skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The basilisk argument, in a nutshell, is this: At some point in the future, a near omniscient and omnipotent being, whose existence is not a certainty, will judge you and may punish you if it finds that the actions you take today are not pleasing, according to its undiscoverable morals, and the fact that you know about this increases the risk of you being punished.

The parallells to religion should be obvious to anyone with the ability to see the bigger picture, but it's somehow reassuring that even the most rational of humans can transform into a religious nutjob and not realize it. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, etc. :-)
All this noise about the problems of the American "system", ignores the fact that America doesn't have a health-care system yet. If the problem in the United States is high-cost, the solution is tort-reform, so that GPs can comfortably practice general medicine and afford their insurance premiums again.

Unless a central "system" is going to indemnify GPs, there won't be a flood of them entering the pool, since their rates will be fixed by central rate tables (maybe, if they are lucky, adjusted for regional cost-of-living) even if only indirectly by maximum benefits needed to maintain minimal legal coverage levels; if they are to remain privately run and thus administratively independent.
I wonder if adding toll booths on either end of the city would be a viable-enough source of income to make up for the terrible traffic in the city.
> The information provided by static in parameter array declarators is not used for optimization.

This is not a reason to avoid the construct, but as yet gcc[1] doesn't optimize it either.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
I use CommandT primarily on my main machine but I also have CtrlP installed and they are both mapped to the same key (<leader>f) in a conditional. If I'm on a machine that has Vim compiled with Ruby, I get CommandT, otherwise CtrlP. Best of both worlds.
Sorry if my comment doesn't please the autistic bias of HN community and greater internet justice. See my response to your sibling comment below.
Got examples? This was the case back in 2005 when I had an iMac (flaky support + lots of "repair disk" issues), but recently I was surprised that my 2008 MB Unibody (+aftermarket SSD) had better support for things like my BT headsets than my 2011 Thinkpad and in general just does it's job quietly.
Because I'm also shopping-around: what are your thoughts on Foundation? What's your problem that Bootstrap doesn't solve?
Address and phone (in addition to email) are exposed. You can do a lookup on www.who.is to see what the info looks like for a domain. I'm not sure how hiding your info would have anything to do with domain hijacking concerns, unless you are easily conned by phishing emails.
With regards to privacy I always ask the converse question; Why would you not choose privacy?

I don't understand which audience you are catering to through domain registration information.
> So given that, if they were going to put some eggs in another basket, why would they choose Ubuntu over Android, which has an existing application base and at least some user awareness?

I agree, Android would be a better second bet. But they don't necessarily need to limit themselves to 2 - look at how many options Samsung is keeping open for example.
'Macronutrients' are not diet 'nutrients'. Nutrients are chemicals the body needs an external supply of. Building blocks for cells and structures. They have nothing to do with metabolism.
This looks great. I'm building http://dokket.aws.af.cm. It's a database filled with documents from the Federal Communications Commission. From day 1, I've been looking for smart ways to make use of the thousands of documents of unstructured text. The customization you offer seems to be the killer feature for me.

I'll write a Ruby api wrapper if you give me an agreed-upon amount of usage when you settle on pricing.

Feel free to email me (HN name @ gmail) if you're interested or just want to follow up for customer development purposes.

Best of luck!
Someday we'll be fondly remembering with our leaders weren't all secluded deep indoors, behind EMP fields, or stuck riding around in popemobiles.
> The greatest shortcoming of free running sleep is that it will often result in cycles longer than 24 hours. This eliminates free running sleep from a wider use in society.
> Ubuntu is predicted to ship on almost 10% of the world’s new branded PCs by 2014

