skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I always assumed that one could construct a spatial model of something by touching it, without that directly being related to vision.

You can do that if you are able to see, close your eyes and touch it. What you'll be doing is seeing "in the mind's eye". Someone might have researched that, but you'll probably be exercising some cortex area related to vision.

Apparently, for people born blind, they can't make that connection since they don't have the experience to draw from.

I would think it's like singing two songs one octave apart and asking someone who was deaf which had a higher pitch. Even though he can hear, he wouldn't have this intuition developed yet.
Colossus: Creating a Giant [video]
If only there were a handy link available! :P
If you're interested in drug policy you might like a recently released documentary called "The House I Live In": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125653/
I've seen a neuro surgeon use (smoke?) one in an operating theatre - this crosses a line I think. However I suspect he was daring someone to call him on it.
You're not. It's like having a mini-hangover every hour or so and the only cure is to have just one more shot of vodka. Forever.

Or another analogy. It's like having a really bad headache, taking some aspirin, and getting a 'clear and lucid' head after it takes effect. Wouldn't it be better just not to have the headache in the first place?
Intro to Social Media, Social Media Monitoring and Social Media Intelligence
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
I would love to see support for Re2: https://code.google.com/p/re2/wiki/Syntax

I mainly use Go and am used to Go Playground http://play.golang.org/ for testing very small snippets and sharing them with others in IRC for education/debugging.

Debuggex is already part of my workflow when I write regular expressions, I was using it just yesterday to test some pre-processing of Markdown.

The value to me is already there, but right now it's something I could also do without... but if the regexp engine on Debuggex is the one that is in use in the language in which I wish to implement the regexp, then that does change everything. The value then becomes very high to me.

Debuggex can get you the first 95% of the way, but that last 5% of working out why something is not quite as you expect is where most of the pain is.

I generally find that the last 5% is implementation specific features and syntax (I have only settled on Go recently and tended to work in several languages at a time for the past 5 years, so most of my regexp pain comes from context switching languages and libraries).

Being able to select the exact implementation is the tipping point for me to reach into my pocket and pay.
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
Pirate Party Enters Iceland’s National Parliament After Historic Election Win
So patronizing.

I was born in DC; I don't need the Wikipedia article on the crack epidemic.

You really think locking people up is what solved that problem?
Professional Nissan Consult 3 OBD2 Diagnostic Tool
The selection of CAN type as well as the identification of malfunction locations are completely automated, allowing CAN diagnosis to be done 17 times faster than previous method where the diagnostics system needed to be supplemented by the service manuals. Repairs involving reprogramming of the in-vehicle computer can be completed 1.5 to 2.5 times faster with the new system.
I'm confused about how to play. I keep scoring around 45-50 when I just get Overflow even though everything seems to be fine. It definitely seem I'm typing the letters far too quickly, but if I type them slowly I get Underflow or something.
Can you point me to which ones you smoke?
If everyone was as stingy with their money as this guy is, the economy would crash. We need spending to drive growth and provide employment. If everyone hoards cash and refuses to spend it, you get the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

Time invested in saving money is not always worth it. If you're making the equivalent of $50 an hour, an hour spent agonizing over how to save $25 is a net loss for you. You are not maximizing your utility.

Saving money will never be an end in itself. It is only a means. Who is more admirable: the guy who saves obsesses over spending the minimum amount of money and lives in a cabin Montana, or the guy who goes deep into debt to get a PhD, become a doctor, and save lives? I think we all know the answer to that. I'm not saying that everyone needs to get a PhD or that you shouldn't go off in a cabin if that's what you want, but don't put yourself on a pedestal for your self-indulgence.
My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...
Solar Powered Server = No excuse for a slow website
The author didn't suggest that you had to major in a subject to learn it. Her thesis is that it's wrong for journalism programs to not require stats, math, and coding courses, since modern journos must do stats, math, and coding.

>My frustrations are with the lack of an applicable concentration that reflects the state of the news industry in 2013.

>How is it okay that journalism students are able to graduate without ever taking a real statistics or mathematics class, given the crazy demand for data journalists? Or without ever taking a programming class?
Probably appropriate? Is there a measure that can be used to show this? You get less time for murder where I live.
Not only that, the text seems to be made of data: images?!
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGw1ASrk_8
Yep. And with a bit of bs too. They are far from being first to come up with a PTP master clock.

BTW - to all the time nuts in here. Anyone knows, is there any cheap and whacky way to substitute PC 133.33MhZ PCI clock source with something really really stable, so TSC becomes rock solid (say 1ns/sec)?
When the 20th reunion of Shorecrest High School, class of 1982, rolled around, Santos was in a low-security institution at Fort Dix, N.J., and unable to attend. But Carole Goodwin, who organized the event and had known him since fifth grade, tracked him down through his website.

