skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I get your point, but you can't compare something that isn't launched to something that is.

How many times does Paul Graham have to say "just launch"? Launch and iterate, iterate and then iterate some more. Talking about brand dilution on an unlaunched product is a moot point to say the least.

I'm not taking sides about what happened here, it seems murky at best, but you can't compare an idea to a product.
Why this is short
You criticize a short blog post for something that is not done in the Gates publication. Do you have some bias, perhaps? Why does Gates not even give us a scatter plot, let alone a correlation coefficient? This is the critical point raised by the blog.
As somebody who interacts with high schoolers on a regular basis, I attribute their nastiness to the snowball effect.

They can't read long form information because they didn't want to before high school. Now they can't without a great exertion of effort.

They can't write because they don't read, which is where it is easiest to learn new words.

They think social studies is boring because it's a lot of reading and writing. That the class usually focuses on stuff that happened too long ago to be visible in their lives doesn't help.

They don't understand mathematics because their earlier instructors taught it as algorithms without context, the beautiful axiomatic nature of mathematics is never revealed.

By contrast, everyone can do PE. Even kids who stay indoors a little too long, slowly giving themselves radon induced lung cancer. If you're good enough, you can even get a scholarship to play on a college team.

It's no wonder in most schools so much emphasis is put on sports games.

So what do you get when you have a bunch of illiterate teenage prisoners in a room trying to read Shakespeare?

About the same thing you get when you have a thousand monkeys try to write it.
It's Risperdol, works like a charm.

I read a book about a guy who had luck with it working for him, too. Good stuff.

It makes me nauseous sometimes, but that's a small price to pay for the removal of the delusions that come from the illness.
"Why should you get to play by a different set of rules then they did?"

Because 1)the rules are arbitrary, and 2) the same argument was made by the first guy to get locked out of commercializing his own invention because someone else patented it first. The "because: the status quo" argument is isn't very compelling.

"It has to be easy and cost-effective to protect your creations, or else the incentive to create is greatly diminished and the ROI for R&D is zero."

The incentive might shift, but certainly not disappear. The focus would be on tangible and less speculative areas (food, shelter, basic tech; all positive in a recession), but I wouldn't expect to suffer. Fear of eliminating patents and copyright is a boogyman. (Edit: To elaborate: you don't "protect" ideas, and winning by holding people back is misanthropic.)

"VC, private equity.. hell, even Wall St., wouldn't be in America were it not for our world-class intellectual property laws."

Correlation is not causation. I would say "in spite of". The US (and NA) markets are different, and arguably less competitive, than even 50 years ago. (Edit: The current economic downturn coincides with ramping up on copyright and imaginary property law, among other things.)

"the complaints behind both of them stem from a lot of the same entitlement mindset that startups are somehow entitled to implement technologies or host data that is not theirs."

That entitlement is the sentiment that used to be associated with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," IMHO. Hardly something to dismiss or resent.
You know, what's great about this new web and these new methods of laying out UI is this: before, content arrived to your browser, and sometimes if you were using a slightly older browser or one which wasn't really tested it'd look somewhat wrong. Useable, but wrong.

Nowadays, it looks like this: http://imgur.com/a/Z7IXu

I'm slightly wary about the future considering these improvements, since we're talking about a page displaying an alternation of a bit of text and an image, a bit of text and an image, ... which I used to believe was something we'd come get right.
Its not just France, try all of Europe/Russia.

There's a good reason people left Europe to build new lives in Canada and USA, because they left behind the old world entrenched hatred, corruption and religious intolerance.

US may be responsible for institutionalized modern slavery with their insanity prison system, but at least you don't have mainstream political parties calling for the death of romani and jews like they do in France, Greece, Italy and Hungary.

Even the Netherlands has seen it's fair share of ultra fascist political parties that used soccer jingles to rally hooligans to their cause and beat immigrants in the streets. That these fascist parties would now use Twitter to further organize their members is not surprising but at least on Twitter there's a diaspora of people to refute their bullshit racism and scapegoating. Simply censoring it will not make it go away.

Speaking of Italy Berlusconi used Holocaust Memorial Day a few hours ago to praise the leadership of Mussolini. No I didn't make that up. That's how screwed Europe is right now.
Which implies that this wouldn't do anything to diminish facial-recognition from consumer devices (e.g., facebook auto tagging, Google Glass, etc.)?
Global Game Jam 2013 full HTML5 game.
It does not seem that dated to me. Last time pulseaudio broke the sound at my computer was in two weeks ago on Debian Squeeze. Could have been a Debian fuckup, could be my hardware but whatever it was it was fixed with sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio.

