skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually similar on a submarine, except that there's no need to hand-crank an air compressor as we have tons of compressed air already available on a submarine.

Also, once the diesel is running it is used to power the electrical buses that provide the minimal pumps and other gear needed to recover the reactor and eventually restart (or emergency restart) the turbogenerators that provide ship's service power.

Unfortunately there's no room to have separate emergency generators and emergency diesel so they are co-located.
Finding a Google Reader replacement app
Not all CI only builds heads. Some build and test all commits.
Never mind what carried the day -- I'm adopting this protocol starting now, convention be damned!
Wanted: Radical Receptionist Hacker in San Francisco
One thing to consider, is that the distribution method for the pirated version is very established, accessible, and fast to get the word out. How have they marketed the legit version? Their graph doesn't necessarily mean that 93% of people pirate the game. It more likely means that the reach of the pirated version is much greater than the reach of the legit one.
Why do so many people dislike TechCrunch?
I had to go through all of this back in January when I used Airbnb to get a house in the Valley for a few days. I was just then creating an account - and I had to connect my Linkedin profile + upload an ID. It didn't like my Italian ID card but it liked my (also Italian) driving license (which was a surprise - it's in horrible condition).
I was surprised at the depth of the verification (not in a negative way) - but I thought this was for everybody. Was I somehow selected as a tester, or maybe they found my usage profile suspicious (Italian citizen, resident in Germany, creates an account and immediately tries to book a place in California)?
While I viscerally agree with this:

But I'm not sure if Turing, who is not well known for having had anything to do with privacy is the right person for this oath.
It's not however a high-security host. If you need security you should at least be using a provider that meets the security provisions of PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, etc.

If banks and government agencies aren't using it, then it probably doesn't have the security level needed for high-value bitcoin wallets. There's a reason you have specialist data centres that focus on sectors like finance.
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> 'Qualia' is the name given to experience after everything else is stripped away.

'Stripping away' is just division in another form. You're dividing experience into that which your stripping away and that which you're keeping. You keep doing this division until you get to the qualia. I think you can keep going with this. Say you look at a red dot at noon for ten seconds. There's no individual 'redness of red', there's the red you saw for the first second, the red you saw for the second second, and so on. This just leads to your next point though...

> Yet, we intuitively feel that there is something above and beyond those aspects of the experience.

Right, intuitively, we feel there is something more to the process of experience. I get that. Yet many things we conceptualize don't work in an intuitive fashion. Why do we require experience to?

I certainly think that there's more to experience and consciousness than meets the eye, I just wonder if examination of the process and trying to individuate experience as qualia is actually helping towards that goal.

I think the reason rejection of qualia is the mainstream point of view right now is because most everyone believes consciousness works like a computer. Sure, there's this world of hardware underlying the operating system, in the same way that there's a biological brain underlying consciousness, there's still this entire world we can reason about and play in and theorize about even despite this. There's no reason to go "Oh, we're just robots" because much of our behavior can be deduced from our neurology. Dennett says this, but it's clear he doesn't really feel like a robot and is being a little tongue in cheek.
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Oh, I get it, usernames I typed was already taken.
It's on the house
The article is wrong and a linkbait.

1. Was the feature designed badly?
Yes. Friends should be unchecked by default.

2. Did Path call anyone?
No. That's a service from phone providers when a text is sent to a landline.

3. Did Path sent texts without permission of the user?
No. But the feature was designed in a way that many people just tapped yes and didn't uncheck their contacts.
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Can ayone explain to me how someone like Richard Branson believes there are millionares and billionares who are just dying to spend $200k for 10 minutes of fun? How could a successful entreprenuer think that there's a sustainable market launching people into weighlessness for 6 minutes?

Get people into orbit for a day and you might have a more appealing vacation product, but I just can't see this being even close to market viable. To me, that seems obvious. What am I missing?
This is the last straw I am definitely not buying any more stickers from Path.
There is no official support for this AFAIK. Some 3rd party ROMs like Cyanogenmod have this functionality built in, though, and if you root your phone there are apps like "Permissions Denied" that you can run to do this.

I'd assume the reason Google is somewhat hesitant to offer this officially is that many apps don't deal well with this -- some do degrade gracefully, while others end up throwing task-ending exceptions because the app code just never planned for not being able to do some task which requires permissions declared in the manifest.
I'm not sure the grandparent post was claiming that there was a failure of HTML.

I'm hoping for a simplification of presentation on the Web as we move to mobile devices with smaller (physical) displays. I'm an optimist, so I'm hoping that people will start to present their own material instead of populating goobook and facicle as they currently seem to want to.

