skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, people with a pocket translator will be "fluent" in every language just like people who don't know the difference between "divide by one-half" and "divide in half" but have a calculator app on their phone are now brilliant at math.
Not sure why this was downvoted, but those of us who have been reading Naomi Wolf, Glenn Greenwald, et al. have known about this. This is merely the logical extension of the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, Telecom Immunity, NDAA, etc. I hope this federal Leviathan collapses, and we return to liberty someday, but I fear there will be a lot of casualties before that happens.
I think the primary difference is that Diaspora faced a chicken/egg problem which we don't. Social isn't the primary focus of what we're building so if you're the only person in the world using OpenPhoto you can derive a good deal of value from it on day 1.

I think there are other large challenges ahead of us but I don't think the Diaspora example is entirely accurate because what hurt them doesn't completely apply to us.
http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

http://ericlippert.com/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/ and
http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert

http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/Default.aspx
> For most people, your MB type changes with your mood that day...

My other comments in this thread should make it clear that I'm not terribly invested in the MBTI stuff, but still: got any evidence for that?

And, even if there is some evidence for that, wouldn't that same argument also apply to a person's height? "For most people, your height in cm is bunk because it changes throughout the day..."
First sentence from the article:

"It looks like Twitter has started rolling out the option to let users download all their tweets"
If someone could oblige me with an invite (see profile for email) as well, it would be much appreciated!
The raw game data comes from a scraper I wrote, but the summaries are generated by the same backend that I use for @NFLScoreBot and friends.
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Thank you for the replies everyone, this is really helpful.

I asked because I have a student (11th grade) who wants to be a professional programmer. He is taking the intermediate web development course, and I saw that the main project is building a blog on top of GAE. I was not sure if GAE is maintaining relevance, or if it is losing out to other platforms.

I know that at this point in his education most of what he learns by focusing on GAE will be relevant. All of the platforms deal with the same server-side and client-side issues, they just do it in their own way. I know that if he understands how apps are built on top of GAE, he will be able to make sense of whatever framework he chooses to learn next, deployed to whatever platform he chooses to build on.

This helps share some perspective with him about GAE's role in the platform space. I am happy to hear it is still quite relevant.
That is an example of delusional thinking aided by poor access to real media. Egypt is and has been almost entirely dependent on foreign aid. India has always been independent. And in per capita terms Egypt is not richer than India. However, like Pakistanis you can continue to dream of the days when your population was much smaller and people lived happily in poverty. Times have changed.
It's total nonsense. He claims they are Word War I codes (for some reason I can't quite fathom) but then says it includes the word "Jerry", which was not commonly used until WW2. Lots of other incongruities as well suggest this is someone after their name in the paper, rather than a real solution.
And those FMUL and FADD instructions could either be fused multiply/add or separate multiplies and adds with twice the truncation issues, Holy FPRE!

But I'm curious as to why you place such faith in the sooper top sekrit(tm) basis vectors for these dot products? It seems to me that it's politically expedient for such a system to generate false positives rather than risk letting the terrorists win(tm) and that's where I think things go wrong. Because it would appear from the outside that the powers-that-be have decreed that it's better to torture the occasional innocent than risk letting the guilty slip through their fingers.
I didn't realize that bullet pointed list contained links until I was confused by the comments on HN and accidentally clicked one.

Chrome for android on nexus 7.
The four letters indicate the current state of your personality, which is a function of your maturity, emotional development, and life events. It is only likely to be accurate for certain types of people.

This current state is a manifestation of a combination of your (Jungian) cognitive functions - these are mental processes structured in a certain hierarchy. The sole purpose of life (if you adhere to the principle of growth) seems to work towards a flattening of this hierarchy and hence, become an equanimous person.
Still, faster horses is a useful requirement. Sure, you have to abstract away the technology, but the need is there.
Lots of guessing, hypothesizing, and imagineering for information that is readily available. Here's a start:

http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/mysql-at-twitter.html

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-store...

http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/sessions/g...

http://www.slideshare.net/yousukehara/introduction-of-twitte...

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/05/introducing-flockdb.h...

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/Twitter-Architecture

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/05/introducing-flockdb.h...

https://github.com/twitter
Location-independent Addressing with Messaging Middleware
Front End Framework Faceoff : Foundation3 vs Bootstrap
Do you remember everything you want to "Google later?"
I would have loved to meet this guy head on.
Maybe the fact that moment conditions are often first order conditions for some agent's optimization problem is why rationality was mentioned, but I'm just speculating.
Nice photos, a shame they don't show them in higher resolution.
What about implanting a computer into your brain. An AI that's connected to the `human internet` which record your senses and which you can interact with your thoughts.

