skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, the moon landing is a subject of many conspiracy theorists who claim it was fabricated. A doctored image (esp. by NASA) published just gives them another reason to argue that there was never a moon-landing as all the images from it are obviously fake.

Second, any reporter must verify his, or her sources, otherwise they are subject to manipulation and if a source is falsifying information, for whatever reason, that information must not be used as the reported cannot know to which degree was the information tampered with. It might have been just a minor cosmetic touch-up, or it might have been a complete fabrication. So while the demand to remove from the archive a famous 43-year old image sounds odd, it's very much on par with a practise that any decent publication must follow or risk the integrity of their whole publication.
Just as a point of reference: the top 15 grossing apps in Japan at the moment are free to play but with in app purchase battle/card social games. I also work making them.

1-5 http://i.imgur.com/cuzGb.png
6-10 http://i.imgur.com/ckpIC.png
11-15 http://i.imgur.com/jzFWa.png

#16 is Line.
Interview with Charles Wetherell, the author of "Etudes for programmers" book
English language 'originated in Turkey'
Anybody know how to read techcrunch articles on an iPad these days?

I get fifteen seconds of article, then get redirected to that "download our app" thing. No combination of back/forward or clicking "no, let me read the article" results in me being able to actually read the article.

I'm not about to pollute my iPad just for one site, so I guess from here on out I just have to make a mental note to stay away from techcrunch articles when they come through here.
Full detailed flight plan of the Apollo 11
Well that's a very interesting article to bring out facts. There are at least a billion people out there who still think this guy: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpg is Neil Armstrong. Also there is another half-a-billion or so which thinks man never landed on moon.

Darn the fluff, get the truth. Upvoted.
Condescending or not, I don't agree. Your view is very reductionist. From what I gather, you are saying that ants can be described by the mathematical formulas of their behavior. This is true for just about any phenomena. It can be described and calculated. The fact that creatures as simple as ants, completely helpless on their own, can do such incredible things when in groups is most certainly worthy of awe. How many people, with all of our intelligence, could program homogeneous robots that are able to burrow into the ground and meet two tunnels underground from either end by only exchanging rudimentary signals with each other? Not may, if any people could do this.

My point is that there is more here than simple math, and it does deserve awe. There is collective intelligence. Ants in a group have an understanding of their surroundings in ways that we cannot comprehend. I tend to view them as neurons of a larger brain. Each neuron receives inputs, processes, and gives an output based on a very simple formula. Put a few hundred million of them together, and you get something that math cannot describe: consciousness. Ants individually are very simple creatures, but en masse are greater than the sum of the parts.

I don't think they are the end all be all of evolution nor do I think their methods particularly apply to us, but I think they are worthy of admiration.
It's <insert swear word here> awful isn't it.

I have to hit the stop button really quickly. I am also trying to stay away but it seems like a good percentage or article posted on HN come from techcrunch.
Technically you can see Neil in the reflection of Buzz's visor in that photo.
How is behind these things? It seems that they won't stop until they are dead -- any hope that they are getting old or have other illnesses?
If that were true, then why do poor people have a disproportional high chance of having their children grow up poor?
Sorry, upon rereading this it's more grumpy than I like; but in the interests of transparency I won't edit it. Just frustrated at a general trend on hacker news of assuming straw men when it's clear they don't exist from slightly more deliberate reading of the primary source.
I've found that it's more blatant than that. Often their "source" is LinkedIn or Google.
This is good advice. Another good tool to better yourself is reading code. This lets you think about why people have written code the way they have, and whether you agree with how they did it.
The Racket Blog: Dynamic Programming versus Memoization
> Requirements for Internet intermediaries to filter all Internet communications for potentially copyright-infringing material.

Each time I read something like that, I wonder if they really realize the cost needed to achieve efficient filtering.
I'm not convinced. To me, LinkedIn is exacerbating the problem rather than providing any help. Instead of trolling Monster and spamming anyone with a resume out there, they're doing keyword searches on LinkedIn and spamming anyone whose name shows up.
#1 in a small market (Seth Godin)
All the phones which are blatant knock offs of the iPhone. This obviously started with the Android OS and Eric Schmidt on the Apple board , then spread to other forms of copying. Samsung is the most egrigrious example. This is very plain to see for the average man on the street who knows nothing about patents. Even something like Windows Mobile with its tiles (and tiny Market share), people can see at least it's trying to do it's own thing.
Does anyone else see the irony in that he himself is a domain squatter? The shit he hates, he is himself.
Hm, I guess 'Pythonic' is also highly subjective. It's one of those things that "you'll know when you see it" but it's almost impossible to describe in words. I've seen code that rigorously complied to PEP8, had a lot of the constructs described in the article and still managed to look like C code. It wasn't "bad" code, mind you. It just wasn't Pythonic enough. Go figure!
Copying pays
Deadbook, the Long-term Facebook
Living forever/longer doesn't make much sense, when:

1. You have to take 15 pills with every meal you eat to do so.

2. You have to work 15 hours a day to make ends meet, pay your bills and take care of yourself to what one would describe a good life.

