skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I Just Said No to the sign in overlay. Based on the comments here, the fact that it was a Mozilla project (I trust that brand, so it might help to say 'Napkin by Mozilla (Labs)' or similar), and the fact that I actually wanted to try a real example of Persona, I logged in.

The Persona experience was positive enough, but when I was bounced back to Napkin the examples under the overlay have disappeared. There is nothing to explore, just a blank interface; disappointing.

This is wasting too much of people's time to qualify as an MVP and is wasting the project's opportunity to get some decent feedback from HN. How not to launch.
Begging questions about philosophy, science and everything else
Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio
there is only one thing a corporation responds to meaningfully, loss or gain of money.

Why would they give a flying fuck what you would "love them to be" if you still shovel fistfulls of money at them?
On the flipside, we humans have spent centuries convincing ourselves that we are fundamentally different from animals and assuming that our experiences are unique to us. Social animals are much closer to us than we give them credit for, particularly with respect to emotions, given the evolutionary role they play in making kinds of sociality possible.
You won't have to - the plastic back can be folded in half and won't break.
I've done it and I've seen it done by others. When I did it I banked on people ignoring the heading above it which reads "Never yet featured on" then some prominent logos below it. Here: https://writeapp.me at the bottom of the page. I was trying to be tongue-in-cheek but it can easily be misconstrued. It looks like BranchOut really does want to mislead in a more sinister way.
No, no it was.

Its right up there with someone trying to patent the ESC key.
Stanford Creates Online Vice Provost to Reshape Education”
I can't promise anything, but I can assure you that we're well-aware of the pains of the current authentication model.
> you will be called out on racism, possibly with good reasons

Unless you assume all races/cultures are at the epitome of human development, there has to be changes, which will be unpleasant - that's how humans develop. What would be the "possibly good reasons" for being called out on racism? Just because it is part of some culture/race doesn't grant it legibility.
My contract with Verizon is ending in October. I was strongly considering getting an iphone for the first time when that happened. Now I think I'll just get an S3.
If you read it again, you'll see that he did not attempt to lay out his section on sexism as a rational argument, but merely as a series of observations. The Star Trek reference was an analogy to what he observes among skeptics.

I think that this is appropriate. If you've thought about sexism, and have observed skeptic communities, then you'll have no trouble recognizing the validity of his observations based on your own. If you have not observed skeptic communities, then you can either take his word for it, or else go out and do your own first hand observations. And finally if you've never actually thought much about sexism, well, how could he reasonably begin to explain?

In short, either you get it and further explanation is superfluous, or else you don't and his attempting to enlighten you would take him seriously off course. Either way there is no point in having him try to present an airtight logical argument.
> Our legal system has no room for ethics.

But your brain does.
> Wrapping bullshit around some kernels of truth does not make it true.

> I would encourage people to read this in its entirety, if only to convince yourself that the title is an attention grab, and that the contents, while pointing out some valid truths, are largely filled with conspiracy theories and facts which are not backed up, and based on vast generalizations and oversimplifications.

Personally I found it extremely painful to read. This article is like a small piece of chocolate hidden inside shit ton of dog shit. That small piece of chocolate is totally negated by heaps of dog shit. You just keep reading in the hope that the hidden chocolate would be worth it, but you find out what you believed to be chocolate was few crystals of household sugar, and you ploughed through dog shit for nothing. Also, this experience left a bad taste in your mouth.
Maybe it's because I've grown up with fairly ubiquitous internet, but I've never expected anything I put on the internet to be private. Furthermore, I've never expected anything done in public to be private. I have a hard time understanding why people expect otherwise on both.
Streamate protocol reverse engineered
Yeah, no bias there at all.
The patent system is not like the trademark system. Apple chose to act this way, they were in no way coerced by the system.

