skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god, Tom.

That right there:
"One thing that programmers forget is that, at some point, you weren't good at programming, but over time, you learned and now you are pretty good."

That's just an enormous revelation. I can't even tell you how good it was to talk to Dave Rodenbaugh and he basically said: "See, you are now good in giving talks. Do you remember the first time?" and I was like: "Yeah, I remember: I nearly cried afterwards"

And I needed someone to tell me this!
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My estimate of 75 million was conservative, it’s closer to 80 million.

Half of all new Macs are sold to people who are ‘new to Mac’[1]. Even the people who buy a replacement for their old Mac will often find other uses for that old Mac or they will sell it or give it away.

One year a go, Mac install base was 66 million. Since then, 17 million Macs have been sold. 8.5 million of those are sold to people who never owned a Mac before. Let’s imagine that all the remaining 8.5 million units are bought by existing Mac users, and that half of them are bought because the old Macs died. That gives us a new total of 78.75 million.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2012/07/25/7-sure-f...
> why are they in a position to make it possible at all?

They are in that position anyways. Supporting or opposing SB does not change that.
Very smart but I like "lifeisstillgood's" idea about a workshop in each town! Very clever. Got me thinking...
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For one, it'd be easily disabled. Two, phone's and other digital cameras often don't have a recording LED, so why should this?
Perusing the same global distribution list of capital punishment shows 43 American executions.

Do not spout falsities here. You will be called out.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Global_distr...

Meanwhile your "world popularity ranking" index ( whatever and however that is conceived to measure ) and Israel's bottom ranking in it, needs a citation.
Like I said, the last line of my comment was more directed towards the sibling comments: you at least recognized the basic issue, which is a reliance on Apple—or more specifically, Mac+WebKit—without a concern for cross-compatibility.

To that point, the list of conditions I presented weren't normative, they were descriptive. The videos won't work in Firefox because Firefox doesn't support h.264. Likewise, they won't work on iOS devices because even the latest generation only decodes 2.5Mbps h.264 video. So 10 comments listing all the browser combinations people tried is pure noise: taking a minute to look at the video would've been enough to know which browser/OS combinations were going to work.
Yes, but it's even more complicated. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxigen#Photosynthesis_and_resp... ), the green algae and cyanobacteria in the ocean produce between 70% and 45% of the free oxygen. (It's a lot of variation in the estimation.)
> Uploading something just means making a copy, and if that becomes possible the AI potential would be millions of generations smarter than a carbon copy of a human brain.

I see where you're going with this, but I would like to compare human minds more to a work of art than a tool.

Even today we can easily generate a familiar gradient of all colours on a canvas, or numerous gorgeously fascinating fractals. Yet we continue to value original hand-crafted art far beyond procedurally generated art.

I believe you're right that we will be able to build AIs which far exceed our capabilities in many fields, probably shortly before we figure out how to mirror a human mind within a machine. Even still, there will continue to be value in an organically grown human mind, shaped by decades of experience, weathered by relationships and subtle chemical reactions.

Perhaps someday we will be able to simulate that as well, but it will take much longer and at that point we would have created a true artificial life form.
Right? Doesn't HN react negatively to security theater in most contexts? It is interesting that the collective approach is different with this device.
Regardless of truth of the article, it looks like immigration reform is going to continue to be delayed. The whole "$100,000 in welfare then blow people up" message is going to take a lot of positive to overcome. It is possible to lobby past the event, but there doesn't seem to be a group willing to do that.
I just renewed my license and I swear: Never has $200 dollars paid off so many times over. Customer for life.
Again, you can sit and talk about the "effects" of this or that or you can be involved in helping change someone else's situation[1].

If you're going to do something then you have to look at the evidence available to you. If you've got a village and you give men and women money to help them improve their circumstances and you find out that the majority of men spend the money on themselves (sometimes gambling and alcohol) while the women buy food and spend it on children; what decision would you make?

[1] I set up a free sewing school for WOMEN in India with my father where they take 6 weeks of training and leave with a sewing machine.
"The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is a conservative, non-profit research organization that advocates immigration reduction in the United States." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies

Sources of research are always important. Like most things, it is not a simple issue that you can put on a bumper sticker.
The percentage of immigrants who start businesses is higher than the percentage of americans who start businesses.

Here is a data point: 40 Percent of Fortune 500 Companies Founded by Immigrants or Their Children: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2011/06/19/40-per... And because immigrants represent a minority of the people in america (12.6% as of 2007 [1]; and when adding their children this is likely still less than 40%), we can deduct they create more businesses per capita than americans.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=aaimTNHDzZYC&pg=PA32...
Another fine example of what happens when the story is good enough, the truth gets replaced by the myth.
It's interesting to see Iceweasel 10 on this list with a renewed perspective. I was doing some web development last week and spent some hours chasing after an audio latency problem when using HTML5 audio on Iceweasel/Firefox 10. It turns out that according to my web server logs, nobody uses versions that old, and when I tried using a newer version I discovered that the bugs simply don't manifest.

