skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of my best programming stories are from hacking TCL on Aolserver. The ability to make up language constructs was so powerful, and something I haven't seen anywhere else - full disclosure, I haven't used lisp yet, but it looks uglier to me than TCL and a clean programmer can produce very nice looking TCL code.

Among other things I remember adding named parameters to tcl procs in like a few hours - a feature some other languages consider a plus.

Is it missing in TCL? Just add it yourself :)
Wow, most under 7K each. Buying a politician is sure cheap.
I could see this being useful to pull resources together for an abstract paper.

Putting this on amazon is definitely overkill for now. He should have proven the value by first generating books under his name and seeing the response.
Racter was more of a William S. Burroughs cut-up program, it mostly randomizes and regurgitates it's input. Policeman's Beard required carefully selected input and is on the border of being a hoax.
You can also write your own object system in like half a day, I think you peeked, but didn't completely open the door.
There is this interesting passage at the end:

But Jenner has one suggestion: Require inventors to prove their technology works before giving them a patent. Most countries require inventors to provide a working model, he said, while the U.S. merely requires a description. “One way to get rid of a lot of half-baked ideas would be to require that somebody make it first,” he said. If Lemelson had been required to do that, his record as an inventor might have been a lot shorter.

I wonder how well such a rule would work for software. It would probably cut down the number of patents drastically, since most patent trolls don't actually make anything. It would also guarantee much greater precision in what is claimed, since one would have working code to refer to.
how/why is this better than other DB solutions?
levers as in how to operate a specific kind of lever/switch or do you mean "teaching" the abstract concept of levers? e.g. recognising that this thing can be used as a lever? The latter sounds much harder
The need to always assign blame to an entity for some suboptimal experience is immature. It also shows a fundamental misunderstanding of business and economics.

Some things just are.
Yes, but my first real commercial stuff was on the web. Web apps aren't that special though: it holds true for any server-based app. A point-of-sale app that allows a clerk to inject and change prices is pretty messed up. Same principles.

Although, maybe it's just a different mindset. Some developers seem to aim to develop "easiest thing that can work" and others aim for "easiest thing that won't break".
I really like these unique ways of approaching media / content. I just downloaded the trial of the Magazine and will try it out!
Not sure. "Limit Ad Tracking" (Settings > General > About > Advertising) is Off by default in iOS 6. This option seems strangely left out of the "Privacy" section.

You also have to opt-out of "Interest-based ads" for iAds so they're collecting that data by default too. (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228)
Yes, and it's equally depressing that it's implausible you do that for a little while without totally draining the battery.
Jobs' "thermonuclear war" comment left open the possibility that Apple and Google might be acting in a more hot headed fashion than the average company.
Would canned oyster mushrooms work?
Hey - until the fix, we've made a note on our FAQ. You can visit the FAQ here: https://www.ghostery.com/faq#q16

We'll make a blog post soon, too.
You're right. The spoons argument isn't any better. Thank you for being level-headed enough to see that instead of arguing.

People are understandably upset about what happened and emotions are getting the best of people. I guess today isn't a good day for rationale debate.
The reviews tend to paint a pretty grim view of the quality of these books, but the sarcastic ones are some of the funniest reviews I've ever read.

Here's an honest one that shines a light on the quality:

"The description for this book is TOTALLY misleading. It is NOT a book of quotations and phrases. It is a reference book of where to look to find possible quotations- like the old filecard cabinets in the library. On the few pages where you can actally find a quote, it reads like this one: Jack London, from Jerry of the Islands, "I am writing these lines in Honolulu, Hawaii." Huh?? That's it. That's all there is! I'm not sure who would use this book. Certianly not me! I was very disappointed as I was looking for a collection of quotes from notables like Mark Twain, Jack London, etc."

Edit: Sort by avg rating. Goldmine of comedy in the reviews for "Butts" and "Scrotum" books. Wow.

Here's the review for "The 2009-2014 Outlook for Plastics Lamp Shades in the United States":

"(4/5 stars)An instant classic in the Icon style

While this outlook hardly holds a candle to comparable classics such as The World Market for Silica Sands and Quartz Sands: A 2009 Global Trade Perspective, the information is invaluable for any red-blooded American.
The five-year span is parsed in fascinating prose, and the 176 pages fly by, feeling almost like a 150-page work.

Don't let your lack of background knowledge deter you - there isn't too much reference to the 2004-2009 report, and most of the important information is explained in exposition.

Luther Blaze runs the show in this non-stop thrill ride of an economic adventure. His last outing ended in the government setting up a secret commission to investigate his possible wrongdoing in stopping the mysterious project Mantis, but now he's back, and ready to run roughshod over anyone in his way.

