skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually like old and ancient. That means all bugs have been fixed already. Systems become complex quickly enough and you need to use the most boring bricks imaginable if you want to build something sturdy.
Plenty of people also don't take him seriously because lots of his predictions turn out to be hand-wavey or quite obvious.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/ray-kurzweils-sl...
The real fun with type aliases is that GHC rarely uses them in error messages. So you get about 20 lines of type vomit whenever something refuses to compile and then you get to try to piece it back together into a level of abstraction that humans can handle.
It's a reverse auction site, you can chose to leave your CC and buy the ticket when the price becomes relevant automatically .
The social aspect of it is that you can create a bid and invite your fiends on it , each of them can bid for a ticket as well (on his/hers price) but the order can only be completed if someone agrees to fly all your friends on the same flight for the total of the bids
What do you mean by "citation needed"? I highly doubt the parent poster documented the event. It is not impossible to add toolbars to Safari (e.g. http://blog.gregfiumara.com/archives/134)

Just because it hasn't happened to you, doesn't mean it never happens.
Recently I realized something about city/neighborhood design in America on a much more general level: We just don't care, or at the very least, it seems that way.

The contrast is striking every time I travel abroad. I go to London on an almost biyearly basis where this contrast is really pronounced. Things as trivial as the way bathroom stall doors are built, to much more important components of city life, like the airport/roadway/metro signage, reflect the weight that each city/state/country puts on the importance of design.

Comparing London to New York City, it feels as if I'm better taken care of design-wise when in London, like the people running the city actually give a damn about making it easier for me to find my way around the city, with color labeling, maps that are easy to understand, typefaces that are consistent, big and bold for anyone to see. The tube stations are all remarkably consistent in both easily guiding me to the correct subway line, and cleanliness -- two things you definitively cannot say about NYC. The same goes for their respective airports, Heathrow and LaGuardia/JFK.

And I pick these two cities because they're the two big metropolises I've spent considerable amounts of time in, but the contrast extends far beyond them. You can pick Berlin and Los Angeles, if you want!

I don't know why we as a country don't see just how critical good design is. It seems as if it'd be almost un-American to care.
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Not sure why you would use Dwolla to pay state taxes. Most states allow ACH transfers.
> Other great impossibilities: sequencing a human genome in 15 years.

Citation needed. Who said it would be impossible? And: were they actually taken seriously?
Am I still on HN?
so nice this gitlab project is, so sad it is that it'll get hit by the commercial hammer, since the dev is spending his full time on it.
Just looked through the list. A quarter of the listed games are Crusader Kings II and all it's DLC. It's a good game, but...

As a mac user, I don't see a good reason to get a Linux box for steam as most the Linux games are also for OSX. This is important to me as I am completely open to the next generation of consoles. Nintendo is automatically out but I have been considering going back to windows if the next generation of playstation and Xbox do not excite me. If the Linux steam catalog was at least in the ball park of the windows catalog I would consider it.
http://adblockplus.org/

You can thank me later.
Probably not. It was the biggest issue but definitely not the only major limitation I experienced with it.
Two years ago I drove 100miles a day to and from work, put on two stone and nearly broke my marriage

For the past year I work twenty minutes walk from home, see my children for breakfast each day and actually recognise people in the local neighbourhood

It's soooo much better without commuting - by car or not.

The simplest rule of thumb is everything you need for life should be 20 minutes walk away. Schools, shops, doctors, work, parks. It is true of great cities (most of London is like that).
OldSF – Pictures of San Francisco from 1850-2000
In The Matrix Reloaded, Trinity uses nmap and then an OpenSSH exploit that was published a couple months before the film officially opened in theaters. Contrast this with Swordfish, where you get lines like (I'm paraphrasing from memory), "We have a DS3, allowing you to access eight systems simultaneously." Ugh, just hit stop and go outside.

Back on topic, Tron: Legacy to me feels like a highly technological father/son movie, in the same way that Google is a highly technological advertising company. So it seems we're already living in the future. "The Matrix has you..."
Great computer science book.
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Aside from the red flag aspect (which I can understand) does it make certain social activities inconvenient, such that you require a friend to pick you up?
> ... not only computational capabilities but all the things that make the human mind human. .. this requires a developmental growth process starting in "infancy." A Homo-complete machine would not be recognizably Homo sapiens-like if it lacked a childhood, in other words. .. have the potential of becoming depressed, .. compulsivities, .. panic, .. addictions, ...

I don't see all that. I don't see why a strong AI would necessarily be equal in emotions to humans and even develop similar behavior.

