skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Undervaluing Wittgenstein isn't really consistent with what I've read in American philosophy at least. If you go by objective metrics (which would be the Moneyball approach), he consistently tops the citation counts, and beyond that, is considered central to many areas. Probably only Heidegger gives him a run for most broadly influential 20th-century philosopher (though it's hard to compare directly, because they've been influential on quite different groups).

He's been particularly influential on analytic philosophy via Saul Kripke, among other interpreters. In popularity contests, he routinely gets voted #1 most influential philosopher in polls of academic philosophers as well, e.g. in a 1999 poll of mostly UK/US academic philosophers (http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Lac...) and in a Brian Leiter straw poll (http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/so-who-is-the-...). The former one concludes that Philosophical Investigations is "the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations".

An interesting question might be who is undervalued on those lists: is there someone halfway down, or not on the list at all, who should be near the top?
Macros in C are a far cry from hygienic macros: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro.
But will we ever get to the point where the general consumer will be able to print something as complex as an iPad with as good fit and finish as one from apple?

Or alternately how long will it take until we can print an iPad?
The more I read about psychology/rationality, the more I realize that what you're saying is also true about ourselves. We regularly do things that don't make sense, and have only vague, and often wrong, ideas about why we did what we did. Except that our brain is amazingly good at self-delusion, making us believe that there were reasons behind it all.
I'd argue that Bootstrap the framework isn't overused, however default bootstrap theming is.
For me, Bootstrap feels like overkill for a simple site. I use skeleton, but will give this a try.
That's pretty cool, will definitely give that a try
I think he was saying that there are certain things that once you learn them, they change how you view the world. For him, Newtonian Mechanics and Calculus both did this as well as the knowledge he gained from Impro. Not that Impro had anything to do with Newtonian Mechanics.
Facebook gives you the option when promoting a post. (A) Just show to people who like you? (B) Also show to their friends.
Man, this sounds like every change I try to make to "legacy" code. There's so much debt and smell. I find it very, very hard to leave alone.
Any - I've had it play 1080p of H264 MKV video over the network
Who Killed the Virtual Case File?
Free (Decent) Coding Tutorials
In theory, Facebook's (and Google AdWords') auction model protects you against this. In theory, you're tracking conversions/effectiveness, and if the number of bots that click your ad double, that means the ads are worth half, so you adjust your bid accordingly.

That's the theory at least. Reality is probably different.
But they are not solving the same problem at all! This should be a superset of TypeScript. Since TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, you would not be forced to use TypeScript if you didn't want to. But how can I use this with TypeScript currently?
I don't see how you could look at an ~11 employee company that made $10M in 2011 and $22M in 2012 selling an iPhone app and consider it a failure. In the world of the App Store I would consider that a huge success.

But I guess after Instagram, any result for any other company short of "selling to Facebook for $1B" is failing. An unfair and unrealistic benchmark, in my opinion.
Here's the live video feed:
http://www.youtube.com/redbull
I had a very similar thought one year ago - for me one of the undervalued books back then was "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. The title was so smarmy and offputting for me (yeah, it's 70 years old...) that I skipped this gem for way too long, when it's basically everything you will ever need to deal with and manage people in a few hundred pages...
oh, that makes sense :)
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Also see:

"Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer?"

http://www.ask.slashdot.org/story/12/08/08/2135246/ask-slash...

Slashdot has many problems, but this was actually a pretty interesting and informative thread.
HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, zepto.js and trigger.io
I've seen a lot of creative 404 pages. Some of them are intended to have some extra utility. This one, on the other hand, is intended to be merely novel and fun. And I'd say it succeeds. I especially like that it shares some other pictures that have been created.
No. I never want to say TypeScript is bad or not. But I wan't to say is, Mozilla is trying to do something competitive with TypeScript or may be with CoffeScript.

Which is really good.
P***s Envy: Why you too should raise a massive Series A
It's works for me on iOS 6.
So I will be able to print a metal thing?))
Environmental news do not spark lively discussions here

Well... some do - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4244787
So use Perl :)

The thing about Perl is that there is supposed to be more than one way to do it. Which enables you to mix-and-match different paradigms in a way that the Python philosophy doesn't seem to welcome.

Or just use a Lisp.
> I've been trying to work through Marx recently too, but I find reading him to be a lot like reading Ayn Rand.
> Insufferable and they expect you to swallow the bitter pill of their ridiculous foundations they use to prop up the philosophy they work backwards from their personal preferences to justify. I'm going to continue for the sake of trying to extract some sense of analysis with respect to Capitalism, but it's slow-going.