I realize that is all anecdotal and I could be one of the few people in the world who still have problems with it.
Using maps of the earth to visualise complex functions
May very well be, but you sure could've choosen at least a different name. And a design of your own wouldn't have hurt.
For the folks who struggle with Lua's language design: try thinking of it like Crockford's Good Parts of Javascript with a slightly different syntax (and arrays/objects rolled into one, the table). Generally speaking, once you've moved past the default indexing from 1, that analogy works out pretty well -- even down to how to set up more object oriented designs (js prototypes and Lua metatables/metamethods are rather closely related ideas).

LÖVE is a very fun engine, much easier than PyGame to get going - in both setup and development terms.
"fair enough" is something you say when someone you initially disagreed with makes a point. I don't see any disagreement here. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fair_enough
The original Connection Machine was also composed of thousands of single-bit processors.
What are you talking about? Black newscasters are perfectly good at diction.
The problem with project management software
That was business software; this is games. I'd expect the gaming community to be a bit more lenient.
Language-learning is broken and remains to be a VERY complex problem. There are so many factors involved - language complexity, understanding of culture, student's age & ability to learn...

I'm convinced that learning a language without complete immersion in culture is doable for easy languages such as English, French, Spanish, but almost impossible for Mandarin, Russian, Polish and others. I'm a native Russian speaker and i can confidently tell you that 70% of native Russian speakers cannot speak proper Russian, mangle vocabulary and sentence structure. I'd say something like 90% cannot use proper grammar. This is after 11 consecutive years of taking Russian in elementary, middle and high schools. This got really bad after the collapse of Soviet Union, which took Russia's impressive Soviet-era education system with it.

Obviously, the older you are the worse it gets. I took English lessons for 4 years in Russia. In the end, i could barely put a sentence together. After immigrating to the US, I picked up English at 14 in less than a year and got to the point of losing any kind of identifiable accent. If i tried to learn it today i would likely never reach the level of fluency i'm enjoying now.

Having said that, I've only ran into one American who actually spoke Russian possibly better than I did (my Russian is significantly worse now than at 14). It was an intelligence agent who interviewed my father when we came to the US 14 years ago. So our government likely has a few tricks up their sleeves.
We've struggled with this quite a bit at our company (http://thesiteslinger.com). Much of our web development business includes WordPress...We host most of our client sites on WPEngine so the git push feature has made a lot of it easier but keeping your .sql files versioned correctly from live and local development is a pain, to say the least.

I would disagree that everything can be left up to the one click updater, versioning it all is important. That assumes you aren't creating complex functionality on your site, so no updating tables, custom development or anything that changes more than views.

It will be interesting to see if WordPress can continue to improve and grow and get new users. From a growth perspective it seems more and more like wordpress:php as rails:ruby, bringing people to the platform en masse.
Yes. There are definitely choices in word use but grammar is straightforward.
HATEOAS seems great if you look at it on the design perspective. You can navigate the whole API just by having the entry point. Seems great right.

The HATEOAS has been introduced to solve "discoverability" of API.
But in practice this don't really work. This would mean a client can't bookmark a link to a resource, but instead he would need to navigate the whole "state machine" to discover the hypertext of the said resource.
This has two problem on my perspective:
- It don't look like the WEB. It is like if each time i need to find a thread on hackernews, in need to go from the frontpage and navigate until i find the thread. Why not just bookmark the url of the post and be done with it.
- This HATEOAS just translate the issue: Instead of hardcoding the links, I will be hardcoding the Relations between resources.

So if the goal of this HATEOAS is to allow one day to use a single client API that will be able to work with any REST API, Rest assured we're not quite there yet. (pun intended)
You are mistaken, they definitely are adding *nix capabilities to JavaScript. Go read the B2G or WebAPI mailing list and you'll see they are working on every part of the OS, not just the UI.
Pitching a startup to journalists: three great videos
It is pretty awesome to be privileged and living in an affluent country, eh?
See my comment about the challenge we still have.
>Think about all of the things that Android and iOS don't do that Linux is capable of doing.

Like what, exactly?
I think the changed PIN is stored on your card as an offset. When you enter your pin, both the offset and the code you entered are transmitted, so they always validate agains the original, non changed, PIN.
I don't see a single ad-hominem.

