skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pascal's Wager: There is more to be gained from wagering on the existence of God than from atheism, and that a rational person should live as though God exists.

Anti-GMO Activists: There is more to be gained from assuming that GMOs are unsafe than that they are safe, and that a rational society should live as if they are unsafe.

Sounds like the same logic to me.
I think their infographic examples below the fold are quite incredible... those are tough to design I feel like.
The FTC cleared them of antitrust. This is just normal business competition.
Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition
Nashorn (JavaScript engine)
Ironic that the number 4 story on HN right now is: "All I learned in college was how to work for someone else"
The Different 'Me's On The Internet
Ask HN: Do people use their country TLD in other countries over .com
Outside of the U.S., I'm curious if there are countries where the default or majority of local sites are not .com base or is it pretty universal, particularly English speaking countries (but I'd like an answer for all countries ideally).

Like I assume (maybe incorrectly) that Canadians have tons of sites they read that are .ca as opposed to .com or is .com more dominant there too?
The Japanese TV Drama industry is a much more frequent offender of such adaptations (as you may imagine, the outcome is almost always catastrophically bad).
This looks pretty rad
They're the only ones providing an Open Source mobile OS. Without them, we'd have only proprietary solutions controlled by single corporations.

Having put in all this effort to provide an open solution, they need to be somewhat competitive to make it succeed, otherwise it would likely languish the way the Linux desktop has.
We can't understand the full effects of modifications.

That's the Precautionary Principle, which as someone else pointed out is basically a rephrasing of Pascal's Wager with all of its gaping logical holes.
>>If an early seafarer went down with his/her ship, it didn't affect a significant portion of the population.

Not necessarily true. Suppose there is a nation-state A. Further suppose a rival nation-state B captured vital trade routes and started charging trades exorbitant sums of fees, and the long-term well-being of nation-state A depends on its seafarers being able to find alternative trade routes to their trading partners. Note that this is exactly how it went down in history. Only those seafarers who were bold enough to take risks were rewarded.
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I have some apps doing better on Android, and some that do better on iPhone. Overall, iPhone does much better, but Android is gaining. Sometimes there is a bit of luck involved, and sometimes, the competition in a certain niche is significantly different between the 2 stores.
>On the one hand, this isn't really any different than Microsoft not supporting Office on Chromium

Err what? Does Chromium even have a API usable by third party devs?
Indeed that's the one. Given its current points and submission time I really don't understand the HN sorting algo sometimes.
Surprise! College is supposed to teach you to be proficient at what most of their students end up doing: working at the corporate level. Whether or not you have the desire to go and do your own thing is really up to you.

At one time I was extremely dissatisfied with my college's cookie cutter curriculum. But I realized that this setup is built to get you in the job market. It was up to me to do the extras.
I prefer to take a different perspective: college didn't fail you, you failed at going to college.

College is a place to gain knowledge from those that have more than you. If you see it as anything else (especially anything malicious) then you're looking at it from the wrong angle and coming in with the wrong attitude. A motivated person can gain a lot of insight and knowledge from even the shittiest of situations.

College classes are a completely valid way to learn things. If you think that you're entrepreneurial dreams will be fulfilled if you drop out, then go for it. Some people don't learn that way, and that's just as acceptable. There are problems with higher education, and some places more so than others. But don't be so vain as to denounce the entire institution of higher education from a single anecdotal data point.
That seems unlikely :-) But sure, for that day. Nobody measures market share for a day though, as it's not a useful metric.
I don't see it as at odds with how they market themselves. They position themselves as providing an Open, non-proprietary option as an alternative to monolithic and traditional closed solutions from Apple and Microsoft, and they are delivering on that in the form of Android.
It was likely flagged. Anti-Google stories don't do well on HN. There's a very strong bias against anti-Google stories, but a strong bias for anti-MS stories.
I believe there was a link to it in the main article comments.
That's because some posts get flagged by folks who either think it doesn't belong on HN, or that it spam/offtopic/flame and the posts move downwards.

However, sometimes people seem to flag posts because they don't want them see by HN readers. I've seen this happen to a lot of links to stories that aren't charitable to Google/Apple or are friendly to Microsoft even if they're legitimate news stories or even just announcements.

Edit: HN Rankings shows a huge plunge from #2 to #50 in five minutes http://hnrankings.info/5010891/

Also wanted to mention that lately I've seen even some Apple news and announcements get flagged a lot. I speculate Google/Android fans/employees/shareholders are going a bit overboard. :)
Set a goal, find a co-founder.
http://mobello.github.com/
So, considering that under 5% of the ventures succeed, college set you up for almost certain success? Seems like a great thing to me.
Very nice concept, seems they are not alone though, clarity.fm does the same thing I think.
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Who You Are: The Front End Software Engineer will develop high quality user interfaces to meet the needs of our users. You will help improve our main calendar product and build tools to help users submit and promote events and manage calendars. You have the skills to build pixel-perfect cross-browser interfaces and help build scalable web applications. You are self-motivated, give accurate estimates and deliver quality code on-time.