So I recommend to Debian users who use Iceweasel: install a newer version. You can get it directly from Debian Iceweasel maintainers, and instructions are available at: http://mozilla.debian.net
I'll grant that Desura is definitely a small player.

I've thought of GG as being a minor player but legitimately mainstream and big enough to worry, if not threaten, Steam.

OTOH I've always thought of GOG as owning a niche (legacy titles) that nobody else is much interested in, its very name sort of denotes how it's restricted.
I get it, I don't like being photographed without my consent. OK, I admit that may come from a place of self conscienceness or whatever. But, I would like that respected. How about an opt out or opt in type of icon that people could wear, maybe the polite Google glass wearer would use the opt in feature that would only photograph other Google glass wearers? That seems like an easy feature to add. Just a thought.
Oh, I understand the practical advantages.

But I prefer it conceptually.
The government should auction the H1B visas to the highest bidder. This would encourage high value immigration. They could set a price floor of $100k to discourage low wage employers. They should also set a minimum salary for H1B holders of $100k.

There is already a visa for investors creating jobs so that is covered.
From the Xamarin site:

> Can I continue to use Xamarin when my subscription expires?

> Yes you can. Your Xamarin license is perpetual. If you choose not to renew your subscription, you will no longer have access to new releases and support, and we will be very sad.

In other words, the Xamarin model is the same as RubyMotion. If you don't pay after the first year, you can continue to build as many apps as you want, you just won't receive any support or new releases.
Peer Pressure - Go the Same Way, or Go the Wrong Way
Don't they still have speed going for them? Last I read, Yii was often considered the fastest and least cluttered of the PHP frameworks? also, on a personal note, I use it and I like it.
Anti-abuse ad uses lenticular printing to show different ad to adults, children
Does Vimeo even have an ultra HD mode? It looks decent on my desktop monitor (2560x1600), but I'm fairly certain Vimeo was just streaming me 1080.
The supposed reason for this is that the abuser won't be able to tell what the kid is looking at. If it's unsafe for a kid to look at such an ad with the abuser around, how is the kid supposed to know that the abuser can't see what he's reading and possibly copying down?
Front end development has a few characteristics that make it particularly tough. You have to support multiple browsers (and the old versions of those browsers), as well as computers with different sized screens and input types. On the backend, you get to pick and choose what runs your code.

Also, to get anything accomplished you have to combine HTML, CSS, and Javascript. None of them were originally intended to do the things we're doing with them now in terms of layout or interactivity.
Everyone who has actually made the switch, including myself, knows that is complete bullshit. I may be an extreme case, but my typing speed went from 55 wpm to 140 within a year, and with dramatically reduced pain after long programming sprees.
Here's a study that tried to figure out other possibly optimal keyboard layouts (given lots of explicit assumptions):

http://arcavia.com/kyle/Projects/ProgrammerKeyboard.html

"This was a humongous waste of time. The program to do the analysis is about 700 lines of code, and went though about 3 iterations. I am most disappointed by the lack of benefit offered by a more efficient layout; even when considering a purely optimized layout you only get 21% savings over Qwerty."

Of course, there are other ways we could change keyboards. For example, accepting even more data from your digits could be a useful avenue to explore. 20% improvements are not that spectacular, maybe there's a contraption that is conceptually like a keyboard but is 10x faster (so 12 cps -> 120 cps?).

Alternatively, plover. but then custom dictionaries and bleh..
This is a side-project I'm working on, I need secure authentication for my own domain, and implementing providers was a bit of a hassle, so I thought I would create a service that would handle this.

With the help of Dan Callahan (callahad on HN), I quickly have something that works, and that you can use today. It's still early days, but I aim to make it very secure, customizable and featureful.

I would welcome any sort of feedback, thank you!
Python-powered "real-world" interface pyMCU giveaway
Why would you pay robots? And there are no infrastructure costs because robots will build and maintain the infrastructure. Capital investment becomes useless - all goods are free, money has no value, so why would you want to make money?

It may be questionable if we ever reach full automation but in this hypothetical scenario money as we know it will be worthless.
Getting rid of minimum wage is probably unnecessary: when people have a basic income, the "income effect" means that they are less willing to take low wages.

