skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be a lot more simple, such as a bacteria that grew on cheese, or a virus that milk protected you from.

This would support massive switch to tolerance (simple survival of the fittest).

It also supports the spread, as a bacteria or virus would not have made it out of the "islands" (himalayas, oceans) and so tolerance wouldn't have been an advantage.
The Future of Advertising 2012: Hear It From The Ad Students
According to the live event taking place right now it should be available tomorrow.
The iPad Air
the name is quite annoying, but it has a ridiculously large battery.
Like many people I have issues with Google. But let's not be silly about things I'd still love to work there.

Not out of any particular fanboyism, but because I've worked at plenty of places that are not Google, and the normal day-to-day in a place like a large defense contractor are categorically worse than even the worst nightmare scenario I've ever heard about working at Google.
Ask HN: How many candidates do those HN-Job posts for YC companies bring?
How does it compare with your other channels? How many people have you hired through Hackernews job posting?
As a Linux user, malicious exe-files doesnt concern me much, but random joksters trying to get me to click on goatse-links does. It especially sucks when you're at work and you thought it was a link to a page describing matrix multiplication. I think that a modern browser should protect you against that. After all, my economic loss is likely to be larger if my boss sees me staring at a bleeding anus than if I catch a malware infection. Just like browser these days detect malware sites they should also detect shock sites.
I had a similar reaction after working through SICP. Suddenly, I gained a new understanding of programming. I knew it would take a lot of time and practice to actually make use of that knowledge.

But funny enough, I find your description extremely accurate: I suddenly grokked the nature of abstraction, a beginning of a journey.
Depending on what the MMU would allow (I know so very little about low level ARM) you could probably map an area of ram to the same address as the old screen memory and make a compatibility layer. This still assumes that ARM-1 is binary compatible otherwise. So you might be able to get some kind of help from the hardware for at least video, but I have no idea about sound and input. I believe that this kind of remapping should be doable in linux so I'd assume that it could be made into a layer in RISC OS also.
What exactly were all those people doing? I've been using PayPal for years and it looks, feels, and works exactly the same now as it did five years ago. The process to setup Buy Now buttons hasn't changed. The complexity of setting up the advanced payment system hasn't changed.

So what exactly were those guys working on to actually improve the business for their customers?
If you look at the "I have a dream speech" you'll see a similar form of repetition. Not that this letter is comparable. But it is a useful construct.
I was with this post until I got to:

"Over time, I’ve come to consider that this situation is irremediable, given our current capitalist system and all its inequalities. To fix it, we’re going to need to work on social justice and rethinking how we live and work and relate to each other."

Give me a break. Socialism isn't going to fix anything. Have you seen Europe recently? Capitalism and Democracy are the worst solutions for economies and governments, except for all of the others that have been tried. America and capitalism have given more opportunities to help people grow out of poverty into success than anything else in the world. If you think you are entitled to something, you're wrong. Get off your ass and do something productive and go take that thing you think you're entitled to. If you are sitting on your couch watching tv, the only thing you are entitled to is being overweight.
TL;DR: The writer, a math teacher, is quitting (edit: his) job because of increased bureaucracy and standardized tests. Mostly, it seems, standardized tests.

The problem is, math is the subject which is BEST served by standardized tests. There is really no fuzzy aspect to K-12 math: answers are right or wrong. And there are of course many benefits to standardized testing like teacher and school evaluation, providing structure to the curriculum, etc.

His rant reminds me of another front-page HN article today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712230), where the author claims that tough technical interview questions at Google bear no correlation with programming skill. Sure....
Privacy is a legitimate concern but it's not limited to Google. Apple is tracking you, your ISP is tracking you, your phone company is tracking you, etc. Just root it and put a custom ROM on it if you're that worried (and use a VPN, DuckDuckGo, TOR, tinfoil hat, etc.).
Is your mentality typical of Google hiring practices? As long as we're going by anecdotal evidence here, nothing you've said here rings true. I've found great engineers by chatting with them -- if you can't separate a great, well-accomplished engineer from a faker by talking with him/her at length about their previous work, then IMHO the problem is with you, not them.

You said it best -- the process you describe above is reflective of a paranoid, neurotic obsession to have "the best" engineers, for some definition of best. Whether or not we agree on what constitutes "best" is not important, but if you insist that people who refuse, or fail, your particular method are bozos then you have your head stuck firmly up your ass.
The Second Circuit decision does seem to say that Apple can deny first-sale rights on things manufactured overseas and sold in the US by Apple. I was skeptical, but the dissent in that case talks at length about it, and I assume the dissenting judge knows more than me about what's at stake.

