skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of strawmen you've set up there. Want a lighter? We can burn them down together.

Yes the scenarios you describe are ridiculous and unacceptable. But thankfully we live in the real world where those extra steps you describe don't actually exist in apps that were programmed by actually good programmers.

As for whether it matters one iota: It matters if you want more people to play your game. You are a progammer, and so you don't perceive the actual difficulty level of software installation. On the other hand, for normal people with average skill levels, having to install software can present a significant barrier to entry.
no data to support, but I'm pretty sure the amount of people with multiple facebook accounts is pretty small(at least comparatively to things like e-mail adresses)
Sorry, I posted this. I Googled into it and didn't realize it was behind a paywall. And I can't delete it.

When you do get the karma to downvote, you'll discover that it doesn't work on links, only on comments.
Sadly, no.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-...
If we didn't have light pollution, a window frame would be sufficient to have this kind of view on every clear night.
Currently I expect a browser window to be at least 950px width on the desktop. I only change to designs for lower resolutions on mobile devices.

I am not entirely sure how common it is, but it should be a small fix and won't hurt to support smaller resolutions on the desktop as well. Thanks for the feedback.
You can take away my 15 flavors of jam, 5 different types of bread and 100s of different types of spices when you manage to pry them from my cold, dead fingers. I understand the desire for creating simplicity in the products you sell to try and create focus and understanding - but if you try to force simplicity on me, I will fight you in every way possible.

Simplicity only works when it is an optional product I can choose. If simplicity is forced through law or removal of alternatives, then this is no longer simplicity - it is abuse.
That's like buying a Porsche to learn how to drive. Sure, you can drive it around, look cool and feel good but you won't know what to do when you break something.

Also, you're going to sound like shit if you're forced to play a cheap, badly setup guitar. (oh-this-guitar-sucks-so-i-cant-play is a terrible excuse, trust me.)

Another reason why I think this is a bad idea - you have no idea what kind of guitar you want when you're starting out. You dont know what wood you want, if you want humbuckers or single coils, floating or fixed bridge. You don't want to buy a 5000$ custom shop Les Paul and realize you're not comfortable playing it.
Depends on the area of study. For Computer Science and related I think most smart students that aren't in an academic bubble know this. Often it is more intellectual curiosity than any eventual financial payoff that is the major motivating factor.
Any such a course/link for Ukulele?
I started with an acoustic guitar about ten years ago, but that's only because my father had one laying around. Approach learning the guitar like how most people learn new programming languages: just dive right into it. If you like acoustic guitar music more than electric guitar, then learn it and vice versa.

For acoustic: Seagull, Simon Patrick, and Art and Luthrie solid top guitars make solid learner guitars. They can be had for $300-500.

For electric guitars: visit the SevenString forums. That community is more knowledgeable about it than me.
I have it remapped to backspace (colemak layout). The problem I had under OS X was that key repeat didn't work. Additionally setting Capslock in the OS X settings to control solved that problem.
Alex, that's why I never use Seek to look/advertise jobs for anything tech related.
WTF is with these sites that disable the Back button?
Almond-growing depends heavily on bee pollination, so people farming that particular crop are at the sharp end of this problem. Also, UC Davis is academic ground central for research into this problem, and the university researchers have been working closely with farmers in the area for the last few years.

I understand and share your desire for scientific rigor in this discussion, but don't be a prick about it.
That would be me. I was part of three Start-Ups for the last 10 years. I burned out in more ways than one at the second(my longest stretch), and at the third, it was very obvious it was a sinking ship. Neither place was fun to work at.

The first one was ok while i was there.

None of the Start-Ups made impact, left me unfulfilled and with little money and not a great body of work to show for it. there were the occassional fun times no doubt.

