skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berkeley Group Hosts "All-girls" Rails Event
I agree if it was asked with no context ("What's the difference between String and string?"), I wouldn't be sure how to answer either! (But in the OP, wasn't it the author who asked the question?)

It reminds me of an interview question I was asked once (thought not as bad as String/string): "What is the time complexity to print every node in a binary tree?"
Because there probably hasn't ever been a person who consumed a particular batch of refined nutrients for nearly every meal, and we don't know nearly enough about how the body processes food considering how long we, as a species, have been eating it.

Admittedly, I don't know much about what's in soylent, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turns out that eating refined XXX powder in every meal is bad for you, where XXX is an ingredient that he's using to get enough of a particular nutrient.
A quiet desktop
I've heard this before. Remember 15+ years ago when the US Army chose WebObjects because it was so obscure it had no security issues? How is their adoption of Apple server gear since then?
Perhaps even the same. Android is pretty much Linux and converging fast. They can probably reuse a lot.
I can't share revenue numbers but we picked this route over multiple Series B term sheets. So, that's a measure of viability.
> These grades turn out to be a poor proxy for things like earning, ingenuity, creativity, changing-the-world, or for that matter even grokking the materials.

It's unfortunate, but in my department about 80 % of the students go up to med school. The GPA plays a great part in determining just what school will accept you, which in turn has massive impact on your future earnings.
Has anyone on hn experimented with the Samsung security stuff yet?
You missed the part where he writes about suffering from Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Looks like that's only for iOS.
Why doesn't Google apply? :) They get $1 million to improve Android security - and they can just do it and integrate it into the next release for everyone!
Error: "unauthorized"

Welp, so much for that. :(
The alternative is to support multiple platforms. Standardizing on a single platform is as foolhardy as standardizing on a single company. Even open platforms have defacto owners/controllers (Java anyone?).
So not EA.
I must admit to being unfamiliar with Farseer, but if you feel like submitting a pull request, I'll figure out a way to run it on my Mac (I presume the "platform" you're referring to is .NET, or perhaps WinMo).
I think you are missing the point. Rob is using this as a replacement for boring food. The same stuff you eat every day for breakfast and lunch.

When he does choose to eat a tasty meal with friends or family, I think those meals would be even more delicious.
Why the (Mechanical) Pencil, or Say Hello to my Little Friend
LED streetlamp aims to improve public's view of stars
Congrats to the Parse team, great product and team.

(from the buddy.com team)
That... doesn't even make sense. Did the professors have less freedom of action? Do the students have more?
Funny.. Just a few weeks I was wondering if Marco was bored of Instapaper and tried out Pocket in case he was going to dump it.

Doesn't matter, I ended up liking Pocket better after having been a long time Instapaper user.
I think it's similar between the culture compatibility of Instagram and facebook. They became culturally compatible because the main people involved in the company being acquired adapted their ideals to become a part of the acquiring company for a giant payoff, big whoop.
Oooops, http://ngxpagespeed.com/ (their demonstration site) doesn't respond at the moment...
Why stop at Obamacare? It's much, much smaller than Medicare, Social Security, the US armed forces, DHS (+ all the related bureaus), the Federal Reserve, IRS, US Treasury... essentially the entire US government is a collection of dysfunctional bureaucracies that extract wealth from citizens in the form of taxes, give it back to corporations in the form of subsidies and tax refunds, and give citizens next to nothing in return.
Speaking of Pocket, I'm baffled by their lack of (recently upgraded to simply lacking) sharing functionality and full-text search.

Passing a Pocket link to someone without a Pocket account leads to a sign-up page. If the recipient already has an account or goes to the trouble to sign up, they're redirected to their own queue, not the linked article. If the recipient goes to the trouble to sign up and pocket the same page themselves they will end up successfully accessing the getpocket.com/a/read/XXXXXXXXX URL that they were original sent.

Pocket is throwing away potential new users who quit at the sign up page and useful information about how existing users share.

Within the last month, they finally added some sharing functionality, but it sends links to the original not the pocket version. Another opportunity to pull new users into a test drive of the product being thrown away.

Lack of full-text search makes referencing anything down the road incredibly difficult. I've ended up regularly importing my Pocket queue to historious [1] to achieve this.

At this point, the only thing that keeps me using Pocket is the very nice Android app.

1: http://historio.us
Google is far from a small business, these are funding opportunities for companies with less than 500 employees.
I don't think he was referring to the math involved (even though he wrote it) ;)
Look, so long as you have a full head of hair, the world and in particular women will consider you to be at least decent looking. My hair started to fall out when I was 22 and by 26 I was seriously balding. To make matters worse, I started to go grey and by 28 or so I was fully "distinguished" (aka old) looking.

