skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say men can't develop Empathy.

Not enough of us spend enough time developing it, while the wonderful women in our world often have a headstart, quite often due to Men to begin with, lol.

I think the points you're speaking to might be better addressed by our fairer gender. :)
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Have you thought about creating high-tech mala (prayer/meditation beads)? They're used to count the breath or repetition of mantras without thinking about it. Making it one full way around (often 108 beads) is supposed to be a good amount of time to meditate. A high-tech version could gather all kinds of data during meditations and gamify the whole process. Of course, that might defeat the purpose for some people.
Thank you for this - I kept feeling I had hit a wall in my mindfulness meditation, and it's good to be reminded that it's the effort that's the goal, not the end result. :)
Annoying that the Apple DUNS lookup is not working currently:

"We're sorry, this service is currently unavailable.
Please try again later."
I've never used the simple lock– I have a long passphrase that I prefer. It still won't let me change keyboards, despite setting the OS language being set to Japanese. It's up-to-date software wise, but was purchased in the US so...
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What topics to include in a college iPhone dev class?
I will be teaching a one-semester class at a state university in Georgia, USA; the students will be junior and senior undergraduates, with somewhat different backgrounds, but all of them would have taken the intro programming sequence (at least two programming courses, usually using either Java or C#), and an introduction to databases course. Our semesters consist of at least 15 useful weeks; my plan is to have one (or two :) small apps per week as assignments, and one final project at the end.

I have more info and a list of topics I am currently planning at the url above; the main question is

What topics should be included ? Which ones are optional ?

I'm interested in all opinions; if you're a pro now, what topics are more useful ? if you're a student, what would you like to see ?
What device was this captured on, and where in the world was it taken? Hard to say it is testing anything without more details, ie is this the app sign-in screen or Web-based? Can you provide more info?

Certainly it is a cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing look though.
>> For me— and probably a lot of others— the allure of programming is in the intuitive ease that some find with it, combined with the inordinately inflated salaries.

If you feel that you're getting paid too much to sit for 8 to 10 hours solving problems by writing code into a machine and trying to work with a team and trying to meet specifications and ultimately what the customer needs; you should ask for a salary reduction.
Robots are taking your job and mine: deal with it
>> To put this in perspective, if I had chosen instead to be a lawyer, or doctor, or some other “accredited” profession, I very likely would’ve helped a grand total of zero people in my career thus far, and couldn’t for another five or so years given that I (likely) wouldn’t even be in law or med school yet.

That's my view, challenging and rewarding, that's programming.
Probably, I've seen then ban whole domains (droplr.com) previously for distributing malware.
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Hmm, I thought people mainly knew about this. But I researched this a lot while making http://2fb.me and actually witnessed this myself with google docs but didn't think twice about it. I'm sure the same thought was going through the heads of everybody reading this that knew anything about how the Facebook sharer worked. For those that found this news, it's beneficial to put open graph meta tags on your pages to control the crawler and you can also invoke the crawler (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) when your page changes before Facebook updates it automatically every 2 weeks or so.
Ask HN: Predictions... What will 2013 be the year of?
Anyone?
Turbolinks seems really, really nifty! It may have been released a long time ago but it's the first time I see a technique like this.

Does anybody know how this technique affects SEO?
I really like this. I'm more of a middleware guy but I need to know these things for my job. I like how things are written: minimal fluff and a lot of "this is an approach on how to do X".
Loved that second link! It's almost hard to believe that they didn't feel anything, though I don't doubt for a minute that it's legit
Except he didn't. In douchey-business-guy fashion he tries to put an entire community of transdisciplinary people in their place by telling them to be happy with handling the technical side of things, while people like him interface with users, design the product, run the numbers, market and sell it.

I'm a programmer/interaction designer. In design school we were told by professors that "programmers think in terms of X, but designers think in terms of Y. You should never code if your a designer, and never let a programmer design" While they are correct that exercising one muscle will benefit at the exclusion of others, they go to far with the assertion that there exists some cognitive boundary between design and development. The same goes for singular-thinking business guys, like the author, who attempt to dress down engineers who want to try their hand at something new.

