skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the premise of the article. Yes, there are a lot of people dropping out of college saying "Oh Zuckerberg did it, I should do it too!" without a sane business model. Yes, there are a zillon daily deals startups which will probably all go bankrupt in 6 months. Yes, there are a ton of social media startups that allow you to take a photo and share it for 10 seconds with all your friends. And there are definitely more of these startups than usual, due to the funding environment.

However, there are also many "serious" startups. Tesla, transforming the primary mode of transport for most Americans. SpaceX, reinvigorating space exploration. Palantir, integrating the world's data to save lives. There have, and always will be, these startups doing serious world-changing innovation.

I picture Silicon Valley as a funding pyramid. The best companies are at the top, and always get funding. Then, at the bottom of the pyramid are the daily deals startups. In a less hot funding environment, these companies wouldn't get funded. But in the current climate, a ton of companies at the bottom of the pyramid are getting funding. Since there are way more of these bogus startups than serious ones in the current climate, we just hear more stories about them.
it sucks that purchasing power is lost for people without lots of money. It seems inherently an unfair system - if you stop producing value, your existing store of value diminishes thru no fault of your own.
If you can't tolerate risk, you can't build rockets that hit the Oort cloud.
If we want innovation out of these startups, we have to focus on culture. We have to stop funding culturally retarded people with MBAs just because they're "credible" and look for people who can lead very smart people (an extremely rare skill).

May you provide more insight into what such culture would be like? I agree that culture is the important factor for innovation, and I'm working hard to develop a good one. So please, share your thoughts on that. Anyone else is also welcome to do so.
Great post ... thanks for sharing
If a good Android phone comes to market with a keyboard like the Blackberry or Nokia communicators, it will certainly get me to consider switching away from the iPhone.
But that's the appeal of IRC, the protocol is simple and it's easy to write tools that plugin and work with the stream.

In the case of links, a little bit of Python and the phenny framework let me write a bot that scraped links and post them to a private Twitter feed. That's a lot more flexible than a wiki for my purposes.
Antarctic IRC: how NASA's flying lab stays connected
Yeah, it just feels like the entire article is too convenient.

1) Everything seems to work out perfectly, no matter how it is considered. For instance, if lead contamination in the ground is such a big deal, why does lead in gas track so closely to the crime rate? Wouldn't it be the case that it would track on the upside but not the downside?

2) He keeps on emphasizing lead lowers IQ. But the Flynn Effect suggests that IQ started going up in the 1930s and has only (maybe) started to level off very recently. It's the exact opposite of what you'd expect based on lead exposure from leaded gas.

3) Long term crime rates have been mostly going down for centuries: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/06/lon...

Mind you, I'm fully in agreement that lead sucks and I sure as hell don't want my kid exposed to it. It's just that I'm far from convinced that the crime rates change mostly because of lead exposure. It seems far too tidy an explanation.
Thanks. That led me to a nice C# version here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/madst/archive/2007/05/11/recursive-l...
Hmm. This is excellent info. thank you. I wish you could have advised me many years ago :)
Love at first sight, but the build script is broken.

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=WzB5Jqyf
I'd like to read an updated version of this as such hackers approach 30.
Google's blogpost about vendor compatability: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-benefits-imp...
We use Heroku and PaaS environment variables, with a default value if you're running in development/test mode, e.g.

if Rails.env.production? && ENV['SECRET_TOKEN'].blank?
raise 'SECRET_TOKEN environment variable must be set!'
end

secret_token = ENV['SECRET_TOKEN'] || 'safdasfjlkj...'
Parts of the graphics/GUI stack are closed source, mostly the lower level parts like the OpenGL implementations. Also codecs, camera sw etc are closed source.
>>The article isn't meant to be proof that it doesn't work. He is saying that there is no good evidence to believe it does.

