skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My old research advisor told me a story about a conversation he had with an NSA rep who seemed to know an eerie amount about his work. When he pointed this out to her, she insisted they had spoken previously. He's pretty positive they never did.
The shooter did not confront police and surrendered immediately. People who shoot up bunches of unarmed people seem to stop right away in the face of any resistance.

(As a counterpoint to me, you could point out that he was wearing body armor, as if he were expecting resistance. I'd say it was more like he was acting out some costume in his head.)

An armed moviegoer wouldn't need to shoot the gunman to stop him. Even just firing in the air would have let the gunman know "someone else in here is armed and maybe shooting at me, I need to seek cover" and have significantly slowed him down.

(Note that "firing in the air" is of course dangerous, since the bullets will hit stuff and stuff will fall on people. However, since we're talking about a gunman purposefully targeting unarmed people, that risk is much much less than the original risk being mitigated.)
The command line isn't difficult, but sometimes it's difficult to convince someone who has never "needed to use the command line" that they should give it a shot.
It looks good, here's what I see:

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Sure, the numbers in "Quantum Explanations" are made up, but (1) the experiments are real, and (2) everything besides the numbers is accurate (as far as I know). Plus, the goal of the sequence was never to actually explain quantum physics. It was to explain why a realist perspective (the wave function is all there is, and the math says it doesn't collapse, so it really doesn't) is by far the most probably correct, despite the fact that it makes no new prediction compared to previous interpretations. That, plus answering some philosophical question with physics.

Aaronson's explanation definitely is a step in the right direction. I still have a quibble however: he keeps mentioning "probability" as an analogy to amplitude. That confuses his explanation in my opinion. I'd rather have a straight explanation of QM math, then an explanation about its similarities with probability theory. And the mixed state paragraph seems to conflate subjective probability and actual distribution of amplitude. Ick.
Not the OP, but a guess: religion is basically just a value system. In that sense, it's no different than any other value system, other than the fact that it includes existence of X deity.
Read Committed Snapshot (2005)
Not sure, been waiting for it. Shall we just use this thread of wait for the bot?
I don't know about Holland, but CL is HUGE in the U.S, and I mean REALLY HUGE. I've sold stuff, rented apartments etc from CL, because that is where the crowd is. I know of people who use it for everything, and they are very happy. Takes a minute to post the ad, it is free, and even 70 year olds know it.

It is beyond me, why they refuse to improve the service. They could do it one small step at a time, carefully and slowly, so they don't upset their not so tech savvy audience (much of their audience falls in this category)

Things might change soon if they keep behaving this way, but at this moment, no-one comes close to CL (ebay may be, but you can't rent apartments from ebay)
That's the kind of argument I had in mind but I didn't want to elaborate on yet another incidental issue. Societal attention is a finite resource (which goes largely wasted). On the other hand, many of these questions don't rise to the level of public discussion, just think of all the safety regulations involved in engineering and manufacturing.
No it isn't.

The information that is used to build the ad remains open to be used wherever and whenever the poster wants. I believe this storm is caused by third parties leeching off their ads and not users posting the ad in multiple places. Let's not get too dramatic about it.
>what he's saying is essentially "I don't understand CT, but I'm having no problems with FP without it."

Saying that understanding category theory can give you a greater understanding of functional programming doesn't imply that a lack of understanding of category will cause problems in the understanding of functional programming.

Our difference is that I do not see anything in the thread parent that contradicts the article, and I don't think he's trying to convince you that CT is either a hammer or a banana, just that professional carpentry work is possible without it.
The customer isn't always right, but they're still the customer. That saying really grinds my gears.

Someone said/typed once that there will be no big CL killer - that they'll be pecked to death by many small replacements, such as Etsy in the crafts space. PM should be the CL replacement for the housing market, and their biggest problem to solve now is getting listings from another source, hopefully from landlords listing directly with them.
Many would consider switching from Qwerty to Dvorak a bicycle skill.