But i still think Zach's presentation has plenty of merit. But i think when you're NOT a developer or an out and out tech guy - it's much harder to find work at a start-up. At least that's been my experience.
Lawsuits take place in courts, not markets. Meanwhile, a little clarification is in order. In general, referring to the President as 'BHO' sets off my bullshit detector and this indicator depressingly reliable.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mpa.asp
It's pretty clear from their income statements going back to the invention of AdWords and AdSense that Google is an advertising company that dabbles in software on the side.

2010:

- Advertising Revenue: $28.2B

- Other Revenue: $1B

2011:

- Advertising Revenue: $36.5B

- Other Revenue: $1.3B

2012 (unaudited):

- Advertising Revenue: $43.6B

- Other Revenue: $2.3B

Travel allll the way back to 2001, the earliest figures Google has published. Guess what the revenue split looks like? Yep: still an advertising company.

2001:

- Advertising Revenue: $66.9M

- Other Revenue: $19.4M

If anything has changed it's that Google has steadily become more of an advertising company.

Like Newscorp, the stuff you think they do (search/services vs news/commentary) is not actually what they get paid to do. Both Google and Newscorp make their money by using getting people to look at ads.
Raspberry Pi: Retro Gaming Mania Part 2 – DosBox
Sorry but I just cannot agree with your first statement - even if an 18 year old driver causes a crash and kills the other driver, the insurance company is still going to pay 100% of the claim, unless the claim goes over the insurance limit on your specific policy(which in EU is unlimited for death and bodily injuries). So I do not see how paying more when you are under 25 is a benefit.
> YouTube is all about quality content

As generalisations go, I feel this one falls between sweeping and wildly optimistic.

99.9% of the stuff on youtube is utter bilge. I find a lot of useful resources; but thanks to the magic of social media I get to see the titles of a lot of LOOK AT THIS KITTEN and OMG CAR CRASH videos too.
Kenya Chords
This is how it would look through a special lense on a camera. Anyone who has been in true wilderness knows it looks nothing like this.
I have mine mapped to escape, for vim.
On the forums I run I have the policy that to flag something is an exceptional thing... and that when it happens it's because something exceptional has occurred.

I feel that the whole flagging system is for two reasons:

1) Legal enforcement against illegal material: child porn, hate material, etc.

2) The way in which the community communicates to me the community standards... where the subjective line of acceptability is

In the first instance, I only receive a couple of flags a year even on a community with 250k actives per month.

On the second, I receive a flag every day or two.

Flags generate emails to all of the admins and moderators, it's a "drop things and look at this" event.

When we receive a flag we will ignore it if: The person is an habitual flagger (over-sensitive), or the person always flags the subject of the flag (chip-on-shoulder/bias).

We're attempting to listen to and gently adjust the subjective acceptable standards that are communicated to us, but without introducing a system in which a small number create a wild amount of vocal bias.

Hence... if someone flags often, they lose their ability to flag as they're creating disproportionate noise in the feedback mechanism.

So long as people on the communities I run reserve the flag for the truly exceptional and unacceptable, then everything works well.

Now, assuming similar intent in the system exists here, I'd say it's best to avoid flagging unless it's essential to flag.
haha that's taking things a bit far. Yes, 99% of parents would love for their children to go to Stanford. I haven't even had kids yet and I would very much like for mine to go there.

The Cal State Fullerton's of the World may well be obsolete within a generation, but Harvard/Stanford/MIT etc are here to stay as powerful institutions, wealth creators and status symbols.
Thanks, that makes sense. It's odd though - when I visited SF I found it bizarre the sheer variety of public transport available - trains, trams, buses, ferries, cable cars, half-tram/buses, half-bus/trams...
Yes, I am saying it is trivial.
Some written music can be interpreted in extremely different ways, in performance, especially if the original composer and performers of the era are no longer living. Listen to Glenn Gould play Brahms B minor rhapsody and compare it to any other performance, then compare that to another random performance, say Arhtur Rubinstein.