The article title is Why Brain Training Doesn't Work, not There's No Proof Brain Training Works
Obama 2012!
The webserver, which is written in Felix, translates a particular format called "fdoc" to create the tutorial and slides, including embedded colourised hyperlinked Felix and C++ code. The translation is to a mix of HTML5 and Javascript. This link shows the source of the first slideshow:

http://felix-lang.org/web/slides/language-overview.fdoc?text

All the documentation and layout needs a lot more work.
[BTW: I'm the primary developer]
It's impossible to be an idiot and read MJ. Cheers!
Yes, the knowledge acquired is assumed :)

but really, I've realized there's no difference between MOOC and self-studying a textbook if the MOOCs don't provide credit.
This post seem convoluted but heading in the right direction. Social interaction should be like emails: a client you choose and a protocol to communicate with other clients.
Is there a Diaspora spec / pod-to-pod API spec so people can write other interoperable implementations that are compatible with the current Ruby one?
See my reply to lukevdp
For some reason the website represents them in true 1998 fashion using such a tiny font size, but they actually look very nice in bigger sizes. (Especially on HiDPI display!)
They just happened to have a beer pint icon but no freedom icon.
Are You a Developer Who Survived the Apocalypse?
If Twitter was around 50 years ago and used by the design greats
OP not actually not actually asking a question here.
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Firefox Mobile has extensions, including Adblock Plus.

Dolphin has extensions as well, including an ad blocker.
> What if you fork it, and do NOT call the project anything related to Android?

It says you can't distribute any modified versions of the SDK. What you choose to call such modifications isn't addressed and isn't relevant, you just can't do it.
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You sure make a good case for Android being vastly more capable. After that litany, I'm really curious what are the "plenty of things I like about iPhone over Android". Why are you sticking with the iPhone despite your compelling list of Android advantages? I ask as someone who has used iPhone but not Android, is keenly aware of iOS limitations, but likes the hardware.
As mentioned, Apple has plenty of experience switching architectures, so technically it's not a huge issue. Don't hold your breath though; since Apple's going out of it's way to build custom ARM cores now, it's safe to assume ARM (or if anything, a custom arch sooner than Intel) is their future now. Apple got burned when IBM couldn't keep up power/performance on PowerPC, leaving their fate entirely to a third-party is a mistake they're unlikely to make again.
I don't think it's awesome and find its name rather annoying. It's something that people who don't know about 2x images or don't realize how few newer browsers lack svg support find appealing.
The Internet, new media, and the new American dream
You've descended to name calling, taking offense over people not realizing your "mistake should be clear".

I respectfully submit that had what you meant to say been so clear, or had you followed your own advice to "read both posts carefully", perhaps you wouldn't have made the mistake twice.
Alternative title: Heavy Metal Causes Crime :)
Pentaho and Tableau are nice. Jaspersoft not so much but they have the best reporting design software. All of them are a refreshing break from Oracle/Microsoft
Puffery and hyperbole are all too common in marketing. "Extraordinary support", "incredibly advanced technology", or my least favorite, "beautiful design" (:puke:).

Nobody should ever believe a marketer when they say anything until the delivery matches. Sure, you can set some tentative expectations (e.g. "this payment processor will process payments"), but to go much further than that could invite accusations of naivete.
> KHTML had almost no market share - it only ran on KDE, and most KDE users used Firefox.

As mentioned before, Firefox didn't even exist at this point. And KHTML itself actually predates Linux Gecko by a few months as well.

Don Melton forked KHTML/KJS internally in 2001, and announced the work to KDE at the beginning of 2003... GMail wasn't released until 2004!
This reading will take a while...

First stop: open allocation. You're fucked if you don't have it.

Quora: What is Open Allocation? http://www.quora.com/Software-Development-Methodologies/What...

Tech companies: Open allocation is your only real option: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companie...

Don't look now, but Valve just humiliated your corporate culture: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/dont-look-now...

Required reading on motivation:

What Programmers Want: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/what-programm...

A bit on performance management:

Flow, ownership and insubordination (plus DFA): http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/flow-ownershi...

Semi-orthogonal industry stuff:

Functional programs rarely rot: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/functional-pr...

The software career and the Second Design Paradox: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/the-software-...

Java shop politics: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-shop-pol...

(I should have named this, "big program politics". There's nothing wrong with Java itself, though I dislike OO.)

Six languages to master: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/six-languages...

Things to avoid:

Fundamental subordinate dishonesty: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/fundamental-s...

The unbearable B-ness of software: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/the-unbearabl...

Fourth quadrant work: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/fourth-quadra...

