skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language is stronger than you imagine. When you tell yourself "I have failed at X," you are telling yourself that it is no longer possible. You stop trying, and your lower mind stops presenting you with ideas for how to proceed or potential opportunities to pursue and learn from. Reframing is a powerful technique, both when dealing with bad thoughts and with other people. Change your internal language to something along the lines of "I have an incorrect assumption about X that is preventing me from achieving it. It is worth it if an experiment for achieving X doesn't work out, because it has a good chance of yielding information that will help me get there eventually. I want X because in learning how to achieve it, it will make me feel A, B, and C."

You are far from being able to say that you have failed at anything. You are making ridiculous assumptions that bring you endless suffering for as long as you hold them. So stop assuming so many things that both prevent you from improving and make you feel helpless. You are feeling pain but you aren't listening to the assumptions about reality that it is trying to educate you about. The pain will continue and most likely become worse until you put in the effort to understand it.
--I am the founder--

Thanks Karika for submitting!
Looking forward to the thoughts of the HN community here!
Link should be back up. Thanks so much!
At one point WP7 devices dominated the Amazon cell phone list in terms of sales. Due to the way people purchase and buy certain items (like desktops, laptops, and cellphones) -- Amazon is not a good sample. It tends to reflect niche groups that find a good deal on Amazon -- so everyone from ChromeLovers.com goes to Amazon to buy the Chromebook, but it's not really popular beyond that.

"Linux could use some Google attention" -- I'm not sure if you noticed, but Google has been giving Linux its attention for the past 14 years.
Tried cloud9? It's actually very mature. The reason it's not widespread is because it doesn't offer any significant advantage for most developers. What's the advantage? Develop in the cloud, your environment everywhere? OK, so maybe it's an advantage for developers who don't know how to use ssh/scp/sshfs. So, for most talented web developers, the additional problems being solved aren't there.

It does solve: hey, I'd like to be lazy and develop with my stock chrome book. It does solve, hey, I'd like to develop without installing software (I think schools will be big customers, especially to get all the setups at once!?) but your typical good developer, is going to be very attached to vim, emacs, sublime text, or whatever he normally uses that isn't part of cloud9.

For developers of more complicated software, embedded, OS, etc. Or even for mobile devs, cloud9 is a non-starter since it doesn't integrate with their physical environments (Like, their ARM board, or iOS device, nuclear reactor, or whatever) so for a wide range of things it's just not an applicable solution.

I think cloud9 will see success in education markets, as well as business from developers who do lightweight web dev work who don't have a favorite editor already.
In Remembrance of Aaron Swartz - ThoughtWorks
Do those protesting have to pay if the protest is found to be invalid? Because I hate to think of my tax payer dollars funding companies' "hail Mary" attempts at coercing the government to give e contract to them, especially if it is for every $40M contract!
Nathan Sawaya's are is currently being exhibited at the Magic House in St. Louis, Missouri. I am hoping to go this week.
It's a social network for researchers. It's not sponsored by anyone; it's a for-profit company. They managed to get an .edu address because the TLD wasn't restricted until 2001, and pre-2001 registrations are grandfathered in.
A business idea: Service to query the long urls for bit.ly and other shortener links which will also provide caching and history (if redirection changed, we would get to see when and from where)
He's born just 5 years earlier than me but had done some real incredible stuff. hats off Aaron.
I think he's talking about something that shortens any arbitrary link.
Anyone who chooses to prosecute someone over technical issues ought to educate themselves about that technology. Fire her.
Better yet, try her for misuse of her authority, abuseof her authority and incompetence.
Thanks. It's built using Django, Bootstrap, Heroku, Postgres and twython.
Ecology has a mix of for-profit and non-profit journals, but those run by the professional societies aren't always much better. We only recently (within the past few months) won the right to post preprints on arXiv.
Thanks smit. Startup Resolution looks awesome. I love the design!
The first case you mention is actually very useful in IRC, especially in clients that break up URLs into multiple lines.

Compare:

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=1120+Avenue+of+the+Americas,+New+York,+NY&daddr=Yankee+Stadium,+East+161st+Street,+Bronx,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.792239,-73.955154&spn=0.10371,0.157757&sll=40.802895,-73.924084&sspn=0.103693,0.157757&geocode=FcHhbQIdhRqX-ynJiS1XVVjCiTFFAV5BZkL2Ug%3BFZgBbwIdnPiX-yEIHppV2cNASSlxaedaLPTCiTEIHppV2cNASQ&dirflg=r&ttype=dep&date=01%2F15%2F13&time=1:00pm&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=def&mra=ls&t=m&z=13&start=0

to http://is.gd/lerDux - especially when you're looking at it in an IRC client: http://i.imgur.com/mqqRo.png
Is Apple's iPhone no longer cool to teens?
Would a medium to large business go Android over Windows? I really, really doubt it. Yes, there's Office apps and that's fine, but a lot of businesses run on oddball software or strange marriages of various bits and pieces that are Windows only for whatever reason. They won't, and that'll keep the cash going for Microsoft.