Divorced, living with two kids in Lake Oswego, Ore., she had been aware of his criminal past but that didn't stop her. "I was drawn to him from the second I saw his picture," she says.

As he puts it, "She went to my website and wrote me a letter. That led to a correspondence and then a romance, and then we got married in a prison visiting room in 2003, at Fort Dix. I still had 11 years to go."
uhh. 183. This game is so addictive. don't forget to hit 'enter' about every four words to prevent overflows. more words between 'enters' gives incrementally more points, it seems.
What concerns me most is how Facebook may use Parse as a way to consolidate their place in the mobile app space. Just as they've done in the past with their SDK, what if Facebook decides to block access to apps that compete with for example, their messenger, Instagram etc?

Also, who owns the data?
This'll probably be the only chance I get, so I have to ask...

Why do all links on medium point inwards?

Arguments made by those who don't know better are:

1. To track clicks on outbound links

2. To preserve "pagerank" or some such think.

Neither of these are strong arguments since you can track outbound clicks with G.Analytics or any other analytics service worth using, and outbound links have about zero impact on pagerank of the linking page.

What reason could possibly be so great that you choose to break the web for it?
Tell the Germans to fuck off, leave the Euro, pull an Argentina, watch the new peso exchange drop to 1000 to 1 Euro, get a flood of French and Germans hunting for bargains, which generates jobs. But make customs treat these tourists like shit, just for a little passive aggressive revenge.
heh, absolutely no chance of that happening.
Just to make it clear: Spain, and the rest of Southern Europe are developed countries with high standards of living; extreme poverty is not even a prospect now.
I quit smoking 1.5 packs a day about 120 days ago, and started out with 36mg nicotine/ml e-liquid, and have cut down to 6mg/ml e-liquid. In another month, I should be off nicotine completely.

I use a eGo Twist/iClear16 (w/ iClear30 heads) at work, and CCTS/IGO-L at home. The variety of flavors are endless, and none smell up the office, my home, hands, or clothes. Even if they did stink as bad as regular smokes, who would really complain about smelling Watermelon, Pear & Honey, Ecto Cooler (yes!) or Swedish Fish when they come to visit me?

After switching, I don't:
1. Smell like an ashtray
2. Lose my breath walking up a few sets of stairs
3. Take several 15 minute breaks at work
4. Spend $300(!) per month
5. Have fears of emphysema and/or lung cancer in my future.

My doctor is happy with the results. So am I.
Thanks for checking it out and, yeah, it was designed to work with blog posts and news articles and not marketing-type sites.
Designers I Love
Super Hexagon combined with a typing tutor? Awesome!

Love the animation, too.
This is why there is no point in making Windows software
A PhD can be viewed as a peer-reviewed, published book, so yes.
An IOS version? How cool! I'll check it out, thanks for the heads up.
Hey little bug which confused me a bit.

The placeholder text for 'your review' contains "Search for review eg. Tom Cruise" which is the same as the actual search field.

Perhaps you should change the text to 'lively, beautiful etc'

Theres a D3 word cloud example here - http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud

Perhaps you could also change the layout style for the words to make it look more interesting ;)

Otherwise looking good :D
Shape changing seems very flimsy to me. My guess is devices are going to keep getting thinner and lighter and rigidity is going to become more of an important quality trait.
NOP people and learning Ruby
It's relevant to the discussion regarding living social's recent hack.
Clojure, I used to do Python with Django or Flask.

HTML/CSS aren't optional so I don't know why you included that in the list.

I've tried Node.js, hated it.
33, then it hurt my head.
E-cigarettes are nicotine delivery devices and nicotine promotes cancer growth. And yes there is secondary inhalation with e-cigarettes. You probably would not call it secondary smoke, but whatever is being vaporized by the e-cigarette gets exhaled by the user and then inhaled by other non-users in the area. I worked closely with an e-cigarette smoker once and I could definitely feel it.

E-cigarette proponents say that because e-cigarettes do not burn anything, they are safer than cigarettes. That is probably true, but safer does not mean safe. They are definitely not safe as the main substance they are intended to deliver -- nicotine -- is itself unsafe.