3. You have no strength in your bones, you feel weak all the time. You can't eat much because your teeth have fallen off.

4. Law of diminishing utility with regards to world kicks in, your spirit dies away but you body just lives on.

I would be happy to live up to 65, in full health without requiring to eat pills and depending on other people to do so. Its my perspective, yes.

Also nobody is taking into account problems due to lack of exercise, physical work and food we eat. There are also things like diabetes and hypertension which is almost at a level of epidemic in the world today.

Another thing is research might be giving us better machinery for healthcare, better pills and doctors. But if our lifestyles are messing up our health, there is little help somebody else can offer.
I always assumed that the poor composition of the original AS11-40-5903 (and many other photos from the Moon which suffer from the same problem) was because every pixel was precious, so they didn't want the uniformly black sky to take up any larger fraction of the image area than necessary. You can always add more black, unlike the rocks or equipment or whatever which was captured in the bottom of the picture.

BTW in AS11-40-5903 they took it too far and cut Buzz Aldrin's antenna.
If you have trouble finding people, then double the offered salary and let that be known. This will do much to attract talent.
Listing lego as an example of a company defending themselves against copycats is a pretty dumb move, it is well established that lego originally copied the brick idea from the English company kiddicraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lego
I would frame it this way:

Say you were given some gene therapy at age 15 or so, and you will never die of natural causes. Would you take a pill at age 80 to end it?

The way the survey questions were asked must have just been terrible. I think what happens is people get this picture in their mind of someone that looks like a damned ghoulish skeleton if they live to be 150, which is just silly.

One of the commenters on the site was a good example. He said something along the lines of "people start losing their senses, things stop working..." etc. No. No they don't - these are the things that kill you which would not exist if we could allow people to live indefinitely.

That started as a concise response to you, and went on to be me venting about the subject. Of course I want to live forever!
Quite simple: write more code. Go outside your comfort zone and do a project that is unlike anything you've done before. Write an interpreter or a compiler or an operating system skeleton or something else you've never done before.

And if you don't come up with an interesting learning project, you can always learn new programming languages. I've found that the best learning experiences have been the languages that least resemble what I use daily. I'm a C programmer but for learning purposes I recommend learning a Lisp, ML or Haskell and Prolog. An alternative to Prolog is going through the logic programming chapter of SICP and writing your own Lisp-based logic programming language and having fun with that (I actually used Haskell + Parsec to implement a logic language).
While this is nothing new (it has been said a thousand times by now) you'll have to:

1. Read a ton of (good) books: this will expose you to new (and old) ideas and techniques.

2. Read a lot of code: this will expose you to good, bad and awful code. As you suffer other people's bad ideas, you'll learn to recognize and avoid them.

3. Practice, practice, practice.

About the #1 point, it's very important to read not only fashionable books or things related to your immediate work. Try to be broad: read the classics, even if their ideas seem outdated to you. Read about the history of the field and the old programming languages and systems (you'll notice that things haven't changed that much).

Also, try to learn a couple of languages that are really different from each other. If you know Java, learning C# won't give you anything. Good languages to expand your mind are: Racket/Scheme/CommonLisp/Clojure (DSLs, metaprogramming, FP, OO, almost anything ...), Haskell/Scala/ML ("real" static typing and FP), Smalltalk (like Java but fun!), Factor/Forth ...; explore a couple of them and pick the ones that make you feel "weird": those are the ones you'll learn interesting things from.

And don't rush: becoming a good programmer will take your whole life; but it's fun and extremely rewarding.
And infant mortality dropped from?

My educated guesses: hygiene (particularly at birth) and nutrition (a starving kid may die from the common cold, measles, etc)
That's just a fig leaf. If Apple gets to corner the smartphone market it will make them trillions. When you want to know about a motive for some act the easiest way is to follow the money.

Without competition your Computer would cost $10K, it would be made by IBM and nobody else in the world. Compaq would have never gotten of the ground. Competition, especially on price, is a good thing.
I think 99% of the readers understand visible light photography when you say "image".
What's the point of this? You can do it with drawImage as well. Guessing you didn't know about that?
I am sure the legions of budding professional sailors hope that the America's Cup series will be a commercial success too. The line-up of sailors in the current series is literally a who's who of elite sailors, if they cannot do well out of this series the prospects are not bright for those further down the food chain.
Seed funders and incubators springing up in Kenya
"Whenever I look at the moon I am reminded..."