The patent system is nevertheless still broken of course. Very incredibly broken. However that does not, to any extent, reduce the new lack of respect I have for Apple.
Huh? That will tell you wether foo is a hash or not, but not what kind of things it contains. So, as soon as you subscript you $foo or @foo or €foo, you are lost again.

A good IDE would be of much more help (and strong typing makes writing such an IDE way easier, but that is a different issue)
Photoshopped.
If your model only depends on at most a maximum fixed length of history, you can always model your finite systems to only depend on the most recent state. (Just make a copy of the history part of that state.)

In the case of depending on up to an infinite history, I wouldn't call that system to have a finite number of states any longer.
I don't know, but seeing as they don't have a choice about the venue (maybe they do, I'm not a lawyer) they ought to focus on other factors and biases.
> why do left wing people have much less problems with the quite common Muslim antisemitism, than with Nazi antisemitism?

I think you may be a bit confused. Muslims living in the Middle East aren't antiSemitic (unless they hate themselves). They may or may not be anti-Israeli, but it's a little simplistic to describe them as antiSemitic, since the're in large part Semitic themselves.

Nazis were really antiSemitic in the classic sense (against Jews). This is a difficult label to apply to people who are racially nearly identical to the Semites in Israel.

All I am saying is the problems of the Middle East don't fit into simple categories.

> As other comments have noted, he has criticized Christianity more than Islam.

Yes -- probably more to avoid what befell Salman Rushdie than any deeper goal.
It's not immediately apparent what your site does. Instead of the cryptic "unlike other websites, wysp is not about showcase etc" , can you just write something as straight forward as "Learn how to draw" or " Let us help you improve your pencil skills" or whatever message directly tells your target audience what it is exactly you do
Since looking it up then I suddenly come across the term a lot now which is weird because I had never heard that term before.

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. :)
Since when has that been a "new trend"?
I have to ask -- why do left wing people have much less problems with the quite common Muslim antisemitism, than with Nazi antisemitism?

Israel, and more specifically the Israel-Paletine conflict. The Left tend to side with the people they perceive as weak in a conflict, and while during Nazi rule they were persecuted and killed by the millions, they're now the more powerful side. Being close allies with the US doesn't help.

This is, at least, what I see from knowing well a bunch of Southern European left-wing people, from social-democracts to communists.
Their survey result gave me an idea for a user to give their own opinion and have those opinions to appear as choices for other users. Every opinion would have a tally and be ordered in popularity. The top 5 opinions would appear with an option to display more if desired.
I don't know. I think "Drop your price, or we'll stick an Intel GPU into our new console" is a pretty bad bluff, even if they can get Left4Dead running on it surprisingly well. NVidia and AMD should both know nobody would ever actually use an Intel GPU for something like that.
I would rank it among a typical Gary Hustwit movie but it did become repetitive at times.
Obviously not as thrilling as Man on Wire but when it comes to documentaries about devoting every waking minute to your passion, it's a top pick.
ffmpeg, linux, plenty more? what are you guys talking about. steve jobs doesn't really count, there's plenty guys, who actually built things themselves and successfully on top of that.
>>Muslims living in the Middle East aren't antiSemitic (unless they hate themselves).

The word "antisemite" was created by an antisemite for just that specific meaning. See "gay" and other words that change their meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Etymology_and_usag...

This discuss the prevalent antisemitism in the Arab world (check the rest of the Muslim world on Wikipedia yourself)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world

Edit: I have seen others dismiss racist hatred with an attempt at linguistics, but happily seldom on HN. Where do you guys pick up this kind of "argument"? Seriously, checking your links you're obviously smarter and more educated than most people I've ever met.
Great.

Could somebody explain CORS to me? How is making the server you're contacting specify it wants to receive requests, in the response header, secure? The request has already been made!
The tool they're using to deliver the punch sucks (software patents).