People often comment on the speed of loading of my vanity site; I just explain it has nothing other than text and images because that is all I need to convey my meaning. Others may need richer content and interfaces rather than documents.
Please, tell us more about how article headlines ruin your day.
Should this really have been posted now? It's from February and may cause confusion over the current kerfuffle on the front page.
Actually, -fdefer-type-errors is already in GHC 7.6: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/defe...

-XTypeHoles will be in GHC 7.8: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/TypeHoles
Probably because they write sensationalist headlines and often spread rumors just for pageviews.
True. And the "marine reserve" shenanigans are disgraceful.
Can this be computed with map reduce?

Also related, it might be an interesting way to encode Ricardian Contracts http://iang.org/papers/ricardian_contract.html
Right, this form of security is completely ineffective. It’s just like Vista’s Universal Access Control modals: after being shown the first few of the day, you would stop reading them. I suspect EULAs are written to exploit this phenomenon: no-one reads EULAs because they go on forever, so you can bury all kinds of outrageous conditions in there.
And to answer my own question, this news article is how they are marketing the legit version, so it will be interesting to see what those graphs look like after the marketing has done its job.
Git's commit history being strictly ordered by time

That's the default of git log output but can be adjusted via --topo-order and --date-order. It's also worth pointing out that git commits have two timestamps, the author timestamp which is not normally affected by rebasing/amending, and the commit timestamp which is reset by rebasing/amending. Git log (again by default) shows the author timestamp but orders by commit timestamp.
Can I see? How long did it take you to write it? How long did it take you to sell it? Is it still alive today?
Fair enough, have another candidate in mind? Feel free to email me -- I want to see this be known.
Try to continually merge in upstream changes when you're working on a long-term branch, to minimize the individual deltas.
I get your point, but these guys don't have anywhere near the same clout that Apple has.

Path is young (and building a service, not a device/OS) and it can be abandoned for something similar since all they're keeping is data. Once you buy a gadget, that's an investment on your part which will make a lot of people hesitant to give it up and the culture it that surrounds it.

And I wouldn't bet that Apple will be able to survive scandal after scandal and still survive unscathed. Cook is no Jobs.
PyDev and LiClipse reaches basic funding goal
So you wear the ring then, eh?
This is a feature while signing up if you use Facebook. It shows your friends with a phone number and if you don't uncheck them before tapping ‘next’, it will invite them.
Paul thanks for writing this. I always got the vibe you were a bit strung out. Glad to read this. Looks like some hard lessons learned.

I can definitely relate to a lot of the article. The "perpetual feelings of guilt" that you should be working, thats a popular toxic Startup Machismo, Startupcore, mentality.
Correct, he argues that the formulation is incoherent. That is, certain parts of our physical makeup give rise to experience, and that we cannot entertain a coherent world containing minds that lacks subjective, conscious experience while retaining the other functional correlates of consciousness.

This is exactly what I meant by 'delusion'... that, according to Dennett, there are no "qualia", nothing above and beyond the ordinary physicalist/reductionist (and scientific) account of experience.

It's surprising from a personal view because experience seems so essential and real.
I have always wondered why Google doesn't add this feature. Creeping up the ladder of permissions is a problem in Android, and the user's choice is all or nothing. This can become a bad choice: Add a permission, or lose access to the data an app is keeping for you.

It would be easy enough for developers to catch security exceptions that Google would find little or no developer fall-off due to a requirement like this.
I'm OK with some false positives because I think there will be very few in my case. And I can check the Junk folder once in a while to see if there's anything I want to keep. I like it.
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Option F: Compressed air. Turns out mechanical systems are stupid simple to hand-power and yet can store a ton of energy usable without fancy equipment. Plus it turns out we might need compressed air for this no matter what depending on where the boat is at.
You'd be surprised how often you can get a response faster on Twitter than via a service's support desk.
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I'm quite curious how far they've gotten and how they did it. For the record, the security of the Wii U software was pretty thoroughly broken by the group fail0verflow and friends, including me, as of last Christmas, with the goal of running homebrew, but a lot of work still needed to be done - both reverse engineering, to find additional vulnerabilities, integrate with the OS, and use nonstandard hardware like the GamePad, and the regular kind, in order to do things like run Linux - and interest and time spent petered out around then, without anything being released. I'm bummed out about it, but I'm spending my time posting on Hacker News rather than doing anything to help. ;p
Windows 8 developers wonder, where's the ad revenue?
Nope, it's b2evolution[1]. There is a meta comment at the top of the page:

<meta name="generator" content="b2evolution 4.1.6" />

I looked for all the common wordpress signs and didn't see them in the html. EDIT: also, there is a "Credits: blogging software" at the bottom of the page that links to [1].

