skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google touches normal folks in far more profound ways than NASA's moon shot (How did that turn out? Are we still going to the moon? Oh)

Our GPS satellites wouldn't be in space without the rocket technology developed by NASA.

> and power of google search on it's own revolutionised the web and was a major spur to its uptake.

Google started separating itself from the Yahoo!, Lycos, Excite, etc, pack around very late 1998 into 1999: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#Early_history. That's roughly contemporaneous with "pets.com" which was an exemplar of the .com bubble that most people peg as starting in 1997. In comparison, Amazon was founded in 1994 and IPO'ed in 1997. Hotmail was purchased by MS for $400 million that same year. PG sold Viaweb to Yahoo! in 1998.

The uptake of the web was not only well on its way by the time Google got onto the scene, but the .com bubble was already well on its way by then.

> I mean, if you're talking about google being a mere ripoff of other products that 'came first', why not apply the same ruler to NASA (there were previous rocket programs)

There is a big leap from pre-NASA rocketry (in the U.S.) and post-NASA rocketry. There isn't a big leap (if at all) from iOS to Android. Arguably, MS Office to Google Docs is a regression. A lot of Google's tech is not only derivative, but doesn't even really advance the state of the art. V8 is like Lars Bak's third or fourth implementation of the same basic concept. Gmail didn't really do anything Hotmail didn't do, and the Hotmail acquisition by MS was a decade before Gmail went out of invite-only.

> And classifying a steelmaking company as a tech company is a bit far-fetched.

Steel-making on that scale was cutting edge technology for its time.
If eventually he is able to simply live and forget about how attack life, he´ll do nicely. If he obsesses about how he is struggling and how he is not fitting.. he may end in an infinite loop and going nowhere.
I hope he succeeds.
after watching the video "How it feels", I'm pretty convinced these should be illegal to wear while driving, as they introduce the same amount of distraction as reading texts on your phone.
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In the aftermath of emotional implosion; friends, family, colleagues and even strangers will metamorph into an invasive species from planet Concern.
You okay?
Want me to come over?
Is there anything I can do?
Just let me know man.
We are here for you.
Remember we are all in this together.

It seems the first type is also irritating. And even though I agree it should be met with thanks the first time, if you keep bothering me I will get irritated. Or if many people keep bothering me, even if only once each. I can only imagine it's similar to what the author felt, and why he disconnected.
Sony Announces Playstation 4
I did my college senior design on this.

To put things in perspective, the city of San Jose, CA is currently doing a similar upgrade to the city's traffic signals and controllers at a cost of ~25 million dollars. While it is expected to save money in the long run, that's a serious chunk of change. The project (as government contract jobs tend to do) has also gone several years past its due date.
One thing I, as a non-american, haven't quite understood: do you have to be an American for your vote to count on this website?
Sony PlayStation event Live [video]
>The day we can talk to any stranger dolphin and have a real conversation will be alike to contacting alien life.

Actually, I don't think it will be all that alien. The conversation will probably be quite understandable. You will get conversations about fishing, who's pregnant, who you want to make pregnant, how your kids are doing, the temperature of the water, where the predators are. They probably tell stories, but they will be quite understandable to us. Fundamentally it's because the basic constraints of their lives are just like ours: get raised by mom, have friends, learn to hunt, mate, avoid predators and have fun while you can!
No pun intended, right?

That might actually be a great idea--store all state and federal laws in public Git repos. Each bill introduced to the legislature is a pull request and if they pass it, it gets merged.
I, for one, would love to see a follow up post which discusses specific things Java allowed you to do faster/clearer/better in that context. ... if you're so inclined. It might also be neat to hear about which Java libraries were in play and how they compare to Ruby equivalents.
From that point of view Java or PHP webdev is a better choice, because there is vastly more openings. Learning Rails and/or Django is a more of luxury if you just go to get a job.
"Creating things for money is a fundamentally social act."

Uh!? For years and years I've been writing books (real, printed, published books) and articles. I was probably the most antisocial person in all my friends group and I was also the one making the more money.

I could disappear for months from civilization. My only trip outside would be to go to the grocery store and going to the garage doing the maintenance of my spiffy sport car (bought cash with the money I got from writing). The rest of the time I was writing, during night time. Sleep 6 to 7 hours and wake up at 1 or 2 pm. Take the car for a spin, alone. Rinse and repeat. No social life. No girlfriend. Just work (and the money that goes with it).

Making money and being social are two totally different things.

Especially moreso in that always-on, Internet connected, society were brilliant people can work from home if they want to: there are more and more domains where you can work from home and be as much anti-social as you want.

I know a single mom who runs her entire business from home, updating her websites, receiving her stuff and repackaging them. And she's making a killing money-wise.

