skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun talk to watch. I learned that NFL teams should go for it more often on 4th down: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/sports/football/05romer.ht...
Toxic is exactly the correct word. It poisons the community and kills morale. If an employee of mine were ever using that tone around the office, we would be making a quick trip to a small conference room to discuss appropriate behavior toward colleagues. If it kept up, they'd be gone. Because somebody would eventually be leaving over that behavior, and I'd rather it be the perp than the victims.
Apparently some people in the world use gmail. He wrote something that will be at least interesting to try, so why should he feel any "pain in his soul"?

go there and make something too, instead of hoping for other people's souls...
Using web fonts in email
Is there any site designed from the start to autoscroll that has a footer?

It seems like these sites implemented autoscroll after existing for years and left the footer as a vestigial organ that no longer serves any purpose.
He did a lot of work in text to speech, speech recognition, OCR, etc. back in the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Mid-life
Already solved, use CardDAV. http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Team solves mystery associated with DNA repair
I used to be a big proponent of infinite scrolling, but it breaks down the second I want to send someone a link, or for that matter resume later on where I left off. It also tends to break the "back" functionality, good auto-scrollers will somehow save where you are at but the browser still ends up loading all previously scrolled through content and there is a delay until the scroll bar jumps down to where the user last left off.

It also does not allow me to easily link to a results page. Scenarios like "check out these mid-range priced items here" where I linked to page 4 of 8.

Now having pagination be AJAX based so the entire page doesn't reload unnecessarily, that I am all for!
It's seemed pretty clear to me for some time that Google's real mission is AI/singularity oriented and everything else is just a step along that road. It may not be what the day-to-day view is in the trenches, but it seems like the high level plan.

A hire like this one certainly reinforces that perception.

I don't know if it's truly possible to accomplish, but it's fascinating to see a major company taking steps in that directions.
What if they don't raise any more, and start to make profit immediately?
Awesomely ingenious use of math above. 59 if newlines count as 1.

i=1
while i<101:print'FizzBuzz'[i*i%3*4:8--i**4%5]or i;i+=1
Ask HN: What are the best educational gifts for kids?
Its about Christmas time and I'm curious what the rest of the HN crowd is doing. In this case, he is 7 years old.
As much as I like Python, I don't think this is the right approach.

What browsers need to do is to have a machine-level bytecode, so that they can download whatever interpreters are needed to run the scripting code the page uses. Then pages can be written in whatever language the developer feels is best.

This is the real potential of something like Native Client - although it doesn't look like that potential will be achieved any time soon.
Expressions, Opérateurs (arithmétiques, relationnels, affectations…)
I know the entire process is extremely seedy, but I can't deny it does seem kind of complex.
I dunno, I find the iOS keyboard to be higher in my list of annoyances. While typing, there's only one possible word that can be the autocomplete e term? And I have to look up, stop typing, and hit that tiny "x" if I want to override it? (I've overridden the autocomplete for "it's" and its so many times that it's apparently given up trying to autocorrect for that)

And who thought that shaking the device to Undo a simple typo (which the requires you to stop convulsing so that you can press OK or Cancel) was at all natural? I've yet to meet someone who intuitively figured out that feature. I had my iPad for a year before I realized it was my accidental sudden movement while typing that was triggering the Undo.

In terms of total annoyance accumulated in day to day use, I'd say the iOS keyboard is by far the dumbest UI pattern
Certainly. When reality disagrees with your theory you don't blame reality, you blame your theory. The idea that there would be yet another housing bubble which popped and that this might cause a massive number of defaults from "sub-prime" lenders is not exactly fucking rocket science, it should have been on the mind of anyone and everyone investing in that business. That's not a 25-sigma event, that's a 0-sigma event, it's predictable and inevitable. By making it seem like the inevitable was impossible these charlatans transformed an ordinary housing bubble into an existential crisis for the world financial industry. It's a shame more of them aren't in jail.
Issue trees
Now that I'm home and have checked it out, I'm glad to see that our ideas do differ in some ways. I do like how simple & easy to use your app is though!
I think it was Margaret Atwood who described civilization as the intelligent trading of "freedoms to" for "freedoms from". For example, you can trade the right for everyone, regardless of criminal background, to buy automatic assault weapons for freedom from the extreme violence that comes with that freedom to.

The U.S. already has some gun control laws, but the data presented here suggests they don't go far enough. However, gun control laws are always going to come down to how much people value their freedom to versus their freedom from.
Looks interesting. Certainly a step in the right direction.

Are there any specs as to the speed of using this? Javascript can be a bit slow on most days, does Brython make it worse?
Cannot agree more. This how I learn't Java in University, C#, Javascript and SQL at work.
Not sure why my vote isn't being reflected.

