skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this response, I'm going to tell you that I think it's pedantic and wasteful, and mainly done to take up extra space.

It's my honest opinion that people do this because they want to take up extra space, and because they vaguely remember someone in school telling them "that's how you should write an essay." But that doesn't mean it's appropriate. In many cases, it simply adds bloat. Unnecessary scaffolding upon which nothing hangs but empty air.

In conclusion, I disagree with you, because I think the form is overused and leads to pervasive snoring. It could be used well, but if it were I wouldn't be complaining about it. I have now explained why I think this is and now I invite you and/or the reader to draw your/their own conclusion/s.
I have to admit, I like the flat button also but I appreciate you mocking up different versions. I dont think that a button needs to be raised to make people think they can press it. Look at the iOS settings page as an example. These buttons are completely flat. http://cl.ly/image/2j2m3I2R2x1z
Likewise for chrome on android
Yes, well, I suppose I could fit all of Firefox on one page as long as you only look at the main() function and not any of the functions that lead up to it. But that doesn't really tell you much about Firefox, does it? And the fact that there are primitives like pthread_create() and pow() underneath at sufficiently low level doesn't really say much either.
It depends on how you define "analytics." The problem continues to be the same: There's too much data, and we can't make sense of it. It seems obvious, but this simple concept has huge ramifications.

Different ways of approaching making use of that data are huge swings: look at how other search engines tried to make sense of the web vs. how Google did it. Look at how the dozens of analytics companies tried to make use of your web analytics vs. how Omniture did it.

In a more modern example, look at how much content is generated every day on social networks, or how much data healthcare facilities have resting in different silos that is completely unusable to them. There's a lot more that needs to be done.
It would be fun to set up a fully automated "take photo of Medeco key from 2 angles and with/without flash", decode, print, and mail to you service for key duplication.

I'm not sure what it would take to decode a lock and produce a key with a zero-skill operator onsite.

Then of course a simple database of geolocation to fire department to key. I wonder if Knox is bad with key control and just assigns sequential/related keys based on when cities ordered the system, or per geographic area. Or if maybe there's a master keying system in effect -- city and county departments in a given region having everything masterkeyed so mutual-aid could happen. Or just how big the given area for a key is.

The silly thing is people have known mechanical keys are ~worthless for the past 15+ years.
I didn't get any sense of victimization from the article. I got the sense of someone who was coming clean on a bad choice they'd made, and bearing witness to the consequences of said choice. In fact, she did so in a quite self deprecating fashion.

From your comment I assume that you only respect people who have made correct and logical choices throughout their lives, and/or people who make bad choices, bear the consequences, and don't tell anyone about them (lest they appear to be self absorbed). You are certainly welcome to only respect said people, though I hope that if you ever make a bad choice that the people around you will be more compassionate.
No, you really, really don't. Because then your feed would be totally worthless, dominated by whoever pumps out the most stuff.
A large part of the blame lays on her.

IMO adderall's mechanism is much more severe on neurons than methylphenidate. It's very well proven that amphetamine/methamphetamine increases the level of free dopamine in the cytosol which are prone to auto-oxidation to quinones. This wreaks all sort of havoc over the long-term.

Methylphenidate(ritalin) and its stereoisomer stay cleanly outside the presynaptic neurons and only blocks NET and DAT from pumping NE and DA back inside the cell. Unlike amphetamine, it doesnt disrupt the pH gradient of the vesicle membrane and cause an abnormal amount of dopamine to leak and accumulate in the cytosol.

Personally, I would never take adderall/vyvanse/dexedrine.

As a counterexample, let me give you my experience.
After being prescribed focalin, my gpa shot through the roof. This stuff actually improved my health.

How?

Instead of pulling all nighters and procrastinating like I used to, this stuff allows me to get work done weeks early and go to sleep on time.

I learned calculus in 1 week, bought a piano and taught myself how to play moonlight sonata 1st mvt and kiss the rain in 3 weeks (working on bach air in d major at the moment).

Oh yea, I also read the entire lehninger biochem book and bernard milller's advanced organic chemistry for fun in my own time. Then a whole world of research papers were discovered through the uni library subscription :>

This stuff allows you to learn at an alarming rate if used properly.

I don't drink alcohol on days of studying because it prevents LTM formation, you're basically wasting your time studying if you do this.
Also I never waste my time with people while medicated. This stuff can make you socially awkward and kill your sense of humor. Take it only for the singular purpose of learning and getting work done.

I took extra care with my health, ate blueberries, avocado, eggs, brocoli, meat, etc., lots of lycopene, astaxanthin, R-lipoic acid, melatonin and 8 hours of sleep.

Tolerance will go up very slowly with frequent breaks and essentially goes back to zero with a month break. For adderall, this will take much longer, some people will even develop permanent tolerance that will never go away.

