skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno if there's a need for basic when there is so much easy functionality other places. When I started in the 80s, it was on my Commadore 64 and interesting to use, and a lot more straightforward than pascal or c when I was 10.

But there are a lot of good tools without creating anything new. IMO, the real places for improvement are learning methods.

My own idea has been to get my boy to start learning javascript via codecademy. We're seeing how that goes.

He's 11 and more interested in minecraft (which, IMO, has a similar set of activities such as wikis and researching via message boards as my own day-to-day why-doesn't-this-work programming issues), but we'll see how this goes.

The other thing that I did was to put together a desktop from parts with him over the holidays, which was a bit more fun than our usual yearly giant lego build, and I hope will give him an idea that these machines aren't magic-- they are put together, even if I don't have the skills to convey that at the circuit level.
Little bit confusing on what this actually is. Is this

1) Cloud GPU computation where you upload some special model code that is run on the neural network? ie. your own code

2) Upload data and run some pre-specified models on it, such as in the example you have a '-d model=spanish_speech_recognizer' - in which case the offering is all about how many and how good your pre-defined models are.

The two different use cases are for completely different target audiences.
If it's O2/Telefonica (which it is), then they manage them fucking terribly and deliver shitty products that fall over and leave people in dire shit regularly.

Not only that, they stereotype and patronise them terribly.
Make government software open source, German parliamentary committee advises
You need to have some fun once in a while. If that is what you like to do for fun, £100 per month for entertainment doesn't seem unreasonable on even some of the smallest of budgets.
Two problems with rotation:

1) The article list scrolling position is reset.

2) On my Nexus 7, going from landscape to portrait while viewing comments closes the comments.
Exactly.

Hardware needs pre-funding more than anything. The article is opening up a discussion for alternative models that work better than Kickstarter.

The problem with Kickstarter's approach is that oftentimes, the reality of the product is divorced from the perception of the product. There are countless examples of high profile hardware products that failed to deliver on expectations. That hurts the Kickstarter brand.

Kickstarter can't be expected to guarantee projects. It's too costly. And it opens them up to liability.

I'm not suggesting that self-starter is the final version of this model. It's an evolutionary process - and an opportunity for a new startup with a different approach.
"The Newtonian Casino" is about a group of hackers who build shoe-computers to cheat at roulette.

It's a fascinating true story.

A similar device could easily be built for chess computers. Especially since hardware now is much more powerful, and much smaller, and battery technology (while still being lousy) is much better.

What kind of chess computing could you get from, for example, Raspberry Pi? What software would run at reasonable speed on it?
I guess if you want to make money off the failures of others... Personally, that's not something I would ever want to be associated with.
Absolutely agree with this. In fact, something worth trying out that's worked for me is getting a no thrills prepaid debit card with minimal to no fees.

I fund my card from my main checking account with a pre-allocated amount of allowance money that I've budgeted. Whatever I don't use that month rolls over to the following month.

I find that when I have 'my money' (vs the money I need for bills and such...) I end up saving much more. Especially so when the money on the card is low and more comparable to my daily low cost expenses such as the ones you've listed.
Good to read that Duolingo not only feels more effective than in-person classes and Rosetta but now has empiric evidence that is more effective.

I just dont get why the author here, Markoff, seems to be such a gloomster about MOOC, as he speaks of "dirty secrets", and "sarcases" about "wild successes".

Online learning is NOT in-class learning; it is often less formal, less forced and if students learn something - even better. I took one online M.A. and it was required, hard work. So it speaks even more for Duolingo that it has such a big active learning community with such great proven outcomes.
I have bought this theme last week.
GreyCoder: How To Be Anonymous and Private On The Internet
Astonishing bit of HTML5? If you want to see astonishing HTML5 work go to http://www.chromeexperiments.com/. The Obama administration has done far better and astonishing web work than this piece.
Don't ever stop playing in your work
No you don't for PuTTY at least. You can download the exe and stick it on the desktop or in the user profile directory.
+1 to the "night mode", which is very relevant to users with AMOLED screens.
I think most people don't like Chomsky because he tells uncomfortable truths.
Ask HN: Finding a tutor for front-end coding.
After a more than 10 year long hiatus spent in the business side of technology, I'm looking to get my hands dirty again. I used to be fairly competent in HTML/CSS/JS but I'm finding it hard to get back in the saddle again. I am reading books and taking tutorials about HTML5, CSS3 and JS frameworks like Backbone, but I find myself a bit overwhelmed by trying to learn too many things at the same time and also a bit directionless.

Then I remembered seeing or reading about coders earning some extra cash tutoring high school kids, and I thought that's kind of what I need: structured environment, project-based learning, one-on-one interaction - even though I am far from being a high school kid (my wife may disagree at times).

