skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For myself, in my late fifties, I'd say that it's too late to do all the things that I'm interested in, that I'd like to do, but that don't really hold my attention enough to get going in.

Learning to program is one of those things. Always been fascinated by it, always wanted to do it, but every time I've made a stab at it, it doesn't hold my interest.

But for the last five years I've been learning Chinese. Something that I NEVER had the slightest interest in doing (until I started) and never would have believed that I could do. But for some stupid reason, I work at it every day, 365 days of the year and I like it, even though my progress has been painfully slow.

I'm not sure what the moral of this story is. Maybe just that you might as well do what you love, no matter what age. And also, that you might not know what exactly you really love until you try it.
The difference between upvotes and downvotes is right, but the absolute numbers are random.
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Resetting should restore your tokens to 8, it seems to be working for other people are you sure it's not working? Tokens will be used for buying digital items, flare stuff as with Farmeville. I might come up with alternative ways to earn tokens, but for now you won't really need those items for character development anyway.
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The physical laws of the universe iterated for a long time to produce a way to know itself: the individual conscious being. The individual conscious being is the only part of the universe capable of exerting control over itself, and thus the singly most powerful object in the universe is you, except for the competition and collaboration of your fellow conscious beings. Your local basis for value is what is good for you vs bad for you. Abstract this to the basis for value to all individual conscious beings and you can see why preventing others from doing what is best for them by using force is bad. Not only would it trigger others to try to protect themselves by harming you, but it would also remove the benefits of collaboration.
Yep, Beta List uses Bit.ly

Anyone can set up their own short URL domain with them. They also allow you to export* your short-url/long-url pairs so it's possible to switch to your own shortener at a later stage if you wanted to.

* The export feature might be available to Enterprise customers only. Not sure.
Aaron Swartz was on guerrilla crusade for freedom
Sometimes I walk to think, though usually it's more mental mumbling than anything focused. I do think my daily walk is good for my mental health. I feel the difference if I go without one for very long.

If you are a busy/frantic person, walking isn't a very intense way of exercising, and doesn't translate to an achievement game as easily as running, lifting weights, etc. If you don't have a nice area to walk in, I can see not ever really understanding the appeal. I would probably still walk now if I moved to a metro area, but I might not have picked up the habit in the first place.
Erroneous. My site has visitors all over the world, whereas similarweb reports only US visitors.
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Did not take very long, but I had to smile when I realized why there's a heart beat pattern for "gingerbread".
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Did she go after the bankers' "white-crimes" and try to put them in jail for 35 years, too? No? Didn't think so.

There's definitely a 2-tier justice system forming, where they only prosecute the "little-guy", and hard, while they either completely ignore or just settle for a fine with the more powerful people in the country. Judges also are increasingly starting to avoid lawsuits against the Government, as well.
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web based WYSIWYG document editors are mature, yet MS Office is just fine
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He and his family members have numerous computing industry connections in their network. Turn these connections against him, and isolate him.

David E. Green is VP public policy at NBC Universal. He should be aware of what a pariah Heymann is.
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The spikes on the graph for gingerbread at each Christmas is noise which you could have avoided by adding "android" to each search term. Result: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=jelly%20bean%20androi...
Web based printouts, invoices and labels are ugly, hard to design, impossible to redesign and there is no way to integrate them. We at Actual Reports developed a fully functional, easy-to-use browser based tool to change it all. As a cherry on the cake, we offer all of our functionality through the REST API, so anyone can integrate it with their existing web-application to make their customers happy.
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"At some level you do have to blame him. No, not for downloading files but rather for making the decision to end his life."

I wouldn't blame him for ending his life. I would say there is responsibility however on his part, to have found and kept enough support around him to counter-balance whatever he was diving into; There's also responsibility on society's part to provide and facilitate that support - and to make sure powers/controls are kept in check and balance (proportional to the alleged offense, and based on society's evolving values). Perhaps he thought he was though and underestimated the pressures and how it would affect him. Sometimes when I have eureka moments, on the positive side, they initiate a very powerful chain reaction in my thinking and focus. I could see the same thing happening if you've created lots of justifications as to why "pending doom" may not hit you, may not be real - and something could happen that makes it very real and all of that pending doom could flood in and cascade as doom.
Yeah, the video player ended up being a so-so example. :)

The point is that it's common to have UI elements that can go one way or the other and it's often possible to justify either way.

