skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be about pretending to amend an appalling disgrace. The past happened and cannot be changed.
What do you do then when people decide they are "cute", and we should breed even more?
Didn't the european court rule not too long ago that the resale of "used" digital software is legal and has to be an option for owners?

http://www.dw.de/oracle-loses-court-fight-over-software-resa...
The vast majority of kids who enter college do so right after high school. They are used to summers off, parents sending tuition checks and allowances for rent/living. There is a misunderstanding in todays youth that college is a social club with the side effect of gaining an education. Few kids choose their school on quality of education, but rather how big the parties are/what the scene is like.

To me this entire subject reeks of #firstworldproblems, and the fact I don't have much respect for the beaten path or the zombies they churn out(referring to a BA). Life after college isn't hard at all. This generation is simply not used to feeling ANY discomfort or pain in their sheltered little lives.

Not going to college and excelling to the point of someone with a degree is not that difficult, though it's more difficult than going to a structured setting to be hand-fed information. (most of college could be condensed into one year study, one year practical)

Working in an electronic graveyard in Ghana at age 13 with no parents seems difficult. It seems in places like this, limits of the human experience are tested everyday in terms of what people can and cannot withstand. Spend some time learning how other people live purely for our convenience, and repeat "Graduating college is a difficult transition from one easy thing to the next easy thing." You'll sound ridiculous.
Show HN: We are launching a Uber for laundry (powered by ninjas on demand)
Can't you dual boot Windows on your mac, plug a 360 controller in via USB and dvi/hdmi out to the TV?
Which database system Wikipedia is currently using?
We'll, Ill make sure two e-mail miself a reminder about that and e commerce.

In other news, I have two much time on my hands too worry about being a word nazi.
You're looking at the menu bar of my screen sharing buddy.
As a 55 year old I would say that this is exactly right, especially the part about keeping yourself healthy, both physically and mentally. I have, and it has paid off.

I would add one item to the list: Set a 5-year goal and update it every year.
And besides that, the information content of a design is not related to the number of unique structures the design describes. By analogy, the output of `print i for i in [0...100000]` contains 100000 unique lines, but the information content is bounded by the program that generated it.

Oddly enough, Kurzweil actually misquoted Allen there, and his refutation does apply quite well to Allen's original statement, which was that each neural structure has been individually refined by evolution. Evolution does, in fact, operate solely on the genome (plus or minus some epigenetic factors here and there), and it really is impossible for it to tune that many structures individually.

So maybe Kurzweil just phrased that point poorly.
Introducing the new Wave
I cry foul. Massive numbers of mothers can't breast feed. And frankly, if its hard, don't bother. Give the child formula, be a happier person and the child will be better off for that alone. The pressure to breast feed is huge and considering that there are far bigger problems - why bother?
My wife couldn't breast feed for long and felt terrible for it and was under pressure from almost all corners to carry on. But once she stopped the child, her and me were happier. Do what suits without fear.
Mitch Kapor and Kurzweil have a $20,000 bet on whether or not any "machine intelligence" will have passed the Turing Test by 2029. Kurzweil, obviously, is on the "for" side. Kapor's taking the "against" side stems from his experience as a software developer. I think he has a point: consider how incredibly difficult it is to give any machine a set of instructions that will get it to do EXACTLY what you want it to do. The promises of new languages, frameworks, and methodologies have all failed to magically make software easy and bug-free. At some level, a machine intelligence is going to need some sort of software. We like to call the game engines we play against "AI"s, but are they really intelligent? In the end they are just rules engines. It IS fun to dream, and those dreams can certainly lead to technological advances and progress, but as someone who spends much of my days attempting to coerce a machine into understanding what I need it to do, I also share Kapor's skepticism. I think Kapor himself said it best: "In the end, I think Ray is smarter and more capable than any machine is going to be."
I haven't gone to College, I've gone out from High School and started building a startup. Doesn't apply so much to me because when I wasn't working in school I was up all night getting a few hours of sleep after working on projects.
If I were you, I would change "wash your clothes from the comfort of your iphone" to "wash your clothes by the click of a button." That makes it more uber-esque, and easier to understand for us easier. Other than that, it seems pretty cool!
As a manager, I tend to look for potential both when I review the resumes and when I talk to candidates. Most of my questions are open-ended and I try to see if they can bring some of their learnings to the field/role they want to shift to and if they have done their research on why they want to move to a particular field or role.
That it was a crime is a matter of historical record.

The prosecutors, judge J. Fraser Harrison for example, appear to have been far from moronic.

An unambiguous cause for Turing's suicide doesn't appear to be known.

Your allegations of ignorance though seem valid.
Be careful not to become too good in an area you don't like.
But are they 100x more dangerous than the wolves from which domesticated dogs are descended?
Outlook.com is starting to become an alternative. I hate using anything related to Windows Live though. I also want to use my own domain name, I remember seeing a post explaining how to do this with Outlook.com.