A company I was contracting for was shelling big $$$ to south america to two genius programmers: we didn't have a freakin' clue as to wether this guys were socials or not. Doesn't matter.

It's nearly your entire comment which doesn't compute: making money and being social are two completely orthogonal concepts.

Now don't get me wrong: I'm not saying you should be anti-social just for the sake of it or be anti-social and make lots of $$$ just to make a point. Since I've opened a FB account (I barely ever go to the movie but a friend I hadn't seen in ten years convinced me to go see the movie and I kinda liked it, so I opened a FB account, go figure ; )

And now I've got a girlfriend since two years and life is better I'd say. Yet I make much less money than when I was that anti-social books and articles writer.

I wish the author of that entry good luck and, like you (but for different reasons) I think he should try to socialize to some at least some extent.
In the mid-19th century, an author named Lucy Aikin (using the pen name Mary Godolphin) wrote a number of children's novels using words of just one syllable, including versions of "Robin Crusoe" and "Swiss Family Robinson". Every word, save for proper names, had only one syllable.

http://collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com/2008/04/monosyl...

For those interested in taking this challenge, here's a list of over 6000 monosyllabic English words. This is a surprisingly difficult exercise! Unfortunately, the writing style is very staccato.

http://www.one-syllable-words.com/
I would not have been surprised if one of them was using Linux, for a start. Particularly given that the Humble Bundles make a big deal about the games being cross platform.

I'm not an expert on current gaming development, and it just struck me as interesting. Sorry I spoke.
Really great to know, thanks! Do you think you would also be able to help us maintaining and enhancing it? Could you share more ideas regarding the usage of the platform?
Landing on the moon was only quite possibly the pinnacle moment in human technological and scientific achievement, and one of the watershed moments of civilization. Google took something that already existed and made it less of a hassle. Its an achievement not even in the same league.
As someone who is a heavy redditor -- I remember one of my first comments here got downvoted pretty quickly as it was just a snarky, "meme-like" comment that I learned pretty quickly had no place here on HN.

I've appreciated the strict distinction between the two communities, both of which have been extremely enjoyable for varying reasons.
Firstly, apologies for the harsh tone and references in the 3rd person as I see from your other comments that you are the author of the article.

"An admirable direction and quite the opposite of Java." What are you talking, specifics please? Is Java a framework with features comparable to Rails?

I admit this was sloppy wording, however your article is called 'Rails, You Have Turned into Java.' :) I was comparing Rails 4 (removes lots of features/bloat), with Java Frameworks which do not have a reputation for slimming down... Of course I'm sure there are some minimal Java web frameworks out there too (sorry not familiar with many). Your article is somewhat provocative and not representative of the experience of many with Rails so I wouldn't be surprised if you encounter a defensive reaction to this sort of sentiment. That's to be expected, as was the reaction of those using Java frameworks to DHH's blowhard rhetoric when he started out with Rails.

Why is the laundry list of technologies absurd, these are the technologies that I run a business on.

They're absurd as a criticism of Rails because many of them are completely external to Rails, not required to run a website/app, and some of them are not the right choices IMHO. Rails does not require any of these components to run websites even at scale. Sure some of them might be useful, but none are essential or intrinsic to Rails.

Forgive me but I think the choice of RefineryCMS was a mistake, and if you back out of that mistake, you'd find Rails a lot more forgiving, a lot lighter, and a lot more suited to what you want to do if you're writing a large webapp with lots of components (or several interacting webapps). Problems with engines, subapps, conflicting routes etc are all based on this, and simply don't occur in most Rails apps. I've used it as a CMS for some clients and regret having done so in retrospect - it's not terrible standalone (also not great) but I can see how integrating it with an app would be a nightmare. You don't need to use meta-frameworks built on Rails to build an app, in fact I'd say it's a mistake, use a few discrete gems like devise, and just build what you want.
The problem with not trying to fit in with society comes when you lose your job and you need a place to live for a while, or you have a stroke, or you are fighting an addiction to drugs or alcohol.

You can't be a loaner your entire life and then suddenly need someone.

If you don't care about people and you don't bother to have friends there's no one to answer the phone when you pick it up to call for help.

I have struggled with this balance all my life. It's the balance between being exhausted from managing relationships and being alone with no one to call when you need help.
Confo
Ashton may have some nerd cred, but I promise you that your girlfriend/wife/whatever does not see him as a nerd.
>most antisocial person in all my friends group

I don't think antisocial means what you think it means.
This is the most inspiring video I've seen all year. I continue to be amazed at how really decent people can "rub off" on the rest of us.

