skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychological studies found that humans have a notorious tendency to think about their environment and feelings in static terms and underestimate how much they will change in the future.

I think part of your question is rooted in this false assumption and therefore not answarable. Life is chaotic and the biggest effects will come from rare, lucky, unforeseeable, "unkown unknown" type coincidences. These are positive/negative Black Swans in Taleb's terminology. Eg. a life-long-friend from a conference, your future wife in a party etc..

What you can do is maximize your surface to these positive Black Swans(eg. hoarding options, meet peoples) and minimize possible negative outcomes(leverage contracts, debts, anything that tides you down).

Reinterpreting your question these types of heuristics/practices are what worth doing, but they are usually not specific decisions.

Books listing similar heuristics are Reed's Suceeding, Munger's Almanach and of course Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan. Wonderful books, hope it helps.
Why would Supreme Court categorically rule out dragnet snooping by USG, when the worst that can happen is someone later suffers harm, at which point Supreme Court will see another case and develop rules to limit that specific harm?

I certainly agree with you that the world would be a better place if privacy were commonplace. I just think we should be realistic as to what we're up against.
Arctic Sea Ice Stops Melting, but New Record Low Is Set
Yeah, that's what I used it for. I've used it every day for about a week and it dropped maybe once or twice. At which, I created a new connection.

I should add that I did use a screen session to share vim though.
Hmm. Imagine a "teletype" jury-rigged out of a state of the art laser printer with Vim running on it. You would just have to position yourself or the printer so that every time the screen updated the next sheet of paper would land somewhere convenient.
I used to organize LAN parties (up to 30 people); Quake 3 and other id Software titles were the most stable titles we played. They ran on a wide variety of hardware configurations without crashes or glitches. We'd often try playing a new game, spend 45 minutes trying to get it to work, and throw our hands in the air saying "Well, let's play Q3A because we know it works on everyone's computer." Half-Life and mods were in the same category, but Half-Life was developed using the Quake engine as a starting point.

Okay, yes, Blizzard games are nice and stable and polished too. But have you been reading the Starcraft development articles recently? They've been talking about how much of a nightmare the entire experience was, with major bugs until just before launch. From what I gather, one of the senior developers was running around fixing bugs across the entire code base, and personally reviewed and fixed up an astonishingly large percentage of Starcraft code.

One can wonder: if they were using static analysis, could they have shipped the same game earlier?
Exactly this. If you want me to give you someone else's contact info you better make the value proposition to me crystal clear.

The headline as written sounds somewhat spammy and confusing, and not many users are going to click thru to learn more and alleviate their confusion.
I'm curious if you can articulate how the Supreme Court has been pro-government as of late.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck than it probably is a duck.

"Poor reading skills" wouldn't cover the thing that's different in your brain if you've dyslexia. I can't find the stats anymore, but I thought around 40% of the wealth is owned by dyslexic people. Look at a list of entrepreneurs with dyslexia http://www.incomediary.com/top-30-dyslexic-entrepreneurs or how many famous people (actors, writers,.. ) are dyslextic.

All these people have something in common and it's not "just" poor reading skills;) there is definitely something more going on.
Underrated thread.

I read the landing page waiting for a "you get a $25 Starbucks card for each landlord signed up" or something, but there was nothing. Just "help me grow my business (that won't benefit you in the near term) for free please?"
... maybe the FSB let them borrow one?
I went shopping at Makerbot, added the Replicator 2 to the cart, selected some of the only resin left and added that too, checked the shipping costs and then went to the next step - checkout. I had committed to buy.

However the site then asked me to register before I could proceed, and in an approach that seemed to want to take me out of process. I stopped right there and didn't even click. I hate registering and see no need to register for something when all I want to do is purchase.

One of the easiest ways to improve your sales is to allow check-out without register. Let people buy and only ask them to 'save your settings' at the end and sales lift 5-15% from what I have seen.

