skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in northern ireland where the state of mental health institutions is probably closer to eastern europe than it is to other western institutions (at least it is in my limited experience). Patients are usually prescribed a bunch of vague, cure all drugs and left to rot. There arent any activities or things to do for patients. Patients tend to get worse rather than better because of effect of the drugs and the general malaise and hopelessness of the place.

Mental hospitals are more or less the lowest common denominator when it comes to treatment of mentally ill people. It takes more money in the short term to do house calls, and to support people in normal life, but in thelong term it is more beneficial to keep these people in the mainstream of society, and not artificially compartmentalized and ostracized.
I am not sure why you would say that.

Presumably Facebook at that point in time, is a business incorporated by the State of California. I don't know of any national corporation process.

It's not clear to me (and I am certainly not a lawyer) that the protection of investors and the protection of taxpayers at that stage of the company falls to the SEC and not at all to the state regulators of the state that incorporated the company.
Interesting fellow. He had the cojones to tell Hitler to step back, he actively worked to undermine the Holocaust, and he still managed to die of natural causes.

His quote is reminiscent of the almost-axiomatic truth that the best programmers are lazy ones.
Palm Beach Gardens teen launches Jurassic app
It's worth noting that _both_ of the outliers on this chart are the direct responsibility of the US population.
I really enjoy http://afreshcup.com/. It's mostly a linkblog, but Mike Gunderloy always finds interesting things to share.
The angel offer came from a retired CEO of a public company that saw the article.

The subject of the article is a product of HN:

HN introduced us to Khan Academy many years ago, and it his math and [one of the] CS sources.

HN introduced us to many learning sources for Java [Programr, Think Like a CS, etc].

HN introduced us to Pygame.

HN introduced us to ocw.mit.edu.

HN introduced us to Minecraft when it was in early beta.

etc.....
That causality is wrong. The vulnerability doesn't exist because Samsung products are attractive to exploit. It's a brain-damaged driver (exposes physical memory directly, which even /dev/mem doesn't anymore; and it's created with global write priviledges, meaning that literally no one with a clue about security ever looked at it). Samsung screwed up badly here.

A microkernel wouldn't have helped them here -- it looks to me like this driver exists precisely to defeat the existing protections that prevent userspace access to device memory. If that was the requirement, no kernel architecture would have helped this.
One could take this as yet another sign that there's nothing scientific going on here.

I don't know anything about the test being discussed here, but that sounds like a pretty unscientific thing to say, in itself.
I can't seem to get those charts to a scale that's readable
Which part wasn't clear?
Video highlights as a link out would be possible (although I certainly couldn't embed them). Maybe I'll add a highlights link on mouse over, so as to keep it relatively uncluttered.
Show HN: My Experimental "Dev Blog" For A Pet Project
Well, it depends on where you draw the line - I mean, in our society we have agreed that we will force everybody to submit to certain rules, no matter what they want or what it takes to make them submit.

As an example, if someone (for whatever reason) wants to kill his neighbour and take his goods/wife/house/whatever, then we'll force him not to do it, up to and including lethal force by lots of armed uniformed men.

Continuing with the example, if a "kid" realistically threatens to perform criminal acts - such as shooting someone, robbing someone, raping someone - then submission is not optional, it's mandatory and it SHOULD be an absolute goal. The only question is how to make that submission happen in a humane manner - if the expected result is violence and a long prison term or death, then many means of forcing submission, such as threatening physical punishment or forced medication may seem quite reasonable.
"...before testifying at a hearing of the California Corporations Department, which sought to determine if Facebook’s acquisition of the photo sharing service was in the best interest of Instagram investors."

Can someone explain why this department is doing that? It wasn't a publicly traded company or anything. I'm assuming that Instagram had a board which included seats to represent the VC's, which would have been involved in the various deals.

Are the VC's behind this, alleging that Kevin Systrom kept board members in the dark about a possible Twitter acquisition? Or are people who invest in the VC's behind this, alleging that the VC's betrayed a kind of fiduciary obligation or something? Is the state of CA an investor in the VC's?

The article seems so short on details.
This is like the very definition of 'bad topic' for this site. Guaranteed to get people riled up, not germane to startups or hacking, very political in nature, and something where no one ever convinces anyone else anyway.
Poor title.

According to the article, this is only an exploit on phone with a Exynos4 processor and a Samsung Kernel.
Dell Gives up on Android, Doubles Down on Windows 8
We get into value questions really quickly. It is hard to spell them out explicitly.

For example if 90% of land is used for farming and cities, why not save the rest 10% for wild animals? The gain from changing that into farmland as well seems minimal, but the loss very large - it can be complete for those species that are destroyed.

I've never understood the very hard line against forest conservation in my country either. If the environmental folks are proposing 5 to 10 percent of forests being put under conservation, is that such a big loss to the economy? For many species that live in old forests there might be only a few habitats left in the country.

