skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPad is bad for generating content. I don't mean bad as in BAD. By bad, I mean it's not going to be just as good enough as a PC. Best example? Take photoshop. Photoshop for iPad is so amateurish compared to Photoshop for PC. I can never imagine a designer using just an iPad to survive, because he will miss out a lot of valuable tools (Illustrator, PS, etc.). But, I also want to personally thank you for being so polite and not being staunch (like most of them usually are). Cheers! :)
Larger caches is an option for using the extra die area. RAM access times aren't increasing at anywhere near the rate that CPU power has.
The core problem is that it moves part of your OO interface into data.

With "isTestPage()" you have a method with well-specified outputs.

With "page.hasAttribute('Test')," a load of things become part of the permanent interface of the class: hasAttribute(), the datatype of 'Test,' the content of the field in the constructed argument etc...
Search for Google > Open the result for the search app > click related > scroll right in "also by Google" and it's in there. Sheesh, Apple.
>doing projects by myself.

Probably not given that limitation. I didn't go to UofW but I spent about a year in Waterloo on an internship. In terms of the experience that you'll get out of it, one of their biggest assets is probably the type of students that they draw - if you won't be working and learning with/from them, then it probably won't be worth it.
I'm a uwaterloo alumni. I have to say that the single greatest reason to attend a university such as Waterloo is to meet like-minded people who are as passionate as yourself. Learning is not just about knowledge, it's about building experience.
I would think, massive investment from RIM back when their situation was not as bad.

The influx of money helps the university finance research and various enterprises, which in turn results in yet more success stories, and yet more investments. It's a virtuous circle I guess.
Interview with Todd Park, CTO of the United States
For a startup, time and energy are always scarce. Payments are a hard space to break into. Putting even 1 second into a particular name is a mistake if that isn't the highest priority.

And given that Paul Graham turned Stevie Graham down for not having thought things through, rather than for lack of a good domain name, then I'd say the time and money was wasted. With those resources he could have conducted 20 user tests against prototypes. If PG was wrong about his concern about the business model, Stevie Graham would have had real evidence from real users. And, if as is more likely, PG was right, then Stevie Graham would have discovered the problem before he was pitching somebody so important to the future of his company.
I came back to HN to post the exact same thing.
Another problem, even in functional code, is that data dependencies tend to be linear. It's difficult to write code that can be automatically parallelized.
The built-in updates notification item didn't work, but searching your phrase, finding the item, and then trying "Update" did work.
I was recently considering switching to Fastmail from Gmail (Privacy, Lack of Support etc.,) but not entirely sure about Fastmail. I've never heard of Lavabit before. I wonder how they stack up against Fastmail in-terms of Privacy, Support, Security and Reliability.

I think Two-factor authentication in Gmail provides a great additional layer of security. Unfortunately, I don't think many other email providers support it.
If you had indemnity you could just set one of these up and go on your merry way doing what the hell illegal stuff you like so I'm guessing not.

Remember that even if you don't happen to get found guilty in court you could be looking at having the police turn up one day and confiscate all of your computers for several months as well as digging through your email etc.
One of the interesting side effects of plasma streams impacting the atmosphere is that they transfer kinetic energy. Early models of the climate (I've not checked the most recent one the IPCC is endorsing) were strictly radiation based (how much energy is absorbed by atmosphere, ground, how much is reflected, and re-radiated off) generally kinetic effects were considered minor or immaterial because the magnetic field deflects most of the solar wind. So when a CME heads our way, the "mass" gets pushed aside by magnetic repulsion and the energy transfer is minimal (some angular velocity imparted to the planet). But if the mass is not moved aside and impacts the atmosphere directly, it transfers its kinetic energy to the atmospheric gas which comes back as a net rise in temperature.

If the effect is significant it could inform observations on solar activity and climate that were previously missing a plausible theory for connecting them. These 'portals' have the nice property that you can map them with a satellite and you can then correlate those maps with atmospheric effects. That should help us with the models we're using.
Former Microsoft Exec Decides to Sell Weed
UK post codes are two part, something like A1 1AA. A1 identifies a geographic area, 1AA identifies a set of postal address in that area (its designed so each post code gets roughly the same amount of mail, so big organisations have an address to themselves).

Zippopotam.us only seems to deal with the first part, which is only of marginal utility.
I know that, of course. The reality is that many people just use whatever their blogging engine ships, which often involves asking for an e-mail address and waiting until your comment has been (manually) approved by the author.

The Hacker News commenting system doesn't bother me as much, because I only need to sign up once. For self-hosted comment sections I have to either "sign up" for every individual blog I want to comment on or tie my real identity to my comments for convenience. That's something I'd rather not do and which isn't necessary at all.

