skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems funny that professors don't think the students are cheating normally. If this is what the students are willing to share with the proctors the real 'guns' must be more amazing.
mm, i don't think that's an apt comparison. cuisine doesn't develop in the same way that mechanical conveyance does. there's no objective basis for saying one example of food is superior wrt that basis than another, at least not one that isn't trivial. with a car you can say you can go this many miles per hour, or this many miles per dollar, that you require only this area to house the car, that its emissions are relatively benign compared to horse shit, etc. what people look for in food is the subjective, aesthetic experience. even when someone's eating for utilitarian reasons, they'll still make aesthetic choices, like the article about the north korean refugee who described the variety of foods made mostly from rice that you could buy at the market in a time of mass starvation, where all eating was utilitarian.

you know what'll happen if this catches on (which i don't think it will but anyway)? people will tinker with it, trying to make it more palatable, making different varieties for different occasions, or moods, or just for the sake of variety. this idea for replacing food will just become new kind of cuisine, at best. a style of cooking that seeks to provide all or most of the nutrients a body needs would be cool, but markedly different to the shift from horse drawn carriages and automobiles.

when automobiles came along, they replaced horse buggys rather than becoming a new kind of horse buggy.
The US Legislative System is built for gridlock. Lots of things come up again and again over the decades, but passage remains unlikely - especially for an issue where the opposition is more engaged (see gun control).
My logo is orange, and I don't care.
Go isn't a systems language by that definition of systems language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1697443

And all systems langauges will be used heavily for writing applications because there is typically a huge benefit of developing in the same language as the underlying OS.
It sometimes works, it's just that you never hear about it when it does because you forget all about the small company and it's just seen as a big company's hot new product.

Recall that Google bought Android and YouTube when they were small, Google bought Where2 (Google Maps) when it was small, Google bought Writely (Google Docs) when it was small, Yahoo bought Flickr when it was small, Google bought MetaWeb (those knowledge cards on the right of the search result page) and ITA (flight search) when they were medium-sized, Twitter bought Summize (Twitter Search) when it was small, and Conde Nast bought Reddit when it was small.

The key seems to be to either let the acquired company continue to do its thing without interference or to fold it into a high-priority project within the acquirer, though.
I'll apply now.
Why? No plans to let it rest.
While color psychology is an excellent topic, I think this post relies too much on data that isn't reliable/was meant to be marketing linkbait vs. legitimate research.

The real tell-tale in those buttons are their styles rather than the colors. If you took the solids and lined them up as palettes, it would be a lot more difficult to parse. The infographic showing the emotion colors correlating to their brands does more to prove that big and bold is what matters, not the hue (and honestly it looks like someone just pasted all the logos they could think of, regardless of if they supported the meaning/emotion). I'm not even going to touch the gender-based one. I tried to reach the single URL that Kissmetrics lists as their proof but it no longer works (also why don't they have HTML versions of their data?).

At the end of the day, it really comes down to how color is used. There are lots of great books and blogs on color psychology, and I'd suggest looking into those instead.
By that reasoning, an article about Albert Einstein should be allowed regardless of the status of the site that hosts the article. If that were true, one could get links to any site whatever through the simple expedient of writing up something noble and uplifting and adding it to the site.

It doesn't work that way.
I will predict that this does not happen within the next 5 years, 85% confidence.
There is another story in this blog post:

"There are 90 people in the photograph below. With the exception of a small number of outsourced assets, you’re looking at the entirety of the dev team across all disciplines. We've resisted the temptation to grow into a multi-studio team of hundreds, such as you often find behind games of similar scope to those we make."

I find it most astounding that Skyrim was made by a team of less than 100 people. It seems that these days it's not unheard of that hundreds or even more than 1,000 people work on a game. An example of the latter category is Grand Theft Auto IV.
Digg acquires Instapaper
This comment worth gold. I respond it only so that I can see it later.
Anyway, thanks for pointing this out.
Summary -

The US navy wants to use (near) commercial android devices. These might be used to display confidential reports (as in a normal buisness), but may also be used to control the ship.

The navy already have secure versions of Linux and Windows, and want something similar for android.

This will take the form of additional security layers, similar to the ones the NSA did for Linux[1].

Some of them will be made commercially available, hopefully increasing security to the whole platform. If this included e.g. application sandboxing, you can see that it would be of general interest, particularly to people with similar needs (Android based control terminal for a power station, or sys admin wants to roll out policy to coorp devices).