And ad-pulseaudionem is just like a ad-networkmanagerem or a ad-dbusiem: If your software design sucks and it does not work good enough that you don't have to care about this you will be told it sucks. And to me it seems that systemd is written in the spirit of dbus and nm.
No, that's correct. The issue is that the overwhelming majority of people aren't terrorists. So even though it's worse to let a terrorist on a plane than it is to ban someone who isn't a terrorist from flying, in aggregate the harms of banning non-terrorists from flying become greater than the harms letting a few terrorists fly even when the false positive rate is very small. Bruce Schneier has a good explanation of this somewhere on his blog. (Actually, this is one of his pet issues, so there are probably dozens of blog posts about this.)
Just going to link one of my favorite libraries for LÖVE.

https://github.com/kikito/middleclass
agl's blog is a good source: http://www.imperialviolet.org/
Hybrid apps are those which mix the native languages with Web languages. in Firefox OS and Chrome OS the web is the native environment. There are no hybrid apps, just web apps.
Python has a lot of users who are not programmers by profession, but rather mathematicians or scientists or other professions where Python is an excellent tool for getting their main job done.

So assuming that only well-educated programmers can have questions about a programming language is asinine.

My university education didn't cover coroutines either.
I've always architected systems such that restart time didn't matter - the systems were able to fail over. However, in flight operations would fail, which meant that a restart would, in fact, cost >$50k - regardless of the length of time it took for that machine to come back.

Faster restart time is irrelevant to me. I'm already designed to deal with outages. Reducing the impact of a restart is extremely important (making them fewer in number, smaller in scope).
It's too soon to tell if "Too soon to tell if..." is the classy way of saying "I know the following statement will be linkbait but I don't care."
For those not familiar with what libraries have been developed see here:

https://love2d.org/wiki/Category:Libraries
Multiple Accounts and SSH Keys
I really don't see why a MacPro or Macbook Pro 17 are in the least bit necessary for iOS development. Developing iOS apps really doesn't require that much power, just screen real estate if you are using Interface Builder. For iOS development, the 27" iMac or any one of the Macbook Pros or Airs paired with a 27" Thunderbolt display are more than adequate for the job.

FWIW I just sold my Macbook Pro 17 inch after my new job gave me a 13" Air. After using the Air, I can't even imagine lugging around 17" anymore. The convenience of the Air paired with a large external display when necessary is perfect.

The only professionals that have a legitimate complaint about the MacPros and Macbook Pro 17 are those doing a lot of intensive video and audio work.
However, it's quite obvious by now that the KaplanCo birdcage-liner is well past its sell-by date.
Ask HN: What did you buy accidentally that added so much value to your life?
There are two devices I bought on a hunch and today I am so glad for buying them, since they really add so much more value to my life than I anticipated when I bought them. A logitech R400 Presenter, which I use even when I am showing someone slides on a laptop because it just lies so easily in your hand and makes the flow of <i>any</i> presentation just so much better and the Logitech G930 wireless headset which frees me from the desk and allows me to do errands all around the house while on conference calls, following the news or listening to music.
Which devices did you buy not anticipating how much value they ended up adding to your life?
I'm working on reproducing the graph with the data available from the NYT, but I'm not sure on one or two details of the author's method. If someone sees it, please let me know! Things I can't tell so far:

1) How is a "teacher" defined? Just(hash firstname lastname)? If so...

2) When a teacher teaches multiple subjects per year, which one is chosen? Or are they both represented, so that "teacher" actually means (hash firstname lastname subject)?
Maths and arrogance
I would suggest using a modern browser, it looks fine in FF 18.
> e.g. a notice about the elevator being out of order between 2pm and 3pm is not useful after that time. If I didn't see the message by 3pm or I was out of the office, there's no value in that message being in my inbox.

There absolutely is, if there's an elevator service level agreement (SLA). I want the maintenance emails for my records.
Has this dude really never looked at SMTP headers? He's proposing that we add "the meta Time information to the email construct". Emails already contain lots of time information about each step the email took in its journey to your inbox. It sounds like what he's really proposing is some new "X-Delete-By" header for mail user agents to obey if they so choose.

Technical questions aside, this idea is very very bad. Self-deleting email is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This would be an unprecedented level of restrictive DRM. On that basis alone I feel quite confident in strongly rejecting the idea.
Equations that changed the course of humanity
"I don't know if I would" is something you say when you disagree.
The author incorrectly stated that "value added" is a score between -1 and +1. In fact, "value added" scores are z scores, which can in theory range from (-∞,∞).
You can just include them from your app, those are shared style sheets. Everything in the /shared directory is accessible from third every app. This also includes js helpers.

