skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An animals original genesis should have no impact on the value of its life. If you had a clone created of yourself would it be ok if you harvested it of its organs? What if someone else did? Now if you could just grow a loin or a liver or a breast in isolation from an animal that might be different...
Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client.

Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers for almost a decade - Long may it continue!
I want to first thank you for being nicer!

Could you explain why the explosion of human population in the last several thousand years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg) is possible, and why it does not imply success? Particularly with the limited resources we've overcome with the advent of crop rotation, agriculture and farming, technology, etc. - and the limited resources today we are still solving for and continually will do so?

It looks like we need a criterion for "success" and "evolution" and "progress"! I would love to hear your input.
Really cool, looking forward to giving this a try.
Yes seaside is still in active development and there is progress on getting a nice configuration working on Pharo 2.0. Until then you can use our manual build from https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/Seaside-2.0/ to test it.
And we're eager to top this in the following years ;)
Great Milestone to all Smalltalk diehards. Kudos to the Pharo Team.

Serves up a bigger notice of stuff that will happen in the next two years... Smalltalk is definitely on upsurge, if Pharo beats up the drum and the momentum like this.

Will look forward to fervent Smalltalk with Pharo in the decade ahead.. through all enterprise works..
I am disappointed no one talks about hosting their own. Mod me down if you want, proud user of Tiny Tiny RSS, which comes with a Web UI, a mobile app (costs money, but still cheap), and a pretty cool API for a simple PHP app. Some of us learned our lesson, and will not moved to another crappy "service" that will shut down in a few years. Just like I do not host my blog on Posterous.

https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS
This sucks. weev is an asshole and troll, but he's also a friend, and he hasn't done anything a lot of other people don't do routinely. I hope he gets a suspended sentence, but I think the 50/50 is he'll get ~3 years in total, served at least 1.5y in a federal prison.
This is not really a well thought out discussion.
I translated the Spanish version:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Como-Vivir-Veinticuatro-Horas-melusi...
$10m for 10k companies is way too less. It stacks up to one grand per company. Really? That less, they might as well not invest. Compared to startup Chile, they give $40k as the article itself says. India is not a very costly country compared to Valley, but 50k rupee is nearly not enough, even to get the company going, let alone sustain it for a few months. And as far as I can tell, it is not even an incubator type programme.
Joel on Software: barriers to entry [2000]
Annex - this rather illuminant book :

http://www.nature-of-computation.org
You could always write a rant about how good stuff doesn't make it to the front page; usually that has a better chance of showing up in the front page than the good stuff itself.
well done with keeping this app running! I switched from Reader as soon as I noticed, and I've been reading my feeds through NewsBlur the last couple of days with no problems (after an initial setup delay)!

I have a couple of comments on how the UI works, but I'll consider those as time goes by and send you more specific feedback then (mostly I'm annoyed by things that work differently to google reader, so I'll hang back and see if they convince me...)
"prove that the client machine you're running on can be trusted"

Well your remote server prover, is going to need a bunch of unit tests and some kind of load testing "system" for scalability testing, so rather than piling dozens of physical clients on your desk you may as well make a client emulator that can run in a virtual image... Oh whoops. That means anyone can run the emulator until it authenticates, then hit pause and start dumping memory to see your "secret"

Basically if you can define "it" to run on a turing complete machine, "it" can be run on any other turing complete machine. You may have some interesting games to play with timing and speed but that's usually not too hard to work around if the emulator is more powerful than whats being emulated, or if the protocol is sloppily implemented (which is the norm)
Maybe that's one reason. I think there are other reasons too.

Why do people want degree graduates? Because it shows they can finish things, because it shows they are smart? because it shows they have drive? Many reason are given for hiring grads.

Somebody with a PhD in comp sci would have pretty much proven they are good with very difficult problems and have the drive to see things through to completion.

What qualities do you think it takes to finish a PhD? Some employers seek out those qualities and a PhD is a good indication that you have those qualities.
What magical mythical land is this?
True! And releases so close in time: awesome.

Also, on iOS and OSX, one can use a WebView in the VM which is showing HTML/JS genereated amber served from the image.

