skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Urban dwellers are about as qualified to talk about guns as rednecks are to talk about affirmative action in Ivy league schools. For both good and bad. While everyone has a right to an opinion, the opposing sides of each issue view the other side with Ad-hominem dread. And while we should not pre-suppose from where the best ideas will come from, the fact of the matter is that neither side is likely to really respect the opinions of the other either. In the absence of true dialogue, the options are (1) do nothing; and (2) steam-roll the otherside, not taking their view into consideration. Arguably (1) is both easier and more intelligent, in that is likely to be "less wrong".
What's the most efficient way of calculating the top 100,000 domains on Twitter?
technically, hybristophilia is a paraphilia, and paraphilias are by definition atypical. really interesting though
In related news, we are trying to get a reddit group started for startup related stuff in austin: /r/austinstartups
Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited-a closer examination of a flawed mechanism)
Haskell/The Curry-Howard isomorphism
$10 K to burn
Marketing question -

We are trying to increase transactions and users. Budget of $10K - timeline of one month.

Does anyone have suggestions of how you would spend the money & manage our campaign?
The engine has never been the problem. Heat dissipation is the problem.
Can't post multiple links, but the best part is the final response in the thread by Matt Abrams, VP Data at AddThis - http://kapuno.com/response/apwfggaagb266
As I learn about Java, the struggle to understand this concept, and my thoughts so far. Feedback welcome and appreciated.
I am old, but I still prefer to teach C++ in the intro course. I learned the hard way and it pays off. "What? I have to do this in C++? I can just import that in Python!" and then they really don't understand how things work under that magic. C/C++ programmers would say "oh that's magic! i like that magic :) "
Avoiding Jitter in Composited Frame Display
Thanks, what it's doing now is using the difference between the performer's age/height and what you've entered as a factor to try to find the "closest" performer to what you've specified.

If you search for "26 year old 5'10" blonde 36DD" it might return a 25 year old 5'10" blonde 34DD, for example.
I think he's also a good example of what Taleb is pointing out - the problems with taking a snapshot of the present and projecting. 2001 was published in 1968, with a moon landing imminent. Projecting ahead, it seemed reasonable that by 2001 we would have had moon bases, commercial flights to large space stations, and ships ready to explore Jupiter and Saturn. I wish he had been right!
Lindsey Graham wants ability to lock you up forever without trial
I think that we are only scratching the surface as regards support for static analysis and automated refactoring.

Also, I think that we will start to apply some of the machine learning and statistical pattern recognition techniques that have become so "du jour" recently to programming - enabling development tools to do some really sophisticated things.
MVR, Minimum Viable Robot. I like it.

I made a little python shell kind of thing where I type various commands like "weather" or "bit"(coin) to get status from online sources for those topics. The prompt is an emoticon based on whatever the last temperature it retrieved was. Smiles for nice weather, frowns for too hot, etc. Because why not?
Unfortunately, this future is still very, very far away. We're not even close to understanding how a single eukaryotic cell works, much less an entire organism as complex as a human being or a bird.
Just buy it with adequate RAM and HDD from Apple. If you need to upgrade later, buy a bigger one and dump the old one on Craigslist or eBay.

Save the screwdrivers (or heatguns) for people who enjoy spending their limited time dicking about with computer internals. Specialize!
I am writing this on a Mid 2012 Macbook Pro using a Fusion Drive. How am I using a Fusion Drive on this? I made it myself with three terminal commands. Apple has always charged a premium for their products, this is no different but if you want it for cheaper on a machine where you can install a second hard drive then do it yourself.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2014011/how-to-make-your-own...
If people were selling copies on the street for $2, that suggests that $2 was roughly the right price point (in that area) to maximize profit, and Microsoft couldn't have made more money by selling it for more.

That argument ceases to hold in the case of BitTorrent, where the distributors aren't trying to maximize their profit (or make any at all).
Yup. That's the idea. Want to help out as a fellow organizer? We're lookin for this to help js, python, etc conferences

If we can get women, men - everyone, over that 90% hump and get them into the CFPs and systems for conferences and coach them through it all, it's a net win
> e-piracy is not a victimless crime, as long as you have at least one data point of a person who would have paid for the game/movie/software but didn't do so because he/she had easy access to a torrent.

