skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from a broken home impacts everyone differently, and particularly when you end up raising yourself (and your siblings). The idea that someone doesn't want to be a mother because they're self-centered is very far from the truth. They are more likely to be aware of their vulnerabilities and the fear that they will end up like their parents. Worse, they may have long-term damage (or mental health issues that plagued their parents as well) that they don't feel would make them strong parents. I consider that responsible, not self-centered.
If the site or signup form fail, I will also merge signups from this Google form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhFNUV...
Thanks so much!

Great news on the book, we definitely need to start seeing more books out there on Mono/Xamarin tech. Hopefully we can help people understand what a great opportunity C# can be when you embrace it :)
I have maybe 75% success in having a search term find the right place in Apple Maps. In Google Maps, it was more like 99%. This sounds pretty close, but every single one of those 25% that failed, I had to go look up the address on Google and cut and paste it into Apple Maps. I do not enjoy doing that.

I've also had it direct me to locations that did not exist (but were in Yelp). But since no one uses Yelp to review bank branches, that data has never really been checked before.
Say what you will about his actual opinions, I think it's refreshing to hear someone who is willing to say what he believes despite popular concurrence with his opinions. Very tired of the echo chamber in the tech community.

As for the article, many of these seem like realistic perspectives, even if they discomfort the typical listener.
If we wanted to try and accurately describe the economic policy by the government in Washington, you'd have to describe the monetary and fiscal policies. Both of these since 2007 have been Keynesian far more than the other two schools (Monetarist and Austrian).

Maybe you cannot describe those policies as Monetarist or Austrian. But given that everybody's policies there are driven by some desire to cut the budget deficit at a time of a very weak economy - with the only disagreement being over how the cuts should look - it just seems very bizarre to call that Keynesian.
Ludum dare doesn't start for another day or so. He said on twitter that he will not be doing this one due to scheduling conflicts or something.
Someone with a substance abuse problem is the only person that can tackle that issue. Attending alchoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous (or a similar 12-step style program) can be a start, and it is really helpful if said person attends therapy with a professional of some form outside of those kinds of programs (church staff don't count, this absolutely should be a trained therapist, psychologist, etc). Outside of that, there isn't anything you can do. It should be noted that not talking to someone with a substance abuse problems is a wholly legitimate thing to do, as you aren't required to put yourself in situations that are harmful to your own mental and physical well being.
The Pending Talent Wars
Theres one in or on the way to Hitchin
I expect there to eventually be a jailbreak tweak for this. Though of course having an iOS6 jailbreak would help first.
The Best Book on Leadership You’ve Never Read
Everyone has their "Overly Ambitious Startup Idea" and this one is mine: I want fast, low latency, reliable, affordable Internet access anywhere in rural America.

I'm the kind of tech geek who would gladly live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with nothing but solar, wifi, and a couple of chickens. But Internet access holds me back and I'm sure I'm not alone.

The new 12mbps Exceed service looks good, but it's still high latency satellite. I think if we made quality rural Internet a priority, we would see a revitalization of rural living and small towns. How refreshing it would be to find a startup or two in every small town along with the farmers and the sheriff!
...no. Most economists not in the Chicago school would probably say that capital is cheap enough. Instead, we should be giving a skeptical eye to the corporate income tax.
You are also getting WP support from folks that know the codebase really well. $500 for managed hosting with CDN and unlimited bandwidth? That's a great deal for any large publication.
For sure. I actually built roots on top of sass originally, and I became frustrated with it's limitations. I tried porting it to stylus because that was the only viable alternative that I knew of, and once I started working with it I couldn't go back.

The only drawback to stylus is that sometimes you can get caught with ambiguity. But I've tried to make roots so that if you are just starting, you deal with that as little as possible.
I know the place! Give me that roundabout any day. At least that way everyone is scared into being careful.
Commenting to say the same thing. Wow, this design is terrible.
Theres one in or on the way to Hemel Hempstead
You could start with C# 4.0 / .NET 4.0 which is supported on XP.

.NET 3.5 has a much higher install-penetration than .NET 4.0 though, so if you're really concerned with making installations hassle-free, you might want to consider starting with C# 3.0 / .NET 3.5 (using Visual Studio 2010).

Also, I would suggest starting with Windows Forms (WinForms) instead of WPF because it's super simple and easy to wrap your head around. You can get something built very quickly with WinForms. In WPF you'll be spending at least a month studying before you start to feel confident.
No.In general you can expect such "results-orientation" from all sorts of researchers, both in think tanks and universities. You just accept it and apply appropriate skepticism.

And it's important to note that "appropriate skepticism" != "ignore everything they say". Just because a person is an advocate of a position doesn't mean their facts are wrong or their arguments are incorrect.
Is that post counts?