Yahoo could actually try to take on Google Apps. The most choice the better.
They really could have picked a better title. White tigers, being a mutation, will continue to happen naturally even if not selected for. (Much less frequently of course)
Ironically, now that this is on HN, there is apparently one less reason to go to school and get a degree to learn this.
I've seen that done already, but the resulting Python interpreter has no visibility of the DOM or access to the browser. You have basically a Python console, which is quite useless if what you want is to substitute Javascript.
Ask HN: Maybe direct newsycombinator tweets to comments page?
Can we convince @pg to redirect @newsycombinator tweets to go to the comments page rather than directly to the article? Reasons why:

1) Current path to comments page is inconvenient: click tweet -> go to article -> copy article title -> open new tab -> go to news.ycombinator.com -> ctrl-F -> search for article title -> click the little comments link under article title (all nearly impossible from mobile browser)

2) Only downside is one extra click to get to article: click tweet -> click article title on comments page

3) Comments are often more interesting than article itself

4) More traffic to the comments would grow the community and drive even more interesting discussion

Another option is to provide two links in each tweet. I think that is an uglier option than the beauty of the simple "title, link" format currently in use.

Startup-mindedness involves realizing when there are annoyances in life that could be solved. For me, I find it annoying to get to the HN comments page from HN tweets.

What do you think? Are there other upsides/downsides?
I second syntastic. Syntastic+JSHint probably catches 90% of my js errors (front-end javascript, not server side, fyi)
If you add in that he was privy to official secrets and would be a potential target to foreign powers then his apparent promiscuity would also be an issue of national security - I think a person in his position now would be vilified by the press and that it would be right for them to be disciplined (at least) for conduct unbecoming of an intelligence service office holder.

This is puritanical BS. He was a single man dating adults. That's his own business, the press plays it up because society as a whole loves gawking at this sort of behavior, but it's no risk to anyone.
I think he's already given me $137 of mentorship via his blog.

The going colo article a few months back is invaluable on it's own: http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/
Kurzweil makes the same point in his rebuttal.

But all he (and the article) is talking about is speed improvements to algorithms. Singularity-type AI is not about the speed, and it's not about complexity in terms of number of moving parts either (a million-line code base might be larger than a 10,000-line one, and more complicated, but not necessarily any more conceptually complex).

What matters for the "Singularity" is conceptual improvements. We're still writing brittle computer code that crashes a compiler upon a single slightly misspelled constant name or missing comma, where the intention would still be crystal-clear to any human programmer. I don't see any kind of "exponential" progress whatsoever relating to the fundamental building blocks of artificial thought, which is what the entire "Singularity" premise is based on.
Analogue meters have uses that you don't get from digital readouts. Watching a signal slowly fluctuating on an analogue meter is "nicer" than seeing some numbers go up and down.
Check out ctrl+p. It's an updated and more portable version of command-t
I would assume that building your own lightsaber, given it's form factor, would involve significant amount of laptop-like small, unfriendly electronics (not to mention fiddling with force fields and other advanced physics) :)
oh, the LULZ! ;)
As the female colleague, I'm going to throw my 2 cents in, here.

I don't need anyone to speak up for me about anything. I'm outspoken enough that if I was actually offended by something I would say something myself. The ridiculous one-eyed snake joke was not ill-intended, nor did I feel harassed, and I'm going to remove myself as an example, here.

Let's not derail the conversation that needs to be had about CoCs. It's a little ridiculous to discount the attempts that are being made to make the community better because one of the directors that helped write it told an off-color joke at a conference that one time.
I think once the entire brain was in the event horizon it could continue to work more or less normally. Things past the event horizon should be able to travel in the direction of it, though they will always turn back before actually crossing it.

Now, a brain that was only half across would have some trouble as you describe I think. If you crossed it fast enough maybe no part of the brain would have enough time to realize it was isolated? I suspect if you are falling in faster than anything in your body was moving in the opposite direction nothing would be noticed.
this could have been so much more fun at $42 instead of $37 or $50... #justsayin
Definitely not for application state, but for resource state, a FSM can be invaluable. Take for instance something as simple as a blog comment system, where any administrator needs to be able to transition a "comment" resource into either accepted or rejected states.

They also work great for transactional resources like a shopping cart order.
Oh boy, can we say, "it's early days"? The UN has been around for about twice as long as the internet. The UN has full time paid-up governments battling, against people who are mainly interested in downloading films from YouTube.

The ITU has surely been around (in spirit if not in reality) since they were laying telegraph poles in the 19th century.

And the "victor" in round 1 of this fight is the US government!