So yeah, actually looking young goes a long way. Do not take your good fortune for granted. Like you said, you can change the other stuff you don't like.
Fortunately you're a guy and can elicit the same positive reaction by being confident, funny and charming.
I always assumed the military would insist on having full sourcecode for everything they used, to protect against an important supplier going out of business and the like.

I'd be surprised if they didn't have access to all of the code for pretty much every Windows product for example.
I don't get this comment. This is about performance in browsers, not different physics engines...?!
Is it really not obvious? Parse doesn't overlap with Facebook's core goals and that frequently means somewhere down the road "business as usual" means "you have 60 days to GTFO". There's also not wanting Facebook to have access to your data or just plain not wanting to do business with Facebook (I fall under that category, a FB buyout or partnership is the fastest way to get me to stop using a service).
I doubt it, I think they just get really good at rationalizing it, but their personality traits persist. If peoples' personality traits could spin on a dime in the direction of evil, psychologists would probably have an easier time making evil people be good.

Empathy is a huge issue, lack of empathy is a factor in most violent crimes that get committed. If I thought DHH were misusing the concept I would have reacted negatively, but I think he was spot on. These people still have empathy, it just winds up feeling forced because they lack the ability to act upon their feelings.
"America has no law preventing companies from using attractiveness as a hiring criteria, regardless of whether the job is exotic dancer, salesman, or software engineer. It’s pretty much okay from a legal standpoint to discriminate based on looks in America."

This law wouldn't make much sense. We could as well make a law preventing companies from using intelligence as hiring criteria. Imagine a boring job in a factory, where having above average intelligence wouldn't make you more productive. Is it discriminating to hire someone only because the boss likes him because he's intelligent? And what about discrimination based on smell or sense of humour?
P-Curve: A Key to the File Drawer
Just for the reference: It was not the drivers fault but an bug in the database/sql package, which was fixed in https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=45c12efb46
If so, this doesn't instill much confidence: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/21/salesforce-buys-email-conta...
No? From what I can see they've taken less than a 10th of that in VC. And this is the first time in over a year that I've heard anything about them. Buzz isn't everything, and maybe there was a viable business there. But they certainly weren't setting the world on fire.

It's pretty hard to see how a near $100 million exit in circumstances like that would be disappointing or "really cheap". (And congrats certainly seem in order for everyone involved).
Er, no? People repeatedly expose themselves to small amounts of radiation all the time. X-rays, sunlight, airplanes, astronauts, living anywhere with large quantities of granite rock . . .

Really, that seems to be totally irrelevant to whether or not this guy is on to something. (Personally, I think he's probably running a long con. But making stupid arguments against con men is just a way to send them more victims. Ask for some evidence instead - arguments screen off authority.)
Show HN: Complex function visualization with Canvas and SVG
> The government is dead serious about turning every sizable company on the internet into a part of a gross-national cybersecurity infrastrucutre maintainer,

Which government? The head of the executive branch that threatened to veto such a thing over privacy concerns, or the Senate that wouldn't even give the bill the time of day (again, due to privacy concerns).

The government is a big damned huge complicated thing. Statements like "The government wants to do X" are silly simply due to the scale, even more so when two distinct pieces of "the government" are blocking the action you're asserting as their "dead serious" goal.
For a lot of people that's not terribly helpful. Before I heard of Docker I had never heard of LXC.

Maybe, "Docker is a system for creating and deploying self-contained application packages for Linux," except I'm pretty sure "application package" is the wrong phrase. But that's the gist of why it's interesting, IMHO.
Rolomotion - Apple TV is your new living room game console
This discovery gives breathing room to the ongoing research into the use of graphene to improve and extend the capabilities of lithium-ion batteries.

It's equally interesting that both seem recyclable as well.
I've found that in my grad-school years that most professors released a set of sample exams, usually with answers. For some this would be a made-up exam. For most it was a previous year's exam. For others it was all the exams presented to the class for the last ten years with answers.

It was quite productive to go over all these exams as a group and strive to understand the questions, and particularly to understand the patterns, these were the concepts that lay behind the questions and once you had those you could answer many questions.

These days it isn't hard to find example problems and exams on the internet for your class or similar ones.
We've now crossed a threshold as there are millions of Windows 8 computers with UEFI by default which won't boot 32-bit operating systems by default.
> beauty in the traditional sense mostly means "average."

I'd imagine that this is true for females, but that males would benefit from being above average in some ways (i.e. height).
> Passing a Pocket link to someone without a Pocket account leads to a sign-up page.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. I just tried sharing something from the Pocket Android app and it gave me the original URL in the Gmail message I opened.
What's this "high quality" you speak of? None of it is FDA certified.
What if we had a law that criminalized crime itself

This is an empty argument. You haven't shown that merely doing things with a computer makes it worse.

