skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is really amazing how many psychology studies that try to address the effects of media end up making the mistake that they equate fiction and reality as the same thing. They show people violent videos, and immediately start talking about "witnessing violence" in order to convince people that the difference between real violence and violent imagery is irrelevant. In this study, they equate presenting violent concepts for inclusion in fiction as being indistinguishable from actual aggressive action.

A great deal of the social discussion surrounding violent media is poisoned by people who insist on denying that there is a difference between fiction and reality, or, more often, using words with two radically different meanings. They say something like "children have sex with hookers and then run over them, murdering them" in their description of a videogame. They are not claiming, of course, that the players physically did have sex or murder anyone, but they realy ENTIRELY upon you assigning the same negative connotations to the actions as you would to the real physical actions. If you stop and ask why murder is wrong when it involves two fictional characters, you either quickly find out that it simply isn't, or that the person speaking has no capacity to define WHY murder is wrong in the first place and so bases their entire worldview on seeing words like "murder" as a quasi-mystical totem portending danger.
There was a lot of interesting discussion on the previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346590

Robert Harper's tone seems to rile a lot of people up (some might say he's aggressive, but I would instead use "enthusiastic") and he seems to pick really flame-baity titles, but I'm really glad to have found his blog. It's usually thought provoking stuff.
It would not be 'ok'. But it also might not change behavior or attitudes, that's speculation.
Now URLs are responsive too
As the owner of an HP TouchPad, I could never figure out what people found so appealing about WebOS - it was slow, not really that polished (more than Android, significantly less than iOS), unintuitive (menus hiding actions in many apps), and had a terrible on-screen keyboard. Cards made me feel like I had manage apps in a way that iOS and Android don't. The hardware was heavy and bulky. The only way to make the device reasonably usable was to spend a significant amount of time installing hacks to bump the CPU speed, turn off logging, and a host of other things that end users shouldn't have to deal with for a device of this type.

Maybe the experience was better on phones. The only thing redeeming about the TouchPad was it's great screen for the time and price ($99 for 1024x768 10" IPS display).
I agree, get really drunk first.
Well what do you use to view information? You don't look at it on an information screen and you don't store in on an information drive. You are just arguing Symantec. If you have a book the physical object is the book and what is written on the pages is information. Information is different from an object in that it is intangible, it is the part that gets copied when people torrent something.

Fiat money is ridiculous in exactly the same way. Would you say that it seems ridiculous to ignore the power of Xerox because it doesn't pay the bills for sellers of physical goods?

That makes no sense. I don't see what you mean. Right now the internet could deliver content to more people more efficiently than a retail store but it is being restricted by laws that have been put in place to guarantee a paycheck for the content creators. I don't think that this is bad but I do think that we are in a state of transition and that in the not so distant future you will not go to a store to get music movies or books (except possibly as a novelty)
UserVoice + Crittercism: integrated support & crash reporting for app developers
Sounds great in theory, but in practice you'll be having that conversation about your database schema anyway.
Not sure about the rest of you, but I'm not clicking on a dickey.xxx link to read about anything.
Hmm I live at 100 meter of this river, I think I need to spend more time watching and filming the pigeons.
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> TIL wearing a black shirt and blue jeans is "copying" Steve Jobs.

When you're the founder of a major smartphone company doing a presentation of your tech in a black shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, yeah, you're copying Steve Jobs.

For reference: http://www.buzzom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/steve-jobs-...

It's painfully obvious that's the look he's going for.
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This isn't about deferring evaluation within a phase, its about compilation over interpretation, and the phase distinction.
This is an 80k sight unseen investment conditioned solely on acceptance into a YC batch. YC controls it in the sense that they control the batches, but you could fund your own YCXC program that offered $x0,000 to each company in each YC batch. It would succeed or fail to the extent that individual YC companies, all of which completely control their own operations, decided to take you up on it.
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GitHub system status API
Miui is really good. Better than stock or TouchWiz from what I've heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICCWO8vaXU
Its definitely a safe site, though can understand the issue with the url. You should send feedback on the domain to him directly on twitter @dickeyxxx
Twitter Blog: New profiles for everyone
It serves Elm files directly. You just start it up, and can use F5 to recompile files from the browser.

PS. Thank you! :D I actually like web programming these days because of it :)
I tolerate religion, I just don't respect it.
Same here. I've been trying to delete a large folder for over a month. Dropbox doesn't let you delete a folder if it has a bunch of files in it. The only option is to delete like 500 files at a time, but there are literally tens of thousands of files in there, So I contacted support and have never heard back.
Sure. Better to assume it's ok and have a "flag" option, though. On the contrary, it'll put too much of a burden on the submitter and if they fail to approve your comment it won't count.
Regardless, religion wasn't part of the article, and it's completely irrelevant to the conversation. These two guys brought it up for no other reason than open mocking. That's not tolerance, that's Reddit.
I have the impression that people are notoriously bad at recognising faces.

