skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but there are plenty of programming side projects that don't require an Arduino, and we often get in our little tech-bubbles and think that the internet is more of a monoculture than it actually is. I've heard (a lot) about the Arduino, so I may not be the best example, but my programming side projects are more likely to use Processing, Cinder, VPT, or some other thing that doesn't necessarily need to interface with that kind of hardware.

If we're talking about the original article, side projects were mentioned in the context of "The instinct to experiment first". There might be some correlation there, but if you limit the focus to programming side projects you've just chosen a slightly bigger box to experiment in.

Many advances in science come by drawing knowledge from a completely different field and applying it to a familiar one. Deep knowledge of programming is necessary but not sufficient for creative programming solutions. Design patterns in software, to take one familiar example, are based on Christopher Alexander's theories about physical architecture. The article itself recommends amusement park rides to foster greater risk-taking. Non-programming hobbies can have great benefits for programmers.
Instructions on how to install/build deb package for Ubuntu/Debian here http://serverfault.com/questions/502764/how-to-build-nginx-1...
A transistor is a device where the ability for electrons/electron 'holes' to flow across a material boundary depends upon how many electrons are in a nearby area. A transistor is a device which allows an abstraction layer of three variables over a very complicated solid-state reality.
We've had extensive discussions with Facebook about this. We (Parse) have a pretty strong view on the pain of breaking changes.
That enormous position:fixed header makes it difficult to read even on a desktop.
I found it interesting that a lot of towers look the same, like ah - the people of Skyrim learned that this tower design works for then, hadn't thought they'd use architecture patterns. Interesting. Rather than, oh I'm annoyed the developers reused a tower (and it didn't happen to me with caves)
In Defense of Older Workers: There’s No Substitute for Experience And Maturity
Seeing this reminded me of a few other really old recordings by famous people I've stumbled upon in the past. I still can't get over the amazement of finding these recordings most of us thought anyone would have cared to do or preserve.

Johannes Brahms playing his Hungarian Dance #1 (1889)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brahms_-_Hungarian_Dance_N...

A recording of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1889)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1889_recording_by_Otto_von...

There's also some others located at the US National Park site[1]. Although we all have our love/hate of Edison, one of the more positive things he did was record many famous people out of interest or for the sake of posterity. William Jennings Bryan, William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Edison himself and many others are on that site.

[1] http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/documentary-recordi...
Linux's btrfs getting there, not quite ready for heavy-duty use yet
Of course not. Unless the goal of studying is to maximize arbitrary values on a piece of paper they give you at the end.

One need to keep in mind, that "cheating" in school means nothing else than stepping outside arbitrary rule system that is, most of the time, totally opposed to what a honest, rational person would do in real life. Not that it's all bad; education is a training framework.
What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole Internet
I can already feel the pressure building to start using G+, just to help with search engine results. Which makes me resent G+
It all depends. Even cancers that originate in the same organ are different depending on exactly what part of the DNA got mangled. There are certainly aggressive forms of prostate cancer.
I used to spend about 2 hours per day on food. Typically I would cook eggs for breakfast, eat out for lunch, and cook a quesadilla, pasta, or a burger for dinner

It seems strange that it would take him 2 hours to cook a combination of eggs, a quesadilla, pasta, or a burger. These are foods that only take a few minutes to cook. Cooking either eggs or a quesadilla takes less than 1 minute. If cooked longer, they are ruined. One could cook a meal for two containing every one of those items in less than 20 minutes. He must have been taking a long lunch break.

Any claim that this project arose from a need for time savings rings a bit hollow, because he has spent an order of magnitude more time on this than any non-foodie bachelor programmer person has ever spent cooking.
I saw this circulating on facebook and didn't have strong feelings one way or another about it's legitimacy (whereas my bullshit detector usually turns out to be spot on when I take it to snopes) because I try not to underestimate the ability for humans to assimilate and spread misinformation, even from a teaching role. That said - if true, I hope this teacher is fired and never teaches again without strong supervision.

I think the virality of the original image makes the snopes dissection pertinent, if only because it highlights the way the ability for things to go viral on the internet has changed the way in which people are now being held accountable for egregious abuses of positions of power and leadership, where they may have been able to stay under the radar in the past. This is beyond simply teaching creationism in class. I can't believe a science teacher would instruct their students to respond to being challenged on what they learned with "Were you there?"
Firstly, the article doesn't talk about confirmation bias. The fact remains that if you think you're pretty, but you're actually ugly, all of the effects that come from being perceived as ugly will still come into play, which the article goes into to great detail about.