Meanwhile I came here instead and read about the upcoming Formlabs release. Sorry Makerbot - I'll wait.
This is great. Just registered and the process took about 15 minutes.
What, in your opinion, constitutes a commercial success?

Quake was/is one of the best games of it's genre, ever. It sold 1.7 million copies, as a shareware release.

Doom 3 sold 3.5 million copies. It wasn't a commercial success?

Not to mention the games that were built on top of id technology, games like Half Life, Call of Duty, et al
> Now if there were a gentle way to have the shoes compel walking in a certain direction,..

How about Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), demonstrated by NTT in 2005 [1,2]? There's also a GVS implementation using an Arduino [3], so it is ripe for integration, especially given the availability of a GPS shield for the Arduino. An auto-homing human!

[1] http://www.semanticmedia-showcase.de/WerkstattSM/Forschung/S...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNfBrXYYTc

[3] http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,21780.0.html
Best effort? You haven't met my mail carrier, who was busy one day and decided to remedy that by skipping delivery to my neighborhood that day, marking my package "no such residence at address," returning it to its sender, who just happened to send it from another country.

So, yeah. I'm pretty sure it's a least-effort-without-getting-fired delivery protocol.
I do. I log all chats by default.
Over the weekend I was trying to navigate to the church of my grandmothers funeral, because I wanted to make sure I left in time so I wasn't late. Apple's new Maps kept navigating me to a church of the same name in a town that was about 120 miles away from our destination.

Even when I specifically entered in the city name, it still went to the wrong city.

The only way I could see the traffic conditions in the end was to type in the name of the mall that was within a few hundred feet of the church, so I knew it'd be almost just as accurate.

In my case, I was lucky because I was actually married in that church so I knew exactly where it was, but what if this happened to someone else? What if someone is trying to get directions, it gives them directions to the wrong location and that person is none-the-wiser?

Is there a service level agreement for using the Maps app on your iPhone? Should there be?
It's an ad, you're probably not in the targeted audience for it.
Patterns Could Be the Next Minecraft
gaius, I've been appreciating your comments for a long, long time now. But you are wrong here.

There is a difference. It isn't a difference in fundamentals so much as it is a difference in focus.

Business Analysts give reports to CEOs about customer segments or the projected amounts of signups. They arn't even close to DS or statisticians.

Statisticians tell you about how a drug reacted with a control group or how likely it is that a population feels a certain way given the results of a survey or trial.

Data scientists harness data. They impact every user on a site. "Watch this video" "Follow this user" (recommendations) or "Silently ignore this user's impact on the algorithms that manage where this piece of content should go" (graph analysis) or "What exactly is in this photo" (object recognition) or "What combination of widgets leads to the maximal amount of engagement" (optimization) or "I have this paper that I really like, show me more that are just like it" (recommendations, document classifications, NLP).

It is different. The focus is on users and what they will do or should do or should see. To call them statisticians leads to much less understanding of the value that DS bring. Put me in a room with an actuary from an insurance company. Neither of us could possibly do each others jobs. Neither of us have the others skill set.

Now, both of us could learn and get up to speed on how the other works, but a sys admin and a web developer could swap roles more easily than an actuary and a DS. Yet nobody is complaining that we call devs and sys admins different titles.
The difference, as far as I see it, is that Pocket makes being free a selling point, whereas Instapaper users are used to paying for features. Instapaper can continue to exist without substantially shifting business models for the foreseeable future - Pocket can't.

Unless I'm missing something?
Therein lies the tragedy of the end of scarcity. Just because people can finally have anything they want doesn't mean they'll be any better at knowing what it is they want.

Get used to it. It's the quintessential 21st century malady.
I think that there is a tension between "creepiness" and "effective marketing". This I feel is one of Facebook's core problems, where for them to maximize the value of their dataset, their ad targeting becomes incredibly creepy.

