skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not entirely obvious that posting from a domain that incentizes traffic is a bad thing.

If the posts are upvoted by the community, then it should be seen as a good and not a negative.

One of the oddities of reddit as compared to other social sites is that content owners and traffickers are looked-down upon simply because they can profit from attention.
I have never tried to claim that robots destroy wealth. That would be ludicrous. But they do take away jobs. New jobs might be created to replace them. However, I don't think this will happen as easily as before. The Luddite fallacy is outdated. We won't be able to add new (profitable!) jobs indefinitely, because our standard of living can't keep increasing indefinitely. (Or at least not at the rate it is today - there are only so many fancy cars, nice apartments and computer entertainment systems a single person can use).

Robots do free up parts of the labor pool, but the world needs to adapt to this extra "labor". I hope you're not misunderstanding what I'm saying; I believe that automation is unequivocally a good force. But our current system isn't built to handle a very high degree of automation. When the winner-take-all effect of the Internet starts becoming more visible in additional parts of the economy, reform will be necessary.

To sum up my opinion in a single soundbite: The labor dislocations caused by current and future automation efforts won't resolve as easily as they have until now, where everyone simply switched to a new, profitable job right away.
That's right, Office is everywhere. And they use that to leverage Sharepoint, Exchange and other systems. There's no shame in being number 1 in the corporate world and number 4 or 5 in the consumer market. :)

Though they do have the xbox.
It gets a little more interesting when you're promising tangible rewards in addition to completing the project.

For instance, if I say "$50 will get you a T-Shirt", it seems reasonable to me that I am contractually obligated to give you a T-Shirt even if I am unable to follow through on completing the game to the desired standard. The extra rewards certainly seem like more than just a "donation".
AlaMode: Arduino-Compatible Shield for Raspberry Pi
Algebra is required all the time for me for pretty much any non trivial problem that isn't CRUD (most apps seem to have no functional complexity past CRUD).

The only time I had to delve into deep mathematics was implementing CORDIC algorithm for microcontroller powered floating point ops (sin/cos/ln) on a 68HC11 because we couldn't buy an implementation in that had source code so we could verify it. Even then it wasn't all that hard. Took about a week to wrap my head round the maths involved.

I do find that mathematical literature is all theory and no application, even with my engineering background. If we had some applications, people would use it more and take it seriously as well and therefore there would be more mathematical programmers.
Wow! That's impressive!

I didn't realise it was the moment I had been waiting for, but now...
I feel somewhat similarly to you about the wonderful influx of math via the functional languages these days. I think this article misses the boat on this one when the author considers that lisp hackers avoid math by seeking abstraction---when really there's a lot of math there too.
HTML5: Server-sent events with Angular.js, Node.js and Express.js
A Swarm of Lego Mindstorms Robots dancing on Prokofiev music (amazing VIDEO)
Jeff Gundlach: To Catch a Thief
sounds more than reasonable. I don't think most people even got to line 2001 in an excel spreadsheet anyway...
Since they are throwing desktop operating systems in the same cluster as tablets and phones, why did they omit all the different OSs for cars, manufacturing and power plants, heavy machinery, TV sets, satellite boxes, and so on? At least that would be a true "OS market overview". They are cherry-picking a slice of the OS market by the common denominator "consumer products" and lumping a select few totally distinct segments into a single worthless graph.

Not that I would have expected anything more sophisticated from Goldman Sachs, though.
Blogspam, original article: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/couchbase...
As those of you who looked around in the code might have noticed, this is a very early release, specifically aimed at hackers who can find their way in the source code.

Like I described in the readme, this is the very first step, and the progress of this project will be determined by your response to it.

The inspiration for this projects comes from projects like Samurize, Rainmeter, Android live wallpapers, unlike those project this is not aimed to be a process running on the users computer (or mobile device) but rather a passive background that displays any relevant information.

I hope you find this project inspiring and useful even at this early stage.

Feel free to let me know what you'd like to see in the project, and push your improvements to the repository.
To add another anecdote about Audiogalaxy, I think I wouldn't have the taste in music today if it wasn't for Audiogalaxy. If I remember right, you could also send links to albums/artists to people (hazy on this one) and that was a great way to share new music with friends. I think Grooveshark comes closest to this in spirit, since you can link to just about any artist, album, or track. I imagine Grooveshark will probably last no longer than a another year because of the pirating issue, though.
Robot Plane Delivers Burritos On-Demand - PSFK - PSFK
European Parliament adopts deeply flawed unitary patent / power over innovation
What I found really interesting is how after playing with Google Maps for a couple minutes, then hopping out to the Settings app to change something, the standard iOS look instantly felt really dated, with the bubbliness, heavy gradients and pinstripes.
Top 37 Real Estate WordPress Themes of 2012
This is a small yet very organized theme collection containing the best real estate themes released in 2012. All of the themes embed new technologies like responsive design, MLS-IDX advanced property search and HTML5 and CSS3, of course.
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AI: how to build a computer that can beat humans at the game of 'Go'
Not really, unless the majority of HN users come for the spammy posts on the /newest page.
They did, but restrictive licencing terms drove them to start collecting their own, the process is still not complete.
Did this guy get him?