I haven't read any books by Kurzweil though, so I cannot tell if he makes that requirement on a strong AI.
It felt alienating to me growing up in it. It still does. In most of America I feel like there's a sort of pressure differential sucking the energy out of me.

http://goo.gl/maps/wbd7p

(Strictly speaking I'm a foreigner too, but I came here when I was 3 1/2 so I doubt it's memories of England that make me feel this way.)
Gates was that guy.

Remember when they haven't shipped a web browser in Windows 95 and then they turned around and produced a kickass browser that killed Netscape Navigator? Or how MS Word took marketshare from WordPerfect like taking candy from a baby? Or how Win 95 won against IBM's OS/2, even though OS/2 was also binary compatible with DOS and Win3.11?
Sounds like you work at a horrible place and are a little naive. No group of 100 people is going to naturally just take care of themselves. A hierarchy will develop, and folks will take on management roles on an adhoc basis.

Managers should be working at a level of abstraction up from the folks doing the work. Usually in a big project, folks end up specializing on a specific area and have a hard time grasping the "big picture" in their heads.

As one of those useless manager people, I'd say that my job is about understanding what's going on, course-correcting when what's happening isn't consistent with what we need to do, and figuring out how to get more productivity out of folks. As a "technical" manager, I stay close enough to understand what is happening, but don't do alot of hands on anymore.

When things are good, 80% of my job is keeping BS away from the folks I'm responsible for. When things are not so good, it's all about triage and finding solutions to whatever is wrong.
wut?

You sure it isn't that people who floss tend to also be people that take better care of their bodies overall, and hence the two, while correlated, aren't an example of cause and effect.
I guess the molar of the story is clear.
You are willingly missing the point here. It is human nature to assume malicious intention, even if it is wrong. And if there's no a strong motive to provide a due process and investigate, malicious intention will will be assumed.

If a random male servant is found to have gained unauthorized access to the princess' chamber, torture comes first and beheading comes last. In-between questioning regarding his intentions and the degree of fulfillment is optional.
Try Philadelphia. Our current mayor has built more bike lanes than ever and Philly's compact size makes reaching distant neighborhoods by bike a breeze. Anectdotedly myself and several friends do not own cars, some don't even have licenses.
Sun was installing toolbars before Oracle bought them. I remember them bundling the Yahoo toolbar with Java.
Bingo. This works for several services. I've personally had success with this (accidentally) with my cable provider back when cable was something people used. I called to cancel and enjoyed 3 months at a very reduced rate prior to cancelling. Not bad.
Which won't help much, given that the second line in your link is: While a cause-and-effect relationship has not yet been proven
The hardware may be exponentially better, faster, stronger, but you've still got the same people writing the software. I don't buy the whole "Moore's Law will give us strong AI." - it just feels a bit like Asimov-era sci-fi with "nuclear power will fix everything".
Well yes, it can be leveraged. But one needs to be careful about it.

You can't just go talking about it or sending official letters to the administration or the IT department. Personally should I want to disclose something like this I would first approach a maverick amongst faculty staff to test the waters. After consultation with a person with good knowledge of the local political landscape I would discretely relay my knowledge.

But it is still risky and leaving no evidence is still a safe bet.
Yes my sense was "SB is the onramp to payments acceptance by newer methods. But we have Iowa!"
It's a text copy of http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/immoral.
I'm an artist. Back in 1995 I started coming up with this dark urban fantasy, somewhat inspired by my unexpected homesickness when leaving New Orleans for Los Angeles. I ended up with an interesting setting and some flat characters.

The day of 9/11, the right lead walked into my head and started talking. I wrote down what she had to say and did the first drawings of her.

I made a few attempts at starting the thing, but I never got very far. Multiple attempts at the beginning, random story fragments. They started to form a narrative but some stuff was missing.

In the meantime I drew some other comics and a Tarot deck. Last year, late one night, I was hit by a new idea for this story. I wrote it down, looked at it, and realized it really tied a lot of the themes together at the climax. The ending was right, after seventeen years of it bouncing around my head. Soon after I did a few experiments at getting the rough, painterly look it's always had in my head in my artistic weapon of choice, Adobe Illustrator, and nailed it. My sketches looked pretty much exactly what I couldn't actually produce all those years ago.

This November, I made significant progress on the first draft of a full script for the whole thing. I didn't finish it but I have a complete skeleton, with flesh on its bones for the first few chapters.

And I think I'll be starting to draw it when my current comic is over sometime near the end of this year.

Some things just need a lot of underpinnings. I always knew I'd do it SOMEDAY. I just had to let it boil way way on the back burner for a decade, until I worked through all the real-life issues it's a metaphor for. And I am pretty sure at this point that it will be worth the wait.

