skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that was actually my original plan. I wanted to make slides explaining some Bitcoin concepts, but I wasn't able to draw a comics. This actually started as a small hack on top of impress.js :)

Hey K., do you remember? You interviewed me back in 2009 for a Bespin position :-) The world is pretty small. Hope you are doing well.
It sounded like the guy from the Times would have welcomed as much "waste heat" as he could get his hands on.
>Tell me more about how you read the GoF book, and applied the patterns in a language that does not even have interfaces or type-hinting.

<tongue in cheek>

If you're interested in examples of GoF patterns implemented in a language without typehints or interfaces, I highly suggest getting ... the GoF book -- it has examples in Smalltalk!

</tongue in cheek>
I'm glad for not living in a country with so many cases of legal bullying for small cases of copyright infringement.
I was a fan of the old Barks comics, and I loved it when episodes like this one would reuse old storylines.
There are common use cases for which cars remain a superior alternative.

Shopping is the main one. Cars allow shops to be very large (providing more variety and creating economies of scale), and the ability to site shops in cheaper locations contributes to lower purchase prices.

The other classic problem with public transport is that it cannot replace the point-to-point nature of cars. Sometimes that matters, sometimes it doesn't. But it matters for enough people that cars are the dominant mode of transport.

Self-driving cars will help some of this, particularly the car daycare problem. Though they will have problems of their own. Ever tried to get a taxi at rush hour? Ever been on a bus with suspiciously damp seats? People will still want their own cars and will still want to travel at the same times.

As an aside, one thing I really like about my city (Perth) is that there are a number of free bus routes in the CBD. You really do find CEOs riding the bus to get around.
To Amazon or Box?
I hope you understand it's not meant to sound condescending. Maybe my comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=5211177) will help with the insight. Imagine the worst experience of your life. [rhetorical] Did you go through it with someone or were you alone? How much did that affect the experience? That's it. Having someone with you who has been through it before.

Again, I think my comment might give you some insights as to the claims about wisdom and maturity. There are also a vast amount of very smart people who have gotten a lot from LSD. I'd highly recommend this read: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-heretic
If I'm your lawyer, and you win, and the other party seeks an appeal to the Supreme Court, that's exactly what I write for you. Because it's not my job to insert my judgment about whether I think the Supreme Court should hear the case, my job is only to argue in favor of the interpretation that lets you win the quickest.

In the context of Constitutional challenges to Congressional laws, the DOJ has the same job. They will first seek to have review denied because that's the quickest way for Congress to win. If review is granted, the Solicitor General, whose office is part of the DOJ, will have to drag his ass to the Supreme Court and argue strenuously in favor of upholding the Constitutionality of Congress's law.

That's just the way the adversarial legal system works.

Also, your Due Process point is way out of bounds. Due Process does not entail the right to Supreme Court review. The Supreme Court could deny the petition for no other reason than "it sounded boring" and there would be no Due Process violation.
1. Leave one of the best known companies 10 years prior.
2. Write book critical of company.
3. Profit.

Found that missing post-collecting underwear point.

But, in all seriousness, MSFT has its challenges. However, it still brings in huge amounts of money and is dominant (though not as much as before) in a couple of major areas. It is a well known company and an easy target for many to criticize.
Well, there are some built-in standards that go along with being a software developer. Like, does it compile?
Looks good. Shocking amount of code to achieve that effect though.
Yes... I've had to sign those contracts before. They are brutal. Equivalent to selling your soul.
How does this work? It's way too fast for me to see anything, other than that it looks great; what is the difference between this and, say, drawing a lots of transparent rectangles lerped between current and last position?
You have a very progressive boss.
Many employment agreements claim rights to anything the employee invents which is related to the business, whether or not on company time. And in some states, it's common for the claim to be on all inventions, whether related to the business or not.

(California has a carve-out in state law: an employer can't claim stuff that was not done on company time, nor with company resources, and which does not relate to the company's business. But many states, perhaps most, have no such carve-out. And even the California rules are subject to interpretation; what isn't related to the company's business if the company is Google? So, it's wise to consult a lawyer regardless...)
http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch27.html
I did. Their argument was that due process was handled in the preceding two trials and due process should be denied because X and Y, but to the point that a relevant case was misapplied (which should result in appeal), they basically say "umm... that was case specific and yada yada yada we're right".
This is great. Because of the very low cost of bitcoin exchanges, the casino can be profitable with a likewise small rake.
This is Category 5 douchebaggery dressed-up as an attempt to be "hip" to the fact that ambitious people often have side projects. It's revolting and way out of touch.

