skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few observations:

1. Facebook is trying to stay relevant by copying promising social network features (e.g. Whatsapp, Snapchat, Foursquare, ...)

2. Although Facebook is trying hard, it's having a tough time competing with the new social network because of preconceived notion of what Facebook is. (Facebook is news feed of personal social graph, not ephemeral real-time chat like Snapchat.) More on this: http://www.futureofsocialnetwork.com/2012/12/social-network-...

3. Although Facebook is having hard time competing with new, it has the big enough network to be the social platform. People still have account because of network-effect.
And since when have men ever invested money into finding ways to relieve animal suffering in our food raising processes? They can't even be bothered to use dirt cheap pain killers during some of the most horrendous practices.
Branding food as GMO has only negative connotations. I think the way forward is to demand for a non-GMO label. This is more realistic and will work better when partially implemented.
Has the story changed much since 2005 when this was published?
BitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched for in 2012
Isn't that like saying "does not contain excrement" will work better?
I guess he wouldn't much like the Unix philosophy as summarized by Doug McIlroy.
Maybe it is. But this closed system crap is one of the things I hate about LinkedIn. When I visit the link you offered I am greeted with:

"You and this LinkedIn user don’t know anyone in common. You can only view the profiles of users within your network. However, as you add connections, you may discover people you know in common."

Want to take a screen shot of what you were able to share?
Both GTK+ (broardway) and Qt (lighthouse) have some sort of HTML5 frontend. It is the most portable solution, if not a little slow. Extending the desktop can be done with some VNC+Xinerama trickery too. But it ain't easy, I will give you that. If you want to drag and drop a window from Xorg to Android (2 server), get ready for trouble. Not that X can't support it, it does, but modern toolkit hate being redirected like that, it is a very niche X11 feature.
Incidentally, I have regretted not asking for an oversized coffee cup just this morning. It would have made it harder not to spill while walking fast. So now there's a second reason to do that! :)
Tech News: Will It Matter That Netflix Is Finally on Facebook?
> There is really no alternative to Linked In

Since I moved to Android and saw the permissions their app wants (access to my phone calls and calendar, among others), I've found a great alternative: they can wait until I get to my desktop, if I bother remembering.
Ask HN: Why?
Why?
Microsoft Engineers "Working Agressively" to Fix Xbox Live Service
>>First, if you read nutrition books, you realize that in the long term, it's not healthy. It's much better to eat vegetables.

As someone who is eyeball-deep in nutrition science, I demand a credible citation.
Agree, however I just don't see where the fear of flying motif comes into play when you don't have all your eggs in one basket. Once a fund is raised it's typically for 10 years. There's a lot of hard steady work to do in those 10 years, but you don't really have a milestone to meet every 12-18 months otherwise you've failed and your business is over.
Pentagon Buys Microsoft Products For $617 Million
You've made so many negative comments that I've started to recognize your name.

A few pieces of advice from someone who was once a smart and shockingly arrogant teenager:

Dial down the negative replies and stop commenting on everything as if you were an expert. You lack experience and it shows in your writing. In 10 years you will probably decide the majority of the opinions you now hold are wrong. Try to remember that before you criticize.

Don't use "elucidation" when "explanation" will suffice. The purpose of writing is to clearly convey an idea--using needlessly uncommon or archaic words can break the flow of communication. (I had the same problem when I was younger, and my teenage brother still does.) You'll find that your writing is much more effective if it doesn't read like you spent half of your time flipping through a thesaurus (even if you didn't).
Upon further research, here are a few things that caught my attention:

#1) There was a bit of Congress lobbying to get it approved.

#2) There is a 5% chance that these fishes could actually become fertile.

#3) These fishes have an extra chromosome and a novel protein not found in any other salmons.
Which is ironic because Web bookmarks/caches are one class of apps that are explicitly banned from the Apple app store, because the web bookmark feature exists. That's why my game, cross platform on ios, android, and web, is not published on App Store. So iOS users can't play my game on an airplane.
Thank you for taking the time to write that, instead of linking to that one comic that everyone links to in these threads about competing standards.

