skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that we necessarily miss it for the information that was in it, but I think we certainly miss it for the progress we lost without it.

Electricity was discovered and even used in the ancient middle east. Steam powered perpetual motion devices were constructed, but never applied to locomotion.

Can you imagine where we would be now as a species if ideas like these were allowed to propagate across the Mediterranean thousands of years ago? Steam powered devices are only 350+ years old, and your grandpa's grandpa probably did't have electricity in his house.
For the same reason that people run random .exe files that you find on the internet. The problems are rare enough that people can easily think them away. And the people giving the advice think "well, this is a safe resource, so there aren't problems asking people to do this", because people aren't very good at contemplating their own failure.

I'm not saying that's a justification. I'm just saying why people do it.
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Yeah, it seems BBC Worldwide is available for free in every country on Earth, except Britain. I'm not sure in whose head this makes any kind of sense.
Why Google is Incredibly Undervalued
At the very least, the debug console output as a text file would be helpful, no?
Liking a post is a signal, especially when you're the first 'liker'. If it was posted by someone you don't see every day it's unlikely you'd immediately like something.

People are like a heard of sheep, when others that starting something it makes them feel like they can too. These people that don't speak to you every day now feel like they can like it too and it's no longer a direct signal to you.

Getting rid of the number of likes would change this dynamic (getting people to break down social barriers) but Facebook's answer is the 'Promote' button which really just changes the context of the post as it becomes an ad.
Liking a post is a signal, it's almost like a 'Poke' but for the content. If it was posted by someone you don't see every day it's unlikely you'd immediately like something.

People are like a heard of sheep, when others that starting something it makes them feel like they can too. These people that don't speak to you every day now feel like they can like it too and it's no longer a direct signal to you.

Getting rid of the number of likes would change this dynamic (getting people to break down social barriers) but Facebook's answer is the 'Promote' button which really just changes the context of the post as it becomes an ad.
> The languages of other creatures seem to be context free, or just regular expressions of the type "if your hear sound X replace that with concept or behavior Y".

I find this interesting but I'm not sure I fully understand. Could you give an example? (Hypothetical is fine!)
> Most of the rejections were due to problems with your app

Agree, and the article seems to acknowledge this. Seems that the feedback wasn't detailed enough, though.

I'd be interested to know if you found the feedback to be better, and theories about the causes of the disparity if that is the case?
Another era but, more important, another service...
1 + 1 = 2
Is fairly unambiguous until you introduce operator overloading (and why i despise overloading).
Related, interesting questions: is language unique to thought? Is thought possible without words?
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Cool.

As a sidenote is there any way of viewing google group posts without logging into google? I'm at work at the moment and my google account keeps on getting logged out as cookies are deleted frequently.
Mark Zuckerberg And The 102,400 Percent
>I would love pointers to Markdown processors that are implemented in a more principled way than the original code, for example using standard-looking lexing and parsing passes...

Have a look at Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit.

https://metacpan.org/module/Markdent
I don't think "D" ever hand the hype or mind share to become the next "big thing". Not by a long shot.
Why your UI polish should match your Userbase
> This is clever marketing (mind share!)

Or maybe gasp Go is just really good ;)
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this is weird, i had posted the same story approx 7 hours ago, which received 2 votes, now the same story, 5 hours later is on the front-page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700943
Risk and return are not correlated. There are risks and there are returns. See AAA bonds during GFC. Great businesses are great companies at reasonable prices not overvalued growth stocks.

Most of modern economic and finance theory is based on fundamentally broken models of risk and return.
Are you sure you aren't taking the piss over someone taking the piss about Apple taking the piss?

Sorry, can't help but take the piss about someone taking the piss over someone else taking the piss about Apple taking the piss.
That's definitely not a 14pt font.
Windows 8 is available for purchase now
I don't see why you would use 20 machines. I think a good place to start would be RAID 5 using 6 drives so 5 for data and 1 for backup. Which gives 6 machines, assuming your dealing with uncompressed data assuming it's mostly text you can probably use 2 or 3.
There are 2 big problems with the Windows Store submission right now:

- it takes a LOT of time to get a answer. From my experience it took 2 weeks (working days) until i got a answer back.