As far as why there's a lot of experimentation, I think it's just because designers are trying to find the pattern that will make people go "wow, look at this, this is so cool/smart". Look for example at the praise Loren Brichter got for pull-to-refresh. (it was indeed cool and smart) I think a lot of people are experimenting to see if they can find the same kind of pattern that end up sprouting all over the place. I don't know if this is really something new though.
As always, the answer is "it depends". What is your market? Who are your users?

It is better to start with the market and problem you want to address, then find out what kind of platforms they possess (and plan to continue to possess) and build for that platform, than to start from the technology side.
Good idea. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ios%204%2C%20ios%205%... here is the iOS version!
The gingerbread-spikes were actually the reason why I had submitted this URL.

Wanted to post this comment along with it (but that unfortunately wasn't posted):
'Did not take very long, but I had to smile when I realized why there's a heart beat pattern for "gingerbread".'
"mesh with your paranoid fantasies"

You're being a bully.

Sorry but I stand behind what I said which brings up a realistic question given the way the information was presented and that lack of contact info (at the time I viewed the page). You can choose to be trusting and you could very well be correct. I'm just asking a question.
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There's not a contradiction between targeting white-collar/corruption crime and prosecuting Whitey Bulger. By your logic, if she truly was targeting white collar crime, she would fail to prosecute Bulger at all. Anyway, I do think that prosecuting DiMasi counts as acting against corruption.

And... opportunist? No more than any one else in those circles, and she does seem to have done some decent work in her career.
It's not quite what you want, but I worked on Leafsnap [1], which automatically identifies trees by their leaves, using computer vision techniques. We focused on leaves since they are present throughout much more of the year than flowers. Our free apps also include high-resolution, high-quality photos of all aspects of the species we cover -- leaves, flowers, fruits, bark, etc. So you can at least browse through and compare the flowers you're looking at with those in the app.

Our current coverage is of the trees of the northeast US (about 200 species), but we are working on expanding that.

[1] http://leafsnap.com
I think you're confusing "too late" with "physically impossible". I'm a 28 year old with more things I'd like to do than I can do (barring medical advances that drastically extend my lifespan). I wouldn't say it's too late to do them, just that there are too many to do. I have to prioritize.

It's not too late for you to learn to program -- it may take a couple of years, but you sound smart. I think you're physically capable of programming. Perhaps what you're saying is you want to know how to program, but you don't (yet) like the act of programming. Kind of like someone who wants to be physically fit, but doesn't (yet) like exercising.

So I respectfully disagree. There are surely some situations where it's too late to do something (deathbeds, after a stroke, etc), but I think they are few and far between.

> you might as well do what you love, no matter what age.

Awesome :)
So sad for friends of AS
I only knew of him, but I looked up to him. Belated, I know, but: thanks Aaron.
Who sponsors this? What does it do?
The relevant table on the results page is Table 3, which is detection performance. Classification is actually an easier problem (see Table 1), in part because the types of scenes in which different classes appear are often quite different, making it easy to avoid some "easy" mistakes.
Most people who have celiac do not know it. It requires a special blood test. It is an auto immune disease and causes depression, fatigue, and stomach pains. Your body literally attacks the villi in your intestines which absorb nutrients. Not sure this is what Aaron had celiac, but he does have the symptons. This is why so many people are eating gluten free, not to lose weight. One out of 100 have celiac, and the numbers are growing.
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Oh, I see. And I have to admit, the comment you wanted to post is more humorous than mine!
> If "Perl is a dead end" (his words, not mine), then why not switch to another similar language like Python or Ruby?

Because a lot of the points given also apply to Python & Ruby.

>I guess I don't understand why this guy wants to create yet another programming language.

He isn't. It looks like he's creating an improved / cleaned-up perl5 running on a new VM. Think of it as perl6 if the perl6 moniker hadn't already been taken!

EDIT - Hopefully clearer analogy... the project is a mixture of python2 -> python3 (language cleanup) + MRI -> YARV (new compiler & VM).

> Is there anything good about Perl 5 that other languages haven't already copied? If there is, what is it?

The author of the talk (Stevan Little) is the creator of Moose (http://moose.perl.org). I think what he maybe striving for is a Moose implemented on a modern future proofed VM (full threading/multiprocessing, etc).