At a price of approximately 2.81 per page, you know you're getting your money's worth with this paperback. It's a perfect read for the park, or a lazy Sunday afternoon.
On a side note, this book is a real pick-up gem! I personally attracted no less than three beautiful women, all of whom wanted my thoughts on the challenging themes and motifs. They all gave their numbers, and there's been no looking back!

The biggest problems with this book are largely physical aspects of the book. I didn't care for the font too much. And the beige background on the cover betrays the intrigue within.

The Icon International group has hit another classic out of the park. I look forward to the next book with baited breath, and I can't wait to see how Agent 71 and Dash get out of this jam."
This seems too obvious to be considered a paradox. The article says that the discover ran contrary to traditional assumptions, but I wonder if this is true, or if so, why it would be the case. Perhaps I just have the luxury of hindsight, but it seems like after the advent of electronic computers, it would quickly become obvious that computers could vastly outperform humans in things like multiplication, or counting words in a large text document, or finding a correct path through a digital maze.

Besides, the distinction between "high-level reasoning" and "low-level sensorimotor skills" seems fairly weak. Checkers already starts to blur the line: the problem space can be modeled as pattern recognition and tactics (like how humans model their own gameplay), or it can be modeled as a "dumb search" through a decision tree (like how a computer algorithm might play). Then you get to something like chess, which has a prohibitively large decision tree to do a "dumb search," then face recognition, then natural language processing, etc.
IANAL either but that's an interesting question. I think machines must be able to generate IP though, otherwise the output of something like Pixar's render farms wouldn't be considered copyrightable, only the source models, animations, textures, shaders etc.
It's an interesting observation and certainly something one needs to be aware of in thinking about intelligent systems but I'm not convinced that the notion that perception is intrinsically harder than logic is quite true. I think the difficulty of a problem is highly dependent on the representations and models used. Computers were developed based on logical and mathematical principles so it makes sense that they are, in some sense, "good" at these kinds of problems. On the other hand traditional logic is incredibly inefficient at dealing with probabilistic and perceptual problems.

It's also not clear that there's really a valid comparison here. In order for computers to recognize objects we need to program them to learn recognition on their own (because programming them explicitly to do it would be far too hard). When we program a computer to solve a logic problem the computer isn't learning to solve that problem, it's the programmer, not the program that "knows" how to solve it.

Trying to teach a neural network to play chess is probably much harder than teaching it to recognize images (at least my very limited experiments suggest this to be true).
It's not just the app -- it's location services in every app.
So 'curation' means 'arbitrarily refusing to let someone give something away for free for absolutely no good reason'?

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/07/apple-dicks/

(Oh. No. Apple had a very good reason: It was called xscreensaver and fuck you. I believe the second reason was the most important one.)
When you are just learning the game, and if you are prone to Analysis Paralysis, it can be slower. We can play a full 10 rounds with the Galactic Orders Expansion (which adds more paths to win and other variety) in 70 minutes with 3 players. (and in fact, just did over lunch today!) Also, the more you play, the better you get at making good combos. Once everyone is up to speed, if the scores aren't at least in the 30s and 40s (base game) you haven't figured out how to combo well.
The idea is that the current state of capitalism, as I'm using the phrase, is somewhat static in the way that many Internet businesses are attempting to use it in terms of past business models. Consider the music industry.

Why are capitalists so sensitive that criticism always registers as "anti?" Psychologists have a lot to say about absolutist thinking, calling it "either/or," "black/white," "polarized," "binary," "catastrophizing," and similar. My illustration in terms of pay-TV should have been enough of a clue of the distinction I'm making, and that that distinction was not concerned with eliminating an entire ideology.
Not if you trust the available data: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2012/12/g...

From that, a huge majority supports some new restrictions on gun ownership (background checks, no guns for felons or the mentally ill, require gun registration) but almost nobody supports "no guns, period".

(source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/n...).
Experienced writers/readers easily communicate emotions through text.
Report On iOS 6 Adoption After Google Maps Release
Ah, interesting, it does seem that gun control can be a tool for racism and genocide.

However, I'm only willing to take those as anecdotal evidence for promoting less gun control: they are all written by people and groups who are heavily invested against gun control, i.e. a very high risk of motivated thinking, research and writing.

(Sure, one might point at all the references and evidence they provide, but what are they not saying? What about a discussion of the countries around the world with gun control that has (as far as I can see) no racist or genocidal purpose (e.g. most of modern Europe, Australia, New Zealand)?)
Details are really important. That doesn't mean I could possibly handle every single detail myself, I can't. We have a whole team that handles different parts of the system and they are fully qualified. In fact the engineers doing this feature did write the correct implementation. I simply made a mistake answering the question.

