skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason nobody can agree on the 'value of life' is because the value changes per context. Life has no intrinsic value of its own except to the person who currently owns it. When anyone says 'all life has value' they are talking spiritually, or religiously, and that is something that is just feel good hippy speak to make themselves look and feel better.

To truly speak of lifes value you have to break it down into contexts and agree that these contexts are necessary to be used in the comparisons: Economic, political, civic, leadership, educational, breeding value, looks, etc.

Once a set of contexts are agreed upon you have to weigh them based on a common base, like say Economic, take that as a 1.0. Someone might say that 'looks' is a 0.6 based on economic value, where as leadership or engineering may be 1.2.

Once these weights are set, apply values to the contexts, weigh them together to get an total value of the person's life. Then you can accurately judge their life value vs another. You could improve upon this by having negatives (murderous villains) that could affect total value, etc.
You can (and should) use a list of one-time passwords that bypass the two-factor authentication. Google generates them for you, and you surely can memorize one for emergencies.
Voice recognition software has been like that for ages, that is an area that hasn´t improved much. There are no huge differences between them, they will just fail at different tasks.

I remember using IBM´s Via Voice back in 2000´s to dictate my school work, and it worked flawlessly - when it worked. Small deviations from the pattern were enough to make the software fail miserably.

Voice recognition is not about making it understand everything perfectly as much as it´s about providing sane failure modes.
Are you saying I only revealed my secrets because they don't work any more?

Actually, this year my ads are making me more money per visitor than last year, so the opposite of what you say is true.

~ Scott [ owner of thanksgivingblackfridayads(.)com ]
Thanks for pointing out the new MutationObserver API! I actually wasn't aware of that, so for exhaustive comparison I'd have to do more research into it. Reading up on the API there are a few issues that I see though:

1) You still have the same DOM structure brittleness. For detecting insertions you have to bind to a an ancestor node and monitor each change to see if the new nodes are of the type you're interested in - which is essentially through selectors/traversal.

2) with the CSS technique you can structure the selectors/animations to only trigger when the specific nodes come into existence. It's true that you have a callback on every animation fired, but that's a simple switch case that executes super fast. With MutationObserver you have to do a lot more processing on each callback, including interacting with the DOM to figure out which nodes were added/changed/deleted - and accessing the DOM is quite slow. I think you'll have to be really careful with these MutationObservers or you can run into situations where you do have a big performance hit.
So what is Windows Phone 8 going to do to counter?

Remember Bing Cashback? Are they going to come up with something similar to Ingress, expect for that everything is free when you use Windows Phone 8 to scan the SKU? :)
I would feel foolish doing it behind closed doors, let alone in public. As far as I am concerned the only thing any of these voice control things are good for is showing off how much better your phone is than someone else's in a bar.
People have installed linux on iPhones. They just need to keep pushing that branch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO2KQHkt4A

But no, they go off and make their own OS instead of pushing the free one that's there.
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According to [the review on toucharcade](http://toucharcade.com/2012/01/20/triple-town-review/) you could, at that time, unlock unlimited turns for $6.99.

Paying a dollar to play it a little longer to see if it's sufficiently addictive, and then 7 dollars if you want to keep playing it long term, doesn't seem so bad to me - I like the idea of being offered the choice.
Great suggestion. Working on alternatives now but, I'm kinda a dick. Any non-dickish suggestions?
The only code interpreter allowed is the Safari code interpreter that's in the UIWebView.
Why is it silly? It makes some interactions with your smartphone/computer quicker. Telling Siri to remind me of something is a lot better than me having to:

- Unlock my phone

- Tap the Reminder app

- Possibly press the home button to close whatever app was opened before my phone locked

- Tap the "+" button

- Type a reminder

etc.

With Siri I just have to:

- Hold phone to my ear

- Speak
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I disagree with your disagreement. Although being a developer that's just in it to make a living is a fine thing -- just like most creative professions, being an exceptional developer requires a passion for the job. Few developers that are really, really good don't love what they do.
try this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firediff/
On the other hand, it's quite possible that they'll bump us multiple orderers to the bottom of the line, due to the possible perception of abuse. We could have also been bumped to the bottom because we were given an additional opportunity to cancel one of our orders because Google thought that one of our orders may have been an error.

That was the case for me, but rather than cancelling one of the errors, I offered the phone to a friend who didn't manage to order in time. I hope I don't regret that decision.
"Planning for Traffic is a pain in the rear".