When the time is right, your Forever Project will become the current project. And it will be awesome.
You are a statistical outlier, and your conclusion is completely unfounded.
If you're a shit funnel, the people you're managing will hate you, but the people above you will love you. If you're a shit umbrella, the people below you will love you, but the people above you will hate you.

The people below you aren't the ones who hand out promotions.
Kalibrr Named First Pinoy Startup Chosen to Participate in Y Combinator
Streak: http://www.streak.com/

CRM inside Gmail
Seems like someone hijacked the domain.
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Some similar advice I heard recently (I think possibly in another HN discussion thread) was to not be scared of "spoilers" when communicating. I have a tendency to try to make my presentations a nice linear development, like a story, which naturally dissuades you from revealing the "ending" before you reach it. However, it's a lot easier to keep people's attention if they know where your story is heading, it gives them the answer to the ever-present implicit question: why do I care?
There's a bit more to it. Use of inductive and deductive reasoning. And the process for creation an argument, which I found pretty helpful.
Related: evolving to-do list is what we're working on with TaskMessenger.com, we've just launched.
After seeing so many apps / websites on HN use Proxima Nova and rounded avatars immediately after the new Basecamp was released, its interesting to see this anti 37signals wave on HN.

I think the HN crowd has lost its objectivity in evaluating 37signals and its become something like an Apple.

One-time forever pricing is a very innovative concept for a web based SAAS application. I bet we will start seeing more of this soon.
"37signals launches lifetime plan for Basecamp"

Is what this headline should read. Lifetime plans are a notoriously bad and often disingenuous idea.

This is essentially a free plan they are trying to charge $25 for. Buyer beware.

What if they remove a feature you depend on 3 years from now? Do you get your money back? What if Basecamp Next++ due in 2015 is terrible and you have to stop using it, can you still use what you are paying for now? What if 37 signals discontinues Basecamp 15 years from now?
Remember the Pareto principle! :)

I owned an ISP in the 90s. A little under 10% of our customers chewed up 90% of our time spent doing support. A few handfuls weren't worth the time (or were abusive), and I took to 'firing' them as customers to help save our sanity.

I read and reread your post. I think, like most things that matter, we have to spend a bit of time thinking about the problem and how you are proposing to solve it. More than a few of us here are addicted to the Internet and have very little bandwidth to dedicate to really understanding what we just read.

It's my opinion you do a great job boiling this down to the basics, and it's enough for someone like me to do the work on my own. Thank you.
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You aren't speaking to the principal point in the post Peaker links, which is accepted by Harper in the notes "As you know, in the eager world we tend to write out our own recursive functions, rather than use combinators", which is of course all any anyone cares about; with explicit recursion the user's IQ falls 50 points immediately. The whole discussion presupposes a mechanism for 'opting out' of default strictness or default laziness, which exists in many languages.
CSAIL down
CSAIL website taken down
http://cs.brown.edu/~gen/csail_hacked.jpg
Maybe that's because Macs already have installed all of Apples bloatware.

I found it very irritating that if you try to install iTunes on windows, it would pop up a window telling you to 'upgrade' your browser to safari.
Great news for Dwolla. Really impressed with Iowa too. When many of today's headlines are how dysfunctional and at odds CA state government is with their people here's a state going out if it's way to help advance local tech. The best way to create a competitive hub is to focus in on one vertical first and payments is a super large and smart one.
Shades of gray, my friend. Saying that suburbs are too high density to have a slower pace of life than a city is a massive generalization (and one I don't even understand as a generalization). I live in Manhattan and grew up in a suburb about one hour west of Manhattan, and the pace of life was most definitely slower there. Of course there are all kinds of cities, suburbs, and rural areas. The density, culture, and pace of life vary to different degrees everywhere.
TRENDnet webcams still visible - and now mapped
It's worse than that:

$ whois mit.edu

Domain Name: MIT.EDU

Registrant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
UNITED STATES

Administrative Contact:
I got owned
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Room W92-167, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
UNITED STATES
(617) 324-1337
cunt@mit.edu

Technical Contact:
OWNED NETWORK OPERATIONS
ROOT
US
DESTROYED, MA 02139-4307
UNITED STATES
(617) 253-1337
owned@mit.edu

Name Servers:
FRED.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
KATE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Domain record activated: 23-May-1985
Domain record last updated: 22-Jan-2013
Domain expires: 31-Jul-2013

http://whois.educause.net/
Finishing what Aaron Swartz started with PACER
When you neglect to care for your teeth, you probably neglect to have others care for them as well. I'll bet the dentists' best patients are the OCD types who brush and floss five times a day.
The numbers you bring up aren't really meaningful. The salient figure isn't total country population divided by total country area: it's population density as people experience it. Vast swaths of land with no one in it aren't really relevent to social analysis.

