skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android still isn't as polished as iOS but unlike iOS it isn't partying like it's still 2007.

And letting other devs take a crack at improving some of the core functionality has helped Android leapfrog Apple in some very important ways. Just look at the innovation going on in third-party keyboards. After using Swype or Swiftkey going back to an iPhone keyboard is like pulling teeth. But Apple's paternalistic software model precludes this kind of thing which is why it's so important that they're not allowed to use the legal system to destroy competition in the smartphone space.
That is an awesome document. Thanks for sharing. It's entirely applicable to any area of engineering including software engineering.
I laughed, I cried, I felt glad inside. Thanks for this.
On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Graph Database + Encoder Graph = Human Brain Size Unsupervised Learning?
Has there been any research on combining a graph database such as pregel and deep learning? For example, take a graph of encoders

where

encoder+decoder = autoencoder (contractive/denoising/sparse) or encoder = ica or encoder = sparse pca or encoder = non-negative matrix factorization

The encoder graph is directed and acyclic

The output of two or more encoders must match the input of the one their plug into. In the simplest case, input = 2*hidden, then 2 encoders plug into another encoder.

Pregel is a graph database (there are open source versions too) which can handle trillion+ connections. As far as I can tell, the database is almost perfectly suited to the encoder graph formulation of unsupervised deep learning, and should probably take only a few lines of code.

Is there any obvious flaws in the above, has it been already tried?
How many links must we endure on this topic? People who care will research it and understand what the result is and isn't.
Progressive settles with accident victim's family after tale went viral
One fragment from a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis explains rather well the mechanics of current Russian pro-democracy campaign in the Western media. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

The video deals with PR guru Edward Bernays work for his client, a United Fruit Company (UFCO). When a newly elected Guatemala president Jacobo Árbenz threatened to nationalize UFCO's plantations, Bernays engineered a campaign to turn the popularly elected president doing hugely popular things for his people, into a threat to democratic values and a communist with links to Moscow.

In reality, Arbenz was no communist and no dictator, as the documentary points out. But Bernays has set up a shell American press agency which bombarded US media with reports about alleged freedom violations in Guatemala. Bernays has also apparently organised a few violent anti-US actions in Guatemala to support his thesis.

As a result, president Arbenz was ousted in a coup and replaced with a proper dictator, which was generally viewed as a good thing by the freedom-loving public in the US. Interestingly, the whole time the United Fruit Company has been kept out of the picture, even through it was paying for the campaign.

The whole BBC documentary http://centuryself.blogspot.com/ is quite interesting.
Gentoo-Fu: Building KDE branches
FYI, instead of creating separate .sh files for builds that need multiple lines, you could just separate them by passing && as a parameter.

E.g., for Cordova iOS projects I use:

"cmd": ["cordova/debug", "&&", "cordova/emulate"]
With Iran oil embargo, world dropped about as much (in oil) as Russia exports. Did not prove to be a big deal.
After being threaten by Apple.
TasOS 12.07 released 
Yet another fork of TasOS 12.07 distro is released
I don't get it. Each time somebody protests some injustice or evil happening somewhere, some people couldn't find anything better to do but chime in with "why you protest X but not Y? if you don't protest every single injustice I want you to protest, you must be a hypocrite!" Come on people, how it even makes sense to you? Who on earth could live up to this impossible standard of protesting every single injustice?

It makes it only worse that your other demands of condemnations are full of factual inaccuracies - Omahr Khadr is sitting in Gitmo not for "something he might've been involved" but for, among other terrorist activities, murdering an American - Sergeant Christopher James Speer, to which he admitted and plead guilty. Pussy Riot had nothing to do with vandalism and weren't accused of vandalism. Western world is not "equally unjust" as nobody is imprisoned for 2 years for protesting the head of state. The press is not "ignoring" any of the issues you raised - Wikileaks revelations, Gitmo prisoners and other events are extensively discussed in the press and nobody is being imprisoned for doing so.
One thing I've never seen answered:

Has anyone actually stopped to figure out how multi-party systems really scale? India is the largest in the world, but also A) has Euro-style population density and B) is maybe not such a great example of a functioning representative government. France and Germany are better examples of governments that mostly work, but are dealing with a fraction of the US population and order-of-magnitude differences in density and geographic area compared to the US.

And, tellingly, what I know of French and German politics is basically that, while in theory there are a bunch of parties and there are places where they can pick up a seat or two... they're still two-party in the sense that they tend to develop stable, long-lived pairs of large dominant parties, who in turn are the only ones with a shot at forming a government. Every once in a while a third party gets just big enough to play kingmaker, but that's about it. And that doesn't sound like enough of a sweeping change to justify rebooting the entire system.
So you're saying Western media invented the 2 year sentence and in fact nothing like that happened? There are no freedom violations in Russia and only reason why such reports appear is because some corporations want to take over Russia? Or what that Guatemala example has to do with Russia and Putin?
> And he knows it.