Android is becoming the default embedded OS for a lot of UI, so it's really nice to see this.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
Paywall. I recommend that you link to sites that have the article available without paying for the privilege.
Instapaper's parsing is 3x better at least. Very often I see Pocket lose chunks of articles over innocuous divs.
Imagine situations where 30% of a has 70% more mobile users than those of b

Wouldn't this be statistically impossible (i.e. extremely unlikely) given a big-enough data-set in a properly designed A/B test platform?
There's UserGrid, which is open source: https://developers.apigee.com/app-services
Ditto. He really is an inspiration.
Yeah, that is a common building code requirement in most states. It's going to be more annoying when everything starts having USB plug adapters and charges off 5v.
It would be an awful lot easier to argue that. I'd need to go back and look up a bunch of cases which I don't feel like doing at present because it would be a large research project, but absent any specific computer-crime laws I'd argue that because a computer is a digital system and a digital system is just a complex agglomeration of switches, there's no qualitative difference between accessing a computer system and turning a light switch on and off. You'd never convict someone of a crime for turning a light switch on and off; if they entered your office at night to do so that would just be trespass rather than burglary. So how is operating a computer all that different? You're just opening and closing a few million different circuits. Sure, you could say my client illegally obtained information by doing so, but where is this information? Can you produce it in evidence? If you can't do so without printing it out, and you can't show that my client printed it out, where is the crime? Etc. etc. Likewise I could argue that no fraud has taken place because fraud involves a deception, a deception involves a deceiver and a deceived, and computers are not sapient, therefore they're not capable of being deceived. Defeating a login system isn't a case of deception because administrator of said system was not consulted for permission; arguably he automated away his duty of granting or withholding access and the defendant should not be blamed for the inadequacy of that automated process.

Sure, these are bullshit arguments, but the point is that our legal system works on a rough mix of common sense and code. If I can find an exploitable ambiguity in statute or precedent and apply it to a defendant's case, then it's like an exploit in which throwing an exception is equivalent to a trial resulting in an acquittal. we have laws defining what a computer system is and what constitutes access to one etc. precisely because the virtualized nature of digital information makes it tricky to apply laws that were drafted to deal with theft of physical property.
I've been wondering if Quant trading really works? I mean that are really someone who earns money with this?
It's just a "gold rush"?
It would be good if they addressed load speed. Will the 8Gb of RAM in the PS4 make their next game load new areas immediately now?
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In retrospect that seems like a tease of today's announcement- He's saying that Instapaper's best days are still to come.
Three years in, AMOLED displays are finally getting it right
Oh, this. Shutting down services is different to restricting services to your own platform. Perhaps you have a point, perhaps Google would hypothetically have decided to shut down Parse had they acquired it, but it's not fair to suggest they'd have limited it to Android.
Working on improving these things! Indeed we hope this deal demonstrates that.
> I don't see why that's necessarily so.

Then tell me how you stop piracy without reducing the openness of the internet.
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Anonymous Hollywood Exec Ignites BitTorrent Inc Piracy Controversy
Please answer this. By what moral standard do I have no right to make moral judgements according to my own moral standards? By what right do you apply that moral standard to me when it is not my moral standard?

People frequently misunderstand moral relativism. It does not properly mean that you can't make moral judgements. It just means that you can't expect people of other backgrounds to agree with those judgements.

My favorite statement on cultural relativity comes from Charles J Napier, about the Indian custom of Sati, "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs." By British standards, the burning of widows alive was immoral. By Indian standards, failing to do so was immoral. There can be no meeting of minds on the moral question - only people acting as their morals compel them to.

Now let's move to the comment that offended you. My brother has lived in various parts of Taiwan and China for the better part of two decades, interacting with people at all levels from uneducated peasants to the state council. He has had many things to say about Chinese people and culture, some positive, and some not. I regard his observations as observations, not racism.

Let me repeat this observation. His observation is that the average Chinese person is much more likely to try to lie, steal, or take advantage of you than the average American. Not a question of right or wrong, just a fact of daily life in the two countries. But his observation of high Chinese officials - based on personal interaction - is that on the whole they sincerely are trying to make things better for everyone. His (admittedly less direct) observation of elites in the USA, particularly flavored by issues like CEO compensation, the financial crisis, and so on, is that they are out for themselves with little regard for doing what is right in any broader sense.

Use what labels you want for the observation. I still find it interesting.
As a Parse user I had hoped they would be a "never sell" type of company. This news saddens me.

We will likely be migrating off soon.
Yep, it'll concatenate files, minify them, etc., all the things you would expect. Perhaps the only caveat is: it doesn't do any dependency management, etc., which sprockets provides (if you actually use that part of it).
Yes and no. First though, congrats on Chicago. It's a great school and a great place to live. A long history of great work there.

