole _products_, or build businesses all day long if left to their own devices.

I can't tell if I was just raised differently from other people such that I am predisposed to value, say, instant gratification and to avoid hard work; or if everyone else is just ignoring these parts of their nature and not talking about the fact that getting drunk with your friends is more fun and a lot easier than following through a product idea from concept to completion.
Cool? I found it confusing. Not to mention there are clear rendering problems with the fonts (not just in my browser, but in the original if you look at the Wikipedia PNG equivalents). I think the diagram needs "Tufte attention".
I know title editing is a frowned upon here on HN lately, but this is pretty misleading. It is the top grossing finance app just in Canada (which is how the post is title on techvibes).
In response to determining an unnatural movement and/or an unauthorized user wearing the HMD, the wearable computer triggers a locking mechanism, which can beneficially provide security measures for the wearable computer.

So next time that a wearable computer comes to market that wants to lock out unauthorized users, they have to deal with this patent. Seems pretty generic to me.
They are UK based, so kickstarter isn't necessarily an option.
> MySpace is so small now! And shrinking! Let us never forget that history.

So telling that you ask me not to forget MySpace's history, but Friendster is no longer mentioned - so I guess this means that we only remember one social network back ;)
The general premise for the goal of having a paid product rather than having an ad-supported product is definitely noble. And it will work for many people and many products. However, I heard more about the idea of not selling your soul to advertisers than hearing about the actual product itself.

Right now there's nothing tangible for me to get excited about. I consider myself a tech-minded person, despite not being a hacker, but this project still seems vague to me.

Often projects that get press make most of their funding right off the top with the rest trickling in without a huge boost. Pending some big press for the project, I'm not sure yet if it can make it. But I've enjoyed Dalton's interviews and blogs over time and he has some great insights, so I'm still rooting for it.
Yes, in Norwegian you would say "tolv komma tre millioner".

Of course if I'm speaking English I would use "point".
Depending on how you interact with Google Glass, it could simply make sure that your hand is yours, or that your eye is yours, and not allow anyone else to use the device (unless you put it in a "guest" mode for X amount of time.)
Last time the Japanese systematically vivisected women and children without anaesthesia, including live amputation of limbs and injection of bacteria was between 1935 and 1945. That is about 70 years ago, not 200.
My current manager (who I greatly respect) is awesome at handling this; when I fuck up, he'll come over smiling, and tell me a tale of how he did something similar (only worse) whilst helping me fix the situation. The tale could be a lie for all I know, but it always instantly puts me at ease.
I don't deny that WordPress has a lot going for it, but Automattic's reported $45 million in annual revenue doesn't put it too far ahead of Squarespace.
A lap dance or a hooker! If free even better :p
Why is it hard to do mobile at hackathons? Is it just because building an app on the mobile take longer than building a web app? But wouldnt solutions like phonegap make it faster?
C++11: a visual summary of the additions and changes since C++03
Gross revenue is meaningless without taking into account those other factors: an app that took two weeks to develop and an hour a week from one developer to maintain that makes $1m in annual revenue would be amazing; but, if it took a year to develop and requires a team of five to maintain, then one would presume it is losing money (and a lot of it, possibly very rapidly).

I can thereby understand asking for both sides, so you can do the subtraction yourself, but if I was going to see either the result of someone performing the subtraction or just one of the numbers being subtracted, I'd have to say only the former provides value; this is certainly true of you want to break them up into brackets: the top 1% by revenue might be losing money while the middle third are raking it in.
Giving money to consumers doesn't lower the aggregate supply of real capital, it just sends false signals to producers (and consumers).
My main complaint about Flash is how it completely breaks the normal web experience.

Want to middle click a link? You can't, it's Flash.

Want to run a spellcheck on that textbox? You can't, it's Flash.

Want to search the text? You can't, it's Flash.

Want to increase the text size (with reflowing)? You can't, it's Flash.

Want to use a screen reader? You can't, it's Flash.

Want to link to a particular page? You can't, it's Flash¹.

(And this is not even talking about more geeky stuff like Greasemonkey, blocking code without blocking text and images, etc)

Sure, there weren't any real alternatives for advanced stuff like animations. But you know what? It would have been better to have no way to do that stuff if it kept all the stuff that could already be done with HTML/CSS in those technologies.

¹ Yes, I know this and probably other issues can be fixed if only developers do such and such. That's irrelevant. I know, you know, and Adobe definitively knows that bad developers are everywhere, and Flash makes it a pain to do basic stuff that comes by default in standard web tech, therefore making sure we would be flooded with broken apps.
Sigh, these things are so confusing. So this thing brings in $80K/yr, what are the operating costs? Does it need a data base or backend support? Or is it fire and forget? Did it take a year to write? 6 months? How much is spent maintaining it?