Yes, feeling confident about yourself is helpful, but as the article said, "the increased confidence of attractive workers only explained 15% to 20% of the beauty premium."

The fact that women basically have to spend hours dealing with makeup only reinforces the OP's post. I don't see how that's a response to what he said.

If you look at the picture, the overall facial structure plays a great role in the transformation. Thinning of the face is not just about losing weight/fat. There is bone structure at play and there are other bodily tissues at play that you can't just remove with exercise.

Look. Your response seriously comes off as one of those banal "If you think you're ugly you are ugly. It's all about self-confidence. You can improve yourself if only you wore better clothes and better grooming and went to the gym." Etc etc. etc. Completely uninsightful and nothing the parent doesn't already know.
Within a couple hours of creating my profile, I've received three emails from recruiters, all for positions unrelated to my actual field.

I love the idea behind mentii, but this kind of thing could tank it early if it gets out of control.
At least the person who shares the link should have the decency to say it's an affiliate link.
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...and a third party to your conversation with a friend.
Don't forget that Android is not just for mobile phones (cell phones for our friend from across the pond). Think of it as a portable personal device running an open sourced operating system with an emphasis on touch based UI.
we do not trust facebook, and that's perfectly fine.
The amount of work is, I suspect, not a factor. Im not sure that having an employee wouldn't be a move I'd ever want. Yes, that means I'll never pass a certain level of success by the measure the majority use (money). However if that's the price, so be it.
No, you're not the only one. To me, this is also a fast way of ruining one of the best things about life. If "making your dreams come true" prevents you from enjoying a nice meals (which is not that much time-consuming, anyway), it may be time to reconsider if those dreams are worth it. Don't live just for a future that might not come, keep in mind your daily life.
Chronicles of the Cannon: Gall at the end
It would be fun to see this aqcuisition cancelled because of a single comment on HN. Oh, well...
Retrospective bill modification
A rant about how an Indian Telecom Giant is looting people with retrospective bill inflation strategies.
That is unlikely to happen, since it is a basic instinct to desire attractive people.

Well, at least until we have the technology to modify one's own psyche.
I can see the problem. If every app is self updating than hackers just need to break some small of single developer account (one of the thousands) and be able to deliver working payloads. Which will leave users defenseless because of the security models employed on the smartphones.

And still a javascript based app can self update with eval.

Edit: Just to clarify. I do not approve walled gardens or feudal models of security. I believe that every user should have the full control of the devices and its security be his own problem.
The article does cover the fact that children who are more attractive are given more attention, and that teachers pay more attention to those children, which may very well explain the effect.
Just use Parse. What's the problem?
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>One of the major reasons breast cancer prognosis is so good is because it's often caught early.

I don't believe the statistics bear this out. In fact, there isn't a lot of evidence early detection of breast tumors does much to prolong life. If your metric is the number of years you live after the cancer is detected, then certainly early detection seems like a huge win. But that would be true even if you didn't do anything at all upon having detected the tumor.
HTAs were! I believe the user accounts management screen in Windows XP was actually one.
"so many". No-one is uneasy except the Facebook hating HN crowd. I think it's great.
Backward compatiblity too.
It's the price I'd put on it if Intrade were still around.
Oh come on.

Literally every business that relies on any kind of stock, real estate, or other form of property depends on the government for the security of that property. Yes, their survival depends - in part - on providing a decent product or service at an acceptable price, but it also depends on having the backing of a state that can inflict serious, life-changing harm on the Takers who have no regard for reciprocity, who will simply grab whatever they want with no recompense whatsoever, and who will continue doing so until they are physically thrown in jail.

These people aren't a majority. Heck, they aren't even a significant minority. But they're common enough to make the difference between profit and loss in any remotely competitive business.

Anarcho-libertarians are loath to admit this, but civilization depends of putting these people behind bars, along with the murderers, rapists, kidnappers, forgers, fruadsters, and other thugs who cannot suppress their own desires reliably enough to behave with decency and reciprocity.

A respectable country will do everything it can to limit incarceration to those who pose genuine, active threats to the persons and property of others. It will not subject them to cruel or unusual punishment that goes beyond their removal from the free population. And it will do whatever is possible to rehabilitate them so they they can become functioning members of society.

But make no mistake - it will throw those fuckers into jail without remorse if they decide to steal instead of deal. In a country ruled by law, businesses can count on this protection. Indeed, it's what they bank on, which is why well-governed countries tend to be far more prosperous than those that tolerate pernicious criminality.
I love the idea. Yours is the first social network style site that I have joined. I do however, have a couple of comments and thoughts about the site.

