skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't going to respond to this article, or even read it, or even really acknowledge the HN culture anymore on account of gems like this, but in all honesty: SRSLY?

___Autism is mostly boy's disorder. That picture is about clinical depression, which is women's trait, and it is just being shut in oneself.___

The loaded _gender-nomenclature_ of this patriarchal, advanced-capitalist polyarchy has become so freaking thick that I would find it laughable if scientific literature (STEMers) even distills 5% of it from shared knowledge 100 years from now.

___In a similar vein, Baron-Cohen and Hammer (1997) argued that, whereas individuals with autism have extreme “male brains,” with better spatial skills than social skills, those with Williams syndrome show the reverse pattern and, as such, may be characterized as having extreme “female brains.” ___
-- https://sites.google.com/site/drjonbrock/publications/the-ot...

Now looking at your statement, we have terms like "boy's disorder" contrasted with "women's trait".

What are you talking about? With Williams Syndrome we have "female brains" so with every reason to believe that they are alone in clinical depression. That is, by your grammar of reasoning. But what is more?:

___This view of Williams syndrome and autism as diametric opposites has, however, proven to be somewhat simplistic (Tager-Flusberg, Plesa-Skwerer, & Joseph, 2006). Despite their sociable and empathetic personalities, individuals with Williams syndrome are often reported as having high levels of social anxiety (Dykens, 2003; Udwin, Yule, & Martin, 1987). Children with Williams syndrome typically prefer adult company to mixing with their own age group, and have great diffi culty making and sustaining friendships (Einfeld, Tonge, & Florio, 1997; Rosner, Hodapp, Fidler, Sagun, & Dykens, 2004; Udwin et al., 1987). The two disorders also overlap clinically.___
-- https://sites.google.com/site/drjonbrock/publications/the-ot...

So what are you, in factual terms, please, sir, saying? What is going on here, where your post ranks highest, and you have express'd what seems to be unessential and obfuscating sexist language, in such a way as to talk about what is clinical; and current research says, quite simply, and quite exactly the opposite of what you theorize on with false knowledge; if indeed they clinically overlap, that is?
ig1, I think that's a reasonable concern. While the organisation would lobby on general tech. policy issues, it's focus would be on start-up tech. entrepreneurs. Other, larger, companies have a voice through the general business lobby, i.e., the CBI in the UK.

Unfortunately, this has meant that start-ups---through a combination of lack of time and lack of funds---are not properly represented in the political discourse.

At the moment the voice of tech. comes from the likes of Apple and Google, but this is---like you hinted---economically disadvantageous to the start-up crowd. The big companies have an incentive to clampdown on small-time tech. funding and implement regressive licensing policies.

Here's my main worry: While the tech. start-up community is essential to ongoing economic growth, esp. as international competition intensifies, time and funding commitments mean that they are sidelined in national and transnational policy/funding settlements.

I believe that the community needs to coalesce around an experienced and informed mission group in order to secure our interests.

NOTE: Thanks for engaging ig1. The original post made my ambitions in this direction sound too broad. Our discussion has helped me narrow-in on the type of organisation I believe the sector needs.
Has anyone confirmed that messages, images and videos sent to friends are not actually archived on facebook? I was always under the impression that facebook archives every interaction.
Ask HN: Last moment Christmas gift App help
As I have not bought a Christmas gift for my brother yet and he doesn't seem want anything special I going to try to make a (web) App to amuse him.

It's a Machine Learning 'Art' project thought up in a hurry.

I need some quick recommendations for libraries and frameworks to make this work in the short time available.

For the ML code Im going to use octave as that is my experience with ML.

Now I want the ML code to output a file for the client side to view, more concretely its going to be either a 2D (or possibly a 3D) like model that's is going to be rendered in 3D to the user.

First I thought about doing the client side in Java(or Scala), but Its seems I could do it directly in the browser using WebGL, although I haven't used it at all (I have used OpenGl in java) and my JavaScript experience is much less than my Java one.

Anyhow I also need some server code to glue together the client code to the ML code and to serve the website, here my experience is almost none, I have some basic PHP experience, but I have never done anything that interfaces with a program on the server, so I don't really know what software I need.

Basically all I need is to call a octave script with arguments based on client side (browser) interaction and then get the resulting 3D model or image into my WebGL code for the user to view.

My biggest knowledge gap is the server side software.

Do I need a framework like Play! or Ruby on Rails or are they overkill, I have zero experience using them.
Like I said I only have little experience with writing PHP with a db, I haven't actually interfaced a program with server code before so I want the solution with smallest and simples learning curve.

So are my assumptions that WebGL is the way forward correct (I only need to render textured surfaces)

And what software stack is needed to interface my ML code to client code.