One issue is that from an end users perspective it makes it obvious how much information is being captured about them. While most people are aware that their information is being captured, seeing it plastered all over their facebook feed makes them confront it.

Worse than that are the questions that come with these ads - "Why am I seeing ads for baldness cures?" Is it because I'm a 30+ male, or is it because they have analysed photos I'm tagged in and detected my thinning hair? Sometimes it just feels mean!

This is primarily a challenge of data science working in a marketing environment and doesn't really permeate through all areas of data science, however it is the form of data science that is most visible. Therefore much of data science and the big data we work with gets lumped in with sleazy marketing.
Soft anecdotes like these are interesting, but it's not a good idea to draw hard conclusions from them.
probably true, but rarely all from one author.
I'm pretty sure Coverity has multiple "tiers" of analysis, with the initial tier being the subset they're most certain of. Once you fix most of the obvious, almost-no-false-positive type stuff, then they're ready to show you the next tier.
IIRC, while the VT-220 had both 9-pin and 25-pin RS-232 ports, the 9-pin port was used to attach a printer. You also typically need a "null modem" adapter or cable to connect a terminal directly to a PC serial port (or USB serial adapter).

There's lots of original documentation for DEC VT series terminals here[1].

[1] http://www.vt100.net/
Thanks for the typeface. I really appreciate it.

If you want an example of it in action, you can go to a deployed example of my app at http://pygm.us/kzXSwSRV with the log-in admin//password. I haven't gotten around to letting people change their settings, but you can use the button in the sidebar to see it in effect. If you apply the CSS in one of the threads, you may see why I find the font weight to be a bit on the heavy side. But to each their own and all.

Of course, now that Instapaper supports the typeface, you should check it out in it as well, if you have an iOS device.

Thanks again! :)
Redditors generally click on things that look more like content then an ad and stand out enough to catch their eye. If you try to just sell them something, they tune it out. But solve a problem for them in a relatable way and they will click. We paired an awkward penguin meme with a problem/solution statement to get our best results.
I think Apple deleted a HTML page and messed up WiFi
From what I'm seeing, I think Apple accidentally deleted the page that iOS uses to check network connectivity.

It's returning 404 right now: http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

When iOS can't connect to this page, it puts up a log on screen that only goes away after the page can be reached or the user presses cancel. Pressing cancel disconnects the user from the network.

As it stands, I and a couple of friends can't use WiFi on some of our iOS devices.

(The sporadic nature of this makes me wonder if these devices are supposed to be checking a different location and aren't for some reason.)

More info on success.html: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-request.html
IOS devices worldwide without wifi
For having extensively programmed using C++ and OCaml, I could not agree more.

The issues that most people focus on however are : portability to the platforms they're concerned about, performances on these platforms, richness of the ecosystem.

Game programmers cannot consider Haskell or OCaml as real alternatives to C++ for these reasons. Yet.

That said, people learning to use these languages become better programmers overall. They get a better sense of how to structure, validate their data, and avoid a lot of pitfalls. Have look at the answer made by a representative of one of the products mentioned by J.Carmack - she goes through some of the reflexes she acquired while using her product, and there's definitely an overlap with the way people code using Haskell or ML. It's not an accident that C++ is moving toward incorporating features from functional languages.

Just for these reasons alone people should learn to code with languages like that.
I think to try to attribute this one at all would be risky. It's been applied to so many different industries (space, motor racing, wineries, farming, theater, video production business, trading, etc.), and said by countless famous people.

Does anyone know if OED does cliches?
Mobile parallax
P90X is a bunch of BS. It's basically HIIT that feeds on people's ignorance by referring to pseudo-scientific stuff like "shocking the muscles".
Well, I hoped to use Go to avoid both:

a) writing in C for performance (and having to setup glib et al to make it comfortable)

and:

b) carrying the JVM with me to run something.

(And, no, I won't consider AOT compilers for Java. I want to deal with reasonably mature and widespread technologies and tooling).

