skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be an article worth reading, I'm not sure ... I'm really not sure.

I am familiar with the incompleteness theorem but I didn't get quite to what the point was, although admittedly I did not perform a very close reading. However, I believe what's going on here is, and this is not meant to be overly critical, a fallacy of conflating that are incompatible. People do this with Godel's theorem all the time by the way; his theorem was very specific and yer it has been abused by all sorts of people, including postmodernists.

I don't think abuse is going on here. I think it is just an over analysis or something like that of startups. I think this could be an interesting for those unfamiliar with Godel and Turing, but then again there may be better articles ... I give a Gentleman's B. :)
Minimisation, false conflation, melodrama and conspiracy theories. Nice.
Whenever someone pitches me some 'sure fire' deal that will get me 12 - 15% returns for sure, I ask the obvious question which is "Why did all the rich people who have hundreds of people on staff searching to find these deals pass you by so that you could pitch me?" Kind of fun to watch them try to wriggle through the pitch.
I'd like to see more than an Open Government. I'd like to see a web site developed where people read about issues of interest, learn about the benefits and drawbacks to upcoming policies at a centralized location, see how those policies affect budgets (federal, provincial, or municipal), and provide a simple voting mechanism to get a general sense of how agreeable people find the policy. More than that, it would be amazing if people could contribute to the discussion in a moderated fashion (with moderators selected at random, for random intervals of time, to avoid herd-mentality).

Something like this:

1. https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Interests%...

2. https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Policy%20P...

3. https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Debate%20P...

4. https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Supporting...

For anyone curious about the project, check out:

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/
I'll come out and say it...

I used to watch Glee with my girlfriend for the first two seasons and found it quite entertaining. At least it tried to do something different than be yet another three camera laugh track sitcom.

I got tired of the stupid plotting and characters though, between the musical-chairs dating and the cheerleading coach alternating between evil bitch and nice person every other week, both I and my girlfriend just lost interest in the characters and stopped watching.
I have long been a proponent of stereoscopic 3d, but there are still two major problems. One is that is our current realtime rendering methods rely heavily on screen-space operations (blurring, many shadow types, SSAO, bloom, refraction, post-process fx), which confuse the brain when rendered in stereo (I.e. will make things float when the should not). The other problem is focus. In the real world, your eyes move to focus at different distances. Without eye tracking, the system is forced to focus at a given distance (the convergence point for right/left eye images). Still...can't wait for my rift to ship!
It read fine on iPhone.
That's a fair point, since the idle loop can be the halt/sleep state.
This is a sad day, although probably inevitable. This is the beginning of the end for Presto. I put years of my life into that engine. A fool's errand, of course, since we were completely outgunned and outmanned by the competition.

I'm glad I jumped ship when I did. But it was a fun ride.
The "whatever design" manifesto
Here's what:
* awesome camera

* screen. better visibility in sun and ability to use with gloves on

* Windows Phone OS (This is debatable but I love it. Kids corner, people centric tiles, etc.)

* Office integration. This is killer. Sometimes I forget to take laptop to meetings and still get my work done on phone...killer

* Nice, free, offline maps

* Free music!!

* microusb charger. This has saved my life many times!!

What didn't you like?
Posted by the user GleeSeason4Songs. Which is in no way official...
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I'm biased as I already knew Java when I learned Scala, but Scala, if you ignore the crazy parts (e.g. don't look at the scala own sources for example) then it's quite a simple language. Much simpler than Java in my very humble opinion, it feels a lot like Ruby / Python to me actually. Another advantage I find in Scala, is that for new learners, they get the safeguard of a typed language and all the protection that comes with it, if you write incorrect syntax, you get an immediate feedback, and for new learners, I think it's a great feedback loop.
Although I really like Python, I found that implementing things in it for the Udacity CS courses for example, is much harder for me (just because I'm less familiar with Python probably) than Scala, I tried implementing the same homework in Scala, and it was much more intuitive, especially collection handling, and writing "functional style" code, and I didn't have to go to the web and read the docs every seconds because of the notorious, loved to be hated, heavy but yet spoiling comfort of the IDE's content assist.
Anyway, it's a matter of taste, and I like the Scala flavor.
But here I am spending more time on the Ruby tutorial than on the Play framework tutorial, so I guess the language itself is not all that matters...
Firefox doesn't support IndexedDB in web workers yet, unfortunately. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701634
"kept Texas in power, made lesser states squirm"

Seriously?
"sarkana" should probably read "sankhara", correct?
http://www.metasploit.com/modules/framework/search?utf8=%E2%... is a good start.
Create a development "playground" for your children. The way children learn anything is by trial and error, remember them trying to learn how to walk? Remember how many times they fell before being able to walk?