That said, it's just about a guarantee that SCOTUS won't stomp all over the first-sale doctrine. It can easily keep both the first-sale-in-the-US rule alive as well as maintaining the rights of IP holders against unauthorized imports.
Small Biz is screaming for this type of thing. A lot of diy'ers that will learn how to use a tool, but not how to code.

nice one, signed up for the beta, can't wait to try it.
So, the main question there is: Would the thread have degenerated to that point if everybody were using their real names? I suspect the answer is 'no', and that is why I prefer the use of real names on the internet.

In counterpoint, while I understand that these views are public, it is to that degree that I make sure to state them as accurately as I am able. This means that my comments tend to be a little wordier than necessary, but if (as another has suggested) employers were rejecting me from a job based on a comment I made on the internet, then I would view that as better than being hired by a company that would fire me for something I said on the internet.

I am fully aware that neither case is the ideal, just as I am also aware that there are shady companies who perform overzealous background checks. I won't comment on whether those checks are right or wrong except to say that by not hiring me based on the result of an overzealous check is perhaps as much a win for me as it is them.
"Skud" is not a fake name to her.
I recall a discussion on HN [1] were a worm had been simulated, which might be a step forward to the long road of recreating a human brain as zuckmitnick mentions.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208454
Apparently it is definitively closed: http://www.cnbc.com/id/49589936
If a growth rate of 0.5% for the EU is not a good indicator of an economic slowdown, then you must be talking about Europa, Jupiter's moon. I know that EU < Europe, but we're talking about almost all of Europe's greatest economies here.

Yes, I know some countries are doing better than others and that in some places unemployment is even decreasing, but taking into account the fact that Spain is on the verge of bankruptcy and countries such as France and Italy are being hit by austerity, I see no reason for optimism.
Facebook and Twitter support have to be explicitly activated in order to send any data to those parties. In the case of the optional Facebook contact sync feature, it even warns that the data in your contacts list will be sent to Facebook. When submitting a post to either Facebook or Twitter, including the location is optional and off by default.
Canadian Companies Look to Reverse Trend of Selling Out to Foreign Buyers
I sometimes head over to project euler and solve some mathematical program in scheme just to realign myself with reality.
I think it's a great way for get a non-programmer interested very quickly, but I personally was quite turned off when I clicked on the "realistic physics" based bouncing ball module and found that the ball doesn't actually stop bouncing, EVER.

The problem occurs in the following code:

if(ball.y + ball.radius > H) {
// First, reposition the ball on top of the floor and then bounce it!
ball.y = H - ball.radius;
ball.vy *= -bounceFactor;
// The bounceFactor variable that we created decides the elasticity or how elastic the collision will be. If it's 1, then the collision will be perfectly elastic. If 0, then it will be inelastic.
}

Basically, when the ball hits the ground (the collision check), it should no longer be receiving a gravity modifier as it's "on the ground". Additionally, because there's a user set velocity variable, there needs to be a check against the crest of bounce to slowly reduce that variable down to 0 so the ball will stay stationary.

Call me a stickler, but seeing a "physics" demo no matter how loosely it's based get stuck in an infinite bounce just rubs me the wrong way.
Whoops.. I think I accidentally downvoted you. Someone vote him back up, could you?

That's an interesting trend. I think it could be resolved by instead having the ones doing the teaching decide on what sorts of standards and tests should be used to appraise performance.

Some of my family members are teachers, and I hear more and more about how they are given less freedom to teach creatively and are instead forced to administer useless, rote-memorization tests that assess, well, nothing really. It's getting kind of ridiculous.
I found the following paragraph to be very poignant.

"I’m tired of watching my students produce amazing things, which show their true understanding of 21st century skills, only to see their looks of disappointment when they don’t meet the arbitrary expectations of low-level state and district tests that do not assess their skills."

I hope that this teacher finds happiness teaching in a more productive environment. Charter schools and some universities come to mind.
No, and I don't mind that it's impossible to get my code into all the other supplemental package repos you can use on Ubuntu either.
There is no way 'Agriculture' has had an "overall deteriorating effect on human health".

I believe the massive population explosion of humans can not be explained without agriculture.
The Galaxy Note could replace your phone and tablet, especially if you don't like to carry items on your person, and prefer to throw them into a bag or handbag.
Having a smaller MTU is fine. The problem comes when people start blocking the ICMP fragmentation needed packets, presumably due to some assumption that this will in some way help with security.
You'll never get a firmware update with a Motorola phone. Even under Google they've abandoned phones that they previously 'promised' would see firmware updates.
Now that's something I don't know if I could change. I've always installed Linux on my older, outdated hardware. I've never purchased a brand new, top of the line machine and thought about installing Linux.
It looks cool, but I'm colorblind (like 10% of male humans) and reading the text (which looks like a menu and/or instructions, I don't know) is absolutely impossible to me.

I pushed the luminosity to 11, and after staring for a while I deciphered "TO GO FULLSCREEN". That's it.