Well.... If the easy availability of the torrent led to more sales than it diminished, then the crime is still victimless regardless of your datapoint, since the supposed victim actually received a benefit.

This may seem far fetched, but I understand that for all but the largest block busters, there is some evidence that this is true for films: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176246

If you're a film maker, making non-blockbuster films, you should probably be supporting piracy from a purely financial point of view. I fully expect that the same is true in music as well. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/48001/pirates-more-music-onl...
HN is a pretty cold, logical place, so while the topic's raised, I'd like to ask a question:

A year or so ago I watched a 60 minutes segment on so-called "sovereign citizens." The segment made them out to be relatively deranged, on my own cursory research supports this.

One part DID stick in my mind, though: in an interview with someone with weak ties to the movement (I believe a radio host?), the interviewee said something akin to: "The Second Amendment is not so that we can go duck-hunting." I took this to mean, (and in light of the circumstances around the American Revolutionary War, I think there's a strong case to be made) that the Second Amendment was specifically intended to protect the possibility of armed rebellion.

This is a fairly out-there idea, but then, it's called "Revolutionary" for a reason.

However, when I hear debates about gun control, this context seems to be missing. Is it such a...well...revolutionary concept that we now shy away from it? Or am I completely misunderstanding something?
1. If you think Python is a pain, I don't think there is any other language you can learn. I've learned lots of different languages, but Python was one of the easiest to pick up and get started--not so different from BASIC.
2. Unless things have changed since I last worked with python, your statement "Everything is an object" is not true. Actually this is one thing I like about Python over Ruby (In Ruby, everything actually is an object.) As far as I know, Python has primitives, and therefore not as confusing as ruby for beginners.
3. Here's a problem: "Build a program that fetches content from a web page.". Try building that without using any modules. Maybe even try that with your BASIC if you want. By using modules you just reuse what people have already built, and can solve aforementioned problem with just a couple of lines.
No you didn't. You wrote 47 sloc and a readme.

This is not noteworthy.
yes, org-publish. i have no clue how I managed to mispell it.
"People Don't Buy What You Do, They Buy Why You Do It"
"I would rather be up against a man with a knife than a man with a gun."

I'd rather not be a helpless victim in either case.
It's a war on multiple fronts, Facebook and Google for the graph, Google vs. Apple and MS for phones, and Amazon vs. Apple on content.

In most of these wars MS is currently not mounting any serious challenges, however, due to cash on hand and it's relationships it could eventually start to make serious inroads. MS is in a much better position in 2012 than Apple was in 97.

Most importantly MS isn't lacking any technology that Google has, despite lower userbase in things like search, etc.
If you want to talk non-flashy technology, I use some:

* Electricity keeps me warm in winter, and lets me see things in the dark without flame or moonlight.

* Artificial fertilizers produced with the Haber-Bosch process are currently necessary for food cost to be a minor concern, rather than one of the great overriding imperatives of my life.

* I got the knowledge-equivalent of a CS degree in high school, thanks to having a lot of spare time and an internet connection.

* Books, once outlandishly expensive, were dirt cheap to print by the time I was a child. Reading a lot of them was one of the major influences on my life.

I could name some more -- fast global travel, ubiquitous access to clean water, higher effective wealth because of cheap worldwide shipping, eyeglasses so I can see clearly -- but hopefully I've made my point.
Post it once it evolves. Save your hardware hello world for yourself.
How many of us still get in cars and commute to work, sit in an office, as we are monitored by our boss, drive home through some awful commute. Then eat some processed food because we didn't have time to go to the grocery store and get some fresh food. I'm sure there are plenty on this site who telecommute and bike, but that's not the norm.

I hate to tell you this, but if you're in a developed country like the US, then take your socioeconomic percentile and call it X. You have a better life in 2012 than the Xth-percentile person of 1950, 1900, 1800, 1600, and on back. There's a strong tendency to compare the average person's life (which, compared to the expectations of a high-IQ person with access to technology and therefore superior alternatives, is admittedly quite shitty) now to the life of an aristocrat in the past, and therefore conclude that things were better, but that's wildly inaccurate.