"You need to show that prosecutors could not bring as many charges for an equivalent crime of stealing something from a safe or locked filing cabinet"
That is not equivalent. The equivalent crime would be having a friend in the office hold a door open so that you can enter and make a copy of some documents. There are two crimes there: conspiracy, and theft of trade secrets.

You're committing criminal trespass in that example, why don't you include that? And why do you equate accessing the system to simply holding a door open, as if there were no login security? I mentioned the example of documents being held in a safe as a proxy for the fact that you need to log into a system before copying documents from it, it's not like you just SSH in and get automatic access to the shell prompt for the asking. The reason that we have a crime of unauthorized access to a computer system is precisely because it's easier to get into a computer without damaging it than it is to get through a window without breaking it.

You're rewriting the facts to make your argument stand up. that's what's wrong with it. You do not get to just walk into someone else' place of business and start using the copier, and then only be charged for the copies you made, for the same reason that if you break into my house at night and take some money you're guilty of burglary as well as theft. Just because the unauthorized access/ criminal trespass/ burglary is a necessary prerequisite to the theft of trade secrets/ cash does not mean it's incorporaated into it.
I'd also be interested in a signup form
Totally disagree. I'm in college right now and Facebook+Instagram are still the social networks of choice. If anything Facebook has only lost it's novelty because it's assumed everyone has one.

The only thing that sucks up more of my time is Hacker News :)
Apple offering some devs a second chance at WWDC tickets
Anonymous protest Pedophilia Pride Day
No one gets married with a divorce planned, but divorces aren't exactly uncommon. This quote from Zuck comes to mind:

> "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people."

As do a few acquisitions followed by shut-downs: Drop.io, Face.com ($100M!), Gowalla, etc.
I would consider a mid-range lexus as a regular luxury car. There are extremes (anything over $120k: Bentley, Maybach, etc.) but those are out of the reach of the masses.

My point is this: If a Tesla would be a petrol-powered vehicle, how much would it cost? Now find out WHY/WHERE there's a difference and look at that.
see also:

http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/2391/what-books-sho...
http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/431/video-lectures-...
http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/1985/what-papers-ha...
Men's hormonal buttons are being pushed by images of hot women in order to empty their wallets, and you think it's the women who are being exploited. That's rich.
above the noise of the least gifted warbler singing on the radio.

So, Katy Perry exists in this alternate universe as well?
I'm hoping that when Marco says "I've sold a majority stake" he doesn't mean "I've sold everything". I'm a big Instapaper fan, and I'd hate to see someone else take over deciding the direction the service should move in.

A big part of Instapaper's success comes from the fact that Marco's done a great job at steering the ship. He really is a world-class product guy who knows what to say no to.

Congratulations to Marco and Betaworks. I hope it works out well for all of us.
I would have done the same as Marco. It was unasked for and unnecessary. Pocket is a great app but so its Instapaper and Marco has done a tremendous job over the years by keeping it in shape by himself (with exception of the Android app). This is a way on pissing all over the the efforts of a independent developer. Just because.
And here I thought there wasn't any money in dev tools...
http://www.appannie.com/app/ios/instapaper/ranking/history/#...
Hmm, who actually is the one to usually do this sort of thing?

Clearly it is a good idea, but I don't think it really makes sense for the Navy to do it for themselves. Isn't this more the sort of thing the NSA should be doing on the behalf of everyone else in government?
> WHY

Isn't it as simple as "because they can"?

A Patek Phillipe watch is lovely, but probably doesn't have $30,000 worth of materials and labour involved. The rest is just pricing for a luxury good.
Oh yes. The problem is that people are coming out of college too ethical these days. Especially in business. We need much less ethical business leaders. That was sarcasm. This author has announced himself as a proud sociopath.
Really? How many people have bought Minecraft? More than 10 million (on PC alone) [1]. Assume everyone paid the beta price of €14.95 [2] and we get €150 million! That sounds like triple-A money to me.

Okay, that could be wildly inaccurate if everyone buys it cheap through deals like Steam. 75% off and similar.

Wikipedia says the Notch estimated €25M in purchases a few months after the beta [3]. By the end of the beta that was 4 million purchases which has now risen to 10 million. As far as I can tell, that doesn't include any figures from Apple, Google, or Microsoft.

[1] https://minecraft.net/
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20110114022633/http://www.minecra...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft#Commercial
Of course, we all do this. The the perfect form exists in all of our minds, even the novice, and we keep this with us as we work. However, the author of the article is advocating reckless behaviour and poor judgement in pursuit of actually achieving it.
I like this approach as well (in theory) and only have some "anecdotal" experience - if you can call it that.

