skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough; I didn't intend to put words in your mouth. I was responding to what you said about "ignoring animal abuse when it happens to pigs" and just providing a counterpoint to that: that not everybody is ignoring it, and that there's no reason why we should ignore it either (because it's not an "ethical dilemma" -- a "dilemma" presupposes we can't both reduce the suffering of pigs and continue to eat them, except this isn't actually the case because we can do both). I appreciate the point you're trying to make though, that laws are made not just based on ethical considerations, but also based on how people feel about these things.
The US is a lot more free on paper, but has very little liberty in practice.

Germany is, in theory, a lot less free - however I have never been anywhere else that allows many of the sorts of things that are commonplace here.

I could go into many details but suffice it to say there is an interesting inverse symmetry to be found.

One handy example: asking a bank for €5000 in cash doesn't even raise an eyebrow here.
I didn't claim that tablets were not needed or that they are not useful. I actually stated otherwise; the intersection between people who need the latest features and the people who are upgrading. I'm also not arguing that these people are not simply buying a new iPad. I'm just trying to argue against the parent's opinion that it's not possible for people to upgrade simply to have the latest tech.
Can you explain in detail what problem this solves and how it works to someone with a basic background in physics?

Below is what my understanding:
Current energy storage mechanisms (batteries) are inefficient. In theory one way to store energy that would be more efficient (why?) is to use the energy to compress air (with a conventional air compressor?). The air is stored in a container until it is converted to electrical energy through some inverse process (powering rotary screws?). Unfortunately compressed air is very hot and difficult to store. Instead water droplets can be injected into the compressed air container. These droplets will absorb most of the energy of the compressed air. The vapour is separated from the compressed air and stored in other containers (still as vapour?). How is the vapour then converted back to electrical energy? Isn't the vapour just as hot as the compressed air? Is it easier to deal with because it can be stored in a larger volume?
Well, this thread just took a turn for the ... wow.
A Jumble Of Thoughts From A Programmer
You may be conflating shyness, social intelligence and introversion. Just for clarity, here are some definitions which I don't assume everyone knows.

Shyness "is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness experienced when a person is in proximity to, approaching, or being approached by other people, especially in new situations or with unfamiliar people"[0]

Social Intelligence "describes the exclusively human capacity to effectively navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments"[1]

Introversion is "the state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life".[2]

When I was younger, I was told that all of these things were the same , and I was very confused. While I felt more connected to my inner world than the outer world, I had no problem dealing with situations (such as parties, events, etc) where I met a large number of people. I wouldn't actively seek these types of encounters out, but would navigate them (often with compliments) when they came up. However, afterwords I would feel physically and mentally exhausted. Only later in life did I learn a more nuanced view about introversion/extroversion that dealt with which situations one finds more or less rewarding.

I personally find small teams, often just me, highly rewarding and engaging. Afterwards I feel mentally recharged, and can continue such encounters for very long amounts of time. Conversely, I find that large groups are very draining, and I have to take more time to recharge.

I would generally rank in the middle-lower levels in shyness. I don't actively seek out encounters with strangers, but I do not feel a high level of apprehension or awkwardness. For social IQ, I'd rate myself as average. I can talk someone's ear off, understand empathy, and social situations do not generally throw me off balance. However, for introversion I'm near the top. Given any particular situation, I would prefer to be alone or in small groups, even to point of possible negative social/group consequences (which I generally understand and accept as the cost of the trade-off).

So while I agree with you that some introverts are pigeon-holing themselves, there are people, like myself, who value their introversion and do not feel that it is a limitation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyness
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_IQ
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introversion

Edit: Typos
Might be a competitor, but Dropbox is way ahead
Link to HTML5 report fixed & here: http://www.kendoui.com/surveys/html5-adoption-survey-2012.as...
This is good stuff. As I'm working on my game for github's game off, I was thinking about writing something similar. It doesn't bother me that's it's V8-centric, because devs are going to write about what they know the best. My article probably would have been SpiderMonkey focused.

Not sure I'll write it anymore though, this seems to have most of what I was going to say!

EDIT: After reading the article in more details, there are a few things I think it misses. My focus is more on games though. I still might write another article.
> Once you exit the software bubble, almost everything, especially new technology, becomes a lot "harder" and takes a lot longer.

I've done hardware in spades, so I'm well aware of the differences. In hardware, Series D was either a Mezzanine round or a something-has-gone-wrong = inside/major-dilution round

Maybe the world has changed, but having no product at D is not a sign that things are going well on the biz side.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted: A Tweedpunk Robo-Horror Survival Game
There's KVM paravirtualization support for ARM, and the Cortex-A15 supports hardware virtualization (and probably all the 64-bit ARM processors will, too).
Absolutely amazing foreground/background selector.