I can believe that its impossible to 'grow a business' on the back of one $3 or $4 app. Except why would you only have one of those? And if its that hard to write and maintain (so it takes an engineer full time to keep it going) then selling it for $3 or $4 is just bad business. Apps that need an engineer full time post ship are $20 apps.
Understanding that there is a large amount of knowledge out there that you don't know and to always take the time to learn.

One simple example I was told to do early on was when I pulled up the man page to a command rather than just reading the one section I wanted take the time to skim the entire thing. Slowly but surely you become more familiar with the capabilities and features that are out there so you don't re-invent the wheel or take six hours doing something that could have been a few unix commands piped together.
Claims of G+'s amazing growth always looks silly when I run this bookmarked Insights:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Google%20Plus%2CIns...
On Memory Barriers
Luxembourg actually, with Swedish founders and Estonian coders.
Ironic. Google is the world's biggest ad company. But people will run to Google to avoid ads?
I just curious how you can support your point about squirrels, besides you falling prey of the bias of trying to advance an argument with a sole point.

For example, can these squirrels ancestors had better nutrition than the average squirrel, can we know about that just after seeing they mastering fire or wondering if they could learn calculus? I believe this type of question, the relation between nutrition and intelligence, can be answered much easily than searching for genes and looking for some desirable psychological trait in there, this can be easily tested in animals as well in a large couple of generations.

Either way I am not a biologist or even an psychologist so this is my take as a mathematician/statician. Also I'm not so confident science will ever come as close to explaining this completely.
Thanks for the insight. One more thing I can't figure out based on your reply is: how do you differentiate a decimal number from a list of numbers? For example, consider the list:

12.3, 7.6, 3.2

It's easy to see the three different numbers. But otherwise, wouldn't it be:

12,3, 7,6, 3,2

And how would you dictate that? "twelve comma three comma seven comma six comma..."?
Is that sarcasm? I honestly can't tell.
In general I agree with the OP...somewhat. Over the last few months or maybe a year or so, I feel an increase in less interesting articles. Maybe there are just too many people and submitters now on HN and its getting diluted. (All just my opinion of course)
"Xiaomi appears to have hit a sweet spot in the market, selling high-spec devices that compete with the iPhone on quality, but undercut it substantially in price"
This strategy follows Christensen's disruptive innovation to the letter. Interesting to see Apple on the brink of disruption in a consumer category it principally defined.
I just found this site and there's a ton of great info about C++11 that I wanted to share, but the visual summary seemed the most impressive.

This C++11 regex cheatsheet is also very useful: http://www.cpprocks.com/wp-content/uploads/c++11-regex-cheat...
IPV4 phase 2 is imminent
I bet Google intentionally wrote Closure Compiler to use commas, with the knowledge that Opera has a bug with too many commas, so as to intentionally cause Opera to mess up and look bad.

</sarcasm>
I've long thought that Google's ability to track searches from Microsoft IP addresses was one of the reasons for the development of Bing - i.e. Bing's value is, in part, that it plugs an information leak and siphons other leaks into Microsoft's data mine.
> It is against the rules to talk about this problem, though. From the guidelines: "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."

Because of this, I think there should be a meta-HN so rather than shutting down discussion and causing it to bubble up and eventually boil over, it can be openly ignored until a fantastic idea comes along (or refused nonetheless), instead of total silence or a constant buzzing noise like my post and the parent which, honestly, detracts from the overall quality of HN proper.
Speaking of the format, there is something that bothers me with the aesthetics of Google+, and I wonder if the feeling is shared by anyone on HN: It feels like there is too much emphasis on the interface. To exaggerate a bit, using all the bubble boxes and colored buttons feels like operating a Fisher Price toy. I would rather have a discreet and elegant interface that emphasizes the content. Maybe the mobile app is better in this respect...
Great to hear! (And not a bad original quote either)
My example doesn't mention making a choice of what to eat, only becoming "aware" that one is hungry (needs to eat). The joy of eating (independent of choice) has little to do with recognizing that it's time to eat. Likewise, the joy or writing/programming has little to do with identifying and prioritizing those tasks efficiently.

I could have said it simpler by stating that one would be foolish to rely on emotions to schedule his/her day.
this guy stole the internal know-how from Meizu, and is great at marketing while cloing whatever Jobs did, I'm uncertain on its future.
Steve Mann, wearable computer pioneer, attacked by McDonalds
OK, I can get used to that if I had to. I don't understand how lists would work though, like I ask here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4257721