But I'm honestly baffled that HN doesn't emotionally understand Apple (maybe: Steve Jobs). Samsung has ripped off Apple wherever it could while being one of Apple's trusted suppliers, to the point where the SGS2 was considered THE iPhone contender. (Mostly anecdotal, though see [1].) Now Apple is throwing whatever they have at Samsung, this happens to include software patents.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4VHzNEWIqA ...?
As I've decided not to buy another apple laptop, I welcome this news.
Kickstarter would be great for this, especially building a community.

Maybe a way would be to do a 5$ Kickstarter for people to get early access to the app, even before their friends can buy it from the App Store. This could work through the Apple Enterprise Program, but it might not be allowed in the small print...

That could generate some hype, and backers would have something exclusive for a while till it´s available in the app store. It also would build a community that surely gives great feedback and the first few iterations wouln´t need to go through the app store approval process (which would mean faster iterations / feedback).
I'd say that the lack of apparent concern regarding something as core and critical as auth is enough for me to write the whole team off permanently.

I'll never use anything made by people so careless yet so self-aggrandizing about their own work.
Are you really claiming that left wing idealists accept racist hate propaganda -- as long as it is from a billion of people that seems "weaker" than five millions of people?

(I am not arguing, I have no better explanation for this craziness myself.)
Interesting project, but can anyone elaborate on this project? The site http://code.10e.us/php7/is not reachable.

Has anyone tried this? Is it stable?
This is getting ridiculous. It would be one thing if they went after TouchWiz, because I'd actually like Samsung give up on it, but going after them with these patents? I can't see how this is helping innovation at all. It's simply about blocking the competition from the market, plain and simple.
> Simply untrue. Indeed the scientific method may be only the best we've got rather than perfect, but that still makes it the best we've got. "other sources of knowledge" - like what, mysticism? are less useful.

I don't understand how people compare the scientific method with what, mysticism?

Scenario 1:

At a small school, there is this school topper, say Foo. He is nothing extra-ordinary, scores 70-80% on an average, sometimes relies on rote memorization...

And there is this other boy, Bar, who didn't enroll in the school, is drunk whole day, and can often be found in the drain marinating in piss, vomit and shit.

How in the fucking fuck Foo being not perfect grant credibility to Bar?

Scenario 2:

Lance Armstrong, 7 times winner of Tour De France, is involved in a doping controversy again.

Superb. Since Lance Armstrong might have used performance enhancement drugs, I demand his medals be transferred to me, because somehow that makes me equally credible.

Modern medicine is the ordinary school topper Foo or Lance Armstrong, and alternate medicine is the boy who is marinating in the gutter. Same goes for scientific methods vs spirituality, mysticism et al.

As they put it, you can add as many 0s as you like - you won't get an 1. No one claimed scientific method or modern medicine is perfect, but you have to realize finding flaws in scientific method doesn't grant credibility to your crackpot theories. Scientific method is very open to accepting flaws. See the atomic model. New information is discovered, existing theories are refuted. You can't come in and say since you keep changing your atomic model, my model which I heard from my grandma who heard from hers is equally valid.
Logging in with a URL. That does not make sense.
At this point, I hope that Samsung will be able to obtain bans for the future Apple LTE products, at least in Europe. MAYBE this way Apple will stop being the bully it is.
Not for WAP, it wouldn't have been :)
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Today's Transmogrification: Grizzbane The Paladin
May grandmother had "slide to unlock" on her 100-years old toilet room door.
I'm not dissing TRESOR, which is really neat, but your "build a trusted machine out of untrusted parts" is very overblown. Among many, many other problems, neither TRESOR nor QUBES protects you from a compromised bootloader/BIOS, neither TRESOR nor QUBES protects you from a hardware keylogger, and neither TRESOR nor QUBES protects you from malicious or compromised PCI devices. (Also, TRESOR apparently uses passwords - people cannot be trusted to choose good passwords.)
To me, 'Desktop' Linux has never worked because the lofty aim of projects like GNOME to secure 'everyday' users is completely at odds with many of the basic design decisions of the Linux/Unix platform that underpin it. Things like storing data in string-based-files, chaining small command-line-tools to do everything, a historically eccentric file structure, and pluralism in every-way (eg. custom built binaries on a per-machine basis) are never going to work for the 'everyday' user. You'd need to have an even bigger project than GNOME to change these design decisions (like redesigning the file structure and standardizing the hardware/software platform on which it runs, as OSX did).