That's close late binding.
Cypriot Bank Seizures Have You Down? - Introducing Bitcoin.
At least at first, stop comparing yourself with others. Compare yourself today with yourself yesterday and look for improvement. This is absolutely not your last chance to get your life back on track. Your last chance won't occur until you are on your deathbed. And maybe look a little beyond HN. There are people out there who are still asking, optimistically,"what do I want to be when I grow up?". . .and enjoying the journey, which is rarely a straight line, travelled through a fraction of your life.
Blog: Using Google Apps as a cloud based Identity Provider
Why divert your users to Okta or Salesforce Identity to federate to Google Apps? SecureAuth Google Apps based IdP requires no on premise equipment and allows you to federate to other cloud based services and even internal services.
What the fuck is "the established ruling system" besides a representative democracy, if we're talking about the US, at least?

Sounds like one of those trite propaganda-esque phrases that don't really mean anything.

Government in the US is far from perfect, but it's not some big conspiracy theory either.

If you want to see a real rebellion, look at Syria. It's people shooting each other with guns to take and hold territory, not some dipshit who finds an inept megacorp's trowsers down and grabs the data he finds and then crows about it.
Also old, but since we are on the mood: http://www.tetris1d.org/
Of course, and there is integration with jQueryMobile even.
http://jquerymobile.seasidehosting.st
I wonder how he would be treated if he had picked up a stack of paper printouts an AT&T employee had left on a park bench and taken it to a news outlet in order to showcase AT&T's recklessness with customer information? Would Aaron Swartz's case have been handled the same way if he'd gone into a library and photocopied a whole heap of journal articles? The powers that be seem terrified that someone might use technology in a way which they can't control. Apart from the disgusting human rights abuse that these cases illustrate, I worry about the future when people like judges and prosecutors think it's at all fair or reasonable to put people in jail for freely accessing information.
> This is such a common argument, I'm sure it has a name.

Someone who is willing to do the unethical dirty jobs that take a toll on society, because they pay so well and because if he didn't take them, they'll just hire someone else to get it done?

Yes, the name for that is "mercenary".

Adjective: Motivated by private gain.

Noun: A mercenary is a person primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics, [most often used to refer to a soldier who fights for hire].

Interestingly, being "fun and intellectually challenging" doesn't really factor into pattern much, except as a justification certain people need to make the job seem more glamorous or honourable. But as it happens, even with that factor absent, if they don't take it, somebody else will, right? For the right price, of course. The difference between those prices is literally the monetary value of your honour. Most people won't set a price on that, but you're a mercenary now, so you already did. Funny thing is that difference isn't exactly traded on a free market, it could even be negative, however/whatever gets the job done for your employers.
Would be great if you can share more details how you went about the hybrid html5 - native app route.

For instance, did you scrap all the work you put in with Sencha and start from scratch? And how did you go about combining native elements and html/js/css, and how did angular js tie into this?
I agree with tptacek (and others recommending CBT and ACT), examine the language you are using. The words you use may not spell "depression" but they are certainly in the vicinity that may lead you to it (I'm talking clinical depression). And this is all normal, but fixable. If you are not cognisant of the triggers that lead you to conclude on "yourself" as opposed to conclude on "stuff you did" (your works) you will continue to spiral into loser-mode and open the door marked "Depression". It'll only be a matter of time if you don't tackle this. And then, probably at 40, others will call it "mid-life" existential crisis. :-)

You are not your WORK (fuck pointers in C++)! Chances are that you're awesome at things you are refusing to acknowledge! Come here I'll give you a hug! (Then slap you!* ... because you're wasting time worrying about judging yourself instead of CREATING things and moving along!)

* Ok, I just slapped myself because I'm wasting time on HN! ;-P
Google Glass APPs - The best place to find|submit|vote great ideas
Spending so much time on sites like HN and TechCrunch, it's easy to forget that there are over half a million businesses started in the U.S. per year, with only a tiny smattering of those being VC funded tech startups.

Determined entrepreneurs get money however they can, but mostly pay out of their own pocket or borrow from local banks or credit unions. VC funded businesses are few and far between (except in SF), but seem to get a lion's share of the attention.

Source: http://web.sba.gov/faqs/faqindex.cfm
A better read on the subject:

http://enochthered.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/earth-hour-candl...
I wish pseudo-scientists didn't use that word. It makes all of us that identify as skeptics look bad.
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> That means anyone can run the emulator until it authenticates, then hit pause and start dumping memory to see your "secret"

I would presume that "semantically-correct" emulation of a TPM-based authentication protocol would require that the VM software runs in ring 0 and uses the host's TPM for guest storage. Anything else would be emulating "something that acts like TPM, but offers none of the guarantees of TPM."

I'm just not sure how an emulated TPM would be able to figure out that it's not fulfilling its semantic function.