I look at old pictures and say "Oh, I remember that trip".

I can not even imagine what it must be like to look up at the moon and say "Oh, I remember that trip".
I recommend that you look at the code of other people who've written Android apps -- apps that don't have the problems you're experiencing.

There's plenty of open-source Android code available for examination. Many of them support multiple resolutions and most of them don't have the problems you're struggling with.

An alternative is to slow down and learn how to write Android apps at a normal pace, one step at a time -- don't be in such a rush to build an app that you don't fully understand.
All the Spammers in the World May Only Make $200 Million a Year
If the foreman of the jury acted as an self-appointed expert and the jury was swayed by that, then that's grounds for appeal in itself. This is all in the Groklaw article - did you read it?
And as a result Europe produces the Samwer brothers

Thanks for the pointer, I'd never heard of these guys. Pretty amazing...
If we accept the message behind this apparent parable (Samsung tablets have higher visibility now because of the lawsuit) is this not a great opportunity for WinRT based tablets?

Trusted brand, cheaper than iPad (I'm assuming for the WinRT ones) range of styles from different manufacturers, a (possibly limited) version of Office...
Because it's all a conspiracy. There isn't and never was a moon.

See here a British youth journalist challenge Buzz Aldrin about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kKFYTBo6kA
You articulate this better than I ever could. Well said.
Some of this seems evil to me, some of it doesn't.

It is likely that many people really are searching for the button that allows them to fucking play the game. (The people joining Facebook now must be the trailing end of the trailing end of computer-savviness.)

On the other hand, Facebook has decided not to try to educate these users any more. They wash their hands of the whole affair.

Funny, now it's obvious that they could have been that evil to start with. I wonder what's changed. It might be personnel changes and/or share price...?
Factually incorrect. All Samsung handsets have micro-USB connectors as mandated by EU rules. How Apple gets away with not having it, I don't know.

Granted, Samsung tablets have a similar wide connector, but so does almost all tablets I have seen due to regular USB not having enough power to charge them efficiently. And then you want it wide, not tall, not to impact tablet thickness.

Apple has no argument here.
Apple should threaten action on any media company app whose corresponding website has an egregious iOS device only popup.

That or enable desktop user agent reporting via a toggle ala third party browser apps Atomic and Sleipnir.
People inevitably bring up population. The simple answer is that living forever would have no impact on population at all. We are already very close to the max population our planet can sustain (maybe past it) so we need to deal with that problem anyway with regulation (or unfortunately, war). People living forever doesn't really change the equation, just changes the regulations.

The rest of those are true but don't sound like problems.
That's their mistake. Use of the term 'image' for non visible wavelengths is common. Examples: thermal, radar, xray, gamma.
I was on gmail and suddenly got a offer from google to have video chat turned on. I thought I already had video chat, but clicked ok anyway. By doing so, it turned out I was upgrading to google plus.
Conspiracy theorists don't need reasons to argue.

that information must not be used as the reported cannot know to which degree was the information tampered with

Yet, in this case the reporter knows to which degree the information was tampered with - and the reporter has no problem verifying it either.
That was really fun to do, also quite mind bending :)
I think that's a trade off you will have with an open system, still since I got my android phone I bought many more applications than I ever did on my PC. Having credit card tied to your store account makes it much easier.
When a company demands 30% of your revenue, even for portions not related to the app, and moves on to a track where developers will be forced to have a cert embedded into their app to be on the platform or be blocked, they ARE practicing evil.

Why? Apple built the platform from the ground up, why is it "evil" for them to demand compensation for selling apps on it? That would make every shop owner in the world "evil", since they all demand a profit margin over the products.

And I don't see the problem with requiring the apps to be signed? Wait, then is Debian evil too? Their packages are sign as well...

It wasn't Apple that built their customer base, it was the developers who wrote the apps that brought the customers. Without the applications on the platform, Apple would be just like Blackberry, dead.

Well, firstly, that's clearly not true. The first iPhone didn't have an App Store for more than an year, and it still sold like hotcakes, with huge lines of people literally sleeping outside the store waiting for it.

Secondly, so what? To bring my previous examples, where would shops be without the manufacturers?

I don't own a single Apple device since I have no interest in getting a phone where the manufacturer has more control than me, but all this talk about them being "evil" is frankly ridiculous.
Text killer WhatsApp hits record 10bn messages in 24 hours
... or maybe the big ocean liners.
More to the point, they're not even the majority of companies that employ hackernews readers
As far as I know the problem is that the amount of light that goes trough the hole is very low and you cannot see much or you need a very strong light source.
A living book of the dead sounds like a wonderful thing.
" part of the problem is that this would give people unpresented amounts of freedom in defining their own life."