The main problem with your scheme is that in the far future, free trade could mean that countries with only labor and no capital would get a bad deal, and that without restrictions on people taking their wealth to other countries, the rich could theoretically use this to bargain the tax rate down so low that there was no money for a basic income (i.e. a "race to the bottom"). I don't think this will be an issue for a long time though.
As a person who says way too many really really dumb things, all I can say, and at the risk of sounding dumb, again, "regret is just lessons not learned yet" or something like that. I agree, I have learned a lot in life by saying dumb things and later regretting it, but learning along the way. Continue on my friend...
Nice talk, but I think I was basically trying to say that Ceph really shines when you compare it to Lustre and PanFS.

It's not a clear winner when you compare it to GlusterFS because the original design wasn't intended to replace GlusterFS (although it may do a good job of this anyway).
decent ride, but i'm not rich. when i spend 100k it's a serious expenditure, and i want the best in class.

maybe for bay area millionaires automotive performance is less important than social progressivism when you drop 100k but not for me.
First of all, Firefox appears to be fine without the extra "folksonomiesHeight" elements. If they're only needed for IE, at least wrap them in conditional comments.

Secondly, div.folksonomies and div.expandButton can both work without position: absolute if you replace the rules for expandButton with these: height: 25px; margin-top: -25px; text-align: right;

Pixel units aren't as bad as they used to be, modern browsers can scale the page regardless of what units you use. Replace font-size: 12pt with font-size: 16px to ensure the correct height.

As a general tip, look at the conditional comments used for the HTML tag in HTML5 boilerplate (html5boilerplate.com), you can use that to specify workaround rules for IE < 9 (and you could add an IE 9 class yourself). For IE 6/7 you can use Javascript expressions to calculate correct values.
The goal is for the abuser to not know the child saw the information; it's irrelevant whether the child knows whether the abuser saw or not.
here's an idea that you can build and then pay me lots of money for:
A site that fixes the commuting problem, at least for some jobs. No, not teleworking. Consider this scenario:

Let's say you are a web developer, living in city Z, and every day you spend 2 hours commuting to your web development job in city X. Unbeknownst to you, there's a web developer living in city X, who commutes 2 hours to her web development job in city Z. So my idea would be to connect these two, and see if their bosses agree to a web developer swap. Boom, 2 commuters less in the world. Granted, that's a huge "if", and this system won't work for all jobs. But might be something worth exploring.
I still think that Google Glass is the next Segwey. It just is, sorry.
You seem to be ignoring a third possibility, which is stating things because they are true, not because of how your statements will be "used".
The point I was trying to make was that while space is really really big place with vast distances, interesting destinations are still very much reachable with slower-than-light travel. Of course that doesn't make reaching those destinations easy, but it's still most likely significantly easier than FTL.
NeXT and NeWS were Display Postscript. OS X / Quartz is PDF.
Nonsense! I was born here, and I'm hardly the only one.
Either be more specific (you, hacker, engineer, etc) or less specific (person, or leave off the pronoun?)? I mean, I don't think any of this is that important, and saying things like "the elevator has a 10 man capacity" is fine, but there is no reason not to try to be accurate when it costs little.
> Having difficulty finding symbols because the keycaps no longer match (I don't know why they don't memorize them after all these years)

That's quite odd. Maybe it's because I'm a programmer, but I had the symbols down just as fast as the letters.

> Not knowing what mode the keyboard is in to type one's password.

There's no reason to have both modes on one's personal machine, and I'm very hesitant to type my password on someone else's. If anything, it actually makes me think more carefully on whether I actually want to do that.

> On Windows, in particular, the settings seem to flicker back and forth between Qwerty and Dvorak between programs, and between invocations of the same program.

Windows keyboard management is a nightmare, but that shouldn't be a reason to avoid the layout. It's a lot smoother on Linux and OS X.
"An economy is a closed system - if some are saving, others have to spend to keep the music going."

You mean they have to spend more than they can afford? Otherwise, what exactly do you mean by they have to spend? Obviously they have to buy a house, a car, a phone, a computer, electricity, etc. I would think most people save what is left over if you like.
That's assuming that the app store is the only way to distribute mac apps which, unlike iOS, it isn't.
Amazing the waves at the saturn´s rings.
> What does "efficient" mean? If it means the distance your fingers have to travel, Dvorak is way more efficient.

When you talk about efficiency, you need to be more specific.