You can show a person a photo, and then show them a "6 pack" and they can't find the person in the original photo. And many other examples. I'll try to find some cites to see if I've remembered correctly (and if the studies were any good).
All of what you say may be true, but you're not actually advocating that a good solution here is to prevent certain parts of the system from working efficiently? There are probably better and more equitable ways to reduce case loads.
Obscurity. It's not like these machines are clearly marked with signs and access points as with Airports.

So the challenge is on par with saying "find a particular unsecured box on the internet". Without per-target research, you don't have a whole lot to go on. You can find tons and tons of targets. But the odds of them being the one you wanted, or even of the type you wanted, are pretty low.

Which isn't to say it's less a threat. But, rather, it's a threat that isn't likely to be casually exploited. Anyone who goes through the trouble of per-target research and exploitation of a number of such targets, isn't likely to pull the trigger for the lulz.

Even a "trial run" of an exploit would be a risk. You'd be inviting scrutiny of the trial machine, including logs at the ISP (and NSA) going back cheney-knows-how-far, and if nothing else, have drawn attention to the very problem you're hoping continues to be ignored.
There are better ways to do "two factor authentication" than TOTP/HOTP, if you control the client device.

Apple could much more properly do something with embedded keys on the iPhone (and next-gen Macs), in addition to passwords, email, and KBA. I'd consider it acceptable if Apple restricted some actions to Apple client devices, if you've got an apple client device registered, at least as an option.

Twitter is unforgivable, though. They have a fucking mobile client and are pushing that hard (at the expense of their developers). They are fairly neutral and non-hated by both Apple and Google (and probably Microsoft and RIM too). They are pushing Twitter logins to services. They borged one of the best cryptographic software developers (Moxie). They have users in places like Syria where compromise of an account can lead to torture and death.

It would be so obvious to turn the Twitter mobile client into a key management app and security tool, both for Twitter and for services using Twitter login.

(Facebook could do the same, modulo some hate from Google and Apple).
They also said that the participant won half the trials. How could the experimenters fool the subjects about the game if they didn't get any harsh sounds back?
Blocked @work. Please choose a better name for your site (at least the TLD).
I think it is fair to classify Riyad Ghani as a scientist: http://www.rayidghani.com/.
Minecraft-like voxel world demo in javascript and WebGL
But somehow every other "artificial" right, like real estate, looks OK for you other than copyright... This is what I call bending the argument for particular gain.
If it could do my laundry
Ask HN: VC funds competing company, would they maintain confidentiality?
I'm due to meet a VC for a consultation but they fund a similar business, and I'm worried they will pass on my idea to the competitor.

The product we are creating is in the consumer apps market.

My "competitor" does not actually directly compete with my idea, however they do provide a solution to a very similar market and it's possible that they would want to produce my product and include it as part of theirs.

Put it this way, one of my exit strategies is to be bought by them and my business plan describes the advantages of my product over theirs.

I've invested about $50K into this so far and we're ready to launch in a few months and have the resources to take it to launch, but not close enough that we can show a live working demo at the consultation. If they tell the competitor where we're up to, the competitor would likely have the resources to squash us. It's not an idea where we can do a quicker MVC.

I'm London-based and there are many VCs but not that many with a history of tech startup successes, so I do want this particular VC firm's advice, if I can trust that they won't suggest my idea to my competitor, especially once I've pitched and sold it as a winner.

The consulatation is being offered as a marketing exercise by a startup incubator and it's just to get feedback. If investment results so much the better but at the moment we're not desperate though we do want VC involvement before or shortly after launch.

The fact that they know and like this particular market might be a big advantage over other VCs I could talk to who simply don't normally invest in tech startups and certainly not ones that produce consumer apps for my customer base.

What would you do?
Don't ever get a domain with .xxx if you aren't going to create what it's meant for. Damn site is blocked at my work place.
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Try http://dickeyxxx.com/hackathons
Anyone working with this is going to have "Dora, Dora, Dora the Esplora" stuck in their heads to the point of insanity. And also any one who reads this. Add a malfunctioning card swiper into the mix and there'll likely be a murderous rampage.
Ask HN: Would you use our app (that motivates you to go to the gym)?
We just pushed out an Android beta version of Fitsby (http://fitsby.com) and was wondering if anyone from the HN community would be interested in helping us test it out? Apologies if this sounds spammy; wasn't sure whether to label this a Show HN or if asking would be more suitable.
A Hot or Not clone for screenshots that does nothing to give the designer/developer actual feedback and unfairly pits e-com sites against content-heavy sites and brochure sites?
Looks normal to me.
The ability to withholding something from the public is privacy.