I've never met a engineer tell an aspiring business guy "just be a business guy, don't try to code". In fact, most engineers I know will heap praise at business people who bootstrap their idea, even if the first attempt is a bit wonky. This just proves how badly the person wants their vision to be realized.

New years resolution for 2013: stop trying to clip other's wings.
Its seems like newer frameworks and languages moves to Postgres.

But where MySQL have always been strong has been in the PHP community. And it still seems to me that there isn't much of a change here. Wordpress is still only thinking about getting Postgres support: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Alternative_Databases
As far as fiction that's similar check out Black Mirror:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22...
Iron Man's Alcoholism
I have found my RSI noticeably worse when stressed, too
likewise, the explanation for how the concepts flow together. drawing these connections is usually the last step for me in the "a-ha" moment, and too few resources explain the connections between concepts really well. khan academy being a strong exception.
I apologize for my comment. I'd have been more civil in person and certainly if I had bothered to look at how open you are in your profile.

I come from a different background. I bootstrapped a SaaS business that now has about 10 employees. I spent a bunch of time thinking about the best DNS solution for us. My conclusion was that we should go with the most expensive provider coupled with long TTLs. The most expensive provider was because of SEO reasons, and long TTLs are best for PPC conversion rates.
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ETF's are better than holding raw metals, i believe investing in raw metal or jewels is a myth, there is no buyer for raw gold/silver. Once you buy raw metal you end up with it for your lifetime or sell them for less (jewelers would give you less gold in a new design, after their 10-25% cut).
Wow, it's certainly interesting to see how the consensus on Piracy changes on HackerNews when it's iOS apps and not music/media that's being downloaded. The article even goes so far as to call it stealing and not one person has piped up to point out that they're merely copying bytes, not removing utility from anyone else.

The PirateBay receives a lot of support when it's mentioned here. I imagine if I opened a "PirateBayForApps" on which I carried both legitimately free apps and pirated apps, I might not receive the same support.
linux on the desktop, of course!
A couple of months ago, I bought the full link shortener package from Codular, but didn't get any automatic confirmation email or the actual product. A quick email to the maintainer, and he forwarded me a copy in under 10 minutes, no questions asked. Stand-up guy and a great product to boot. I always love seeing a new article from Codular pop up in my RSS reader.
It seems like to me the problem is not that academia isn't interested in reliability, its just that they are solving the wrong problems. I am thinking about Byzantine Fault Tolerance specifically, as from what I understand it is a hot topic of research at the moment. That seems to me to be an example of academic research that is next to useless for practitioners.

BTW that quote is from Leslie Lamport, maybe its so obvious he didn't think it needed a credit.
Totally agree. YC companies can still maintain their advantage by having their listings "stickied"/pinned to the top of the page. In fact, this may help YC companies, since knowing that lots of startups are listed on the jobs page should drive a lot more traffic to that part of HN.
Wind energy tax credits survive as Congress passes fiscal cliff deal
I'm waiting for God to kill the psy-ops.
Just being curious - checking for Germany:

"If you would like to obtain a D&B D-U-N-S Number for your business, please complete and submit the form below. Companies based in Germany will receive their D&B D-U-N-S® Number within five working days. Companies based outside of Germany will receive their D&B D-U-N-S® Number within 30 working days."
Having recently studied operating systems in school, I am not so sure the Linux kernel can be used for such a great variety of systems. It is built to support a set of system calls that are tightly coupled with Unix heritage, including its filesystems. You may create a user-level system on top of this, and I do find Inferno interesting for that approach, but you (the parent poster) also dismiss microkernels for their lack of performance.
Because it is a source of some very bad traffic. Anybody doing web-facing stuff that is targeted by bots/jerks/spammers/all of the above will block hosting facilities wholesale.
Sweet, how does it compare to threads-a-gogo with say performance?
As someone posting in that thread and in our case we don't post those jobs not for the reason you mentioned but (1) because we just don't have many of those jobs available and (2) because we already know people we may to hire so those job positions are filled even before the job is posted/advertised.
Dear Apple, DUNS is a scam, but you already know that
I almost consider that a positive in this case.
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Nuclear is asymmetrical. It's very fast to shut down but horrendously slow to start back up again.