For an example: imagine the United States now, and then imagine it suddenly got ownership of all of Mars. It would drastically increase the total area of the USA, but it would not suddenly make everyone a nomad who has a hundred square miles to live in alone.
My Ubuntu installations whine about updates constantly...so it's not just Microsoft. Annoying, none the less.
Flossing has everything to do with dental health. It's just that dental health has everything to do with cavities when you're young, and everything to do with gum health and gingivitis when you're older.
"I don't agree that big data poses unique challenges" Google does. IBM does too (Watson). Unique algorithms on unique hardware for the sake of ML. I was at a machine learning conference with a speaker from Google (soz can;t remember who). They said they are not interested in any machine learning with complexity above O(nlogn) or that has to visit a training point more than once. That's a hell of alot of literature in the bin for the sake of big data (e.g. SVM, back propagation NNs). So the problems there are solving do have novel constraints (even if the overall function they are trying to approximate is the same)

Yeah I agree probability is a logical inference scheme. I was just commenting on the kind of logic people think of on the term "LOGIC". That's classical, but you can also argue any system with symbols is logic. I was just trying to say that the Bayesian people think differently to the formal logic people. Thats what I meant by culture. They are very different sets of people normally (exception, see below)

Bayesian Logic Networks:-
http://ias.cs.tum.edu/_media/spezial/bib/jain09blns.pdf
probabilistic inference upon hard logic constraints. != Bayesian Belief Networks (standard Bayesian formulation)
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Also, FWIW, the inspiration for the idea of design patterns in software.
I have been wanting to write a much more ranty version of the OP for a really long time. Yes, there are and always will be bad managers out in the world. But it makes me laugh when the immediate reaction people have is to just get rid of all the managers, because developers are all clearly rock stars, way smarter than managers in all ways, and can perfectly self-organize themselves. Really? I would love to see such a group in action. I imagine they must exist, but I also strongly believe people hear the myths of such teams much more than they actually have experienced such a thing themselves.

Meanwhile, I'm going to head back to figuring out to get a QA member to stop being so toxic to our overall efforts, make sure a developer properly knows the expectations on how to interact with the rest of the team, sort out the next 3-6 months of priorities with the executive team accounting for all internal department requests and our lengthy product roadmap, help a lead dev resolve an issue with a really smart developer who has taken twice as long as expected on a straightforward task, find time to look through a whole bunch of resumes that are likely nowhere near where what we're seeking in candidates, and then make sure all the right people receive updates to all of those activities. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

To be clear, I absolutely love my job. It's extremely rewarding to see even one of those items get checked of the list in a given day, or the not-always-well-communicated but good-intentioned appreciation that a single member of my team sends my way after helping him remove an obstacle or provide some sort of useful feedback. It's definitely a much different type of challenge from when I was a full-time dev, but I honestly get at least as much out of the experience as I did solving problems with code.

I can't point people at a team of 100 developers that operate like a herd of unicorns, negating their 1 bumbling manager. However, I can provide examples of teams that perform really quite well and have competent managers who deserve at least a bit of credit in their teams' successes.
Surely if you've been using a piece of software for 15 years that cost you $25 you would feel you've got your money's worth, no?
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>LINQ ... However, monads, monoids, functors still don't matter when you switch over.

Funny that you say that; LINQ is actually implemented using monads.
You're right, it's not neighborhood design, it's happening all over the western world. The question is why? My take is that it's an out of control spiral, where more kids stay inside to play video games and watch TV, so fewer kids are on the street, so parents become more concerned about kids being on the street, so they don't let their kids out as much, so the kids do more indoor activities etc.

I was born in '86 and I and everybody I knew were basically free roaming kids. I remember being about 5 and taking my bike and ride a kilometer or two away from home, just exploring by myself. That would get my parents arrested today. By the time I started playing video games I was already independent, so it didn't affect me. Got my own keys to the house at 8, came and went as I pleased as long as I call home to say if I'd be home for dinner or not.

I wish I could let my kids out when I have them, but I'm afraid that either they won't want to, or I'll be arrested for not supervising them every minute they're outside. And really, what fun would it be running around outside today? It's completely desolate, void of other children to play with.
The manager's job is to solve people problems. Most developers are great at analytical thinking, but very bad at emotional thinking. Nerds are usually introverted, and moody, in my experience. Great managers are the opposite of nerds. They are extroverted, warm, communicative, cheery, and, (for the lack of a better term) dumb. Its a huge mistake to put a nerd in a manager role, as much as it is a mistake to put a manager in a programmer role. I've worked under my fare share of "nerd managers" as well as "manager programmers". Both do more hard than good.