So until there are studies that show that there is no danger to others in the environment all smoking bans should apply to e-cigarettes.
how often does this stackoverflow thread gets reposted on HN?
Mind sharing your tutorials. I've also been interested in Clojure for quite a while but never really got around to getting started.
Hey thanks for the feedback. You are right need to look at the UI. Also, thanks for pointing out the bug. Main issue presently is that I am not getting much feedback. Is this form of review/opinion visualisation something that people want? There is a network effects problem.
That's like saying wordpress.com or blogspot.com are abusing the ranking system...
It works better in the shade, and best of all in the shade exposed to a breeze. You don't need to warm the water in the rag to evaporate it. It will evaporate in the dry air, even if cool. Putting it in the sun raises its temperature as the evaporation lowers it. If there's a nice breeze, evaporation will still win, but it will get cooler if you don't add energy at the same time you are removing it.
In a big project this can also apply at team level. E.g. Driver team, middleware team, applications team or front end, back end and tools. The bigger the project the more appropriate specialisation of knowledge will be but it is best if direct communications are open between teams to resolve issues.
The brave new world of genetic copyright laws
There's a buffer of characters at the bottom left and if it gets too full you get overflow. Hit 'enter' to flush it. (Yes, this is confusing)
I'm very curious about how you traveled for so cheap in South America. Could I ask you to elaborate? What did you do, mainly (sleep in hotels, stay in appartments in cities, travel around by bus/car/bicycle, backpack and sleep in tents, ...)?
Except he was right and austerity works even less.
My great-aunt remembers the time the first car arrived in her village in the 1800s. She lived to fly across the Atlantic in a jetliner, and see the moon landings.
This post has made me visit one of my large project's warnings. There are two that I can't seem to be rid of:

Using NS_REQUIRES_NIL_TERMINATION on a var args Objective-C method seems to cause a warning "Attributes on method implementation and its declaration must match" — despite both the declaration and implementation being exactly the same.

Using uniqueIdentifier in debug builds (for TestFlight) triggers an API deprecation warning. Despite being OK to use for non-App Store iOS apps.
Different public for every site (which is what google proposed: http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/pdfs/A...)
You might take a look here [1], using asymmetric crypto. We are still developing it but that is our approach. Yes, there is some overhead but you will need it anyway.

The doc is a bit outdated but the prototypes work.

[1] http://www.thesibyl.net
a- e-cigarettes do smell. The fact that you have had few complaints may reflect the fact that people are courteous and do not like to get into arguments. I have very much liked to complain several times about e-cigarettes myself.

b- they almost certainly harm people around you although the harm may be less than that of secondary smoke.

c - your last argument obviously does not apply to the present situation. If you ban e-cigarettes in places where cigarettes are already banned, then this ban would not cause an e-cigarette smoker to start smoking ordinary cigarettes. In fact, the contrary is true -- if smokers can smoke e-cigarettes in places in situations where they cannot smoke ordinary cigarettes, that very well may result in an increase of smoking.

You can smoke your e-cigarettes in places and situations where cigarette smoking is allowed.
Except lots of workers are doing that right now. And there's a reverse movement of retirees. Maybe the crisis will after all end up faciliarting that harmonazation whose lack caused it...
True that "as suicide eclipsed all other thoughts…The next day I was hospitalized" but there is no mention of any therapy, intervention, nothing before that point, and they decided as a first choice to go to a pharmacologist because he had helped her father.

By last resort I mean try something else first. Later, the pharmacologist explained that she was very different than her father.
Because they were the pushers of a dangerous drug?

It's called addiction for a reason. Not something people can do without a lot of resources and help.
I think they fully realized the problem, but did not think it's consequences through enough; there were (and are) fairly stringent rules for entry to the euro zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_convergence_criteria), but were lax in enforcing those rules. There are several reasons for that. Let's say the economy of X is down because it is inherently weak. Do you fine them because of it? Do you think that would help their economy? Also, if half the economies are breaking the rules, how are you going to get a majority in the EU parliament for bringing those fines?
This is cute, but not a very good game. I have no problem typing quickly enough to keep up, but I can't easily read the characters on a gray background, moving around, to get past 50 or so. I get that they're words, so as soon as I can figure out the word (2-3 characters in, since it's usually the same word), it's easier, but still, meh.

And a game where a single error is "start over from the beginning" is a non-fun game, generally.
How do you know that it is not about safety or health? Do you have any study that says they are safe? It is amazing how many delusions a little marketing can create.
But you aren't just measuring variation in the population. You're also measuring strictness of beauty standards.
I'm so glad that affordable, low-power, hackable computers that run full operating systems are finally available. I don't think it's appreciated enough in the maker community what kind of impact this will have.

I'm a software engineer dabbling in electrical engineering. A while ago an EE friend of mine showed me how to use a transistor to power a motor using a GPIO pin on my Raspberry Pi. I was so stoked when it finally worked! I could turn wheels by typing "echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio4/value" into my ssh session.

Within 10 minutes I was able to churn out a web interface that has two buttons, forward and backward, that you can access from a mobile device to drive around your raspberry pi. I had already hooked up a battery pack and webcam before. Suddenly, within minutes of "making the wheels turn from software", we had a remote controlled robot with a camera! All this is possible on an Arduino (I hear you can actually run Linux on it if you put some effort in), but it'll be much more work. For the Raspberry Pi, I simply popped in an SD card with Debian and installed all my favorite tools.