No, idiot. Discomfort Is Bad: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/no-idiot-disc...
iTunes DRM tracks will likely not work, but at this point iTunes hasn't sold DRM tracks in a long time. Most (all?) other tracks have had the ability to upgrade and make DRM free for awhile now.
Clickable Link: https://www.kwixer.com
Even if multiple people change the same file at the same time, it does not necessarily require a manual merge, except when the changes conflict with each other (e.g. add a line at the same position in base and head branches), so the automatic merge does its job most of the times.
See, widgets add value (maybe not for you). They don't subtract any. If you don't want to use them, you can do so.
When the phone only goes up to 16 GB of non-expandable space, it's hardly top-of-the-line. It doesn't have LTE either. Neither of these matters too much now, but will reduce longevity compared to actual top-of-the-line phones, e.g. the Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5.
It's still an incredibly stupid and unintuitive hack, though.
the author is more likely approaching 40, which may be more interesting.
Could you blame them ? The writing started to appear on the wall when Google started selling the Nexus 7 and 10 at cost making 90% remaining Android tablets (including most of Samsung's tablet line) dead in the water with the Nexus 4 being another nail in that coffin.
Sorry to sound like a troll. But I am always confused by this movement on free software. Make no mistake: I totally respect choices of certain individuals whom contribute to free software like Linux, they have made the software a better place, just like those philanthropists out there whom make the world a little bit less cruel. However for those who decide not to, I don't see the reason to demand for anything, even in this case Google which may have changed its decisions. All effort will need money, and I really don't see there is free lunch in this world. Am I missing anything?
I routinely read through the comments before I actually click on the link to the article. It's a quick indicator to the quality of the article and often, I learn more from the comments vs. the article itself.
If you pull down with two fingers (a bit counterintuitive, I'll admit), it'll open the settings app directly. You can also toggle the default notification drawer and the settings app by tapping the icon in the top right corner.

I chose to install Widgetsoid - it places a couple of toggles directly into the notification drawer. I never got Airplane Mode to work, though.
Only if it's easy enough for her to do on her own, or you do it for her and the site is at least easy enough to use on her on after she has an account.

There's plenty of great sites more non tech savvy users should be using. Subtle usability touches decide if they actually do use them.
How to gain traction in two sided markets
Let’s Get One Thing Straight: Things That Don’t Make You a Geek
How Yipit Scales Thumbnailing With Thumbor and Cloudfront
Criticisms of Apple's Website
Very well written and does a great job of stirring up emotions but when you really think about it, it doesn't say anything. Just that the author thinks he's smarter than everyone and that there's nothing wrong with hacking absolutely but never goes into what he means by "hack", "hacking", or "hacker".

I could see how it could strike a cord maybe 10+ years ago but today it feels hollow. The idea that all hackers are smarter than average, bored in school, and break into things (presumably - that's what I thought he meant) is something I don't agree with. This isn't the 90's anymore. Hackers nowadays are as much well rounded, often downright average individuals (sorry to burst all of our egos) as they are above average and the things he describes. That stereotype needs to die.
Another key problem with early Atom based machines was the rest of the chipset (io controller and such) that went with them, which could draw a fair amount of power too. I presume this has been improved as well as the CPU's power needs.
Both Steven Johnson's "Where Good Ideas Come From" and Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of our Nature" have fantastic discussions on many other occurrences of power law distributions.
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I'm really curious about Android as I've been an avid Apple iPhone user since iPhone first came out. Part of me wants to switch as I love what Google is doing, but I'm hesitant as I'm so entrenched in the Apple ecosystem.
This link has one single embedded YouTube video, and the text "So we'll just take a picture of the crew. Why I'm holding the thing up to my face like I can look through the thing is beyond me, but here we go.

His Instagram feed is available here. (via ★precipice)"

It also has some ads.

How is that anything other than blogspam? The linked blog adds nothing of value to the raw YouTube link; there's no commentary or critique or links to other relevant content or anything.
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Looks pretty cool. I signed up to get notified when the android version will be available. Another source of data that you may want to look into is Factual (http://www.factual.com/). I recently found out about them and using their data for a small side project I'm working on.
Absolute zero is no longer absolute zero
I'm guessing you're thinking 7, sans the X as X7 was a PS2 game. Off the top of my head, I'd guess it would be a matter of cost and possibly convention.

You wouldn't spend the money on the requisite cartridge save hardware unless you had to.