In case of sudden load drops where nuclear plants will be shut down for safety reasons this can cause availability to be affected for weeks afterwards.
queues is going to be pretty nice.
Turbolinks still currently breaks a lot of things, including lots of .ready JS stuff.
Sure, and Clojure has '&' in function argument lists for rest arguments.

Here's a Clojure example:

user=> (for [x [0 1 2 3 4 5]
:let [y (* x 3)]
:when (even? y)
z [1 2]
[y z])
([0 1] [0 2] [6 1] [6 2] [12 1] [12 2])

The binding vector for 'for' takes alternating name/value pairs, except it also allows these special keywords whose semantics affect the environment of the subsequent bindings, and whether the bindings are even evaluated, as well as the environment of the body expression (and whether it's evaluated). This strikes me as kind of ugly. The same can be done like this, using that mdo macro:

> (monads/with-monad monads/sequence-m
(mdo x <- [0 1 2 3 4 5]
(let [y (* x 3)]
(when (even? y)
(mdo z <- [1 2]
(monads/m-result y))))))

with identical results, or, as above, like this:

> (monads/with-monad monads/sequence-m
(mdo x <- [0 1 2 3 4 5]
let y = (* x 3)
(when (even? y)
(mdo z <- [1 2]
(monads/m-result [y z])))))

Of course, if you think of a macro like "for" of consisting of a binding vector followed by an expression (or a sequence wrapped in an explicit do), there's no other place for the whens and lets that you want to use to control evaluation of (the environments of) the various bindings than the binding vector itself.

If I'm not mistaken, Common Lisp's loop macro (e.g.) isn't like this---that is, it establishes its own little mini language, instead of mimicking forms found elsewhere in the language (the way Clojure's for loop control constructs are all stuffed into a "binding vector" similar to what might be found in a defn). Now it's true that something like "let y = (* x 3)" is not very Lispy at all. But neither, I think, is having something like ":when (even? y)", a sequence of two elements in a flat vector, actually govern bindings and execution of things that follow it but which it doesn't enclose.
Can you elaborate on what lead you to think you "needed" to learn clojure or another FP language?

There aren't a lot of problems faced by the commonfolk that can't be solved with procedural/OO languages, especially the current crop.
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This is a serious scam, wonder my Apple is going with them. Not only do they scam you to signup for an account, they call you every month and scare you into buying a report. They say that multiple companies are requesting your credit reports and its not complete, you need to pay a certain amount to get it in shape.

Any update can take up to 14 days and they call you at odd hours to confirm those details as well.

Serious scam and a huge pain in the ass every company has to deal with while signing up for a developer account.

I started my signup process in August and got the developer account setup for our company in November. F#$%ing BS!
January 2013 Newsletter of Saaspose has been released
The year that web apps take over!
Well, that's sort of over the top, isn't it?
But seriously, we may see more done in terms of web apps/etc.
Once you sign up you can customize your plan as much as you want, setting search retention to a month is a possibility. It's not cheap, though.
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Gosh, if you had an extensible reader, you could do so much more... Oh wait, why don't we try it: http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2013/01/real-list-comprehe... ;)
There's nearly half a million devices that have been jailbroken on iOS 6 (over 470k). To the extent to which that number is low because of the lack of a tethered jailbreak, the lack of a jailbreak on recent devices, or simply the lack of interest in iOS 6 (as the main feature seems to be "Maps no longer works well"), I am not certain.

However, for purposes of "DRM has won against piracy", you have to first look at the demographics of piracy: the average person on Hacker News is a technically proficient user who is out a lot and relies on their cell phone for everything in their lives, from driving directions to business calls to reading websites like Hacker News.