The question you may want to ask is why? By sounds of this talk it appears that his p5-mop proposal/work (https://github.com/stevan/p5-mop), which was originally mooted for perl 5.16, as probably been blocked by the Perl core team (p5p). It's a shame if that is what's happened :(
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See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023123 (Do you think the desktop is dead?)
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Just a hot headline. Nothing will happen. Whether, Android on Surface or Winodws / Ubuntu on Nexus or something else on some other device.
There is more world than just what Geeks do.
Just a catchy headline and author have no any justified reason for it.
As a former N900 user, I loved carrying much of the GNU goodness on me, but the maps/contacts/mail integration offered by Google on its Android platform is just too enticing! I doubt I will even consider Ubuntu Phone without this.
Yeah, you have to be honest right ;). I'm a internet marketeer that rolled into the entrepreneur-role at a web-tech startup. In my spare time i like to read about lifehacking and productivity.

Could put drinking beer and barbecuing on there as well, but I like to just exercise those activities, not blog about them.
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I was going to disagree with you, because there are obviously walkable roads in Siberia. However, the route as shown on the map goes straight through absolute no man's land. There is no road along the eastern coast. A sensible route would be Yakutsk - Magadan, then take a boat or plane to the US.

I would love to read the story of someone who walked from Siberia to Alaska via the shortest sea crossing possible. But above Magadan, there are no more roads. And the Kolyma highway to Magadan is considered a major adventure already, with only a small window where the rivers are low enough to be crossed by motorcycle (and therefore, man).

I'm not saying this can't be done, but it looks like a serious arctic expedition to me. Which I kind of doubt he will do. This is probably going to end like usual. Helpful Russian truck drivers take him with them for as far as they can go, then (Mommy!!) a helicopter shows up...
For me the best activity for thinking is running on a closed track. The boredom of running in circles and the need to avoid thinking about how many more circles I have to go and how much my legs are starting to hurt is a really good motivator to get absorbed in your mind and work through stuff.

Driving a car at night comes as a close second, but without the added benefits of exercise.

Long train journeys are also surprisingly effective, as I've recently found out.
I don't have any tokens even after resetting, but no matter good sir. I shall continue to play this until the Grim Reaper has taken me. And then, I will reset it and continue playing it.

Let me take this moment to say, I have literally waited years for something like Epic Win to come to Android. Though I heard that it wasn't as Epic as promised. This seems to be the start of such a journey. May you succeed in your quest.
Tragedy. One of my heroes for certain.
Your definition is correct. The term heisenbug has been around for quite a while, for example, it's in the Jargon File:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html

I have no idea where this guy got his nonstandard usage of the term from.
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"ramp down the coke/liquor"

It's not that easy. Tried to quit before and I can't last more than 48 hours without hallucinating.

"SF or NYC if you want to be a SW engineer"

Would love to move to SF, but like you guessed I'm in the UK (London). Getting a visa is very difficult.
I agree if you talk about a subjective feeling of purpose. It's depressing to feel you can not achieve what you aspire to.

I don't agree that an external power that prescribes some random notion of purpose is necessary.
Trends for "gingerbread", "gingerbread android" and "gingerbread recipe": http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=gingerbread%2C%20ging...
I'm not sure we should glorify Jonathan James or even compare him to Aaron Swartz. His "hacking" of the DoD was undeniably illegal, and his sentencing seemed appropriate for his actions. We will never know if he was innocent or not of the TJX case. It's tragic that he killed himself, but, at least to me, his actions seemed on the whole more malicious than Swartz's ever was.
Guys, you in US really need new kind of anti-establisment movement, because you are fighting against Goliat here. MIT and others ARE part of establishment and if establishment decide to take control over internet, they will do it. Wait, they ARE DOING it right now and as you can see people are getting killed just because someone said "i want you to click and pay". Damn, if someone said to me few decades ago that internet will be this way, i would not belive it. Personally i call last 10 years: era of Internet colonisation.
Sorry on bad English.
From our experience whatever the service you are building it should usually take somewhere in the area of 200-500 hours for the first public version. If/when it catches up it will take thousands of hours to get it to a polished version if extras.
They don't call it a "citation graph" but for each publication you pull up, if they have the data, all the citations are hyperlinks to the pages for those cited publications. So from each document, you can walk backwards to those that it cites.

In the past they also had a "cited-by" link-set on each document, which provided the ability to walk forward to documents which cite the one shown. But looking at their cite now (it has been a while since I looked at them) the forward citation links appear to be missing, which looses half the citation graph.
Smells like a "Hollywood launch." :\

Re: lack-o-source code: "We don't want users to install it on hardware that we're not sure it can support"

Not really getting off on the right foot with the tech community either, IMHO.

