skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking more along these lines: http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/evolutionary-adapta... . And that is just about the last ~10,000 years (give or take a few thousands).

> With time, we might devolve to the point where we completely depend on modern medicine to survive and reproduce.

That's a possibility, of course. Then you have to wonder what happens if the social structures crumble or change dramatically and you do not have access to modern medicine anymore?
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Always interested. Send me an email james(at)helishopter.com Thanks.
Yeah you're probably right... but...

If these really just acted like little linux boxes wouldn't that be a huge plus for corporate support? Being able to SSH into these phones to install VPN or other default applications instead of forcing the users/ui to see them? What about being able to 'flash' a corporate phone to a default install or manage permissions?

shrug just a thought
I've definitely had apps reviewed on AppAdvice and not seen a dramatic bump. I think it really depends on the app, what people are currently buying, and a lot of other factors. On the promotion part, I totally agree. What's worked for me on that front is to make friends with people in the press (on twitter, IM, email) way before I need articles written so when I need press it's really easy to get written up because they already know who I am.
'already'? This has been going since 1989, that's a funny definition of already that you are using!
Not really. We already have several different platforms out there catering to "average Joe". I think it's time hackers actually get something tailored to their use instead of having to suffer compromises on other platforms.
Wait, so including features that don't immediately appeal to the average user necessarily means there will be nothing that appeals to the average user?

Your logic is broken there somewhere.
So I wondered, and tried to google the number, one of his graphs shows a peak for '1472'. Anyone got an idea what's special about this number?

And from the longer digit-sequences 292513 (#12) and 38317 (#15) and 42059 (#20). I didn't google those last two, maybe they're common US ZIP codes?
That's a huge part. I'll probably write an article just on that at some point.
> The person who was assigned to an action will report on progress and everyone is held accountable. We take minutes so that everyone is held accountable for the next monthly Leadership meeting.

Uh-oh, sounds like a big company already. The phrase "is held accountable" is in the passive voice.

When you have to implement process in order that people "are held accountable", you are acknowledging that you have a problem: There are people in the company who would shirk some or all of a task. OK, at 50 people perhaps it's unavoidable. However, if you need to counteract shirking by being held accountable, then you really want to switch to the active voice. Where is the active subject of that sentence? It really wants the active voice. Also: What happens when someone fails on a task?
Definitely very true.
Every ATM in the UK I've used in 1.5 years did that. Makes sense. Why send 2 requests (confirm PIN -> initiate transaction) if you can combine it into one without losing anything?
This is ridiculous, the Simpson-Bowles commission didn't come up with a recommendation:

"The Commission shall vote on the approval of a final report containing a set of recommendations to achieve the objectives set forth in the Charter no later than December 1, 2010. The issuance of a final report of the Commission shall require the approval of not less than 14 of the 18 members of the Commission."

They never had that vote.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-bowle...
This is the kind of thing I'm hoping against. I don't want anything "smart" being done by the terminal; that is the job of the shell.
I did. Thanks a lot!
I think that maybe if you added a bit more statistics about alcohol-related tragedies (car accidents, murder, etc) it might seem more serious to people. I really like the idea and would have signed if I were an US citizen. I'm trying my best to spread the word though.
Great link. I discovered I am highly allergic to linden trees this summer, my first allergy, and was only sleeping 3-4 hours a night, maximum. I was so confused and forgetful of peoples names.

Granted, I also partied non-stop the whole summer.
I'm skeptical, but I was also skeptical of Firefox for Android and it turned out to be a pretty solid browser.
I'll definitely buy one, iff it's a full computer. I'm so sick of all the neutered tech out there.
Traditional manufacturers are already in trouble. Tesla will ramp up relatively very quickly once infrastructure gets in place.
Erlangonxen.org is self-hosted, therefore unbreakable
No shell, no superuser, no system calls. Erlang on Xen does not use an operating system. It runs directly on the virtual iron.

The community website for Erlang on Xen - http://erlangonxen.org - is now self-hosted and thus represents a hard target to attack.

While Erlang on Xen is not open source, there is a public build service that uses the latest development branch. The website image was created using nothing more than the public build service. It took 27s.
Does Chicago really need another incubator?
I somewhat agree. I wrote this from the standpoint of someone who's released a number of apps, some which have done well, and some which have not. There's always the frustration that I spent all this time on this thing that I thought was awesome, but that no one cared about actually using. It's targeted at people who have built those apps, know that pain and just want to make something that people will actually buy this time.

I have definitely written a number of apps that were super awesome and pushed the envelope, but they didn't actually sell, because they were before the market was ready, or in the wrong market, etc.
Your URL had a double t. It (now) leads to the same URL and page as this submission.