Because it does show /b/ making up nearly half the site. Of course in terms of actual content that you might want to read /b/ probably comes last :)
For $3750/month I could get a lot more than just a WordPress install and the title "VIP".
Wow, nice calligraphy, I think its written using a soft nib pen. Also: Who is the "Guardian of the Ark"?
That's a strange thing to complain about, because it's accepted that outsider criticism of econometrics is valid, including among econometricians. It's common to question the assumptions even if you don't understand the machinery. There's been a lot of it in particular about market modeling in the face of the subprime mortgage collapse, both from economists and non-economists.

I'm also not sure why you keep blasting him for not using the word "multicollinearity", when he's talking about a fairly specific kind of hidden variable anyway, and one that you simply can't pluck out of small macro data sets ex nihilo especially in the face of the Lucas critique.

For instance, in this blog post, http://ipeatunc.blogspot.com/2012/08/its-not-just-data-its-a... , a blogger discusses Milton Friedman's thermostat and then, in the comments, discusses deliberately leaving technical terms such as multicollinearity out of the post.
You must be quite young. To me, what defines a good relationship (in terms of having a partner) is not necessarily that what you have in common with the other is a strong desire for stability, family life & kids. I've seen people get married because of this desire, and the people I've observed doing that don't necessarily seem very happy. On the contrary, actually. After a while they just become jaded. Like people in a job that they don't enjoy but that they need to do to pay the mortgage. I think these situations are quite unhealthy, and ultimately unsatisfying.

What defines a good relationship, in my opinion, is two people that know what they want out of life, that chase their own goals and have their own dreams, and then decide to do that together. It's much harder though, because sometimes these goals clash, but I wouldn't want it any other way.
If the load is lighter because the aircraft doesn't need to carry liquid oxygen, then does that mean it requires less fuel?

Or does oxygen-powered mean it requires no fuel?

I'm a bit confused by the brevity of the article...
The title is misleading, Amazin video has been available on the iPad for a while. This update brings it to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Intruders hack industrial heating system using backdoor posted online
Disclaimer: This is my own personal experience and opinion. I've dealt with substance abuse issues for many years and I've known several people for whom substance abuse exacted the ultimate toll.

The short of it: There are no reliable solutions. There are no good answers.

People with depression and substance abuse issues don't think the way non abusers do. They know what they're doing is wrong and that it could lead to death or going further down the spiral, but their ability to rationalize their behavior is all powerful. It has nothing to do with will power or motivation. There's something wired differently in the brain.

Medication, AA, NA, inpatient treatment, religion are all good things to try. Sometimes one of them sticks. I wish you the best of luck. The only advice I can give is this: If something bad happens with your father, it is not your fault. There is nothing you can do to change his behavior. All you can do is be supportive if he recognizes the need to make a change.
The third option is:
Cell phones can in remote circumstances cause interference, but seldom enough to warrant banning all electronic devices with the massive revenue loss that would ensue. Likewise people are still allowed to bring lithium batteries even if they pose a fire hazard with several documented in flight incidents.

In the real world, regulations are the result of trade-offs and not absolutes. It's just that the current trade-offs seem to err on the side of safety.
I'd like to think this is the start of a particularly awesome admissions application.
John McAfee Returns to US, Admits Playing 'Crazy Card'
You're equating progressive taxes to centrally planned economies and he's over simplifying?
…you think Apple are going to stop wanting to improve their maps?
Having been in a similar situation as Notch, also ending in a very similar way, all advice I can give is to make the best of the time you have and don't waste it on contempt and hate. I wish that I had been able to have a more understanding attitude than I did.
Google Maps on Android has great offline support. Offline support isn't in this first Google Maps release for iOS but they seem to be indicating it's coming.
Are you sure? His Wikipedia page has that quote on it.
I'm not so sure Stylus is the superior language. SASS seems much more well supported and features like @extend: <http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...; make a big difference.

EDIT: sorry, I meant @include: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#in...
It's also possible that they don't want kids.
mmmm, yes quite inaccurate on my part. apologies. of course... uranium fission was a critical part of the hydrogen bomb ;) will correct that thanks.
The Biggest Hacker Busts Of 2012
ksikis is talking about the Ludum Dare that took place shortly after the events detailed above. If you go to the "About page" in Minicraft, his contest entry, you'll see the dedication to his dad.
The 1st rule is not to talk about /b/
>A small percentage of people that make it big can duplicate that success.

And Andreesen is one of them. He's one of the few entrepreneurs who has created two billion dollar companies, and now is running one of the most highly regarded venture capital operations.