IP is use of law to prevent others from using something that is public.

Note: I don't think copyright is that evil, just current term lengths, enforcement laws, and infringement damages. Patent as it exists now is pretty screwed up and in order to not be evil would have to be pretty radically different from what it is now.
Its pretty frustrating behavior from Dropbox. Its a service that I pay for & that my business depends on, yet I cant get a response from them. How hard is it to hire support people?
> The advantage is that you can easily ping other developers, comment, and reference other topics.

I didn't mean to insinuate that the discussion on github should not exist- it really should, and that's exactly what github is for. I'm just questioning the use of the page to trigger discussion on HN. Even the wikipedia page on ORM would have better content to consider.

EDIT: Unless gittip's potential use of an ORM is news-worthy, in which case I am very out of touch with hacker news. ORMs are as commonplace as databases now and have been for a while.
> I agree that CodeMirrors general infrastructure for folding is more powerful than ACE's. But CodeMirror still lacks fold buttons on the gutter.

The folding utility in the distribution does lack them. But adding them (as in the 2.x code folder) is, again, just a few lines of code -- there's support for showing gutter widgets in the core, and the only reason the folding utility doesn't use that that I felt they didn't add much.
Its not like they dont have the money, they have raised 250M+
Wow, you have the worst taste in domain names! :)
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I can't compare the experience to iOS as I've never owned an iOS device. I can't afford it.

The two Android phones I have I got free with my cell service, I have a B&N Nook ($200) that I put Android on, and an HP Touchpad ($150) with Android.

Mute - I found Android apps that offer it but it would be better if it was built into the OS. On iOS isn't the mute switch on the device a ringer mute, not a full system mute?
In fairness, TVs have always been dogs. My old CRT TV back then would take about five seconds to show a picture and like 15 to get as clear and bright as it was supposed to be.

But yeah, when I fire up my old NES or Genesis, I'm struck by how much time modern systems waste with loading. I can already be through level 2 of Super Mario Bros. by the time Assassin's Creed III actually lets me start playing.
Nah, just throw it all into a NoSQL store and let the developers figure it out.
>My impression is that NeXT for a long time used the same "non-server" version of Mach that was generally used at CMU at the time (BSD code originally derived from 4.3BSD still in the actual kernel, not as a separate subsystem).

Right, NeXtStep was derived from Mach 2.5 which had a 4.3BSD emulation layer (still running in the kernel though) on a Mach "not yet a microkernel" (Mach transitioned to a full Microkernel in Mach 3.0 when the BSD emulation moved out from kernel to userspace). When it became OS X, the BSD emulation layer was updated to 4.4BSD (from FreeBSD) and the Mach part was updated to Mach 3.0. As an aside, Apple even experimented with a Linux Emulation Layer on top of a real Mach Microkernel (mklinux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux) and as the work done in bringing this up actually was put into getting Mach upto 3.0 on xnu (along with the BSD update).

The other Unix which derived from Mach 2.5 was OSF/1->Digital UNIX->Tru64 UNIX.
What do you think of my blog?
Availability covers data loss and account cancellations out of the blue, which has happened to a friend of mine at least. this is one of the reasons I self host.

Also, the machine is in the same lan as me so connectivity is never a problem (unless the cat chews through the ethernet cables again).
Ah, that was exactly how I read it. Basically what Yesod uses template Haskell for in a variety of cases.
Things we did wrong as a startup
Anyone have any idea when Amazon will start providing SSD-backed RDS?
I'd be willing to give it a try. Really like the concept. Have been looking for motivation to drag my ass to the gym in the morning.
It's always good to see new stuff from Arduino. Especially when I'm not expecting it. This seems to be very specifically for use a controller. Not sure if it's meant for robots or if they are going after the MakeyMakey market since it is based on the Leonardo. The lack of an Xbee or similar RF socket makes it seem more like the latter than for remote control applications. But I'm sure it would be trivial to add your own but that doesn't really seem like the point of this board.

That being said it can be very helpful for prototyping to already have onboard sensors like accelerometer, temp, buttons, and pots.

I tried to buy it, but the link on the page goes to a blank page and I cannot find it in the Arduino store when I look. I wonder what happened with that. I would like to try one out!

EDIT: The "Buy from Arduino Store" button has now been removed from the page and the "Buy from Distributors" button returns a 503 error. Looks like the Esplora may be going the way of the Nexus 4
OP,

This is superb. I'm sure all of us have an Evernote notebook, spreadsheet, or text file with startup or app ideas (if you don't, you should) but most of us also keep these lists top-secret for fear that somebody else will steal billion dollar idea #1023 right out from under us.

It takes alot of courage and openness to share your list in this way. For this, you have earned my respect and appreciation.