I'm interested to hear more about this.
Can Startup Act 3.0 Reboot Entrepreneurship And America?
Really nice. HN is (to me) way too mainstream, too many people just dump generic news here or in the case off a few major publishers spam themselves.
I think it is important to realize that most students take online courses in college for classes they don't like. Most my classmates take classes they find interesting in person and classes they just want to get done with because it is a required class online. This may explain why students do poorly in online classes, because in general they are classes they don't want to take in the first place and are therefore unmotivated to do well in the class. I have plenty of friends who failed their online English class but use Khan Academy to learn something for fun and do well in it. The difference is that the latter is a subject they care about.
World's First 3D Printing Pen
Nginx gains support for WebSockets
My uneducated opinion is that appointed/career people tend to do better. You do not want to get politics involved, that tends to screw things up.
Video Released Of Shadowy Chinese Army Hacker Unit In Action
News: App companies spending 500K+ to chart boost
Insulin does not cause the body to convert glucose into fat. That process is known as 'de novo lipogenesis', and Lyle is correct that it is very rare.

From a high level perspective, I agree that insulin causes the body to burn blood glucose for fuel. The extra "carbs" don't get magically converted to fat though - they're used to replenish muscle glycogen and perform other actions. It is the dietary fat ingested alongside carbohydrates that gets stored as fat in the body.

Here's a quick summary: http://examine.com/faq/how-are-carbohydrates-converted-into-....

Note: I am not an advocate of ketogenic or otherwise low carb diets. I think a calorie deficit and adequate protein intake is all that you need to lose fat. No diet can work without some sort of calorie deficit, either explicitly or indirectly induced.
EMC Ex-GM Joins ParaBlu Advisory Board
Just so you're aware about the new SimCity, it requires a constant internet connection to play, and there's no way to save/load previous versions of a city. You can't mess around and experiment without doing irreversible damage, which was a big part of the fun.
(at)Jeep Hacked
Firefox introduces PDF viewer to browse the Web without interruption
Ah yes, but then those are fat calories, not "fibre" calories.
Securing a simple HTTP-based API with Ring middleware functions
"Who knows? Sure, we have a technological advantage right now, but micro-drones sure seem like a disruptive technology that will eventually help rather than hinder attempts at asymmetric warfare."

Does this quote remind anyone else of the innovator's dilemma?
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/publications/smsurvey.pdf
Inside a startup's headquarters
Er, that is not at all something all people do.
Agreed. I tried the Retina MBP at the Apple Store when I was getting my iPhone fixed and kept hitting the G and H keys out of habit. I tried to get used to the multi-touch trackpad; after all Apple does make the best in the business, but it just didn't suit me. I just don't see how repeatedly swiping your finger several times to move across the screen is more efficient than a simple shift of weight across a red dot.

It's like the convenience of a mouse and the versatility of a trackball, just better. I got so addicted to it that I had to buy one of these (http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetails/55Y9003/460/60AC6A0372...) for my desktop.
I agree on most points, but there is no way that wacking Ctrl-W +/-/>/< is more pleasant than just moving either your index finger or your thumb a half an inch to use a trackpoint or trackpad and instantly get the window proportions you want.

You can of course make nicer mappings, but even then it isn't as nice.
Web apps just aren't as nice as real apps, and all the existing platforms already support them too. If there's nothing your new platform can do that the existing ones can't, and your message is "just deal with the 80% solution that is the web app world", why would anyone use your new system?
The map size as seen in the beta is about the same size as what will be seen in the retail version. The argument for this is that the new SimCity runs a much deeper simulation compared to previous titles, and that bigger maps would drastically reduce game performance.
> Consumers are end goal but not where it begins.

That's exactly why I don't understand why they continue to produce marketing material rather than actually getting the work done to make a product.

> Of course Canonical is talking to all parties. Do you want them to include you in the discussion?

No, but they seem to be mainly interested in including me, rather than people who might get it done. Is it so hard for a company to call another company? How many years before there was a Nexus tablet did Google tell us they were going to make one? Did their marketing ever send you the message "hey, we don't know anybody at Asus, but if you do, would you mind sending them by our booth at the next convention? Thanks!"
HTC Desire Z (AKA HTC Vision) user here. No ICS firmware. Stuck on Android 2.3.3, so this is my first and last HTC phone - I won't support vendors that don't provide timely updates. 512 MB RAM, but typically only 100-150 MB free, so it constantly reloads/restarts any apps and the HTC Sense UI itself. Google Play in-app purchases don't work.