There's a trend in human history where as there are more and more of us, we become closer to each other. Where in pre-historic times, different populations only interact through migrations, in ancient times we begin to have trade routes which allow populations to affect each other in terms of years and decades rather than centuries. Development of oceanic travel reduced this to months and years. The telegraph and railway further reduced this to hours and days. Today with the mobile phone and internet, we can interact with each other in terms of seconds and minutes. Will this trend continue into the microseconds, so that in a thousand years time, humankind is a single hive mind-like entity?

"Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable."

http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
To your first tweet
Alternatives that require what exactly? Is Python out of the question? Perl? Clojure?

It is what it is.
I didn't question whether he question that. It's the way he describes India as a "democracy" and a "republic".

Please note italicized phrases. Those are my peeves. You can go through my comments again, of course.
Agree. This is nonsense. Furthermore, according to the article Systrom said they had not received any formal offers, which is confirmed by the Twitter sources. "Verbal offers" don't count. They cannot be binding, because an offer to buy a company must be quite detailed. A term sheet is a formal offer. However, if one is "given" without a signature and by a person without formal authority to make an offer, it also doesn't mean anything.
What's more amazing is that you keep taking it despite being "sure" it's bunk.
Most providers happily cooperate with law enforcement and other government agencies, in particular if they don't have to (or are forbidden to) inform their customers. In many cases, informal contacts are used or a polite official request without a court order is already sufficient.
My take on why PHP is popular: web programming back in the late 90ies was not easy, and the tools available looked something like this:

* Perl CGI's, and, later on, mod_perl. Worked pretty well, and Perl is a serious language, but things got big and clunky, especially with mod_perl. CGI's are kind of slow.

* Various proprietary Tcl solutions. These were very cutting edge in many ways, but were open sourced far too late.

* Java towards the very end of the decade. Then, as now, it was a fairly heavy-duty solution; not suitable for, say, adding a dynamic time or something like that to an otherwise static page.

* PHP. Fairly easy to install compared to the alternatives, and reasonably easy to get started with. You did not need to understand classes, OO, and how to compile things just to get a dynamic web page up and running.

In short, PHP "scales down" in terms of programmer effort to get started, giving people at the margin the ability to do something they otherwise would not have. Granted, that something might have been quite ugly, but at least you could get started.
> By the time that ray of light reaches your eye, your eye will have fallen below the horizon.

In order for that to happen you would have to travel faster than light.
The AAP quote is not based on data, just a desire for the world to work a certain way. Do not attempt to cite data to the contrary; while you will find critical studies of corporal punishment you will not find any that supports their use of the polemical word, "only."
My company will sponsor $5,000 for the best idea submission for mitigation techniques against these types of systems. Any suggestion on the best service to use host this / receive submissions?

We will:

1) Open source all submitted ideas.

2) Let the community choose the top 5 and we will hold an internal review process for the top spot.

3) Fly the winner(s) to our office in Atlanta, GA to discuss the winning submission in details with some of the top information security experts in the world.

4) Work to get press around the winning idea.

5) If we get north of 50 submissions we will help seed (with an additional $5,000) an IndieGoGo campaign to see the idea developed.

Email me (adam | socialfortress.com) or respond here to discuss.
Most of them are screenshots uploaded via a script for an academic project.
Dinner is judging person B's behaviour relative to you.

MBTI is not in relation to you.
That's not really concentration ... That's the whack-a-mole method of concentration that doesn't take you very far. You are stil accepting the noise and letting it go when you concentrate. It's just that, you are also resting your attention on a concentration object.
So the userspace driver uses the same syscalls or they need to do the work around. I guess I am most interested in the workarounds.
I've not seen these ones on any list here:

http://blog.databigbang.com

http://blog.nektra.com

http://www.yosefk.com/blog

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/

http://blogs.southworks.net

http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/
This is pretty neat. I think a minor tweak that makes it easier to glance at, and see the scores, would be to wrap the score in a span and style that span with a light colored background to make it stand out. Perhaps some light yellow-ish color. I like to use #fffeca for this, on a white background.
What are your main interests?
Thank you for correcting me on that data point.

I personally suspect that the long oppression of the Catholic Church under English rule lead to a cementing of how important it is to the Irish people. I further suspect that, in time, Ireland will become as secular as other countries. But that time is not yet here.
Ask HN:Help needed with acceleraton & friction calculations in JS
Haven't received it yet (if you sent it to me, and not another commenter).
Agreed: CTO should have focused on his/her own development.