On top of that, Hacker News provides a nice "threads" page where I can track who replied to my comment. With a self-hosted comment section I'd have to check the comments section of several blogs constantly or subscribe to some kind of comment RSS feed, which is not ideal at all.

Hacker news can be substituted for "A service like Disqus" in the last two paragraphs.

For these reasons, I might decide to not reply at all, even though I might have something relevant and interesting to say.

I'd like to hear your reasons for hosting comments yourself though, as I can't think of any good ones myself that render the arguments I laid out here irrelevant.
In the mean time I'm still waiting for the Octopiler...
Good point. This is most obvious on Minecraft.

Minecraft, to me, is a visual 3d database -- digging dirt doesn't remove something, it merely changes the value for that block in the database -- from "dirt" to "air" -- which changes how the game's algorithms act. And the game still ships with "developer graphics" which would have been easy for a TNT to run.
I find that I don't need to write down nice turns of phrase - if they're really nice, I naturally remember them, and can't help but hit them when I get to the subject.
That's simple - change the method so all those invocations are invalid now.

If you're using a compiled language, the compiler will tell you all the lines that need changing.

If you're using a dynamic language, you should have test coverage for all those methods and your tests will blow up with "no such method".

Or maybe, you could special-case the 'hasAttribute(name)' method so it logs a debug warning and checks the enum attribute.

Really, there are enough ways to deal with that and you're far from the first person to have had that problem.
"Do you think I should delete this and the three more comments in this thread, which were made in similar manner?"

No (imo). Obsessing about 'correct form' and karma is just as bad as completely ignoring it. Everyone gets downvoted once in a while. Learn from your mistakes, and go with the community ethos, and you'll be fine. Karma is just a number on a webpage.
Haha ... yup .. I've got that! And nope .. I didn't learn a thing. I think when I follow the instructions, my brain shuts down. This is what you referred to as the Zen-like state of bliss :)

My new hobby is a bit better in terms of learning. I started building radios and learned quite a bit about electronics (filters, tank circuits, etc.). I even got some kits to play with. When a circuit works like it is supposed to, I do get a sense of accomplishment :) From an addiction point of view, this is still pretty bad. Except now I'm funding worthy causes like SparkFun and Adafruit instead of Toys R Us :-p
I understand the psychology involved, so my remark was rhetoric. One time comfort of avoiding registration lures users who are unaware of resulting security risks. In essence such tradeoff doesn't worth it. It's just unfortunate that such tricks are used by developers of Whatsapp - it's really indecent in my opinion.

Also, instead of promoting federated XMPP (which idea is exactly one time registration and communication with all other federated services), Whatsapp promotes its own walled service. Double failure the way I see it.
You can see it by comparing results on Passmark's website, for one.

It's because of a lot of things. Perhaps the i7 has more pipelines, but significantly it also has much shorter pipelines. Stalls were really, really expensive on the P4's 30-stage pipeline. Plus there's hyper-threading. And of course the i7's got a lot more going for it in the cache department.
Cool idea but at the end of the day, your idea encourages people to violate the terms of service they have with their ISP. Karma gets around that.
One thing I've noticed is that many of the (secondhand) buckets of bricks we've found are NOT a general purpose bucket of bricks. It seems like half the pieces are special-made for a specific purpose. ("Oh, this is a squid-head. This is a custom-made tailpipe for a race car. This is a police-car-top-shell. This is a Gungan head.") I exaggerate, but it's very noticeable when I went to build something with my son this past holiday. Looking at sets in the store (I still ogle them ;)), it seems to match this pattern as well.

Granted, you can buy them in bulk, and you can special order ones you need, but ... it seems not quite the same. I'm sure part of it was that the legos we were rummaging through were poorly organized (color? size? vintage?), and could not be used more than one pucket at a time due to spatial constraints. ;)

I think that the key may be to buy large-ish sets which have enough general purpose things: plates, angled plates, angled blocks in varying directions, etc, or to special-order bulk collections of things.
A new way to distribute your internal Android apps
It would help figure out how to resolve the situation at a modest cost (the cost being an important factor in reducing groundless claims).
I think people are reading this too literally. The 'one thing' isn't your task, it's your goal. You engage in whatever tasks are necessary to achieve your goal in a way that is good for the business. This ensures that each business function is the best it can be.

For example, suppose the next most important thing for your business to do is to reduce marketing spend. you make that someone's goal, and that person focuses on reducing CPA for several weeks. obviously, you don't want this person to divert their time to answer support emails--you want them focused on saving your company boatloads of money.
Part 2. Restoration of defocused and blurred images
Exactly. I didn't even need to write any special code to deal with them, they just naturally come up as tens.