Please, let me play :)
An interesting question that I will admit that I haven't given much thought to. To me, I consider my real name as "Barry Melton", even though it is really "Bartholomew Melton".

I have signed contracts, purchased property and pay utility bills under the former, while the latter is relegated to a very few.

Unrelated, I think this is the first that I realized George Orwell was a pen-name.
Could be the same mutation, or lack of mutation (depending on the original state of tolerance). However if there is no advantage/disadvantage at a certain point (such as our brains taking over to stop young suckling too long, or ample supply of other foods) then it would remain relatively rare in the gene pool.

Perhaps the opposite was true in Asia and your genes managed to survive where the tolerance was an disadvantage?
Canada has always been a tough region for music support. Spotify has a pretty decent international reach (including many parts of Europe), but Canada is still out of the picture. Same goes for Pandora.
She is building a social network for hobbyist gardeners. Apparently this is what humanity needs more than geek toys like self-driving cars and augmented reality sunglasses.
This is pretty cool. You can actually see the impact of Sandy on the East Coast live as the winds speed up... hopefully that one turns out to be less bad than the forecasts are saying.
I believe that's exactly the reason.
I would recommend project euler. Just some nice mathematical problems that can be solved in polinomial time. It has always served me well to keep some math muscle in active use.
Btw, I know these are user created, but if you're going to showcase it, you should check these for bugs.
Let's hope, because this is a pretty pitiful launch.
What I heard is that Google isn't making money on them, but ASUS is.
Confirmed that PenTile is crap. I came from a OG Droid to Galaxy Nexus and was horrible not impressed by the PenTile screen. It is really noticeable when using low brightness.
If you hire lots of [...] compiler specialists but you allocate them to write web apps we're all possibly worse off.

Speaking from direct experience, faced with the job of developing a framework for web data entry apps, what I ended up doing was writing a dataflow language for data binding. Another ex-Delphi compiler developer, Danny Thorpe, ended up co-creating Google Gears. IMO compiler development is a great basis for a certain kind of thinking about solving problems; but I'm also biased.
I so wish I could use some LISP at work!
Related to that, I don't like that when I scroll, the top part disappears. It looks like it was designed that way, but it's quite annoying. After a little bit, I realized that if I clicked the little x, the landing page would come back as before. It doesn't come back if I reverse my action (scroll up).

Just put the content below and don't be fancy. This will let you get rid of that silly bar with the x, which doesn't do anything useful.

All in all though, the idea seems cool. I may look into Duck Duck Go again sometime.
"A 16GB version of the tablet is currently priced at $249.00 on Google Play, with an 32GB iteration expected to be officially announced at some point over the next few weeks."

Is this correct? At least over here (yay for regional limitations!) I can go to the store page of the 32GB model [1] (listed as 'in stock'). Only the 32GB model with HSPA+ [2] is listed as 'coming soon'.

1: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_32g...

2: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_32g...
The author of the letter is male.

I disagree that math is best served by these particular standardized tests. Testing can be useful (particularly something like the AMC or AIME), but when you're given meaningless problems like calculating how many watermelons Jack can carry to the store, there's better ways of assessing a deep understanding of mathematics.

Also, tests are frequently too long. This forces a student into choosing an answer quickly instead of eventually arriving at the correct solution.
Slow down: why Google's new Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE
While math benefits from standardized tests, what is being tested is not math. It's memorization. It's recital.

If I want to hire someone that's good at reciting memorized fact to me, I'll hire a postgres instance.
I think there's an opportunity cost as well. Standardized tests shift the focus of classroom time from teaching students math concepts to getting correct answers in the next test.
Engadget's Windows Phone 8 Live Blog
Reveal.js looks mighty cool. I spent a weekend learning node/npm to make something similar [1] (albeit FAR less feature-rich). The basic idea is that you write your content with JSON, so making slideshows is super fast.

[1]: http://prezjordan.github.com/cleaver
I love all of his work. Worth checking out.
Not sure if you're in the US, but if so you have 15 days to return it:

http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Go get a bigger tablet!
Yes, please send it to me! Thanks a ton. seanandrewroseATgmailDOTcom
Cutting back on bloated tech staff could absolutely help speed up new product development for all the usual Mythical Man Month reasons.... in theory.

I've never seen it work in practice. In practice, in my experience, layoffs never target exactly the right set of dead weight. Company politics always come into play and you end up with a situation where some of the right people got axed, but not enough and worse sometimes the layoffs hit people who are actually great producers but who weren't visible enough to upper management to be spared. And once this event occurs it tends to have a ripple effect among the survivors -- nobody really feels safe and so everyone starts considering other opportunities and naturally your best talent has the easiest time of landing new jobs so they're among the first out the door, and now you're on a downward spiral of fucked.
I'm becoming "that guy," it seems, but how is this relevant to Hacker News? This is little more than something which will stir up "fanboys" -- which by the way seems to have worked judging from the current top, and needlessly long, comment.