- they don't list at first submission ALL of the reasons for which the app "fails". This leads to the following cycle : submit app, wait 2 weeks to get rejected for lame reasons, fix issue in couple hours, submit again, wait 2 weeks etc

Hopefully things will improve in the near future but right now trying to get a app into Windows Store is a pretty long and annoying process.
"you see the pieces meshing together"

...or not. Depends on many things, among which the teachers are very important. If your lecturer thinks that his class is the most important and the rest of your courses are trash then you won't see "pieces meshing together". Been there, done that.
Did you ever try to submit to the Apple app store? All the stories I see about rejections come from sometimes strange reasonings but it's actually always transparent why they rejected an App. I had the same experience with my one app, there was one objection because of some new in-app purchase policy but it was well described in the rejection report and I knew exactly what to do. It seems like the MS store fails at an even earlier reason: Not telling you what actually went wrong.
"All that time spent learning about what and why Apple does what they do might have brought them to the conclusion that they ought to be doing the same thing."

I fear that conclusion.

But, really... concluding that courting developers pissed off with an arbitrary opaque process by giving them the same arbitrary opaque process makes sense to ... who?

"You have to imagine that they've just suddenly become inundated by thousands (10s of thousands? More?) submissions and the majority of them will be awful crapware that needs to be sifted through. "

But... they've had more than a year to prepare for it, they need people to want to write for this platform (ios/android still have a the lion's mindshare), and MS is one of the few companies that could afford (financially) to make this experience better than it has. Stop the dividend payouts for a few quarters and use that money to beef up what they seem to be saying is the new direction of the company.
Indian Bureaucrat Fired 43 times for Exposing Graft
(I'm a professor in a University, mostly for first year students.)

The problem with allowing the students to take all the courses they want is that some of them can't correctly measure how much work they can handle. So you will get horror stories like: "A student get enrolled in 3 times the expected courses, has too many homework, too many midterms the same week, and finally don't approve any of them."

Now we have a lost of students that come with questions like "I didn't approve Calculus I last semester. Can I enroll in Algebra I, Calculus I and Calculus II, so I don't lose a semester?" And it is hard to tell them, but most of the times the best thing is to take only "Algebra I" and approve that than taking the three classes and approving none of them.

I also understand that there are special cases, but should be evaluated case by case.
> Go is a bit more difficult to pin down, demographic-wise, but I'd say it's a mix between C minimalists and Pythonistas and other scripters who want something faster but don't want to go with a JVM-language or go all the way down to bare metal.

I think it also appeals to those who first started out programming in Basic but quickly proceeded to Pascal and loved it. At least, that's it in my case. Pascal is the one I'd describe Go as being closest to -- but then I've never been a C programmer.

As for Pythonists and scripters, not sure they'd ever be that happy in Go. A lot of their conveniences are "gone" in their experience. Such as custom yield iterators.
When was the last time you read something about D?

The creator just started a Kickstarter campaign for a D conference: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-program...

It's doing well.
Reminder: Do Disaster Recovery testing for Hurricane Sandy right now
1% of revenue for any company earning in excess of $10k per month seems excessive. But I guess if those clients are also seeing substantial percentage increases in revenue it would warrant the 'data fee'. This is classic supply and demand on-the-go pricing, but from my initial glance the site doesn't really explain where they have tested it, and what real results were measured.
BTW they give you reports, but only if the crash was in an already approved app that is in the Store[1]. My point was that such information should be available during the certification process as well.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/06/27/impr...
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How did I screw that up ... woops, let me change it.

Ok done.

I still argue 7 machines though. I mean, sure you could do USB + enclosure or have some more expensive board (with 6 SATA connectors, I don't know how cheap those go). Then you also may need more power, depending on how you use the thing. It's true that fewer machines generally = fewer faults, just as a matter of statistics.

But in reality, in practice, the users will probably have some IBM or SGI solution that is a full-height rack with a bunch of SAS drives or something. I'm sure you've seen those things at trade shows.

But my point here was to try to determine how much it would cost with total baseline OTS hardware.
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Mongo is a horribly offensive word for the same thing in English too - at least in British English. I wonder if the developers knew that?
My website, Scribophile, has been doing this successfully for about 5 years now. It looks like it's solving a different problem than pen.fm though. While Scribophile concentrates entirely on craft and workshopping, it looks like pen.fm is more of a marketing/publishing/writing platform.
I don't know if it was stupid or not, but I wouldn't know how to use Linux at all without switching to Ubuntu desktop from Mac OS when I couldn't afford the Apple premium after college.

It released me from dependency hell, forced me to learn VIM, and vastly improved the quality of my Google searches when I had a development question.

As a result, I'm a much better developer today than if I had been able to afford a Mac.
Market allocation of water has to be the dumbest idea since god knows what. Doesn't it occur to any egg-head economists that a resource as necessary as water is going to invoke market failure? It's the healthcare problem writ large.
Facebook specifically prohibits this. If I'm not mistaken only the account holder can download the data, you need to enter your password and bypass captcha. Also the download link is sent to your email.
The Definitive Windows 8 Linksheet
So then don't also call it cronyism.
I googled this and, wouldn't you know, a thread on HN came up! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4110445
/Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris/ ... you're right!

