skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with the assertion. Looking at something does not automatically determine that the observer holds some kind of specific psychological condition.

Or are you saying that anyone who dares to click the screwdriver link is a sadist who gets off on people being blinded by metal implements?

People can simply look at things out of curiosity, to see what it is, see how they react to it, to fathom why whoever made it made it. Then to wonder how others react to it, and why they might seek it.

Having trounced your latter argument, let's get to the first: the problem with 'omg a real child might've been inspired this!' is that could apply to ANYTHING. As in, I can't read a novel where someone gets murdered, because maybe it's based on a real murder.

People can just as easily chibi-style 2D art of a rape as they can make a 3D simultation of it. I believe there are actually certain doujin manga whose plot revolve around that concept. Heck you could make a lego depiction of rape, better outlaw looking at controversial lego sculptures too.
Whilst there is a lot of truth here, as a founder I can say it's still very easy to "do things on other people's schedules". I think there is still a lot of discipline required to experiment with something like this, even if Steve has no "real boss".
A lot of these problems seem to relate to Apple products. Just saying - there are other options out there.

I notice he uses only one open source product (Google Chrome). One aspect of choosing open source is being able to fix problems you care about yourself (in theory at least).
I haven't worn a watch in a long time and I use my phone as a pocket watch.

Somehow, I only notice the time on my phone if I specifically pull it out for the purpose. I only notice the clock on my laptop when I'm curious about it.

I don't think banishing clocks is necessary: just care less about them.
Good luck resolving this issue. I wonder what it would take to completely prevent this kind of stuff from happening.
Ten years ago everybody enthusiastically installed every piece of shareware (windows) or open source (linux) software they could lay their hands on. There were a whole lot of portals devised to desktop software.

People's desktops had all kinds of weird hacks in it, tweaking every imaginable bit of appearance, user experience and features.

But I think we all came to conclusion that it does not pay off. Yes, your 3rd party file manager is much more powerful but does installing it on every of your PCs in life pay off? It does not.

The whole experience becomes much more generic and throwaway. Yes, I tune some programs, but I'm ready to leave the whole setup at any moment and start with a blank screen again - and I actually have to do that every 2-3 years.

No longer I use dozens of programs and have 5 DEs installed but just a few and exactly one.
"giving them the ability to watch detailed scenarios of abuse"

You mean like what the police who investigate real tapes have?

This 'raises the possibility' thing is a bad slippery slope. Let's argue that playing GTA raises the possibility people will steal cars.

This ruins the lives of the car thieves and the people whose cars are stolen! We must avoid that possibility!
When using the debugger you can sometimes end up in an exception handler that doesn't provide a way to get access to said exception. $! can be a life-saver to help figure out what's going on, eg.

(rdb:1) list
11 do_something_stupid
12 rescue
=> 13 log("Something went wrong")
14 end

(rdb:2) e $!
#<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /tmp/durr>
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I'm having trouble figuring out what kinds of "vivid images" you would use for memorizing foreign language vocabulary words.

For example, I'm trying to learn German right now. It seems obvious that you would use images of the English translation in your memory palace, but then you would just have the problem of remembering the German word that each image signifies.

Or going the other way, from German to English, what images would you use in your memory palace to represent German words? How would you tie them back to English?

help?
We can compare anything ;)
Sure. Windows has one additional feature that dyld lacks, however: activation contexts[1]. You can have in the same process modAv1!foo and modAv2!foo even if modAv1 comes from c:\foo\moda.dll and modAv2 comes from c:\bar\moda.dll. (Note that the module filenames are identical.)

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa37...
One possibility I'd offer: comics can be used to teach empathy. Erotica can portray things in unrealistic senses, but creative writers can and have constructed elaborate plots that explore these unrealisms and their potential consequences.

Heck, look what School Days did for harem-style anime.
Today, I have expiring page 2 links...

eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=sB1PcxtzQi
This is just transcompilation to Java, not actual static compilation. The performance gains will be offset by the increased memory footprint of the JVM.

Interesting nonetheless.
But since Alibaba themselves put the pirated google apps on their store, I'd say that's quite a different situation than Google Play having malware.
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We need public open bug tracking. For everything.

No more "put your bug in here, trust us, we'll fix it". They won't. They'll say you're the only one with the problem. Everyone will be so uninspired they won't report bugs.
So basically, as he says, to the question "Doctor, it hurts when I do that" your answer is "Don't do that".

It's a perfectly legitimate position, but it's not really helping progress, is it?
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It's proto-racist and nationalist to imply that people of other nationalities can innovate just as well as Americans?