On days when I dont take focalin, I sit around, sip on a beer and browse HN ;)
what I find interesting is that when I use the ADD medication, I'm far more likely to go to bed and get up at a semi-reasonable time. Unsurprisingly, (as it's a stimulant) it also makes it far more likely that I'll work out.

But yeah. Frictionless organization. and don't hesitate to hire things out. I mean, think about what you want to do yourself and what you want to hire out, but don't think about it from a cultural acceptability standpoint. Think about it from the perspective of "how do I get a reasonable return for my time?"

A whole lot of my coping consists of changing my lifestyle to fit how I act (which is shockingly easy compared to changing how I act.)

When I'm not medicated, I simply have to plan my life so that what needs to get done gets done in fewer hours of effort. I'm going to screw off some of the time; medication aside, I haven't figured out how to change that. So, do I clean out the office? or do I pay someone else to do that? cleaning out the office will take just as much effort on my part (well, really, rather more effort) than configuring the routing and scheduling downtime for the move to the new datacenter.)

The other thing I've found is that I'm way better at context switches and unexpected emergencies than most people. I mean, it's not so much that I do well during those situations as that I don't do any worse than I normally do in those situations. I mean, I'm distracted as-is, right? so the pager going off isn't really that big of a deal. (and, well, the 'emergency rush' is one way to get non-medicated me off my ass.)

So yeah; I mean, if I was in a McDonalds kind of situation, where peak performance didn't matter... where I just had to perform at a minimal level, but show up on time and always meet that minimal standard? I would really, really struggle, no matter what tricks or drugs I used. So I spend a lot of effort trying to construct a lifestyle and a workstyle where my weak points don't hurt me so much, and where my strong points really help.
Show HN: my business-oriented data analysis profile
To put in perspective:

_____~10000000 (10 million) dollars in bitcoin transactions a day [1] verses

~5000000000000 (5 trillion) dollars in daily foreign currency trades worldwide. [2]

[1] http://s831.us/XIQoZ7
[2] http://s831.us/XISAQb
I happily trade off the security of banks for the freedom of Bitcoin. It's an easy trade. I can watch out for myself.
I think so too, this is truly a genius idea for both freelancing as well as product people.

That I found this site after checking out a developers particularly good answer->profile->blog ( http://peterlyons.com/problog/2013/03/airpair-on-techcrunch ) over at StackOverflow probably speaks for itself.

Being my own honcho/dev I totally can see myself using this for code reviews and possibly even more!
Thanks for this article! As someone who is just getting into the field out of University, I love to absorb as much as possible on this topic and read different points of view.
> you spend less time reinventing the wheel

I've found this to be totally the opposite: my time in Java is much less productive. There are many libraries in Haskell which aren't even possible to write in Java (automatic differentiation, parser combinators, lenses, etc.)

> very few haskell programmers that are interested in doing boring work

Nobody is interested in doing boring work, or it would be interesting work. Nothing to do with Haskell programmers.

Hiring (good) Haskellers is easy because there's a demand for jobs. It's as simple as that.
Let me programmatically set the ip you point to and I will give you money
Not necessarily an unbiased article, since the author is the VP of Marketing at PBWorks; an online collaboration tool. http://pbworks.com/about-us
I would assume that one of the major reasons in holding bit coin is still to sell it at some point (until a large amount of people accept it)

Meaning that once it hits a certain level people will start cashing in and crash the price again?
I went looking for it, and it appears in a handful of places:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22le...

But the sparseness of the hits leads me to think it's not a real quote, or it's been reworded -- something like that.
I'm not talking about grassroots, and in fact I don't really believe the Tea Party was ever anything more than a covert big-money lobby that got wildly out of hand. But money is not what wins elections— it's the votes that get counted at the end of the day.

We're all so predictably unparticipatory that spending a hundred million dollars to move the needle a few tenths of a percent one way or the other makes good political sense. If everybody showed up to vote, that would simply not be true. That's the point I've been making this whole time.
Brogue's gameplay also is extremely well-rounded.
The thing is that you are sacrificing your freedom to it. You're being slowly locked into another incompatible platform.

One of the great freedoms of open source software is to go "fuck you disty, I'm off to another one". When all your stuff is coded against Mir, Upstart and Unity, you no longer have that luxury.

Also, beauty is only skin deep.
The hoopla is not from normal users. They don't understand it, and generally like it if they do.

It's advertisers that are frothing at the mouth. Personally, I think it's a very good thing Facebook puts the interests of users above those of advertisers, at least up to some point.
I think it would be reasonable to have a Rogue-like with a narrative if the death of your character did not mean the death of the world. Maybe dying would mean that you had a new character in the same world. Omikron: The Nomad Soul had a similar mechanic (although it was non-random).