As for the question, all music needs an audience for a really good performance. It makes a huge difference and helps in so many ways.
> Online dating sucks, thanks Hollywood

Also, I can't figure out why the alleged Hollywood lie would only impact online dating. Wouldn't all forms of dating affected? Certainly the "fate" aspect of true love isn't exactly new--Rom coms didn't usher in wave of zero dating.
well even before I backed it I realized a) I don't have time to play games and b) it's been years since I played any game so I'm not sure if I'll like it. So I just bought it with the idea of running a distro with SickBeard/SabNzbd/Xbmc. Just like I did with the Raspberry Pi, but that is just a tad too slow. So, no, I wouldn't say you're wrong. It's good to see people are still into this stuff.
Thoughts on the STS task results
Another option is to run setxkbmap after X starts (using a ~/.xinitrc file or your favorite desktop environment's autorun feature.

'setxkbmap -option caps:esc'

'setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps' (my preference)

'setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps'

Debian (and derivatives) users can edit the last line in the /etc/default/keyboard file to do this globally.
Yammer app for entrepreneurs
I think they refer to http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS1470-20... (I think http://healthcare.procon.org/sourcefiles/CONCORDCancerSurviv... is a freely available copy). It shows th USA consistently in the top 5, but not always the top.

I think they worked hard on getting comparable data, but I find the discussion on where they come from somewhat lacking. There is some discussion on inconsistencies between diagnoses (when is something Cancer X?), but I could not find a discussion on QALy's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year). I expect that can make a decent difference in 5 year survival rates (if you give patients the choice between 6 months in bed in hospital and 3 months at home, the last on bedridden, quite a few would choose the 3 months)
Strategic User Experience
If you're a programmer, how do you not use Caps Lock?

People bitch about Caps Lock, but don't say a thing about the inexcusable lack of a real Delete key on Apple laptops and small keyboards. The lack of this basic key, year after, is idiotic.

So with the ever-diminishing value of physical media, what does Apple do? Put a dedicated Eject key on its keyboards, instead of Delete. And on the Air? Why no Delete key? And to make matters worse, you can't even remap Eject to be Delete, because Apple even more idiotically put a HARDWARE DELAY on the Eject key. Why? Because of all the fatal accidental CD ejections? If this is such a problem, why didn't they put Eject on some other key as a secondary function?

They pulled the same shit with Caps Lock: It doesn't work half the time, apparently because Apple put the same asinine hardware-delay BS on it for no apparent reason.

I contributed the "F12 to forward delete" hotkey to KeyRemap4MacBook, so you can stand using these things. Enjoy.
A different way of looking at the gift economy
These days it's very easy to use a simple api without knowing about the dragons lurking beneath the surface. Flip side of our "reusable components" holy grail.
It's common to blame it entirely on financial means.

I think older men also tend to know themselves better. After a few decades you've grown into your own personality; you have good enough friends that there's no mad hustle to be what other people want you to be.

So you're comfortable in your skin. And that shows.

I've had dates at the same sort of cafés I'd have gone to as a younger man, so it's not as though I'm using fancy French restaurants as a status signal. It's just that I know myself better and don't feel as much like I need to prove anything.
If you're not an absolute beginner, you should check out all the REH/HotLicks videos. Some really amazing lessons there - Petrucci's Rock Discipline, Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock/Terrifying Guitar Trip etc.. lots of advanced jazz stuff too. (Scott Henderson, Joe Pass, John Scofield's videos come to mind)

I doubt they're still available to buy online though. You should be able to find them on youtube or torrent them.

If you're looking for a good book, check out Guthrie Govan's Creative Guitar series[1]. They're wonderful!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Guitar-Cutting-Edge-Tech/dp/1...
Proposal: Probabalistic Use of TC Flag to Stop DNS Amplification Attacks
Find a friend who really knows their guitar, and buy them lunch in exchange for a run-around of the second-hand and/or pawn shops. If you have gobs of cash to spend, sure, buy an expensive new one, but you can find decent guitars for cheap in the secondhand stores. I got my guitar (a kramer zx30) this way from a secondhand store that sells on consignment.