Do the same with teaching them to code. Pull HTML source code from a simple website and paste it to your text editor. Then let your child play around with the code and see how it renders in the browser. It will be fun and exciting for them because they will actually get to see their work right away (instant gratification).

Once you have done this, move on to css.

Good luck!
It show's all mine, I use Chrome for everything.

Maybe Firefox downloads aren't included? Maybe it's watching the ~/Downloads folder? Can you confirm either?
RequireJS-and-Backbone-Starter
Private Posts on Facebook Revealed
Are you saying that the charges made Nokia impossible to succeed? What about the patent fees android OEMs have to pay?
I'm sure he appreciates all the iTunes downloads he'll get. You know, the one with "Glee cast" in the 'artist' field?
I highly suggest everyone go watch the first season (or even first few episodes) of an anime called Sword Art Online. It's about what will likely be a future iteration of this hardware applied to an MMO. Addiction to being plugged in, death within the game, and which is the true reality are all themes covered.

I never thought I'd suggest watching anime on Hacker News, but this topic proved to be the exception.
Not at all. It makes everything SO MUCH easier. Without it there will ALWAYS be a question mark in employers' mind, no matter how many years of experience you have!

Now if you are starting your own company and think you will be the next Zuckerberg/Gates/Jobs, then it's a different story.
I have failed so many times that I called my plastic surgeon so he could sew in more fingers for me to count them. Know what? People are going to think that you are a failure either way. Why? Its their own reflection showing off their fears. You see, when you fail you admit you are human. That you dont know everything. That sometimes you make the wrong choices. One thing that this gives is the power to liberate yourself from those very own choices. Every bad choice itself is an opportunity to further down the road fix it. The biggest fear you should have in your life is not failure, but a lack of failure. Because it means that you stopped trying. That you gave up. And even though very few of us ever manage to make it, from my experience, I can say that its not the goal that matters but the journey. So far, I've managed to impact a lot of lives postiviely. Plan to impact a lot more.

When we fail we are forced to change. Change is good. It brings new things into our lives. There is a sayingt that goes something like this:

If you want to change the world, change your country. If you want to changeyour country, change your town. If you want to change your town, change your neighborhood. If you want to change your neighborhood, change your home. If you want to change your home, you gotta change yourself.

Failure is the mechanism through which we receive feedback to make sure the change we are doing is positive. Dont shy away from it. Run towards it and embrace. For it will set you free.
It's the first thing I think of too.
I have to agree here. The functionality it replaces really is not complicated. All you do by abstracting it is ensure that when things go wrong the user has absolutely no idea how to fix it. People should just take the minimal time required to learn git.
I am building a hardcore vipassana app based on the noting technique. You can sign up for the beta at http://mindblownapp.com/
I'd like to get a better sense of the kinds of conflicts you observed. Did people get upset because someone panned their article? Or would they be upset if a colleague panned a friend's article? What triggered the pettiness and how was it expressed?
Here is an interesting blog post on the principle behind vipassana:

"He sees the impermanent form thus “impermanent”.This is his right view.Seeing correctly he becomes disenchanted.With the waning of delight wanes passion. With the waning of passion wanes delight. With the destruction of delight and passion the mind is de-tached. “Fully de-tached” thus it is said. (Nandikkhayasuttaṃ, Samyutta Nikaya)

http://tinyurl.com/vipassana-quote
It's harder to kill yourself post-conviction. He wasn't a wealthy CEO or like that, so presumably he'd have been in handcuffs within minutes of a guilty verdict. Some of the perhaps-innocent people indefinitely detained in Gitmo are trying to starve themselves. They get strapped down daily and calories are forced into them.

What's worse, burned alive or prison/huge fine/felony conviction/good chance of rapes/beatings/poverty/homelessness? For many people including me, either may be a fate worse then death.

His odds of being raped were over 20% according to studies. It's a safe bet that the young and handsome are more at risk.

I've said elsewhere I wish he had fled to another country. But I can see how being on the run, especially from the nearly worldwide reach of the US, could be a life too hard to bear for many people.

While I disagree that jail and the other hardships Aaron faced are a viable alternative to suicide, for me at least, I respect your opinion on that and understand that yours is the opinion of the vast majority.
Heh, way to use Craig's List as an example of design. None the less, agreed, type is unarguably a basic necessity for good design and usability. At least for now.
Any advantages of this over Insync?
It I wasn't authorized, why did the webserver comply?

The fact the webserver willingly gave the information I requested to me (did not 403 or 531), so I must be authorized.
I'm doubtful that a JIT could realistically adapt its output based on runtime performance metrics, but if you have links I'd love to read more.
Understanding the working directory, stage, and commit/repo distinctions are very useful, I've found. Once you got those the rest of git becomes a bit more understandable.
Git-aware time tracking in Vim
Right, that's what I thought was the reason FB can't track you outside of Incognito mode, but if they can track you even when you're logged out of FB then it sounds like it's irrelevant whether you're using Incognito or not.
So they can track your visits to any site with a FB Like or Share button on it, but only when you next login to FB?
Manic Digger, a C# open source clone of Minecraft and Ace of Spades, is also getting a WebGL version.

http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/ - click "development news"

I make it with Script# (C# to JS converter), WebGL, and WebSockets. Both desktop OpenTK version and WebGL version can be compiled from common source.