We have so much more to do ...
Ask HN: has somebody noticed a switch from Facebook to whatsapp?
I just realized that I see more and more functions of facebook that my friends used, being replaced by whatsup or other messenger services.
Messages, sharing pics and videos, news groups organicing events....
Lots of the activities that took place in facebook some months ago now take place on whatsup. Not all of them of course but enough to notice the drop on facebook activity.
Has anybody noticed a similar trend, or is it just anecdotical?. I don't know if it is the pain to use facebook on the phone that makes the people use a simpler app.(note: I am spanish)
Perhaps you don't need perfectly designed code, just the right kind of selection pressure? Consider the spaghetti that is our DNA or brain structure. YAGNI design might well be a poor fit for the fractal redundancy necessary for truly complex systems.
Is this the worst website ever made?
Or can you beat it ? :)
>it may be possible to grow a civilization inside an event horizon

Maybe that's where we are already :)
>advice on having healthy sex and relationships

I highly doubt that an institution which blocks pornography wants its students having any sex at all.
"once neural and sensory activity stops then you are dead, even if your body has not yet experienced the crushing gravitational effects."

One of the few "no brainers" in quantum physics.
I usually go in there with different nicknames to troll the one specific person I truely hate. That's a good drunk sunday night.
DasBoom | A new way to look at and use social media
We Just launched a rough beta of dasBoom, an HTML 5 app built with node.js and optimized for iPad/Safari. The idea behind dasBoom is making your social media firehose more visual and easy to consume while also making grouping and hiding friends and follows simpler. Its very beta but would appreciate feedback on the idea and execution.
The advent of Twitter Bootstrap is 19 years overdue. To have a common framework for UI and UX finally that's widely adopted, I should hope people would learn their lessons now and build a more standard interface for their sites as these lessons were already learned on the desktop the hard way.

There is a reason every GUI OS has standard components (windows, buttons, menus, etc). The web badly needs this to let the user focus on the interaction and the app and to allow them to pick up and learn any app easily.

There will be some exceptions, but ideally, we should take a cue from what people worked very hard over the years to built knowing it was the right paradigm (rather than the DOS app whatever goes or game interfaces which are a good example of the exception to the rule).

Mac OS and OS X, Windows, X-Windows (Motif, QT, GTK, etc.), OS2, et al.

The fanciness of sites is indeed, usually a detriment to usability and a detriment to their development, adding useless eye candy rather than useful functionality.
(disclaimer: I'm employed by Google, though not in anything related to Gmail)

The article quotes Vint Cerf as saying that encryption isn't being used because it would inhibit advertising, but I think that's incorrect. There is no obvious reason why ads couldn't be selected client-side, with the text of a message sent to Google over an encrypted connection and not stored.

In my opinion, there are at least three much more significant reasons why Gmail won't support end-to-end encryption:

1) It puts a huge barrier in front of new users. Instead of picking a username and password, now they have to create an encryption key, have a (strong!) password for the key, install client-side software to manage it, keep a backup of the key, and keep backups of their email in an encrypted form (with yet another strong password).

Can you imagine any ordinary person going through with all that just to read email?

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2) User-managed encryption would be a support nightmare. Imagine: your grandmother buys a new laptop, and donates her old beige box to a local school. After getting home, she tries to check her email. Except she can't, because the encryption keys were on her old computer, and now they're just noise on some platters because the school's IT guy wiped the drive.

Would you want to be the customer support agent who had to tell her that her email was gone forever, and that she would have to make a new account with a new address?

This is why no major company encourages users to manage their own encryption keys, and why every company that does will never become a major company.

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3) Google's primary value-add to anything is search. That's their brand, they are the company people go to for finding stuff. End-to-end encryption means that Gmail can't do search any more, and then what's the point of even having Gmail? Even if you could somehow convince users that it's worth putting up with all the extra hassle to protect their email, you'll never convince a company that it should scrap one of its most successful products just because a fraction of a percent of its userbase thinks its existing security features are insufficient.

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Here's another thought. The world the author describes, where people install special client software to manage their keys and read their email, ALREADY EXISTS. If people actually want to, they can download Thunderbird and GPG and set up their keys and treat Gmail as just another IMAP/SMTP service. It's an annoying process, but the only ways to make it simpler would also render it useless by reducing the security.

So really the author isn't asking for Gmail to support encrypted email, he's asking Gmail to stop supporting un-encrypted email. Hands up if you think this will ever happen.

The fact that nobody outside the crypto-nerd community uses existing client-side encryption support is strong evidence that most users consider the convenience of provider-readable mail to be more important than protection against police warrants.
Alan Moore: Why I turned my back on Hollywood
It's a classic. I believe the updated version with 50Cent is more relevant today.It's called 50th Law.
> We can pretty much see the steps there, even though we haven't executed them all. Maybe it will take 200 years, not 50, but we will get there

Yes, and the second coming will happen real soon now, where the faithful will be rewarded. We can pretty much see the steps there...
We Just launched a rough beta of dasBoom. It is an HTML 5 app built with node.js and optimized for iPad/Safari.