By all means, I love writing low level C code and fiddling with basic microprocessors. I once hacked a DVR frontpanel into an alarm clock that makes you do arithmetic to stop the alarm. It was super fun. The chip didn't have any memory management and if you weren't careful your stack or heap would overwrite the program in memory. Between that, displaying custom bitmap fonts, correctly addressing the LCD display etc it took about a week to finish the project. On a Raspberry Pi you could do this in one afternoon using any language/tools you like.
I think that even if it is only something that interests 25% of people, the data is worth a lot more than the service and perhaps you need to find a way of using it.

Is that something that you're interested in?
Social media is where facts go to die, and lies go to live. That doesn't mean there isn't data there, but, it needs a lot of smart filtering to be useful.
So patronizing. I was born in DC; I don't need the Wikipedia article on the crack epidemic.

Put that on your profile so next time this topic come up we know. Seriously. I didn't know that about you and time and time again posters post something from the past to give context.

Context might explain why the "tough on crime" politicians pushed for mandatory sentences even for minor amounts.
http://www.lietaer.com/2010/03/the-worgl-experiment/ will create millions of new jobs.
I'm interested in how that compares to the effects of S(S|N|SN)RIs.
This is the second time I've seen "low adoption rates" cited as a reason to cut off Rackspace support, the other being xeround[1].

I don't see that as a valid excuse for shutting it down. Market it more!

[1] https://twitter.com/xeround/status/286445235435876353
Economics is not a morality play, and from a global perspective, net exports (that is, exporting more than you import) are not a virtue.

Where there is a country that exports more than it imports, there must necessarily be a country that imports more than it exports. That's just simple math.

This trade automatically is reflected in a flow of monetary assets from the importer to the exporter; in this case, a (partially indirect) flow of monetary assets from Spain to e.g. Germany. That's also just simple math.

Speaking as a German, it is incredibly frustrating that this simple insight is almost never acknowledged in public discussion here. There is simply no way the Euro can survive while Germany insists on being a net exporter forever.

What is even more frustrating is that the German elite successfully plays a divide-and-conquer strategy. Most people perceive the Euro crisis as "Germans against the South", whereas in reality, it is the German elite against the German and the Southern people, considering that the German net export "success" has largely been managed by keeping German wages low (when measured against the appropriate benchmark, i.e. productivity).
I -Spaniard here living in Spain- tend not to believe those figures. Also:

1) Hiring is unbelievably costly due to Social Security.
2) Hence you tend to pay "in black".
3) People HAVE TO pay for the Soc Sec even though they do not earn enough for a living. At the very leas, 250 bucks per month whatever your earnings are.
4) We are spectacular liars at polls. Nobody in the black market will say he has a job.

So a grain of salt is required.

EDIT: although the outlook is really really bleak, there is no denying it.
How do you define austerity?

I do define it as living under your possibilities.

Having deficit is not austerity. Having to pay enormous debt and interest of malinvestments of the past bubbles is not austerity(you become debt slave not austere).
10 algorithms one must know in order to solve most algorithm challenges/puzzles
There are quite a few projects that do formally prove the algorithm before its implementation, but most of them we don't have access to.

The closest we can easily see is the code JPL uses on their rovers and the associated C coding standard (http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf).

That, and the rest of NASA's software was pretty much done entirely using a waterfall approach.
you can also try separating negative and positive words in the word-cloud. Looks good!
Must watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w...
"And a game where a single error is "start over from the
beginning" is a non-fun game, generally."

Before the 1990s nearly all computer games worked like that. Most only ever gave you 3 lives many started you from the beginning again each time you lost a life.

These are widely recognised as some of the most fun computer games in history.
"Lacking financial incentives, companies might not be willing to put in the years and millions of dollars…"

Law should not be created for the purpose of giving business financial incentives.
http://hnshowcase.com does the same thing?
Those countries also have seen huge emigration. Reducing your unemployment rate is probably not that difficult when your labor force shrinks drastically...
Ask HN: Why Posterous ignores Posthaven
Is there any particular reason why Posterous does not mention Posthaven as a migration route? [1]

I cannot think of any technical or legal reason, and prefer not to assume anything worse.

[1] http://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous
Galaxy S4 Gets Android 4.2.2 XXUAMDM First Official Update
I think the user submitted reviews/opinions would be very useful. Since review submission is easy, probably a lot of people might choose to submit their opinions. This would mean that we can asymptotically approach the true crowd opinion about something. This is definitely a hypothesis but the content in such a case would be very useful. Lead generation, brand awareness measurement, quick buy/dont buy decision helper, random content exploration, etc. are some possible uses.
There is a difference between dying in a game, and making a single mistake. Failing to jump at the optimal moment or kill a single enemy with your first shot is 'making a single mistake'. Virtually every game which is any fun gives you some opportunity to correct that without dying, let alone without returning to the beginning.

I assure you I've played plenty of pre-1990 video games.