[edit] Shiren the Wanderer also has a notion of progress that is saved even though your character will die.
My take away is "holy crap, 10 million bitcoin a day is trading hands. That's a lot!"

Especially for a fledgling currency with staunch opposition by traditional bankers and financial markets because it solves a lot of problems that make them a lot of money.
Very, very improbable -- the risk to Earth from this comet is much less than the risk from any number of similar objects in unrelated orbits. And the latter risk is very low.

The fact that this comet is going to approach Mars doesn't mean it presents any plausible risk to Earth.
Lockheed's Skunk Works: fusion power in four years?
I rather understood the original link to offer that dichotomy in the last sentence of the third paragraph: ‘Taking away features can be so much harder than adding features, but subtracting often creates the most value for your users.’. But, yes, your example is exactly what _should_ be done, but is often much harder to do than to ‘simply’ reduce everything to the simple UI.
> I think most users do want Twitter-like 100% visibility.

Well, you're wrong.
Ok, thanks. Fair enough. The About page on his site was rather uninformative.
The compiler would have to see all code that is linked with the app, including the Android runtime that calls into the app's code in various ways.

In Java land these kinds of fancy optimizations usually happen in the JVM JIT at runtime. Would this help the size of those tables in Android's Dalvik/dexopt setup? In any case you can't ship a custom version of Dalvik with your app.
I thought `-f-via-c` was removed long ago.
I am most certainly not an idealist, but I take it as a compliment to be called one.
Weirdly, nobody is complaining about the contrast. This might all seem crisp on a high-def screen in good lighting conditions, but try a cheap tablet or laptop and evaluate again. Elderly have tremendous problems reading the labels on the buttons. Try the firefox plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/wcag-contrast... to evaluate the contrast.
Non-Profit LGPL
Is this the iphone app for Megaupload?
Is Bitcoin a bubble?
The latter is extremely vulnerable to corruption and exploitation. The housing will become dilapidated, the food will become as bad as public school lunches. If you fix it to the living wage as determined by economic theory, you are getting a real currency you can utilize, vs. easily corrupted resources. It is very easy to say "I'm supposed to get a check for $X, but I got $Y" but hard to protest poorly maintained state housing and food rations.

You do bring up an important consideration, but the thing is that something like BIG is just that - a fixed paycheck derived by increased taxes. I almost wouldn't be surprised if switching over that today would barely increase tax rates over current social welfare in place, just because it cuts out a significant managerial overhead when its just "ship checks to all social numbers over 18 that are still alive" or even "ship checks to registered voters", though the latter would probably be struck down in court.

People who can't manage the money they get would still end up in conditions like anyone broke today, except in their case they can expect new money next month. Unlike the perpetual hole you easily get yourself in currently, if you are getting a living income regularly, rebounding after declaring bankruptcy isn't as catastrophic. It should, hopefully, only require some moderate counseling to manage money, else you have a more severe issue that is best solved through mental health professionals.
Crysis 3 Performance, Benchmarked On 16 Graphics Cards
> If it really is that big, and if the comet were to hit the side of Mars facing Earth (it seems that it might do, but it might also hit the far side)

...
Still seems like a ridiculous number, though of course far less ridiculous especially for Java code with its legacy of setters and getters for even basic properties and FactoryOfFactoriesFactory classes.
I can confirm this as well. I have a mid-2012 MPB retina with a 500.28 GB APPLS SSD SM512E (vs. the author's SD512E) and the fan has recently acquired a life of its own. I can understand it going berserk when the CPU is busy, but this happens even while its utilization is below 10%.

Very frustrating. Paid $3k for this machine and use it mainly for Pro Audio recording, so the noise really hurts... Wanted to buy a Mac Pro instead but, alas, last year's update was a joke. It's getting really hard to be a customer of Apple's high end machines, even for someone who likes their stuff and is gladly willing to pay.
Related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321634
Why apply? Just get a name tag.

If you want to confirm acop id you know where to call/go... With a dhs employee, you don't.
I suspect that the opposite is actually the case; If every time you looked at the newsfeed you saw 50 new items of which 45 are uninteresting, you'd leave and not come back the next day.
The Wealth & Health of Nations
Unless you are drinking more of it every day, there is probably nothing more than placebo by now.

Anyway, caffeine works in vastly different ways. It blocks adenine receptors (which keeps your heart rate and blood pressure high), it does not flood the brain with neurotransmitters used in parts of the brain responsible for learning, retention and the reward system.
Yes, but like that 'main', all those short proofs are full of holes. For example, Euclid assumes readers know what he means when he talks of prime numbers, what multiplication and division are, how they work. For example, given p and q, how many different r's can there be such that r=p/q? Given n and p>1, how do we know p does not divide n * p + 1? Is it always possible to write a number as a product of primes?

Each of these may lead to new branches of mathematics in which Euclid's theorem does not hold or only holds in a restricted way.