What is the ultimate objective, or the meaning of life? Maximizing human biomass? Does that goal justify us to destroy everything else in process? Do tigers really have no value for you whatsoever?

I've seen big cats in the zoo and it seems they have gone mentally insane, repeating same movements etc.

We have brown bears over here. You're lucky to see one as they are really good at avoiding people. I don't think people have problems with them unless they (the people) do something stupid. Mites, wasps, dogs and horses kill much more people every year.
For people who only care about non-government espionage.
I'm still not sure there's a real pattern here, beyond the always present 'make a quick buck' style of business, which has probably been around since business was discovered. Good discussion though. Thanks. You on twitter?
Userspace components are expressly excluded from being considered derived works of the kernel by text at the top of its license. Within the kernel, individual symbols (e.g. function calls) are explicitly tagged with a bit that tells the kernel whether they can be used by non-GPL code, and the kernel checks this at runtime.
please don't delete..
> Can you explain why more people causes price to go up?

Sure. As you know, price is the intersection of supply and demand. An increase in a population is, in economic terms, an increase in demand. This will cause the price level to increase.

Over time, supply will increase to match the new demand level, but to what extent and more importantly, the time frame involved, will be dependent on the good/service in question. The supply for some goods and especially most services, isn't easily increased. There is a finite number of lawyers, doctors, etc. to provide services and it take time to train more. Regulations get in the way, licensing, etc. And, of course, there are pressures on the raw materials used to manufacture goods.
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet - The Risks Digest - http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks

See just how wrong things can, and do, go.
If you're going to argue with me, please at least argue against something I actually said.

If you'd rather continue arguing with yourself, carry on, I won't interrupt you again.
The Risks Digest is great http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
I would think investors at this level would be capable of retaining their own lawyers and filing lawsuits if they felt cheated.
Slightly off-topic, but Twitter has all but replaced RSS for me. I'm getting more value out of following people I have similar interest to than I did subscribing to their feeds.
Thanks jmathai, that's awesome!
The corollary is that Hushmail is a shitty service. A good service for private e-mail should make it impossible for the server administrators to see what is going on. Obviously that checkbox should make any user that needs real security turn around in the door.

I've never used Hushmail, but I assumed "secure e-mail" == "none of my information touches the server in plaintext". So this comment is quite interesting.
Nice, great job! Very, very impressive!
I think I'd rather go with Skywing's suggestion of highlighting the scores rather than placing them next to the logos, although coloring player names (despite the same problems as highlighting scores) is something I should do.

As for hockey, I'll be adding it once the NHL lockout ends.
I was the OP from the other thread. callmeed understands what my intent was with the other post. Sadly, I either wrote up the post poorly, or the method of asking outright on forums is a bad idea.

Coming from a business background, I just assumed that any idea people would put out there would have been small solutions to small problems... not "sitcom startups", products with no market, or funny stabs at combining nouns with an airbnbnb business model. Perhaps I was wrong. Really the only thing I was looking for were problems that could potentially be solved with minimal capital, and only 1 or 2 people.

Maybe looking for small problems, solutions, and actionable ideas can't be done on internet forums... It didn't seem too unthinkable for me to imagine someone like Patrick responding to my initial post with something like this:

"You know what? Some teachers have approached me to build a Bingo Card Creator, and are willing to pay for it. I may be able to introduce you to them. Personally, I have zero interest in pursuing this, but maybe you do. Obviously, you will want to do your own market research, but you likely have at least a few sales. The market is niche, and I am pursuing something a little bigger that interests me more, but it could be worth a look for you. A sweet bonus is that this can probably be executed by a single person."

Interestingly, Paul himself seems to have started a company that might be earning him money and could have originated in that thread.

I was looking for ideas like Posters for verticals. Maybe Paul didn't want to start doing posters for microbreweries, but knew that people wanted them. Is any sharing of small business ideas completely useless?

Yes he went on to validate the idea, knowing that spending half a year building an app or product and trying to market it prior to validation isn't very intelligent, but I thought that was implied.
I'd say it's much more in line with Alan Kay's definition[1] of OO than most other languages.

It's statically typed, so it can check at compile-time that the "messages" being passed are valid, but the dispatch of the messages (ie, methods) is determined by the struct itself, which has the same effect as "extreme late binding" (Kay's words) - the only difference is that Go's type system permits much of this to happen at compile-time anyway.

[1] Which, incidentally, explicitly mentions inheritance as not being a defining point of OO programming.
That depends on which team you're playing for, no?
As far as I understand it the message is not crypted but just
obscured with acronyms of plain phrases (PABLIZ = Panzer Attack Blitz). Young used a phrase book from WW I, which had phrases and acronyms similar to those in the pigeon message.
Not saying the paper is legit, but doesn't seem too unlikely to me that those phrases and acronyms didn't change much between the wars.