Have you taught coding one-on-one before? How was your experience? What are the hourly rates I should expect to pay? How to find a good tutor? If you think this would be a good gig for you, don't hesitate to contact me - I'm in NYC/Brooklyn if it matters (doing it remotely is definitely an option, but I am tending towards a face-to-face thing).
In this case, the opposite of a disorder sounds more like "order" than another disorder.
You shouldn't need phone state to identify a device - see http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/identifying...
Shit. OK. Found it and working on it.
> Who really believes this crap?

You'd be surprised who believes and applies it. I'm doing a university degree that is supposedly a combination between CS and business/management. For some reason, however, 99% of the students enrolled are heartbreakingly disconnected from anything CS; most of them hope to become management consultants. I've worked with those people in group projects, and trust me, they are exactly the kind of techniques junkies, who sacrifice all humane common sense [1] and become this sort of compulsive manipulators who keep tailoring their attitude towards the team to the point where it stops making any effin sense whatsoever. I am starting to think the reason why those techniques end up actually working is because they appear so convoluted and ridiculous from the outside that you're just going to comply out of confusion. Or maybe it's out of pitty.

[1] If we are to be rigorous, then "common sense" is just another technique, learned and applied. There's nothing sacred about it, so if it necessary it should be replaced with a more effective "sense". However, what I tried to emphasize is that the techniques like the ones in the article are very, very buggy.
4. Working for Dogshit Startups.
Grilled Chicken breast with gratine Iberico Cheese
His name is 'milkman', after all.
Finally - CallMyApp is now up and running...
> If you think an attorney able to rise to the position US Attorney will be caught in a "falsifiable claim" on a matter of this prominence then you simply do not understand what you are talking about.

Some choice samples: Nixon: I'm not a crook. Oliver North lying to congress and many many others besides.

Officials at all levels make falsifiable claims all the time and sometimes they trip themselves up. Ortiz is under extreme pressure at the moment and very likely to trip herself up.
See, I'm almost the opposite, on both counts. I stopped carrying cash so that I wouldn't be tempted to shove it in the vending machines at work (unfortunately, they now take credit card . . .). Good for my financial and physical health.

Also, it's not so much being aware all the time that you are wasting $6 on a cup of coffee, but more that you think about it once, take into account all the externalities (do you have to make a side trip to pick it up, how long do you have to wait in line, etc), ask yourself if it's really good, and then come to the conclusion that for a small upfront investment, you can get a French press, a grinder, a hot water pot, and whole beans, and have a better cup of coffee for less money in the long run, with no waiting in line or side trips.
A part of the problem is that many consider hedonism / frugality to be the one true way of life and socialization.

They think that if they don't act like all the others, they'll be socially rejected. But it ain't so. As long as you have high self-esteem nobody can make you feel "inferior".

Another part of the problem, and it has been brought up recently, is that most people cannot really save enough to make a difference. They don't have enough to really diversify their wealth so they figure out: "oh crap, then I can as well spend it, it's not going to be worth anything in a few years anyway because of inflation".

Note that "saving your wealth" and "saving your money" are two entirely different things. The government is busy confiscating your savings thanks to inflation.

I'd suggest "acting dead, trading up and living the middle class":

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-...

I don't buy all the crap that most people do buy. I do still fork $$$$ for stuff like an Aeron chair but overall I do save money compared to most because I don't need many things, neither does my SO (which used to be a high-maintenance girl but then "saw the light"). But then I don't want the government to confiscate it. So what do I do?

I buy an old sportcar that I put in a garage (and sometimes take it out for a spin), I buy physical gold, I diversify paper money over several currencies, etc.

I do that because I don't have enough to buy cash another property and don't want to be rped in the by taking credits.

But going out paying overpriced drinks with fake friends and going to fancy restaurant just to say that I go to fancy restaurants? No way. I didn't regress at the pre-anal stage where I need to fetishize food. And I much prefer to "impress" people with good looking old exotic cars than with ephemeral restaurants bills ; )
I agree.

One of the problems with the Kickstarter model is that companies were offering product in exchange for funding.

They should have been offering stickers and mentions on a "Thank You" page, or tours of the factories, or some such. That would have created better expectations in the minds of funders.

Or they could have offered vouchers - "Pay $X, we give you a voucher that entitles you to one free widget if we go into production".

The current "challenges" question is not being answered as well as it could by several projects. It feels a bit like the "What are your weaknesses" interview question, where people are dodging the real answer and giving feel good sound bites. I have a lot more trust in the projects who make a solid attempt at answering that question fully.
I was curious when I saw this on Steam recently:

You Need A Budget 4

http://store.steampowered.com/app/227320/
The really high powered chess engines will take 1-2s or more to calculate even on a high powered multi-core box.