Not only is the moral high horse off-putting, but the advice is impractical. Article says you should be spending 1000 hours per year looking for another career. It also says that if any of those 1000 hours occur on "company time", then (using their words) "you are stealing". This is overprivileged nonsense at its worst. How many people can fit in 1000+ hours per year on a side project and the real demands of a typical day job without some degree of (taken if not given) overlap? Answer: not many, but it's a good assumption that these writers have multiple maids and nannies...

Of course, it's worth it to be smart about overlap. Avoid using company resources, and the writing of code that will go into production should not occur during traditional company hours. If you're going to steal time from work, use it for reading, learning, and exploration-- not product code itself. You can lose if you do that.
> There may well be more to understanding something than what science can know about it.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned that. But who knows? Maybe I just did too much acid back in the hippy days.

The amount of literature on The Knowledge Argument is staggering, and there are many ways out of the apparent paradox. Frank Jackson who came up with the Knowledge Argument was using it to argue that mental states do not supervene on physical ones. I.e., one's mental states are not uniquely determined in the space of all possible worlds by one's physical state. (He later changed his mind about this, however, and is no longer a dualist.)

One way out of dualism is, as you hinted at, is to maintain that even if dualism is false, there are things that you can't know without having a certain concept in your head, and the only way to get the concept in your head is to have a certain experience which puts your mind into a state that you could not get to via pondering alone.

Another way out of dualism is to deny that Mary acquired any new knowledge when she sees the ripe tomato.

Etc, etc. And the philosophers will probably be arguing about Mary for the next thousand years.
One thing about perspective: It's not universal, and it also works the other way around. If someone else just hasn't had the kind of experiences you have, telling them about your own problems (or those of other people) isn't really meaningful. It's the "starving people in China" argument.

I'm not saying you're wrong, really, but that even your situation could be considered pretty great by someone who's stuck in a North Korean gulag with his entire family because he sneezed during the wrong part of a public news broadcast.

Perspective is helpful when you've gained it and can use it yourself. However, someone else's perspective is only useful to the point that it lines up with yours. Beyond that you usually can't really understand it in a meaningful way and it sounds like empty sentiment.
+1 for being a quality software solution.
Somehow I cringe when entertaining the thought that there might be some open-minded HNers for whom it just so transpired that one of the first pieces of text on LSD chanced upon happened to be this. If it mere me, I'd probably remain unchanged after reading something which was written by someone who simply happens not to share many of the conceptual tools / words / concepts I presently have.

I would instead recommend reading Albert Hofmann's original accounts of how he came to discover and to sample LSD for the first time; his was a very measured (though his very first experience was unexpected and therefore somewhat peculiar), delicate and elegant approach to discovering the molecule's effects; a scientist with an open mind - that read stirred quite a few things in me! A good read / book by any measure.

http://www.maps.org/books/mpc/chapter1.html

edit - wanted to add that the book in question also includes early accounts of other researchers, psychiatrists, etc. - for a quick read, see e.g. this account in particular: http://www.maps.org/books/mpc/chapter4.html
Fourth. The PSP came out between the PS2 and PS3.
You don't really need to be a master or an expert at all these things. You just need to know enough to make something happen. Once you get to a certain scale you can bring in the experts.
When you apply a deeply flawed policy ubiquitously, you get ubiquitous failure.

You have to measure something somehow. But if you are forcing everyone to measure the wrongs things at the expense of actually teaching critical thought or other important skills or providing individualized attention, then you are screwing everyone.

Centralized policies can be very damaging, especially if they are too prescriptive and incorrect. Generally speaking, the federal government and other colluding monopolies have too much power, and this is one glaring example of how that is causing very serious problems.

This over-centralization is a result of the structure of fundamental beliefs and institutions. That's just how money works.

Power controls too much without information.

I think its because there is no useful information in money.
How Much Does Darth Vader Weigh?
Yes, it must be the case that not every child loves preschool. And I would expect parents to deal with it at the individual level, so if a particular child found it traumatic then the parents should trust their instincts and withdraw the child if they thought it might have long term negative effects.

I wonder if the usage of the term preschool is important. In Australia this refers to the child care that happens immediately prior to going to school. It typically goes Kindergarten -> Preschool -> School. Wikipedia seems to imply in the US that it goes Preschool -> Kindergarten -> School.
I've written about an unexpected outcome I've learned from this demo.

http://shurcool.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/the-effect-of-motio...

It does a lot to explain the discrepancies we often see when people argue "you can't see more than 24 frames per second" vs. "I can tell 60 vs. 120 fps".

It matters how DISTINCT the frames are.
Douchebag Executive answer: yes, it's cheating because you should be asking your boss for more work. That's what a good corporate citizen does. He says, "I'm done, give me more."