https://hitman.wikia.com/wiki/File:47_barcode.jpg
Zeitgeist 2012 – Google
2 years, my wife says the same but I don't feel a thing .... yet lol.
For the nail houses in the middle of roads in China, are those private roads, or do they not have eminent domain as a legal construct?

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Edit: Wikipedia claims: China does "practice eminent domain whenever it is convenient". So what the heck is going on here?
UN Conference Introduces Resolution to Gain Internet Control—in Middle of Night
Paralegals and young lawyers are firmly in the middle class, aren't they?

I think rather than 'smartest' its better to say people at the top of their field, if that field requires substantial intellectual activity.
There's no shame in being number 1 in the corporate world and number 4 or 5 in the consumer market.

That statement is probably not as easy to swallow for a company that was worth $850bil (in today's dollar) just 13 years ago.

Edit: clarify value accounting for inflation
The graph is designed to make it appear that the total number of devices is constant, which makes it looks like Microsoft is losing ground. What's actually happened is that the market has grown significantly, considering that their definition of 'market' includes a bunch of platforms that didn't exist a few years ago. That growth didn't happen on MS-based devices, hence the smaller market share.

A less biased visualization would have varying heights of each stack to show the absolute number of devices.
Swedish Pirate Party Defends Role As Pirate Bay ISP
I just installed it, but I'm having trouble finding out how to collapse comment threads; is this feature available, and if so, how ?
I was referring to the login GUI running with full privileges, meaning any time someone finds an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the GUI they can get full admin access.

I wasn't referring to using a boot disk to reset a password. As far as I'm concerned that's a feature not a vulnerability, and it's a feature Windows makes unnecessarily hard to access.
I've actually always been uncertain of why eminent domain works/exists seemingly sometimes in the US for private companies wanting to build developments. Or at least, that's how people seem to think of it. I've heard several people "forced to sell their home through eminent domain" because someone wanted to build a shopping center.

Is that true, or is that a misunderstanding of how it works?
Here is a really great HN post about SEO from 2 years ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1676091
this doesn't mean anything.
Google Maps giving dangerous directions, too
Red is like a modernized Rebol, so if you learn Rebol, you have (mostly) learnt Red too.

Red doesn't constrain the anti-complexity fight to the language itself, though. It can already set you free from the "mother of all bloatwares", the GNU compiler toolchain and the "inherently insecure" C language.

Simply (hence a bit inaccurately) put:

You can write programs with the same logic and concepts as C but with Rebol syntax. It's good because it has a simpler&less syntactic sugar and allows unicode words as identifiers.

Such a "source code" is valid Rebol DATA too, so it's easy to introspect, transform, analyze, decorate it, you don't have to parse it as string...

You can compile - for example - a Linux ELF executable for the ARM processor on an x86 Windows machine and all you need is:

1, the ~300kiloBYTE rebol.exe (just 1 file!) http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v278/rebol-core-278-3-1.exe

2, the ~400kiloBYTE https://github.com/dockimbel/Red/archive/master.zip
(from which the compiler is ~100 script files...)

NO MORE automake/autoconf coming from packages depending on m4, make, awk, sed, tr, etc and of course "need" a package manager which depends on perl/python/ruby and their "standard libraries" which alone are stored as a sea of small files, theeeen u need GCC with the ocean of .h files also packaged as *-dev packages coming with their meta info in their own files, etc etc...

Feel the contrast?

So Red is really super-cool, but for now it still depends on the ultra-small Rebol binary...
The bugs in the Linux port let me down. I played quite a bit of Psychonauts and enjoyed it. Certainly some things are annoying (like finding those arrow heads). But the biggest disappointment was that the game was constantly crashing and you had to look up the bugtracker (at least there was a public one) for workarounds and wait for the few patches that were released.

Bastion was a fun game but not really creative.
Note well that you are reading an article by someone who doesn't know the difference between fission and fusion (he says that a uranium fission reaction can result in a "thermonuclear explosion").
Everybody wants to hide their passwords. Does that mean everybody is a scumbag?
Are there not particularly interesting or famous nail houses outside of the US and China? (Aside from the "bonus" mentions)
TechCrunching Mozart [video, 3min]
Thanks to the discussion I have realized that performance of product is much more important for the user experience than I originally have thought compared to other things like feature Y.