The interwebs are broken!!
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Apple's iPhone Guilty of Infringing Three Nokia, Sony Patents
Um, what the hell?
Isn't Exchange the only way to get true "Push" email and events in the iPhone's Mail + Calendar clients?

I've been using Exchange exclusively instead of IMAP for Calendar and Mail "Push" since I switched to iPhone....

This is absolutely outrageous.
That's true, but you could probably get it to load & reparse the files off disk every request and serve the JS dynamically. If you've ever used Django or AppEngine, you just edit your templates and source files, you don't have to do a manual compile & load style every time you change things. There's no reason you couldn't set your PyJS serving URL to do the same.

In terms of absolute CPU cycles burned, it's actually faster that way, since parsing happens in C using Python's built-in facilities, and the amount of JS shipped to the browser is less.
I wonder if we'll be able to submit pull requests.
Of course, fluffster was directed at you and I know what Kurzweil did.
His tendency to handwave rather than retreat to data? What the heck are you talking about? Have you seen how many graphs he puts in his presentations?

You think he's a theorist rather than an experimentalist? How can you possibly get that idea with all of his game-changing inventions?
It's the same in the martial arts world, too.

The humblest, nicest, friendliest instructor I've ever had - in MMA-style kickboxing, generally a pretty macho area - was the one with multiple world championship belts.
I love the simplicity of this. Very nice.
I thought we called that A/B testing around here.
dick creates 800,000 useless books algorithmically, starts defrauding people on Amazon
haha... it's a conspiracy!
about the last para, there is more than can meet the eye (for example: when said people issue unwarranted physical threats) it's not to diminish the greatness of anyone's work but some (not all) people have genuine complaints beyond a single blog post.
Ray Kurzweil Joins Google focused On Machine Learning And Language Processing
I don't think you can. You can delete and create new folders, and I think thats about it.
"Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

If you take that to the limit, the logical consequence is some sort of planet-wise consciousness that can instantly pull up any of humanity's collective knowledge at a moment's notice.
Many accelerators and investors have a basic position that bore out in the research undertaken in 'the startup genome report'.

'..the findings confirm what are commonly held beliefs, such as the drawbacks of being a single person founder. Solo founders take 3.6 times as long to reach scale stage as do founding teams of 2 and they are 2.3 times less likely to pivot.'
http://readwrite.com/2011/05/28/the-startup-genome-project-e...
Wow, Google really hates people using Google Mail now. I wonder why -- is this to get people to switch to the premium service (and thus revenue), or to move them to Android?
How will calendar syncing work with iOS devices?
AJAX pagination + history API preserves the best of both worlds. Too bad most companies seem too lazy to bother.
Sounds like people posting or contributing to an article like this are aiming at understanding artificial general intelligence. So just search for that. Artificial General Intelligence or AGI.
Criminals Targeting Holiday Shoppers With Dexter Malware
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If you want to solve the problem you're discussing in this article, you seriously need to talk to some dejected netadmins.

Most corporate technology problems where a solution exists but isn't used aren't technology problems at all, they're office politics problems (for the sake of argument I also consider business requirements / SOPs to be under the office politics umbrella, if you've ever tried to change them you know this is true).

It's rare that more technology actually fixes the problem. Usually getting more/new technology is a catalyst to changing the underlying social problems, or is just a workaround.

For example, my alma mater wants to implement a new thing to make service better on campus (sorry about the vague-ness, its about privacy of the people involved, and I'm not even supposed to know this). If the project goes through as originally planned, they'll save money and greatly improve services. But, it will never be approved without letting the CIO win a turf war in the process, so the project will end up spending an extra >$500k on unnecessary tech to do it her way. Did I mention this is a public school that really can't afford to be paying that much just to feed egos?
http://imgur.com/ is guilty of this
Was there a recent major managerial shift at google or something?

This kindof stings.
They already lost it when they put critical UX in a footer.
I HATE infinite scrolling, especially when some menu items are only available in the footer. Either duplicate the links up top, statically position the footer, or get rid of infinite scrolling entirely. Designers: Never ever put anything mildly useful under infinitely scrolling content.
So how soon before the algorithm then uses the comments as part of the next revision of the book? Its an interesting way to demonstrate the value proposition.

In this case algorithmically selecting stuff from around the web generates random books, but they have little value for the most part. Books that are researched and curated on the other hand have higher values. The only difference being the curation, not the basic information. So it gives you an insight into pricing curation.

Next up, a bot that sends out 800,000 DMCA takedown notices, oh wait we already have that for youtube.
Disclosure: I just started working for Microsoft, but I think this would be my opinion anyway.