Ahhr... you caught me! I am being paid by the KGB for deliberately spreading misinformation on the Internet, recruit boy scouts into the Komsomol and paint Ulysses Grant's beard in black to make him look like Karl Marx on every $50 bill I get a hold of.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded" -Yogi Berra
are you actually a pedophile?
Just curious.
> [..] I have never in my life had so much smoke blown up my ass in the process of an ostensibly (partially) technical discussion.

Very harsh words but I'm afraid I have to agree. That article doesn't really tell you what UX design is. Back on university I attended an interactive systems class, which was very focused on UI and UX design. I found it to be rather vague and everything but precise in definition. I believe UX is a very blown term these days anyway, just as I believe "design" is an inflated term.

What I want is a precise definition of good UX, that doesn't feel like "make it idiot-proof".

Disclaimer: I make no claims whatsoever to be good at UX design. Actually, I couldn't care less. I'm one of those weird code monkeys who favour function over everything else. Maybe that's what UNIX made me to be ;)
Kasparov made a gambit, and finally Russia has bitten. Next move is Kasparov's.
I'm not sure a system where the president gets elected by ignoring Texas, California, New York, New England etc is really a better system than a nationwide popular vote.
Yes, I'm on Linux - but it still doesn't explain why flash is consuming so much CPU (I'm using VESA drivers for graphics)
Zuckerberg to employees: Stock price drop has been “painful” to watch
Twitter can't start charging

They could easily start charging for additional services as the comment above suggessted - if they make it a 'Pro' plan and leave normal accounts alone, there's no incentive at all for people to leave, and yet they make money from their most active/interested users. There are plenty of extras they could offer on top of the basic service for a charge.

That goes double for business accounts - I'm sure most businesses would pay some small subscription for verification, syndication, the chance to advertise (in clearly separated areas) and other features now it has critical mass.

That's a much better plan than polluting all of the users' streams with advertising they don't want a la FaceBook, which will lead to a mass exodus. Adding advertising to the users' streams is absolutely the worst thing Twitter can do, and yet it seems they're actively working towards that with their recent changes.
I'm probably making an ass out of my self now but: For the love of god, please don't learn Flash! People learning Flash have given birth to the worst parts of the web. There's a reason why everybody wants to get rid of it.
I've returned and gotten a refund for most apps I installed on Play. I kept maybe two dozen or so quality ones.

Works great since you can pretty much get the crux of the quality of an app in an extremely short time (sometimes as little as several seconds).
Elastic Path Developer Challenge: Can you code your way out of a blackout maze?
I'm not affiliated with these people, just thought it was a neat way to post a job.
Do you know why it was discontinued?

I'd imagine the high ranking members becoming elitist and worshipped or hated by the rest of the community.
I always have to wonder with these ExtremeTech links:

How much is this news true and how much is it the usual ExtremeTech editorialism?

For instance does DNA really last forever?
The problem statements and associated neural network models
The most general blind signal processing (BSP) problem can be formulated as follows. We observe a set of signals from an MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) non-linear dynamic system (see Fig. 1), where its input signals are generated from a number of independent sources. The objective is to find an inverse neural system (also termed a reconstruction system), to see if it exists and is stable and to estimate the original input signals thereby
Apple isn't currently suing HTC, LG, or other manufacturers of Android phones.
Er yes, virtual memory is an allowed implementation!
We are very excited :)
Facebook’s New (Evil) Plan to Grab New Users
Black List Sender Email Addresses
This is a simple spam blocking technique that is often used. Users create a black list of from
addresses that should be prevented from entering the network and reaching the user’s inbox.

There are a few disadvantages with using this technique. Because spammers can create many
false from email addresses, it is difficult to maintain a black list that is always updated with the
correct emails to block. Also, some spammers do not even use a from address so a black list would
not be able to catch these cases
Imagine developing a twitter app for iOS. Talk about a shitty job having to deal with shit from both Twitter and Apple.
"there are many of us who have worked to get a high karma over time."

I'm of the opinion that arguments must be judged by itself, and not by the "Aristotle said" conformity method that so many problems brought to society in the past and in the present.

I'm probably one of the older people here and had like 7 different accounts or so(I keep forgetting passwords and accounts when my machines change-update).

I had a big karma on some of those accounts, but honestly I don't care the least. I have more important things in my life to do-care, and so most of the interesting people in HN. A great PhD with great things to say is going to have work to do better than collecting "karma" on Internet all day long.
Thanks for the feedback!