I know Java, Scala, Octave, Javascript, Python, PHP (in order of experience)
Richard Stallman Freaks Out and Has a Meltdown
> Hard drives are now infinitely big. Microchips are almost infinitely small. And everybody is connected.

And we still pay $99 for the privilege of using our own devices, while waiting for 3 weeks reviews based on borderline useless "guidelines". In-app purchase codes (extremely complex strings, you know...) take only a week or two.

Perhaps there's more than enough room to innovate and grow.
>and that type of argument could be (and probably was) used to argue against audio ("talkies"), color, surround sound, digital color correction, etc.

This is like a reverse slippery slope argument. I have not seen one quote, newspaper article, book excerpt, and so on that would back up the claim that there was widespread opposition to audio or color.
I think watching an HFR feels like watching a play. But I'm not. I'm watching a movie.

I cannot imagine watching a non-live play on a screen and feel at all connected to the characters or the narrative.
There’s no free lunch Merry Christmas.
The bits that were weird for me was when telling the story of Ardor, you see the dwarves fighting and they seem to be moving too fast. But me too, as someone who like getting 60FPS from his games adjusted to the fast rate and enjoyed the rest of the movie.
People do love their brands, such as Coca Cola, McDonalds, etc.
These kind of debates are so boring they actually make you appreciate reading VB code.
Interval arithmetic
Just tried E17 for the first time. Kinda bummed that the control panel doesn't allow setting mouse acceleration threshold to 0. Also couldn't find a way to change keyboard repeat delay / rate.

Looks like more thought was put into eye candy than input dev.
With all the respect to gender equality supporters (to which I count myself), why so much butthurt?
I think the point is that, when something novel is invented, two routes can be taken:

Patent: Protection from competition for a limited time, in exchange for disclosing the methods of the invention.

Trade secret: Keep things on lock, and make money on it until someone else figures it out for themselves.

This is why things like "pinch zoom" and about 5m other shitty patents are so absurd: There's very little "novel" about most software patents. And these people are making really broad claims, and doing nothing with them, for the sake of litigation. It's a mockery of the intention of the office.
Any time I hear about polls being used as "evidence"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
I just took 3 screenshots of the page, and by layering them together you get the exact same image as the left one. I don't really think it's a solution. As long as the eye can see it, you can't prevent recording anyways. http://imgur.com/ab1gk
I'm sure someone will multiply anything by n but that doesn't mean their code is right. I can't think of any legitimate use for thousands of incomplete hashes without so much other memory the hash is dwarfed. Can you?

The argument about streamlined vpn or ssl devices is not relevant here: such a device has to calculate hashes, but it doesn't have to keep hash states open. Hash a message, make/check the signature, forward or discard, O(k) memory use where k is the number of cores.

I agree that a per connection overhead of this size for every TCP connection is a terrible thing, but I think marshray forgot we were talking about places where you use hashes, and keep them open.
Alan Kay classifies most real world code as pop culture (one of the most helpful categories for thinking about it):

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...

Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from] — and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?

I appreciate this categorization on many fronts:

- It explains how non-computer science majors have frequently succeeded. In music, you will never find a classical musician without formal training, but frequently find pop musicians who have little or none.

- It shows how some of the same ideas keep being "discovered" by one group while another group sighs and exclaims "we knew about that years ago..."

- Pop culture is inherently youthful, prone to extremes, sensitive to new trends. Sound familiar?

- It explains a vast amount of decision making that goes on in industry. Rather than choosing the absolute best solution from a somewhat abstract technical perspective, a solution that is new and hip (or fits what I was doing in the hey-day of the bosses youth) is selected.

It is over simplistic to simplify real world code as "sucking" (though of course much does). It is like comparing Bach and <fill in your favorite rock/pop star here>. Both produce valid creations that accomplish something, but were made with vastly different intentions and for different purposes.
Announcing the angel investor office hours in Bangalore
A real cry for help would have mentioned a couple of Factories at least.
I have a habit of looking through comments before I go to the linked website. This is because of two reasons: first, I don't trust titles and want to know a bit better what is on that site and second, unfortunately, reading comments is often more entertaining and provides much more content ('text') than the site itself (I enjoy reading large amounts of text... I know, I'm weird).

There are direct quotes in comments sometimes and, sometimes, after reading them, I don't want to visit the site anymore.

This is not the case.

Whoever wrote what you're quoting made me feel like he wrote it especially for me. He managed to describe one of the worst problems that, in my opinion, Internet has and he promised that this problem won't be present on his site.

I'm grateful for this quote. Thanks to this visiting the site suddenly become my priority and I feel that I won't be disappointed.
I'm not one to sympathize with Stallman's crusade, but I feel for him about this.

As a Brazilian, it shames me that at first they asked him to speak English and halfway through the presentation people asked the coordinator to have him switch to Spanish because they thought they could understand English but in fact they couldn't. And, as we Brazilians don't speak Spanish, I know from experience they'd have a hard time understanding Spanish as well.