Um, ok. I totally see the racism and nationalism now.
It's worse than that. It replaces sys.modules['sh'] with something that isn't a types.ModuleType in the middle of the module's initialization.

Cute, but definitely on the list of things I'd remove on sight if encountered in a commercial project.
The world is full of disgusting people that disturb us. Rape victims aren't exactly alone in that. If Kylie's more concerned about fappers than Ken raping her again, then I'm kinda confused.
The only problem described in this article appears to be of performance, but I can see no objective figures on what kind of performance improvement we'd see if the proposed loss of flexibility were made.

The title of the article is "Sorry state of dynamic libraries on Linux" which implies that other OSes do it better. But the article does not cover what other OSes are even doing.

I'd love to see:

1) Objective and compelling figures that show that changing the current system would result a significant improvement.

2) A discussion about what other OSes are doing and justification of why Linux is in such a "sorry state" (or an article title that isn't linkbait).
The "original" Word, before Windows, was available for DOS and Xenix - I actually saw some systems using Word on Xenix in '88.
Office should run pretty much unmodified on the Surface Pro. What happens on the Surface RT is a somewhat more interesting question though.
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No it's $199.99 for one user one pc or for two PCs, one user $279.99:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-and-business/

(It's $499 if you want access and publisher but most people don't)
Depending on who you ask, Apple stopped being that company a few years back.

They will answer Mobile Me, iTunes, Snow Leopard, iCloud, Genius, Ping, iPhones unable to call or any other thing which at some point was delivered in such a shoddy state that it was hard to keep believing Apple was any different than the other tech companies.

Anyway, this is not another Steve Jobs is dead, Apple is going to heck-post. The decay began a long time before that.
I wonder what they'll do when the much better h.265 comes out.
Well, you could use Linux if you really care for open bug tracking...
I think it's more a case of "I forgot to renew the domain and someone jumped in and re-registered it" rather than "My site has been hijacked"

This has happened in the past: http://www.out-law.com/page-4049
It is not my intention to insult any other countries, or put the US in competition with them. I am simply stating things as I see them -- I do not think America is great, we are actually a pretty idiotic country (at least our government is) and we need to get our act together. So long as it is private (probably not for long), our healthcare system will be "the best" -- in terms of quality, but not necessarily cost. Its like comparing a private school to a public school, or a private bathroom to a public bathroom. You get what you pay for - which is good and bad for US citizens (good in that we get an option, bad in that its not free). When you distribute something of a limited quantity (in this case, healthcare) to everyone for free, you have to make sacrifices -- or raise taxes even higher. Many countries in Europe pay over 50 percent income tax at the maximum rates. In Canada, doctors only make 42 percent of what US doctors do, so they come here. 800,000 Canadians are on waiting lists for longer than 18 weeks to see a doctor annually. Britain cancels about 100k operations annually because it does not have enough doctors to meet the demand. Many Americans do travel abroad for surgery because it is cheaper (not necessarily better) - for example here in San Diego it is not uncommon for people to get Dentistry done in Mexico. All of these numbers I pulled from Wikipedia, which may or may not be a good source but you can probably (in)validate the numbers elsewhere.
An incompatible variant of English would have none of the network advantages, at which point you might as well use a fully designed conlang like lojban.

An alternative, phonemic alphabet for foreigners might have more hope, though even then the use case is narrow.
> The only problem described in this article appears to be of performance

Correctness is a serious problem. ELF symbol interposition is dangerous because it can be done unintentionally. For the most part, the flexibility afforded by ELF goes unused except for LD_PRELOAD, and LD_PRELOAD can be accommodated using a safer and less general mechanism.

Systems with module-specific binding don't have to worry about unintentional symbol interposition. On these systems, adding a module to a process never causes another unrelated module to sometimes stop working depending on exact load order. On ELF systems, this catastrophe happens.
My position is the ultimate market-deciding capitalist answer: I don't buy broken products.
> I don't think banishing clocks is necessary: just care less about them.

This. But you can't feel all hip and special and write blog posts about that people call "beautiful".
Googling yields a 6.4 GB/s figure for the single channel LPDDR3 supported by Tegra 3. It doesn't sound like the
most likely bottleneck for a CPU benchmark given that those A9 cores plod along at about 1/10 the perf of a desktop chip.