(Possibly someone changed their mind about the wordplay verbing the "Automattic" noun.)
well thats the beauty, you can just plug keyboard/mouse via usb and hdmi for screen into your phone, ehm desktop-PC - see raspberry pis, cubieboard and so on.

really looking forward to it.
I see. I would vote the other way- keep the shell intact, and install a new UI. UIs can be swapped out, but breaking the shell may lead to unforeseen undesirable consequences.
I don't know about that part of the project, but you could for example simulate the effect of the local interaction between a molecule and a neuron. The mechanisms to put the molecule there could be investigated separately.

> Give the state of our knowledge, a massive publicly-funded project seems premature

One billion might sound like bucket loads of money, but it is not. There are close to 90 institutions involved and a huge percentage of the funding will need to go to the platforms that need to built. This is more about building the necessary infrastructure to do higher-impact research.
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Will we ever see a day where the word evil isn't in nearly every Google news headline? After 10+ years this is getting a little old.
Fully minified and gzip compressed I've found SVG to be neither smaller nor larger than an alternate PNG version. It really details on the complexity with the image itself. Obviously you get the scalability factor for free. I suspect mutliple SVG files inline of the same document will benefit for a small compression boost.

Sending them inline of HTML simply reduces HTTP requests. Latency there is a big bottleneck. You have to balance that with the fact that the browser can't cache the SVG for use across multiple pages, like it can with a background-image or <img> element.
Oops. Meant for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5126514
I've only had tons of experience with iOS apps, (only have one Android app, and it's "free", tied to a paid web service) so I wasn't exactly sure how my knowledge applied across the board.
The catch, of course, is that cars are much more difficult to patch than software. There is something to be said for being sure your're getting it right the first time.
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When you ask someone whether they want their search results or ads to reflect their browse and search history they say no but when presented with the two options, users nearly always select the personalized version.

Remarketing works. It's not what people say, it's what they do.

And why shouldn't it be that way. I go to a local Peet's. They know my order now. Is that bad? Should I tell the barista to wipe my order history out of her memory?

I'm not saying there isn't a issue of privacy but the line is not where most think it is IMO. People are very willing to give out personal information in exchange for a chance to win a car in the local mall.

Taken in another direction: product. Users often don't express their real needs or can't identify them. One of the more interesting cases was the introduction of the mini-van. It tested miserably when they asked users. But Ford (I think it was Ford) decided to go ahead anyway and ... users wound up LOVING it.
I don't understand this. Based on browser history? Does that mean the live history as it's being formed or does it count on people never deleting their browser history? I delete my history after every browser use.
No, it sounds like a cost benefit analysis - the only concern is how to judge if a course is worth learning before conducting the analysis.

"I don't need no Calculus" is a fail in the analysis, "I dont need no Media Studies and the effect of the Female Eunach on Porn Pay per TV channels" is not.
Me too. I'd much rather build something amazing that everyone picked up on immediately and that they thought was amazing, but that's not the App Store reality now. :(
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> "[...] was [...] avoidable by users who have 2 eyes and can read."

Your faith in humanity amazes me.
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It may be a language issue, but I'm not sure what this means. Can you explain this more clearly?
A video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4tGbp2QJ6g
Great work...it calls to mind a longform guide that Sam Clay wrote in converting NewsBlur's spaghetti code to Backbone:

http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2012/11/13/backbonification-migrat...
From the Project management triangle:

Like any human undertaking, projects need to be performed and delivered under certain constraints. Traditionally, these constraints have been listed as "scope," "time," and "cost".[1]

It's amazing how often I need to reiterate this to clients and potential clients.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
One of the perils of being a startup, and instead of growing organically and having these embarrassing moments early in front of a small number of hardcore users (who will use you no matter what, and forgive you no matter what you do), you get pushed out by a behemoth like Twitter.
While its embarrassing for Vine to have porn pop up in the top of users feed's , and the societal norms say it's a "bad thing" for the company; I can't but help feel that in actual fact this would attract far more users.
Try filming an IR remote control (while pressing a button) with your phone's camera. It'll light up. I think it's pretty cool actually :) (might need to do it in a dark room, depending)

I suppose the GP was talking about actual non-phone photo cameras?
I think you might be reading too much context in to something where none exists. Possibly - I never heard about Treehouse before. Assigning a person who is responsible for the execution of an item is a good idea. Recognizing the need of having point persons for issues is not the same as acknowledging that employees are slacking off.
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There's an easy fix: add options panel with hashtags to filter out. And add #porn as one of the defaults in it.
I was thinking of A Scanner Darkly, actually.
What projects are you concerned about?