Problem? I see no problem. This sentence just baffles the mind. It is hard to figure out how to manage your life because you only get one choice!
Maybe have a look at Backbone.js: Hacker’s Guide: http://dailyjs.com/2012/08/16/mvstar-6/
Do actors have to know and understand the other actors they're working with in the same way? I'm guessing not seeing how rarely you see a gang of actors that sticks together through several movies.
learn to be curious. play with code. Build small utilities, even if it's just a blog or website.

Get a domain name and play with getting a simple site out there. Iterate and add things you like. In the process you'll learn fundamentals, each time building on previous knowledge.
Read good code, and think about how they've done it. Read all the major open source projects. Really try to understand how different people organize different types of projects. Learn different programming languages, and learn how to code in different styles.
Yes! Coincidentally I was using that tutorial to learn backbone yesterday morning. I found it was a great all-round illustration of how everything ties together. One thing I found quite lacking in other tutorials was how you wire up your front-end backbone app to backend web services. This tutorial demonstrates how you do that very well.
I Love Ruby by A. K. Karthikeyan
Try readability maybe? http://readability.com/articles/ihkslo2n
The code-signing warning isn't a dialog, I think it just logs to Console.

It's more noticeable if the program was signed with entitlements (com.apple.private.*), some features might stop working then.
Dang, that's just evil. Well done.
That's exactly why you should keep things as simple as possible. Adding features does not mean a better app. Simplicity first, make it USEABLE first.
"Conspiracy theorists don't need reasons to argue."

Yes, but that's still no reason to release a known "fake" image. Also, you can tag it with captions and disclosures, and someone might still link to the image as "look, there's no antenna on his head unlike other photos, proving the landing is a fake".

"Yet, in this case the reporter knows to which degree the information was tampered with - and the reporter has no problem verifying it either."

Publications have a no-doctored-images policy, it doesn't allow for exceptions, even if the length of the manipulation is known, especially when the original is available.
yeah, you could almost validate reincarnation with it, by searching for past lives ;-)
> I don't think copying drives innovation.

Would you deny innovation in Japan tech sector for the last 30 years?

It's just that it takes some time, around twenty years, to switch from copycats to innovative products.
Not challenging enough
As long as it takes to do it right :-)
This isn't a free speech issue. By taking down MailCongress I was in no way preventing people from sending mail to their congress person. This is matter of choosing who I was doing business with.
You can get a good resource collection here: http://backbonetraining.net/resources
If you want to talk shop feel free to email me. My HN username @ gmail.com
A Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
> Also there is another half-a-billion or so which thinks man never landed on moon.

Citation needed. It looks to me like only a small gang of wingnuts are part of the "moon landing conspiration believers" (I never met one). Like s slight portion of those believing that 9/11 was a CIA/Israeli job, or that there isn't any biological evolution.
Yes, this is a repost. I've not been able to find the original date - if you know it I'll add it to the title.

This is amazing not just for the code to solve the sudoku. It's interesting also for the analysis that follows as to why some choices take longer than others, finding difficult puzzles, and looking at how long it takes to solve the different examples.

It shows that in some cases, and in some fields, it's not enough to hack out code that does what you want. Sometimes the real value comes from the deeper analysis of what you've done, and how well it works. People talk about Gladwell's 10,000 hours. That's not just a total of 10,000 mundane hours, it's supposed to be 10,000 hours of considered, reflective practice. Otherwise it's a case of "Practice makes Permanent."

So make sure that what you're making permanent is what you want.

Here's the previous HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2371067

It's from over 500 days ago, and now closed.
Hitting the reader on mobile Safari does the trick (I'm on iOS 5.1.1).

I also find this TC "feature" very annoying.
Ton of good resources here: http://backbonetraining.net/resources

As for the todo example, I found it a bit convoluted, so I tried to create a minimal backbone app here:

https://github.com/backlift/backlift-templates/tree/master/m...
Learning From Sudoku Solvers
If FB is so evil TC, why are you using them for your comments :-)
For the moon was no longer a distant shining object but a place where we could gleefully leap

RIP Neil Armstrong
As discussed in the article, facebook needs to worry about it 30 years later.
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Ideally you could work for friends (e.g. of your SO) doing technical writing. For example charging by the hour.

Otherwise, you could advertise yourself on job platforms such as www.odesk.com or www.elance.com.
This is just one more instance in which the average is an extremely misleading statistic. The fact is that it's been true for a long time that if you survived childhood you had a good chance of living to a ripe old age, barring accidental death. We've just gotten a lot better at reducing child mortality.