What sort of bandwidth do other mobile chips provide?

edit: Looks more like 1/3 than 1/10, looking at the
tests in geekbenchscores. I had the 1/10 figure from
looking at Sunspider results (http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?s=502c8933367f315a17f...).
This is brilliant, maybe overpowered but brilliant.
But the thing I cannot stand is the use of images for text.
I would have preferred to se the use of @font-face with fallback to images for old browsers.
It's all documented here:

http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/09/13/bui...
I'm not sure I understand this correctly. After buying the app and then asking someone for a favor - now they need to plunk down for the app to view the favor? I'm not sure they are going to want to do the favor at that point.
> This is especially strange considering that virtually every other country does have an official language (or languages)

My assumption for why it isn't strange is that most countries had an official language (whether at one point it was decreed, or if it just happened naturally) before a huge amount of immigration happened in the way that it has in America, i.e. that now there are huge numbers of Spanish speakers in a number of states.
Time and time again, don't `trust' user data -- sanitize it before passing to subsystem or DSL. No matter how unprobable it seems for user to be able to insert unexpected characters.
But maybe you are used to not care about the clock. People like the person who wrote this blog post obviously felt that the clock controlled his life and stressed him out because of that. The only way for him to not care about it is to get rid of it altogether. At least in the beginning.

Personally I don't think this would match my lifestyle. I don't know anything about this persons lifestyle but most employed people and students have deadlines they need to meet and that requires to know the clock to the minute.
That makes no sense. What if I find a generic hardware problem with my laptop? or a general problem with my apartment complex?

If I have a problem on a Mac, I can report it. I will get no feedback, and maybe the problem will get fixed. If it does get fixed, I will get no information about if my bug report led to the fix: the feedback loop is missing - there is no incentive to report a bug.
I suspect it feels a kind of loneliness similar to what we feel.

Dogs certainly experience and express a definite sense of loneliness, so I can only imagine that this giant mammal does as well.

Or could. We don't actually know if it's alone. We just know that it can communicate on a frequency that other whales can't. We don't know if it can communicate on usual whale frequencies as well. Maybe it can. We also don't know if it's traveling in a pod of other whales or not. Maybe it is.
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The only way out of this is to make companies accountable for the software, the same way as in any other industry.
A cookbook has recipes. If this is a cookbook, where are the recipes? :-)

Such a concept might make sense in this context. e.g. Recipe to calculate p-values. How to fit various distributions. A recipe to calculate posterior probabilities, etc.
For me, it depends how big the favour is. If it's to pick someone up from the airport, it should definitely be a phonecall.

Por Favor aims to fill the space where it's a small favour, like turning on the oven at a certain time or taking out the bins. Things that aren't too much of an inconvenience but are also easily forgotten.

You mention tracking favours, that's definitely not what it's about. It's about remembering to do things you said you would, not about keeping score.
Cool piece of a hack! Gives you that required fine tweak for sharing links on FB with an added convenience of using from the browser!
My argument is not that consumer products should be perfect; it is that when consumers see deficiencies in them which could reasonably be fixed, they have every right to complain. In fact, they should complain because it will help make things better.
This stuff all bugs me. On my 4 year old Mac sometimes app's just won't start. They bounce once then exit. The only fix is to restart. No idea why. Been happening for years.

In Firefox on Windows. I write a bad bit of JavaScript and the browser just freezes and there is nothing I can do apart from ctrl+alt+del. I really don't know why tab's aren't sand boxed to at least let you exit them.

Photoshop has minor annoyances. If the color picker is open new files don't open. Been like that for 4 versions.

For some reason Filezilla refuse's to open a directory sometimes and hangs for about a minute before letting you retry. To speed this up you can press the disconnect button. Been like this for ages across all my computers..

I have some bugs in my product which are simply too time intensive to fix with the current schedule of features which I need to implement. If I was running things these bugs would be cleaned up first but.. sales is running the show and the next feature will kick start a new promotion and so on. For us at least, there is too much demand to move forward and not enough developers to maintain this development speed. This is why bugs creep into the product and this is why some of the more obscure ones can still be found in the product 30/60/90 day's after being reported.
Kenneth Love's working on this at http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/.
I don't think it's necessarily about perfection on release (though certainly sometimes it appears that things were never user tested).

Reading through Scott's article, he points out that it's not uncommon for an issue to be raised by many users and ignored by the product owner (my personal pet issue at the moment is Google Calendar no longer allowing me to accept invites sent to non-GMail addresses).