If you're going to get a cheap new guitar, again, take that friend if you can - cheap guitars can have a number of problems - the first one I ever tried couldn't even hold its tuning during the six-meter walk from behind the counter to hand it to me :)

I'd certainly recommend the lower end of the price spectrum and not the high end - what if you buy a pricey acoustic but the stuff you want to play turns out to be electric? Or vice versa. I thought I liked acoustic more and ended up loving the electric much more. And when you're learning, you really can't tell the subtle difference between models - slapping down a ton of money to find out it's not quite what you want might be a little off-putting. Start with a stepping stone, says I.
I tripped this flagging threshold a while back, flagging submissions which I thought were offtopic for HN. Alas, no more "flag" links for me. Apparently, one shouldn't flag stories as a substitute for the fact that they can't be downvoted.
Will Native Apps Die?
Do you think the trend of coding multiple native versions of the same apps in various languages (Android/iOS) will continue or do you think we will move towards developing apps for the web that work on all devices and also have the ability to interact with them?
Lets not conflate paper acceptance with college acceptance, the former is based on one piece of work that can be subjectively measured, at least, the latter is more of a crapshoot.

I'm a big fan of low acceptance rates in conferences. There are way too many mediocre papers that get into conferences I care about even when the acceptance rate is low. Also, the surge in papers submitted from China has pushed everyone's acceptance rates down, and quality isn't necessarily getting better. Disclaimer: I'm submitting from china these days.

In computer science, if you look at low accept conferences like OSDI/SOSP (systems), you'll see some safe (uncontroversial) papers getting accepted but most of them are just good and interesting. Now, compare that to CHI where the accept rate is still competitive but the quantity is huge. The quality there seems much less consistent.

When I review for conferences these days, I'll get a stack of papers where one or two are obvious good, one is controversial that we argue over, and 17 get binned after 5 minutes (the rest if the time you spend on the paper is just to give the authors useful feedback).
I agree that this takes it a bit too far, but it is possible to clearly see the milky way on a moonless light. You can't really see the details of the colours (you need a long exposure picture for that), but you can clearly make out light and dark patches and patterns (such as the milky way) in the sky.

My parents live in a small village on the south coast of England, the nearest town is 15 miles away, so I saw it regularly when I was younger.
If someone would complain about the noise, police will materialize. Therefore they did those gigs during the daytime or kept them acoustic.
Why not make the text input smarter so that it automagically makes things all caps and units lower case?
Did neighbors complain? No they didn't, or the police would not need their lame social networks act.
Oddly enough, it does share the life/death subtext.
I am an indifferent player, and shortly after getting my electric, I said to a friend that it was a lie that electrics hide mistakes. He replied "you're not playing with enough distortion"...
Disagree with "do what you love" and "follow your passion" type advice. Do the stuff nobody else wants to or thinks to do.
North Korea declares war on South Korea - full declaration
So I think this situation merits some attention.

While I am sure it's mostly bluster, it's still a rather disturbing escalation of rhetoric from an unpredictable and dangerous regime, unlikely to be the most reliable of rational actors in times of high tension.

In case Reuters is down again - the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21979127
Facebook maps out support for gay marriage as profile photo campaign takes off
You can read RSS feeds in Emacs with Gnus:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusRss
I suspect this may have some bearing on the situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5464889
ads also serve to inform you of the existence of products
Online product startups – Few things to know before you insource or outsource
Yes. Even Xi Jingping's daughter attends Harvard. The poor farmer kids who test well can go to Qinghua or PKU, all the kids whose parents have any money are going abroad. A bit of an exaggeration, but not by much.
Also: consider finding a good teacher. An actual music teacher, not a guitarist hawking lessons for beer money. A proper teacher will be able to see you making mistakes in technique before they become habit and be motivated to fix it. You don't have to go weekly, you can ask for monthly or whatever times. Be upfront with them, say you're going through some self-teaching materials, but at the same time want to catch bad technique.
There are some rather poor 'lessons' out there, but the best ones I've found anywhere, have been from Pebber Brown's youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pebberbrown/videos?view=0

and his site, which has all the materials and lessons organized, albeit straight from 1995:
http://www.pbguitarstudio.com/GuitarVideoLessons.html