Firstly, when I sign up and am filling out the form, I didn't see any warning that my profile and request were immediately going to be published on the front page with no apparent way to edit the request. I spent some time clicking around trying to find out how to edit my advice request with no luck. In my case this was not an issue (except for those who were subject to my whimsical filler posting), but I can imagine that it could come as a nasty shock to some. The distinction I am trying to make here is the fine line between making available and broadcasting to all. There may be no practical difference, but there is a world of emotional difference between the two.

This leads me to my second point; I note that the stream of requests is awfully repetitive. I would think you either need to encourage people to put more thought into there requests for help, or have awfully good analytics for those who are looking to be mentors, otherwise you are going to quickly run into the bane of dating sites everywhere. The race to the funniest/quirkiest profile as the myriads of potential proteges compete for the few mentors, leading to a situation where the only way to win is to already know the person, or to be highly manipulative and socially astute, which sort of defeats the purpose of the site to my mind.

Lastly, the site was very slow to load, worse it had appeared to load but the bar with advice requests, browse people etc. had not loaded, making navigation initially very confusing. Once this bar loaded things became much clearer, though why this element failed to load is not clear to me as other assets from the same source seemed to load? Mysteries.

Lastly congratulations on building and shipping such a cool idea and getting so many awesome people to sign up. Best of luck.
To be fair, I have definitely noted a decrease in stability of OSX releases of the last few years too.
Jayson - thanks for the feedback. We will have to tackle the spam / irrelevant messaging problem soon.

We would love to reach out to the recruiters who messaged you, and understand their need better -- could you send us more details at support @ mentii.com
Right, but the bone of contention isn't the bits, it's the money that should, by law, change hands when a copy is made and which (quite obviously) doesn't.

You make a copy, you own me money. You decide to keep that money instead, and it's the moral equivalent of reneging on a debt or bouncing a check.
I think the point was less that people with healthy, varied diets should all switch to Soylent, and more that a potentially healthy meal replacement diet beats a definitely unhealthy fast food diet, hands down.
As an astronomer, I hope this idea takes off. Unfortunately, judging by the reactions my colleagues have had when I've brought up this idea in the past, I don't think it's very likely.
Indeed, you don't want people screaming "Soylent Green is people!"
>What are the long term health costs of unnecessary chemotherapy?

How could you possibly know it whether or not it's necessary?
This should be the OED definition.
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> Announcement: betaworks has acquired Instapaper.

I don't think it can be any clearer than this.

http://betaworks.com
I generally record those calls as well, mostly so I have times/dates/names of who I spoke with and what was said - rarely ever have to revisit anything. I wonder if I challenged a call center on "so and so said XYZ on date YYZ" would they review their call recordings to clarify?
"Probably True"? Really? Are things THAT backwards in some points of the US? Even the "were you there" answer?
Why don't you apply this line of thought to the 4th Amendment, and see if it still makes sense to you?
I find this story quite strange because there are LED street lights right outside my front door here in Oakland. They went in last year, and it was a bit weird the first time I saw them turned on because the light looked very cold, almost blue compared to the lights that were there previously.
Pretty cool. Is the high inclination on purpose, do you know, or is it just that's where the launch vehicle they piggybacked on was going?
CraftStudio is my real-time multiplayer "game to make games". I built it out of my own frustration with existing game-making tools and a desire to let everyone (gamers, most importantly) make their own games. Minecraft was an obvious inspiration to its blocky, pixelarty nature.

Here's the full announcement for the Beta with an overview of the changes: http://sparklinlabs.com/2013/04/craftstudio-beta-is-released...

Among other things, I redesigned the whole interface, added a physics engine (BulletXNA) and build a Web player (using Three.js and Lua.js) to allow playing CraftStudio games right in in the browser: http://store.craftstud.io/games

If you have any questions, technical or otherwise, I'll gladly answer them.
The correct answer is: time is relative
Have you also seen the Open Exoplanet Catalogue proposal by Hanno Rein? (http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7121)

I have no idea if you know him or not, but if not, you should consider getting in touch!
China's Leadership is Really, Really Rich
http://www.janusvm.com/chromium_vm/ was the sort of thing I thought you were describing, until you said you wanted that “in reverse”. I have no idea what you mean.
This isn't about control, this is a sane move. Self updating applications are a security risk, Google just plugged up a hole that quite frankly shouldn't have existed in the first place. Users of iOS know better than anyone else that updates that go through the store are checked not only for security risks, but also potential memory leaks and poorly optimised code. How would you feel if your favourite Android app received a self-update from the developer that removed a crucial feature or heavily crippled the app of your phone.
Is it a code quality or a code portability issue?
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The idea of describing a build in XML is so ridiculous only Java people could have invented it, "why I don't like Maven" is hardly interesting, "why the hell would anyone like Maven" is a good question. If you remember Linus Torvalds describing CVS vs. Git, I think you could say the same of Maven vs. anything actually reasonable.
Javascript is a scripting language like python , ruby or php. It just lack of some spec for modules for instance , Node has its own module system.
That is the way it is pronounced in the uk.
What makes code hard to understand
So, building it for yourself :) It's a good start. Good luck!
As discussed in the linked article, it's mostly because of code quality but with a healthy dose of percieved threat to job security. Unfortunately the academic citation economy isn't very nurturing of community codes, so a lot of work gets repeated when secretive research groups compete.