He's a mile a minute, super smart, and his accomplishments aren't so surprising after watching him speak:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/author/marc_andreessen
Maximize Your Productivity
I kind of skipped that because the last paragraph took me by surprise, but he writes "his last thoughts [...] were one year ago".
I'd love to know what you didn't like about SASS.
On iOS it appears they're a mixture of bitmap tiles and vector text. I definitely see pixelation of roads at certain zoom levels.
Brought a tear to my eye, that last paragraph was intense.
I agree with being impressed, but I am not sure the opposite of being able to share is pretending we are perfect. Maybe, it's just being unable to.

My dad passed away eleven months ago, no day goes by without thinking of him, and I may be able to get to the end of this without crying, but I can't manage a blog post.
A quality maps app seems like one of those audacious undertakings given how much there are to them. Sure, sources like OSM help quite a bit, but the amount of data needed (be it through one's own data acquisition, partnering, licensing, etc) is pretty massive. This is one of the main reasons the iOS maps had problems.

There are already niche apps for things like public transport, though you may need an app per city/region. Even those niche apps aren't always accurate -- the NYC transit apps (2 or 3 different once) I tried while there earlier this year didn't pick up on station closures due to maintenance.

Maps/transit routing/etc is an interesting problem, just one that seems difficult to do right as a startup (on the scale of ios or google maps).
Apparently writing iSheep anywhere on Hacker News is really offensive...

COME ON! KILL THAT KARMA! :D
I never stated that? The line of thinking was to not make assumptions. And if they were to what were they basing there assumptions on. Not sure how that is school yard logic.
Neither is the web.

As consultant, part of my job is to do web applications when the customers demand it, and web development is everything but cross-platform.

The amount of hacks one has to write to have CSS, JavaScript and HTML working flawlessly across all desired operating systems, browser versions and handsets renders the cross-platform argument moot.

As for installation free, the same is possible with the desktop applications as well.
I worked at an Investment Bank 15 years ago. They might be separate, but they have lunch together, go to the same holiday parties, stand in the same elevators and all get a bonus based in part on overall bank profits... It's frowned upon to take a physical baseball bat and use it to on analysts because that would leave a mark.
Japanese phones have had that feature since 2006 with first person 3d views. You see the buildings in 3d in first person. It's pretty easy to figure out where to go

http://blog.greggman.com/blog/cell_phones_keep_on_advancing/

I find it frustrating the pretty much all smartphone navigation systems are not as good as 10 year old Japanese car navigation systems. They show 3d views as you go, which lane you should be in, Warn you about lanes to avoid. They'll even show buildings and bridges translucently to portray in first person that you need to go around behind the building or pass the on ramp of an elevated freeway and then uturn under the freeway and back to the other side.
Lots of people were in that right place at the right time, but Andreesen made it happen. Then he made it happen again with Loudcloud/Opsware. Two billion dollar companies.

There was a lot of hard work and intelligence behind his being in the right place at the right time.
On the accessibility of Memes - TLDR: They aren't
This rings True to me.

It also represents potentially really good news, because it means that we are probably at the beginning of a huge wave of wealth creation as we figure out how to apply mathematical knowledge to the massive growing mountains of data generated by everyone and everything everywhere.

Think about the historical impact that statistical-quality-control software has had in manufacturing, or the impact that economic-forecasting-and-optimization software has had in farming, or the impact that 'linear programming' software has had in supply-chain management and logistics; and then extrapolate these past achievements to get a sense of the potential impact that applications of mathematical knowledge could have in an everyone-connected, everything-networked, everything-measured world.

Exciting times.
Looking for that specific page, which they already know about? Sure, they'll just enter the URL or click the bookmark.

Looking for some page containing similar keywords to mine? Again, if I could reliably cause people with relevant interests to come to any page I create, I'd be in a great place financially. I'd just start an online poker site, then go out and buy myself a pony made of diamonds.
Run JRuby on Heroku
And the TomTom data is fine. When Apple maps fails to find a POI, I open my TomTom app, and it always knows it - offline too. Apple's screw up is giving TomTom a bad name...
Rockin' Around The Fractal Tree
Meet MailBox, put email in it's place
Actually, I temporarily forgot (it was in the book :P ) ... you can actually target .NET 4 and still use C# 5 if you use the Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 2012 - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2957...
This eager heart of mine was singing Lover
The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer [Amazon]
<Insert XKCD cartoon about new standards here>
It is very nice penmanship. Nice to see skills like this still around.

Tangentially related, everyone should switch to fountain pens. I made the switch about two years ago and my handwriting has improved immensely. More aesthetically pleasing and sooo much easier to write. Your hand won't cramp anymore because you don't have to press nearly as hard. You'll find yourself naturally adding embellishments to characters, smoothly transitioning between letters and words.