It might not be cost-practical to fix issues that affect a small section of your audience, but I'd like to think there's a certain qualitative aspect that comes into play, and if the issue affects 'n' people it should get a banner regardless of whether 'n' is only a minute percentage of your audience.
One project seeking to fix this (by re-implementing everything from scratch) is http://www.loper-os.org/

Much as I like the idea, I don't have high hopes. The revolutionary "right thing" approach has typically lost to the evolutionary "worse is better" in software fields with broad appeal. This is true even with the tools and materials used to build computing systems at a low level. Consider the popularity of programming languages like C++ compared to say... Smalltalk.
We're still working on the app idea. Maybe it'll just be a website to start and you pay to send favours. We're in the ideas stage at the minute, and nothing's set in stone.

Do you think it's worth following up on the idea (ignoring implementation details)? Or does the implementation make the idea?
DDG has its own index, you get offered bing/google when there is too few results from DDG. Even when you click bing/google, it is anonymized, so the results are not skewed by the info the search engines have on you.
One feature open-source bugtrackers badly need
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The idea is glorious but if you skim random pages ("Show any page"), most of pages are neigher complete nor about important topics nor written in simple language.
Totally agree. Time is a useful tool, use it wisely.
I write a bad bit of JavaScript and the browser just freezes

This one always gets me. The browser people are (rightly) obsessed with security, but a simple DoS attack like this has worked for years.
A favorite of mine (since I wrote it) is this package for quickly (very quickly) putting up landing pages on AppEngine:

http://www.github.com/skorokithakis/landing-page

Basically, add HTML, CSS, JS, and you have a fully-functional landing page with a signup form.
Hey, thanks.. Needed it quite badly for myself, to share links with nice thumbnail images, different from those that are fetched automatically by Facebook. Also, thanks for StackOverFlow's answers that lead to this Hack!
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I spoke Brazilian Portuguese and even back then it was relatively hard for me to understand Portuguese the original due to pronounciation/accent differences (by relatively hard I mean I had to focus). I had less problems understanding Spanish, say, in Uruguay. To this day, although I forgot the language, I can easily spot a Brazilian in a crowd of talking people while it takes me a moment to recognize someone speaking European Portuguese.

> many more countries speaking the language.

maybe more, but not with 200 million people
There should be a round-rect benchmark on the outline of the phone.
Yeah I've dabbled just a bit with these and they seem like a nice way to build UIs, also making data binding a lot cleaner than on the web or in the various mobile SDKs.

Honestly I think Microsoft has the best developer toolkit in the business right now but they haven't yet had the product design prowess to put that technology in the consumer's hands in any significant numbers.
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The whois shows that it previously expired in April 2012. I thought most registrations were for 1 year increments, so this would be a strange time for a expiration.
>They've gone out of their way to ensure that you can't ever play an Audio/Video clip automatically on page load in iOS Safari

Which sounds very wise from a user perspective.

Imagine every crappy web advertiser auto playing videos on page load on Mobile Safari. Yuck.

I don't want videos to auto-play on my Laptop, why would I want them on my phone?

>Curse you iOS 4.3 for taking away our simulated clicks

Simulated clicks? I rest my case...
With no accountability for vendors at all, no software warranties worth the name, this is hardly a surprise. Until people can start suing for damages (it costs me time = money to get such problems fixed), software will stay mostly broken because vendors have no good reason to invest money in fixing it.
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Gah, that's a shame; I use SP quite regularly.
Boooo! This site is a well-organized, wonderful resource. Here's hoping it can get back to normal soon.
Found one article which may be relevant. It's titled Animal Subjectivity: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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Then don't use a Mac. With your appartment complex, I assume you'll receive feedback from the owner or eventually you'll move to a more responsive place.

Open source hardware is a problem, agreed - I hope in the future there will be more of it available. Even open source houses, why not. If there is an open source plan for a house, maybe there will be a community fixing common problems with it.
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In some countries the argument would rather be that the guy who wrote the page is a smartass and it cannot be held as a binding contract.
Going into China is not likely to help Facebook make more money. Facebook offering a payment service (which, I agree with another top-level comment, seems like the "obvious" thing for Facebook to do) I would never trust, because Facebook breaks too many of its features too regularly. If the attitude of the engineering team is "don't be afraid to break things," I'm not going to put my financial data through their servers. Not no way, not no how.
Attributing feelings to animals can be appropriate, depending on the animal and the circumstances. I find it a little worrisome that you equate individual bees (which by all measures are little more than automatons) with a complex and intelligent animal such as a whale. (Recognizable) emotions are not something humans have a monopoly on, quite the contrary.

Most whales are social animals, and they're also pretty advanced mammals, so it's not unreasonable to assume that an individual might experience feelings of loneliness and abandonment given the fact that it's apparently the only one of its kind out there.
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