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- Advanced knowledge of MVC-based architecture and frameworks

- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS (experience with SASS a plus)

- Advanced skills with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL or MySQL

More details at http://www.spingo.com/jobs. To apply email devjobs@spingo.com
More than once, I've had electric toothbrushes start up in my luggage. But the only consequence was run down batteries.
It's Google. Of course it's an INNOCENT mistake. If Microsoft had done it, it would be a mortal sin against humanity.

Google has even come out and said that mobile Google Maps is only for WebKit engines. The open web is no longer about web standards apparently -- it's about one specific rendering engine.
A detailed, exacting analysis, worthy of L himself.
Build Your Own Home Server
But the EU hasn't. :-)
Lovely!

It might just be my pea brain, but it was not obvious at first that the phone on the right is a demo, even though it says so in the phone.

I'd strongly suggest putting the phone on the left of the page instead of the right, and additionally having some text in the intro mention that it is a live demo.
Thanks for the response. It seems that if you go for full message passing and enforce immutability, then you're already a good way on the path to being able to do hot reloading (just load the new code, and point messages at the new address) and so on. Erlang doesn't magically make this stuff go away, you still have to be aware that you're sending messages cross-machine.

I've spent a couple of days playing with Prolog, so if Erlang has matching similar to Prolog it'd be a step up from ML-style. Although I'm not really sold on not being able to rebind a variable name (not mutate the value). I can't see any reason for restricting that.
This grind feels very familiar. I joined a product company when it was at this stage and can say that this guy's story resembles our own quite a bit. The difference, though, was that we did not shut down shop because we had a little bit of debt. We kept going, are still going, and after more than two years in business are finally beginning to see some traction. The truth is, building a consumer product is just not easy. It takes time to build channels! The struggles that the author had were completely to be expected... every business has its quirks that you can't know until you're waist deep.
Don't know about you, but as web dev/designer who codes html emails and websites, I curse Microsoft on a daily basis!

Thankfully ie6 is no longer and issue and there are many frameworks that making building websites for ie7/8 along with the others a snap. Wish there was something for html emails cause i was just cursing microsoft and wishing they'd hurry up and go extinct.
It got upvotes (1) because nobody's talking about Meteor v Derby, (2) because people agree. I'm not the only one wondering why Backbone is de-facto - look at all these responses, 80% of them are agreement. That surprised me, I thought this thread would be buried. Many (like you) think this as insular and inane. I left out detailed explanations of Backbone cons and Angular pros just to get the conversation rolling, and indeed the comments took care of that entirely.
Nothing new here. School isn't for learning. it's for learning how to "toil."

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/school-isnt-about-lear...
Yes. They are not biased by a conflict of interest so they can offer users exactly what they want.
It sucks. A lot. I planned on dropping out two years in and ended up having to go back to school because my parents couldn't afford the loan payments at the time - and they wouldn't have to pay while I was in school (which they wanted me to do anyway). Went back and did client work to keep the lights on.
"As it affected my grading"...
You get out of college what you put into it.

I certainly have friends who are learning to "be a cog in a wheel" but that's not at all the only possible outcome of a college education. Insinuating otherwise is questionable at best and incredibly misleading at worst.
You didn't really expect a concrete answer, did you? You can take a guess by looking at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5009649
It's not terribly straight forward to do this, depending on which apps you may use. E.g. django-registration or even django.contrib.admin. Username is hard coded in many places. It will get there, but apps have some work to do.
The Munich Chamber Orchestra in North Korea
Coming from Lua, where everything is MIT:

"substantial license"

If you copied a couple of functions for a class the uni would have big problems if you provided no attribution; though the license does not require it.
You do realize that IE6 is more than 11 years old. Microsoft wishes everyone used IE10 probably more than you do.

Do you curse Apple because of Safari 1? Which is actually newer than IE6?

Microsoft's greatest fault here is that they haven't been able to get people to upgrade their OS fast enough. An odd reason to curse them. And an odder reason still to flag their articles and push Google articles.