There was a total communication failure. The coordinator should have provided translation services as usual in this kind of event.

The audience behaved like animals, the coordinator didn't present any solution and despite the fact the Stallman explicitly asked people not to record and publish videos of his reaction, the fellow that was recording it was unmoved.

A complete shame in all aspects.
I think it was over 2 years ago but a guy on reddit pointed out that terrorists would obviously target the weakest link. He said something on the lines that instead of trying to hijack airplanes they'd just go blow up some mall or something. If my memory serves me well, I think they put a tracker on him for that comment.

Here's the comment in question - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ciiag/so_if_my_de...

Actually this whole thread actually is relevant - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ciiag/so_if_my_de...

[Edit - They put a tracker on his friend, not him]
> Early online bridge games randomized hands fully and therefore delivered crappier (flatter) hands than people were typically used to.

Are you saying that all online bridge games today do not fully randomize the shuffle, but simulate riffle shuffles instead?
What does this have to do with gender equality? I'm talking about his "theorizing" and his "nomenclature". I am talking about his method and his "grammar." I am talking about the future state of existing true statements that may exist in our scientific literature in "the next 100 years." I am dealing with Popperian-style skepticism; this is philosophy of science. Please, understand. I want sense, from nonsense. That is a big issue to me, essentially since I just read his post with http://antijingoist.github.com/AlphaSymbolic/. And quite frankly, I'm not happy about it. All I see is a logical paradox. A sequence of linguistic markers, and his paradoxical blobs of AlphaSymbolic text is way to clear to me. It's way too eerily clear.

Please see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/.

This human man is clearly using language in a way that is expected and fits along a normalized pattern that suggests "rational." However, his theorizing immediately leads to "explosion"; so it is a matter, then, of what content quantities of his exist which, in principle, say nothing. How much of any of this paradoxical language exists? And how did we get to a point in society where what he says passes off as passively authoritative? -- What are we filling the Internet with? -- Ultimately, when I reflect on Godel's proof, Candor's diagonalization, it all becomes too clear that our Western society is intolerant to difference; and this can undermine scientific progress.

I am concern'd with consistency and the stress of things like general internet ecologies (and hypermedia applications) on organic cognitive systems (like us). Because, quite simply, What is going on here? What is he talking about? Is it informational? Operational? Pragmatic? Dogmatic?

What does his content and its ilk engender in terms of rational, dialectical discussion with no obvious linguistic glitches that mislead and misinform.
I imagine it would be because the comment is not perceived to add any value at all and is merely consuming space.
Right. "Some person with an Apple IP address" != "Apple".

My IP address is owned by AT&T, but that doesn't make me an official representative.
I would say that programmers that have a choice will work on anything but banking software. And it's most likely that talented programmers will be driven by passion and not by money.
Can't you just register company in another country to avoid trolls?
This kind of "article" is probably why the NYT paywall is actually working. A "newspaper" filled with these types of stories would actually be worth paying for.
On Windows I like to use Git Extensions[1] for its nice UI. It also installs the Git Bash prompt.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
2013 Digital Marketing predictions
I'd say academics are very good on theory, but tend to lack the real world experience of working in teams bound by company processes. They make code for machines and students to read, not for other engineers, I suppose.
It's not only to do with the film-makers ability to craft, or dial-down the perceived detail overload in 48fps. It's just as much to do with the viewers expectations and experience. Can you imagine showing a recent 24fps blockbuster action movie to a 1920s silent film cinema go-oer? The special effects, quick cuts and loud soundtrack would have given them incredible sensory overload. They would have left the cinema totally overwhelmed. I'm not saying 48fps is a similar level of advance, but it's the same principle. Not only do film-makers need to learn the new craft, we also need to learn to watch it.
New Wayra video: biggest startup family in the world
Entrepreneurs from all around the world can apply for up to US$ 70000 in return for 5-10% of equity. Acceleration available in any of the 13 academies around Europe and Latin America.
How Software Companies Die - Orson Scott Card
Vote with your wallet and ditch Verizon

And by the way, people should have done it and use a technology that doesn't tie your mobile phone to a service provider: GSM
Specs aren't everything, you can compete on price. Lots of these alternatives are MUCH cheaper than GoPros. 99% of people don't even know of resolutions higher than HD, and 99.9% wouldn't know what to do with them - there are no affordable 4K TVs yet, it will take a few years.
Instagram Reversal Doesn’t Appease Everyone
http://www.bodhilinux.com/e17guide/e17guideEN/

Nicely written tutorial guide from a distribution that relies on E17. Still no 'what's new' for previous users of Enlightenment based desktops. The Guide could be made more 'task oriented' as well - what you see when you get to the desktop and how to launch applications first then the detailed naming of things afterwards perhaps...
The copyright monopoly stands in direct opposition to property rights
There seem to be somewhat unofficial screenshots. Unfortunately there is no obvious version information attached.

http://enlightenment.org/ss/
In my experience, it's negligible. There will be lag but not the kind that makes you wait for something to happen after you have pressed a button.