My SO works in sales/mkgt. That segment relies heavily on personality and aptitude tests. My SO swears by them. Says it helps identify prospect's weaknesses, to better help them succeed. I'm dubious, but it's hard to argue with success.

I'll chew thru all those links you provided. Thanks.
Have you ever tried to explore the "Some kid said something to me about being selfish and my self worth instantly shattered" situation with someone who does Innerchild / Regression therapy? They would eventually explore other childhood relationships, etc. and how they affected you. And sorry if I missed you saying it. I jumped around in your post, read a lot of it though.
What were your reasons for not using jQuery? Not that everyone has to use it, but it seems your refresh.js script could have been reduced a fair amount using library functions. Just wondering if there was a specific reason you don't use it.
This post appears to simply restate what it attempts to argue against (niche ideas and the previous brainstorming post).

Niches are markets. Dog walkers probably could use some kind of SaaS app. Restaurants desperately need better websites. And if you have a passion or (especially) deep knowledge of those industries/markets/niches, there's nothing wrong with experimenting with ideas.

No one is arguing against doing market research–in fact, multiple people stated that as the first step in the HN post mentioned. And I doubt the OP on that thread was saying "make some ideas up out of the blue with no basis in industry knowledge". C'mon.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4917661
That ridiculous extreme must be quite a popular gene, because it still exists: It's called war and mass war rape.
Yet, we are not all warmongers and rapists (I hope). So civilisation is already putting its slow but steady evolutionary pressure onto our genes. Let's hope that it's putting our gene pool onto the right track.

I simply don't share joonix' optimism that genetic screening can eradicate "unbeneficial" traits within next centuries without wrongly removing "beneficial" ones, before we have a better and complete understanding of our biological makeup.

More dangerous than ignorance is half-knowledge.
You're using

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" >

Which means mobile devices will not zoom out to display the screen as it appears on a desktop, which is what you do when you're using a responsive design. But you aren't using a responsive design, so on a phone it appears only showing 320px of the page, rendering it unviewable and unusable.

Take that out OR implement a responsive design.

Sorry not to give feedback about the idea, I don't really have any, but fix that. It'll help ya out, especially while this is on HN.
While I don't currently use jekyll any longer (switched to pelican[1] a while back), it is great to see it being picked up again!

[1]: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
Are anti-virus companies pre-cogs now, too? Or a more rational explanation would be that they are just taking part in the cyber fear mongering to sell their services to the government. I hear the McAfee division of Intel hasn't been that profitable since they bought it for $7 billion. Everything about Intel these days seems to be about hyping stuff up to unreal levels, rather than honest marketing.
To clarify, fully automatic guns can be owned, at least in some States. Current federal law prohibits automatics manufactured after 1984 (IIRC) being sold to civilians. You can buy one manufactured before that. This restriction of course makes the available guns extremely expensive. There is also a demanding series of signoffs, from the ATF down to your local sheriff, that you need to get through. But it can be done.
Wow, GOA, that's a flashback. 2004??
>>Hope this clarifies your query.

No, it's not. This can only result from proxy or shallow journalism.

>>It would be like Egypt appointing a Coptic Christian to be its army chief of staff.

Really?

>>We will know that Egypt went the route of Pakistan and not India.

As far as I can see socio-political and socio-religious situation in my country and whatever I can gather the one in Egypt from a distance and through news media &c, I would say that the comparison is absurd, if not worse. The two countries are so different in these aspects that I don't really think Egypt ever started this way.

I never said he didn't appreciate India's democracy. That's not even the point.
I've nothing personal against the author. His son never ate my lunch in school. It's just the incoherent nature of article that annoyed me and the fact that NYT published it.
Windows Phone 8: A user's experience
D

- Most similar to: F#
- Most disimilar to: C

Is this really correct? The impression i've got of D is that it started as "Take C, remove everything that sucks and add other nice features". It surely looks more like C / C++ than some functional langage too me.
> At current rates, we are currently experiencing a mass extinction event worse than the one that killed the dinosaurs.

Interesting assertion. Got a citation for that?
Conspiracy theory time. Westboro Baptist Church are pretending to be 'Anonymous' and attacking themselves to gain even more publicity.

Personally I don't think attacking the WBC aligns with the central tenets of the 'Anonymous' movement. Anonymous likes chaos, freedom of speech and expression, causing offense, etc.
They probably won't actually show up, since they got the publicity they wanted. The most effective solution would be for the media to quit covering them.
Another word for "beating" is simply "consequence". Establishing that there are negative consequences for particular behaviours is what's important (and that they're consistently applied and adhered to), and clearly the mother knows that--she punished him effectively by yanking his electronics for a day. There's nothing particular about beating a child that's more effective than other punishments. Show me a child who doesn't respond to punishment, and I'll show you a parent who is inconsistent with consequences, and gives in rather than establishing that consequences happen.