The malaise comes from a couple factors. First, most peoples' lives are still shitty, and what's becoming more clear is that this is unnecessarily so, thus showcasing the rottenness of human nature. It's no longer the fault of "scarcity". People just fucking suck-- they're greedy, petty, and would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. The useless and counterproductive power structures remain because there are assholes who really like holding power and don't care if they're playing a negative-sum game. We probably have one more violent class revolution (possibly worldwide) in our human story before we make it to the post-scarcity (ca. 2100?) world. Second, technological and economic growth have slowed down (not stopped, but slowed) over the past 30 years due to a lack of investment in basic research. Rather than accelerating toward a singularity, we've gone from 6% growth per year to about 4%. This is a slow patch, no doubt, but at least it's not decline.
"This is a fairly out-there idea"

It's not an out-there idea at all. The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about hunting.
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- UI Designer

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I've been using the mini+display option for a while. I got tired of recycling perfectly good LCDs just because the computer expired. It's more money up front but if you get two minis to the display you are ahead.
Where I went to school, they taught Turbo Pascal as the first language, and I thought it was a much better beginner language than Basic.
Denver's gSchool: 6 months and 60 hours per week turns you into a web developer
This is a really insightful comment. What's slightly disconcerting is thinking of what might be the present day analogue of AI in the 60s. What promising new technology, that we believe to be on the cusp of success, is about to flounder for about 40-50 years, or more, before it takes off?

EDIT: Corrected 20-30 years to a more realistic time span with respect to AI.
I think I can answer this question. In order for Google to actually understand these, the people at Google must manually code for this sort of query, unlike other queries where results are automatically generated. And even then, Google doesn't really "understand" them, it just knows what to spit out when the query is a match. Google has some stuff manually coded in like this, but it's almost impossible to include everything, especially when people can say "places to eat that are open now near my house" vs. "restaurants open near here" vs. hundreds of other possibilities. That's the first layer of difficulty. More difficulty comes with finding the search user's location, determining what stores are actually restaurants (is a lunch deli a restaurant at 8pm?), etc. Then for example, determining which restaurants can deliver that are open now is another difficulty.

That said, I'd bet that Google will be able to handle these queries well in 1-3 years.
XKCD has done some http://xkcd.com/802/
Last night at dinner, a friend was telling me about how Jay Leno (an avid classic car collector) was restoring old vehicles through 3d printing. Found the clip on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzA_7tkKmM0&feature=youtu...
It sounds like you are actively trying to be rudely dismissive. It's not necessary. Furthermore, not everything on HN needs to be "noteworthy"--fun little personal projects are great to read about sometimes.
Unrelated, but does anyone have an idea why all of the countries appear in alphabetical order but then suddenly Spain jumps up in the middle of all the E-s? The UK follows soon after. All I could think of was Spain=Espana, but England definitely isn't the same as the UK..
I believe that the future will look more like the past. One thing I'm almost certain we'll see less and less of is gadgets. Smartphones, computers, things like that will all go inside your head (if you're willing, and most everyone will be). Soon we will become tired of living in houses with blank walls upon which are projected whatever we want and, because we can do so, will revert back to more ancient styles of architecture and furnishings (with a couple of blank walls or two).

Your stove may look like a wood burning stove, and your fridge may look like a 50's model. Why? Because when almost EVERYTHING is 3D printed to your specifications, people are free to make things that function in a modern way but look like what they want them to look, rather than how the manufacturer's marketing department deems they should look.

I think transport will be dominated by self-driving vehicles, but again: think of individual styles. I predict quite a few autonomous "horseless coaches" driving around our cities.

Speaking of cities...

My hope is that high speed network access will be everywhere, and population densities will equalize as more and more people prefer to live a rural life even while they do cutting edge professional or academic work. There will still be slums and there will still be poor people, but I think that the majority of people who live in cities will do so because they really want to.

Further out, I can see even things like traditional healthcare completely disappear. Sure, we may always have emergency trauma centers and doctors, but it's not to hard to fathom a time where a colony of self-replicating bio-robots and ongoing genetic engineering work 24 hours a day inside your body to keep it healthy and let you know of any real trouble before it becomes serious.

This is not to say that all these predictions will come true, only that the disappearance of electronic gadgets into the mind and into fabrics, paint, and the air seems inevitable, as does the radical differentiation of physical things like furniture, houses, and vehicles that will certainly come from the 3D printing/replication revolution (if that occurs).
I moved back into a conservative industry and have started wearing a jacket and tie. Honestly, I quite like it. It's a couple hundred bucks worth of clothing to have the image of being "serious" about my job, and to get the benefit of the doubt in all sorts of social interactions. With the rewards considered, it's extremely cheap.