My next phone will be whatever Google's next flagship phone will be, assuming they fix USB OTG, LTE and microsd-slot. Or some other vendor that is smart enough to use vanilla Android without any "product differentiation". I don't want any custom UIs like HTC Sense or Touchwiz, non-uninstallable bloatware (looking at you Samsung: Kies, ChatON, etc.) and app-breaking UI 'enhancements'.
Hosted Static Analysis for Ruby Source Code.
What information is exposed:

Any information you put as far as your contact info. Name, address and phone number, email.

Spam is not an issue and if you feel that's a problem simply use a gmail account that forwards to your real account. People also scrape web pages so you already have your email on your webpage anyway. Personally I own plenty of domains (for many many years) and I don't even get that much spam.

As far as domain hijacking there is nothing about your domain to indicate you have to worry about losing it (who would hijack it and why would they?) If anything if the info isn't public then nobody (but the registrar) even knows that you own it because that ownership is hidden.

And in the event it is hijacked you can get it reversed.

Bottom line is this: privacy for some people might be good in some cases. In general though I think (based on owning a registrar and many years in this business) think it's a bad business idea. Registrars push it because it's good for them (keeps competitors out) and some charge for it or if they don't they make you think you are getting something of value. I've seen cases of real businesses using privacy with business addresses who have no reason to protect anything (which shows how they are being mislead).

Bottom line: You've taken the time to create something make sure people know who you are and how to contact you (should also be on the website) maybe you will get some work or contacts etc.
I have a repo with 3000+ files and I can't notice any delay searching with CtrlP. I have the following custom file listing command in my vimrc:

let g:ctrlp_user_command = {
\ 'types': {
\ 1: ['.git/', 'cd %s && git ls-files'],
\ 2: ['.hg/', 'hg --cwd %s locate -I .'],
\ },
\ 'fallback': 'find %s -type f'
\ }
How do they know it's the same hackers? If they are only assuming they should state so.
A calorie is not a calorie. Fructose could be the problem, and Robert H. Lustig explains what he believes to be true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Write like a programmer
c't has a lang duration test where it became obvious many SSD's were dying long before they should according to the theoretical numbers. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available for free: https://www.heise.de/artikel-archiv/ct/2012/03/066_SSD-Zerst...

This technology is too dependent on software to make these kind of models even remotely approximate reality.
It is just an internal project name. If we open source the map reduce library we can always rename it.
Still killing Safari -> Versión 6.0.2 (8536.26.17), Mountain Lion 10.8.2
GungHo grossing estimated $2M daily from a single mobile game
What video card are you using? Mine was apparently too old, so I'm looking for a new one.
When Unity came out, I reverted to gnome-classic for a while and tried Cinnamon, but found it to be the least stable - my system would occasionally freeze. Now I'm on Unity. It has improved to the point that it meets my needs (granted, I've only got one or two monitors running at a time) and stays out of the way. (I've got Docky running, which I find makes it easier to switch between applications.) I have also come to appreciate the elegance of the HUD as I've learned to use it.
"Now, I do not see any any German learning Hindi or Korean. Do you?"

"Now, I do not see any any German learning Hindi or Korean. Do you?"

Yes, I do. I see them learning languages that they are likely to find a use for beyond their own. Many Germans speak two languages, and many can get by in three. The Dutch are generally fantastic; I know Dutch people who are conversational in four. Most Indians I meet get by in Hindi, English and often a third local dialect.
How To Install KDE Plasma Active On Nexus 7
Where did I say you weren't?

I said you have twisted values and ridiculous expectations, which you do.
FYI: You could've just dumped that raw log data into Mixpanel and we would've given you an incredibly beautiful cohort report. We have an API:

https://mixpanel.com/docs/api-documentation/importing-events...