Edgy is fine, until you want to make a gift to your mother in law.
not yet.....
this day is going by too slow.
I don't know what will be more traumatic, getting rejected from my Dream University senior year of HS, or getting rejected by YC lol...tis life.
First, on an admittedly meta note, it's not particularly interesting to explore non-falsifiable arguments on message boards. If your logic holds, Obama can do anything. Why even bother having numbered executive orders? Why not just keep everything absolutely secret and off any record? If Obama is ignoring the Constitution, the only reason for us to presume he's playing small-ball with those violations is to perpetuate the flame war on Hacker News.

Secondly, Obama's "secret" executive order has been reviewed by reporters and compared to previous legislative proposals. The administration is much more constrained in what it can do than was Congress. In particular: the EO pertains to the management of fedgov systems, not private industry, and where the EO touches on private industry, it pertains to the interfaces between fedgov IT and governance and private industries --- ie, how information from the government can be shared with private industry.

If you think this executive order is a Nixonian cat-and-mouse play, I'd respectfully suggest you read more about it before commenting.
Well done! Polished and nice product.

Though as a musician who reads off of sheet music -- is there a way to un-Guitar-Hero-ify the scrolling tabs thing? Maybe my video card is too slow or something, but following the notes is really tiring on my eyes, in addition to dealing with low refresh rate of the visuals.

Edit: d'oh, just noticed the settings to page instead. Would be nice to have more measures before it pages though (again, stone age sheet reader here -- as a musician I probably cache 1-4 measures ahead of what I need to play, when sight reading).

Edit 2: Aha, found the features once I logged in; spoke too soon. :) I think if you make the benefits of creating an account and signing in apparent you'd get even better signup... I guess I'm just missing things all over the place but it definitely would have gotten me to sign up sooner when I realized I could unlock more features.
Callogram
New photo sharing app that brings caller ID into the 21st century. Currently allows users to select and assign an image to other users and then when that user is called the image appears on the other end of the line. Essentially makes each call a mini surprise. We are close to allowing users to assign a short five to ten second video, but struggling with codecs. Any ideas other than third party solutions?

The google play address for the app is:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.callogram.android&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5jYWxsb2dyYW0uYW5kcm9pZCJd
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I just lost my "when will the first HN thread asking this question" pool by about 30 minutes. DAMN!
By "invisible unicorn" I meant a unicorn that doesn't have any effect on the physical world.

Our universe could behave, in some ways, like a computer simulation (but the question is, in what specific ways?). But it is similar to light rays behaving like waves. Which is different from light rays being equivalent to waves.
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I have a paid work and a private dropbox. There's got to be some way they could let you add as many paid accounts as needed and one free account.
Holy cow! I'm blown away on so many levels. This is an amazing thing.
If Apple would allow developers to extend Siri with some sort of script (MAS approved even) it would be awesome. Even if the functionality was limited to speaking an address macro and then pause-to-tab you could do a lot with some personal server-side action and basic webform.
Wikipedia tells me it's 473ml. God I hate the imperial systems
I would like to mention that when you working over a stable JS DOM manipulation framework you can intercept events and easily create your custom mutation detection solution; fast and cross-browser.

A little example using jQuery:

_append = $.fn.append
$.fn.append = function(){
$(this).trigger("mutated");
return _append.apply(this,arguments)
}
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Doesn't your explanation mean saying we live in a simulation is _exactly like_ saying there are millions of invisible unicorns?
This is great. I would suggest one thing: try to make the scroll speed independent of screen size. I can't read the notes with a fully maximized window.
Edit: found the zoom, but still, I shouldn't have to.
The progress of the macbook opening notch
There is no word for this except spam.

I am so tired of seeing that a very weak connection has liked Samsung Mobile... every... single... freaking.... day...

As a result, I've contacted friends in the exact same manner: "Hey, can you unlike this product, I'm tired of seeing it every day for the last few months."
I would search for "Squeak By Example" and read through the book. It is Smalltalk, aka the seminal OO language. It also provides all of the code use to create the system and the VM it runs on in a readable, editable, runnable format so you can play with everything. Reading the code was really eye opening for me. And super fun to boot!
No, they're just being cheap. A pint of Ben & Jerry's is still a pint.
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Do you have some sources?
> Is it really so hard to understand that there are projects people don't like or can discuss in public?