That said, I'm fucking horrified by your story. If your brother is a productive man of society, then your mother got lucky. But for every productive man of society, we have a hundred fathers who beat their children senselessly because "that's how I was raised."

Violence begets violence. Abuse begets abuse. Nothing about proper, strict discipline requires behaviour that would, under other circumstances, get you locked up.
One situation where you might see immediate results is in High volume routing. I think this project [1]. They were using the GPU to saturate multiple 10GbE interfaces with a commodity processor.

1.http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/
I would rather deal with the weirdos than pass speech restriction laws.
Has World War II carrier pigeon message been cracked?
If you are outside the EU, you are automatically charged price without VAT.
Not a fan of Instagram, and I think FB purchase was stupid, but still, it is a private dealing between two companies. Even if there were thousands other offers, they can choose the one that they prefer. Moreover, it's not only money, when choosing such an offer.
I thought it was fun. What can I say, I enjoy pop psychology.

Further though, I find it has had a real effect on how I relate to others. Reading of the different MBTI's, particularly how different types communicate, forced me to seek to understand the nuances & preferences of individual styles of social interaction. Sometimes broad personality generalisations are all that are needed to establish a meaningful channel of communication.

I would recommend doing the test or at least reading the 16 types, if for no other reason than it forces you to be mindful of the fact that there are many large & small differences between individual personalities.
Did you come across Well in your research? http://well.io/
I don't have any particular reason for not using jQuery; I'm just not a huge fan.
MBTI is a data point - it's unwise to use a single data point for understanding oneself and others.

For me personally, 'my' type accords with the type of person I am and have been, and - as one aspect of the psychiatric consultations I was having to sort of various issues - really helped me a lot. And, anecdotally, it gave me some kind of broad framework for understanding others, their motivations and actions, something I had struggled with (and still do, I must admit).
I didn't really have a choice in the matter. I went to a summer program where it was required and then had a job where it was required. It isn't amazing, its crappy circumstances.

I still have no clue why it was required at the job since it was never mentioned or the results even talked about.
I had the same thought at first, but reading the whole anecdote made me wonder. It's clear that the mother didn't do what she did just to indulge her own anger. She did, in fact, have her son's interests at heart. It was a last resort to get through to him. When you talk about submission as a goal, I think you have to ask, submission to what? If the goal is to get the child to submit to the parent's ego, as it so often is, then I agree with you. But parents have to set limits, and children have to submit to them.
Not really. There are many different types of meditation: Samatha (Concentration), Vipassana (Insight), Zazen, Yoga, etc.

What's a guide for meditation that practices mindfulness?
Third-party takeover of iOS
Indeed a disappointing list.

A positive (logically, not ethically) prediction from my side:

In 100 years, the earth will have a smaller population than now (6 Billion), concentrated in clusters of smallish cities (as opposed to mega-cities). Nature will be reconquering much of the world that has been devastated by climate change and the desperate attempts to grow food by starving populations.

Society will be heavily stratified, with a perpetually unemployed lower class living of the state with minimal rights and opportunities. Class distinctions are amplified by biotechnological advances accessible only to those with money and power. Surveillance will be ubiquitous and anonymity will be non-existant for all but the most technologically savvy. Most countries will be governed by some pseudo-democratic system.

Some descendant of humanity, be it genetically enhanced men or our electro-mechanical children, will have colonized asteroids. Moreover, they will be sending out extrasolar expeditions following the probes they have sent out 50 years earlier.

I must be in a bad mood today. Also, I didn't follow your advice.
ladies and gentlemen we have here a clear case where the people in charge have failed to uphold the Constitution of the United States. These people must be forced out of government, and prosecuted for their crimes.

Please vote, and please run for office if you have the fortitude to help us deal with this problem.
The Apple TV and the iPod
Not a bad idea...it might be a tad tricky to implement though given that my backend spits out summaries as plain text. I'll try to implement it later.
Anecdotal evidence is not evidence at all. Tyrannical governments come about through incredibly complex situations that can't simply be reduced to an arms race between government and civilians.
Hey epaga - we've been running a site called https://TapFame.com. Try it out - would love your feedback!
Whom do they think they are? The Dark Lord himself?
Well ... if anyone was purposefully inbreeding humans so they had disfigurements that people would pay to look at then I would hope we would do the same thing suggested for the tigers. Stop doing that immediately.
No, the correlation persists even at normalized income.