Although I'm not sure why you say "quasi" standard. XML and JSON seem like pretty robust standards to me, and they should both be around for a long time.
I have a different reason for not eating farmed salmon: it looks and tastes awful.
It makes zero sense for companies to be required to list what is NOT in their food. Yeah, let's scrap listing ingredients and instead list everything that isn't in an item. ;)
So, for a very long time, I had an XBMC box setup on my projector, got a AppleTV, pretty quickly stopped using the XBMC machine, and now I've since repurposed the machine as a Steam Big Picture box, (Which sadly won't run on an XBMC Apple TV)

Out of curiosity, what functionality in XBMC do you find particularly worthwhile?
Microsoft Court Holds Right to Replicate Software Is an Intangible..
I agree with you completely. It's partly a problem of rarity. It's also partly that men in tech don't often have well developed social skills (were in the computer lab all night in college instead of out at the frat parties) and don't know what's appropriate and what isn't. More women in tech would go a long way to make it easier to be a woman in tech.
Don't accuse parent of projecting for taking your words at face value. You stated development budget as a reason for wanting users to download your app. That has no relevance to any user's needs.
That reminds me of my surprise when I went to Taiwan and saw similar barriers in every metro station.
Even without crazy people, it's really nice to have when children are around.
Researchers find malware targeting Java HTTP servers
Seems like a rant. Perhaps someone living in San Fransisco can confirm if it's really the case - I'm just a poor sod living in Australia, we have our own traffic and transportation issues.
Scale, a mechanic can only ever provide so much value in fixing a car which is owned by a single customer. Improving a software businesses conversions by 1% might provide more value than a mechanic can in a year of fixing cars.
Do some products on the market contain excrement? Because if they do I would either like to know all that do or at least some that do not.
Even worse: I can't recall the number of times I've clicked 'No thanks' on a 'Download our app'-page, only to get redirected to the homepage, instead of the page I was originally supposed to view.

Server attention span is still terrible, as explained by XKCD: http://xkcd.com/869/
Shut Up, You're Not Apple
> This is a tiny city, and you can walk from any one point to another in 45 minutes most of the time.

> But, back to walking. Anyone who is traveling in a North-South direction to commute (i.e. Marina to Downtown) knows that by the time the 30 or 45 bus gets to Chinatown, you can get out and walk faster, plus you don’t feel like a sardine. That walk is a no-brainer.

The author ignores anyone who finds walking difficult.

California's muni problems are not just because of "the Chinese"[1] but because of the baffling tax / road thing that got themselves into.

[1] I never thought that in 2012 I'd be saying "It's not the Chinese" in a comment about SF. :-\
Or better yet, you could even write your own OS on new hardware and not have to get permission (or whatever it is we have to do in the future).
Speaking of old, I wonder what would serve the very elderly or people with mobility difficulties in the absence of muni.
Non-GMO is not an ingredient, it is a classification. Ingredients either classify or not and the label on the package speaks to the classification. A common example is "not from concentrate".

Edit: (sorry for changing my comment, I add the original below).

You are picking on the wording. There must be a succinct way to say non-genetically modified animal.
How many buildings in California do you regularly come across with the "This building contains chemicals known in the State of California to cause cancer" or something to that effect? They are everywhere. It doesn't stop 99% of people from entering these buildings to work or live in them.
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMe...

"The potential hazards addressed in this EA center on the likelihood and consequences of AquAdvantage Salmon escaping, becoming established in the environment, and spreading to other areas. These hazards must be addressed for the production of eyed-eggs, grow-out to market size, and disposal (i.e., of fish & fish wastes)."

and

"As discussed in §2.4.2.1, the estimated escape rate of salmon from sea cages is about 1%. Sea cages, or net pens, have a direct connection with the aquatic environment."

1% of 50.000-90.000 fish in sea cage it's not something negligible, the first direct impact might be against the non-GE Atlantic salmon (salmo salar). Especially that salmon eats salmon eggs and so the dominant specie might become the GE one.

You might say, oh it's fine it's not touching the diversity of Salmon, it's just replacing the Atlantic salmon with another one. Wait, they took some coding sequence from the pacific salmon (and especially from the oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and added the "anti freezing" protein from zoarces americanus. So this "subspecie" got an interesting level of properties to find its place in the atlantic and/or in the pacific (where the diversity of salmons (Oncorhynchus) is much higher) region. Those risks are without any spreading of the genetic modification (assuming that triploid induction is effective with a probability of 1, another point where the scientific literature is lowering down the probability of effectiveness).

I suppose those risks are not really considered by the FDA as critical because the F is for Food in FDA. So the risk of changing the whole profile of wild salmon with such "GE" salmon is not negligible.
Chinese court orders Apple to pay in copyright dispute
This seems pretty relevant:

http://xkcd.com/641/
That's a lovely capitalist way to think about it, but it won't do much. Foods labeled non-GMO or non-hormonally-enhanced or whatever are only labeled so to target their market: the sorts of people who already care.
Read the books by Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live being his most famous one, http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustain...

He's not against eating meat, but portions should be very low (5-10% of calories from animal products, no more, and this is a veeery small piece of meat). A (near-)vegan diet with B12- and DHA-supplements is the healthiest (DHA can be derived from algae instead of fish oil - the fish get it from algae too). An objection may be: but eating pills isn't natural. Well, eating GMO-fish surely isn't natural either.