(In reality, this doesn't graduate you to better work. Unless your boss is personally interested in your advancement, it just gets you assigned more of the same grunt work.)

My personal answer: no, not cheating at all. Is your boss looking out for your career? Are you his or her protege? If you don't have a mentor, then you are your mentor and you have the ethical right to manage your career as you see fit. Keep learning and carry on.
"Do as we say or.." kind of places are really the worst.

I once worked under a guy, he had very serious problems if some checked out a new tool/language/library/framework etc at work or even tried to learn something new to him like say Haskell.

Over a period of time I just figured out he was just plainly jealous that some one young would over take him.

Those are the last kind of places you should work at, also they are worst team players you can ever get.
I had the 50GB free account from an Android promo awhile back and I couldn't find a way to use it. It definitely wasn't going to replace Dropbox. Since it was sitting around doing nothing, I recently started doing monthly WebDAV + rsync backups of local files.

I'm still evaluating but it's easy enough for me to run and I'm using the space now.
I hate the Xbox 360 because they make it so hard to stream video to it. What the hell, Microsoft? The PS3 is a great DLNA renderer right out of the box.
Do you guys ever consider getting involved with University Computer Science programs?

I went to this extremely depressing "females in computer science" sort of mentoring meeting today and all of the women holding it essentially conveyed the idea "don't go into industry (got to grad school), they will eat you alive since you're a woman." it was horrid to hear this from other women. I'm glad to see that not everyone agrees with that.
Apache OpenOffice : $21 Million per Day
It's very interesting to take this spot-on assessment of the game console industry and compare it to the mobile phone industry.

Microsoft and Apple are dominating in very similar ways when it comes to gaming consoles (Microsoft) and mobile (Apple).

Yet Microsoft hasn't been able to replicate this winning strategy with its own phones. It seems to me that if one department at Micrsoft is "killing it", it would be Xbox. Yet that's the last thing anyone talks about.
You don't create a new email thread to give yourself a To Do item

Maybe I'm just weird, but I do this pretty frequently (fire off quick instructions/reminders with "TODO:" prepended); after all, there's very little besides email that I care enough about to check frequently enough for any action items I assign to myself to matter.

I understand and agree with the idea behind the "Show HN" projects you mention, but as a potential user, at the end of the day all I really care about is that my personal system/workflow works and helps me get stuff done, not how structured or semantically beautiful my data is. The last thing I need is yet another application/service to demand time/attention from my day.

(On a similar note, I've never been able to commit myself to a well-organised file structure with meaningful nested directories, an indexing system, and so forth, when a flat directory holding tens of thousands of files + ls and whatever regexes has Just Worked for me for years, despite not being pretty.)
The only thing holding me back from going completely to Google Docs is the spreadsheet. For anything real, the Google Spreadsheet is simply not usable. It's a great proof of concept, and it works for small, unuseful spreadsheets, but for doing anything substantive, Excel is several orders of magnitude better.

I don't care if I need to install a separate, native executable/plugin in order to get better performance. If Google offers something that is usable, I would gladly switch to Google Docs.
The fact that you might just be having an episode of impaired cognition does not actually enter your brain.

It depends. I agree that it should. That said that realization doesn't make it less spiritual. Experiencing a different reality, seeing through different eyes, isn't that the quintessential spiritual experience?

We believe what we see. If one never experiences a different point of view, one might continue to believe her limited window to the world is the truth.

Experiencing other realities can help subjects realize how subjective things are. How to form a perception, imaginary fluff is added to fill the gaps. Like your comment.

It's not a silver bullet. One has to be curious, and brave enough to second guess the ego, which is probably one of the most challenging things we face (and might define how and how well we can last as a race). But it doesn't do us any good to underestimate the spiritual power of psychedelics.
I wonder if Steve Jobs went out the same way. The quotes of his final moments sound like he was tripping off _something_
http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/venice/canal-traffic-getting... - "Venice may have no cars but it has plenty of boats and their number has been on the increase over the past years. So much so that the usually tranquil canals of Venice now at times resemble the more chaotic traffic of Rome or Milan."

I counted about 500 boats on the Grand Canal using Google's map imagery, either in motion or moored. (From the train station to Piazza San Marco.) The distance is ~3km. How do you map that to car traffic? Boats carry more than cars and a vaporetti caries more than a bus. After all, the boats carry a good fraction of the 18 million tourists per year.

Boats also need more space and go at different speeds. Did you factor in wake pollution? Quoting the quite work from WPI (http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-122107... ) "it is the only place in the world whose method of transportation has the literal ability to destroy the city." It also describes the effects of noise pollution, and the over 100 years of various attempts at traffic control.

