skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, The Register is a bit tabloid. So, factor that in.

Second, a brilliant reply from the comments on The Register:

"Can't see how it will work.
Lets say somebody completely annihilates me in some sport or other when we both youths. Now I might want that expunged from the internet since I am embarrassed about it, but the person who beat me will want it kept because they are proud of their sporting achievement. Who gets to decide whether it is expunged or kept?
A similar argument for criminal acts can also be made. As an example, I attempt to mug an OAP but another youth bravely thwarts my dastardly deed. Again, I want it expunged but the other youth wants it kept.
The problem is, that most of what you do in life involves other people (I expect a few w*nkers will argue about this) and therefore if you are deleting an incident in your history you are also deleting it in theirs and they might not want it forgotten."!

Correct me if Im wrong, but IMHO, that pretty much defeats the whole idea, no? I might want to delete something, but others could still reference it, and me.
Goof balls can't even see most of the solar systems, and they are saying what is and what is not normal?

Hubris alert!
Tablets were a bad business before Apple got involved.
So I am a little confused. Where are we on the learning part of AI? As I understand it, the current consensus is to throw as much data as you can at your model (millions of cat pictures in this article's example) to make it pick up patterns and yet still claim that we are closing in on how the brain works? As far as I can tell no human brain would need that many pictures to see a pattern. In fact, and this is probably more apparent in language, we humans tend to work with degenerate data and still end up with perfect models.
It told me that the sign was more intended to promote awareness of child abuse issues than to really serve as a secret/hidden message to abused children.
I think that may have been a joke
I love the redirect sequence on the "Cool" button:

$ curl -I -L http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Cool_Links/ | grep Location

Location: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/cool_links/
Location: http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/cool_links/
Location: http://picks.yahoo.com/
Location: http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Location: http://www.yahoo.com
Okay, now you got me scared. The hard deadlines for all my assignments are on July 8th 8:59AM (that's CEST, so it's probably July 7th in PST.)
Great app to impress friends when out and about. Sometimes you just gotta make it rain (and it's nice to not have to fork out real cash.)

However, this article really sheds some light on how they pulled off the augmented reality portion of the app. Good job guys.
I agree that there is a lot of arrogance in engineering (I can't say I'm innocent either). I think the big difference is that the term "engineer" gets thrown around in software way more than it does in traditional engineering disciplines. The result is that the term "engineer" gets diluted for both software engineers and traditional engineers. That sort of dilution is not common in fields such as mechanical or biomedical engineering.

Having picked up electronics in your spare time, I doubt you'd go around calling yourself an electrical engineer. On the flip side, it happens all the time where self-taught programmers will call themselves software engineers.

Finally, I don't see how you can disagree that software failures don't often result in death. I never said they "never" result in death. It's just that software applications that have life-threatening consequences aren't nearly as common as in traditional engineering. See: cars, bridges, building structure, ropes, pulleys, levers, bolts etc. I'd argue these are more commonplace than missile guidance systems.
It takes effort to parse Schmidt since everything he says has a self serving agenda. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, as CEO [corrective edit: as Executive Chairman] part of his job is to promote the profitable interests of the corporation he heads.)

His stated agenda is to have real id mandated on the internet and eliminate anonymity. This benefits him which enables Google to make more money selling targeted ads where the target is known and identification is reliable, as well as reliably tracking people's private and personal interests and preferences, which is very valuable information which those in marketing, insurance claims, and security will all pay good money to have access to. It is an asset which can be sold and profited from, of interest to his business.

One problem that has been brought up with having mandated identification on the internet, the "internet drivers license" proposal, is that it can ruin kids lives since they may say a lot of dumb things.

So Schmidt heads this off with a proposal to have a global delete protocol, likely mandated by law that it be respected by various sites.

For delete to work though with a single button press, real id is necessity. No problem, everyone will have to have their net drivers license, all net accesses, views and posts tied into unique personal identifier such as social insurance numbers, so it is a simple matter to allow for a one-time delete of all records associated with a given globally unique personal identifier upon receiving a request from a central authority, or required daily checking of a central delete authority.