I am not denying that writing automated proofs is a nuisance, but you also get more in the process. For proofs like this, barely anything more, but surely, the promise is there.
>He says that data can be gathered showing how many people see a particular painting or share it online, and thus reach conclusions on how successful an artist is.

Wouldn't this just lead to art becoming a new form of spam when people try to game this system? Not to mention that not all art is painting or can be easily shared.
StartupBus Day 2: Arizona
VP of Marketing at what? Haven't heard of them. He should get back to doing his job instead of slinging mud at third party entities.
I've actually heard it said that the benefits of allowing it to hit Mars would be greater, since we would learn a lot from the event and use that knowledge to explain what happened to our own planet 65 million years ago. In addition, some scientists mentioned the possibility that an impact of such magnitude might help terraform Mars (although admittedly I've only heard the soundbites and haven't looked into the actual science of it).
The case for paid email - Esther Dyson
> There are many libraries in Haskell which aren't even possible to write in Java (automatic differentiation, parser combinators, lenses, etc.)

So you're saying Alan Turing was wrong? Publish your finding, win a Nobel Prize.

You didn't say it would be difficult, you said it wasn't possible.

Here's the breakdown:

1. Haskell is compiled into machine code.

2. Machine code doesn't care or reveal where it came from.

3. Points (1) and (2) demonstrate that any algorithm that can be written in Haskell, can also be written in machine code.

4. Therefore the claim that Haskell's libraries cannot be written in Java is false.
2013 MBP 15" 256GB (APPLE SSD SD256E Media). Downloaded the song and right around the 1:47 mark the fans started going crazy :\

This also happened to me after I purchased the MBP and started it for the first time, about an hour in. Out of nowhere it just started spinning the fans to the max. Has been over a month without it happening, but this song made it do the same every time.
Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered.
It shouldn't. At least, if you believe all the reports of geeks who've "quit" caffeine. They nearly all say they feel more energetic, sleep better, etc.
>>It probably doesn't help that we go around parroting the ludicrous notion that you don't need math to program.

I thought the consensus was that it really depends on the type of problems one is trying to solve, and that most programmers can in fact get away with knowing little math.
Did they really just promise fusion power within four years? I don't know why I'm seeing this on HN...it should be trumpeting and blasting through our media like wildfire. I mean, this is an article's dream - no details, extravagant claims (which I hope are true), and a high profile company. I can't wait for this to be on the NYT.
To add to this, I'd suggest adding an 'email me' option if things are slow on the site. Waiting on a website longer than 20-30s is painful but receiving a well formatted email within 10mins (with the same info) can still feel like magic.

It's a stop-gap but could work well in this case.
Ablation is the best bet if you need to move something as much as possible as fast as possible. And for that you want a device which outputs a lot of EM radiation at tremendous power levels and ideally is as compact as possible in order to transport it near enough to the object. Nuclear weapons meet all those criteria and so are likely to be the best tools for pushing around big rocks quickly on short notice. You simply explode them at an appropriate stand-off distance and the energy release of mostly soft x-rays causes the surface near the explosion to ablate, generating thrust.
Having spent the mid 2000s to late 2010 doing mostly web development with having to support IE6 and IE7 and presently doing more Android development, I would gladly take Android 2.3 to IE6 or even IE7 any day.

Microsoft provided no compatibility library for IE6/7 or ease of use while Android's makes it really easy to backport along with using third party tools like ActionBar Sherlock and Holo Everywhere. Only thing really missing is going back to 2.2 (with the download api) and that's now < 10% of the market share.

In short, people that claim Gingerbread is the new IE6 are either ignorant of the Android development process or are mostly spreading FUD. I'm not the only developer out there that agrees[1]. Biggest hassle is really various DPIs and resolutions and having to provide resources for 3-4 types[2] (depending on what one supports). Though one has to do that for iOS as well to a point. Nothing under 480x800 though really matters if one is doing 2.2+.

[1] http://getmoai.com/blog/android-fragmentation-maybe-not-such...

[2] http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support...
From my experience the FB app is one of the worst apps on my phone. The messaging notifications are crap, the reloading of my feed is crap (aka doesn't load notifications or in an unpredeictable manner). I have much more complex apps on my phone which show no such behaviour, yet it somehow is a Dalvik problem? Mhhh... How many Twitter apps and FB apps are there that are snappy and behave well ( = much better then the FB app!)..
plus: http://blog.metricshub.com/2013/03/04/future-of-metricshub/

>>As for the future – we’ll have more to share on that – in the future!

:-)
Sad day. but its a fairly good shell. However it inherits loads of the same bugs as the android chrome beta. Including the one that led me to stop using it at all which is where it resizes links incomprehensibly. Opera mobile presto still renders better in my opinion. it also has fewer issues with pinpoint link selection when zoomed out.