Are you sure? I'd consider typing in Dvorak a non-standard skill that would make me less productive with ~99% of keyboards in existence!

This strikes me as about as worthwhile as learning to ride a non-standard dual-wheel vehicle, as a consequence of which it becomes much harder to ride regular bicycles.
The dream will be dead with Jony Ive leaves.
Luckily I began the transition to Dvorak before I ever heard of Vim. The process definitely would have proved more painful with an additional set of muscle memory to override.
Dear everybody, please stop trying to kill Craigslist. Just leave it alone. Craigslist is fine and good at what it does, and some of us don't want your fancy buzzword-friendly cloud app replacing it. Some of us just want listings.

I wish the padmapper dude would grow up (dude's on a quest like Don Quijote) and I wish people would stop salivating over the possibility of Craigslist's corpse. Find something else.

We'll see if this provision has any teeth when users repost their listings elsewhere. It seems added to make padmapper's life more difficult, and since the dude behind that site has been nothing but a whiny little biyotch, I'm all for it.
I was about to agree with you (especially when compared to Github's issue tracker, since everyone has a Github account), but while poking around I noticed that it offers login via BrowserID, which I just so happen to have. Since registering a new account is the biggest barrier to participating in any service, that's not so bad after all.
This is awesome. Exactly how I did it in my head.
Thanks for these links. [4] reminds me especially why I used to prefer amber on black instead of green on black in those old days when being able to choose the colour of your display was a real feature!
That does not follow from my comment, which takes no stance, but is the thesis of the article.
I think the problem is most people need some sort of positive feedback immediately when engaging in a new activity (programming, startups) that if they do not receive it, their confidence never rises, and they see no reason to enjoy the new activity. Once you can build past the initial stages of grinding it out and gain some momentum and start to see the bigger picture, I believe that is when most become fully engaged and passionate about whatever "work" they are pursuing. At least this is how I feel. I'd like to know if others feel the same way.
> You speak as though CL is broken, and it clearly isn't, as a marketplace it functions well.

I'm guessing you've never had to find an apartment on Craigslist. Sifting through spam, scams, fake listings by agents, listings that have already been sold... sure, you can do it, but it's not efficient.
Dropbox gets hacked … again
Speed of Sound is too Slow for Olympic Athletes
LOL! That's funny :)

It's just something cool I saw on Facebook, thought I'd post it.
The danger of the idea posted here is that (i) it sounds very logical and authentic and (ii) it's sort of true. The idea that "If you really deeply care about something, you will do it" is such a simplification that it borders on misleading.

A typical example is literature. Check out Bukowski's "air and light and time and space" (http://hellopoetry.com/poem/air-and-light-and-time-and-space...): I've always loved this poem for explaining succinctly (and artfully) the problem with general procrastination and excuse making:

...

you're going to create with part of your mind and your
body blown
away,
you're going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you're going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment,
flood and fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don't create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.

This definitely has the ring of truth. But in reality neither novelists and ports work this way. Many writers concede that an important part of the trade is teaching yourself the discipline to write N pages a day (google "writer discipline", you'll be amazed, these guys work harder than coders!)

So let me rephrase: Choosing what to do, e.g. coding instead of being a marine biologist is an act of love; consistently doing good work requires discipline, whether you love your profession or not.
Actually, Craig has a history of speaking personally with founders using CL data, acting nice, and then mysteriously shutting down their mechanism for getting data without replying. Even if they weren't trying to make money.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/16/craigslist-yahoo-pipes/

Craigslist is broken. And successful. Those aren't mutually exclusive things. Newspapers are broken yet they'll do nearly $20 billion of dollars in revenue this year. They were broken and did peak revenue in 2005. Nokia was broken but had record profits two years ago. RIM was broken and did record profits last year.