I run Raspbian, another Debian-based distro, on my Raspberry Pi (ARMv6 CPU) and haven't run into any missing packages yet. Can't imagine there are many projects out there these days that are still architecture-specific, outside of compilers and JITs and so forth, many of which (e.g. LuaJIT, V8, LLVM) already support ARM.
>Between Android, iOs, the remnants of blackberry and the Microsoft offering there will not be a whole lot of room for a new entrant that is not compatible with any of the above

It seems exceedingly likely that if more than a few dozen people use this, someone (if not Canonical itself) will produce an Android compatibility layer.

What I wish Canonical would do is to do it right. The naive implementation is to take the existing Android source and hack it into Ubuntu like WINE, which is almost certainly a lot easier when the source is already available. What Canonical ought to do is superset Android natively: Make all of the APIs available the same as they are on Android, so that you can take the source to an Android app and just run it on Ubuntu, but you can also start from there and make relatively few changes in order to comply with any differences in Ubuntu's usability standards and have your existing Android app running properly and natively on Ubuntu in very short order.

That would give Ubuntu all of the Android apps right away, and then give Android developers an easy way to fix any compatibility-related issues with running those apps on Ubuntu without making significant changes to their existing code.

Meanwhile now you have Android running next to POSIX and developers have the temptation to use all the traditional gnu stuff plus whatever Ubuntu adds to make it appropriate to the form factor, which has the developers pushing Google to put that stuff in Android.

There is a foreseeable future in which Android and Ubuntu end up as different distributions of the same basic OS the same as RedHat and Ubuntu today.
Maybe you could open source it and let others add those features?
That's what you get when you spend tons of time teaching users that all content is curated and that they can click everywhere safely.

I might have had the same reaction, to be honest. When I see a video called "Hot XXX girl" with an alluring thumbnail on Youtube, the first thing that comes to my mind isn't "this is porn", it's "this is a cheap way to get views to an uninteresting video". And I routinely get "You must be 18 or older to see this" warnings for videos/photos with as little as a hint of a naked breast.

So, yeah, that's not very surprising.
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The EU already encourages open access for FP7 (the current funding programme) and it will become even better for the new one called Horizon2020 starting next year.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/european-commission-emb...
And in this case there is an obvious omitted factor (which is important to consider when levying this allegation) age. Perhaps being old makes you sleep worse and have trouble retaining memories, but sleep has nothing to do with memories at all (although we have lots of reasons to suspect that it does). They would also have found arthritis, type II diabetes, prostate cancer, and a host of other things reduced memory if their design was as described by the article. Given that they have fMRI data it would be fairly simple to run a correlation between quality of sleep and retention within an age cohort and see what you get. Given that they got funding to do the MRIs I'm suspicious that in the actual study they did, I'm not sure you need scans to know the elders often don't sleep well.

But if that works, perhaps it was weight causing poor sleep and memory retention. Or alcohol abuse. I'm not saying this research can't be done but it's a lot more trustworthy if you either 1. randomize subjects and do a treatment or 2. have a much larger dataset and statistically control for these suspicious factors.
I really want Tesla to succeed.

I live in Arkansas and just saw a Chevy Volt in the wild for the first time about two weeks ago, and they are two years old now.

If Tesla succeeds, it will force the autobehemoths to step up their game, which will be good for everyone. I'll be interested to see what the old guard will be able to come up with to match Tesla in the (hopefully) new generation of auto. There is a lot to be said about having such massive resources to leverage, so I wouldn't write them off as being out of the game quite yet.
That's not news. Having a terminal on your phone is news.
If you have any questions regarding the blog post, just let me know :)
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I'd be interested to read why it was selected as an "Editor's pick".

There's also a small possibility an English law was broken. (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/12)
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Thank you for all the feedback! There are numerous points listed above that I'm aware of and definitely want to refine (just simply wasn't able to get to it in order to launch). Others are a result of my building it and not using it extensively. That said, I'll definitely take these tips and cross them off. I appreciate your taking the time to write this up!
> One of these sets has only a single element, namely 0. The others have two elements each:

Except for the other one-element set, containing INT_MIN.
"i use and like hangouts but i am mad about google+" --> LOL
Well, it was a very positive review. http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/01/remembary-great-ipad-jour...

But yes agreed on getting to know press people - although it's a balancing act to not seem too creepy while being friendly.
luckily for the majors, tesla and its peers are making such a small volume that it isn't going to kill any of the old-guard any time soon. 400 cars a week, GM makes that per HOUR.
Well, Vine is rated 12+ in App Store. “Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity”. I'm not sure what are ramifications if an application violates assigned ratings.