If the product does not have competition and is profitable you will get competitors at some point of time when they realize that they can outmatch you.

If the performance was not in the mind of the developers of the product anyone can win the competition by matching the product features and user experience, but make the user experience better by making the performance of the product better. They can even speed up the take over process by giving additional features to the customers. Once the users start to move to the competitors product because they have realized it's much better at doing the job the competitor can start to make the existing feature set user experience better like removing the really not needed additional mouse click.

The first products company will be having problems at this point, because they really need to start thinking new features the users will like and think how to make the user experience better, but to match the performance of the features they really need to start digging on the old code which might be messy as hell. Matching the performance of the competitor at this point is really costly, because you either have to create it again from scratch or start digging around the code and see where you can optimize. Once the performance has been optimized you might have lost ton of users and revenue.

While the first products company is trying to handle the performance issues the competitor will of course move further and further away and might even incrementally change some of the features of the product and at the same time teach the users to use it.

Then again if the first product had good performance from the start the competitor can not take advantage of this and you can keep up by giving the users better user experience.

Now someone give me enough money to compete with Facebook! JK.
If a developer can convince the local government that their shopping center (or whatever) will be for the common good, then the government exercises the eminent domain.
Didn't understand a word.
You're asserting that the vast majority of 4chan users are /b/ trolls. Can you back that up somehow?
what's the magical threshold? I've been on here for years and I'm only at 31
The article specifically talks about the "global computing market" ... So it's referring to market share, not number of devices. Nothing misleading here.
As someone above said, they limited the scope to all consumer computing devices. A car is not a computing device per say, even if it has computer parts. Same goes for power plants, heavy machinery, TV sets and satellite boxes.

One could argue that electronic calculator should be included, but I am not sure it would actually change anything.
It is not available on all countries. In example, Uruguay. Not available here yet.
Google dominate this area, obviously.

It's great we are happy to have working maps, but let's just hope other companies can break the monopoly on our location data at some point.
Yes, there's lots of great math in programming languages research (it's my field, and I quite enjoy it), but I think the point was that it's only being used to solve "our" problems, not the domain problems that people fund CS to solve.
>Let the chosen few do math

And then you wonder why an average person hates/is scared of math.
NASA releases Mayan calendar video
The other thing Flickr has going for it is they're still the ONLY one out there that has decent support for metadata. I've tried Smugmug, I've tried OpenPhoto, I've tried Gallery (v2 and v3), and Flickr is still the only one that seems to understand concepts like (for instance) "the tag 'Joe Schmo' should not be displayed or (god forbid) SAVED as 'joeschmo'".

And nobody but Flickr has the (really, really great) Guest Pass feature, where you can share private photos with people WITHOUT forcing them to sign up for something.
When Responsive Design Doesn't Work (BBC)
What version of VS are you using? I found 2010 to be painful when opening large solutions (and Resharper does not help I agree). But if you can get past the new UI changes, 2012 overall seems a lot quicker to load up and (for me at least) provides a much smoother experience. My favorite thing: the "Reload All Projects" option, for times when you do a Get Latest on your root folder outside of VS and now 35 projects need to reload at once. This was just brutal in 2010 and older versions.
At university in 2005 I studied Mathematics and Computer Science in my first year, hoping for a path into theoretical computer science (e.g. complexity theory). I couldn't find one; mathematics had its discrete side, and made use of programs in many areas, but was uninterested in the theory of computation; computer science was mostly java training (I chose mathematics).

So I'm pleased if such research is going on, because back then I went deliberately looking for it and couldn't find it.
Best review so far "I almost died in Australia, thank god this is out."
The games in HIB5 were better known

Bastion, Amnesia, Limbo, Psychonauts, Super Meat Boy, Braid

were all popular titles. (* were in previous bundles)

The only game I knew from HIB6 was Vessel and that had no complete Linux port (released two days ago) and OSX port (currently in QA). Torchlight seemed to have been popular as well but I didn't know it.

They should have probably changed the line up a bit. But I don't know how they plan the bundles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle#List_of_games_of...
How to create a Windows 8 Calculator app with XAML and CSharp
Google Rules Out Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Apps, for Now
Thats the feature I suggested, but he rejected. :P How would you implement it?

I suggested swiping horizontally on a comment would collapse the children.
It may "sail fine" but sure left my fans howling too. I don't think this is a browser thing.
First, this is counting Android phones many of which are being used as updated feature phones rather than even a browsing device.

Second, this is counting what are being sold the last quarter and ignoring install base and the increasingly longer upgrade cycle of PCs.

For a better picture of install base and actual usage, see http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-2011...