Craigslist will eventually lose. It's just going to take longer than any of us reasonably expect.
Maybe in your imagination people with concealed-carry permits are a bunch of nuts looking for any excuse to open fire. But that's your imagination.

Walking around with a gun drawn is stupid. They aren't going to go "hunting down the gunman." They know that they are a totally legitimate target for the police in that situation.
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Looks like they're trying to replicate Reddit's feel too closely! I like it!
Go for the Gold (Pay the IRS)
Advantages of Utilizing Medical Billing Services
These days most doctors prefer cost-effective medical billing services as opposed to maintaining in-house billing staff to obtain maximum profits.
I think the points here are -

1. Phelps is at the top based on the system of measurement we've agreed upon. No need to worship him.
2. Use him to inspire yoursleves in the endeavours YOU want to undertake, and NOT to become Phelps.
3. Stop feeling bad about yourselves for not being Phelps.
4. Use happiness as your yardstick and not what others think about you.
5. Don't force yourself to immitate others, instead spend time on discovering what you love and allow/push yourself to excel in it.
6. If you do, you'll enjoy watching Phelps and move on with your life.
7. Replace Phelps above with Jobs/Jordan/James Bond...

Peace.

K
That old adage is dead. "The customer is always right" is a prescription for terror
Huge Changes Are Coming To Twitter
removed ad and posted on official thread.

refer to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323813
Doesn't mean the brusqueness is appropriate or called for. I don't care what jwz has accomplished, basic human decency is something we should all strive for.
You could always try Adblock. I've never seen an ad on Facebook.
Apple captive Cirrus gagged
Hasn't Dvorak been pretty thoroughly debunked as far as claims of speed? [1] is only the first google result, I can recall seeing quite a few articles on HN.

Dvorak is more unicycle than bicycle.

[1] http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/print
Why? I still haven't found a tool which doesn't have an equivalent GUI.
Why do you think they can't coexist? In fact my actual suggestion is that they should coexist. But the "just subscribe appropriately" response is fundamentally broken, and only provides a partial solution. This approach absolutely benefits any subreddit as well.
100Mbps is reasonably fast right now, but when building infrastructure you want to focus non on your current needs but your needs when you finish building that infrastructure. Vary high speed internet has enabled me to got a lot more use from a small SSD by downloading games I want to play again vs. trying to keep local copy's of everything. Sure, by it's self that's not a big deal, but the internet is more than just cat video's on youtube.

PS: Ever download a show because you where trying to remember a quote?
The USB ethernet adapter is MUCH slower than a good 802.11n wireless connection, at least on my Air.
"Without you realizing it at the time, it sets up so many paths in the life of a programmer that the single machine becomes like a cornerstone of whatever you do later. And you always go back to your first computer."

My first computer was a Heathkit, my grandfather brought me. We built it together. I wish I still had it. I miss that machine. Worthless today, except in a collection. And to me.

But my second was a Commodore VIC20. Another machine with a solid place in my heart. Also wish I still had it.

After the VIC its IMB clones, MSDOS, DRDOS, Windows - blah blah blah until the later 90's when I brought my first Mac.

Of course now, it's hard to romanticize a any computer. Since they so common place.
Visual COBOL 2.0 for Visual STudio 2012 RC
Fuck Wall St. - Invest in Main St.
Please FTLOG wait for the whoishiring bot to run.

EDIT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323597
ShopLocket Raises $1 Million to Power the Next Wave of E-commerce
While plenty of people here are using Ruby, Python etc, I found interesting to report that completely different tools exist, too!
Summit Partners Raises $520 Million Credit Fund For Growth Companies
>I didn't care for the phrasing at all. By using 4/5, that implies lower, and stands out far more than the word double. The conclusion drawn by most would be "less than", which is quite misleading from the actual data of "almost double".

That's understandable.

>Edit: There is also an edit button if you wanted to fix your wording.