The Windows 8 app market looks still pretty much wide-open. Nevertheless, we can expect with some confidence that a few months from now there will be approximately a gazillion Windows 8 users looking for apps.

IMHO, this would be a really great time to have a few nice $2 game on that app store.
In short you may be insanely talented but for a new organization seeking funding and resources you just have half as much people resources to execute with than the next pair who are seeking the same.
I'm using an iPhone for about a week now after selling my S3 and waiting for my Nexus 4 to come. Even now I still haven't internalized this behavior. It feels very unnatural and taxing to use.
Ask HN: Where should I look for clients if I am starting my own software house?
So, I am guessing I am not the only person who has ever faced this issue (There are probably many people right now facing the same issue)

I have been working for a number of years as a software engineer. I would consider myself quite experienced with many technologies, and I have a strong technical background.

Here's my weakness though... I have always worked for companies that are somewhat complete, or have a very large client base already. I started my career at Microsoft, for example. Their client base was already massive when I got there, and the people responsible for finding new clients were in a part of the company I never seemed to have to deal with as a developer.

Now though, I find myself surrounded by a group of like-minded friends with similar experience who have decided we all need to try and do our own thing together. We are willing to make software for most needs (obviously, within reason, there are obviously projects we can't afford to be involved in or are outside of our knowledge domain... such as space travel, or nuclear physics).

Anyway, to get back on track, My question here, is how do I get clients, where do I search? The business and client finding side of things is something I haven't done before. I am looking forward to learning, but I could use some knowledge right about now.

Thanks for any help you can provide.
Awesome, I always wondered where I could find nice soundtracks like this for demos. Good stuff.
Good. Hopefully it will help create a decent open protocol for groupware.
Saving a picture finally downloads it at full resolution rather than a horribly compressed one. Thumbs up.
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"I'm not convinced that the notion that perception is intrinsically harder than logic is quite true."

But... where's the room for doubt? This isn't an article from 1930 about theoretical possibilities of what may happen someday when we have a lot of computational power. This is an observation about how perception has proved to be much more complicated than more pure reasoning, one quite old, robust, and well-established. The question is more about why that is true than whether it is true.

In a further comment you reply about how you could not convince your neural net to play chess... but again, we are not theorizing that computers may be good at chess someday. We live in a world in which, if they are not already simply better than humans, we only a couple of years away. Certainly better than all but the absolute very best. Whereas we still get excited when we see a robot that can walk up or down a normal, rocky hill at all.

Also, it baffles me how you think that explaining why logic is easier than perceptual problems is somehow disproof of that very fact. It doesn't matter that it's "really" the programmer that knows how to play chess (even if I'd observe the machine is still doing it better) when we still can't hardly make machines walk at all, regardless of whether the programmer or the computer is the one "knowing", a concept that in this context comes perilously close to a tautological assertion that if a computer can do it it must not be true "knowing". If we were really good at both sensorimotor and logic, but with two radically different toolkits, that might be an interesting point, but that's not the world we live in.
As much as I don't like Microsoft, I actually think the .NET CLR would be an excellent choice for such a runtime. NaCl not so much; target architecture-dependent compiled code is a major downside.
It would be great if the KA site could be optimized for tablet usage -- combined with this, one could have a very cost-effective beginnings of a "Diamond Age" like device.
I remember when Eternal September began. I wasn't exactly a seasoned veteren at that point, but I had at least enough history to have compiled a Usenet FAQ (I came online in 1990). It was sad what the Eternal September did to misc.kids. I still miss that group from before that time.
Regarding integrity, check his iPhone 5 review. Is there any mention of the Apple Maps app being a farce?

Regarding inside sources, are there any examples of him breaking an exclusive story of substance? For example, what is happening to the (new) Mac Pro?
Yes, because giving people choices imposes a small but real cost upon them. It's science.
Google: maximizing the sum of consciousness.
You're missing the third school of thought: provide mental health services.

It distresses me that our cultural fix-it focus is on tools and not causes: neither arming the nation nor banning firearms will address fundamental problems of mental health.

Even though you acknowledge that "...a deranged person will always find a means to carry out their ill will...", you're not addressing the derangement. Let's start there. Social services are expensive. Not having them can be...more expensive.
I'm sure they want you to use the iOS Gmail app. While it doesn't support true "Push" email, it does receive push notifications which is a pretty good approximation.
I had already bought the "Power Pack", but upped to "Mega Supporter" or whatever after seeing this. Looking forward to it.
It's not just about being hacked or using un-approved software.