I get that everyone will have some bias, but the amount of bias doesn't seem justified, IMO.
Fun way to discover libraries in a particular language
I don't quite understand the "no longer protected with HTTPS." If their certificates stop working as part of the CA's revocation, then they'll have to get new ones before they can continue operating over HTTPS, of course. But they won't somehow automatically revert back to HTTP or anything, they just won't be able to carry on business (or at least their users will have to click through scary warnings). So they'll be offline for, what, a few hours, days at most, while they get this sorted out? And never actually insecure, just inaccessible.
This isn't stupid, in itself. What it's evidence of is the problem with security theatre: when told a bunch of people try to kill their kids daily, nobody examining luggage is going to let something go past and think it is what it probably is.
There is a link, but there isn't a video at the other end it. That was probably it.
I think it really depends on what college and what program in that college you go to.

The vast majority of my professors were genuinely interested in developing their students as independent thinkers capable of much more than corporate drudgery.

Perhaps the business-end of the university is focused on getting you into the job market (since that's how many people want to evaluate their college experience and investment and hey, somebody's gotta pay the bills). But if you are in a more academically inclined program, I think you'll find that the pursuit of knowledge and a joy of learning is what matters most.
> Couldn't there be some naturally occurring source of ocean caffeine?

I think starbucks would be doing some deep sea drilling if there was an underground reserve of caffeine.
How I Got My Break, Getting Paid To Do Something I Love
Men: How Not to Suck at Online Dating
Safari pre-dated Firefox, so something about your recollection is a bit off here. Perhaps you're thinking of SeaMonkey or Phoenix as the point of comparison?

Either way according to Wikipedia, Don had forked KHTML/KJS in 2001 (which pre-dated the first public release of Phoenix by a year or so), so his choices were to hack SeaMonkey into something suitable or to start from somewhere else.
relevant:

http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/12/pl_ferrris/
You can of course use whatever ORM you want, but it comes with Anorm.
If you would like to attend one of these meetings and make a point while making everybody laugh, I suggest telling a fictitious story about the time you wanted to learn how to implement a software technology by looking up an expired patent on it.

The fact that this idea is a literal joke should be quite revealing. Patents are supposed to be comprehensible. They're supposed to be the alternative of trade secrets. They're supposed to be a means by which the public learns how to do non-obvious things once they expire.
I'll never understand the people that are hurt by changes to something that they could just avoid. Why does an American movie hurt it? Will it make you enjoy the original less? I'll also never understand the fascination with subtitles and the Japanese voice, which anime fans seem to think is more dramatic.

The people who read the original manga probably feel a certain way about the anime. The same way that people who read books feel about movie adaptions because they know there will be differences in it. A movie can bring things to a wider audience and then a lot of them may check out the original, which they may or may nor prefer.
Aren't product types just tuples, whereas arrays correspond to list types? The '^' operator can only construct arrays whose elements are of a single type, right?
Great, glad you reposted this,
I loved his introduction to the tutorial: "there is an ancient mayan profecy that someone every person on earth will do a turorial on Monads" :)
Why are you sorry? Different frameworks have different strengths (and weaknesses!). When in doubt, going with what you are most comfortable with is frequently a good bet.
Thanks for mentioning Thymeleaf! May start rewriting one of my projects for my day job to use it. Much nicer than JSP.
Nice work, it's a simple and clean extension on ratchet. It's not clear in the github post but that means it's not optimized for many devices/browsers that aren't iOS/safari/chrome, but it's a great start.
Two words: Ruby Motion.
Farmville 2 the only recent Zynga success 
Very interesting compared to other Zynga games like City Ville 2. I think it is because:

- very professional graphics
- not too pushy for money or social
- very casual play

The other recent Zynga games seem to be super over optimized for spending. But that does not work as they never get enough traction. Their other games are almost a textbook example of how they were over doing testing/metric and ended up killing themselves.
The one thing I couldn't live without was pausing threads without a breakpoint. I found Eclipse background compilation to be faster and the compilation errors as you type to be better and more responsive.

I also use Eclipse for C/C++ but I run a separate instance for C/C++ so using IntelliJ wasn't an issue.

For my workflow IntelliJ didn't seem to add anything, but it did take away one or two small things.
Continuum - A javascript ES6 VM
Very interesting compared to other Zynga games like City Ville 2. I think it is because:

- very professional graphics
- not too pushy for money or social
- very casual play

The other recent Zynga games seem to be super over optimized for spending. But that does not work as they never get enough traction. Their other games are almost a textbook example of how they were over doing testing/metric and ended up killing themselves.
IBM? 400k employees and they kinda know their *nix.
Well said.

Definitely a case where it wasn't the destination so much as the journey that was interesting. :)
Note that this isn't necessary. If you have full disk encryption enabled, the machine will reboot (to a limited OS) when the Guest account is requested.
JVM is definetly going to be exciting just not because of Java but all other JVM languages.
> Well... it's their service. And you're not paying for it. Seems to me they can offer it any way they want.