Since you already know the events in your DB, you could've just named them whatever they were. It would've been a smaller script to just import the data into Mixpanel.
They use Qt for mobile apps, but I don't think they use the whole KDE environment. For instance, I really really doubt that the KDE daemons are running, and they aren't using the K* apps either.

As for porting, I think they have a consistent story - use Qt everywhere. It's clear that they're moving to Qt, and while I expect they will continue to run other peoples' GTK apps on the desktop, I doubt they'll be writing many more of their own.
Schemes and Lisps have memory model, it's just one that's radically different enough from processor memory models that no-one realizes it's a memory model and thus no-one gripes about it being different from processor X's memory model.

If you're wondering what the memory model is, you should ask yourself: What happens when I mutate a cell? are those changes visible in references to that cell? are those changes visible across thread boundaries? What happens when I dereference a cell? Does it continue to take up memory or is it garbage-collected? What if it's part of a cycle?

But I digress; your point was actually about languages that don't talk about memory, such as the lambda calculus. A degenerate memory model is still a memory model, and an inherently portable one at that. My point is, for languages which do talk about memory, it's necessary that they specify how that memory works in order to be a portable language.
Make a transaction and they'll reappear. At least, they did for me.
Microsoft at the crossroads: Evolve or divide
Microsoft At The Crossroads: Evolve or Divide
Yep, and xterm is also aware of them...
Nice. I was thinking about trying to do something like this but with one small added feature. The ability to automatically share the file and inform a group of users that a new file has been shared.

If you could setup groups and then once the file is uploaded to dropbox notify the people that belong to the group (either have a separate address per group or perhaps parse the subject for which groups should be notified).
Sure, but a lot of this is pure scifi at this point.
Can't, I have 0 balance error when I try.
Ranking and Tracking WordPress Plugins
Indeed, the city size is pretty limited. I don't think with their new GlassBox engine, your hardware is able to support big cities.
That's not about putting their eggs into separate baskets, it's about Nokia's shortcomings in terms of both management and engineering.

I worked very closely with Nokia during that time period. As closely as one could work without being directly employed (we deployed a product directly to the S60 baseline).

What happened at Nokia was the end result of years of engineering neglect. Symbian was a monster. It was poorly engineered in general, and certain subsystems (like messaging) had a reputation for simply being impossible to work with. It was just a huge mess.

The UI saga was just another symptom of that mess. That touchscreen phone referenced in the article? It existed well before the iPhone in various incarnations. They spent years trying to push that thing over the finish line, and failed. The underlying graphical subsystems gave them problems. The new form factors presented by the emergence of touchscreen slate devices proved at odds with a whole host of assumptions made throughout the (huge) Symbian/S60 codebase.

The whole thing was just a giant hot mess.

It's possible that competing internal frameworks could have worked. The ultimate problem is that they never developed one compelling UI paradigm/library that actually worked. Much less worked in a well integrated way across the whole platform.

Nokia failed at project management. They failed at engineering. They failed at leadership.

Now they're just another OEM.
Wow. Small dev teams are at a serious disadvantage.
For a few months, I've been working some serious hours and as a result slept about 5-6 hours per week nights. For one week now I've forced myself to sleep 8 hours even during the weeks, and noticed my productivity shoot up. It is worth it!

Tldr of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5123bba2793151711c00001b/good-sleep-goo...
There are replies to the tweets
https://twitter.com/nsillik/status/303650076549591040

@teevers @jacobparrish yup. It was fixed for me at about 4pm pacific yesterday.
I'm interested to see how this compares to the pixel binning on the iPhone 5.
Everything causes death; I would not discourage running a marathon based on your anecdote.
more like instead of Foundation since it uses Compass+Sass.