[1] http://b2evolution.net/
> In other words, even if it becomes operational and has a long future career of taking passengers into low space, there's no industrial foundation to build on the accomplishment.

Well... It's certainly inspiring. Both planes (the spaceship and the carrier) are very innovative designs and the system can be scaled up to orbital launches. Even without scaling, the mothership can, conceivably, launch an SS2-derived rocket into LEO (think same mass with liquid fuel and a relatively small payload). A modified SS2 could serve as first stage to a LEO-bound smaller rocket.

Both planes also make extensive use of composite materials, far more than most of the industry. I also imagine their avionics are very interesting.

Finally, a slightly larger SS2 capable of powered descents could cross continents at high Mach above the atmosphere in, IIRC, 40 minutes.
Introducing Heka
Mozilla Services announces Heka - a tool for high performance data gathering, analysis, monitoring, and reporting.
As a developer, the biggest concern I have with Dwolla is the initial friction for new users, e.g. entering their bank account number. I would like to see the complete end user signup flow featured more prominently. I didn't see anything on the topic while signing up for a developer account.

Criticism aside, I'm definitely rooting for Dwolla. I don't think they need to match the comparative ease offered with credit card purchases, but they need to be in the same ball park.
Maybe not, but Apple changed their practices pretty darn quick. They now review suppliers much more closely than they did before, and Foxconn's practices have changed a bit as well. You can argue it didn't have ENOUGH effect, but you can't claim it made no difference.
Appcelerator Titanium is not a cross-compiler. In fact, you missed this entire category of "native" apps. They embed actual Javascript interpreters in your app to run your Javascript. They provide bindings in Javascript to native APIs so you can call native code via Javascript.
Better serving the Node.js community at meetups
So other than the link snafu (maybe quickly code something up to redirect /##### to / in javascript), this seems pretty cool.

I clicked "What's around me?" and immediately I liked the feedback "locating...", felt really snappy for some reason. The geolocation was good (within 200m which is plently for what you're selling). The results were interesting ("Oh there's someone offering a ride to Finland, how cool").

Only at that point did I figure out what you were selling, so you definitely need to work on your copy on the landing page ("Ride, rent, and experience a new way to travel" doesn't cut it, more like "Find rides for sales and appartements for rent from multiple sources near you").

I'm not familiar with the space, so I can't comment on how good the idea is (i.e. what your competition is), but it sounds like a good idea and nice execution.

A suggestion: maybe make it automatically locate me, and show something like 5 results on the landing page already, without the map but just in a nice list, to "show" what you're offering instead of telling through copy, and with a link "See overview" or "See more" or something.

An interface thingy: The flash messages in the bottom right didn't catch my eye at all until I scanned the map and saw them. My eyes were in the top left so they don't even appear in my peripheral vision to catch my attention
The point (Etsy's point) was to balance the male-female that was lacking in the early hacker school batches (which, AFAIK, was lacking).
Really like the What's Around Me button. It's a good way to immediately show people what outpost can do for them. Before clicking it I wasn't sure, as the homepage copy is a bit vague.
The high school stats student in me really doesn't like that regression line plotted against two datapoints.
It is not at all the case that 5k doesn't do much. If you live somewhere relatively inexpensive in Brooklyn (or even Queens) & live reasonably you can cover most of your expenses for 3 months with 5k. If you are good at being frugal you could easily cover all your living expenses with 5k.
The easiest solution is to wait 10 years.
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This is absurd- Deactivation Link:
http://service.path.com/customer/portal/articles/257565-deac...
Fair enough. I was just doing an example with two data points. Of course the more points you add the more accurate the line.
It's coming! I work on partnerships at Dwolla and full account creation as well as getting money into the account quicker are big initiatives for us. Hit me up at AlexT@dwolla.com if you want to chat more.
Route numbers and street names are missing from the map -- you just see the outline of where the names and numbers should be [1].

Cool concept, but I'm not exactly sure what your service is trying to do from just a quick glance at the home page; as corylehey said, you may want to change your call to action to something that describes the main benefits.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/wr3FGSY.png
> And you'll ultimately have to decide whether you want your codebase to represent a series of physical commits, bits that people happened to type out... or whether it should represent a series of logical changes to the codebase

We're on the same page here, but there's a bit of a deeper point being hinted at, which is that being able to be "physical-series-of-commits" is useful when you're in experimenting-dev/refactor mode, and isn't useful at all for people trying to understand your history. Well, mine's not at least -- it's a lot of shitty diffs and "fuck shit checkpoint" commits that don't live long.