Thank you very much for sharing it.
Ask HN: How to find good beta users
Dear HN,
I developed an app that uses substantial computing ressources and thus I cannot afford to simply have an open, yes not even a closed beta in the common sense of the word. Nonetheless I'm looking for some users that would take the app out for a ride without breaking the bank.

So my question to you is, how do you find quality beta users without the need to prescreen a large quantity? (That would be impossible as I'm a single dev)
A Murder Of Crows was done in concert w/ CBC, though they may have done their own post-production work (I've only watched the PBS version). Canadians should probably look to the CBC[1] to watch it. There's also an interesting blurb from the director here[2].

[1]: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2009/murderof...

[2]: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2009/murderof...
I was on the internet half a decade before Google became popular and I'm not even that old. It's wasn't nearly as primitive as you make it out to be. Lycos, Altavista, Yahoo!, etc, weren't as good as Google would ultimately be, but they weren't so bad as to be a different kind of thing. I got DSL around the same time (256 kbits SDSL!) Hotmail and Amazon had been around for years.
I think it's a mistake to say that they call each other by "name," because that implies the ability to form concepts/speak a language, and there is absolutely zero evidence for that. Even the article is careful to point that out:

While researchers often hesitate to apply the “l word” -- language -- to non-human communications, bottlenose dolphins and possibly other dolphin species clearly have a very complex and sophisticated communication system.
Hardly the most bitter. Most of it is still assuming misguidedness and ignorance not active malice.
PS4: Sony's next-generation PlayStation announced
Poetry.

Circumcision, like other hazing rituals, is simultaneously pointlessly arbitrary and unnecessarily barbaric.
The article fails to compare Computer Science PhD's who are in high demand and job openings for them far exceed the supply of CS PhD grads.
JPA is fine, if and only if you've got a framework managing the entity manager lifecycle for you in a reasonable way.

In my opinion if I need an entire separate framework (or container) to manage it, I think its broken. I've switched to Ebean for Java ORM and am vastly happier now.

JPA also gets the award for the worst programmatic query building API I've ever seen. As a result it seems like the majority of people just use JPQL strings which is really annoying as its also SQL but not quite SQL.
Apparently Mitsubishi (as well as Sumitomo) bought some of the allowance of emissions - see here - http://www.ee.emb-japan.go.jp/economicrel.html

Apparently that's part of the game with capping the emissions... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading#Emission_mark...

As far as I see - way to go :-)
I bet there would be economic opportunity in developing commercial dolphin-human communication software and interfaces. Imagine how much benefit to deep sea construction and exploration there would be if training and employing dolphins using natural language was possible. Or to shipping, fishing etc.
Hey, unflag this, it's a really decent interpretation and can help wake some people up and let them form better startup culture!
Curiosity rover collects first interplanetary drill sample
You have a great point with regard to search, however, when attempting to look at some older posts on my mobile phone I was very irritated to find out that after opening more than a few of the older posts it blocked me out and told me to use the API!

We're not talking 100 page requests here... we're talking less than 15, but they were all older posts (some a few years).
It sucks that writing is slower than thinking, but it has to be done because thoughts are fleeting. You need enough notes to remember later or trigger recreate roughly the same idea.
Duh! Contact the source :-)
'Idea guys' are common, and almost universally not worth dealing with. If idea guys provided value, why are all the job postings for developers? Why isn't Microsoft trying to H1-B idea guys from India?

This is not to say all non-tech people are worthless. Look for someone with domain specific knowledge and connections. Someone who has a plan to contribute more than just an idea.
No, it's not just a metaphor.

A majority of people literally read their thoughts to themselves using the part of their brain that processes heard speech.

The pool of people you're drawing from are all nerds who are here reading this stuff. Of course they have quiet thoughts.

It's been my experience that there are two kinds of people in this regard: There are those who process their thoughts with the speech portion of their brain and those who do not. Those who do are usually second-handers; people who depend on other people to form their opinions for them; who depend on the input of their peers to form their own thoughts. They need to hear their thoughts in a voice as if hearing them from a peer in order for them to be rational thoughts.

People who think independently and objectively tend to think using mental associations and imagery.
I have Linux, OS X, Windows and Solaris systems at home. The one with by far the best command-line experience is Debian-flavoured Linux. Living without GNU coreutils is all but intolerable on other flavours, while the reliability of apt-get for making almost everything else trivially available is hard to beat.
Another and possibly larger factor is that we cracked down on crawlers.
The College Billionaire maker or the power of connections
Pitching Sequoia? Here’s the big question you’ll need to answer
Sony PS4 Annocement Live Blog
The visited sites view is possible to disable (either under settings, or, at the very least, about:config + search newtabpage (or something along those lines, I can neither remember or test it)), and there is a small symbol in the top right corner that hides the site display.