Thanks.
We're recording prints as well, so we'll be able to send you a YouTube video link with the creation of your tag.
>how is this better than other xml based templates, such as wicket, TAL, Kid, Genshi etc.

I don't think it is. To me it is just the haskell template engine in that style (which is the style I prefer). That style of template engine is the minority, so most comparisons are vs either mixed style (php/asp/jsp/rails) or vs custom syntaxes (mustache, haml, etc). What is good about heist certainly applies to similar template engines like lifts, zopes, etc.
I meant contentwise, not designwise. Its just a fork of Syte, so don't mean to take credit for that. I'm just curious to see what other people think of what I've written so far.
I hosted at vps.net for a while and they were offering Fusion IO drives as an addon. I can't easily find information on their site about it anymore, but I know it was an option at one point.

(Their management change a couple years ago, made a bunch of changes that pissed me off, so I left and moved to Linode).

EDIT: vps.net charges $25/month for 1GB of storage on FusionIO drives, and they sell in 2GB increments. 2GB is $50/month. 36GB is $900/month
Deploying to Heroku with Travis CI
I call bullshit on your pathfinding AI excuses. A* is A*, it doesn't matter if you dynamically modify the terrain, and it's easy enough to check if a path would end at walls or impassable terrain, and have the AI deal with that accordingly.
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He may also intend to host pornographic material! Who knows.
Not sure if this is the same site from like a week ago. I signed up for a free review and it never came.
I also think that's their initial idea. What I don't get is this: why would you build an entire Arduino-based robot, only to buy an almost-ready RC-controller. Which isn't actually an RC-controller, because you'd have to have a separate transmitter shield for it...
Gmail going down for a few hours each year doesn't count as 'real issues', IMHO..
For smartphones: Definitely too late.

For tablets: Maybe not too late.

It's over in handhelds, a duopoly between iOS and Android, with a niche duopoly between RIM and Windows Phone. Tablets are going to get much more interesting, though, with balkanized ecosystems forming around Android offshoots such as Amazon's Kindle, and the fallout from Microsoft's surprisingly desperate move of trying to front-load its tablet OS into its flagship desktop OS.

The difference between tablets and desktops is going to get blurrier in what we accomplish with them, but perhaps not in how we accomplish it. There's room for a dark horse here.
Does that make them catfish hunters...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_Hunter
I believe this was on HN a few months ago. Really an interesting article.
Too true about your problems with Filepicker. It put me off using them for even small scale projects.
Redundant connection - check 3g. Backup supply - check (fucking big aps). Ha cluster - yes i can fail to a vm on my desktop.
I'll guess this is the same as the 'unconference' talk that David Nolen gave at the 2012 Conj. He's doing some really spiffy stuff with the new constraint mechanism in core.logic, and this talk was among the best of the week.
my @gmail.com worked but my apps account on a different domain kept crashing. Both accessed from Denmark but with english as the language.
Does anyone know if the same thing is possible for Azure Blob Storage? I don't believe it is now, due to the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) limitations of Azure (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazureda...), but I'd like to double check.
Buying shields and jumper cables is therapeutic, and a lot cheaper than bags or shoes... You should really get an Arduino, they're so much fun!
To the extent that employers want to screen candidates who skip out on jury duty, it's hard to argue that there's a "privacy" issue in outing them. Skipping jury duty should be a matter of public record. You are obligated to serve as a juror when required. Willfully avoiding a jury summons is in fact a misdemeanor crime.

Don't skip jury duty.

The bigger problem with posting wanted signs on social networks is that they can't be expunged. This is a real issue, but very few people ever expunge their arrest records anyways.

The even bigger problem has nothing at all to do with social networks; it's that it's unfair (and probably unlawful) to screen employees by arrest record to begin with.
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While that's not quite the situation in question (you took my money and now I want a refund is stickier than "I want to pay you now rather than later" - in your case, you could always just cancel your order...), it's still relevant in that things could well have been reversed and (the bit I overlooked in my second comment) a rapid inflation in one currency looks a lot like a rapid deflation in others if you hold the inflating currency.
I recently just brought both and have been playing with them, as well as reading on the forums. There are some things that raspberry pi is better at, such as video media or computer vision. You will never get to run Quake on Arduino.

However, there is stuff that arduino is better at. Most people have difficult time driving servos with the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. In addition, with the default image of Ubuntu, which is not an actual real-time OS, will cause timing problems in the PWM (pulse width modulation) signals controlling the servos, resulting in jittery servos when an interrupt happens. Currently, the arduinos are better at that, plus they've been around longer, with a larger community, and accessories. Anyway, that's where it's at now.

As for the future trajectory, I can only really guess, but from where I'm standing as a beginner choosing between platforms, while they seem to be targeting education, they're targeting different use cases.
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