The more obvious approach is to compute the moves on a 'real' computer elsewhere and just transmit the result via some tiny hardware in a shoe or something.

These games were streamed online, so they only needed communication to be one-way (computer to player).
I love HN for discussions like this when a security expert familiar with the Chrome architecture will jump in and break things down (good or bad).

Increasingly I expect a contrarian at the top stating nothing but the obvious fact that there are security implications. Can we stop this now?
I found that the automated solutions never kept me on track, so I started tracking every penny with Ledger[1], a command line accounting program. I've written extensively about how I use it and the software I've written around it at my blog[2]

[1]: http://www.ledger-cli.org

[2]: http://bugsplat.info/ledger.html
one less court date on her calendar.
You say two things:

"meditation shouldn't have anything to do with a financial worry"

I disagree with this in principle. Meditation is very much a habit and I think it's quite possible to incentivize developing the habit without somehow 'tainting' the practice. It is much like how many people learn to write or play in instrument. It begins as a painful task that they are forced to do when they are young. Once they have learned the skill, and the habit of practicing, it is more easy for them to express complex and subtle ideas and feelings. Ironically this is a tactic consistently employed with children in many East Asian cultures.

It's true that meditation shouldn't have to do with financial worry, but the cultivation of the habit and the later cultivation of the practice that depends on the habit can be decoupled.

"It's a cheap way to make money of the unsuspecting"

This may be true if the tactic is actually unsuccessful in getting people into the habit of meditating. I honestly can't be sure whether financial incentives are effective here. I know that some businesses charge their employees with $20, or some escalating amount when they are late to work and it works quite well, but that's a different sort of situation.
You can replay Ivanov's games (halfway down the page):

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8751
You're right that I haven't expressed myself clearly.

The terms "manufacturing consent", "necessary distraction" etc. are taken from a political science treatise arguing that for a democracy to be a world power it must essentially distract the great unwashed from the political process so that the smart people can run things correctly. Chomsky's aim is to expose the workings of this process (and no, he's not a conspiracy theorist -- he's simply pointing out naturally emergent behaviors of large institutions) arguing that if only the great unwashed were aware of what's going on they'd suddenly start participating and everything would be better.

But as the discussion proceeds, it really seems to be arguing that people are stupid and uninformed and like it that way, and when presented with this argument, Chomsky makes the claim that no they're smart because they can learn to talk -- which I think is weak. (It's like arguing that basketball players must be good at physics.) This leaves the original thesis -- that people are stupid and ignorant and like it that way -- essentially standing, and thus argues in favor of the entire political philosophy he's trying to take down.

And that's a fundamental problem with Chomsky's political philosophy, but not with his observations. (Much as Marx was a great social critic, but his remedies weren't much use.)
Considering Skype’s Use of SSL
vacri is correct.

However, there is more than sufficient misleading ambiguity on that page which contradicts EU law (and likely EU Member State consumer or contract law).

EU law [1] states that a minimum period of 6 months is always available wherein defects that arise after delivery are assumed to have existed at or before delivery unless proven otherwise.

EU law provides for a Member State optional notification obligation on consumers that they have to inform the seller of a fault within 2 months. The UK has chosen not to exercise this notification. Belgium, for example, allows for contracts to specify the existence, length of the notification period (not less than 2 months) and consequences of lack of notification [2].

Similarly, in the case of the UK, "claim period" is ambiguous because under UK Sale of Goods Act 1979, consumers have 6 years to take a claim to court for faulty goods in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (5 years in Scotland) [3].

[1] - http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...

[2] - http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/cons_int/safe_shop/guarantees/...

[3] - http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/underst...
According to polls, people who don't vote are overwhelmingly Democratic. So if you count people who didn't vote, the election becomes even less representative.
Gave it a try. I find the interface to be very confusing. For example, the opening screen has a button with text "[Del] Delete", but hitting the Delete key instead takes me back to the previous page instead of deleting anything, and clicking it doesn't do anything.

It took me a while to figure out how to get it to try to make a connection - even though it says "Enter" you actually have to press Enter twice.

It then took me to a page with a link to the FAQ, which I tried to click on, but the link was not clickable. Also, the clipboard behavior is incredibly irritating: selecting any text automatically copies it to the clipboard with a giant SELECTION COPIED popup. It's also inconsistent: double clicking anywhere flashes the same SELECTION COPIED, which turns out to be a lie. It doesn't actually modify my clipboard in this latter case. And when I actually hit Cmd-C, it unselects my selection (WHY?)

(The FAQ claims I can "disable this by setting the copy-on-select preference to false, but I wasn't easily able to find a place for preferences. After some hunting, I found that I have to control click on the app from Chrome's "Apps" page to disable this.)