That said, many of the components of GNOME (GTK, GStreamer, etc.) are great and we shouldn't forget their usefulness to other projects whilst the Gnome Desktop is coming up against these existential questions...
Facebook to acquire crowdsourced traffic service Waze?
Whoops, I did indeed pull out a comment by city41 and wrongly attribute it to you. My apologies.

But still the fact that that was said by someone else demonstrates that the definition of "long distance running" that you want to use is not universally accepted by everyone else in this discussion.
Their patent wars cover everything. The recent court decision was about phones though.
thejerz feedback is spot on.
This is how my visit went right now:
i clicked through the site and immediately started scrolling through images. and didnt even know there was anything else.
came back to hn opened comments and saw the practice engine mentioned. went back to the site looking to checkout the practice engine, noticed it mentioned as a single line on top. clicked through but all I found was a page to pay.

My thoughts: i m intrigued by the practice engine but with no demo, no convincing plus a limited course offering, im going on blind faith. the value proposition is hidden. images are overwhelming and i lose all my attention to them.

hope this helps. good luck.
Last code change was 2 years ago.
This has been dead for 2 years by the looks of it.
seems to be dead. last commit 2 years ago.
> And dogs obviously feel joy and worry and mourning.

It's not so obvious. Especially with domestic animals, the kind of behaviour you are describing may have evolved in order to survive in humans' company. Recommended reading: Daniel Dennett's Kinds of Minds ( http://www.amazon.com/Kinds-Of-Minds-Understanding-Conscious... )

Wittgenstein on what a lion would say if he could speak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=628eVJgHD6I (This is a very pleasant pineapple)
Ah, missed that. Too bad.
>However, we should also keep in mind that such acts are as much cultural as they are religious, and arguing that one religion is worse than another because of them is ignoring the cultural aspects of tribalism.

I'm not much concerned with which religion is worse on some scale. Religions which encourage or tolerate such evil - whether because of something intrinsic to that religion or simple demography - deserve to be criticized more than those that don't. It's not Islamophobic to pick on Islam, if the acts done in the name of Islam really are worse than those done in the name of some other faith.

>I'm not a fan of, say, homeopathy, but I'm also uncertain about the extent to which we should protect people from themselves. There is at this point plenty of easy-to-find criticisms of homeopathy; if someone chooses to try it anyway, either because they didn't do any research about it or because they did and ignored it, is that really our business? It's certainly not mine.

I wouldn't argue for it to be made illegal or anything like that. But it really is bad for people, and pointing out and publicizing its flaws, the way these skeptics and skeptic organizations do, really does save lives - not by taking away people's choices, but by keeping them fully informed. Even if you don't want to spend your own time doing that, there seems little justification to hate on those who do, the way the original article seems to.
Never fear, I actually patented thin rectangular prisms 20 years ago - my lawyers are preparing the case now.

(Of course, Apple is only one of many, many companies who will soon be paying for their insipid copycatting)
This sounds like sour grapes to me. Getting an offer from amazon and microsoft aren't trivial, and from the looks on glassdoor the salary range is the same. Why aren't you happy?
Great to have a real free os for mobiles. I am very thrilled what people will do with it.
Yeah but the average person I'm sure doesn't follow tech news as carefully as you or me - and doesn't get worked up about this sort of stuff either. Any damage to Apple's reputation will be negligible, wouldn't you think?
Going it alone probably doesn't help things much.