A website with a lot of little video's about the same nutrition principles can be found here: http://nutritionfacts.org/
So is this the first real X client on Android? I've only found VNC clients for Android in the past. Having a real X client would be amazing because that would allow the efficient use of GUIs with a chroot install of debian (or pick-your-distro)! The status quo is to use a VNC server in the chroot and a VNC client on Android to get a GUI. Not very "clean".
This is a problem in Android OS. App have to handle all URLs with a certain prefix (or maybe for a while domain?), not a regex pattern they want. Google itself got burned by this, and they didn't even bother building a workaround like github did. It was just mostly impossible to shop for a Nexus device on a Nexus device, since Play hijacked all play.google.com links and then failed to actually show content, since Nexus devices weren't in the native Play Store
If your only standard for utility is applicability to Python there's no point discussing monads or anything else that comes up in conversations about languages besides Python. Maybe the reason you haven't seen a cogent explanation of monads using only Python is the same as the reason you haven't seen a cogent explanation of how to use the clutch in an automatic car, or how to desalinate fresh water, or how to make lemonade with nothing but a jug and ice water. Maybe the problem isn't the explanation or the one producing it.
You underestimate the gullible sheepishness of mass media consumers.
Android has fantastic support for mice, touchpads and keyboards (not to mention Xbox 360 controllers, etc).
Is Apple Being Beaten to the Punch?
What if you accidentally added a bug in your bot? What if the policy-guard has a bug? What if there's changed robots-policies you didn't have time to keep up with? What if there's an admin with a personal vendetta against some bot? (the three first bullets also show why opt-out is a bad idea, over opt-in)

You don't think it would be appropriate to warn the bot-owner about this first? Hellbanning must always be a last resort, not something you throw around as standard procedure for even the smallest misdemeanours.

The recent spread of hellbanning on internet forums really is a plague. I've been hellbanned on several sites for no obvious reason at all. On reddit for example it was because their spam-bot detected that i posted two posts containing the same link within too short time -.-
PS3 was released in 2006, and finally broken in 2010 due key management issues (not a flaw in the firmware afaik). Do you really think that running Linux on Surface in 2016 will be relevant anymore? The device probably will be EOLed long before that.
I'm sorry, I didn't notice the part of your comment where you mentioned being a high schooler too - didn't mean to deny your contrasting experience. As the other commenter suggested, why don't you share your own take?
What on earth is Gnome OS?
Not the same jet but another example http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2012/12/china-...
Example: Chicken. Very succinct.

If it's GMO: GMO-Chicken. Seems succinct as well.

Non-GMO Chicken. Least succinct of the 3.
"Don't be so quick to judge."

I don't understand. Do you NOT think people who do what you said above are irresponsible? If you have 50k in the bank and will need to use all of it on your employees and whatnot in the next 4-8 weeks, you absolutely, 100% should not be committing 10k to a project, it seems super irresponsible and amateurish. If I'm committing 10k to a project, I'm going to make damned sure I actually have 10k set aside for it. If you don't you absolutely should not be hiring anyone.
Okay.

>Are you saying that we can do whatever we like to animals?

Technically they can't stop us. But that's probably not the answer you're looking for.

Inflicting unnecessary harm on semi-sentient life forms that feel pain is probably immoral. So while we can do whatever we want, certain things are not moral to do.

> Or that we can do whatever we like to animals so long as it benefits humans?

Right now current conservation efforts have the irreplaceable property of extinct animals as an axiom. This is, for the moment, true. So we have to measure decisions in something akin to utils. Killing off the zebra to cure somebodies headache probably isn't a smart trade.

At the same time we need to be cautious, when we start playing large games with the ecosystem, we incur the risk of large losses. (See: Just about every invasive species introduced as a direct result of human intervention.) Right now one of the large reasons for saving species from extinction is biodiversity. The less biodiversity in the ecosystem, the higher the chance of a key species being wiped out by disease or aggressive predation and collapsing the whole system. (See: Pollinating insects.)

Right now the benefit to humans of saving as many species as possible from invisible deaths by our machinations is a net positive. In the future, it may make sense to "upgrade" organisms to give fitness for a particular purpose. This process may involve organisms being out-competed to extinction by GMOs.

> Or that we can do whatever we like so long as the benefit is significant?

Well right now current meat processing procedures induce great pain to the animals involved. This is an externalized cost that does not show up in consumer prices. Meaning that even though the morally optimal solution would be something like naturally grown animals on a large pasture, the evolutionarily optimal solution ends up being animal death camps.

There are efforts to grow meats independent of their traditional hosts through bioengineering, but these efforts have not taken off yet. If successful, they could save millions of animal lives, at the potential cost of the majority of the species. (Or even all of it.) Is that worth it? Is it selfish for humans to "obsolete" an animal it no longer finds useful? We did this to horses.