I'm sorry, but what on earth are you reading? Ayn Rand was a rambling novelist, while Marx' Capital is a brilliant work of economic analysis. Parts of it are completely outdated, and some predictions proved drastically false, but it's nonetheless got some brilliant insights at its core. If you happen to be reading The Communist Manifesto, it's a political pamphlet for agitation and not a work of philosophy.
+1 for Stephen Booth. I was fortunate enough to take his 17th century English poetry class at Cal. He's the only lecturer who could make poetry resonate with my geek brain.

It's funny how some classes stay with you over the years.
The quickest Startup Pitch ever
The quickest Startup Pitch ever!

http://teespring.com/FastPitch
I imagined I had given some thought to these subjects, but Permutation City did have new ideas. If you slow down a simulation to some ridiculous degree, the simulated beings don't notice. Even if you run the simulation backwards or in random order, they wouldn't notice. If you abruptly shut it down, they'll just continue finding the pattern somewhere.
Ya, computers were +30 years old when the PC revolution started up. It was still a big idea.
Chances are in 2020 there is not enough left to mix a mojito.
Tmux 1.7 released
Here's how Emscripten does it: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/blob/master/src/shell....
QR Codes are destined for failure
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. -- André Gide
The reply link takes more time to appear as the thread becomes deeper. The purpose is to create a 'cool off' period to avoid very heated discussions.
if it's just little plastic objects well, that's stuck in the realm of knickknacks / Junk IMO. And I suspect most people will quickly get to that point after the first cheap 3d printer shows up.

It could really revolutionise some things, like home appliances. The little plastic latch on your appliance break? Print out a new one. The plastic flap that keeps your battery in on your digital camera break? Print out a new one. Suddenly a lot of devices might be much more 'repairable' now.
My students often told me they didn't have anything to say. They were silent. Empty. They felt anxiety. Panic. Terror. 'Good' I'd answer. 'You are a writer. You are at the place from which writing comes.'

-- Donald Murray in Shoptalk

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

-- William Stafford

You have to sink down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

-- Susan Sontang
WebPlatform.org logo recreated with just some CSS
Mmh, 40 comments, 90 days ago. The use of semicolons in Javascript gets more response here every week.
Consider the time that has elapsed in this drama. I have found very few schools that, had they achieved the results claimed in Boaler's study, would not make it very public. How can you turn an urban school around, let alone, have it surpass other schools and not broadcast it to the world?

In science, things become fact by proving them again, again, again, and again. Not by doing one study, claiming stupendous success and that be the end of it, as seems the case in education research.

Without the Bishops, Milgrams, and thousands of frustrated parents, who would provide critical review of these studies? There are dozens of NSF studies claiming success, all with a different methods. I have hunted down most of them and none of them appear in the context of high performing mathematics classes. Like honors algebra or AP calculus where the students score 4's and 5's. It seems that in the education research community, especially in the NSF funded scam community, there is an unwritten rule that researchers do not criticize each other. Boaler seems to be pinning her hopes in this letter on that rule.

If you were Boaler and you possessed the secret to turning around the mathematics attainment of low performing urban schools, would you...

A. Continue to produce stellar results at even more schools?
B. Spend ten years arguing with Bishop and Milgram?

Bob Hansen
Ah I thought it was going to be a feedback form - which would be a good idea.
This is something that has long bothered me - HN is it's own little bubble, despite being dedicated to everything intellectually curious or entreprenuerial

what I would like is perspective - a top down weekly update that works as a complete model - sort of the earth sim in SnowCrash - but for the most important changes - wars, famines, vast new investments, politics and economic pressures.

Something that says each week, the great barrier reef has halved but it ranks only 27th behind ...
nice movie
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/people-like-us-2012-downl...
Freehand 3D Computer Interaction Without Gloves
I see it as an interface demo, not a search results demo.

obviously you would connect it to the best search results at your disposal. that's a different problem entirely.
Renewed Stanford Venture Lab
It supports High profile, but not Hi10 (10-bit) files. http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1...
Homemade thermal camera
"It provides only extremely weak support for that hypothesis. A reasonable prior expectation is that it is unlikely for a randomly selected group of young children to share a mistrust of adults that would carry on throughout their lives."

I think you misunderstand gizmo686's point. My reading (of gizmo686's post as well as the study) is that this is not about a question of merely the individual child's responses but also about their environment, which at the age of 3 is going to be primarily controlled by their parents. It's not just a matter of whether a child who grows up mistrusting the world is at a disadvantage. It's more that a child who grows up in a world that is untrustworthy is at a disadvantage.