That seems to be the key, here: is there anything a TPM chip could investigate before saying "yep, I'm not running emulated--I can see the Real Hardware I was created for right there--so I'll let programs trust me"?
The T410 keyboard from my current model against my old T43.

The screen quality of some T420 here in office.
Google may be readying an Evernote rival as ‘Keep’ makes a brief appearance
Earthquakes make gold in an instant
The UK, but my answer would equally well apply to the US or the majority of democratic nations. There's not a Big Conspiracy. There's just lots of people, often stupid and ill-informed, but nevertheless people voting for what we want.
Really? I have to admit never trying FF's bookmark system in depth, just Chrome and Opera. Well then. Thanks for the tip, I will try! (though my zillions-of-tabs problem mostly resides in Opera)
> In my experience of searching for things in several fortune 500 websites who can afford to implement good search engines, I end up searching their sites with google

Same experience here. I've been thinking of creating a good search engine that sites could implement, but I'm not sure how to start on it or what their needs are exactly.
Other articles by the author:
http://www.slate.com/authors.bjrn_lomborg.html

Now, where did I put my salt.
I can see why one might think that, but it's not the case. The core requirements for the store are optional things that can be added to any app: sandboxing and code signing. Apple just enforces those by refusing to accept any app that doesn't have them.
This is one of the best pieces of writing in English I have ever read. While it doesn't completely qualify as a self-help book (it discusses mainly the philosophy of life), it is miles ahead anything available today.
> My point was that you can generally earn interest from a bank at better than inflation rates

That isn't true today in the US or most of the EU.

I see your point on people trusting their bitcoin wallet to a bank or another service. True, but with bitcoin you don't need your bitcoin wallet service to be in your country, and using an online wallet isn't that much easier than using a desktop client so a lot of people will use it. The power of Government to seize assets will be almost null.
Ah, I see. I stop by seaside.st every once and a while, and it doesn't seem to have been updated with any new news for a long time. It would be cool to mention some of these developments on its front page.
It seems to that the real villain is AT&T, for making this private data entrusted to its care freely available to the public. What criminal and civil liabilities will it face?
Sounds to me like you're manufacturing normalcy.

Reality is too complex to fit into a narrative. Our system manages to be both corrupt and democratic at the same time, with money, fame and influence all helping to distort outcomes, both on behalf of private interests and We The People.
Well, if on Mother's Day we were actually hurting them, I think the same argument would in fact apply.
Gradient maps (PS)
> Honorable mentions this week go out to TinyTinyRSS, a self-hosted RSS reading app that allows you to grab your feeds on any system, as long as you have a web host and you're comfortable installing and setting it up. The process actually isn't that difficult, and full disclosure, I'm thinking about doing this myself. Since there's a Tiny Tiny RSS Android client to go with it, it's worth a look. Plus, it's free and open source, and at the end of the day you own your feeds and your data, and it won't shut down on you.

That said, I tried it and found it annoying to work with as well as incredibly slow. I paid for Newsblur and if they ever go down I'll jump into the relatively complicated installation process on my server.

edit:

And of course there are other options: Fever [1], the hopefully soon finished News [2] app for ownCloud [3] and Newsblur [4] is open source as well.

[1] http://www.feedafever.com/

[2] http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479

[3] http://owncloud.org/

[4] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
"you wouldn't be able to otherwise introspect them"

Can't implement it until you define its behavior. If you define its behavior you can emulate it (which, outside this discussion, is really useful). If you can emulate it, you can single step it, breakpoint it, dump any state of the system including memory, reboot it into "alternative" firmware...

Your only hope is playing games with timing. So here's a key, and its only valid for one TCP RTT. Well if they want to operate over satellite they must allow nearly a second, so move your cracking machine next door and emulate a long TCP path and you've got nearly a second now. On the other hand if instead of runnin over the internet you merely wanted to prove bluetooth distances or google wallet NFC distances, suddenly you've gone from something I can literally do at home easily to a major lab project.

Another thing that works is "prove you're the fastest supercomputer in the world by solving this CFD simulation in less than X seconds". Emulating that would take a computer much faster than the supposedly fastest computer. So this is pretty useful for authenticating the TOP500 supercomputer list, but worthless for consumer goods.
Show HN : weather.sh — weather in your terminal
My ideal job posting
Chart.js - HTML5 Charts for your website.
YC only gives $14,000 for one founder ($11,000 + $3000n) http://ycombinator.com/apply.html. Maybe it's a lean YC, plus India is cheaper than US (esp SV), as you say.