Agree on many of the points you raised, particularly the tutorial changes needed. Urg, sorry about the issue with your display. May I ask what browser you're using? Also, sometimes browser add-ins cause issues, and if you figure out if one might be responsible, we'd love to know.

In terms of crashing, wondering if you might remember the error message received? I'm not aware of errors related to privacy settings, but if we have one definitely want to fix it.

Thanks for taking the time to help us improve!
True, you would want to keep an eye on your product. But you may not really get into the details of your sales team's methods. Especially a rep who seems to have a gift of stealing away customers from your competitor. That's what you pay them to do, after all - get those contracts.

As long as there's no major negative attention drawn I'm sure it would be quite easy for VISA to ignore.
> What really strikes me, though, is that I have experienced Turkish-like hospitality from one company in the US: Apple.

Could you explain this? Because I haven't ever gotten a free iPhone for browsing in the Apple Store for ten minutes.
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It's possible to have single stranded DNA, but you'd have problems with error correction.

Let's say DNA breaks, or some errors appear in the code. Thanks to the double stranded structure it's "quite easy" to repair the code.

Besides that, it's not the density which is a problem right now, but the access speed. The amount of data in DNA is so immense that doubling the density won't give any practical improvements for decades to come - if ever.

Having said that, if I'm not mistaken, some viruses are encoded by single stranded DNA & ssRNA. I'm not sure, but the density might be the reason for that.
They are not "cartoonishly" evil. They are really evil. The elections were stolen, and everybody - including in Russia - knows it. Some think it's OK because "Putin is stability" but nobody thinks there is anything like free elections or democracy there. Nobody knows how many popular votes Putin got - exactly because he did not allow to count the votes fairly.

But it's not only stealing elections. It's also completely destroying judicial system - again, nobody believes there's such thing as independent judiciary anymore in Russia, it is jailing political opponents, it is stealing millions of dollars from the budget... Yes, things "aren't rosy". But I'd seriously suggest you to wake up and smell the roses, because the real evil is already there. And if history teaches us anything, it'll get much worse before it gets better. Russia has a history of leaders who imprisoned their political opponents. Nothing good came out of it, not once.
I think a lot of new users are unaware of the HN guidelines [1]. Linking to it from the nav bar could help showing what is and isn't an acceptable way to behave.

[1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pussy Riot performance looks like a planned provocation.

There are many ways to get yourself arrested, if you really want to. In Europe, you can get jail for hate speech, for example, (though not in the US, where it is constitutionally protected) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

Don't forget, Pussy Riot have been jailed not for singing an anti-Putin song, but for inciting religious hatred. They were screaming profanities in the cathedral. (They didn't sing in the church, had no time, they were removed after 40s, the song about Putin was added later to their YouTube video).
Just today I was reading an interview with a Belgian journalist/writer, Bjorn Soenens, who travelled through America and wrote a boook about it's current state, on all levels. His conclusions were pretty much the same as in this article, although I'd also say 'darker'. Some claims he made, which I cannot verify but would love to hear comments about [I have the impression he's rather pessimistic and mainly lifts out the bad things; there's only a couple of good things he has to say about America. But even then, it's not exactly good news]:

- lots of people still believing strongly in the American Dream, thinking 'one day I'll be rich'. Resulting in hardly any complaints when the taxes are lowered for the rich poeple. Resulting in an even bigger gap between poor and rich, and a middle class that is evaporating

- it's a miracle there hasn't been a revolution. Occupy Wall Street came close, but now they went underground

- people living in their cars

- 'Reaganomics': low taxes, low influence of the government, maximum freedom for private initiative. Which basically resulted in the crisis. Another example: New Orleans during Katrina. Since Reagan the government didn't watch the dikes anymore nor built new ones, seems there were also holes in them, in the spirit that everyone would took ther own initiative when things went bad. Resulting in a disaster.

- the media only report loudly on being pro or contra something. Not about the fact that there are always more poor people for instance [this is definitely differen in Europe]

- universities like Harvard will remain good because the elite puts money in them, but the rest of the education system is a mess, resulting in students that can hardly read and write [really?]

- a lot of Americans will either not believe claims like these, or be shocked

- Obama is actually doing very well, but gets the wind ahead from all areas, esp Tea Party, which is a shame
That's a very interesting way of applying "children are starving in Africa"/appeal to worse problems argument.
If you're on the same lan it's as simple as going to the IP address of the local server on your phone.

I recently tried exactly this. Running MAMP on my MacBook pro, went to 192.168.0.5 (my MacBook's IP address) on my iPhone while connected to the same wifi as the MacBook and there was the MAMP localhost page.