Also, hi :-)
It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go
I couldn't use a 6 digit pin in Italy. Some ATMs in London,UK didn't like it either.

Singapore it's mandatory for a 6 digit pin so have no idea if a 4 digit pin will work, anybody been there?
At this time my comfort zone is managing each theme and plugin as a separate Git repository and using WP Engine to rollback if I break anything during a WordPress/theme/plugin upgrade. WordPress is just upgraded using the 1-click upgrade, and plugins are upgraded using 1-click if they're on the official repository.
I am unable to locate it now.

It seemed very weird at the time--the AT&T lawyers making him deny what he had done.

And it is possible that the denial was about the general release of the exploit, rather than whether or not he really did it. My memory could be slightly off for events back that far ago.

It was a minor industry rag and the story was published shortly after the hack was announced. It might have been the same paper that Dennis Ritchie told of auditing the behavior of Coherent and saying publicly that it was definitely not a clone. I think the lawyers were upset about that as well.
Many would argue that Bill came by that money via illegal and unethical behavior, paid for by millions of consumers, so it is more like tax money than his own money.
It always has, with the up arrow. Has a new word search (like ctrl+r) also. Not sure how long the hist is kept though.
I don't think the gaming community as it exists now would complain, no. However, opinions differ on whether that's a good thing:

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/eight-women-eight-responses-an...

among other examples - what counts as acceptable behavior in the gaming community is a pretty hot topic right now. there is a strong argument to be made that anything that isn't acceptable in the business community should be discouraged in gaming.
Partner with a designer.
>Ask a basic question on physics, biology, or engineering and only an actual scientist will pipe up.

Evolution/creationist crackpots?
Luxury taxes crimped the yacht industry and many workers. Fiscal conservatives would appreciate some support for the yacht industry.
A talented hacker, ghoulsblade on GitHub, cobbled together a web player for LOVE: https://github.com/ghoulsblade/love-webplayer

Here are some demo applications converted to HTML5/WebGL: http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/love-webplayer/
My 30 days with DuckDuckGo - Everybody like it, but did they ever use it? I did
WebOS is dead, long live WebOS!
Can't answer for OP, but for this new user, a Chrome app would be dandy.
Clearly all the overlapping points in the first graph are obscuring most of what's going on. This is a warning flag that the author may be trying color the facts to suit their argument.

Not very clear what you are try to say:

(1) What "standard deviation"? Perhaps you mean the standard error of the correlation coefficient is large relative to the its estimated value. Given the large number of data points it is likely to be quite small. Another warning flag is the failure to report either the correlation coefficient or its standard error.

(2) What does "ellipse isn't irregular" mean? Given all the overlapping data points the shape of the plot is entirely driven outliers. To my eye this looks what you would get from plotting a bivariate normal distribution.

(3) Kepler? The linked graph? How is this helpful in understanding what's going on?

The first graph has a straightforward interpretation: you are making two imperfect measurements of each teacher's performance at two different times. There is noise in both measurements and teacher performance may have actually changed between measurements.
What do you think of the single page app you've described with multiple html entry points?

Say / responds with the homepage as per usual
and /feed responds with a different html start point, but the same application code.

Using this technique you could create a site that responds to multiple urls with html and at the same time creates a SPA experience using a single js application (say, with backbone for example).
Absolutely - Chrome app would be perfect.
In Australia the context is different and implies that you agree that someone is making a point which is fair enough to be valid, in other words that you agree with it.
We have added a whole bunch of things in Gecko and Gonk to support Gaia, which is mainly the front-end. WebAPIs are one example, but we have done much more. Good thing is that this improved the rendering engine of Firefox (that uses the same code base) too.
See the email in the article http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6386/was-the-c-c...

marked with

From: Ken Thompson <ken@google.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: Was compiler from "Reflections" ever built or distributed?
To: Ezra Lalonde <ezra@usefuliftrue.com>
Women's bracelet
MLB Hall of Fame visualization with d3
Well fair enough, schizophrenia does cause delusion and distorted thinking. But it would be more like "The government put a chip in my head to track me and it makes me hear noises that aren't there" or "The man in the ice cream truck is secretly an alien and trying to send me a hidden message"
Yup. Both use Foundation, but Cocoa (OS X) uses Application Kit and Cocoa Touch (iOS) uses UIKit. Foundation itself is based largely on OpenStep, of which there are several opensource variants you can check out.
Or you could ask people to put forth coherent mathematical arguments, since research has shown, for example, that most professional PhD-holding published medical research is statistically incorrect.
Especially considering that Android is a Linux…