At the time those 128KB PS1 memory cards were a revelation and quite expensive. Games in the cartridge era generally used battery-backed saves.
You don't have to agree to the GPL to use the software - it explicitly states this - just to redistribute or modify it.
It should just look like outlook 2007 with each "email" being a post that will open up when you click on it. Obviously a lot of other minor changes but that would be a great interface.
The great blog Damn Interesting did a post about this about 5 years back. It's a great read. In fact I just read it yesterday and was very surprised to see the MotherJones article today.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth/

They tell a great story and reveal some interesting facts about Ethyl's creator, Thomas Midgley, who very unfortunately was also responsible for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The collective amount of economic and social damage this single man is responsible for is staggering. It would certainly be fun to total it up and compare to various wars, natural disasters, etc.
Samsung, LG Display Fined by China for Fixing LCD Panel Prices
I don't think anyone is saying the iPhone 5 is easier to use in one hand than the iPhone 4.

The argument that a smaller screen, allows for a smaller surface area, that is easier to navigate is obvious.

3.5 is easier to use than 4 which is easier than 5.

People may say a 4 inch screen is better in general (because the forgive ergonomics for real estate), but not in ergonomics alone.
Thanks, I'll work on elucidating the metaphor and being explicit about what I mean when I say things like 'duplicates input' (uses the parameter more than once in it's body, this is a term from Smullyan), as well as clarifying some of the language.

I want to make the idea simple to parse by breaking it down into it's pieces, if it's noticeably hard to swallow (or as you said the commentary actually detracts from my code examples) then I did it wrong!

Edit: I changed some terminology and clarified the points you mentioned, hope this helps anyone who reads this in the future, thanks again for taking the time to leave feedback :)
The features described are nice, but are they nice enough to make up for Scala often using more memory than Java and being a bit slower?

One data point: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByTAIYFOarh0cm9aSXlzc0NWaXc

It is always about trade-offs, but you had the above with the much smaller functional language talent pool and I don't think I would want to use this are a core/shop language. If I was going to go functional, I think I'd go for Haskell GHC and get the functional lang benefits with better than Java performance.

Scala is definitely a good alt. lang for a Java shop though :)
Why I don't read at work
By that definition so is the FBI and the police since they might frighten people.

Hacking is not terrorism.
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No its not. If prices fall utilities lose vast amounts of money. And they do a lot of hedging too.
"I doubt there are many, or any, engineers who don’t have deep aerospace experience working in the SpaceX engineering department."

And yet Elon Musk had no experience in the field prior to founding SpaceX.

He even went to Russia to try to buy a refurbished ICBM before going down the path of hiring aerospace engineers and building rockets in-house.

Excellent documentary on Musk: http://vimeo.com/38542529
I love the process, but I've been having trouble with uploading. A lot of songs simply weren't uploaded successfully, and there is no way for me to manually upload anything in order to fix that. I have no idea if the uploader application does this automatically or if I'm just stuck with a bunch of broken songs.

Also I noticed some mistakes with generic album titles, such as "Unknown Album" - selecting an artist, then their album titled "Unknown" would usually play all the titles that don't have an album title, even the ones by entirely different artists.

That being said, it beats iTunes by miles.
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>Objectivism holds that the only social system which fully recognizes individual rights is capitalism,[72] specifically what Rand described as "full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)#Politics...

And here's a freebie from some googling:

>As far as the role of government is concerned, there are laws--some of them passed in the nineteenth century--prohibiting certain kinds of pollution, such as the dumping of industrial wastes into rivers. These laws have not been enforced. It is the enforcement of such laws that those concerned with the issue may properly demand. Specific laws--forbidding specifically defined and proved harm, physical harm, to persons or property--are the only solution to problems of this kind.

So perhaps Rand had nuanced views on this, but I don't hear the same nuance in her followers. And I don't see how the two quotes can be reconciled either.
Metroid! I haven't thought about that game for years! I loved it. I played through a ton of it.. but what was that pw? Justin Bailey? TIL(this only reddit?) "Justin Bailey is a term used to refer to the bikini swimsuit that Samus Aran wore during the endings of Metroid, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion."
I can't even remember how I learned of that code..
Seeing the actual x86 or x64 code here would be insightful. It's hard to guess (though not impossible, I suppose) why this might be happening given just the code, but seeing the emitted assembly would clearly show what improves. It's possible that adding that assignment changes the register allocation/stack spill just enough to be slightly more optimal.

Is there any code before or after that has been omitted that might be contributing to the 5% speedup?