Microsoft needs to worry about being relevant with modern consumers, not about Android. It could be anything that'll eat their marketshare.
Thanks ceeK. I've set the debug mode to false now.
China may love windows, but they love ipads more. Tablet sales are booming and pc sales are falling.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/us-china-tablet-ma...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/31/apac_pc_sales_declin...
You've got me. I ment to say Linux/Android for regular desktopusers could use some attention. MS has released their own version of Mobile/Desktop. What if Google went the other way around and released an Android desktop version? Powerful stuff me thinks.
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I have been digesting this news for a day and even though Aaron was a complete stranger to me, I can't remember feeling outrage this persistent in my entire life.

This was an attack on freedom not carried out by a confused and brainwashed group of people desperate for their lives due to living in an impoverished country or warzone. It was an organised attack, meant to ruin a person's life and deter anyone who wants to fight for information freedom, coordinated by well off, educated people who made conscious choices, had access to all the facts, were reminded repeatedly by the media how ridiculous and immoral their actions were and did it all for the political and financial benefit of special interests and the serfdom of everyone else.

These people were informed, they had to know how malevolent they were acting towards Aaron and those who try to maintain freedom and democracy in the digital world. They were aware and still chose to try to ruin his life even though he was clearly acting entirely in the interest of others and doing it in a manner that was civil and non violent. They did it just because he was smarter than most and thus a greater threat to entrenched powers. The level of evil here is truly off the scale. The fact that it resulted in his death is just... I'm at a loss for words.

And they call themselves department of justice.
Someone please download it and repost.
OVERdoing her job is more like it. These prosecutors need to stop going for the kill to advance their careers. However, I do like her 'let's make an example out of this one' scheme. I say let's make an example out of HER.
EU crackdown on Google prioritising own products
Marco (hate him or love him) nailed the criticism of this a few years back:

The joke of “next year will be the year of Linux on the
desktop” is almost as old as the internet, but it’s
true: desktop-Linux fans always say it’s “getting
better”, and there’s always a major distribution update
a few months away that’s about to be awesome. But it
never is. And it never will be, because the reasons why
desktop Linux isn’t awesome today will still hold
tomorrow: it’s still an extremely fragmented
development community for which the non-geek user
experience is one of the lowest priorities.

Read the whole thing: http://www.marco.org/2010/07/04/great-since-day-one.

EDIT: I resubmitted it, because it is as relevant then as it is now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051152.
We ditched Office back in 2007 and haven't looked back. We use a mix of OpenOffice and Google Docs for business and the only time we ever have any trouble is when someone sends a document that's really badly formatted.

I use Markdown myself but I don't know how many people at work do. I suspect some people are using it without being aware that it's markdown as my style is copied by other people looking for a clean way to present structure in text.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but there are different realities that people live in, and for the author his points (however strangely put) may be valid.
Exactly. Arxiv is a revolutionary thing for math, physics, CS etc. Good luck getting life scientists to put their precious papers there. Most don't even pay the open access fee when the journal provides it.
Not a great article, but I'll play along. If it happens, I don;t see Android on the desktop. I see android tablets replacing desktops in the future, with people docking a tablet or perhaps they're cheap enough that people have a 15" tablet more-or-less permanently docked at their desk but able to roam into a meeting, along with a 7" tablet in their briefcase or purse. And a phone, of course.
Disruptions: Design Is Driving Technology Forward
There are still many papers left behind paywalls. It does depend on the field you're in, as reflected by other comments.

I left academia years ago but continue to (try to) do research. Resources like scholar.google.com can often help find a free-to-read version of a paper, which is great. But access to a single key paper can make or break your progress. I've personally dropped many, many hours of work because of this problem - I couldn't reasonably access key literature that I needed.
Aaron didn't have access, that is why he broke into the MIT physical network.
Don’t they get it?
Great Since Day One (2010)
It looks good, but it's disappointing that Canonical felt they couldn't say to Ars "Hey guys, you know it's going to be rough round the edges, we know it, just keep it in mind as you use it". Now we all end up thinking it's worse than it probably is. It's a piss-poor move PR wise.
The future looks like a smartphone and docking station. The phones already have the horsepower needed to run all but the most demanding apps. Add a full size keyboard/monitor when in dock and people will switch in droves. The only question is which of the big three will get the formula right.