The idea behind dasBoom is making your social media firehose more visual and easy to consume while also making grouping and hiding friends and follows simpler. Its very beta but would appreciate feedback on the idea and execution.
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى ومونتيرى بث مباشر
And what do the interfaces to these programs look like? Are they off the shelf programs or do you have to write (parts of) them yourself?

I'm guessing you still write code.
The essence of the story on Watson: it beat the humans because it was faster on the trigger finger. Same story as John Henry and the steam-powered hammer. As for how it acquired its "knowledge" ... by "reading" documents ... yes, an ocean is bigger than a teacup. But water can't swim. Call me when a general-purpose machine is motivated to mull over all that knowledge and originates new, original, testable answers to long-standing questions.
Unfortunately this is why steam software is "rented forever" not "sold" to you.
I hope this will get another great push for OpenGL as it was with mobile and web.
Simply no - there is no option to do that unless they use windows.
Eric Schmidt And Stephen Colbert Talk Politics
It's a response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4925204 on the frontpage, which in turn was likely a reaction to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923914. One of the problem of the HN archives is that they lose these connections.
It looks like Rackspace Email (not just their Exchange offering) supports ActiveSync, if anyone else is looking.
Eclipse et al might be more capable (and appropriate) for some tasks in some languages, but I'd say Vim is generally "more powerful".
Intel Wins First Round in Patent Fight That Threatens Chips
This article is a waste of time.
Nah, just use lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries. They're not quite as energy dense as LiPO, but they have longer lifetimes, better power density, and are WAY safer.

You'll see a lot of roboticists using these already (for safety reasons). For example, you can grab some nice Turnigy LiFePO4's at most hobby shops.
Health can rapidly fail and if you are unhealthy at 25 you'll be dead by 40.

Be as healthy as you can as early as you can because it doesn't get easier as you get older or have a family.

Bad habits are cumulative, you can't fix poor health just by stopping certain habits.
Tweet a hash and this bot will crack it for you.
GMail will probably never encrypt our emails for us. But what it could do is automatically decrypt someone else's email and verify the signature. This would make encryption much more accessible without any (advertising) cost to Google.
Getting Started With iOS Development With Vim
Your Very First Microprocessor
Oh thank god, I've never heard someone on HN say that PHP sucks and that you should switch. Thanks for bearing that cross for us.
"No one actively makes fun of C#, Python, Clojure, Haskell, Perl, Java, etc., even when they dislike them."

This is laughable. Especially Java.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
Try Breeze (http://letsbreeze.com), Trello and Basecamp hybrid.
Hopefully this will get more people to adopt mariadb and be free of the legal and upgrade uncertainties of mysql. I installed it a few weeks ago and the result is -exactly- like mysql.

http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-foundation-to-safeguard-lead...
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL by Monty (original MySQL author)
No so bad :o)
Meh, in real terms the only thing lost here is push updates, and I'm almost certain I'll be a happier, more productive person because of that.
I love this idea. It reminds of the one thing that I think Java did better then anyone else, JMX. If only there was a standard cross language way for programs to expose metrics. kinda like collectd, but have it pull based instead of push based
Not that I'm aware of. Rule of thumb from my totally unscientific personal observations would be that the Rakudo of today is at least one, perhaps even two orders of magnitude slower than the others...
You would think, but based on the literature they don't actually seem to be that finicky. Just stick some kind of crystal in some kind of case, with a couple other off-the-shelf components, and that's it.
No, Yvette's Bridal Formal was the worst ever made. Sadly it has passed on. Google it, have a look at the images. Then imagine a collection of midi music playing at the same time.
Try http://www.lostateminor.com/2012/01/05/yvettes-bridal-formal...
Ask HN: Is there any device with worldwide GSM similar to the amazon kindle?
Basically I found that one of the barrier for IoT are the connectivity issue and is hard for a company to deploy devices around the world, with some kind of gateway with worldwide connection would be possible to create a lot of different applications on top of it.
I wouldn't worry so much about the event horizon so much as what is right outside of it.

The tidal forces and the x-rays resulting from said forces are pretty much lethally intense.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0104/tidal/index.html
Pshaw, like OSes are self-aware…
I really love this one http://www.samirnasri.fr/
I did most of my Python work in TextMate for quite a while. I tried Eclipse for a time, but didn't care for it. Now I use PyCharm (IDEA), because its code completion is excellent, and its debugger integration is fantastic when doing web work. Also, it has a decent vim mode plugin.
Looks cool! Would be nice to have some prices/time :)