But it's missing 2 weeks of work to finish the port.
I'm sick of that buzzword. Skeuo this skeuo that. The correct word for the design style is "realistic"
This project is not intended for beginners. It is intended to save typing for a particular git workflow.
But if a Democrat were to have written the same letter, that would have been ok with you? Then he wouldn't have been "a clown"?

Here we have a Senator who is at least drawing attention to the situation, but that isn't welcome because he comes from the wrong side of the aisle?

I'm sure Cornyn is using this for political gain. Of course he is. But if you think there is anyone in Washington who isn't motivated by political gain then your being very naive.
The Facebook Graph search bar replaces the old top bar. I imagine someone prematurely flipped a switch, before everyone is on Graph search.
curious what the etiquette is here, when this page has already been in the top 5 all day, and then someone submits the exact same article with a

?hn=1

URL param to avoid the duplication filters. Flag it?
Being able to say "A small subset of the population is now informed and believes this way" doesn't seem quite like "more than an Open Government".

What is so special about this website that it can bring such a positive change on how we are governed (while unaffiliated with the government) that it is "more" than changing the government itself?
Oh, come on.

It's not hard to make money in the market. It's not hard to see real, after-tax, inflation adjusted gains. Carefully picking companies in a buy-and-hold strategy is a reliable place to park your money for 3-8% growth.

These guys aren't pretending to be day-traders. Looking at fund performance, as I'm sure you know, very very few managed funds beat the market with any consistency. There's too much hand-wavy "the big banks and funds play the little guy as a pawn" paranoia. Yes, you can make yourself a pawn by trying to play Gordon Gecko with your E-Trade account. But cost-averaging into a stock that you chose and believe in is both effective and open to everybody.

And who knows. There are well told stories of amateur investors making literally billions of dollars finding holes in option contracts that the hedge funds and IBanks missed.
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So these guys have issued a new report for an issue first announced/reported in 2011?

I'm missing what new discovery they've made, beyond the misleading count of how many people have downloaded the jars from a maven repository.
Are you taking inflation into account?
Adaptor combinators. Because they're functional.
The marketing is sure working on the lemmings.
Wish HN would just fix this.
It makes it a prevention for Aids. If you already have Aids it won't cure it.
Geesh, and all anyone else here is saying that his political beliefs on anything else aren't relevant to anyone who is genuinely interested in helping the cause that Aaron fought for. Cornyn, for whatever his agenda might be, is trying to help. And that isn't good enough for you because he's a Republican. And that is just pathetic partisanship.

You're blasting Corynyn because you don't agree with his politics. Fine. But that has absolutely nothing to do with anything here.
> The democratic process for change in the US is long dead. Aaron had powerful enemies in Washington.

No one even knew it was Aaron until he finally was arrested. Give it a break.
Just let them enjoy Minecraft.
It misspells it "noalias".
Mr. Nguyen appears to be a hotshot startup salesman. Much like the proverbial car salesman, he can pump up something, sell it to a sucker, and pocket the commission.
This isn't Fox News. Please go away.
I dropped you a line. I'll edit my profile.
GetDeb and PlayDeb discontinued.
Mastering the art of disruptive innovation
I still regret the destruction of MP3.com. I took a liking to some music from there. It was a vibrant community.
I trust I don't need to explain how one might make it choose randomly from a large list of quotes if you really wanted to do this.
Dan Bull: We are all Aaron Swartz
Or he could be looking at public guidance given by the company or estimates from wall st. The estimate avg for 2012 is 402 mil. The avg for 2013 is 1.6 bil, with a low estimate of 1.4 bil. I'd say he's perfectly reasonable, and you are being rude and unpleasant.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=TSLA+Analyst+Estimates
> Let's be honest: C is no "closer to the metal" than other high level languages

This is dead wrong, and your links do not support it. This is exactly the kind of statement that gets me grumpy.

Your link illustrates that an aggressive C optimizer can collapse a chunk of C code down to something smaller and simpler than the original code. This is true.

But what you said is that C is "no closer to the metal" than other high-level languages. Let's examine this assumption.