On a second thought, “Infrequent/Mild” is vague enough: does slash mean “or”?
I agree. If there really is this desire, then Google needs to honor it.

The Ads Preference manager is fairly straight-forward (www.google.com/ads/preferences) and more people who go there change settings rather than opt-out.

The full opt-out instructions (http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...) are a bit tougher. Should they make it easier to do this? Maybe.

But if you make it too easy, you get false positives and then people may become upset that Google isn't as useful as it once was not fully understanding that it was their own preference to do so, right?
Show HN: weekend project: see how frequently someone tweets before following
Sorry. User error. I was hitting the wrong damn button for "Upload Date" -- do you see that's there twice in the left column? I was not hitting the one right below "Relevance." DUH.

EDIT to add: The confusion is because the second "Upload Date" even though a header, actually turns bold like a button when clicked on!
I don't think so in this case...even if we assume that porn is a major driver in tech (I think iOS's whitewashed dominance is a clear counter argument), six-second porn is likely not satisfying enough for porn aficionados to stick around with. Even if there are some great clips, it's still seems like a lot of work to hit refresh-next-whatever (I don't know, I don't have the app), nevermind wading through all the unsatisfying clips.

Meanwhile, the many users who do not want to see porn, either at all, or at least during daytime hours, will have a negative user experience.
Demining the "join bomb" with graphs
i don't get your point: why is that a bad thing?
Pulseaudio plus blueman does solve the bluetooth problem quite nicely. It's the main reason why I use pulseaudio.

In exchange for that I put up with confusing audio dialog boxes, high audio latency, high cpu usage when playing audio, skips and crackles when playing games, arcane commands to enable loopback, and the occasional necessary restart of the pulseaudio daemon when sound stops altogether. I guess that's a reasonable trade.
Can you provide examples or links?
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I think there's a subtle, but distinct, semantic difference between someone being "responsible" for something vs "accountable" for something. The former means that someone is expected to do something or have that thing done, while the latter implies the person will face consequences if something is not done or not done well. Or, put another way, accountability means negative consequences if someone doesn't do what they're responsible for.
The issue of the checkboxes is simply a matter of me enabling it. I set it up for being able to select multiple tags, but I suppose in hindsight launching without implementing it wasn't the best idea.

The second checkbox point -- definitely hear you.

The perl tag -- the 0% is acceptance. I don't know why some of the data is showing that some users while they are the top answerers dont have an acceptance rate. I'll dig into this.

The last disconnect -- I know what you mean; I've been feeling it too. I'll take your suggestion (and nix the questions).

The last point about the tag search.. I gather it's the most desired enhancement. I'll tackle this soon, too.

Thanks for the write-up!
pretty slick.

here is a recent hockey-stick:
http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/explore?q=webrtc
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Back when we were doing our startup, we had a month's worth of vacation hard-coded into our employment contracts. Everyone got the same amount. This gave people a good measuring stick of what we expected under normal conditions. We didn't enforce the limit though, so people could take more if they wanted to (which happened very rarely). We also encouraged people to take time off, especially when they seemed burned out.

This worked amazingly well. It was one of the very few things we did right.
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Awesome work Roberto. Thanks for letting us use your work.
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Hoping to get some feedback from the hacker community.
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Awesome, thanks! I'll take a look
Thanks! Just a heads up -- I have added user registrations (currently using Google to do the Auth work for me). If you look at the top right of the navbar, there's a sign-in link. If you sign up, you'll be able to star questions, and then retrieve them by clicking on the 'number' of starred questions next to your username. I thought that having that functionality was part of the MVP since otherwise it's just a firehose of info. I was going to implement a recently viewed list.. and your request makes that official.
I don't see how high latency in pulseaudio is a feature. Pulseaudio has both high latency and high cpu usage. I've seen cpu usage by the pulseaudio daemon as high as 20% when playing audio.
any plans to open source this?
is it really that unreasonable for google to integrate their products to create a better use experience for their users?

if you don't like that gtfo b/c there are other options for you to survive without google (yahoo, facebook and microsoft)
I get that. But all things being equal I wouldn't read too much into his phrasing here, especially since we're talking about a small startup company.

Sure, most of us have traumatic experiences with big company culture, and sometimes certain phrases remind us of that trauma... ;-)
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I'd imagine it's pulled ASAP. None of the major app store providers allow porn on their stores, do they?
Not so much a hockey-stick as a spike, and most likely one domainer bulk registering a bunch of related domains.