Apple would have the best shot if that was their direction, but they seem to be betting on multiple device sync rather that a single unified device. Also they will be too pricey in the long run.

Microsoft is pushing for a unified device vision with win8 but windows phone doesn't have market share. Win7 is good enough for desktop users. Clock is ticking and MS needs a 'hit' crossover device. Doubtful that we will see one.

Google already has desktop mode for android devices and several phones with HDMI output. Motorola and Samsung are making docking kits today. Also android is by far the cheapest option. The only thing holding back Google is a lack of salesmanship. If Steve Jobs had announced the Galaxy Note 2 and demoed the dock/desktop functions this market would be locked up already.
Before I Die, I Want to...
Historic papers are pretty useful for people in the humanities (which is why JSTOR really needs to open up).

And Wikipedia would kind of benefit from the historical stuff.
> I'm just asking a question.

No, you are casting doubt. Re-read what you wrote. There is a question in there but a lot more besides.
I like the concept. Can you say what you mean by 'decidable'? I had assumed that you meant something that could eventually be empirically determined, but your example makes clear that that is not what you mean.
On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755
A lot of Chinese people buy Apple products just to show them off. It's quite common there to buy a Mac and install Windows on it, because they don't like OS X.
I've used it regularly on a few projects for the last few months or so, but the Postgres code is definitely better exercised than the MySQL code. There are pretty good tests for both though.
> The number of applications, the vibrant developer community and the number of epic GAMES!

All of these either have changed in recent years, or are in the process of changing. Steambox will potentially see the downfall of the Windows gaming platform - if developers switch gears to opengl en masse, in half a decade we will easily be able to emulate the 15 years of Windows monopoly under Wine, possibly even integrated with Steam by that point.

I don't think Microsoft has any developer cred anymore. Android and iOS are too big, the Windows Store is too hostile, and Visual Studio isn't the only option in town anymore. Mono is pretty mature, so all those C# apps (C# is a brilliant language, btw, one great thing coming out of MS there) can be ported. The Unity game engine is a pretty big deal nowadays, being cross platform and supporting multiple script languages including C#.

The fact that the Microsoft ecosystem and community was hostile to open source and code sharing basically meant that FOSS (and even OSX) could build up a backlog of shared base to constantly take advantage of, while Visual Studio and that entire ecosystem was always shackled to what Microsoft provided.

The reason Windows is everywhere is two fold - one, it is the default. Two, it is expected. If you got any other computer OS into Best Buy, it would still flounder next to #2, because Microsoft has created this culture of computers = Windows. I see college kids and teens with OSX laptops, not their parents. They still run Windows. Because they are used to it.

In a way though, because they are used to it, Microsoft is in many ways already toast. Because Windows 8 is too much a departure for that kind of person to upgrade to and adapt to. What is going to happen is that unless Windows 9 brings back the classic desktop as the default, most people will be sitting on 7 like we did XP for 6 - 8 years.

Strangely, the only even remotely comparable experience to Windows 7 out there that I can find is KDE. It doesn't come that way default, which is a great hampering, but the default KDE suite can be tweaked to behave like Windows 7 to some great detail. I don't imagine a FOSS software project getting into Best Buy corporate and seeing laptops with Kubuntu served to consumers, though.
Q&a interview with a hacker "bootcamp" grad this week. Have any questions?
Later this week, I'll be conducting a q&a interview with a successful graduate of a prominent hacker "bootcamp" for my new blog http://www.learntodev.com.

The interview will focus primarily on the admissions, process, and results. Let me know if you guys have any specific questions you want me to ask him.
Honest question: why don't researchers normally do this? Those in the software development do this all the time: set up a tumblr/Wordpress/whatever blog and publish our findings. If I had a dime for every time I saw an article about some benchmark of tech X vs Y...

If every research lab ran a blog-type setup where they published their findings (along with any other updates), the whole field could be revolutionized. The general public would have much more direct access to what the researchers are working on. We could even add the ability to donate to the researchers directly. This would hopefully foster collaboration as well. Instead of waiting for someone to come out with a paper to find out what they've been up to (unless you have a very close relationship with the particular researcher), you can just read their tweet/blog post/etc a la "tried sample X, results negative, but this is weird..."

Combined with a research semantic markup (think OpenGraph but for scientific concepts), this could be linked into searchable databases. Peer review could be built in, maybe even via public key crypto: "this article is signed by 17 trusted researchers".