(Also note, that this guy is the very instructor that taught Buckethead. If that doesn't serve as a legit teaching credential, I don't know what does.)
Agreed. I liked the article until he got to the proposed solution. Part of why I like online dating is that my friends are NOT involved. I can take as many shots at finding someone I like without the problematic repercussions of complex social networks (both online and off) where every swing and a miss could come back to haunt me. Whenever you date a friend of a friend, there is always the possibility of fallout. OKCupid without a social network allows me to break free of the constraints of involving my friends. Making OKCupid social turns it back into a burden. Your "friends" online (most of who are not friends, but acquaintances by the way) will feel obliged to say nice things about you. No one will say the bad things which may be true. And your romantic prospects will know this. I like the idea of an online wingman, whom I could exchange tips with, but the idea of a group date? No way. If I'm not into a girl I make a quick exit on the date. No harm, no foul.
Think of an application as an expensive lottery ticket.
Actually, I'm in the "state" insurance system in germany and I pay 10 grand per year as well. That might or might not be comparable to what you pay since our incomes might or might not be comparable, but the figure itself seems fine. Given that any major injury can cost quite a bit more than 10k to treat, I'm totally fine with that.
No. Native apps won't die.

There seems to be an ebb and flow between "thin client" and "thick client" computing. Right now we're leaning heavily toward the "thin client" realm, with the emphasis on "Cloud this" and "Web that"; however, it's entirely possible that something will happen to bring that remote compute capacity back to the local device for the sake of efficiency.

And even now, there are reasons to compute locally in a native language instead of remotely via an abstraction. Some of those reasons (speed, primarily) are beginning to be mitigated by new technologies, but the reasons will likely always exist for why a native app can be a better solution than a thin client style implementation.

Probably what we'll see is an emphasis on APIs and intercommunication - this gives companies the power to do a lot of logic server-side, and just roll native apps for things that are difficult to do on the server. Implementations like Dropbox, Evernote, Wunderlist, and Netflix are good examples of this bridge between philosophies.
I felt it personaly.

The idea that university in the US take the "best" students really bother me.

I got reject from both, CalTech, MIT and Stanford.

My curricul very shortly is:
Italian student, best of his class. (italian school is a "little" harder tha American)
AFS/Exchange student in America for the school year 2011/12 (GPA 4.0 that year)
Some project on github (does it count ?)
Very good letters from my teacher.
Interest in about every single field (scientific or not)
ACT -> 29
SAT Math2 -> 770
SAT Chem -> 720
Toefl -> 102

Now, I am sure that there are plenty of students better than me, but I feel really bad about that.

On the other side POLIMI, best tech university in Italy, took me in very quickly, but I really wanted to come back in the US.

Sorry about that, but I needed...
Amazon to buy social network site for readers Goodreads
native apps will continue to be built so long as there are performance benefits, or increased access to native functionality, or finer grained control over UI or other benefits available to native applications. As I recall (I wasn't an owner of the original Iphone myself) it wasn't until a second version of iOS that an App store and third party native apps were allowed.

How could you have a web app that interacts with a device without a native layer at some level? At some level, you have to have a native application, though a company could make their stack directly compatible with web applications.

That said, I think you are going to continue to see people developing frameworks like Phonegap, because the idea of developing once has a variety of advantages for developers, and I/O is going to be the limiter on many processes.
linkedin is using node js.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/
Killing Your Startup by Listening to Customers
... inside a window manager (compiz) inside a nested x session (Xnest) inside a virtual machine (VirtualBox) inside a chroot.