I think people are confusing the Authy Google Authenticator Support with the Authy product.

We do not sell Google Authenticator or aim to be a replacement for it. We simply added the possibility to add Google Authenticator tokens into the Authy App - mostly since our existing clients wanted this -.

Our Service, it's usage etc are completely separate.. If you are not using Authy you can simply use Google Authenticator App.

The only thing in common is we both use RFC 6238 which is an open standard for Time based OTP's.
This! nukes are not a serious weapon of war, their only use is deterrence because they completely rape any place where they're used so that that area is altogether off limits for the remaining life of humanity.
74

for i in range(1,101):print(''if i%3 else'Fizz')+(''if i%5 else'Buzz')or i
See also, http://codegolf.com
the price is quite a bit higher than much more secure and far reaching technology from companies like secureauth?
It also would seem to cast a lie to the claim that they are generated "algorithmically."
Funny thing: I was a peon in Rod Brooks' group right at this transition. The robot I worked on was a small monster, which would beam data offboard to a lisp-machine for analysis (machine-vision problems, etc). Just after I left, Rod decided to go down the path of having small simple FSMs connected together, which it turns out displayed some pretty complex behavior. Then Colin Angle showed up.

Boy did I leave at the wrong time. :)
I think it's more of an Eternal September (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) event where security was fairly well understood by a small group of people that needed it in the 80's, but 'those in the know' (Banks, NSA, etc) never really spoke with the new generation of web developers.

PS: There is a reason that phrase refers to September 1993.
http://www.nature.com/news/embattled-neutrino-project-leader...
Compared to peculiarities of user interface and general buggyness of most EDA packages I've seen all gotchas in Tcl's syntax are pretty insignificant.
In your view, what defines social?

I'm seeing this as one point receives updates from many other points and announces updates of its own. In the case of DNS, it's domain record updates. In the case of email, it's messages. In the case of social, status updates, photos, events.
Several people were pseudo-fired/resigned as I recall.
Similar situation where I work with a similar list of games but also including Carcassonne, Carcassonne Discovery, Kingdom Builder, Small World, Last Night on Earth (seasonally) and futile attempts to finish Robo Rally in under an hour.

Amusingly enough also in a Vancouver-ish software development office (Richmond area).
When will we get a "programer's web browser"?

I mean a full blown browser of current generation abilities, but with the option of completely keyboard driven interaction. Concise input of small commands (navigation, data extraction, exploring and massaging of extracted data, data uploading etc.) that can be composed to form more complex interactions.

It should have full interoperability with the CLI, don't go re-inventing grep, sed etc. but instead stand on their shoulders by interoperating fluently with them. In practice i expect this means the "programer's browser" functions as a full blown terminal emulator too.

If it were a text editor (and it should be a competent one of those, but the web is more than a textual medium so some implementations should certainly offer richer functionality than plain text editing) then the net and its many protocols would be its filesystem.

It should be extensible, but only by 1 language. Competing programer's browsers could offer alternative extension languages as their differentiator.

It should be entirely open for extension, by that i mean more than plugins, i should be able to rip out core parts of it to be replaced with alternative implementations (A's needs won't match B's needs and so on).

It shouldn't go too far though, it shouldn't be a full blown operating system: why re-invent the wheel, reuse the thousands of man years effort in existing OS's. It should be multi platform.

We almost have the requisite component parts available now, who's going to get the ball rolling with the new wave of "programer's browsers"?
This is pretty much how the book I'm using on Pygame is working. It's a load of games written in Pygame that the author encourages you to copy out and try to learn how it works yourself. Then afterwards he explains in detail how it all works.
The writing it really helps with learning how you can use the simple stuff together to make more complex stuff.

Book:
http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/index.html
Other than monotheistic bias, why should multiple species of god particles be surprising?

Perhaps the first should be called "Odin" and the second "Loki."
The abstract concept of a lever. And it is definitely much harder than it sounds, mostly because it's comparatively so easy for humans to do.
If you manage to get a photo of yourself sealing the envelope with said photo of you sealing the envelope inside of the envelope... then we might have a winner. Could call it EscherGram
Did your country sign the UN ITU resolution to regulate Internet?
The MariaDB Foundation: A turning point for MySQL
Sharing that was tremendously kind of you. Thank you for sharing it and I am sorry you've had such a horrible year.
Honestly, I don't even care about gun control laws, I just don't want packing heat to be a cultural norm. We Americans, on the whole, have a huge obsession with guns. They're iconic, from the wild west to world war II. We romanticize righteous killing sprees (in war it's called "honor"), and all it takes is one person to think their cause is "righteous" to get shit like this happening. Giving everyone else guns is like putting a band-aid over an infection. Sure, it may help prevent it from spreading, but does nothing to target the cause.
Much appreciated, thanks. That's absolutely tragic, and a failure of the scientific community and media at large. The media for precipitating it, and the scientific community for letting it happen.
It doesn't have to be restricted geographically--iDevices support VPN just fine after all.