I can't begin to emphasize enough how much I want this to succeed. (One open-source OS to rule them all, and what not...) It's a bit sad that its birth feels like another canned industry event rather than a true hacker love-child. But hey, at least it's progress, right?
Guess it is something like http://www.researchgate.net ?
It makes it more digestible too. "Save kittens" aka "Save all kittens" - this can divide your attention and distract you thinking about all of those kittens, and then feeling overwhelmed. This of course takes away from focusing on the base issue - much more nuanced and subtle to deal with. It's not easy educating people about nuances either. You need their attention, and you need to cut through all of the noise they've heard.
Whitey Bulger is just one case handled by the Boston office. Why is it so hard to understand that "the other side" has multiple facets?

In the age of the internet there is no excuse for not doing your own research. The Boston's office press releases here:
http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/index.html

The GSK settlement this past July (largest health care fraud settlement in US history): http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2012/July/GSKsettlement....
Even if he wasn't on 'suicide watch', the last sentences of his last posts should now be read with a new eye.

> Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide.

> But Movie Joe somehow is able to foresee this future and concludes the only way to prevent it is to kill himself.

They have been wrote a few months ago but ... well. It's a weird coincidence.
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JSTOR will be remembered in the history!! :(
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Hmm.. Are you running from habitrpg.com, or a locally deployed version? Live version no longer requires tokens on Continue: http://goo.gl/TnD2V . Re: Epic / Android, I hope the Kickstarter kicks! I have huge plans for Android, as well as new features on web
We are working to bring it back up. Give me another 30 mins or so. If not, we can link to the cache.
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I think the proper term for the bug is "race condition", since it is triggered by timing

I first encountered this type of bug back in Z80 days. The fastest possible way to copy memory was using an unrolled sequence of POP/PUSH on the stack; however, if you forgot to disable interrupts while doing this, the data could be corrupted.
Disgraceful for what you have done to Aaron Swartz
"punishment simply doesn't work very well."

Nonsense.

This isn't like like murder or robbery, where the criminal can more or less reoffend at will. You can't prosecute unless you are an official, government-recognized prosecutor. If she is removed from her job, she won't be able to prosecute anyone ever again.

That will work just fine.
I don't really see the advantage of this over personal homepages and/or the ArXiv. Three problems that seem to come up immediately:

1.) It seems to be much harder to discover papers, in particular abstracts, than on, say, arxiv.org or even Google Scholar.

2.) They seem to encourage the posting of papers to their site. Publishers usually at least accept researchers posting papers to their own homepages and to the ArXiv, as it is obvious that this is non-commercial and solely to further the spread of scienctific knowledge. But Academia.edu seem to be a commercial venture, so it is quite possibly that publishers will not accept having papers posted there.

3.) It seems it takes a lot of Javascript to even display a paper, and then they only appear as images, without any download option.
Almost no businessmen are going to go iPad only. Many businessmen are going to go Desktop/Laptop + Tablet, and in the future many are going to go for something like a docked Surface Pro.

The threat that iPads pose to Enterprise is completely overblown. They aren't going to stop buying desktops/laptops, they are just going to buy both desktops/laptops and tablets.
I think FirefoxOS is a much more viable contender. It has a head start; it is not going straight up against iOS and Android in the massive undertaking of building an app ecosystem, but is exclusively using web technologies; Mozilla controls a deeper part of their stack than Canonical; they have deals in place; and they are aiming low-end phones, where there is an opportunity as iOS doesn't exist and Android 4.0 performs like crap.
>> The JSTOR application lacked even the most basic controls to prevent what they might consider abusive behavior

Was he allowed to download the documents? It doesn't matter what controls were in place. The question is basic, did he get something he was not authorized to take?
"did absolutely nothing to hide his tracks"

Rewriting history to fit your own narrative helps no one. He did plenty to hide his tracks:

1) when he connected the laptop to MITs network, he used a fake name (Gary Host/Grace Host)
2) when his MAC was banned by MIT, he changed it
3) he used his helmet to hide his face from a camera when he accessed MITs networking closet
4) he hid the laptop in the closet underneath a cardboard box
5) when he retrieved the laptop from the networking closet, he then went to SIPB and hid the laptop underneath a table
6) when police finally found him, he jumped off his bike and ran from police

He did all of that.. and you're telling me he did not think anything he was doing was wrong? That's a little far fetched.

How about you stop rewriting things, and just tell them how they are?

http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html
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They _can_ do it all for free. They should just start doing what JSTOR does, but don't charge for it.

Seriously, make a competing site if you think you can do it for free.
In my experience as a researcher, this competitiveness and haste to publish leads very frequently to lower quality in the research. For a researcher's career is often more profitable to quickly publish a half-baked paper than ensuring that everything is correct and well explained. This is a quite difficult problem to solve.
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