Given all of these differences, how did you base your comparison of the congestion of cars in a normal city vs. that of boats in Venice?
Unfortunately, I'd say that the UX has actually deteriorated in the years I've owned an XBox. As they've tried to push more and more non-game content, access the games has gotten worse.

The other things, like the settings screens, are just as bad as ever.

I wouldn't award Sony's crossbar interface any points either. After a few years (on two systems), I've learned where to go hunt for the 2 or 3 things I usually use... but that's not a complement.

The Wii, despite being sluggish, at least had a UI that made it very quick to launch games. I haven't used a Wii U so I don't know if it's any better. Based on my 3DS, I highly doubt it's objectively "good".
Wittgenstein would be rolling in his grave.

Here's another argument that is parsed exactly the same way as this CyberSpace one:

"Is all that is good beautiful?" As Wittgenstein would note, wonderful intellectual gymnastics, but you've essentially achieved nothing.

The author doesn't understand the concept of a metaphor. No one believes there is a mystical Narnia of 1s and 0s "somewhere out there" - no one reasonable, whose opinion matters at least.

CyberSpace is a way to visually describe certain perceived catastrophes, such as the internet being consolidated into public domains that restrict user rights - whether or not the catastrophes are valid is a separate debate. CyberSpace itself is a valid framework of looking at internet protocols, communities and basic rights. It doesn't necessitate other views.

The author built a strawman argument by trying to invalidate CyberSpace in the "Fax Space" and "Telephone Space" argument. Okay, those two terms don't port easily, but that's only one nuanced area of discussion. Do you really believe you need to view CyberSpace as some sort of sovereign territory to understand what someone is talking about when they say the government is restricting rights? That's not the point. We know there isn't an internet continent/kingdom/nation/whathaveyou being invaded by a host of other nations trying to use it selfishly. That's missing the point. The real point is, if the government has their way, you could lose the ability to make blog posts like this. That's the reality. And whether or not you agree with this argument, that is the argument - not that the internet is being visualized as a sovereign nation of idealist hackers somewhere.

The author's rant on CyberSpace is simply too literal and completely misses the point. It sounds good at first, but when you examine the real logic behind it, the author is not arguing anything that has ever really been said by notable representatives of internet communities. Taking this article's view on "CyberSpace" to it's logical extrapolation, the article must think people who argue against SOPA and PIPA are ignorant of basic linguistics. But really, the author is just being deliberately obtuse for argument's sake, or is simply ignorant of the fact that analogies are not designed to translate perfectly into concrete descriptions. You can break an analogy by stretching it too far. And this is what the author did in analyzing the use of the term "CyberSpace" - extended it too far (and much farther than it is ordinarily used), and then defeated the argument he constructed.
FYI, for whatever reason, trying to sign up in FF for Android I constantly got an invalid email address error. Worked fine through desktop Chrome though.
Preserving JSF Request Parameters and REST URLs
The dawning horror for the console vendors is that the change is already happening around them and on every iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Android, etc device. These already have digital-only distribution. These already have very high-quality GPU's that push almost as many triangles as an xBox 360 or PS3, and are on a faster product-iteration-cycle. Some of these - iPad3 and Samsung Galaxy Tab's - already have higher-resolution screens than your 60" HDTV and many people are using them more hours per day

You could argue a very similar point by replacing mobile devices with PC in your argument. But I console vendors don't look in horror in the PC market.

You are also missing a fairly big aspect of a game console, the games themselves.

many people are using them more hours per day and spending more dollars per device than they ever did on consoles

Do you have a reference for this? Sounds interesting, but I haven't seen the comparison before.
Yea, it still works- but its clunky as my only extra USB keyboard in the house is a huge Unicomp one.
"I tend to think of these things as karmic accelerators. The karma that would usually ripen over 2 years is, instead, experienced in 12 hours."

That might play a role (assuming there is such a thing as karma). However, I think there's a lot more to it.

Psychedelics can be used constructively or destructively, therapeutically, religiously, or recreationally. They can be used with positive intention, negative intention, or no particular intention. They can be used in a safe, pleasant setting, in indifferent settings, or in a scary, unpleasant setting. You could use them alone or with friends, strangers, with wise, knowledgable, trusted guides, or in a mix of any of the above. The person using them may not know what to expect, or might be well educated on the effects of psychedelics. The person might be very experienced or this might be their first trip. The dose of the substance might be small or large. The substance may be pure or impure. The person might fight against the effects of the substance or give in. They may have great respect for the substance or have a very casual or cavalier attitude towards it.

All of these factors and more can greatly affect what happens during the experience. To reduce it all to karma or any other single factor is way too simplistic.
Back in the 1980's IBM lost its way with personal computers, as Microsoft disrupted it with regard to its legacy systems. Looks like MS is in the same position now.