I just glanced at it and it seems extremely close to Foundation, it even uses orbit. I like the tooltips and the forms, the documentation is actually better than the Foundation one. I don't particularly like the grid system as it works in ratio (feels like you have to do more math).
You can disable it with:

boxen --no-fde
re: git changes, after seeing such a plugin for sublime (https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter) I went ahead and implemented the same thing for Vim (https://bitbucket.org/sirpengi/iwilldiffer). The plugin is still in beta status yet with compatibility, and I should make it easier to install with the various plugin managers as well as make the feature async (right now, the UI blocks waiting on the diff command). But otherwise, I'm using it daily and it supports mercurial as well as git.
I really hope they get the tablet interface right. Unity on the desktop has been a bumpy road. Although it's getting better, each release has its quirks. I'm having a lot of issues with their new web app integration for instance.

Since Ubuntu on the tablet is a literal clean slate, they can at least avoid the puzzle of making existing applications fit their desktop guidelines. A lot of popular apps still don't use the app menu for instance (GUI version of Vim, Eclipse, and even that new Steam for Ubuntu).
I have space mapped to execute the macro in 'q':

noremap <Space> @q

This lets me set a macro by first wacking qq, then q to finish, and then replay it by wacking space. I find myself using quick throw-away macros that only have a use for maybe 10 seconds far more often with this setup. (Plus wailing on the spacebar to get work done can be really satisfying ;)
New Publishing Platforms (spreadsheet to collect from Anil Dash)
The "self" link confused me at first. My eye happened to catch it before I saw any of the other links, so I thought it meant it was linking to my reply in that thread.

I'd like to propose "news.ycombinator.com" instead of self, which would also be consistent with the other domain names listed for each article.
A Game of Type-Safe Tic-Tac-Toe
I've seen gcc turn a const bool& into a direct pass of a bool by value. Of course, I noticed this because it was the implementation of a web service binding, and the wrapper was going to pass me a bool& (as a pointer) whether I liked it or not. Instant segfault...but not always :(
Chances.
Apple Says It, Too, Was Attacked by Hackers
Not huge blame, but browser makers are making it harder to understand what's going on what how to use the web - obfuscating the URL - taking off parts of it, sometimes hiding the entire URL bar altogether.

Similarly, 'cookies' are 'scary' - there's no visual indication in a browser of what's going on with cookies, what they are, what they hold - you have to dig deep in 'preferences' then 'advanced' or 'security'. Instead of easier to use tools, we get legislation around cookies. WTF?

Don't get me started on certificates...
> Opera has said they will leave all the core stuff to Google and just modify UI and other stuff on top.

False. Opera has said they will contribute to both WebKit and Chromium.

> But it is the case here when Opera is using an enormous codebase by a huge corporation

WebKit is not Google's codebase.
6.7 million households went hungry in 2012. How are those "other mechanisms" working out? Source: http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/us_hunger_facts.ht...
Tim O'Reilly on Open Government
Question, and I'm not being pedantic: Have you ever changed the spark plugs on a 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo?
> 3. Nokia backing up this project?

I would love for this to happen (heck, my N900 and N9 show that Nokia + Linux = fantastic device) but I fear that as long as Elop is at the reins, this is an impossible dream. This is the same CEO who even went so far as to ditch Qt less than a year ago, remember.
Just checked and my balance was ok. But it did freak me out that I couldn't see my balance before I agreed to a new user agreement which included me waiving my rights to join a class action lawsuit.
Show HN: 8tracks Downloader
Thanks for the explanation! I'm not comfortable with sharing my address and phone number yet. This information seems like a good starting point for social engineering attacks. OK, I know, I'm paranoid. Give me some time. :)
We had a display bug introduced over the weekend which showed incorrect cached balance amounts. Definitely frustrating, and my deepest apologies for that. We are working through support requests and should have a fix out for your account by end of day. Thank you for bearing with us!
Here's a forum doing write tests on a variety of mlc and slc drives...ongoing:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS...

Also, most MLC has between 10k and 1k writes, not 100k. TLC is even worse!
Students get class-wide As by boycotting test, solving Prisoner's Dilemma