So you discuss it for him, in a way that makes it seem as unappealing of a project to buy into as possible. Makes sense.
Seeing the slide about one file that had 8500 lines in it surprised me. Maybe it's a JS thing (I'm not one of those guys) but I've been pushed to make smaller files instead of one large god file. It's hard to traverse a file with that many lines in it, as well as do any meaningful diffs on it.
So true. The reason the head of Coca-Cola, a successful major corporation would do something as apparently outrageous as to agree to sell syrup at a price guaranteed forever was that the history of the US currency from its creation to 1899, when he made this contract, was one of a rock-solid dollar. According to the Federal Reserve itself (http://www.minneapolisfed.org/community_education/teacher/ca...), prices for goods fell over the decades as the dollar stayed solid and the industrial revolution increased productivity every year. It was clear to any intelligent person that, while prices for specific things fluctuated with supply and demand, a constant, reliable dollar combined with increasing productivity (due to technological improvements) made overall prices something that would go down over the long run forever. Why not agree to sell at today's prices forever?

Then the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 to allow the Federal Government to play a more active role in the economy and all that "solid as the US dollar" stuff became a quaint historical relic. According to the Fed itself (link above), prices that had gradually come down from $50 (for a basket of goods sized to show the index value as dollars) in 1800 to $29 when the Fed was created, suddenly turned around and shot up to ABOVE $700 today (est. Nov. 2012 value).

In other words, since the Federal Government decided to take a more active role in "managing" the dollar instead of merely guaranteeing it, they have managed to destroy more than 95% of its value.

It wasn't the CEO of Coke who was incompetent at managing finances; it was that he couldn't imagine a day when the US Federal Government would become so utterly incompetent at managing finances.
It would be much nicer to get 2.16Tj in a bucket.
I think you are getting into a murky area here. Does the Constitution dictate how the military can deal with cyberattacks, from nations or non-state-actors?

Seems to me that as commander-in-chief, the President has authority to direct the military how to respond to things like this.

Note that in the article, it says that this directive applies to how the military reacts "when combating cyber-attacks directed at major U.S. networks" - assuming that the "US networks" here is referring to government networks.

So if Congress is unwilling to do something on this front, do you expect the military and it's commander-in-chief to do nothing in the meantime?
About Erlang and function calls: I tend to view them differently. For me, in Erlang code, function call is about 'here', while sending a message is about 'there'.

Syntactic difference is big, but neither function call nor message send are heavy:

func({my, params, in, a tuple})
proc ! {my, params, in, a tuple}

The difference is that function call returns something, message send just happens and we have no guarantee at all what is going to happen with the message.

We frequently write functions which send message and wait for reply for a certain amount of time, and then return this reply or error if no reply was sent.

So, in Erlang there is - I think - huge difference between functions and messages, but that is because it's functions are just that: functions.

The situation is quite different in Smalltalk, where you have no functions at all, only objects. Everything there already is a message being passed, and so the difference between asynchronous and synchronous message should be very minor. I don't know Smalltalk well enough, but I suspect there are libraries implementing async message passing in Smalltalk and that they are almost indistinguishable from normal Smalltalk code, if at all.
I tried doing that in 2001, it was aweful. Have you got it solved yet? I was thinking about this because the other day I was trying to intercept child scrolling events on mobile OS.
Not the first to, shall we say, draw extensive inspiration from shadow cities: http://qonqr.com/

There is so little shame in the industry anymore, but it is admittedly a very difficult task to be creative in a gaming startup.

Competition is a good thing I guess. I'd hate to be competing with Google though. Their fanboi base is suffuse with a devotion that borders on unquestioning faith which plays well in the gaming segment where the hard part is initially attracting critical mass for the underlying game dynamic to be fun.
Why don't you use AdBlock?
I interned at a defense contractor a couple of years ago. Their entry level position required either a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or four years of programming experience. Higher levels were similarly structured -- they considered four years of experience to be essentially equivalent to a degree.

While I don't agree that four years of programming == degree, for their business, it pretty much was (I would argue that the experience was more important in this case). Most of their programming team was made up of long-time engineers turned C++ coders. Come to think of it, out of a pool of four interns, three of four were CE people they were asking to do application development.

The nicest thing I see about having a degree is that it gives you an "objective" measure of your value relative to other applicants. Its considered safer to hire someone with a degree because, hey, some college has given them credentials! You can convince people you're smart by being sharp in an interview and having an impressive portfolio, but for a true programming job where innovative thought isn't really necessary (it wasn't at this place), I see a bias towards people with degrees because its seen as low risk.