Did you just work this out or have you done something similar?
This isn't really on topic, but that bike with the rebar frame looks really awesome and is a really neat design --- looks a lot more sturdy/reasonably priced (if it's $100 total) than a cardboard bike.
Now I just have to wait for a jailbreak tweak so I can make this my default mail app on iPhone...
'by myself' I meant of my own initiative/not part of a course. I love working/learning from other people.
I don't mean to be harsh in any way but as I said I get frustrated sometimes by the hero worship. I can separate that frustration from my admiration for anyone's accomplishments.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio...

The following statements are not equivalent: 1) The universe is computational or digital in structure. 2) The universe is a giant computer. 3) The universe is a simulation.

#2 implies #1. #3 implies both #2 and #1. #1 does not imply #2 and #3. The universe can be digital in nature, without being either a simulation or a "giant computer".

Also I think it ironic that the article uses quantum mechanics to show how the universe cannot map to computational processes because of the problem of determinism, at the very time when quantum mechanics is being used to create computational devices that leverage the property of non-determinism.

Also "dangerously wrong"? Where's the danger, exactly? This whole article boils down to the question, "But what if they are wrong?" Ok, what if? What if Supersymmetry is wrong? What if String Theory is wrong? That's the way science works. You propose ideas. You test them. You throw out the bad/unprovable/wrong ones.
I fully agree with the benefits of communicating one's result, if only for feedback and getting independent verification or validation - but a paper is only a given way to reach this goal.

If your area of research is obscure or quickly evolving, a journal might not be the best place to share your results, while giving a presentation at relevant conferences, where people working on similar topics will get exposed to your result, is better.

But even this is secondary. I loved doing research, but I was even more interested in the end result - having something working and useful.

Not publishing might have damaged my "profile" in several places where the amount of dead trees is the only thing that matters, but it's all a matter of priorities - and I'm not sure I'd have been happy to work in a place where the end result is only an afterthought.

Maybe that's why I'm reading HN :-)
Looks like the domain expired? Oh well, thanks anyway :)
Mastering the Art of LinkBuilding: By a Rookie
I love it. If only there was an option for other phones (Galaxy Nexus here).
Coffee Script / JavaScript dualty?
> To call that a portal seems like a bizarre attempt at exciting public interest.

This wouldn't be weird if it were some crap news source, but it's kind of surprising that it's coming from NASA.
Waterloo has a co-op program where you switch off every four months between working and school. The co-ops can be very well compensated, so many students graduate with little or no student debt.
This makes sense since we are terrible at multitasking.
I think there are legitimate questions about how this actually works in practice. The blog post provides only a little information.
I had to go enable them in ios settings for them to show up
XBMC Unveils an Official Beta for Android Devices
Funny, but I think the actual concerns are more along the lines of "What happens if it works?"

If they accidentally unleash an Earth origin extremophile, it would have the potential to taint any any life that may already exist on Mars. This hypothetical life on Mars probably isn't of any real use to us, obviously it isn't megafauna or something, but it would be of unspeakable scientific importance. The chance to study live from an independent instance of abiogenesis.. I just can't find the words to describe how important that would be.
I'm pretty sure it's still a hybrid app, native shell with HTML for the ui, at least the inbox and mail content area are full of HTML.

The sliding out list, on the other hand, should be native code.

But overall speaking its much nicer than previous version, good job !
While Waterloo has been a talent poaching ground for Microsoft and RIM for a while, and more recently for Google, Facebook and the likes. The thing i think that really gets overlooked is the startup community in the area.

With an incubator residence on campus (http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/)

Another new incubator in the region (http://hyperdrive.communitech.ca/#applyNow)

An organization dedicated to helping startups in the are (https://www.communitech.ca/)

The recent successes of companies like BufferBox and Kik, have showed that startups can succeed and thrive in the area.
I'm not sure if I am the only one, but some of the ads/banners/images on the second link did not appear to be completely worksafe; I didn't see anything really offensive, but you might caution people in case they don't want pictures of girls in swimsuits on their screen at work.
What does this have to do with ninjas or quotes?
This. I lived in Hong Kong briefly and always had to fake the postal code if accessing an outside website.
Sounds more like training the parents.
I think what the article's really referencing is the Church-Turing thesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

A lot of people conjecture that, if true, it implies that there exists no deterministic process which cannot be modeled by an algorithm.
Navy uses robots to replace dolphins
But in all fairness few inventors will tell you their invention is useless. That the guy in the article has apparently re-invented fiberglass construction is not too surprising. Its really cool, you make something out of cardboard, you soak is fiberglass resin (oh I'm sorry a bunch or organic (as in Chemistry) things) and it becomes a rigid structure you can use.

But it is better than an iPhone app that lets destitute people find educational and training opportunities near their location.
Good news for Android set-top hopers out there. Anybody try the Pivos Xios yet? I'm not quite-ready to ditch my XBMC box, but when the time comes: http://www.pivosgroup.com/xios.html
Reads more like a thinly veiled attempt to backdoor talk about god into science again.
If you don't see an add-on provider that was on the old site you can go to them directly via their url. For instance Loggly isn't there but you can go to...

https://addons.heroku.com/addons/loggly
Oh, big deal. This should probably be titled "Anti-virus vendor wishes Android and iPhone users would buy its product".