As for the app itself, I'd love it if in the photo selection page it allowed for uploading the photo (I was expecting it to show profile pics but didn't, so I uploaded a photo instead).
The whole idea that it's a bad part of town is already an assumption that you're playing to make this decision. Like it or not, you're right that these judgments do happen all the time.
Refactor and make changes in different commits
With stash -k you can test without committing first. Although git is very flexible regarding this, I prefer to at least test the code before committing it.
So... the definition given by people whose job is doing research on intelligence must be the right one?

I took Latin in high school because I liked etymology (and because greek letters were really too weird):

From Latin intellegentia ("the act of choosing between, intelligence"), from intellegō ("understand"), from inter ("between") + legō ("choose, pick out, read"). [taken from wiktionnary]

So intelligence is the ability to understand, that's all (the etymologic link with dichotomy is beautiful).

Now how we understand (and please don't confuse yourself again with "oh yeah but what does 'understand' really mean") is the hard part.
But we are well over 100 cores right now ... on GPUs. Yes, they're sort of different animals.

This is what change looks like. Our intuition can be correct yet we still have to be open enough to recognize it when we it actually happens.

OTOH, quantum computers continue to not ship as a product.
Glad you like it!!!

You can drag and drop a picture on any page, but that's not stated explicitly anywhere yet.
Product makers must tell a good toy story to stay focused
Your reply did not add anything to what you originally said. You are making the assumption that dolphins are stupid because humans manage to kill them. And then you are using that faulty assumption as a reason to excuse yourself from considering the issue.
Yes, please use tcpdump. To capture stuff. Then you put it into Wireshark for analysis.

What is peoples obsession with stretching command line tools? Wake up! We have retina displays now. To display stuff.
Mathematics meets real life
Ask HN: In Palo Alto for the week (first time), any suggestions/meetup?
I'm in Palo Alto for the week. I'm here from today until Thursday afternoon. Does anyone have any good suggestions for food/drinks/etc in the evening or lunch? Also, would anyone want to meetup? I'm a UI/front-end designer (https://twitter.com/bluetidepro) and would love to meet people while I'm here for work (I work at Angie's List). Always enjoy meeting new people and making new connections. I'm staying at a place I found on Airbnb and I'm right off the Stanford campus.

Thanks!
-Zach
After Stuxnet: The New Rules of Cyberwar
Probably false positives followed by false negatives. No bureaucrat wants to be the first guy to approve a bust after Solyndra.
"Demand-side benefits of scale are the only important barrier to entry a web business can build up"

This is a great post. There was lots of thought previously that network effects could be built using vendor lock in (switching costs), first mover advantage (technological advantage), and preemption of scarce assets. Demand-side benefits of scale really are a preemption of scare assets, whether it is consumer attention or positioning in the app store. @bwertz has provided a great summary of why the rush for traction and the prevention of others that matter. #mustread
Exactly. Comments were the thing that separated blogs from "well-updated homepage" in the first place. While I can see the author's point that WordPress somewhat lost its roots as a blogging platform, if you get rid of commenting, you're also losing those roots, in a different way.

For me, Disqus is not really an option. It feels bloated and loads slow, and I've lost comments to its system many times, often because only after I typed the whole comment it let me know I needed to sign up, and sometimes that didn't work (I don't have Facebook, don't want to sign up with GMail or Twitter, maybe you get a throwaway email if you ask nicely). And then, something goes wrong during the signup procedure, and because the whole thing is made out of dynamic Javascript my post has disappeared and does no longer exist in my browser history forms either.
Space Medicine: Another Consideration for travel to Mars
Right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering

I changed the blog post and GitHub issue to not refer to money laundering anymore.
> As a species, humans agree to basic rules of conduct that form an implied Social Contract. Can any non-human species do that?

A great question, and the answer is yes. Here's a clear example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAFQ5kUHPkY Monkeys cooperate to solve a problem, and one of them clearly shows a sense of social contract when he gives a reward to his partner, even though he could easily keep it for himself.

Studies have shown that animals definitely have an innate sense of fair play:
http://twentytwowords.com/2012/10/08/monkey-hilariously-reac...

The above study has been replicated on a variety of animals.
I was talking about simple http connection for API instead of https for API
The Progressive Workplace Series: Are You Awesome?
Taken from “12 Things Awesome Employees Do Before Noon” and more
:( Wow. I failed pretty hard at looking clearly. Thanks to you and the others for the links.
Here "clean your house" is meant literally, but VCs coming into your house and "cleaning up" is a euphemism for those that have been through a VC-lead management team purge.
I'm getting tired of the predictability of "this article is bad and you should feel bad" being the top-rated comment for any submission on HN. Comments such as these are pseudo-deep: they're easy to write, and easy to agree with, without really adding anything to the discussion. It reminds me of Hitchens' quip that "George Bush is stupid" had become the joke that stupid people laugh at.