EDIT I've heard YC funding gives about 3 months, so 1-1.5 months is 1/3-1/2 that. Of course, one expects to take a pay-cut when doing a startup - the test is not whether it's comparable to a job, but whether one can actually survive on it. (note I also said a "lean YC") BTW: I also find fascinating the idea of non-urban startups, since all you absolutely need is internet - rural living would be far cheaper (in US too).
I used Smalltalk Visual Works back in 1996 in an university project and it was quite good experience.

The current development environments still have some catch up to do with the Smalltalk and Lisp machine offerings.

The only environment I know tried to replicate a similar experience is the family of Oberon operating systems, because Wirth wanted to explorer a similar experience, but using a strong typed language.
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I have the same opinion as yourself the only issue I have with this idea is that I would assume it would annoy the content owners.

I always hope for sites to show full text feeds on their own so the client doesn't have to do any scraping.

Any recommendations of clients that provide the entire article?

http://leselys.herokuapp.com is one of the only applications I have come across.
no thnx, i'd like to keep my ideas.
Everyone likes getting something "for free". For an enterprise-level customer, another day of consulting. For smaller customers, a free t-shirt or water bottle. Goes back to the whole perceived-value thing.
Hey guys, does anybody know a good out of the box system for voting up ideas. similar to quora, this fine news site and google moderator? Maybe something for wordpress? And something that helps you visualize hundreds of items where you can zoom in and out.
But how valuable is that sort of symbolic gesture? If it actually makes people in the 1st world congratulate themselves that they've made a difference by flicking a switch, and then continue as normal as if everything is fine, then it might even have negative value. I don't agree with much of the article, it's quite wooly, but this point was the most valid/interesting part and I think you might have missed it.
There is corruption in pretty much any system without a complete and total police state. Most western democracies are highly imperfect. But they're a lot better than pretty much anything else that has been tried, and if people work hard, they can continue to improve them.

Hard work means "getting out of the building" though.
The best sort of skeptic is the one who is skeptical of skeptics. This causes a few self-referential problems, but nobody said life was meant to be easy. Least of all for skeptics.
Also, aside from hoisting, there is a much better solution for named+assigned function declarations, because the reason for naming such a function is to use it recursively. Hence, just use the verb form of the word "recurse" and it immediately self-documents that the function is recursive:

var fibs = function recurse(n, curr, last) {
curr = curr || 1;
last = last || 0;
return n <= 0 ? last : recurse(n - 1, curr + last, curr);
};
might be the same amount of overhead needed for an OS to keep tabs on it's hardware, cluster, etc. Just like brains need to translate to the physical world via the nervous system, pure software needs to translate to the physical world via an OS.
Artisanal Framework Design (OrganicJS announcement)
They say beauty is simplicity.

In fact, there is a computational theory of beauty that relies on this axiom.

When you think about front end frameworks that are supposed to produce beauty and you see incredibly over-designed ones like EXT-JS, AngularJS or EmberJS you start to wonder how Beauty can emerge from such stale mess of ideas, patterns and assumptions.

That’s why I’ve always wanted to build my own frameworks, ones that comply with my own somewhat mature intellectual desires and artistic temptations, but also ones that are a little twisted by unconventional wisdom, wrapped in deep thought and vested in the idea that code is art and creative insight is what front end developers need not a super complex framework.

As to Backbone, KnockOut etc, I have no idea why someone would want to put the backend middleware ideas on the front end, a place where we need to start fresh and not from assumptions made for the backend.

So all there is for us is to make our own artisanal frameworks, made to our needs but universally applicable with active morphing and adaptation. After all, why settle for stale ideas when we can have ideas that grow?

With that note, I give you my attempt in this regard, OrganicJS:

http://javacrypt.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/announcing-organicjs/
Have you tried divshot?

http://www.divshot.com/
Why wouldn't you for a few years with an exceptionally good salary and immense technical challenges to overcome?
MA Governor Proposal to Tax "Expansion of Cloud Computing"
The home page of any project should tell us straight up what it is.
You are just fear mongering. If you are really concerned and wanted to find a solution, a simple search would turn up that Google provides a plug in to opt out of GA tracking. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Maybe another way to phrase it a century later, is the purpose of an education is to give you interesting things to think about (as opposed to the purpose of training). Therefore if you choose not to think, you're kinda wasting your time getting educated.

Or if the purpose of literature is to make you think about interesting things, yet you absolutely insist on not thinking, save your time and don't read it.