(Admittedly none of those solve the underlying problem of history being preserved.)
It will no doubt be shocking news to Mr. Weissmann to find out that factors such as a desire to learn more or to make new contributions to human knowledge can motivate aspiring PhD candidates.

"A desire to learn" and "Make new contributions to human knowledge" are laudable goals that I admire. But, even leaving aside the important question of whether grad school as it is currently structured is a good way of pursuing either, it's hard to make new contributions to human knowledge when you're having trouble making enough money to support yourself, and it's frustrating to see your new contribution made when your buddy is working for Google and writing software that millions of people use every day—and getting paid well for it.

It seems not unreasonable to me to balance life / career goals with learning and wealth. The opportunity costs of grad school are incredibly steep. If you are the rare person who doesn't care at all about material possessions or the physical quality of life, then by all means go to grad school. But if you go expecting a tenure-track job at the end—which most people seem to—then you're making a mistake. I am not at all opposed to someone who simply says, "I don't care at all about income."
This was totally obvious to me when I reviewed the product page for the "business in a box":

My first thought was, hmm... no iPad.

Then I thought: "Zero information on the system, apps, features etc that this would offer"

I see a retail cashiers pedestal in a box and nothing more. Also, that receipt printer is $200?!?!?

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A long time ago I wrote here on HN that I thought Square could kill if they really did offer "A business in a box" - but I was specifically talking about all the applications and features of an app that would allow one to run a business and would tie in everything associated with that [Sales, inventory, supply chain, vendor mgmt, financials, etc..etc.. etc...]

This offering looks really weak. Further, given the formfactor of the square reader - the "custom" designed ipad stand looks severely lacking; namely: I would have included a more robust card swiping shroud over the read to make it more sturdy and last longer.

This product appears to only serve to make people feel as though they are Playing Business because they have the cashier stand. This does nothing to actually enable your business/business processes.
Definitely write the Spring 3 blog post! I can't get deep into it right now, but I'd be interested in an overview, especially from someone who uses Rails as well.
I went through a Cetacean and cephalopods obsession last year.

What really freaks me out is what Dolphins looked like when they were still land animals:

http://understanddolphins.tripod.com/dolphinevolution.html

Also the perceptual systems of octopus and squid are amazing. Cuttlefish can perceive the polarization of light. This helps for contrast and edge detection. Many Cephalopods (octopuses, squid, cuttlefish) can see with their arms and then replay the image on the other side like a video screen.

Dolphins can tell the difference between a quarter and a dime from 100m away using sonar. The click generating system emanates from the top of their head, in the area of the third chakra.

We have a very limited sense of space and an all too focused sense of self. But we have a lot of oil and we can dig shit up and drive around real fast and think we are really important.
> Pathfinding is a much easier problem than circuit routing and can essentially be solved in O(n + k) where n is the number of nodes and k is the number of edges between nodes.

What you are describing is the complexity for a single path. But there are lots of units that need to be placed and have their paths potentially interact to achieve some goal. This seems very analogous to circuit routing.
Exploring Windows 8 interface from IT perspective
Very true. On that topic,
"...these communications consist of whistles, not words."
Not to suggest that they're actually speaking a language, but a language consisting of whistles could still easily contain words. It would just have a different set of sounds.
Have you tried discussing the stake with them? What's their response when you tell them you'll be doing most of the work?
Jekyll or any markdown enabled DRCS is the cat's ass. It's beautifully simple and a shift towards social collaboration for content and not just code.
Sony announces DualShock 4 controller with touchpad
Love your comment!!! I have met people who gave me weird looks because I want to do a PhD. And she said "what is so good at doing a PhD. A professor can't make more money than me as a small restaurant owner." She just doesn't get it..It is not about the money...sigh
Performance:
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Value:
- Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/ (US-East, Amsterdam) [KVM/QEMU based, spinup time is under a minute, decent 'basic' API]

As a current customer of both companies, we use Digital Ocean to host our company VPN and development nodes, and PhoenixNAP to host our production sites. (Bandwidth at PhoenixNAP is billed @.05- per gb, very competitive compared to EC2 especially considering they use exclusively premium bandwidth)
Source? I don't believe this since so many levels of confirmation is required. I think the biggest source is the simple links to "KimKSexTape.jpg.exe".
Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets [pdf]
As far as desirable traits, a job can be:
1. Interesting
2. Secure
3. Lucrative

You get to pick two at most, and that's if you're lucky--most people only get to pick one, or none.

Jobs in academia are certainly no exception to this rule.
Can you remove position:fixed from the header css, it makes more sense when that theme is used as a doc but for a blog it is unnecessary.
I'd say having a meaningful conversation with a dolphin would be a much bigger mindfuck.

For all we know we could be discussing how the transition to Kantian philosophy played out slightly different for them in a few years.