And yes, I'm aware of the irony of this comment. I'm unsure of how I could phrase it differently, though.
Nitpicking, but this:

Luckily, there is, and that place is UTC. UTC is a time measuring system that does not have daylight savings time and where midnights always are 24 hours apart.

isn't strictly true, at least in the sense that 24 hours isn't always the same length of time because of leap seconds.
Ford opens up an API for your car
Exceptions are not exceptional
Google sees how people followup queries over time. So they know the relative frequencies of the four distinct progressions:

[Obama], [Iran], [Obama Iran]
[Obama Iran]
[Romney], [Iran], [Romney Iran]
[Romney Iran]

The triggering could be as simple as the fact that {[Obama], [Iran], [Obama Iran]} happens more often than {[Romney], [Iran], [Romney Iran]}.

And that difference could be because people searching one path are slightly more likely to keep refining simple queries ("try, try again"), versus other people more likely to combine-up-front ("measure twice, cut once").
I really think this idea that people haven't seen old technology is somewhat over-sold. I mean, I know about the Beatles, and I wasn't alive in the sixties, I know a good bit about classical antiquity which was thousands of years before my birth, I'm aware of room-sized computers from the '50s, and mechanical computers before that, and yes, I've played with old radios that have radio buttons in my dad's old cars, at thrift stores, and in my dad's 8-track player.
Television in America (1951)
How to Become an Entrepreneur in 5 Easy Steps
The difference is that what they did in the 50s was illegal.

We hear about it sometimes now because these sorts of unconstitutional actions have been specifically permitted under the guise of national security.
Strange since they said iPads, though I doubt the iPad 2 sales are too high.
Thanks @davidcrow - nice summary of the post :-)
Thanks Brandon! Great info. If you see a way for Sift Science to add value to Gittip then I'm open to a proposal. Balanced won our business by stepping forward and contributing the integration themselves:

http://blog.gittip.com/post/28351995405/open-partnerships

I'd welcome a conversation with Sift Science along the same lines.
I agree with what you're saying, but I think more important than any issue is sending the message to politicians that if they do stupid things, they don't get to stay in office. Get rid of the moron who voted for SOPA, and vote in the moron who hates women. Then, two years later, vote him out. He won't have had a chance to do any damage yet, and we'll have sent the message to Minnesota politicians that neither of their positions were tolerable.

(disclaimer: i do not live in the US, and i don't vote in elections in my home country. i'm just talking out of my ass here)
Starting a new payment service, even from the point of view of a company specializing in fraud prevention is a lot harder now than it was in the past. You're basically entering an arms race that has been going on for a decade+ as a rookie or at best a semi adept. Likely your main contribution to the field before folding is target practice.

Gittip should work with a party that is already in the possession of the required knowledge or they'll be shutting down. This post raised their visibility as rookies considerably and you can expect the sharks to move in now that there is blood in the water.
Hey, I helped out on this. We got some great feedback as we built the site, and have gotten some ongoing interest and activity on the alpha site since the competition has finished.

Here's the site, http://bucket.onfrst.com, we also have a market research survey, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFgzdVN...

The current site address is just a temporary spot, we're likely to change the branding and name as we continue to work on this. Also for those interested in statistics, and I assume HN is, we've got the git stats on our run, http://bucket.onfrst.com:8000

Thanks for any feedback!
It's the same exact way of reporting disk size as when you are buying a new computer.
I sympathize with his frustration, but that doesn't mean that this assertion holds water:

"If you’re truly entrepreneurial, you’ll forge ahead into this underserved market and find yourself not just creating wealth for you and your company, but for the community around you as well."

I think that any entrepreneur foolish enough to try it will quickly discover the true meaning of the word "bureaucracy". It's not like you can just walk into the DMV and sell them a better software package! No, it's going to be years of Study, and Request for Proposal, and Customization Requirements, and perhaps a state bond measure to pay for the inevitable multimillion dollar price tag.

If you're truly entrepreneurial, you will likely avoid this tar-pit and go spend your time working on problems which can actually be solved.
Although it is possible that virtual machines change more rapidly than physical machines, isn't this also true for languages more directly targeting a physical machine, e.g. C?

I suppose what you're really getting at is that in JS we are subject to the whims of BOTH the compiler and the VM on the target browser?
They actually don't in mobile either. The iPhone and iPad market shares could both drop to single digits and they'd still be making more than the Android manufacturers. The fact they have a much more 'competitive' market share is just large boat loads of gravy.
Survivor bias would be my guess. To say that X% of "successful tech entrepeneurs" have MBAs means nothing unless you know the % of total tech entrepeneurs (successful or not) that have MBAs.
how much difference would there be in speed and power-consumption between the end products?