I don't know that I'll continue to wear a tie for the rest of my life, and I certainly won't expect other people to do so when I become a "higher-up", but I'm not going to dress like a college student for work anymore, no matter what I do. When you go to work the unfortunate reality is that you need to subtly tell other people what they think of you, and dressing well is one of the most time- and energy-efficient ways to do it.
The sea of possibilities that internet gives is clearly being used mostly for good or neutral/trivial activities. But with a gun only two things can be done: kill or intimidate; for every shooted man you need to start the discussion of who was the "good" and who was the "bad"; there is no need for those discussions with most of the internet activities.

You are also talking like a paranoid; incidences with internet used to release deathly viruses are so far only videogames stories and DDOS attacks have more similarities with an electricity outage than to killing someone. And not a single bank got broke because some DDOS attack.
The current version of Live on the Macintosh itself took quite some time to crack.

Those guys at Ableton are serious business.
I find the most interesting thing about WW2 museums are the displays of everyday items. Why? Because there are never (or almost never) any plastic items. There is lots of metal, wood, and some ivory, but no plastic. It wasn't that long ago that people didn't have plastic.

The author seems to think science is 100% computers and space travel; if he is only listening to pop-futurists, this is perhaps understandable. But if you consider the more humble applications of technology, you really see the changes technology brings to our lives. Refrigeration is another good example, and I bet the author has not been to a hospital in a while if he thinks that the way we do medicine hasn't drastically changed since ancient times.

Edit, I should also point out that the main sources of entertainment in the US (TV/Internet/Radio) are all less than 100 years old.
The only issue I take with the new iMacs, which is only on the twenty seven inch not reviewed here, is that there is ONE SSD option for 768g and it cost $1300.

Where are the 256 or 512 options?
I don't think you've read my posts because I KNOW people think pirating isn't wrong. And they go through a variety of mental hoops to rationalize why it isn't. They're wrong. And nothing you've said defends their position, all you've said is that they have it.
PrivateCore in Menlo Park, CA is looking for a full-time memory management researcher:

http://www.privatecore.com/careers/memory-management-researc...

Our secure hypervisor requires innovative solutions to challenging memory-management problems. We are looking for motivated systems researchers to design and implement novel resource-management mechanisms and policies.

We'd expect a good candidate to have:

- Several years experience in computer systems R&D focused on operating system kernels or hypervisors.

- Demonstrated ability to innovate, evidenced by relevant publications, patents, or shipped products.

- Expert knowledge of virtual memory, paging, and related low-level system internals.

PrivateCore is venture-backed and our team is currently 6 full-time engineers from VMware, Google, WindRiver, IBM, and the intelligence community.
We don't necessarily need to know all the inner workings, just the important things to do our job. Cavemen didn't know about torques, loads and angular velocities when they invented the wheel. Thus i am hopeful that i will live to see the major breakthroughs in genetics and neuroscience.
Jason didn't change the projection; Jason used a better interpolator (following great arcs rather than linear interpolation of angles as I was doing). The projection looks flat because it's an orthographic projection rather than a perspective projection.
Three possibilities for this project:

1. Vaporware.

2. A project pivot that retains a few qualities resembling the original idea.

3. A software prodigy achieves the holy grail of MMOs.
Taleb: The future will not be cool

-- but it will be 43% off ! [1]

_________

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony#Situational_irony
Uh...this is jus a basic demo. I'm betting this is far easier to work into an interactive mash up with data than Flash's movieclips
See my comment got down voted, and rereading it, I can see why. I wasn't saying that all that everyone in the open source community is a dick, but rather, a person can be a dick no matter who they work for. Nothing intrinsic about who they work for, or whether they're part of the OSS community. However, there seems to be a confirmation bias when it's a company we're predisposed to dislike.
One of the early innovations of Bloomberg was to totally automate certain classes of news story, driven entirely by data. As you can see from spending any length of time browsing Google Finance, the number of this class of stories in the present day is absolutely huge, from a wide variety of 'news' outlets.

"Top movers! Miners down 0.00001% as fears grow over $calendar->getNextECBAnnouncement()"

What's more terrifying is that Google Finance even syndicates these articles, and that people trade off of them - "informed" traders, buying and selling based on articles that are quite literally generated from sampling noise