Actions that require a lot of redrawing tend to lag, though: if you only know `hjkl` navigation and visually select every string you want to work on you will definetely experience some lag.

On the other hand, if you use more "advanced" movements and use text-objects and Ex commands extensively, you won't find reasons to complain.
Het verschil tussen champagne brut en demi- sec
I recently bought a new TV, and out of excitement left it uncalibrated. First film we watched was live action, which I don't watch much of, and it looked fine to me. The second film was anime, which I watch a lot, and I could tell that something was wrong: characters seemed to morph rather than move, like a bad Flash animation, and quick movements like mouths during speech seemed to lack their usual snappiness. It was only then that I started futzing with calibration settings and realized interpolation was a default. While researching afterwards, I found that people watch more live action than cartoons have a very different experience -- when cartoons were mentioned, it was often to say that motion interpolation looks fine to them there but bothers them when watching live action.

Perhaps obvious, but opinion of both 48 vs 24 FPS and motion interpolation seems to have a lot to do with expectations we’ve built from watching previous films (e.g., I watch so little live action that I was oblivious to the frame rate change there). I feel like that’s something people overlook (even in this thread) when they talk about these issues; 24 FPS isn’t better per se, it’s just that if you watch enough stuff intended to be played at about that frame rate, anything significantly higher starts to look wrong.

(Irrelevantly, a cool anecdote about motion blur: it’s what led Spielberg to prefer CGI dinosaurs over stop-motion techniques for Jurassic Park. Although animators were producing some fantastic dinosaur models, the lack of motion blur still left them feeling unnatural and out-of-place on film.)
And really, you nerds write like robots all day. I have to put up with that, and I cannot use expressive language?

You address none of my claims; the response I get is "butthurt."

What is this? That is what I am asking. Right now. This conversation; starting from "boy's disorder"; and then "butthurt" -- what is that? It's a mod-chic-Nietzschean way of saying "womanish." Did I fail to generate a proposition such that your internal theory of mind, or inner homunculus, do not perceive it?

[Edit:] Fascinating. 1 hour, 5 downvotes and a response later, still none the wiser. I even gave away a futuristic subplot for it. Low point.
Don't get me wrong, I don't strive for 'perfection'. I passed through the architecture astronaut phase quite some time ago now :-).

Equally, I don't think that the opposite end of 'hacked together' is some kind of AbstractAbstractFactoryFactory extravaganza - that's just a different kind of bad code. To me, good code is code that is simple for other people to understand, and takes basic precautions with respect to being not-too-brittle to change. Every so often, I find that once the code has received enough alterations, it needs a bit of TLC.
The best tool was Tim Kay's perl aws script: http://timkay.com/aws/
Looks good, one thing though: as a user if I scroll down and see the footer, after some more scrolling it disappears, however when I scroll back up it does not reappear - which is my expectation.
Wanting to control something I own doesn't make me a control freak; wanting to control someone else's stuff does.

And even if those people were hypocrites that wouldn't make them wrong. It doesn't matter if some of apple's customers are control freaks. That doesn't magically change whether apple is a control freak or whether being a control freak is bad. Your counterargument here is basically the word 'no' followed by an irrelevant insult.
They were aimed, but the precision was so low that the distribution ended up being random.
I believe Hyperlink did a good job for you but what a horrible, horrible name for a company.

Given your word of mouth recommendation here (w/o a link) how am I too find them with such a generic word that's so closely tied to their industry? Search for "hyperlink publishing", "hyperlink ebook"? Yeah, good luck with that!

Companies should not chose a generic name for their company that's already widely used in that market. Apple Computer... that's good. Apple Orchards... not good. Hyperlink? Come on.

So... anyone got the link?
HN is the last place I would look for real understanding and incite on the affect of mental illness on our society.

HN is the first place I would look to see part of the problem and misconceptions about mental illness.

It seems the mental health of our country is failing as a whole. As the symptoms accumulate, in time, there will probably be a disease or syndrome named after it, with a little pill to "cure" it.

I have other opinions, but they are just that, opinions and as such I won't pollute HN with my ignorance. I prefer to judge myself (as part of this country's failing mental health) and not others I know little about.

Let's get back to tech, a topic where our opinions are more informed and the facts more easily understood.
I've thought of this before, but it's just too easy to get around, and it looks horrible. We'd need much higher screen refresh rates.
Its Hyperink not HyperLink

http://www.hyperink.com
I think it's hyperink not Hyperlink