It's not just that Dvorak's superiority over Qwerty for regular typing is very far from being clearly established, Dvorak is terrible for writing code, which requires a lot of non-alphabetical symbols such as {}, (), [], etc...
Interesting stuff. It is amazing that so many of the packaged products are ubiquitous no matter where you go (soda, cereal, etc.) The sheer volume of produce that some families are paying less than 50 pounds per week for is pretty impressive. That would take a lot of farmers market shopping where we are.
Actually many from the US eugenics movement were interested in what Germany did, often finding positive words. And Germany got much of its inspiration from the US. Eugenics fell into disfavor only after WW2, it got a renaming into human genetics and the same persons continued to work on the subject.
Business creation is not a particularly useful metric. Note that I qualified with "innovative." That there are more restaurants and more people have their lawn professionally landscaped rather than cutting it themselves doesn't really create an argument for immigration.

The Fortune 500 stat smells pretty slippery and cherry picked. I mean, one co-founder had one parent born overseas and the company is counted as immigrant founded? This is meaningful? The vast majority of major companies were probably also founded by people who grew up in major urban centers. Immigrants are disproportionately likely to live in major cities. What happens when you control for that? I cast aspersions.

The link I provided is actually fairly rigorous in describing the effect of immigration as it is currently practiced in the USA: It drives down the wages of low earners and increases profits to the economic elite. It's probably a wash for the bulk of the middle class when measured in purely financial terms, but that ignores various psychic and ecological impacts. Did you know that current immigration rates projected out result in a USA population of over 600 million by the end of the century? Is it not obviously insane and ecologically criminal to allow that level of over population?
Dick Costolo's 2013 commencement speech at U. of Michigan
Clearly the VCs have an interest in keeping legal expenditures down. But the extra layer of indirection does not help that goal. E.g. employers, individuals, and insurance companies all have an interest in lowering health costs, but the structure of the market makes it a difficult goal.
> you need hardware at least 20x faster than the hardware needed to run the Super Nintendo natively

Only if the emulating hardware is general purpose. Yes, simulating a human brain on a cluster of Intel i7's or AMD GPU's, or their future equivalents, will probably require an enormous hardware investment.

But once you have one working emulated brain on general-purpose hardware, you can produce specialized hardware. E.g. if we knew that Super Nintendo held the secrets to immortality, we would soon make updated versions of all its chips with today's technology, and you could probably fit dozens or hundreds of SNES cores on a single modern chip with the decades of improvement in manufacturing processes.

Likewise, once we make an initial discovery of how to emulate human brains on general-purpose computers, the things we find out from that implementation will start to pave the way for special-purpose computers that can more cost-effectively execute the brain emulation application.

Also, it's entirely possible that you can emulate human brains, but you don't know how to create more potential. E.g., if we can simulate the physics and chemistry of human brains well enough to replicate cognitive processes, but our best experts are simply stumped at figuring out exactly which essential features of the physical/chemical processes translate into intelligence. And if early experiments at tweaking model parameters show that the human brain has evolved into some local maximum, where any tweak produces a less powerful intelligence or one that's defective in some way, and after this is observed over many experiments, it might then become taboo to tweak the model for ethical reasons, making the situation stable over the long term.

In other words, we might be "forced" to "waste" cycles if we can't figure out which cycles we're wasting, and the experiments that might tell us would entail sacrificing too many artificial humans to be ethically acceptable.

This state of affairs isn't necessarily likely, but it's certainly possible.
Eh, a perfect solution is not at all necessary. That’s just a weird way of approaching this.

It is the polite thing to do to make obvious whenever you are recording other people. Google can and should help with that politeness. Society is perfectly capable of creating and enforcing rules without laws.
Yes but, regardless of the nature of the currency, investing in stocks etc is an investment with a higher return than simply holding.
> used the male pronoun because that is the correct grammatical structure when the gender is unknown.

According to the prestige dialect, yes. Not according to most of the more common dialects of English.
The answer would probably be "nothing" or "how should I know?" if that question was asked without context. Who's "we" anyway? But then Edge expands the premise for the writers:

"Tell us something that worries you (for scientific reasons), but doesn't seem to be on the popular radar yet—and why it should be. Or tell us something that you have stopped worrying about, even if others do, and why it should be taken off the radar."

I find it silly and vague. They might as well have said "step on your soapbox and preach, brother/sister."
What should they have done? As I see it, they had three options with secure boot: find ways to work with it (as they have), try to get OEMs to disable secure boot or ship with a 'Linux key' as well, or ignore it and let users who want to install Linux deal with it.

Making users disable secure boot makes it that much harder and scarier to try Linux, so there would be even fewer users in the future. And I see no evidence that OEMs care enough about Linux to go out of their way to make life easier, even if someone did produce a 'Linux key' to sign all the major distributions. There are a precious few small OEMs that sell computers with Linux, but mostly to existing Linux users. If desktop Linux isn't going to fade into complete irrelevance, we're still crucially dependent on people experimenting with it on Dell/Lenovo/Acer Windows laptops.