Gladwell widespread the idea to the public though.

And Norvig made usage of this meme for the programming field in a short summary.
Jailbreak Limited to iPhone Only, Declared by Government Of The United States
Agreed. I'd like to note I literally have zero problems with either system really.

I'm rather enjoying university right now and the lifestyle I have and am perfectly fine taking the scenic route. I learn plenty on my own and basically consider it a semi retirement stage :-)
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City of Phila. starts Seed Fund for Tech Startups
A workaround, from the author no less!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114046998698228319586/posts/GpH9...
There is a similar problem for users of non San Fracisco Bay Area maps.

There is a general problem with non-SF parts of the world as well. I've noticed that many web apps work better in San Francisco than anywhere else the country. The situation in other parts of the country is different. For example, Houston has much more geographic dispersion per capita. The concentration of VC money in the SF Bay Area means that other parts of the country don't benefit from "eat your own cooking" as much. I think there's an opportunity there.
Android SharedPreferencesManager Class
GameKit was written by the designer to solve a use case: His kids, playing in the backseat without, "Daddy, can you setup the game?"
With well over $100 billion in the bank, their problem isn't one of resources.
> Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer.

https://www.dropbox.com/about
"Requirement 3.2: The app crashes"

Really? They've listed a 'requirement' as 'app crashes'?
It is actually 1% of revenue for all companies: the lower-priced brackets have caps that make it work out as 1% (or higher, due to the granularity) across all brackets.

My problem with this is that there is no way that this algorithm is really that impressive to warrant what might be a substantial amount of someone's margin: if you are finding yourself spending a ton of money on this algorithm, you can easily re-implement it... based on both the video and the FAQ it sounds like they are doing simple hill-climbing, which should take a few hours to implement (and which, I will however point out, isn't even anywhere near optimal for this kind of problem).
I'm certain that Programming Languages are! :)
Carl S would be rolling in his grave. You need to watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jixnM7S9tLw
I'd agree with you if Apple had said they were going to use all that cash to force content providers to let them change TV.

But seeing as Apple TV isn't trying anything ambitious, and they've decided to pay all that cash back to investors instead of disrupting new markets, and Samsung is clearly killing it as their chief rival, I also hold the OP's opinion that Apple has peaked.
Testing for Parkinson's with a phone call
Max Little has shown how helpful algorithms can be in detecting Parkinson’s - he can now test for it with a phone call.

"Having this technology which can diagnose the disease and detect it early would be a massive boon for Parkinson’s disease worldwide."

http://bitly.com/VM3E0Y
Ask HN: What's the difference between the "new iPad" & the "iPad with Retina"?
What is the difference between the "new iPad" (iPad 3) and the "iPad with Retina display" (iPad 4 - that went on sale today)?

I thought the 3rd generation one had retina? What are the main differences between the two? I'm looking at getting one but slightly confused. Also, if I were to get a case, would a case for the "iPad 3", work for the "iPad 4"?
Exim4 remote code execution vulnerability when built with DKIM support
I think that the language is actually the reason why we have such big brains. If speaking was just a bit harder we couldn't do it.

When you rough up brain a little bit during surgery speech problems is the first thing to expect even if you never touched anything near speech centers. Even when you are just tired speech is one of the first things that get affected.

Even perfectly healthy well rested average person is awful at speaking. We are not usually aware of that because we don't pay the close attention to all little flaws.

When I observed carefully my partner after she had craniotomy to spot any signs of any possible post surgery complications I stared noticing how much other people mess up their talk.
Excellent video explaining the need for Open Access scientific journals
It's asking a lot to raise $150000 in 33 hours...
I was about to add syncing features and I'm disappointed to hear that it's not all that it's cracked up to be.
It's not a modified version of Google's globe. Source: I wrote this one.
No starry background, either. How are we supposed to know it's in Cyberspace?
Handling 100,000 pins on an iOS map at 60fps
I think your answers are specious. You would pay a premium for on-demand phlebotomy?
This is why I moved from Go to D, as I am more the C++ type of developer.

Still I wish all the best to Go team, as we really need to go away from VM languages and some day replace C and C++, be it in the form of Rust, D or Go.
The layout is good enough, but the graphic design is still painfully amateurish.
The New Multi-Screen World
This article and the comments on this thread run into the same problem as the "maps are broken!" arguments did - Apple's overall reputation is mistaken for its actual track record. They have always had their problems, as had other software developers, and everyone just selectively piles on something at some moment in time.

With the release of Letterpress, a spike in Game Center activity has brought about some talk about how it sucks/breaks easily, and thus Apple's overall QA is going down the toilet.