My family originated from East Europe and as such most of my family elders have an old school Soviet experience in education. Consequently they have little knowledge and no experience when it comes to modern-day Western education infrastructure. For instance, my parents were genuinely surprised to hear that I wrote written exams and submitted them only to be reviewed at face value - which is the experience of nearly all undergrads I expect. Their experience was that, even in a "straight-forward" subject like Mathematics, they had to first submit a written response to a problem set in an examination type settings - and then upon completion they would have to explain their solution and approach one-on-one with a faculty member who would only then submit a grade.

Obviously this was done to weed out the cheaters who couldn't explain why they had to correct answers to all the questions. But the result can't be ignored that one-on-one oral examinations, while not exactly pragmatic, are very effective!
This (not Lamarr specifically) was briefly mentioned in the article - the 'attractiveness benefit' is actually not awarded to women in traditionally male fields.
I recently started using a meal replacement shake as my primary food source and this is exactly how I respond to the nay sayers.

The same thing happened when I became a vegetarian (how will you get your protein??). When you do something abnormal like this people tend to have ill thought out emotional reactions.

The biggest valid criticism is the QA process. But it's an issue with all meal replacement shakes.
Seriously, go to /r/malefashionadvice and buy the uniform..
>I'm not sure what you're talking about.

That probably has something to do with failing to read what I wrote.

I'm talking about a link to the "read later" view. I even described the original URL functionality you're confusing it with.

"Within the last month, they finally added some sharing functionality, but it sends links to the original not the pocket version."
It looks like Farseer is based on Box2D, but extended, so it makes a kind of sense. I suspect the .NET VM performance will be somewhere around what the JVM gets, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise.
> This premise assumes we understand, with no uncertainty, how the human body functions and utilizes nutrients.

It really doesn't. Whatever knowledge we do have can be applied, with whatever degree of certainty we have, and that is likely to be better than what we do currently, because what we do currently is basically nothing. Most people, most of the time, eat what they feel like, combined with some vague ideas about calories and fat, and whatever they read in a magazine last week if they're particularly conscientious. In other words, guesswork. Except this is guesswork that's almost totally uninformed. No, we can't be certain about this stuff yet, but what you call "guesswork" i.e. Our best hypothesis given all the information we have about the functioning of the human digestive system, is almost certainly going to be better than the current state of affairs, which is pretty much stab-in-the-dark randomness. It's really not hard to beat.

> any 100% simulated food diet will only prove to be "better" by a stroke of luck.

If you manage to find an optimal diet by choosing foods you think of as 'healthy' and trying to avoid cookies, well that's a stroke of luck. Deliberate scientific optimisation by adjustment, experimentation and measurement? That's not luck.

We invented vaccination more than half a century before we had even accepted the Germ Theory of disease, and the history of science is full of such things. You don't need full understanding with no uncertainty in order to figure out what works. Science is neat like that.

What's it called when a person has an irrational preference for the current state of affairs? Look it up, because you have it.
Isn't that what Google does too?
I am the guilty party, and I think your counterargument is a good one.

It is not the actual screenings that I particularly care about -- that is just data. The elephant in the room is the implied massive amount of overtreatment that are justified on the basis of the screenings -- overtreatment that inflicts a tremendous physical, emotional, financial, and health toll on the patient.

What are the long term health costs of unnecessary chemotherapy? Is it ethically okay for a doctor to inflict torturous poisoning (chemotherapy) on a patient for fear of potential lawsuits, when it could easily be true that 75% of those patients gain zero medical benefit?
I know how to cook, but don't often have time to cook. I don't even always have access to a kitchen!

I used to have more time, and might again in the future - and if that happens, I'll go back to spending a few hours preparing dinner. Until then, I'd absolutely love to be able to eat a magic nutrition pill instead of grabbing a badly-made sandwich from the nearest shop. Especially if it's cheaper, too.
Chief Software Architect of SubtleData here. Happy to answer any questions you might have!
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> You might get deported like that Saudi guy for being too handsome.

I still have not seen a credible source for that and basically think it's a PR stunt.
Amen, a thousand times.
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(iOS only)
Because exchange rates and cost of living are two separate things.

The Canadian dollar is worth 2% more, meaning for one Canadian dollar you get USD$1.02. On the other hand, stuff in Canada is more expensive no matter whether you're paying in CAD or USD. Exchange rate is to do with currencies, independent of location; cost-of-living is to do with location [pretty much] independent of currency.

To see a much more drastic difference in cost of living, try going somewhere like Siam^WThailand.

Maybe someone else can fill in the details on the factors that influence exchange rate and cost of living.
Facebook is perfectly willing to release "features" of unknown quality to the user population. The developer documentation&communication is still awful (instead of outright misleading as it was a couple years ago).

This seems completely counter to the way Parse has operated so far. Perhaps on a personal level it's a great fit, but in operation? Doesn't seem like it.