skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for being open to that feedback. I was concerned it would come off more critical than I meant it.

I would suggest you write a few posts about the topics you feel you have the most to contribute. This will tell your readers what topics are in your wheelhouse.

For example, if you are doing something very technically innovative that I might want to integrate into my future projects, I'd want to read about it. If this isn't an area you are doing something cool, I don't want to read about the fact you are using Ruby.

I think the trick is to write about YOUR topic, and have that build into related posts as it would in casual conversation.

Given the infrequency of comments on most blogs, it may be hard to consistently add topics by responding to previous blog posts.

Heck... that's another potential topic: driving enough engagement to generate that back-and-forth. If it's a problem you have some marketing insight into... I desperately want to hear it.

The topics I think you "should cover for sure" are those where you have something interesting to say.
@YourAnonNews: "o_O So what would happen if a certain vice prime ministers email got released to the public? #OpIsrael #Anonymous"

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/statuses/271058778038890496...
Mumbai blast terrorist Ajmal Kasab hanged at India this morning
Your personal anecdote and whatever personal conclusions you draw from it are not science. This is the same line of thinking that lets someone have a personal religious experience and then site that as proof of God.
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How about a send button that dynamically lists the recipients

[Send to: John Blabb, Mary Jones]
For non-phones, what about a 4x3 grid of months?
My advice: don't pay too much attention to what more senior developers tell you. senior != more_talented
You're presuming 100% of what you pay to the insurance company gets passed through, which it does not.

There's also regulated costs, which makes it cheaper across the board. Per-capita spending is actually only about 50% what it is in the USA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...).

Factoring in that, the net cost might be subsidized by other taxes by at most ~$2000 more a year. Part of this is paid by the employer on behalf of the employee and isn't listed as a deduction. The rest is subsidies from the federal level of government.

The thing that makes this more affordable for people on limited incomes is how it's tiered, not a fixed price for everyone. If you're an entrepreneur barely making an income, you don't pay much.
Had I but votes enough and time

Thank you, Thomas, for saving me writing a much less eloquent comment along the same lines. As a startup founder way out in the wilderness, I'm often equally amused and saddened by SV tales of woe. We must all keep reminding ourselves of the '48-year-old employee of a midwest factory being shut down', and try to keep a proper perspective on values.
Well, Oracle didn't stop working on their database back in 2004, either. And they didn't have to waste time playing catch up...

I don't understand all the hate for Oracle. They sell products that work well and they make a lot of money doing it. What's the problem?
There are many thing that science doesn't yet know conclusively about neural architectures. Arguing that a machine such as described in the article will get us nowhere massively misses the point.

We live in the age of simulation in science. Computation has reached the point where, in many disparate systems such as weather models, particle physics, protein folding, and neural architecture, building complex simulations lets investigators freely play with hypothesis and compare the results to real-world data. Hypothesis are proved or disproved, science advances, and we know that much more about how such complex systems indeed work.

The author of this article derides this approach, saying that we just don't have enough information to do anything useful with the machine. I call bullshit.

One of the entire points of the machine is to allow experimenters perform experiments that are either impossible or morally unethical on biological creatures.

In a few years, suppose a research decides to change the algorithm about how simulated neurons exchange a neurotransmitter or an electrical pulse. The simulation then produces patterns very similar or identical to an FMRI or electrocardiogram of a living brain. Biologists can then use that as an unexpected avenue to exist living neurons to see if they react in the same way. Its an instance of simulation allowing experimentation that illuminates the real deal.
3D Systems sues Formlabs, Kickstarter
thanks for the feedback. I am glad you liked it.
What makes namemesh different is that it actually checks for all the ways of creating a name. Plus it ranks them based on metrics like length of domain, how similar are the words, quality of made-up words, so that the good ones are easily discoverable and one is not lost in lots of random suggestions. And it's very easy to use. You can find a great domain much quicker using namemesh than any other solution.
I may be able to answer better if you can tell me about the particular solution in your mind.
Ask HN: How have you made "quick" money before?
I find myself in a unique (not so unique?) situation today: While I am very competent in two valuable areas (web and mobile development), I find myself in a short term and temporary shortage of money, due to the usual hiccups that can happen while providing for a family. While my career is solid, I find myself in deep need for a way to make $1-2k over the next month to pay some bills.

I am pursuing doing some client work on the side, as that's the easiest way to make that kind of money, but projects take time to get started/completed/invoiced/paid. So my question to the very inventive audience on HN is this:

How have you made 'quick' money, through non-traditional means?