You can't edit a post after it's been unchanged for more than an hour. (Or somewhere in that vicinity.)
Please change the title: he was held for two weeks, one year ago.
Isn't IP multicast perfectly suited for this?

It's already being used in various places around the world to deliver cable TV services to residential customers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast#Commercial_deploym...
There you go: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=792+Cornaga+Avenue,+Far+Rocka...

Based on http://www.fotuva.org/online/frameload.htm?/online/house.htm
Hi, we actually have a reusable link feature, so if you have an NDA or onboarding docs that you need on a regular basis, you can upload the file and share the link.

Could be used on a one-time basis as well. Check the "reusable docs" tab on the left hand nav.
I'm constantly disappointed that multitouch does not work on my desktop Chrome like it would on a mobile device.
I usually ssh/remote desktop into a remote server sitting behind a fast connection. Much less waiting around.
Top execs now turning their sights on UX design
Make Sure You’re Having Fun Doing What You Do
Given the recent downtime and bugs we are not sure if it will run. I checked the comments history for the bot, but could not assert anything from it (if it has been posting at later time than it says on the profile).
I voted it up because
a) I'm interested in type theory and I like the idea of something that tries to explain it using C# rather than Haskell

b) I wish HN had more of these sorts of articles as opposed to the usual startup/productivity/lifestyle crap
Tom here from Scirra (#7 on the list).

Quite brutal to review all 35 of them as 'painfully mediocre' in under 30 minutes!
Microsoft Registers Outlook Domain Names: A Lesson In Protecting Your Brand
"Where's your outrage over Syrian and Iranian Intelligence and their tactics?"

Even though this isn't addressed at me, my response would be: Where it belongs, in conversations with Syrian and Iranian intelligence officials.

For all we know, they excuse what they do with what the US is doing. There was the cold war, then that ended, and without missing a beat military budgets kept growing. Now there's Al Quaeda (former resistance fighters against the Soviet Union, whee), and China. There's always something. It's propaganda 101, and they do the same. The game isn't "nation X against nation Y", it's elites in all nations against their populations.

"I'm not defending all of the actions of those agencies, but I will certainly defend their mission and goals."

But we ARE talking about their actual actions, instead of their espoused goals, so how is that relevant? We get it, it's not nice for drones to see free people... then just look elsewhere, because we aren't going away.
If it's boredom, you should probably be doing something else.

I am in the process of teaching a 4-year-old to do what needs doing regardless of interest level.
The above advice is not helpful to that end. There is much which we must do, be it chores or goals, which inspire boredom - but must be done nonetheless else at best no progress is made, or at worst grave consequences follow.
Way too much text. Give a short intro and then link to the rest.
Totally broken in Opera. Fail.
Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group of.....?
I'd be happy to help & support you :)
please contact me at contact@michalkosecki.com

www.michalkosecki.com
Did you read it all?

Is there a size limit (word count)?
I suppose someone with a bullshit threshold high enough to take a polygraph would do better in a government agency than someone who wouldn't.
nobody has ever lost their gmail account for using a pseudonym on G+.
avar: I'm not making any assumptions that anything big is going wrong in the company.

Falling short with national TV ads shown during the opening ceremony of the Olympics is a big deal for a company that until recently showed mostly amazing ads on TV. Losing a person who led CPU design for the company's fastest-growing businesses is also a big deal for a company that considered having that person a major coup.

Could you imagine either of these things -- lousy ads on a major TV event, key person departing -- happening while Jobs was running the show?

--

Edit: changed "only amazing" to "mostly amazing," which better reflects my views.
Unbaby.me: deletes and replaces baby pictures in your newsfeed
Side projects have chores. If you skip them and move on to the next interesting thing, you tend to end up with a lot of half-done side projects.
By "indirect profit" you mean "junk mail"? That's about all it provides me.

Either way, more privatization would cut the losses without causing much harm. For instance, if we let the USPS decide how much to charge for postage rather than letting congress determine that, they could bring in a lot more money.