Logical history is basically always useful, but you often want temporary checkpoints for yourself before your changes are going to coalesce into something that represents a logical patch-set.

Rebase, in it's most commonly useful ... use case, lets you tack new incoming history that other people have shared onto history you haven't shared yet. For the people other than you, your changes exist in the future.

History rewriting in general lets you fuck around locally with stuff you haven't shared, making trashy checkpoint commits or whatever you want to do, and clean that all up to represent a logical series of changes for sharing.

In short:

Don't work on tracking branches. Branches are cheap.

Periodically bring in others changes into your work with rebase. Your work isn't public and theirs is, theirs is part of public history, yours is part of future history. Always rebase before bringing your changes back into the tracking branch, and then merge your changes into the tracking branch. Often, the history cleanup I want to do is handled by merge --squash, bundling up the change I'm pushing as one commit.

You, whoever is looking at my incoming change, care about the fix for bug FOO or feature BAR being completed. You don't care that I made a bunch of stupid typos. If you do, I don't want to work for you unless you care because your doing some sort of awesome stat analysis on typos made by people like me.
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Twitter essentially created a Hippocratic Oath for patent usage (that is, for its employees who are developers concerned about unethical offensive use of software patents):
https://blog.twitter.com/2012/introducing-innovators-patent-...

The patent language says it's "a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes." Extending this more broadly would say "a commitment to our employees that the code they write can only be used for non-spamming purposes."

The problem, of course, is that it's pretty easy to tell whether a patent is being used defensively or offensively. Defining spam (or more difficult yet, privacy) is a bit more slippery.
> I decided the best place to contact them would be Twitter

No, you didn't. You decided that you could score some quick internet drama points using Twitter.
Congrats, great answer.

Everything I learned on the boat just taught me that I have so much to learn. So many minor details that a ship designer thought up went into each successive class of U.S. submarine. There were many days when I'm surprised again that we haven't lost more submarines due to design flaws or misfeatures.
"Do whatever the hell you want with your git repo until it's public, at which point continue, but don't rewrite public history".
Please do! And thanks for writing this article!
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Hippocratic Oath for developers? Here's a nice post from 2005 on this exact topic: http://glyf.livejournal.com/46589.html . Choice quote:

> Who would knowingly submit themselves to a doctor, knowing that they might give you a secondary, curable disease, just to ensure they got paid?
1. make a new lein project

2. fill in the dependencies in project.clj

3. open your src/core.clj (or whatever) in LT

4. start coding

LT will automatically launch a client and connect to it. In between lein will have seamlessly fetched the dependencies for you (this happens automatically each time you launch or relaunch a client).

You can do manual (C-Enter) or live (Instarepl) inline evaluation in any of your project file or even connect a new fresh repl to the client to experiment from scratch.
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It's definitely one of the selling points. Op should make it a bigger button and put it front and center.
How exactly would you use GoogleTrends/Keywords to identify niches?
Why a time limit? Why not a "publish" button that flips it to public? (And maybe submits it to arXiv at the same time, optionally.)
That criticism should be maintained. Perhaps not globally, but in the US update cadence is slowed down significantly by the carriers. It is the carriers that pay for device updates, and they have little incentive to do so when the "next" phone has already or will be released shortly.

Nexus devices, and iOS for that matter, are updated outside domestic carrier schedules, so you don't have the same delays that have given skinned phones a bad reputation.

As long as the majority of Americans use subsidized phones, the carriers will continue to be the biggest obstacle.
Thank you for the design feedback. I take ux/ui feedback very seriously. I have passed this onto our designer
This was a neat article about a hackathon, and it seems like you're ignoring the whole point of it to push a holy war against coffee. Also, you broke the several-month long streak during which I hadn't seen the word "brogrammer" used, so thanks for that as well.
This seems to be a direct violation of Google Play policy:

"Do not send SMS, email, or other messages on behalf of the user without providing the user with the ability to confirm content and intended recipient."

https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html
It's not a matter of accuracy in this case, it's a matter of whether the regression has any meaning at all. Any regression can fit two data points, even a parabola. Of course, there are intuitive reasons to suspect that that is not the actual form of the distribution, but you can't actual show it from data with just two points.

But I have to assume that you did more data points when you actually performed this study yourself. Up to that point the methodology is really useful, so don't take this as criticism of the entire post.
That's Etsy. They are by no means prohibiting financial aid for men.
I've never lived in NYC so it's very possible I'm overestimating the COL based on being in Manhattan now and then.
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I think they mean if you have a hunch on what might be a trend, check out the search trends on Google. If it's going up and to the right, you might be on to something.