Let me be blunt, we are talking about shitty parents. Or, to tone it down one notch, less capable parents. On the one hand you have parents who can provide for their children, who are attentive to their needs, etc. Those parents will tend to raise children better, and will tend to raise children who grow up to be more successful. On the other hand you have parents who let their children down often, are unable to provide for them as well, make promises that go unfulfilled, etc. Those parents will tend to raise children less well, and will tend to raise children who grow up and have more problems in life, problems finding jobs, problems with law enforcement, problems with relationships, etc.

In broad strokes this is essentially what the second experiment is trying to show that the first experiment is testing. By intentionally priming children to either be trusting or untrusting of their immediate environment and of adults they show that they can control the outcome of the marshmallow experiment. And that in turn leads to the argument that perhaps it is a similar degree of priming (through the ongoing experiences with their family) and the underlying level of trust for adults that is being tested in the first experiment.

It's not an ironclad experiment but it's an interesting hypothesis, certainly, and at the very least it unravels some of the overly simplistic interpretations of the first marshmallow experiment.
“Toilets Are Like Facebook”, Facebook’s Chair Ad Parody
"Most of the crew - not to mention your fellow jarheads - will be leaving the ship in lifeboats. They'll ride to the surface in air conditioned comfort, sipping wine, and nibbling on appetizers. Not you, however. Oh no, you're going to leave the Pillar of Autumn in a different method. Tell me boys and girls... how will you leave?"
— Major Antonio Silva, aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.
"We go feet first, sir!"
— Shock Trooper's response.
"Helljumper, helljumper, where you been? Feet first into hell then back again! When I die please bury me deep! Fix my MA5 down by my feet!"
— ODST Slogan.

This is important for Science but I can only imagine the future uses of this application by the Military.
Mozilla has been working on this since before Aug 1: https://github.com/mozilla/sweet.js/commit/de15

I don't think they know anything about TypeScript before it was made publicly available, which happened a week ago or so.
Why are all these old shitty stories making the front page the last couple days?
I would love if there was a project like "bootstriped", where I would get all the classes but with minimal styling, with just a visual hint of what they should look like. I could very easily adapt them to my own needs and designs. Does that sounds like a good idea? I might actually do it (or not).
http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Apps/AfterEgypt/AENotes.html

http://www.sparrowos.com/files/TSGod.ZIP
+1 for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's superb.

I'd add A Pattern Language to the list. It's actually been very appropriately valued by the programming community, but massively undervalued by its intended audience of architects and urban planners. Should've been the architecture and planning book of the 20th century; instead most design professionals have never heard of it. Their loss!
I drive an old Mitsubishi and parts are often impossible to come by even at the junkyard. I look forward to the day when a local machine shop can download the mold and make me my part even if expensive because the alternative is rigging a part from another vehicle.
Yes, in fact it looks like they accidentally voided some people's warranties. http://xbian.org/2012/10/08/a-warning-about-overclocking/
This is the main reason I'm skeptical of central government databases. Not because of the miniscule chance of them enabling a police state, but because of the very great chance that the data will not be properly safeguarded.
I did not understand everything in the article, but if Haskell has solved all these problems already, why isn't everyone jumping ship en masse to functional programming? Surely there must be a better reason than "It's too hard for programmers"?
That would be great - but would depend on companies building their devices to support this
Please take repost complaints back to reddit, thanks.
Isn't that what something like a newspaper or weekly magazine is trying to do?
Tech Journalism is Broken
What is the Pi's Flash performance like? For my uses, 1080p video is all well and good, but most of the internet TV I watch uses a flash player backend, which is something I ran into quite hard when trying to build a low powered Atom media center box.. it can barely keep up and desyncs like crazy.
India was the producer of the most sough-after goods in the world - so much that when robbery threatened land commerce, some people thought it was a good idea to try a workaround and commission seaships to try to reach it from around the globle - where america stood in the way.

The damage inflicted to India have been huge. It is only starting to recover. My bets for the next world superpower are not on China (due to upcoming demographics problems), but on India.
Fascinating profile, partly because I was under the perception that Hipstamatic was run by a couple of folks as a hobby...there was no other explanation for how such a popular app could do virtually nothing in adapting to Instagram's offering.