What I mean is, barring the typical routes like client work, day job, etc, what are some ways you have made a little extra money, in a relatively short time frame. Perfectly fine if it's not glamorous, or even nothing to be proud of, just something that paid rent for you one month. Thanks ahead of time for all the great ideas I know you all probably have. Any help is more than appreciated.
A New Kind of Problem: The Common Core Math Standards
Is it really a long tail of app developers, or is it a long tail of non-competitive app monetization strategies? That is to say, if you make something just as "evil" as one of these social-pressure addiction machines, but it doesn't break the top ten (because there are already tons of other companies making social-pressure addiction machines), will it still be profitable (because it's a good model) or will it fail utterly (because it's in the long tail)?
"[...] the reason that users have trouble with KDE Plasma on “lightweight” systems is not because the hardware is “lightweight” but just old."

It sounds like he's dismissing older hardware out of hand. I'm not pleased with this.
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Simulating a brain using the same number of neurons is like simulating a body using
the same number of atoms.

Also relevant, Chomsky vs Norvig, on AI http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-f...

Which boils down to "make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler". Chomsky wants to understand what's happening. Norvig says it's too complicated.

I think we can usually carve off an aspect or layer of phenomena that - in isolation - is simple enough to understand. But I don't see any guarantee that this will necessarily be the case; models are possible that aren't decomposable into simpler parts (because they must interact with everything else, informationally). However (1) understanding is what we seek in Science; and (2) it's always been possible before - for whatever reason, the universe does seem to be decomposable hierarchically... at least, the bits that we've understood, so far...
Because human moral is based on emotions, answer to first question will depend on applications of such virtual creations. We have movements to give legal rights to dolphins because they are cute, but we don't have such movements for chimpanzees or parrots because their human-like behavior is inside our uncanny valley. So probably we will have movements to give legal rights for toys and chatbots with AI and no such movements for medical or scientific AI's.
Don't make me scroll! That area with the photos looks too busy and animates too quickly. Honestly trade the whole thing for a tag line or elevator pitch.
Fuck You, Startup Yoda
With Bidets you may be correct because you have less water flow and also less control of the direction. A hand held bathroom bidet sprayer is so much better than a stand alone bidet and this is why:1. It's less expensive (potentially allot less) 2. You can install in yourself = no plumber expense 3. It works better by providing more control of where the water spray goes and a greater volume of water flow. 4. It requires no electricity and there are few things that can go wrong with it. 5. It doesn't take up any more space, many bathrooms don't have room for a stand alone bidet. 6. You don’t have to get up and move from the toilet to the bidet which can be rather awkward at times to say the least. Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com
I found a comment on the article to be more concise and interesting than the article itself.
One that I didn't see listed are the TechZing broadcasts on bootstrapping. They are no longer producing the podcast but some of them are classics.

http://justinvincent.com/page/960/how-to-start-a-sucessful-b...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SX0ihULEMLY/UKrviKbI6kI/AAAAAAAAAK...
While udev can be built from the systemd sources, it still requires building dependencies that are NOT needed by udev.

This was silly and even though a patch was created specifically to address this, it was nak'd by the systemd developers.

Disclaimer: I've been a Gentoo developer for about 7 years now. I'm not directly working on the fork but I am testing and throwing in suggestions for using it on ARM devices where it doesn't make sense to have everything systemd provides, but the devices are more powerful and busybox's mdev is underkill.
Maybe so, but we would like to support uclibc and (eventually?) musl
The original article was poetic, but struck me as hollow. Had the author really experienced this, or was this just a creative writing exercise? It didn't feel genuine to me - like this is the way a company ends in the movies, not in real life.
Also, glib != glibc
This would be a more effective rant if it had a suggested fix and maybe a copy of the letter this guy who is clearly an expert in the field sent to all of the members of Congress on the Science and Technology committee that would have to consider changes to CFAA. Or maybe just to Ben Quayle (R AZ) who chairs the subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.

EDIT: Obligatory shout out for https://postcongress.io/
I'm sorry, but bullshit.

Clash of clans is a great game. I have played it nearly every day since I've downloaded it. Am I a zombie, sucked in to the compulsion loop so tightly that I can't escape? No. iOS games are not habit-forming drugs. They're pixels on a screen.

I play every day because it's fun as hell. I love searching for opponents, analyzing their bases, discovering their weaknesses, and exploiting them with my troops. I love building my clan and getting higher on the leaderboard. I love discussing the ever-shifting optimal layout metagame with my clanmates. These things are FUN.