This saves everyone money: no more having to subscribe to expensive research publications. You could have for-hire scientific editors built in as a service too. Every time you publish a paper you run it by an editor, but the editor now works for you; or you don't, and you just publish the paper and let the world decide if it is any good.

The platform itself would probably have to be fairly extensive. We would want it to be distributed so that anyone can run their own system if they choose. We'd also want to have some more centralized hubs of this type, analogous to GitHub/Bitbucket. These might include easy access to for-hire editors, Tex/LaTex support, etc. There should also be a default license for the content. Perhaps an extension of Creative Commons but with specific provisions for the peculiarities of this field.

My premise here is that while there is a whole lot of institutions that attempt to enable collaboration, they do often just get in the way. However, from what I've seen of researchers, they have the same mentality as the software developers: they want to share their findings with the largest possible audience and don't really care about much else. I think if it was easy to do this type of setup many would go along with it. What do others think?

Edit: a nice side-effect of this could be that you don't have to be associated with an academic institution to publish. Currently, I could learn, say, all there is to know about quantum physics by reading all sorts of publications and material that is more or less freely available. I could then theoretically come up with something brand new, but couldn't get my voice heard since I am not a research professor at an institution. However, with this system graduates of the likes of the Khan Academy could have the same access to publishing and peer review.
Here's a full reprint for those who have trouble accessing.

Our tribute to Aaron Swartz – #pdftribute
January 13, 2013

Aaron was an activist, a champion, and an incredibly smart guy who worked on things he really cared about. So much has been said about his life, his death, and his fight for research open access — and I’m glad to be part of this conversation.

Late last night, I noticed that @evavivalt was opening access to her papers online in tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz. I tweeted to some people I know in Silicon Valley, and to some friends of Aaron’s, and then Anonymous picked it up — and it just caught on. We’ve now had over 3.5 million impressions and over 500 tweets per hour.

This is something we can do for the memory of Aaron Swartz, and to lead the way toward more access to the scientific process for everyone.

Now is the time to participate.

If you’re in the UK, write to @ukhouseoflords using this link as they are accepting comment on these issues over the next couple of weeks. If you’re in the United States, perhaps you can help launch a similar inquiry at the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology by tweeting to @SciSpaceTechCmt.

For hackers, perhaps you can take all of the #pdftribute files and put them on a central web page. Maybe other journals will follow (or exceed!) JSTOR’s lead and give more open access. Whatever happens, let’s all be a part of it.

Please tweet your papers using #pdftribute!

@venturejessica, writing for @scicitizen, www.sciencecitizen.org.

P.S. It would be fitting if this got picked up on Reddit. Hint hint.
Can we please stop linking to forbes.com? They hardly post anything that isn't un-researched trollbait, inflated hype, or outright plagiarism.
For anyone else annoyed by the continually re-positioning "next" arrow, using the keyboard right-arrow seems to work.
Beautiful typeface designs released this winter
Feel free to mail me. I don't have the domain knowledge to know exactly what should be your first step. I suggested that you created a product on top of kinect, but you tell me that the kinect is not that precise.

Is your business model to sell your sensor, or to do something great with it and sell that?
Hmmm.. isn't the problem that Windows 8 is facing at the moment that the consumers are rejecting the notion of a mobile style interface on the desktop?

Why retool Android for 'desktop use' when they already have ChromeOS which apparently sold very well this christmas in the guise of Chromebook's and is already a desktop oriented OS.
Create virtual flyers for your event
This assumes the future needs a docking station. Which assumes a keyboard and mouse are still the tools interaction. I won't concede that they are.

People in our business are a bit myopic because you HAVE to have a keyboard to code; that may not be true for everyone else. Granted that is what we are used to, but rewind a decade and no one was talking about playing games without a handheld controller.
Thanks!

Yes, I meant something very close to your description. Although, I also think, that this experiment with a question that is very timely (in this case: the fight of mobile phones), failed, because it fails to communicate the real value of this platform. The value of getting opinions or (sometimes) feedback on your own thoughts and decisions!
AFAIK it's two-prong.

1. A lot of people criticize self-published work on no other grounds ("not peer reviewed, won't read")
2. Peer-review and citation statistics are part of the bureaucratic game of career-academia.

There seems to be a pretty huge resistance to the old publishers and terms though, with more and more stuff going out in open-access journals.

Aaron's death will probably accelerate the change.
How testing could transform higher education
> 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 :(

That's what he hints at in one of the slides. I'd like to know what exactly happened though, I was interested in that project.