There's a long, and relatively unexamined history of A-V vendors claiming that some other platform would be the Next Big Target of malware. The failed predictions of a Biblical Flood of Linux malware litter the dustbin of history.

PS: Sophail 2! (https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf)
I wasn't in attendance but have watched many of the presentations and read quite a few accounts from those who were there and it seems like the implementation are coming to quite a crossroads.

Those interested in doing anything "serious" seem to be doing it on jruby. Real threading seems to be a much requested/needed feature for many Ruby projects, but Matz has indicated quite clearly that he is not interested in removing the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) from MRI ruby. Which is fine, as his he doesn't want the hard threading problems to be exposed to ruby coders.

Its kind of a shame that the jruby guys aren't a bigger part of the conversation on new features and the future of the language. But it is quite understandable when you look at the way ruby has been used in the past, and the direction that people are taking it in the future.
How people in various countries describe themselves on LinkedIn
Obox copies Svbtle
But you're still just saying that violence is fine as long as >50% of society approves of it. And that's being gracious, since there's no reason to actually believe that >50% of society approves of the actions of the government.
Soylent green is people!
I think the light would be sufficient for plants, but I don't think insulation would be enough without a heat source. Now, you could lug loads of chemical fuel all the way from earth, or...

Break out the nukes ;-)
My ex had a similar issue. It seemed like they were trying to say that data plan was meant for non-smart phones. It was meant to cover the applications on the original Razrs and such but not the higher bandwidth needs of newer phones.
I suspect an organic middle-ground is what most best-cases end up with. One where the manager has veto power, rather than dictatorial power: the employee finds something they feel is their "most valuable contribution" and the manager says, "Yes, that's good. Work on that" or "No, we don't need that" or "Maybe later, but your current focus is this other thing" or "Think about it more and figure out how line it up with our company vision better."

I've found that a number of my bosses have been quite understanding about this sort of thing. (I'm terribly lucky.) I have been able to pitch a new idea and get the nod to work on it. Granted, I've also never done the singular focus thing; I'm still required to pitch in with bug work and sometimes I'm the right person to ask for some random but important distraction.
In that case they might benefit from prominently linking to some good discovery services.
Stephen Wolfram's ideas on New Kind of Science (NKS) suggest that the universe is based on simple computational rules. (If I might paraphrase a thousand plus page book I've only partially read into a sentence.) Strangely, the paper in the OP doesn't mention that.
This is really fustrating, especially with the return to even crazier prices for the BTO options. I happily paid the extra to boost my iMac graphics when I bought it, but that's not even an option now.

Want all SSD? Better have deep pockets and want a 27":
768GB Flash Storage [Add $1,300.00]
I think those are two very strong reasons. However, at the end of the day, Waterloo puts its students through the meat grinder. My nephew studies there and I am blown away by the stuff he is getting taught in first and second year.

The thing that surprised me was when he tried to apply to Silicon Valley start-ups, he got very limited response. I think part of it is that people don't realize how awesome Waterloo is.
So how is this different than just doing things?
> Cheap and widely available computing devices can do a lot to raise literacy and technical skill across the world.

Maybe yes, maybe no, but what I'm criticizing is the idea that a bunch of pie-in-the-sky academics are going to come up with a better solution than tens of millions of people working in parallel.

The OLPC programs was INSANE. First, there's lots of power in the third world - a hand crank is a crazy idea and makes it look like a toy while adding mechanical complexity. Next, instead of using cheap commodity hardware it designed things from the ground up. Did you know that they were so adamant against using the round wheel that they decided to reinvent it? Ah, excuse me. Not wheel. Firmware. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d04

<shakes head>

Craziness all the way down.
Waterloo is well known in Canada for having an exceptional Mathematics program (if I'm not mistaken you graduate with BMath, not a BA/BSc with a math major).
Exactly why I wouldn't feel comfortable with this. I haven't logged into Facebook from my primary browser in at least a year or two because of their Like beacons – there's no way I'm tying my FB account to my mobile ISP.
How do I look at the most popular recent tracks like in the old version?

EDIT: I guess it's now Explore > "Your genre". Not liking this UX. Before you could usually measure the quality of a track by the number of visible comments. With the new UI you can't do that.
I'd say 80 cents up to a dollar on every device sold for the pro version. The lite version should remain free. Both will drive more purchases for your other pro products. It would be better if you could bill the manufacturer for the number of devices produced, just like Microsoft did with DOS. Otherwise you could count only on customers' willingness to upgrade the software to the pro version. The shareware model of reducing functionality after x number of days would motivate them to upgrade.