Yes, games use certain tactics that when examined naively look like manipulation machines. But that's fucking hogwash. Clash of clans is #1 top grossing because it's hands-down the most widely accessible, deep, and fun strategy game for the iPhone. Nothing comes close.
It cannot find any kind of life we can realistically expect to find (given past data).

You hurt me. Don’t be so mean.
This was actually the first thing I tried, half expecting it to smart match the text.
The actual idea behind windows 8, dell xps 12, hybrids
Failure is bad. Sadness is bad.

Trying to paint degrees of hopelessness on people and saying the privileged shouldn't complain is wrong. You are always the privileged to someone else.

Being happy is what everyone aspires to - and for many, it means success and doing stuff - as in creating, or as in having a job (much more important that having a salary at least to some people such as Ghandi)

The 48 yo unqualified factory worker right to happiness is just as important as your and mine - we haven't find a good way to say which persons happiness are to be prioritized.

Also, the right to happiness doesn't and shouldn't mean forced equality for everyone - some will fail, some will succeed.

But IMHO you're very wrong in your rant. You shouldn't say that what you consider "priviledged" should shut up - it almost read as if they should engage in some shadefreude, finding happiness while watching other people barely making a living. That's even worse.

You should celebrate instead that he had a chance, and wish him and every other human being to succeed in their endeavours - whatever they are.
My method for generating startup ideas is notice the things that I hate. For example, I hate shaving, and would kill for a device that I can stick my face into and become clean-shaven one minute later. I also hate choosing the shower temperature -- I want the shower learn the temperatures I like. I also hate not knowing the definition of terms in government websites. I can't stand passwords. Etc. This feeling is my indicator of a good potential startup idea.
If either of you guys are interested in chatting about ARM stuff, give me a shout (new@sgenomics.co.uk). I've been playing with ARMs since the ARM2, and have just finished the initial version of the Safecast Geiger counter kickstarter [1] and am also looking to pickup more ARM work in the future.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanbonner/safecast-x-ki...
I will probably have to fix your code. Make my life easy.
I'm not sure which part of a story about a guy whose dream crashed, whose bank account is less than empty, and whose girlfriend left made you think "I am offended that he is upset."
The trade off is only personal life if you let it be. I see a lot of wannabe founders around here (Auckland) who are trying to follow the work-all-the-time, sacrifice relationships thing. This works for a couple, but those people who it works for normally tend to exhibit sociopathic tendencies anyway and would most likely be horrible people to work for once they have employees.

It's up to the individual of course, but as most of us are trying to start businesses that scale, remember that part of having a business that scales is being involved with other people who don't share your work ethic by half.
usually biased against anything that tries to prove a scientific point via videos hosted on a site like youtube.
That's only sort of true.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59283/why-is-a-reti...
The notion of "qualia" confuses me.

Tracking down such a thing sounds like trying to find the essential "Tuxness" of a given Linux installation.

If I install one kernel patch, does that make the system "less Linux-y"? What if that patch was a bug fix by Torvalds himself? Would that have the opposite effect?

I know the answer to the questions above: they're nonsense questions, so answers don't even enter the equation.

We have identified specific modules of the brain that, among other things, let us distinguish faces from mere shapes, friends from strangers (even when it comes to the same individual), and language processing itself. Our own sense of self seems to reduce to a distinct, toggle-able neurological phenomenon.

In short, the very idea of qualia reduces to just various artifacts of our brain's multiple systems of abstraction.
I haven't followed this, but if he really fears they want to kill him, can't he flee the country? Or does he not want to do that?
The problem is when I think I'm reading something new then realize half way through "Wait, didn't I read this two days ago?" It's a huge waste of time because it's the comment from two days ago with a tiny new header added making it relevant to this topic instead.

Comment reposts should (must?) designate such at the top with a link back to the original comment.
> my answer to about half the questions is caselaw.

True. This is how a Common Law system works, and why rants about 'activist judges' who 'legislate from the bench' are so idiotic in (most parts of) the USA: That's a pretty fair description of how Common Law works.

The legislature writes laws knowing that they can't possibly think of every possible fact pattern, every possible scenario the law might be applied to, and the legislators expect judges to apply their judgement to apply the law, clarifying it in the process. They are active because the law was written to be applied by humans, and they legislate to the extent they effectively add interpretations and nuance to the statute law.