We need to be careful about "benefit". The Soviets drained the Aral Sea in a large irrigation project. [0] This of course resulted in the destruction of the surrounding ecosystem, and is now apparently leading to health problems for the people who live there locally. Was that worth it?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plan_for_the_Transformat...

tl;dr: Currently the only way to satisfy our demand for meat is to slaughter millions of animals. Because of market pressures, these animals end up dying painfully, or even living painfully. This is not an morally optimal situation and I feel that certain aspects could be improved, with potentially disastrous consequences for the species involved.
If you maintain an app that offers the same core functionality as the website, and the user can accomplish their Immediate goal on the website, adding the unnecessary step of transferring over to the app is never a superior experience. Simple as that. The only valid case for prompting a user to open your app is when their goal can't be accomplished on the web. Anything else is promotion serving your goals, not the user's.
Python for kids ... and adults intimidated by the very idea of programming
Shrimp is the first thing that comes to mind. Never seen shit-free shrimp labels.
FWIW iSSH on iOS has good X support.
I thought jmpress was pretty much a superset of the functionality of impress. I could be wrong though.
> As a precaution, the fish are all female and contain three copies of each chromosome rather than two, rendering them sterile.

They won't replace atlantic salmon
Compared to Queensland transport Muni is absolutely fantastic! There are many modes of public transport and it's everywhere. It's only $2 to ride and it's rare that you wait more than 5min for a bus or light rail.

Other public transport in the bay area seems pretty good from my limited experience too. The Caltrain costs only $5 to ride from SF to Redwood City (about 50km). I haven't been further so I'm unsure how the price increases the further out you go. It also smells nice and has comfy chairs :).
"The future is agile", a presentation about agile advantages
There was a blog post that came out around that time in which it was claimed that arrows are easy to understand because they're just functions. There was a lot of backlash, and this comic is trying to point out that the reasoning behind it is backwards. Every function is an arrow, but not every arrow is a function. I believe the blog post in question is here:

http://blog.romanandreg.com/post/2755301358/on-how-haskells-...

That's about the limit of my comprehension of arrows. When you see a type (Arrow arr) => arr a b, you should read it as "an arrow from a to b", just like a function (a -> b) can be read "a function from a to b". But an arrow can encompass a monad, a function a -> m b is also an arrow, a Kleisli arrow with type Kleisli m a b. So this means you can use the arrow composition functions with normal functions as well as monadic functions, as well as arrows of other types which need not be functions at all.

Beyond that, all I know is that arrows provide composition functions that allow you to build a digraph of computations where inputs come in, get split off, passed through other arrows and recombined in interesting ways, and there is an arrow syntax which is so convoluted I've never been able to understand the relationship between it and the fundamental arrow combinators. I have never run into a situation where knowing anything about arrows was useful, other than because (&&&) is a neat combinator if you're want tuples. Practice doesn't seem to have caught up to the theory here, and things like applicative functors, which are simpler than monads in some sense, are a lot more useful than arrows, which are more complex. This blog post illustrates a case where arrows were handy, but he winds up using applicative functors in the end also:

http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2012-01-14-monads-arrows-build-sys...

It's a curious thing about functional programming that often what's simpler in theory (monoids, functors) turn out to be more useful in complex situations in the real world than what's more complex in theory.

One last note, I wrote a blog post about this in 2007 with FizzBuzz. Forgive me if it's horrible; I haven't given it much thought since, but here it is:

http://old.storytotell.org/blog/2007/04/08/haskell-arrows.ht...
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I wonder how they get around the two level authentication problem? Even if I give my password to the scraper an extra credential would be required. How do you workaround that?
But what if they mate and spread their mutant genes? I don't think you understand how this works.

/troll
I spent this last summer interning in the Bay Area.

At first I thought Muni was great, but after a few weeks I only took it for particularly out-of-the-way journeys (eg: Golden Gate Park to SOMA). It's a decent enough service, but it's just not very quick - even more so than this writer suggests.
Wider format compatibility - ATV doesn't support AVI, and won't play direct from either UPNP or SMB.
I feel conflicted that something like this shows up on hacker news. It's really only tenuously interesting to hackers by way of geographic coincidence and nothing else. A lot of hackers life in San Francisco, so something about San Francisco is interesting to hackers in San Francisco. However not all hackers live in San Francisco. In fact most live anywhere but san francisco.
Every font looks horrible on Windows 7 + Chrome, which should be the most popular choice of browser and OS out there.

As long as it's not fixed, no way to use fonts as icons or even Google's own web font collection. Probably there are so many designers living in Mac world where there are no such problems with anti-aliasing so they are not aware or ignore this problem completely.
"Semi-sentient"? "Smart trade"?

This attitude toward animals is just sad. We're talking about other beings with emotions and desires. I wish scientists could GMO humans into not being so arrogant toward other species. That's a genetic experiment I could get behind.