And I think there is a disconnect between what users can be trusted to do in person, and what they can be trusted to do with computers. I don't think most users have a good mental model of how the cloud works, how it exposes data to third parties, etc. I imagine most people don't even realize that Google reads your e-mails and documents.
Searches, starred locations, etc. are not, though. Arguably, those are more important than location data.
I think compiler is the wrong way to describe this. A computer program that translates between two different high level languages is typically called a language translator.
By core, I mean that it's critical to have control of them for success/viability of the device (ie. strategic components). I certainly do think that maps are important, but I don't think it would matter which mapping application is used on a device or think that it's critical for Apple to control that application. The UI, settings, notifications, phone app, SMS app [maybe], location services seem like just about the only core bits. Treating a giant, very complicated application built by another company as core means that you're probably signing up to build that functionality in the future. As Apple is doing...

In hindsight, I suspect Apple would have been happier had they launched with Google Maps, then had gotten Garmin, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, etc to build great mapping applications. I don't know how building a mapping infrastructure is a good idea for Apple [but perhaps I just haven't thought about it enough yet].
Hiring Senior Engineers to rebuild the office lunch
Quickly! Pivot into setting focuses! You still have a window!
Maybe part of the reason why there's a big gender gap?
That's not really true for electricity though. In the US we use more electricity in the summer for ac than than heating in the winter. Partly this is based on where people live, but also because people in the north use fuel oil etc in the winter for heating and people in the south have little need for winter heating and less need for AC. There is some regional spikes in demand though unusual cold snaps in southern regions, but as the overall grid has lower demands they just import power from other regions.

As to why AC uses so much power, a lot of it relates to dehumidifying air which takes a lot more power than you might expect.

PS: In most areas you can substitute solar hot water heaters for the vast majority of home heating needs so long term it's not really a problem.
Auto-commit after every save would likely break the build for other developers on the team.
I am personally a fan of another of his games not mentioned here, Yomi. It definitely puts focus in a 1-on-1, competitive aspect where you're not playing time trial and every action you make involves picking the counter to the action your opponent is going to make.
Or some of both? Because neither is a perfect solution?
Guns are designed for killing, but they're not the only thing so designed. Swords and bows are also designed for killing. Does that mean we should crack down on archers and fencers?

Overwhelmingly guns are owned and used by peaceful, law-abiding civilians. That they can be misused does not mean we should punish those who have done no wrong.

And the idea that we can live in a simple world where we can divorce ourselves from violence, death, responsibility, and from tools of lethal force is simply naive. Pacifism is a luxury of those who have never experienced the threat of violence. In the real world there are violent men with bad intentions and being able to forestall such men by using lethal force can save lives, your own life and the lives of others. You can either turn away from that truth or foist it off on the responsibility of others or you can face it directly. But you can't make it simply go away.
Agreed. But that's not mapping, right? [See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4995 . Location services are used by apps such as Maps.] Location services do seem like a core feature for phones since the phone has the radio and electronics to do the positioning.
> How is this different from other incubators?

> Participants receive almost no money, and are expected to do everything themselves.

So not really all that different than many (most?) incubators.
Thanks, I edited the title.
It's definitely true (that "the discover ran contrary to traditional assumptions"), and they give supporting evidence for this in the article. The history of AI bears this out quite explicitly.

Also, the decision tree for chess might be intractable to exhaustively search, but a "dumb search" is exactly how it's done, and it is currently vastly more powerful than any competing method. And you really can't just jump from chess to face recognition and NLP -- they are completely different problems. To wit, chess has perfect information; the entire state of the game is known at all times, and the representation is clearly defined and compact, where none of this is true for sensory tasks. This means the range of techniques available to solve each type problem are completely disparate, and tat there is almost nothing that you can take from a chess program and apply to "lower level" AI tasks.
Probably the best line in the wealth of well-written comments (yes, I'll admit I did read too many):

Also, I didn't like the Scratch N Sniff parts.
Date and Time in Java 8
I'm not sure why this article keeps getting upvotes. This is an article about a person who won their state lottery 10 years ago, then lost all the money through constant, consistent poor decision-making. The winner was a small business owner, that's the only connection I can make.

I've heard this story dozens of times, usually from morally-aggressive people as an anecdote for why money is evil. I've heard it discussed on radio talk shows, and also by radio DJs. I could swear I've read about it here before, and I'm sure I've seen it on TV too.