Full disclosure: I have a CS degree.
Thanks! Glad you found the scroll type preferences. For more, check out the tutorial (annotated on Soundslice, naturally): http://www.soundslice.com/yt/8zgsQ9qgA7s/

(Edit) You might also try zooming out a wee bit so that the notes don't go by as quickly. That's helped me a lot as I've used it.
Ditto...Mountain View, California.
So you support suicide bombing and rocket strikes against civilian targets.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, coming up with the optimal initial zoom level is a tricky compromise. Still need to tweak it.
That was a seriously interesting show. Even if you're not 'into' anime, I recommend it.
I think they've figured out that you as a user is worth X amount more to advertisers than you're probably willing to pay a year. Would most people be willing to pay $100 a year if that is what you are worth to Facebook's advertisers?
Really? Maybe b/c of server traffic. Let us know if it's still happening: info@codewa.rs
I've never been a fan of Facebooks behavior and attitude toward users. I signed up for an account a while back mainly to make it harder for anyone else to 'be' me. I watched as the privacy continually eroded. ( an excellent 2010 chart here: http://www.broadstuff.com/archives/2196-Facebooks-Privacy-Er... )
I've been forced to sort out privacy snafus several times over the years, as they added new on-by-default options that I don't want.
I think it's time to leave.
I'm assuming both the caller and receiver need the app installed? If so, that's tough, but not undoable.

If you want people to actually download it, you really should invest a few hundred dollars on 99Designs and get a decent app icon.
It's pretty handy when I'm cycling. Much easier to speak into my Android than use the soft keyboard.
I think MW is a reasonable unit. It's the power output of the wind farm.
I've encountered a few ~10K sloc files, in PHP. One ex-colleague preferred them, on the basis that "it makes it easier to use Ctrl+F."
Sounds like you're happy where you are. Plenty of people's social presence is only Facebook, so the only way to keep abreast is through it.
Did you reply to the wrong post by accident? I was responding to the post I replied to. My comment should obviously be taken in that context, not as a response to the existence of the "plugin".
When you believe Facebook is more trustworthy than your own friend, it's really "all thanks to you".
Real secret, ain't it :)
This made me think about stevey's google platform rant, when he talks about internal API's being the key to amazon success.

link : https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...

Very good article by the way. Not very thorough, but that's what is good. It just remembered me about a state of enlightenment i have already felt, but forgotten since.
But it's still incompetent. You'd expect the IDF to keep saying things like "We extend our condolences to the innocent people killed by our missiles. We wish we had a better way to stop the missles. We hold Hamas responsible for murdering their fellow Palestinians by creating this conflict." Instead we get "Ahmed Jabari: Eliminated."
Viewing network traffic on any device
Really beautiful site.
This is so awesome, great job you two! Any plans for a keyboard version in the future or will this always strictly be guitar tabs?
Yes that's exactly what it says.
It's livable on the web. On mobile however they are effectively full page ads, and there's no way to block it.
Thanks! I definitely plan to add sheet music as a track type. It's significantly more complicated than tabs, so it didn't make it for launch -- but I'd love to serve all my musician brothers instead of just guitarists. :-)
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I read in a recent HN post that they changed that. Was it wrong?

"In fact, an earlier version of this article was tabled when Apple made changes to the developer license (circa April 2010) which forbade developing iOS applications in any language other than Objective-C and Javascript (the Javascript could be used either to build web apps or native apps via the UIWebView). Recently (September 2010), Apple again changed the developer license to allow the use of scripting languages.."
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Its a code word for young. Does anybody disagree with this?
This is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product!

edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you plan on handling copyright down the road?

2nd edit: Feature request, if you hover over chords, it'd be cool if it showed the finger placement
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I've always seen those like ads and wondered... why?!? I can understand liking a struggling business or artist, but in what situation does it make sense to like Visa or Walmart or Sprint or whatever? It doesn't. It should be pretty obvious that everything you do on Facebook these days will be monetized. And Facebook hits the jackpot when you explicitly state a preference for a particular corporation.

When Facebook took my comma delimited list of "interests" and turned them all into ads, I figured out Facebook had sold out. Call me melodramatic, but this was years before Zuckerberg claimed "we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services."
Just a warning for anyone plugging their app in here, after looking at my server logs, this service can hit your app pretty hard. It sent over 10,000 requests to my app with no apparent throttling rate. If you're like us, and you're not running big iron, be careful about when you execute this.
Capable.
> This imbalance I'm pretty sure led to all the runs on the banks in the banking collapse, as people finally realized they could nearly double their money by converting it to gold.

Indeed:

> under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/golden-instabili...

More to the point:

> Countries that were not on the gold standard in 1929--or that quickly abandoned the gold standard--by and large escaped the Great Depression

> Countries that abandoned the gold standard in 1930 and 1931 suffered from the Great Depression, but escaped its worst ravages.

> Countries that held to the gold standard through 1933 (like the United States) or 1936 (like France) suffered the worst from the Great Depression

http://web.archive.org/web/20110103092958/http://www.j-bradf...

Advocating a return to the gold standard is historically and economically illiterate.