Take this C function:

int plus2(int x) { return x + 2; }

You can compile this down into the following machine code on x86-64, which fully implements the function for all possible inputs and needs no supporting runtime of any kind:

lea eax,[rdi+0x2]
ret

Now take the equivalent function in Python:

def plus2(x):
return x + 2

In CPython this compiles down to the following byte code:

3 0 LOAD_FAST 0 (x)
3 LOAD_CONST 1 (2)
6 BINARY_ADD
7 RETURN_VALUE

Notice this is byte code and not machine code. Now suppose we wanted to compile this into machine code, could we get something out of it that looks like the assembly from our C function above? After all, you are claiming that C is "no closer to the metal" than other languages, so surely this must be possible?

The tricky part here is that BINARY_ADD opcode. BINARY_ADD has to handle the case where "x" is an object that implements an overloaded operator __add__(). And if it does, what then? Surely just a very few instructions of machine code will handle this case, if C is "no closer to the metal" than Python?

Well __add__() can be arbitrary Python code, so the only way you can implement this BINARY_ADD opcode is to implement an entire Python interpreter that runs __add__() in the overloaded operator case. And the Python interpreter is tens of thousands of lines of code in... C.

The end result is that writing the same function in C and Python is the difference between two machine code instructions and implementing an entire interpreter.

This is why I get grumpy when people deny that C is any different than other high-level languages. While this is a somewhat extreme case, you could make a similar argument about most operations that happen in other high-level languages; similar constructs will very frequently have less inherent cost in C.
Exactly. The expiration is the friday before the 3rd saturday of the expiration month -- which is quarterly. So calls and puts sold during the price run-up the last few months expired today.

That said, I don't really believe the manipulation story. Perhaps a small amount of market manipulation occurred, but it's not the reason AAPL is in a slump. For that, I think mental state and market sentiment are far far more powerful factors.
> Password managers (especially in terms of built-in browser support) are generally a one-machine solution. Yes, there are ways to sync them to mobile devices and the cloud and such, but there's a lot to be desired in terms of portability.

I use LastPass, and it's about as cross-platform as any app can be. You just need to reconcile yourself with the fact that your passwords will be uploaded (encrypted, of course) to a third-party service. It's also a piece of cake to change individual passwords or the master password without affecting anything else. Most importantly, you get the same anti-phishing benefit as option 1 because LastPass won't offer to auto-fill your password if you're on the wrong domain. You don't get this benefit if your password manager is outside your browser.
Ubuntu, Firefox Or What? What 'Alternative' Phone Do You Want?
Can you more generally explain what your comment means?

Here's my stab (way off I'm sure):
So some people have options of Apple's stock. They have to buy 100 shares for every option (contract) they have. The options make interest from when they were offered, and they have to make a decision (strike price) when a certain stock price is reached (is this determined by the company offering the stocks?). As Apple's stock was more expensive at the time than the options, there wasn't an advantage is taking up the options?
It isn't. It uses a compact Opera-developed engine which interprets the binary markup language coming from the Opera Mini servers.
If Presto can convert pages to the binary markup language, why can't WebKit?
Yeah, I guess they are just re-interating that a lot of people are still on 3.0.5 and they might want to look at upgrading.

Here's the original article:

http://www.mindedsecurity.com/fileshare/ExpressionLanguageIn...
What about the living expenses?
There is not enough "pork and beans" any more than there is enough labor.
I've tried many controllers throughout my life. There's still nothing better than keyboard (WASD) plus mouse.
Ask HN : High Risk Merchant Account
I am building a way for people in the diaspora to send money from their credit cards back home to East Africa via mobile money http://zalsy.com.
My website has been turned down by most payment processors(2checkout,payza) because it is deemed `High risk`.
Does Anyone know any payment processors i can use or better still is anyone willing to go this one with me.. a $78 million monthly market
Good call. Being able to fill out a form in my sleep is more important to me than 50% fewer keystrokes.
The reasons I recommend against HTML+Javascript+CSS are because they don't teach algorithms and data structures. If a kids learns HTML first he/she will not now anything about algorithms. To learn that she/she will have to move on to another language: javascript.

Another reason is that those web language combos are forever being extended. There is no way children will be able to hold the entire language in their heads. Some people may not agree but even C's success is due to the ability of one person to remember the entire language all at once.

Still another reason is compatibility or the way those languages behave in different browsers. Everyone has his own proprietary css extensions these days, what will a kid need to learn next? JQuery? Ext-JS?

Start with simlicity. Learn a language that really offers instant gratification, with graphics, sound,and file keywords included. Have them learn BASIC. They'll perfecly be able to move on from there.
Aaron Swartz - We Can Change The World, 2010, interview
That's how I would interpret it as well. But then I wonder what are they hoping to achieve by pitching it as open source. If nobody else is going to get on board then it's just them playing in their own sand pit.

I'd actually really love for a "true" linux based OS without the limitations of Android to gain traction, but a single-vendor ecosystem doesn't attract me.
I am using Linux for more than a year now and feel liberated from the Windows trap. Lately, Windows has become too slow in terms of even copy operations.
Looks to be a long reading. I think I can skip a few chapters .