It doesn't so much work that way for Google in 2013. They must be above reproach. Using their dominant leverage in one business to fiddle with competition in another would invite much unwanted government scrutiny – however chuckle-worthy the irony might be, with Microsoft now the aggrieved party.
Ask HN: How to find a place in the Bay Area?
I recently moved to San Jose and am finding it impossible to find a place to stay. I don't even know how to look. Craigslist is low quality. I've managed to get a couple appointments using ApartmentGuide - one being a no-go and the other a compromise. I also have two more appointments coming up tomorrow but one of them is in the middle of nowhere and the other has bad reviews online - a few incidents of cars being stripped (not sure if it's cross posting). No one seems to answer the calls on the numbers listed on Zillow. I just discovered MyApartmentMap and will try them out. How do you find a place? How do you decide if it's worth the price? Are prices negotiable? How much of the salary (before tax) should one spend on rent? I've no sane person to ask these questions to so I'm falling back on the HN community.
It's not shenanigans, it's browser sniffing instead of feature detection, and Google does it on too many of its sites.

What's annoying about this "controversy" is that the minuscule marketshare slice that is windows phones merits this much coverage, when this is daily life for the significantly larger (in absolute number) set of Opera users, on desktop and mobile. There's also a very real reason that Mozilla has considered adding (and is going to add?) webkit prefixes to a few CSS properties.

So, sorry WP users. Unless the claim is also that the Opera/Google war is heating up like crazy, I'm pretty sure you're just being neglected. Welcome to the world of built-in user agent string spoofing just to make sites that would work fine not redirect you first.
I see those on quite a few trucks in East Texas. I can't believe people actually do that.
I'm very confused. Isn't it in Google's best interests to have everyone in the world using their mapping product? Why would they want to get people on new platforms used to using alternative maps, like, say, http://www.bing.com/maps/?

Something doesn't sound right here...
Actually 99+% of the population isn't participating in any given field. So what? That's called specialization. If women are better at something than men - let them focus in that field -- no need to forcefully mixing genders.
yup, not dev here, found this and thought HN might find it interesting too - and was right! :)
HTTPS without a verified certificate (ie, after clicking through the warning) is only cosmetically more secure than HTTP.
Yes, but not universally. The example I know best is Taiwan, where most large business corporations have busy websites with

.com.tw

domains. In Britain, the pattern is often

.co.uk

(note that .com is not the usual commercial domain there), and in Canada the comparable pattern

.co.ca

is a possible pattern for a business, but it looks like

.com

is much more common for businesses in Canada.
> Our food boom has helped create the population boom.

Impoverished populations tend to have a high birthrate, which frequently begets more poverty. I'd like to think we can work to reduce overpopulation through reducing poverty (which includes improving food security) instead of simply relying on Malthus to sort everything out. Call me an optimist.

> Meanwhile, the system accumulates hidden risk. Once food supplies are created, we become dependent on their persistence. If anything unforeseen and catastrophic happened that lopped a percentage off world food production, we would be ill placed to bear the shock.

Again, this seems like a policy problem. Having a robust selection of lower-input/higher-output cultivars would help shield us from the failure of single crops.
> Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone 8 uses the same rendering engine as the desktop build of Internet Explorer 10, which is certainly capable of loading and running Google Maps.

This argument makes no sense. Google Maps desktop works on IE10, but Google Maps mobile is clearly a totally different site.

I think people are jumping to conclusions here.
It confuses me, too, but they also want me to have to find an alternative to their contacts, calendar, and push-email stuff when I get my next Windows Phone device, even though they're still going to be supporting Exchange syncing for paid Apps accounts.

The sad thing is that the alternative I use might just end up being a Google Apps account... :| so they'll get some money out of that, at least (I'm assuming the free one I have right now will have to be upgraded to get the sync support added back in).
Only the first author is a criminologist, and it's in a medical journal with images of brain scans. In fact, it sounds like the study mentioned in the original MJ post.

A single reference by a criminologist in a journal of another field does NOT prove that criminologists take this seriously. Given the author claims to have contacted several experts in that field with none giving the lead theory any credence, you'd need a bit more evidence to show they do.
This argument is ridiculous. What business sense would there be for Google to restrict access to Maps on one platform in the interest of "competition"? It's not like any potential WP8 users will be swayed over to Android just because of GMaps, considering Bing Maps is a more than adequate alternative.

Occam's razor: it's more than likely that they just don't want to invest the dev + support time to support WP8 (web or native app). It's a relatively small demographic that isn't growing that fast (yet).