Of course the current solution, of using anonymous aliases, makes a delete button unnecessary. The delete button is only necessary in a world where anonymity is not permitted. It is useful to understand this is an unspoken premise of his proposal.
I love the part where mbellotti wrote that you were scoring introductions through your OKCupid matches. That's some great and unconventional hustling.
Reminds me also of one of Marc Andreesen's rules for startup success:

1. When a good market meets a bad team, market wins.
2. When a bad market meets a good team, market wins.
3. When a good market meets a good team, something special happens.

Also, Zuckerburg himself has said that the reason he refused all buyout offers for Facebook was "I'm unlikely to have an idea as good as this ever again." That was probably the quote that changed my opinion of him from arrogant douchebag who got lucky to someone who just might have his head screwed on. It displays an interesting level of humility that's largely missing from his public persona.
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Interesting. Is there some objective way of determining if the words are cognates or not? In particular, in the audio section, the Inuit-Yupik example for "thou" sounds very out of place.
Why is it a bad idea to cite Michigan here?

(edit: GO BLUE)
Seems so, the code in question appears to have been added here:

https://github.com/git-mirror/nginx/commit/7c7ad803a13d5f73b...
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Semantic in CEDET (http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml) will do this with both GCC and Clang/LLVM.
I always thought Mars was the rouge planet.
Something I don't get - this seems like interstate commerce - isn't it under federal regulation and not state?
Love it --

Should try a free version with ads to pizza joints all jostling for business.
I remember when I discovered CSS Zen Garden I was astounded at what could be accomplished just changing the CSS of a page, and it was a great inspiration to learn how that worked. Thanks to the creators and the contributors.
If you're interested, OTG has a schedule and shows up all over the city, at various sizes, just in case you didn't know.
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http://pastebin.com/RSqKCd1N
That's actually a very plausible hypothesis (I'm the guy who wrote the comment about the ugliness of the word "chattel")

Can anyone find the audio for this quote? The version I heard of the CNBC interview didn't contain this sentence...
Not so far fetched. They've posted hack logs of MelbourneIT, name.com, and Moniker in the same zine.
I don't think Schmidt is saying that he believes this is an easy problem to solve. As a generous interpretation, I think he's just pointing out that it is a problem.
Taco trucks have been a mainstay of Los Angeles foodstuffs for a long time before the current trend of 'gourmet' truck food started. I'm not sure if the mobile/car-centric nature of the city tends to endear us to a mobile food cooking service or what; the 'food truck' craze has been very poopular here.

Since buying/leasing a physical location is such a costly and risky venture, these trucks have been a great way for budding restaurateurs to get their feet in the door; see what works, what doesn't and perhaps eventually open a physical location. People get experience doing something they love and building a business, people get fed with interesting food that would be prohibitively expensive or otherwise difficult to discover (due to culinary fusion or other reasons), and the city gets tax revenue.

Win/Win in my book.
I remember that site back when I was first making web pages in Frontpage (and uploading them on a tripod.com free hosting account i think). I am pretty sure that site was one of the main reasons I wanted to learn css, after realising stylesheets can do more than just style a:visited and a:hover. took a while before it clicked though!
I don't get this. I know this is a monstrously crude approach, but I put the sentence given in the article to Google translate

"You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!"

After translating it into a few different languages, almost none of the words sound anywhere close to their English counterparts. French and Danish had a fair bit of similarities but that's to be expected. Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something here?

For reference I tried estonian, albanian, czech, finnish, and georgian
Two firsts here that I can see: physical goods and relatively high reward tiers.
Parse uses aws right? Wouldn't the comparison be more apt if made to heroku?
Well, "a bit expensive" in relation to what? A virtual private server costs $10/month for example, so it's an order of magnitude more expensive. My domain doesn't even get 10 hits per day but I pay for the service anyway and maybe someday I'll use it more thoroughly.

If you needed thousands of domains you could get them for the same $15/year as subdomains, of course -- if you look up "tmp.drostie.org" the process is the same; you ask ICANN about "org", they say "PIR!"; you ask PIR about "drostie.org", they say "drostie's server"; you ask my server about "tmp.drostie.org", and it says "that's this server too!" -- I don't have to pay anyone else for that service.
I knew almost for sure pg or someone from YC was going to answer something like this.

This man has probably overseen the early days of more successful startups than anyone else in the world. That huge amount of heuristics (pratical experience) loaded in a single head is the reason I listen to what he says. He's wise.