There are a lot of great, lucrative careers that give you a clear boundary between work and home. Some of these are that way by nature, but really all can be. There are niches even in law and medicine, that provide for a if not 40 hour work week, something close to that. These often will be the jobs that pay the below-median salary in that field.

But anything that resembles entrepreneurship is going to feel a lot more like what you are doing now than what you see in your dads career. (Also worth noting on the subject of your dad that you presumably didn't see him when he was starting his career.) Sure, what I said in the previous graf applies to entrepreneurship as well, but... the disposition that drives a strong work/life balance seems often orthogonal to the ambition that leads you to working for yourself to begin with.

So if that life interests you -- if building and growing something is your destiny -- then my POV here is to know that everything you wrote about your current life, the "last time I completed", the "always a next thing to do", the "no such thing as done", all of that applies wholly to entrepreneurship.

Of course, like I mentioned a couple days ago, it can be tremendously rewarding.

I'm only 30, I have a lot to figure out still, so take all that with more than a grain of salt.
No, it's really the economics of it. Lithium and other evaporite minerals are usually concentrated in ponds so the evaporation rate can play a part, but usually it's a matter of efficiently using the capital over the lifetime of the operation.

It's easy to drill more wells or build more ponds.

I work in the industry and, as luck would have it, am on a project near the facility in Nevada.
No, of course not. A court can acquit someone but it can't control how everyone thinks about the process. If a certain percentage of the population are authoritarians who believe the police are always right and defense lawyers are always tricksy shysters, there's not much the court can do about it other than acknowledging the facts that point to an acquittal.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
The NYPD Is Planning a Simulated Chemical Attack For New York Subways
When I was in high school my classmates and I found a document from a previous year that amounted to a superset of all the questions my philosophy teacher was going to put in test.

Since some of the questions were pretty hard we ended up studying really hard together to try and crack them before tests.

Though what we did was somehow against the rules I feel I learned a lot more by studying the questions collaboratively than by studying on my own.

I later found this form of collaboration extremely rewarding and effective during university. We spent many afternoon trying to crack hard problem sets and explaining them to one another.
I am male and not a feminist, because I disagree with their man-hating propaganda ("A women needs a man like a bicycle needs a fish"). But I am all for equivalence and my wife is my equal as well as my partner (well ... if I admit it, she's my better half in almost every way). I think I'll go hug her - bye.
I tried Pocket and couldn't get past not having article length indicator, the quick archive/delete menu, favorites, and the Kindle auto-digest. Has the situation improved in any of those areas?
It also means you own the system, don't get screwed over when Parse gets bought, and all for just a little bit of work.

Seems like a small amount to pay for something that will essentially run itself indefinitely.
I'm looking at her list of things she has to do at the bottom of the article.

My wife and daughters do most of those (including a modesty scarf)...and we live in the USA.
Absolutely.

I hate it when people try to tell me what thoughts I may or may not try to think.
Dependency management in Maven is amazing ... yet I don't find myself wanting to go back to Ant with Ivy.
"You may know that the minimum frame size in an Ethernet network is 64 bytes or 512 bits, including the 32 bit CRC. You may also know that the maximum length of an Ethernet cable segment is 500 meters for 10BASE5 thick cabling and 185 meters for 10BASE2 thin cabling. It is, however, a much less well known fact that these two specifications are directly related."

Odd, given that the VERY first thing anybody is taught about CSMA/CD ethernet is how the maximum length of cable and minimum packet size are precisely related. Indeed, it's almost the only thing people are taught about the relationship of those two.
My brother offered me FIFA 13 last Christmas so we could play together online, so I had to install Origin etc.

The number of clicks I have to launch & play a game is ridiculous. I've played video games for more than 20 years and yet the menu baffles me every time. Online games are confusing as well.

Micro-transactions are encouraged.

FIFA is on PC since almost 20 years and yet, the game does even NOT support correctly many game controllers with "odd" buttons placement, and you CAN'T re-assign them without some freeware found on the internet !

My Origin account got hacked.

And Origin is already bugging me with popups to pre-order FIFA 14.