(The only part of the USA not under Common Law is Louisiana, which inherited its Civil Law system from France, which inherited it from Rome. AFAIK, the entire United Kingdom is under Common Law; the UK is, after all, where the majority of the USA got the Common Law from.)
Could these be let in to allow people prosecuting to selectivally target those they can not get for other reasons.

Like Al Capone for Tax. Cant get someone for real hacking, so these vague laws help along the way?
I think his point was that games like that are engineered to maximize 'fun' that converts to profits.

Arguably, there are things they could have implemented that would have made the game more fun, but they chose not to implement them because they would harm their profitability.
I think everyone has had that moment when they think "no one knows this pain." It's easy to lose perspective when everything - from a relative perspective - looks like it's collapsing.

One could similarly make the argument that a factory worker in the midwest should get some perspective and see how bad the kids with swollen stomachs and vultures overhead have it. Obviously that's not fair.

This is a person who committed a couple of years, a good chunk of capital, and a good relationship for an idea. And on top of that, they gambled their pride - to try so hard and still fail is a defeating feeling. Especially when people around you are succeeding at the same game.

Admittedly this is all presumptuous, but that's the point. For all we know this could be a work of fiction. Or the author might have struggled through all of this and then some. It seems similarly presumptuous too to conclude that the author has a privileged perspective.
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While I'm aware that works, I generally prefer footnotes with a link back to the source of the footnote. Just my 5 cents.
The author has committed a serious epistemological error by repeatedly conflating neruons with simulated neurons. For example:

"In sheer scale, it’s far more ambitious than anything previously attempted, and it actually has almost ten times as many neurons as a human brain."

No, it has ten times as many simulated neurons. It does not have any neurons. Unless it's a big wet biological computer.

This kind of sloppy thinking is not too surprising to me, given that this is The New Yorker, which I consider to be exemplary of sloppy thinking almost as a rule.
I am not offended that he's upset.
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Good Day for an 0-Day
It's hard for an analytical mind to understand that law is mostly a socio-political game with some vague rules. It's not a verifiable axiomatic system (although, I think it should be quite close).

I'm coming to grips with the idea that law is mostly empirical and can only be falsified. Which means that, by design, you can't know if you are following the law or not.
The issue is cross-site analytics. MixPanel promises not to do it, but if multiple sites all used MixPanel it would be well within their capabilities to gather data on you as you move about their customers' websites.
3D Systems has been buying up companies in the field for a while now (bitsfrombytes, botmill, Z corp and so on, more here:
http://static.cdn-seekingalpha.com/uploads/2012/11/19/6383-1...)

They are bound to have a pretty big portfolio of 3D printing related patents. A case of 'join or be sued'? Strictly speaking, wouldn't even be against the law, would it?
> That's silly, you say, because that’s not what the law means. Well, how do you know what the law means? The law is so vague that it’s impossible to tell.

No, it's not that this isn't what the law means. It's that this isn't what the law says. There are vague laws, and there are ambiguous laws, but you are way overstating your case here. Either that, or you have never read § 1030.
Thanks for the honest feedback. We've been wanting to update the page for some time, but just haven't found the time yet. Will keep that in mind for the next revision.
I paraphrased. You are disquieted at the level of privilege displayed.

Whatever that means.
Availability heuristic? Successful startups survive, do well and people hear about them more (news coverage, PR, using their products etc.) It is hard to discuss a company when you've never even heard of them.
Maybe that explains why so many hackers are also libertarians, since it is axiomatic.
Has mixpanel made it easier to keep track of a customer when they transition from anonymous browser to registered user? When I last looked into it, you had to capture the random cookie token associated with that user when they were anonymous, store it in your database when they register, and then present it to mixpanel as identification forever after.

We went with KISSmetrics for a couple reasons, but one of them was that whole process was much easier: just a simple identify() call with an email address, and KISSmetrics will associate the previous anonymous token with that email address automatically, so you have a complete history of that user.
Software engineering as a thing is less than thirty years old, those other careers have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, the body of knowledge will come in time.
That is fine take away and I agree with it and really your whole comment. Except for the missing the point part. The title was inflamatory, link-bait and mostly inaccurate.
There's no such thing as software productivity
Looks cool but on iOs it won't let you close the picker unless you select a date other than what's selected. Touching the input again might be a good way to close it.
> The legislature writes laws knowing that they can't possibly think of every possible fact pattern

That is know, but the arguing here is that the current legislation is way too vague. Is like a law saying: "Is illegal to be evil"; is haves a very subjective definition to have real-world implications and can be abused easily.
> I'll be downvoted to hell for this

This isn't reddit. Stop.