So, there are my constraints. Given those, maybe C++ is the ticket. D is not mainstream enough, and Rust I've played with and I like very much but is still in flux.
Don't forget licensing. On the top-selling games are other games which are based on the Quake/id Tech source code: 3 Half-Life games, 2 Counter-Strike games, and American McGee's Alice. I'm sure only a small percentage of Half-Life 2 code can still be traced to its Quake roots, but it's still some impressive technology. (Alice is a little more obviously derived from Q3A.)
> However, if you're attempting to get a point across, you generally do better by keeping social norms in mind.

And if everyone followed that principle, society would never change. The perfect fourth would still sound dissonant, rape victims would be under even more pressure to keep the crime secret, etc.
"We dig in the dirt so that out of the muck we can construct something we ourselves can find worthwhile, all the time knowing in our true hearts that we’re likely to be the only ones to ever find it beautiful" ... That's one of the reasons why being a maker is sexy. Plenty of startups have probably started this way...out of the muck, against all odds, against disbelief from the rest of the world, you can take something and make it work. Makers are pursued by a lot of companies. That's sexy...
I bought them and won them on tournaments so I own few of those :)
I keep coming across this type of complaint on high-priced items, and it makes me wonder how you justify shelling out 2200$ (at the very least) for something that can't be much more than an impulse buy? After all, you're deterred by a minor distraction.
Agree 100%. Also take into account the context and intent. I jokingly make statements like this all the time and it has literally ZERO effect on my ability to do any job or manage anything in my life.
Looks like the Solidoodle is .3mm resolution vs .1mm resolution of the R2, and at roughly 25% cost.

EDIT: I originally said .3 vs .2 - but it is actually .3 vs .1 - so the R2 is much more fine. Still - $500 is a good price for this at all.

Can they both use the same filament?
It is like a self-DDOS now.
It depends on the story. If it's specific to Silicon Valley, weekday mornings (Pacific Time) are often best. Political or somewhat off-topic? over the weekend. General scienceNighttime in the Pacific.
It just came back up. Phew.
> Nevertheless the police are required to make best effort to arrest whoever the law requires them to.

Where is there such a requirement and how is it implemented?

I ask because there are several US Supreme Court cases that say the exact opposite, that police are not obliged to act except in some circumstances that almost never come up and aren't relevant here. (Basically, if US police make certain specific promises to specific people in specific situations, they can be held liable for failing to keep those promises. Otherwise, they have no obligation to act, or even to not run away. In practice, they don't make those promises.)

These cases involve someone trying to sue police for failure to act. In every case, they lost. The supremes have said that there are conditions under which failure to act by police is actionable but they never seem to be satisfied.

In many US jurisdiction, this "no duty" is statutory as well.

It actually makes quite a bit of sense. If they have a duty, that can keep them from doing something else that we might find more important. The downside is that they can decide to do something else that is less important (to us).
It's working again: http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

I would have thought they'd have a fallback on a different network.
It's not a problem with iOS 6. I've been running the GM for a week with no problems. This issue just appeared in the last couple of hours.
Do you have actual sales numbers to back that up or is this based on anecdotal evidence, or is it just because you didn't like the games as much :)?

Oh I've always liked ID Software and I still do. But anecdotal evidence show that it's been a very long time that they haven't made a trully hugely successful and highly regarded title.

Doom 3 sold 3.5 million, Rage sold 2.31 million, Two of the Quake games are listed on wikipedia's top selling PC games and sold 1.7 and 1 million

Even if these numbers were real, they wouldn't correspond to trully hugely successful and highly regarded title.
For example: Minecraft[1] sold 7 millions of java copies. The Call of Duty series sold more than 50 millions copies. The startcraft series sold more than 10-15 millions copies.

A hit today is 5-10 millions copies per platform.
Compared to the 2 millions of Rage, there is a huge gap.