The only problem is (as far as I know) there's no way to edit /etc/hosts on an iPhone (although I imagine you can do it on Android), so it has to be IP based.
I couldn't agree more with the dating analogy. I met my gf on match.com and years later was looking for a co-founder. I couldn't find one at first, and my focus became the 'co-founder finding problem'. Applying that analogy, out came www.founder2be.com which has taken on a life of its own :) Best of success to you!
I'd say it's almost a textbook (no pun intended) example of "free as in beer" but not "free as in freedom" as Stallman defines it.

Unlike Stallman, though, I cannot resist the temptation of free beer.
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s/doing things that are important for Russia/stealing as much money as they can and putting them into offshore accounts/

Fixed that for you.
I'm not sure what you're trying to point out to me. You're just confirming what I wrote.

Philip Su, the blog author, installed the (non-functioning) hot tub and was joking about it being used for interviews.
No. I disagree that we need some sort of way to protect / alternatively value the old folks with valuable contributions. This is a bad idea.

At first glance it seems good, since the old & upvoted are known entities - on average, they are valuable to the community. Thus, give them something that others can aspire to, even if it's just a purple link.

I would caution that this will introduce strange, unforeseeable side-effects, not least would be that you would necessarily have to classify new users as dodgy, until such time that they have added enough data to be re-classified.

Doing that to new users might even be beneficial in the short term. But in the long run I fear that adding any frictions and subtle "you-aren't-as-valued-yet" around new users might introduce subtle behaviours and keep certain types of people away - something not easily quantifiable until it becomes too late.

I have a pet, untestable, and probably worthless theory that the tone of HN has slowly drifted toward the bitterness we see now because (a) you can't downvote links, so you have to express disagreement through the comments, thereby adding negativity to the comment thread that might have otherwise just been 'n downvote, and (b) the fact that comment scores are invisible doesn't give new adopters an idea of how strongly people agree or disagree with tone or topic in people's posts. So they don't learn by osmosis.

Both these ideas gave short-term benefit but I believe (totally unscientifically) that they slowly, invisibly, led to the tone of the site as a whole.

Be careful when changing the system, as the human part of it is difficult to manage via proxies like scoring and similar. And if we introduce a way that subtly penalises new people (or values old contributors, alternative view of the same idea) we might just change the way we attract new people - and a community needs all sorts of new people to stay alive.
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> That's catchy but isn't that what a large handful of pg's startups are doing?

Yes, and I cringe every time I see the next startup come in trying to do just that. The reality is the people putting money behind this whole movement don't see it as you and I may see it. So as long as people are making money and they continue to prey on people's cognitive biases then we will continue to see this happen.
There are however multiple bit patterns for NaN which complicates that.
I don't think they're different issues. I think there's a bunch of people who want to be spoon fed arstechnica/torrentfreak/extremetech/etc just like they were on digg and reddit who cannot even pretend to be impressed by weekend projects or early stage startups.

That's why I like the idea of going after the users and sites that are better suited to other social news sites - the crossover in stories and topics between HN and http://www.reddit.com/r/technology is significant when it should be incidental.
Still means Motorola sued first.
"What Apple did do was market this newer form factor very successfully"

No, what Apple did was to bring its 20 years of experience making OSs to a mobile phone. Most of the iOS libraries are the same that in macOS.

Those are incredible low level-very efficient and smart work tested by millions of people on the real world for years, and very good designed.(Apple have really great designers not only on the outside)

The quality of this thing was(and is, Windows internals are sh*t, I had disassembled both, it always was about shipping fast and rough, fix later attitude) much bigger than anything else in the market at this time.

Google did the same porting Linux to mobile.
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Chinese people don't vote on issues.

This sounds more like Switzerland.
Except this is actually worse, since there are many possible values which evaluate to NaN.

EDIT: I do not know how D implements NaNs; they may have magic to make them more sane to work with.
If your definition of "technical solution" is as broad as to mean "any code change at all", then by definition, all changes will be technical. But at least the first two options here are social, not technical (though of course, as with any change on the site, they will require code to change them).
Did you mean the other way round? They got jail time.
Because web design is quite easy when put next to other jobs such as programming.
Did you read the article? The author isn't arguing that people should flee the country. At least not permanently. He's simply saying that the US could learn from other countries and that people should study/live abroad to gain new perspectives.
So the general sense is that HN used to be great and a more open place. I agree. Here's an idea to prevent and reverse the decline of HN:

Set a large karma threshold for upvoting rights.

If you give a bunch of new users the right to upvote they'll just upvote each other based on their ideas on what makes a good community. There's no way to maintain or enforce the culture of the community when the new members can just bootstrap their own culture base with little to no input from the existing community.

If pg was inclined he could set this threshold, normalize/zero-out the karma scores for all accounts created after date X, and effectively go back in time to that date in terms of who has the power to set the tone and culture of HN.
Well that is like a much better deal. Although it would have been much better if they have done this earlier.