Probably not much right away, but over time, you'd see a real difference. One key issue is that x86 decode logic takes a substantial amount of engineering time to design in each generation. My spouse is a design engineer at a CPU maker and one thing I've learned is that there's a lot less automation than you'd think. Each new generation requires a bunch of dedicated engineering resources to make the extra-painful instruction decode work on a the new process with new performance constraints, etc. Decode is not something you can design once and then just reuse indefinitely; you take the NRE hit on every design cycle.
> I'll observe that being pregnant does not preclude you from participating in an information economy or from working at a desk--I haven't tried that, personally, so I may be wrong. I would love to hear about how pregnancy negatively impacts information workers.

My wife is at 9 months now. She could barely get through her finals during her first trimester. Second trimester was fine, but third trimester she has been completely exhausted. She's also chock-full of hormones that make her extremely emotional and make it hard to focus (and she is one of the most coldly rational people you'll ever meet).

> I do have issue with the "fully half" population--you can't simply suggest that all of the women are trying to conceive all the time. This seems to be intellectually dishonest.

Pretty much every woman will be sexually active through most of her life, and will be able to get pregnant for several decades of her life. While only some percentage are actually trying to conceive at any time, failure rates with contraception are substantial even when they aren't.

Also, you can't just look at the cost of pregnancy. Adoption isn't a catch-all solution in a world without abortion. Remember orphanages? That's what we had before abortions. The adoption system can absorb most unplanned babies now, but only because most unplanned pregnancies aren't carried to term. And adoption can be a huge emotional burden that along with family pressure forces women to keep their babies. Having a simple first trimester abortion is a completely different ordeal than carrying a baby to term and giving it away. As I said above, I'm pretty sure my wife would rather be waterboarded than go through a pregnancy she didn't want. And once motherhood is in the picture, the dollars-and-cents cost is astronomical. When you put a dollar figure on the direct and opportunity costs of being a mother, they're mind-boggling.
There are so many things wrong with this post, I would strongly advise you to delete this. Besides the libel, it doesn't really paint you in a good light either, especially if you're going to be looking for a job. I would suggest keeping your dirty laundry off the Internet, and delete this post.
Any system handling funds should be approached from the angle of minimizing the potential for fraud. If you don't do that right from day one there will be a lot of hard lessons which are more than likely to kill your company. Please team up with a company that has the experience to deal with this, balanced (which should have been your first gatekeeper here) dropped the ball in a terrible way, their anti-fraud measures should have definitely tripped over this so clearly they're not in control of the situation. From your posting and the comments here it is clear that you have the right general idea but you lack the relevant experience and tools.
You can't beat me in a Facebook poke battle.  Here's why...
Sorry Dom but I think unless you have CPC/CPM pricing you have no right of calling this Adsense replacement. 2-3 years back I would be applauding for launching something that could have potential to be an Adsense competitor but these days there are tons of ad-networks that monetize sites on CPM level quite well. I don't see how any publisher who has some experience in monetizing content would go for your CPA solution when there are CPM/CPC networks which user can make more money with.
Let's take a look back on what HNers said about the tablet market 500+ days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2675012

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664474
We need single-issue tech voters that keep their eye on the ball and don't let campaigns distract them. That's how you make change. Politicians are experts at confusing voters using meaningless outrage. If Kurt Bills gets elected he won't be able to single-handedly ban abortion or pass any other crazy social law because it won't even come up in the senate. But there's a very good chance that a new attack on the internet will come up and Klobuchar would vote for it. More people need to focus on the real nitty gritty issues that go on in congress but don't make it into campaign ads.
All the filter stuff will be applicable for Wireshark as well though.
There's a cache of the article here: http://hncache.bensbit.co.uk/4744405?textonly=1
MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Them
I looked through some of this poster's other comments and... they generally seem a pretty reasonable person.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shawnee_
How does it paint them in a bad light?
The problem with hiding heuristics is that false positives get squished. I want to avoid the horror stories we hear about people getting their Google account shut off or their PayPal funds withheld.
I haven't tried that, personally, so I may be wrong. I would love to hear about how pregnancy negatively impacts information workers.

I can think of a number of negative impacts - for example I would imagine that being pregnant with a rapist's baby might cause any number of psychological (and even physiological) issues that might make concentration and work difficult. Pregnancy itself results an a number of discomforts including bloating, hemorrhoids, bleeding, nausea, and back pain that might make work difficult.

And that doesn't take into account pregnancy complications like eclampsia.
> Keeping the barrier low for committed code is one of git's best features.

When I first learned git, I was told, 'You'll never have to comment out code again'. Keeping the barrier for commits low (along with git -p and git rebase -i) makes this a reality.