The entire mobile devices are at ~15%.

Third, this is Goldman Sachs, they might be shorting Microsoft stock now and will buy and upgrade it later just like they bought millions of shares of Nokia when they downgraded it and then the stock more than doubled recently, and GS made tens of millions at the least. Read the very interesting article below showing GS not following their own advice and doing a reverse dump and pump.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1023231-goldman-sachs-and-mo...

Then we have the Register writing flamebait articles with linkbait headlines, completing the circle of worthless blogspam flamebait junk.
I'm surprised noone's drawn a comparison between this and Kickstarter's reward models.

Packages / price points are built into kickstarter, and seem to work pretty we..
As I see it, an essential point of "Data Science" is to finally introduce mathematical awareness to the world of programming. I welcome our newly arriving & refreshingly numerate overlords!

"One way to read the history of business in the twentieth century is a series of transformations whereby industries that 'didn't need math' suddenly found themselves critically depending on it." This is a significant understatement. It also summarizes the history of business in the 19th century and even earlier. See, for example: steam power, metallurgy, bridge building, chemical industries, and electricity.

Not all hackers miss Miller's point. One of Zed Shaw's older rants "Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All" comes to mind[1].

Perhaps I'm missing some intended irony, but Miller's polemics on Lisp and his reverence for Fortran feel overdone & unnecessarily narrow. Coders who buy into Miller's notions can join the "Fortran School" by learning something along the lines of R programming (lots of fun, functional, array-based, and adept at statistics) or J (compression and austere beauty that only a mathematician could love) or any number of other languages that have not shunned math. Of course, calculus, statistics, and linear algebra also required. For the university trained, brush up (or curse your university for not requiring you to learn these subjects). For the autodidacts among us, the likes of Coursera and Sal Khan are indispensable.

[1] http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
Amen. I'm in exactly the same situation. Took me a few years to get there but now I'm totally happy with it. I actually like the fact that I have to do everything myself. That's what keeps it interesting (and challenging once in a while).
Not exactly. It is my (the author)'s blog and frequently we stick extra content in there. Also the DISQUS comments on Infoworld are notoriously problematic.
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Windows 95 had no security model. There are no "system-level privileges" in Windows 95. If you could execute any code on the machine you "owned" it. There were some contrivances in the shell to attempt to limit user access, but nothing serious like the security architecture of Windows NT.
Microsoft unveils more than 40 APPs for XBox Live
Npm isntall
Does anyone understand what's happening in their graph[1] in 2005? I don't understand what would cause Apple to jump from 5-25% in one year, 2 years before the iPhone.

[1] http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/12/13/goldman_platform_chart_lg.p...
[btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack
Aren't those essentially just advertising for the main sites?
Does maps.google.com not work on iOS 6?
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Google Maps becomes the App Store’s most popular free app in 7 hours
I think this identifies the issues I was feeling with the product, primarily the point that users are rarely forward-thinking. Instead, they use the single service that is hot right now, and don't look for alternatives until their current one starts to die. The thought that they'd have to set up multiple services (some of which might require a subscription and others that require new accounts) will probably scare many off.

That said, I think an MVP is the way to go on something like this (NOT something fake with a fake button; that's for scammy money-grubbers). There is probably a niche for something like this; the only question is if they will pay for it or not, and pay enough to keep the service alive. I know of photographers that would love a one-click upload to all the photo sites. Same with videos, tweets, and blog posts. Seeing if they will pay will simply require you to try it.
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This is the way we like to present
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I hope they give to the Wikipedia coffers, given some paragraphcs appear to be copied verbatim.
I'm surprised that this level of dissent is allowed in China.
Really cool. But, I was kind of hoping the library would pull data from Google analytics to use for charting and stats within an app.
If you consider that I'm from the part of the world where everybody is driving on the right side (see what I did there?:) of the road, it was not a complete disaster. Up and close this magic roundabout actually is not so magic - just one large roundabout with few smaller entry/exit roundabouts. Though, first timers could easily drive round and round for a while.
Competition === good
I dislike having to wait for a network round trip for the pin to drop. Drop the pin, and do the reverse geocode simultaneously.

Access to streetview would be quicker that way.
A pretty full featured web server: http://cheyenne-server.org/

But I also built an infrastructure configuration server from the 2kB http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=webserver.r to avoid LDAP/Chef/Puppet and similar bloatwares.

What do you consider a Unix tool?
File and directory handling and serial port access just as HTTP/IMAP/POP/SMTP clients are all built in. See http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-12.html and http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-13.html

Instead of lex/yacc it provides the parse function and instead of grep it also provides the parse function (with a more readable BNF-like syntax, which is less effective to write for very small hacks, thats true).