Your average pirate is from a fundamentally different set of demographics: one of the most common is a middle-school or high-school student that shares an iPod touch (not an iPhone) with their sibling; the device probably doesn't leave the house much, and was a hand-me-down from the father (who probably doesn't have much time for games anyway).

I thereby take a lot of issue with people who attempt to frame conversations about anything involving normal people--whether it be the benefits of closed ecosystems, how users spend their money, or really anything--by aiming the spotlight on people who have enough money to own an iPhone 5, or even an iPhone 4S: the iPhone 4 is still selling, and it is still selling like hotcakes, because it costs $200 less up-front. I would even argue that it would be selling better than it is if it weren't perpetually sold out ;P.

In all honestly, I am not even certain why anyone would spend $200 to get an iPhone 5 instead of the iPhone 4, and I actually understand many of the various subtle technical differences... to the normal user, though, the only things they really are able to make decisions about are how the iPhone 4S supports Siri (which, of course, the iPhone 4 could easily handle, as demonstrated by the numerous jailbroken users who actually have installed it on that device--but then this device would have nothing at all which differentiates it to the normal consumer ;P), and that the iPhone 5 is slightly taller (which might even be a turn-off) and has a metallic back (which many will perceive as making the phone more sturdy to drops, but AppleCare+ protects against accidental damage--including drops--and costs only $100).

The result is that if you want to discuss what people who feel even slightly money-constrained are doing, you have to do so in the context of the iPhone 4. Yes: there are people who own recent iPhones and pirate, but at least the few I know (grrr) are in a very weird demographic (super-highly technical people who believe it is a moral sin to purchase information bits and will go to insane lengths to never spend a dollar on, say, iTunes).
> Given most people have seen the Euler diagram of numbers since grade school i think the default interpretation would be correct.

This kind of assumption is one reason so many textbooks suck so much. This assumption is not true for me. I don't know why you'd assume it would be true for "most people."
Dumb Poisoners
Many countries and even developed countries take aid. Sure if India accepts even 2 cents as aid from some other country, it is technically getting foreign aid. But I guess the important question is, how much percent of the government expense is in part due to aid from other countries and as far as I understand its not much these days. I think that is the point the other OP was also trying to make.
> It's an outrage that a disabled person is expected to live independently on $661 a month.

> It's the kind of thing that makes me ashamed of my own country.

I think the author is extremely ungrateful for having been born in a country that even provides _that_.

Do you know that _software engineers_ at Microsoft India, yes Microsoft of all places, get paid Rs. 30'000/month ($600/month) when they join in as a trainee?

People, we're talking about software developers under the monicker of "trainee"; people who've been through 4-year college _and_ been smart enough to get accepted to Microsoft India (in a highly competitive country) -- getting paid $600/month.

This guys has all his facts wrong when he says $600/month is bad in Gabon, and he's being totally ungrateful when he criticizes the U.S. gov. for what they're giving; not showing an iota of thankfulness.

Does the author know nearly 50% of children (hundreds of millions of children) in _India_ are malnourished?

In India, a completely healthy person who can't find a job, will be left to starve by both government and society. It's a ruthless, cold, heartless nation compared to the government of the U.S. In fact in India, even food meant for the poor is stolen by greedy politicians. It's a terrible country.

You should be thankful to be an American, instead of expecting even more from a government that far surpasses most countries in the world in terms of what it does.
MySQL isn't in flux. It is getting better every single day because of the contributions from Percona, MariaDB, Facebook, Twitter and even Oracle. It's just that people have a nervousness because of the Oracle connection.

And PostgreSQL maybe solid but developers want a solution that horizontally scales. Until this is addressed it is going to find itself increasingly marginalised.
UAC prompts for a password, not a clickthrough.
I don't really want to create a new account or sign up using Facebook. I prefer google auth. But I like this idea a lot.
this is a great idea. I personally have found using a mala to be really rewarding. We've played with various timing methodologies but maybe there's a physical hardware device that combines a biosensor and mala we haven't considered yet. Thank you. :) Happy new year.
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