For example, Google Chrome allows itself to be installed to a user account, bypassing administration requirements which may be that "vulnerability." The install is not particularly big, 50MB or so, so when Little Johnny Hacker does it it may not seem like a big deal. When 20,000 students install it that's almost 1TB, before we even consider them actually saving school work! (If you don't have 20,000 students in your school lets assume your IT resources and staff are appropriately scaled.)

You might ask, when you've got 20,000 people who want a piece of software why wouldn't you just make it available to them? So, let's say your school uses some web tools like Blackboard Learn and somewhere along the line--maybe in Chrome, maybe in BbLearn, maybe in Java, maybe somewhere else--there's a bug and students can't upload their homework to BbLearn with Chrome.

Now you've got 20,000 student freaking out and swarming the help desk trying to figure out what to do, teachers are upset they have to change their plans since it's not the students' fault, and IT is flustered because this is an emergency and not something they can research and test and find an appropriate solution for their environment.

And all this because, clearly, the students know "what good software is for them" and IT is just a bunch of old hacks who can't keep up.

When you work in any collaborative or networked environment some sacrifices will be made to fit everyone in. It's an IT department's job to figure out what technology will make the cut and what won't. Some of those decisions will be good, some will be bad, and some decisions won't actually be in the IT department's control.
If you don't like a decision that was made (or wasn't made), you should talk to IT about it. They may tell you to bugger off, or they may make an exception for you or even launch an investigation to launch of complete solution.
I tend to feel the same way about him and the state of his life at the moment.

I am very grateful for the inventions he brought forth and his work on AI but I think his current goals in life are unreasonable and of course, related to the death of his father.

As much as he doesn't want to be human anymore, his entire goal in life relies on the human condition...to reconnect with his father and transgress life in its current form.

I think he could do so much more at the moment if, like you said, he would focus on problems that can be solved as soon as possible and demonstrate a use of his solution.
Doesn't it already do that?
And how does any of this apply to Connecticut, which already has one of the lowest per-capita firearms death rates in the country (and lower than many European countries, I might add) and some of the strictest gun control laws in the country? Would even stricter laws have prevented the shooting?

We need to stop seeing this as a gun crisis, because it isn't. It is a mental health crisis. Bombing federal buildings and shooting up shopping malls is the sign of a serious lack of ability for society to recognize and help the mentally ill. While prior experience with weapons is a common thread among the perpetrators of these tragedies, there are usually clear signs of mental illness tied with each.

Here are the key findings of a Secret Service study performed after the Columbine High School massacre in 1999:

- Incidents of targeted violence at school were rarely sudden, impulsive acts.

- Prior to most incidents, other people knew about the attacker's idea and/or plan to attack.

- Most attackers did not threaten their targets directly prior to advancing the attack.

- There is no accurate or useful profile of students who engaged in targeted school violence.

- Most attackers engaged in some behavior prior to the incident that caused others concern or indicated a need for help.

- Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures. Moreover, many had considered or attempted suicide.

- Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted, or injured by others prior to the attack.

- Most attackers had access to and had used weapons prior to the attack.

- In many cases, other students were involved in some capacity.

- Despite prompt law enforcement responses, most shooting incidents were stopped by means other than law enforcement intervention.

This week's incidents (I also refer to the shootings near my home town in Clackamas, Oregon on Tuesday) are a wake-up call: be on the lookout for these signals, and make sure these people get the help they need. This may involve a re-examination of current laws on the books that prevent the involuntary committing of the mentally ill. This may require a serious effort to allocate resources to mental health facilities and faculty. And yes, this may mean denying access to weapons until a psychological examination is performed.
Ask HN: What do you think of the "Don't get scroogled" ad by Bing
I just saw an ad on TV by bing. I was surprised how blatantly they attacked googled and used the word "scroogled" for "screwed by google". What are your reactions ?
Thank you for everyone who lent me some support and offered suggestions on this. I don't know the best way to respond on HN so that each of you get a notification regarding this thread.

I took some time to think about this after everyone commented, and took some action.

I took some time to be with my niece and nephew and casually asked them questions on what they'd like to do over the holidays and not WHAT they wanted.

They both said learning to play hockey was something they wanted to do now and next year when registration opens up.

So I went out and bought them a hockey stick each. They both already have skates. And have arranged for a lot of days over their time off from school to take them to the outdoor and indoor rink to teach them hockey. The sticks are about 40 dollars each, and the rest of the cost will be my time. But since I'm spending time with my niece and nephew this will be as much as a gift to them as it will be to me.

I'm trying to apply this way of thinking to everyone else. How to give them something that will have even more value if I can give them my time as well. And I think I can find out just by asking what they'd like to do, or get done, instead of what they'd like.

EDIT:

The sticks were 40 dollars for both, not each.