Criticism is healthy, but let's not forget that the past was not at all perfect or ideal.
Agreed that the difference exists--that says nothing though about who's practicing what these days.
It seems to me that many people treat software licences like physical goods in their minds.

The idea of buying a chef's knife from Victorinox for one price if it's to be used to chop vegetables and another if it's to be used to trim fat from steaks is absurd. You buy the knife at the lowest price it's offered and use it however you like.

Software licensing does include the ability to charge different prices for different usage scenarios, but violating those conditions doesn't strike most people as unethical while obtaining the software without paying seems similar to theft.
You may find this thread useful: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/nodejs/0...
I keep arguing against the missing support for generics in Go, but on the other hand I see it as a nice C replacement.

And before someone answers me with the lack of manual memory management, Native Oberon and Blue Bottle are done in fully GC enabled languages with a little assembly for the boot loader and interrupt controller bindings.

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/WindowManager
Yes it is. However, I've followed the funding progress in the last few hours and it's really increasing fast.

I really do hope it works out. I really see a lot of potential for (clusters of) these boards for machine perception and other neural computing applications.
Funny how this story is a great ad for the site.. with topics on hn and reddit growing
I would think so. It has many of the properties you would like in implementing a database system. First, the language is statically typed and executes surprisingly quickly. Second, it can handle high concurrency which is needed in a database since you will have many clients connection. Third, the libraries letting you interface with protobufs and HTTP provides two pretty simple ways to connect your Database interface to the rest of the world.

The perhaps most glaring problem, compared to the world of Erlang where I come from, is the lack of built-in seamless distribution. Many NoSQL databases trades consistency for availability and more machines. You are on your own implementing this.

Also, the lack of a ZooKeeper-like library may be something you will end up implementing. That, or perhaps the basis of the Dynamo paper.
If only we could get this detailed reporting on Romney and Obama from the Times. :)
Good to see companies sharing great code! Thanks Applidium!
I suggest reading very carefully.

I absolutely believe what he writes, because he's quite precise about his experiment and how he did it and this really works for a couple of reasons:

* This guy isn't 20 anymore. He has actually explored and learned and trained "productivity and focus" which he blogs and writes books about - so he doesn't start like a 18 year old directly from school, unexperienced maybe in this level of focus and discipline.

* He was pragmatic in his goals - very much so. He didn't write "becoming the world's foremost expert in linear algebra" but "passing an exam". And so he did. He also didn't write "passing everything with a top grade" but "just pass, if better - wonderful".

* He actually did his math on "hours to put in" - a semester doesn't take full 6 months, you usally don't attend lectures/lab every day 3 hours a day but 1-2 times a week, 2 (university) hours plus preparation. If you carefully add this up, you actually get a surprisingly low count of actual course/lesson hours.

* Taking in a course in a focused manner is actually quite efficient and helps you (at least it does for me) follow the material without interruptions. You also can repeat as often as you like (he mentions a fast forward and replay button in his TEDx talk) - which btw. makes part of the success of e.g. Khan university material.

* He also put some effort and training into the right way of learning and _that_ pays off massively in terms of speed.

Also, one of the points he is actually making is part of what most of you critizise: Going through the list of MIT requirements is something different compared to "becoming an expert in X" - don't mix that up.
Bad article, according to tests for example the iPhone 5 don't appear to have worse battery with let compared to the 4s.
No. "The app crashes" is the reason that it has failed on Requirement 3.2.

A bit of googling gives this which contains the full text of Requirement 3.2:-

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/Hh92158...
FYI, the first requirement for the Apple App Store is the same:

2.1 Apps that crash will be rejected
Sounds like some sort of Vogon logic.

Maybe BBC stuff is required to be free and ad-free for UK residents because UK residents pay for it in taxes. This is targeted at non-Uk people in order to make money with ads. So, it can't be shown in the UK. just a theory.
Just before this particular parade gets rolling, let's all take a moment to reflect that "market failure" has a particular meaning to the dismal scientists.

And it's not "I don't like the outcomes".

There are some cases where a market in water is absolutely the best way to balance usages. It's important to understand that we are not just talking about the construction of infrastructure for municipal supply -- that's an example of a public good where market failure can occur.

We're talking about balancing the demand of different uses for water. Municipal supply vs agriculture vs industry vs environmental flows. This is the kind of hyper-distributed problem that markets are very good at solving.
My thoughts exactly. The author should reconsider what he means by "mastering" something. Not passing a final exam for an introductory course isn't mastering the topic.

I am totally on board with the idea of seeing how fast someone can complete coursework and push the boundaries of what they can learn in a set amount of time, but name the article about it something other than "Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days".