Summed up, this 'news' story boils down to: "Amazon advertises product." Queue hundreds of comments arguing about why the add is accurate or not; why product X is the worst, and shameful, and product Y is the best and wholesome.

Has anyone opened a news paper, magazine, turned on the radio or TV, or been on the internet? One company saying that it's product is better than the competition is kind of, well, completely normal -- Advertising 101, if I may be so bold. Why aren't we arguing to death about car commercials slamming their competition? Hell, what about Oxy-Clean, huh? Billy Mayes' talked a bunch of crap about Tide. Where is that discussion? Are people not ready to defend Tide's name as they are Apple/Amazon's?

People get so emotionally invested in certain products. It's completely silly.

Can we stop this inanity and go back to endlessly arguing about how worthless PHP is now?
Clicked for the expected HN defense of all things testing, not disappointed.
Sorry! The other programmer working on this is colour blind too, but he obviously wasn't effected.

The instructions say:

Click to focus
W-A-S-D to move
Mouse to look
Spacebar to go fullscreen
You're entitled to your strategies. Why do you have to push your strategies on me? When you do that you turn from a tolerant civil example into a Christian missionary pushing his beliefs on everyone.

Civility is completely in the eye of the beholder and I'm pretty sure what Raganwald considers civility would be considered by most Hackers to be a lame net nanny kind of censorship that misses the forest for the trees.

To me, strong opinions and emotions are not uncivil. Even commenting on individual people is not uncivil. I put civility on a similar plane as intellectual honesty and argument in good faith. I don't consider civility to be self-censorship to conform to the stifled emotional norms of Puritan America--where the slightest amount of passion or strong opinion causes all kinds of moral crusaders to condemn you and teach you with their ridiculous religious parables.
Complete example of Active Admin (Rails 3) application [Source code]
Minor nitpick, shouldn't it be "A FAQ", not "An FAQ"? Does anybody really read it "Eff Ay Queue" and not the monosyllabic "Fack"?
Ballmer: Apple has not produced a product that customers use
Yeah, I screwed up.

Then my co-worker got me to mount my ISO in VMWare, run the installer in Windows 8. It asked for the key. I put it in. It activated... I think. Successfully. I used it all weekend so far, without any issues, except I can't figure out how to use it, haha.
Chris Pirillo On Building A Tech Brand, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Android 4.2: What's New
Curated course on how to get into YC
Amazon cloud sales chief sued for going Google
Ian Ozsvald has a nice tutorial on high performance python, from profiling through cython and some multiprocessing and parallel techniques. You can find video and other materials here: http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/18/high-performance-python-1-f...
Assuming the page you are already on is compromised / malicious. Then it link baiting you to another compromised / malicious site is not your only worry.
That's a recipe for hivemind rule: downvote everything you disagree with so that only the things you agree with show up. I think there's enough of an information bubble on HN without actively trying to create one.
> Apple has built Facebook and advertising into iOS

That simplifies things in a very reductive way.
In the UK the last operator to stop doing this (Vodafone) stopped around 2004, the others in the 2-3 years before that.

Was really handy for a car-phone (remember those!) sim which meant the car rang pre-bluetooth days.

Less relevant these days but i also have an old BMW E38 i cherish which would benefit from such a setup were it available today.
With their new naming convention, it seems to me that there's a very nice slot for a "Nexus 3". Hopefully such a device wouldn't feature inferior specs like the s3 mini.
According to The Verge, at least for the Nexus 10, the screen is Plane-to-Line Switching, so not Pentile.

Edit: and looking at the specs none of the current Nexus hardware is Pentile (4, 7, 10).
Its kind of sweet how this HN post flattened their server. I don't think RISC-OS has attracted this much attention for 25 years.
I believe (although I have no inside info to support the theory) that this is part of a push at Paypal to respond to the challenges presented by smaller, younger, more agile competitors like those at Stripe and Square.

Add to the fray Apple's Passbook and I think that Paypal is scrambling to secure their ecommerce throne.
Because some amount of some tests are good, then any amount of any tests must also be good?

Maybe I'm gullible, but I tend to think that the person who is doing his or her job every single day actually knows more about it than I do.
I've heard the same thing, always from unreliable "I heard" sources. I've never heard anyone who actually did interviews or was interviewed say that.
Notes on the JSConf talk "Javascript as a Compilation Target"
Looks like they're halfway through fixing it: http://cl.ly/image/3K171Y0o3r3F
If anybody knows of great resources that I've overlooked, please leave a coment and I will add them asap. Thanks a lot!