[1] http://www.minecraft.net/
Me too. My Solidoodle 2 arrived last week and I've kept it busy. So far I'm very pleased.

The Makerbot 2 does look very nice and I like the high resolution and larger build area - but I'm holding out for one with dual extruders.
For some reason Ulrich Drepper has an article on the German language Wikipedia, but it's strangely missing on the English language version. Other developers notable for similar reasons do have articles (Theo de Raadt comes to mind).

In my admittedly limited experience, `rules' are often exploited to change (or expunge) articles with anything that remotely challenges the opinions of that select cabal of `veteran' editors.
Teaching journalists to read
I know it's not original content, but if he is collecting and republishing interesting images that other people have spent their time looking for (rather than trawling through Street View himself), then he should credit the source.

I run such a site myself and have been accused of stealing from Rafman's gallery, which is impossible as he does not list the location for each image.

A couple of recent ones:

http://www.mapcrunch.com/s/72721_40ea8d2c
http://www.mapcrunch.com/s/73672_22c31f74
Probably not, but you might want to give phpcpd, pdepend and pmd a try. They're all open source static analysis tools for PHP, and will find a number of potential issues.

I also find getting a good set of rules for phpcs is extremely helpful in PHP. You can use its sniffs to catch past mistakes and enforce consistent coding standards.
The P-51 had an interesting problem shared with other high torque single engine fighters of its day. If you're coming in for a landing, with the engine idling, decided to abort and firewalled the throttle, the airplane would rotate about the crankshaft.

This killed a lot of pilots.
> I'm wondering how far of the ability to print out CPU.

None. Current 3D printers can only print in a couple materials as of present (mostly plastics), none of which are semiconductors.

The resolution is nowhere near what you'd need for that, anyway. 100 micron resolution sounds pretty small, but it's still about a tenth the resolution of 70s-era semiconductors (10 µm), and about 4500 times the resolution of current tech (22 nm).
As smart as Greenspan is he has no clue whatsoever what it takes to create a widely used service. He is constantly stuck on legal matters and splitting hairs that no one else cares about. He would be so much better off spending his considerable intellect and productivity on more valuable activities.
>> information should flow freely across national borders, uninhibited by tariffs, regulations and government censorship

Funny that they qualify it as government censorship. Because everyone knows that Facebook will censor the crap out of anything they find objectionable. Just a week ago they banned a cartoon of Adam and Eve because it contained nipples. http://tinyurl.com/d5tqnhk
I really liked Dashdisco: http://dashdis.co/
Making music by coding can be a new way to teach an amateur how to code well. This app has so much potential!
Quantum computer breakthrough
Australian researchers announce the creation of the first working "quantum bit" based on a single atom in silicon.
I've just had the same problem. I can't understand how that page being inaccessible completely kills wifi...??!!? How does that make any technical sense whatsoever?

I understand the reasoning, but for it to totally wipe out Wifi?
Yeah, I guess the problem was that everyone in the US started the update process nearly at the same time.
The best time is when you find something interesting that the community might like.

The worst time is optimized for treating HN like it's just a traffic source.
1. Know programming.

2. Be smart with an eye for economics (there is way more overlap than people give it credit for).

3. Start by talking to people and telling them what you want to do. Most founders want to help people reach their dream.

If you have a github account, email me and maybe you can start with us over at 500px here in Toronto.
This is how does it work http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-devices-call-home-...
I've had a few assorted brackets/mountings printed out. Nothing terribly fancy or creative, but useful enough that I'm thinking about getting a low-end rep-rap sometime soon. The next thing on my immediate to-do list is something better than ducktape to mount stuff to my roomba with (and probably a bumper-extension to go with it.)
I'm quite sure he was saying it's the only reason that stopped him from the impulse buy.

edit: Instead of replying to d23. There are a lot of things which I buy out of impulse, like "that would be cool to have". But if I have to go to excessive lengths just to buy the thing, I don't.