That's not the whole story and the fact that this article is getting published speaks to that, however I still don't think it's likely that things will change in the short term.

My friend Matt Turk wrote about a similar topic recently: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7064
Has there been some sort of falling out between Arment, Siracusa and Gruber - they all left 5by5 within a short time of the Gruber move, and in my opinion their shows are now worse.
This is not a paper, it's Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis on Erlang (from 2003), and it's been posted & discussed countless times here.
I haven't deployed anything 'real' on OpenShift, but having played and experimented with it, I'm rather impressed.
> I really miss the GWB days

Are you trolling? because "the United States'greatest foreign policy disasters" under GWB far surpassed what happened in Libya. This is being used as political hammer by the GOP, so it's hard to take at face value.
step 1: give actual ownership.
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It has been a long time since I used maven, but I used to be a user. The biggest problem with maven (except for quality, which I think is temporal) is that you cannot reproduce a build.

The simple task of 'given a jar artifact(1), and its md5, full source code and pom, reproduce it from scratch' never works. (One of the reasons being the jar tool that stores .class file dates inside the jar).

Another reason is that maven self-updates, and sometimes this gets in the way of being able to build an older project. I'm pretty sure there are several jars in biblio that cannot be recreated (never mind the md5) without significant hacking.

(1) there is a difference between 'artefact' and 'artifact', but somehow the semantics became confused.
There are multiple ways to run a business. When a customer needs extra hand you can either say "suck it, you don't worth it" or you can say "you know what, I'll take that extra mile for you" (especially if it's because of a shortcoming of the product).

It depends what kind of business you want to built.
Glasses that are supported by your nose rather than your ears
holy crap, Orkut still exists. just logged in, saw that I got some badges inlcuding the 'early user' one for having an account that's older than 5 years.

my oh my, what a waste. anyone outside of brazil using this? why is LP keeping this around and not shutting this down after migrating all users to g+? focus, focus, focus?
Pieceable was acquihired by Instagram, dude. They're probably not relevant to Facebook's mobile strategy any more.
Not to nitpick, but if your tag line says "Get career guidance from your future self", it shouldn't probably sit on top of an image of an older man talking to younger woman :)
Now also Austria develops it´s own Internet meme culture.
and Biz Stone, another twitter cofounder
I'm the one early adapters of Facebook in Turkey since 2006. I was 19 at that time and studying in college. I was trying to push my friends to sign up because it looked like i was the only one in facebook town, alone. Since then i have chance to watch evolution of facebook while I and my friends are growing up. Now I'm 26 and i have bunch of people in my friends (400+) including 50< and 15> years old relatives. I can say that now I'm feeling alone again, despite the crowded feed(bunch of sponsored stories and meme). I can say that I don't have friends to push them to sign up anymore.
Summary it's time to move on for all of us even facebook. In this perspective It makes sense to buy b2b company.
I don't think this is right for HN.

If you want to laugh at bible thumpers that's fine, but I think this would be more appropriate for reddit.
We want to deploy your nodejs code.
But getting one or more partners on board who get like 10% of the revenue and take over all the development work and day to day business might have worked quite well. Or subcontracting to some kick-ass freelancers (who would have jumped at that opportunity, surely?).
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You can also hold down shift and click on the icon to open up a new window.

Similarly if you use a keyboard shortcut to open your icons (like Win+1 to open the first icon) holding shift while pressing the shortcut will open a new window (Shift+Win+1 will open a new window for the first icon).
You're not addressing it, you're just making reassuring noises. Addressing it would involve explaining why Facebook actually bought Parse and how it fits in their overall strategy. There are many reasons, both honest and dishonest, why you may not be able to explain that, but until you do, you're not addressing the issue.

Which is fine by me - I don't have any eggs in this basket - but the pedant in me needed to point this out. If you want to have a chance to dispel all the doubts, start by answering the above clearly and with no overly enthusiastic exaggerations à la "Facebook is awesome and Parse is so great" and so on...