Anyways it's been hung at "Loading NaCl plugin..." for the last ten minutes. Either it takes a long time to load, or I don't have the NaCl plugin installed, and so it just decided to hang instead of tell me. I tried to install it by googling "NaCl", and found the link https://developers.google.com/native-client/. Clicking "Get Started" tells me to download an SDK and work through the "Getting Started Tutorials." All this for an SSH connection?

Anyways, it was overall a frustrating and confusing experience. I've now got four identical connection entries, none of which I can figure out how to delete, and none of which ever successfully connected to anything. Argh.
Have you written any blog posts about the process? I'm sure many people would be interested in what happens.
The gas coming out of his faucet apparently had nothing to do with the natural gas exploration in the area, screw-up or otherwise.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland

"Regarding Mike Markham - In a scene from the film, Weld County landowner Mike Markham is shown with director Josh Fox igniting gas from a well water faucet in his home with a cigarette lighter, which the film attributes to natural gas exploration in the area. In 2008, The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) investigated a complaint made by Markham alleging that nearby natural gas operations impacted his domestic water well. A Colorado Oil and Gas Information System (COGIS) report stated that Markham’s water "appears to be biogenic in origin."
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission uses the origin of the methane, either biogenic or thermogenic, to determine whether or not the groundwater contamination can be attributed to natural gas drilling. According to the agency, natural gas drilling does not lead to the presence of biogenic methane. The 2008 COGIS report concluded that "there [were] no indications of oil & gas related impacts to [Markham's] water well." Markham’s water well was drilled through four different coal beds containing biogenic methane gas."
I for one am not sick about this at all as others here are. Cutting our energy dependence by 20% and unemployment under 1% when the nation is at 8%. There are trade offs in life, and this is a good one. I'm sure they are working on the infrastructure needed to capture the gas, but its not like that can be done in a day. Give it time.
Rotation issues are usually to do with the activity being recreated (i.e. onCreate is called again) as the screen size has changed. There is a config to disable this however: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-...
The scripts used to automate PGO are in the official repository.
I hope so: https://leanpub.com/idea-to-income/ :o)
Well, that's a little unfair to say since you don't know me or my motivation behind this project.

The only person that can "fail" you is your evaluator - the person YOU choose to help you keep your vow. Your evaluator must fill out an assessment after your 30 day vow which decides whether you get your refund.

EDIT: Bailing out early from the vow also makes a person ineligible for a refund. The VOW of NOW is for 30 days in a row, no less.
"Geeks" are more analytically smart than emotionally smart. They can solve any computer problem, but they create many interpersonal problems. Dennis Rodman is an example of this. He was a brilliant Basketball player, but was a misbehaving douchbag off the court. Linus Torvalds fits this description too. I am kind of this way too. I can solve any problem you give me, but I'm most likely going to piss someone off on my team in the process. But I will get the problem solved. My problem is that I don't really care about other people's feelings. When I'm right, I'm right. If you stand in my way, you can go fuck right off.

Managers need to focus on fixing the people problems that geeks create. Passion is a double edged sword. One moment everyone is singing kumbaya, the next moment they are at each other throats. Managers tend to be the opposite of geeks. They are great at emotional intelligence, but not so strong at analytical intelligence.
IMO, this is just generic financial tips, morning news style, mixed with words like "disorder", "ill" and others so it sounds more impactful.

The definition of manic has nothing to do with this article, for a start...
White House Says 'No' To Death Star
Too costly to transport/store it, plus doing so would slow them down getting to all that Oil (and we all know Oil is king). Really governments should mandate that we convert to NG or dual systems such that we can make use of both (I.e. increase the value of natural gas and decrease the value of oil). And then governments could mandate the use of natural gas instead of wasting it.
Instead of skipping coffee, buy a nice travel mug (that keeps your coffee hot) and brew from home before heading out. My travel mug keeps coffee made at 7.45 warm until around 9 before becoming undrinkable. In addition, you'll be able to explore more expensive brands/roasts at low costs and find some new favorites!
Rich people buy both... they can afford it.
Who says you can kill Americans, Mr. President?
Square Open Sources Squash
Hardware incubator sounds like a really good idea.

Many people are not interested in funding hardware projects at all - hardware just has a lousy reputation.

But having a hardware incubator means you concentrate expertise in all the stuff that's traditionally thought to be hard about hardware. Things like suppliers and distribution and stock control and sub-contracting etc etc.
What is meant is that Ruby is difficult to parse compared to most languages. By comparison Lisp is easy to parse
> When you sell your mineral rights, you're giving consent. What usually happens is that the gas companies lease your mineral rights and in that lease agreement are provisions that give the gas company the right to drill on your property, which includes equipment, trucks, etc

I think it is more suspect when the new drilling technology destroys aquifers and other parts of the land.