Guess how I feel about buying EA games right now ...
Ask HN: Another party trademarked our trading name
I've been running a couple of eCommerce sites under a trading name since 2008 which bring in several thousand dollars in revenue per month (mainly through Google). We use and have several of the domain names (ie .co.uk, .com.au, .co.nz) for the trading name.
watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6ucWVGeMc
Questionable confidence ratings aside, what you're betting against is a very narrow example of the many things that could happen that would push this through. It died once and is back; it got farther this time, and whether it's because of a hacking scare, because even fewer people are paying attention, or for any of myriad other reasons, it will eventually go through.
If google keeps ramming their social network product down peoples throats it won't be very long before they have more than just a social networking problem.
The main problem with sugars is that they have a high glycemic index, which means that they break down quickly and rapidly release glucose into your bloodstream. That's bad for several reasons. One is that it causes a strong insulin response, which can increase insulin resistance over time, leading to diabetes. Another is that it will give you a burst of energy initially, which will then fall off, leaving you feeling tired. Carbs with a lower GI will keep your blood sugar at a steady level.

But actually, looking again at the soylent recipe, he seems to be preferring maltodextrin as his carb source. He was probably mislead by the fact that it's a "complex carbohydrate", but in fact, the GI of maltodextrin is higher than cane sugar. In fact, it has basically the same glycemic index as pure glucose.

So I retract my previous statement. Unless you replace carb source in soylent, SlimFast is basically just a better option.
OpenWrt 12.09 "attitude_adjustment" released after long beta period
Another aspect of the absurdity of how negatively we treat plastic surgery is how common and acceptable cosmetic braces are in America. The vast majority of teens getting braces isn't because they medically needed them, it's just to make their teeth more attractive.
People donated their data so that a blog post like this could be written. Mission accomplished, I guess.
There's a comprehensive list of BaaS providers here -> http://www.kinvey.com/backend-as-a-service
> Seeing as how I had to google PKI to see what it was, I doubt I'd be able to build a Parse-like service in one afternoon.

Then it's something you would learn, and those several afternoons would mean that you'd be well equipped to tackle a similar problem in an afternoon later.

Basic x509 certificates and PKI is really something an iOS developer (or any developer, really) should be able handle. Understanding this stuff is pretty central to just about all secure communications we have between clients/servers anywhere. It's not like you have to reimplement a crypto library; you just need to know the basics of how they work.
If the code is small, than short variables are easier to debug, because they are easier to manipulate, have less visual clutter, and are short scoped enough that you do not get a benefit from using a longer name. Not to mention the fact that you do not have the descriptive name obscuring what the code is actually doing.
Anyone want to guess at the valuation? Betaworks didn't spend much on Digg, wonder how deep their pockets are.
Yeah, they'll just chop it into pieces and attach them to "must pass" legislation. These guys know what they're doing.
Promises made just post acquisition have historically had a low correlation with future events.
Those things aren't bad, but full of sugar and flavorings to make them palatable to the general public.
Evernote's VP on business expansion, mobile and two-factor authentication
Yikes! Sorry, this is bad user experience.

Update: Tumblr seems to load their own stylesheets for mobile devices. We'll find a fix for this.
Ask PG,HN: Sexy versus unsexy startup ideas?
I've been working on a couple ideas for a startup. One is based on email and the web maketing for small retail businesses with mobile being added later. This first business is based on local advertising and can be launched and become profitable with in a year. the url will be www.localfreedrawings.com. Another robotics and 3D printing. url will be avatars4real.com This would have to be launched via kickstarter and probably a little on the crazy side. It involves providing a web based city of robots and quadcopters for users to work, play, interact. The first has a large group of customers that need the service kind of. The second would probably have a smaller group that would be really interested. How should I choose what to work on?
Like so many, I love and hate it.
I can see that it helps at the large scale - big projects, many of them. It also helps people come in cold to a project.

On the other hand, unfortunately it doesn't scale to the low end.

I had a task just to transform a jar file. With Maven it took hours of scratching my head, finding the assembly plug-in, having Maven download 100Mb of stuff; all to do what would take a minutes of development time and executation time total to do in Python or Perl.

That makes you scream inside.
You might get deported like that Saudi guy for being too handsome.

You can also be targeted by other men (of a different race for example) that feel threatened by you - or women too, the bitter type, in all seriousness.

To make it easier for your probable world view: being a very good looking tall black man for example, won't necessarily have everyone open up to you with smiles on their faces (especially if you don't necessarily want to assimilate into their 'culture'/social structure).

Being a very good looking asian (yes they exist, haha) guy myself - I would say I have experienced many instances in my life where white men have attempted to sabotage me.

People like things that make them feel/seem more powerful, and hate things that tend to do the opposite.
Hope they don't remove the epub download option. Everybody's building iPhone apps, but last time I checked only Instapaper supported epubs. It's been great with my kobo reader*

* albeit, I run a script to fix some errors (based on http://opennomad.com/content/instapaper-epub-issues)
Said every founder of every acquired company, ever :)

Are you referring to Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)?