Sure, PHP (trunk) as it stands today is flawed, but it is constantly getting better. We've recently got finally for the try/except construct, we've recently obliterated Logo GUIDs (thanks to me), you can now iterate through an array of arrays and assign the values to multiple variables with the list() construct (a la Python), and it looks like we'll soon get Generators: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators#vote

Also, if we don't see a 5.5, then 6 would be next, and for that there are a lot of big changes you could make. NikiC is considering rewriting the PHP compiler to use an AST so we can have multiple-pass compilation, for instance.

PHP is slow to evolve, but in part that's a result of the PHP team trying hard to preserve backwards compatibility for well-written code.
One could probably make 100,000 more documentaries approximately identical to this one at other family owned businesses. The only thing particularly unique about this place is that it came to the attention of Michelin and then a documentarian. I don't mean that as a knock against Jiro's place at all, I just think the filmmaker overplayed the story. That and the combination of Japan and sushi made the situation seem even more exotic and rare than it really is.

It was entertaining though. I especially liked the part when he said something like "Welp. I'm ready to go. Why am I even here [at his parent's shrine]. My parents treated me like crap."
> I don't understand how anyone could not have an emotional response being told 'your IQ is x'.

This is a wild guess: You're probably ~young, with high aspirations for yourself, you don't think people should ever be prejudged. You have great promise and show all the signs of competence, but you haven't actually achieved anything particularly noteworthy, yet.

I base this hypothesis on the theory that once you achieve certain things, and you have confidence in yourself, you won't give two shits about what some IQ test says. In fact, if it scores low, if you are genuinely competent, you would think "wow, now that's an interesting development, let's investigate" rather then feeling that you've been somehow slighted.
Yes, this is a common reflex (guilty of this myself). It's hard to build a loyal customer crowd. Maybe with copious rebates for regulars.
This looks really great.

The big problem with hypem I've found is that the popular tracks is completely under crowd control and wheres I used to use the service to find music that aligned well with my tastes (I discovered Phoenix and some incredible dance remixes of music I love through the service for example), now that the site's got more popular the music has following the American trend of Skrillex like 'dubstep' that not even the 'no remixes' setting can remove for me.
It is, and it holds little similarity to the iPhone.
Are you thinking about Mark Jason Dominius? His Web site is http://perl.plover.com/. He made a presentation about making presentations at OSCON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Tsom5hI98

Stephen Bond, who wrote the linked page, is at http://plover.net/~bonds/. I could not find any OSCON talks by him. Can you please provide a link? I think you are confusing them based on the similar domain names.
Imagine an ad. A woman buys a car, comes back home, shows it to her husband, which takes them for a ride. The woman says: "Hey, isn't that nice for the price tag?". The guy thinks a bit, then at the first turn, violently drops the woman out of the car, and says, grinning ear to ear while he thoroughly enjoys the moment: "Now, that's perfect".

This ad would not stand a single second before a horde of people would yell at how sexist this is and the media would bathe in the scandal.

Yet it's been a few years the exact opposite ad[0] airs in France, daily. That's not the only one, there are a shitload of ads that market men as inherently stupid and worthless fools (at best), yet the CSA[1] regularly bans content that would be subject to doubtful interpretations of women status. It turns out in some cases that animals just seem to deserve better protection than men.

I'm not quite sure the solution to sexism is glorifying women while vilifying men (which just reads like more sexism — i.e differentiating statuses between genders — either way). We are different in a few ways for sure, just not better or worse, but can't we just all finally see each other as, you know, human beings, and respect each other as such?

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oCt-xb_ecg

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conseil_sup%C3%A9rieur_de_l%27a...
Yea, I am not for real name policies either. But I do want problems that would be caused by them to be fixed if possible, though not every one of them can be easily fixed, of course. For example, legacy PR based on one-way control of the message is fundamentally flawed.

This reminds me of one of my own HN submission, BTW: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4160528
Yes but graphs can very well be cyclic, so eventually a path from a node could lead back to the node itself.