Can you point out the other incongruities you have found?
Similar discussion about ideas - http://www.vusal.me/essays/ideas/
Pickaxes, Shovels and Sluice Boxes: A New Beginning
God what a disappointing list. It's almost as awful as pretty much every other set of future predictions that popmech makes. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/futur...

I almost want to write my own list of predictions now.
Actually now-a-days it's using an OTR client, since it adds deniability and forward secrecy. I don't know if it removes offline messaging. It's also a lot easier to use and easier to convince your friends and close ones to use it since they only need to flip a switch practically.

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
Edit: more seriously, I care about who won much more than rushing, etc. Bolding the score and winner would help a lot scanning, and pushing te scores to the beginning of the line would too.

Second edit: regretted and removed lame self promotion. Apologies.
as for technical blogs, the only ones I get consistently useful information from are:
http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/, from which I've learnt a great deal about vim and also about some obscure but historically significant unix tools which otherwise I'd never have known of.
http://archlinux.me/ Every now and then a good in depth article pops up pn this one. Dev blogs are great for learning about the nitty gritty details of a project aswell as getting a grip on the problems devs are facing right now.
That's something I'll definitely consider.

maid clean
# Give error message
maid clean --noop
# Show what would happen
maid clean --force # or maybe --execute
# Do actions

I'll be making an issue for this if no one has already.
If anyone has any questions or needs help doing this on their own, let me know, I'd be happy to help.
how is this different from https://bagcheck.com/?
The investors should be savvy enough to protect themselves. And protecting the taxpayers? What? The state is going to poke its head into every company and review your operations to make sure you'll be profitable enough to pay lots of taxes?
Is it doomsday again for the web already?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/
If you're 'pretty happy' without 'a good keyboard map, a properly working touchpad, graphics acceleration, power mgmt or hibernation', and you're actually running chromium but with no flash support... how 'unhappy' are you really just running ChromeOS in Dev mode?

That may sound more negative than I mean it, so don't take it that way.

EDIT: I too have an ARM chromebook, running it in Dev mode is a great experience if you basically just need a browser, vim and an SSH client.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_compilation
Yup, flagged it as well. Sure, it has a few lines of code and some nice looking graph, but the subject is just creating controversy.
Are mass murders compatible with basic human rights?

I mean, if at some point we identify a set of mental diseases that (a) can be accurately diagnosed; (b) can't be cured; (c) make the patient a violent threat to society - then wouldn't forced medical institutionalization be a better option then both current options of street-life or jails?
Planet Node.js: http://planetnodejs.com/
I have this smaller project that I am pouring some of my free time in, and I am trying different options for motivating myself to finish it.

This is the latest take on it - try and post what I've done last in a form of a screenshot and a commentary that explains the context in some depth. It's not quite blogging, because I am not tracking who reads this and so I can't obsess over the readership size, the likes and the follows. It seems to be working and this intentional lack of a feedback appears to be the key.

Can anyone relate to this?
The "Most similar to" feature is not necessarily a reflection of the language's features, but of how closely they rank in the questions (which are largely subjective, and lack technical depth.)

You're correct though, in terms of features, D is closer to C++, C#, Java.
In Stockholm we have a candy machine with a QR code to download their app to make a purchase. If you want to app you have to use the QR code since they don't tell you the name of the app.
Why is this cuda and not OpenCL? There's no reason to legitimize nvidia's proprietary nonsense, it just enables their bad behavior.
A rationale that includes P(B|A) but not P(A|B) is not a rational one. I have been asking you to evaluate the legitimacy of the rationale by considering P(A|B).
I would love to see some data on this subject. Especially the ad-related usage, that seems quite popular. I can see the point for verification purpose or something like that were people are forced to use it, but otherwise...
Given its 17 years of history and recent the recent progress with versions 5.3 and newer... whoever voted on this position either wasn't aware of PHP's actual situation and outlook, or was just being thinking wishful.

I don't know, I think it's a good prediction. Look at this chart for example (yeah, I know... tiobe isn't necessarily an accurate indicator but still):

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/PHP.html

In the 2000s, PHP was everywhere. But recently, Rails, Django, Node.js etc. seem to be much more prominent. Maybe thinking of PHP as a fad is slightly... optimistic, but I wouldn't call it "wishful thinking" as if PHP was here to stay forever as one of the most popular server-side languages.

I'm not saying PHP is going away this year or the year after that, but consider that some languages that go back to the 50s (Lisp) are enjoying newly revived popularity (Clojure). Do you really think this would happen to PHP in 2050?
I do agree with this article in that hybrid apps are a very viable option, but I feel a lot of what's said is fairly common knowledge.
Facebook was organized as a California company and selling securities in California.