In short, handwriting becomes enjoyable again.
This is actually really good information. Above all else, no one can "make it right" except for the person with the substance abuse problem.

I've spent years trying to put my alcoholic mother into this program or that group. I've even gone so far as to give myself depression issues over the situation. But, at the end of the day, she's the only that can decide to make the situation better and do something about it. Today, the only thing I can do is make my life better, even if it means cutting ties with her as she becomes more unresponsive. It's an absolutely brutal hurdle to get over, but it's the absolute truth.
The problem is that the compass won't be off by just 10 degrees -- it could be off by 90 or more degrees because of overhead wires or the magnet in your wallet or anything else nearby that happens to have electricity flowing through it.
How to avoid reverse engineering of .apk file
A candy-bar sized device with some sort of built-in vibration function?

You'd need a microcontroller and a bluetooth module, but I think I know where you can get a prototype. They usually have a grip-friendly and rain-protecting latex outer shell too...
Shipments Of Google Nexus 7 Tablet Would Reach 4.5-5 Million Units In 2012
Get Shit Done and RoughDraft.VC
Your site definitely looks slick! I'd take any suggestions anyone has and as long as they make sense, implement them. I'd rather be writing node than thinking about design anyway. =)
Stylus borrowed this feature from Sass.

http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/extend.html

edit: You're right, @include's support for mixin bodies is not available :/ I am hoping Stylus adds this soon. It helps a lot for media queries.
The major advantages to stylus (rather than putting down sass, which i do still love) that I saw were these:

- native css-style syntax for mixins

- ability to pull properties from a parent (killer)

- better programming logic and syntax

- runs nicely on javascript and ruby

- you can use brackets and semis or not without switching languages, and you can mix the two types of syntax

- easy to build libraries for and import libraries into
Users are blaming Google for the lack of Contacts integration in Maps
The danger factor is one you must mitigate using outside circumstances, certainly.

But aside from that there's also the lost-time factor. If Apple Maps misleads me far more often than other products (which it does), then I waste far more time (and gasoline) using it. That is a real problem with it, and one that cannot be answered with "ALL Mapping data is imperfect".

As for Apple Maps being better than the baseline from five years ago, is there a way for that statement to be useful that doesn't require access to a time machine?
Ask HN: Who are the best liked CS essayists, followed by the HN community?
I'm not so sure about that. I believe the problem has been solved, the solution just isn't widely known yet. I read a paper on arxiv probably a year ago that describes a method that seems pretty straightforward and secure, but I've never seen anything about it since. It involved, essentially, throwing out any records which could actually contribute to a change in a statistical measure. You basically end up finding what aspects of the data are actually identifiable, and throw out any records that contain that. It's guaranteed not to screw up your observations because, by definition, if something is statistically significant it has to show up often enough that it CANT be used to single out a source.
qz.com will not render with Ghostery enabled.

Also, what's with that qz.com headline? Why, exactly, do we care about the gonzo-reaction of a tech blogger (the "sit up and listen" bit.) It's just a fluffy throw-away expression and comes across as the reddit equivalent of "shit just got real." I understand: they're summarizing 8 insights from Andressen, but strictly speaking, the headline is about the reporter instead of Andressen. How about: "Andressen predicts massive changes to housing, mobile, and the middle class." I don't write headlines, but at least this refers to the material in the article.

As for the content: on the one hand, I appreciate a bulleted list for its quick readability, but the headline sounds to me like an excuse to make a list instead of a narrative...
Some photos remind me of the MYST series..
how on earth can you name new products when even wordpress themes are there to tell you the names taken? if that was what you were implying...
I prefer using mixins over extend, as they are more flexible and intelligent. If you don't structure your classes correctly it can lead to some code duplication, but frankly this doesn't make any speed difference after gzip anyway.

To respond to your edit, stylus is as good at including mixins as sass. it's a lot less verbose in fact. you just run it as a function.
Aeropressing Snob Blend*
Mailbox for iPhone
If you want to have kids and want a partner that is into that, that's fine. However, being self-centered and wanting to be a parent aren't mutually exclusive, as I have met adults whose parents were/are extremely self-centered and that factored in heavily into the abusive situations those adults lived in when they were children.

> And I am very sad to see that all other families are crumbling.

I'm not really sure what you are talking about, families have always had issues with abuse, divorce, etc., that is nothing new (even if people may have hidden those things more often in the past, but that really depends on when and where you grew up).
Rackspace follows Amazon in beefing up its database tools
I’m sticking with Apple Maps
Localmind acquired by Airbnb
Open source web-based spreadsheet editor: Sheetster