On the other hand, privatizing the military raises a number of ethical issues that don't apply for the postal service (as we have seen with Blackwater/Xe/Academi.. can you believe they changed their name again??).
It might be running late. Let's wait till 5 PM ET and then post if whoishiring doesnt show up ...
Reasons for not learning functional programming
Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
Some people are saying the polygraph is to prove you are trustworthy, others are saying it's to test your ability to lie. These two notions appear to contradict each other, though.
Do you use both?

Edit: I wanted to add a few more comments.

Someone mentioned scriptability, also composability, speed, "multitaskability".
Looks like I was wrong on this one.

However, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they will come to the taxpayer looking for a bailout soon.
IT Crowd: Have you tried turning it off and on again? (video)
The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards
> It shouldn't matter what subreddits I subscribe to

Also, it shouldn't matter what Usenet newsgroups I read and what TV channels I watch.
Tom here from Scirra!

We're looking for an ASP.net (c#) and Javascript developer. Our full ad is here:
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/22447/asp-net-c-sharp-...

We are looking for someone who will want to work on location in SW London in a full time roll.
Y Combinator Companies to Watch
Criticisms about not including microformats and schema.org is super nitpicky.
I think this is good news, for both companies and for Jim Keller himself.

- Apple's strength is not in its chips. It's in its software and tightly integrated stack

- It seems, from the outside, AMD needs an inspiring leader to give its design teams a clearer goal.

- I know first hand what it feels like when your work no longer lines up with where your company is going. I wish him the best of luck on his new challenges.
CL offered them a mobile license and Padmapper is primarily a web only application.
Besides this trying to search for an apartment on mobile would be incredibly tedious. And this is likely why CL is willing to offer a mobile license.
ShopLocket Raises $1M to Lead the Emerging Simple Selling Market
Why Google Content Experiments suck
I feel like we should wait on HN to settle the issue and run it officially.
How is subscribing to a subreddit fundamentally different from upvoting? To get recommendations, you need to somehow feed the recommendation engine with your interests.

Look at it this way: when you upvote a fitness-related submission, you say "hey, I'm somewhat interested in fitness", when you subscribe to /r/fitness, you say "hey, I'm really interested in fitness."

So, both upvoting and subscribing are actually manual actions.
One word: Scriptabilty. I still haven't found a properly scriptable GUI. On the command line I can automate almost everything and customize it to my needs. Additionally I'm way faster on a CLI for almost any task I do as a programmer on a regular basis than with any GUI.

For me personally, not just tasks I do when programming, but almost anything I do on a computer. The graphical display capabilities are merely a way of displaying content for me (PDFs, web-pages, etc.).

Obviously, if you're dealing with graphical content you want a GUI though.
Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux NVidia binary driver
Waterloo Region: Canada’s Innovation Hub
I'm using a Magic Mouse and when I scrolled, it zoomed in. I know this is the intended result, and other apps do that (Google Maps and Google Earth come to mind) but it's a bit annoying to my muscle memory. The gesture used to zoom in and out in Safari and the rest of OS X is tapping, which in Doctape is accomplished with clicking... but it's just weird to click to zoom in a desktop OS. Nothing too serious :)

Hate to be the guy who requests features, but it'd be nice to have a way to see the image in its actual size (similar to ⌘0 in OS X).

That said, congratulations on launching, it looks great.
How a group of MIT students turned a school project into a gambling syndicate
USPS doesn't get any money from taxpayers.

It's all funded from postage.

This is an often repeated myth that is very mistaken.

You really want UPS doing to daily mail what they do to packages?
Prose, the app this was built for is also quite cool: http://prose.io/

Very easy way to edit your Markdown documents on GitHub, regardless of whether it is just the project README, or full gh-pages.

There was quite a lot of discussion about it here back when it launched: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157321
Google Now - New Venture from Google
Only 3/5 for me - the other two times I got "502 Bad Gateway".