Why would you think the state that creates and formalizes the laws under which a company organizes wouldn't have an interest in how that company sells securities in itself?

There's also this:

http://www.corp.ca.gov/Codes/Laws.asp

1. Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Corporations Code § 25000 et seq.) requires persons offering or selling securities such as stocks or bonds to qualify (e.g., submit to the Department for review and approval) the proposed securities, and requires licensing and regulation of securities broker-dealers and certain investment advisers, except as specified; prohibits misrepresentations, fraudulent and deceptive acts in the offer and sale of securities; and provides administrative, civil (injunction, ancillary relief and appoint of receiver) and criminal remedies for violations of the law.

2. California Commodity Law of 1990 (Corporations Code § 29500 et seq.) prohibits misrepresentation, fraudulent and deceptive acts in the offer and sale of certain off-exchange commodities, except as specified; and provides administrative, civil (injunctions, ancillary relief and appointment of receiver) and criminal remedies for violations of the law.

...
I am not trying to be difficult but i have no idea what you are talking about. I looked through your past comments and you seem to be a competent commenter, can you clarify that you meant?
I'm confused - the article doesn't mention an angel investment at all.
I also follow:

- Planet Python: http://planet.python.org/

- Planet Django: http://www.planetdjango.org/

The following are interesting if you're user of the Linux distribution and sometimes overlap with other planets (ie. Gnome):

- Planet Fedora: http://planet.fedoraproject.org/

- Planet Ubuntu: http://planet.ubuntu.com/

EDIT: formatting
Since this appears to be the dedicated thread for self promotion, http://bbot.org/blog/
I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother
I am neither lawyer nor accountant so what do I know. I can believe that the various ways the sale of Instagram is structured and to whom can have huge tax differences. But I don't know.
I got just the site for you :) -
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com
Here's the problem with crowdsourced lists:

100 Greatest presidents: #1 is Richard Nixon
http://www.listnerd.com/list/top-presidents-of-the-usa

You don't get serious lists. There's always trolls, or people that are uninformed adding their 2-cents.
> Happy to oblige. I recently looked into this before I quit my job four months ago to spend some time working on hobby projects.

I should simply extend this to, "one middle class person who's not had the benefit of being on a big company's premium plan tell me otherwise." If it wasn't for COPBRA and HIPAA, you'd be in a much different situation.

> So as long as you've either gotten the coverage below that age or had a job with a group plan at any point later in your life, and had no gaps in coverage since, you are fine.

That's a whole lot of stipulations. I think it should just be reduced to the last 3 words.

> I also suspect that in many cases when people share their health insurance horror stories, there is something they're not telling you.

I see lots of people roll their eyes when I mention my sister's healthcare horror stories. How is it that people know a priori that, "there is something they're not telling you?" There is some clear prejudice operating here -- without exception, people who have that axe to grind don't even let me finish the sentence before their eyes roll. Incidentally, my sister is covered under the plan for the New York City Ballet. She's a dance educator and takes the same classes as the company as enrichment for her job. Even she has a healthcare horror story.

She blew out her hamstring during one of those classes. She was scheduled to go in for an MRI to see if she needed surgery, but there was a traffic accident involving a toddler, and they had to MRI the kid first, so she couldn't get her MRI, so the doctors have her stay overnight at the hospital to get her MRI first thing in the morning. Well, it turns out she didn't need surgery, so the insurance company sticks her with over $4000 for the hospital stay! There is nothing I'm not telling you about that.
Making Us Safer, One iPad at a Time
I signed up and was redirected to :

A 404 error occurred!
Page not found.
The requested URL could not be matched by routing.

ListNerd custom 404 goes here
"As of last week, about 30 people had downloaded Frost’s application"

"angel $ offer"

Uh oh.. are we in another bubble? I hope not...
Seats on the Titanic were surprisingly affordable in the last few minutes.
At one point I took multiple different tests to compare them within a short period of time. I ended up getting 3 different results over the tests I took, I got INTP, INTJ, and ENTP. Overall I found that a lot of the test questions were not black and white enough, or just repeated with different wording on the test (essentially doubling the weighting of that question). These poor questions were present regardless of whether it was a free online one, or a so called "professionally written" one.
Objects Everywhere - Param Objects in Rails
Great explanation, just want to add that when you use Tor hidden services to communicate (i.e. no exit node involved or needed), everything is end-to-end encrypted and the MITM attack scenario doesn't apply. Hidden services are also not vulnerable to:

> "The Tor design doesn't try to protect against an attacker who can see or measure both traffic going into the Tor network and also traffic coming out of the Tor network. That's because if you can see both flows, some simple statistics let you decide whether they match up."

because all traffic is within the Tor network.
http://blog.elphel.com/ image processing

http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/ 3d printers

http://pipeline.corante.com/ pharmaceutical development

http://howtospotapsychopath.com/ all sorts of stuff