> Despite Buick’s resistance toward changing Hipstamatic’s direction, the company embarked on a series of toe-in-the-water attempts at social. The first was Family Album, which launched in the summer of 2011, a product that enabled users to create and co-curate photo albums together. The other, D Series, was an app that aimed to capture a retro, disposable camera experience on the iPhone. Friends could purchase various packs of digital cameras together for 99 cents, and take and share up to 24 shots per roll--before having to buy another pack of cameras. “It was definitely a reaction to the social photography wave,” Polkus says. “The products were in response to people saying, ‘Okay, well we can take pictures, but how do other people see them without using Instagram

It's bad enough that they didn't realize the bottoming out of the paid app market (who could justify paying $1.99 for Hipstamatic when Instagram offered the same product...and angry birds was just $.99?), but their pivots toward social were incredibly dumb.
I suspect that list would just form an implementation of Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases. Too many civilizations failed already to recognize the environment as the challenge it is.
Peaceful Protest against Google in London ("Innocence of Muslims" video YouTube)
Weekend Project: Channel of Awesome
I agree with the fact that most of the benefits are going to X, but I'm not at all sure that the cost is being borne by Y, where Y is defined by the poor and middle class. I say this because the reality is that the poor and a big chunk of the middle class in this country do not pay any Federal income tax, which is where the cost of this will be paid from. The lion's share of this will probably be borne in the end by Z, which are the upper middle class and wealthy with earned income who pay the highest marginal tax rates and a huge share of the tax revenue. In fact, the top 20% of households pay 94% of the Federal income tax [1]. They're the ones who are going to pay for this boondoggle, and while that does include hedge fund managers and Donald Trump, it also includes dentists and professors and small business owners.

Of course, this is all just debt right now, so who knows what will end up happening. But given the conversation happening in this country right now, I can't see a big change in the 20% / 94% number above.

1. http://taxfoundation.org/blog/top-20-percent-households-pay-...
Hackers steal more than $450,000 from Burlington city bank
Future of Search: A Search without Links
Show HN: My weekend project - mixRead
Hi guys! My name is Alin and I'm the creator of mixRead - a simple way for book lovers to get exclusive price deals on books related to Design, Programming, Freelancing and much more!

I'm really looking forward to hear your feedback and sugestions!
A Pattern Language is often a required text for at least one studio course in US architectural schools. There are, however, practical issues with Alexander's approach at a professional level. Some are perhaps subtle to a layperson - most architectural projects are typically driven by the client's commercial concerns, e.g. a firehouse apparatus bay is designed for trucks not human habitation and a restaurant is designed to turn over customers not cause them to linger for six hours. On the other hand, some are obvious - planners do not have the ability to limit existing communities to a few thousand people.

This isn't to say that Alexander cannot inform a design. In fact, many architects look at his work during the process. But the kind of project which will look like the images in his book is rare simply because many of these patterns are best implemented "at run-time" by the user, rather than at "compile time" by the architect or planner.

Finally, I would say that what the programming community got from A Pattern Language is not Christopher Alexander, but Richard P. Gabriel. [http://www.dreamsongs.com/]
There are metal 3D printers, but the process is a lot more complex right now, and they are more expensive. But in time I'm sure some innovations will appear to make it as easy as printing plastic objects.
:%s/Sublime Text2|ST2/Vim/g and you have me but I'm always curious and right in the target so I'll give it a try.
Yes. Returning content for error pages is normal. The status code indicates this isn't what was expected, but doesn't say you can't produce some other content along with it.
That is Jetson's stuff now. Current 3D printing processes have about as much to do with demonstrating real progress toward printing iPads as 2D printing processes do.
If true (I want to investigate more), this kinda blows my mind. I haven't heard this from either side, and you would expect someone would bring it up at some point. I've always been against the bailout, partly due to the cost, but given how much we spend on the most ridiculous of endeavors, $24 billion hardly seems a drop in the bucket.

I still am not in favor of the bailout because of moral hazard, but that's a discussion for another time.

Thanks for this!
Observations on what's getting downvoted, with some dissected specimens
But who cares what the % of trades are? They don't get more weight as a stakeholder because they are trading a lot. In fact they have absolutely none, but that doesn't diminish the control held by the 95%.
if it's ryan then he also posted details on quora back in the day, which interested people can probably dig out.
The viruses/trojans will be an interesting thing, I believe notch said that it will be up to players to protect themselves from these.

--

Indeed: https://twitter.com/notch/status/187474819980328962

And I won't stop viruses, the players will have to do that themselves.

--

And https://twitter.com/notch/status/187451555384004610 :

@Kyle_Baran: Is it possible for players to give malicious code that negatively affects their ship? This should be encouraged in multi.

@notch: yes. It's a fully functioning computer.
he routinely gets voted #1 most influential philosopher in polls of academic philosophers as well

The joke is, Wittgenstein is the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century - first for the logical positivist movement inspired by Tractatus Logico Philisophicus, and secondly for the natural language analysis inspired by Philosphical Investigations.

Relative position within philosophy education is another matter. It's hard for any "new" philosopher to compete with two millennia of classics when those classics are still relevant to the state of the art - i.e. it's hard to displace Plato given that the pertinent aspects of the human condition haven't changed since he wrote about them.
I think the company going bankrupt is what constitutes failure in this situation.