But wise does not mean "he who gets it right every damn time". I guess there's likely a psychological explanation as to why we love opportunities to pick on the flaws of successful people. "Hey look, pg made a mistake! Ha, I knew he wasn't god!"
That's a nice bit of marketing by Elon, changing the conversation from auto-drive to autopilot. Kinda shows how clueless google is about it's own marketing.
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Or you need to accept that you're not a very good CEO, and find someone more suited for the job.
Totally true. In our case, it was after our seed round, once we were able to start selling and we felt as though we have proved the initial idea as being worthwhile to customers.

When that happened, we started hiring, and me coding turned into more of a detriment than an advantage. It was approximately a team size of 7-8 for us/e.
they are leveraging their existing backend as a service customers to try and up sell to a new level of product. important for their financials perhaps. interesting? eye of the beholder I guess.
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I was following you up to the last paragraph. the issue is that bonds and cash are effectively equivalent now due to low interest and inflation. So we are suck in a liquidity preference trap. Stocks are showing some signs of inflation, but bonds surely are not - everyone is holding US treasuries or cash!

Printing money without associated fiscal stimulus does not help things so long as people expect inflation to remain low. So QE3 is arguably better than nothing but probably will be as ineffective as thr previous attempts. OTOH Japan now is the only country where they are deliberately trying to promote inflation, so it will be interesting to observe if they can pull it off and drag themselves out of deflation.
Depressing wages is a good thing -- or seemingly a good thing -- if you're somebody like Mark Zuckerberg who doesn't depend on wages for income. For everybody else it means hardship on an individual level, and rising social unrest on a social level.

Also, lower wage levels lead to reduced domestic demand for goods, which in turn can lead to a crisis of overproduction, which can even affect wealthy capitalists in their gated communities, not just workers.
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A shame it doesn't end in https redirection.
>otal removal of start menu is bullshit. Just another revolution of the tech hamsterwheel, taking you nowhere.

If you really miss it, third party solutions have been around to solve this problem since the RC.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/141702-how-to-bring-the...

A co-worker recommends classic shell, though some of the others look pretty nice as well.
>Bullshit. There is nothing wrong with using personal experience for reference so long as it is properly cited.

I agree with the sentiment, but "properly cited" suggests a bit more than a one line comment from a username with barely a handful of posts (generally pertaining to bitcoin and intermediate level networking certifications) on an anonymous website.

>It beats "This guy is wrong (source: random blog post that I didn't really read)", anyway.

I have to disagree. At least a random blog post presents the potential for useful information or a fully articulated opinion. What we here is 4 words and an unsubstantiated appeal to authority.
Back in the days I was always amazed of what people pulled off with just CSS. With the enhanced capabilities of today's CSS I look forward to see the results.

The 'mission' may be a bit different now, though. Instead of advocating the use of CSS, CSS is now the standard.
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Was forcast.io's animations an inspiration for this?

Very impressed. Great job!
Fair enough. You might want to consider a rebrand, at least as far as your online persona is concerned. Perception matters, and you might find yourself in trouble for an issue that you have no interest in. See the "terrorista" incident in Boston recently. Or the Duke Lacrosse case. I've seen it happy many times where tiny out-of-context jokes come back to bite hard. At the very least you'd probably save some poor guy at the NSA time who has to monitor your comments. :)
How do you greet a PhD in economics?

"Hey cabbie!"

(True story...)
The cynic in me sees a time when it will just cost money to get something deleted from the internet. Of course, those with the money win.

Don't like that your teenage misdemeanor is on the record?
That's just a $5mil delete away, Mr CEO.
Very interesting development. I presume when he refers to "deleting" he means something more like allowing a user to remove references to him/herself from, say, Google, which is effectively the same as removing from "the internet" (nerd analogy - if you lose the MBR on your hard drive, you basically lose the data since there's no simple way to rebuild it. I know, not a perfect analogy, but still..)

Here's the question I have -- no answer just yet but curious what you folks think. If I had some bad press about me in the New York Times and I had the ability to have Google de-index the pages that talk about me, is that a Good or Bad thing? I imagine they wouldn't simply remove the entire pages, but they'd instead make it so searches for my name wouldn't show the bad stuff whereas other related searches would pull up those pages.

On the one hand, this is a plus for people and the ability to personally be in charge of your online image.

On the other hand, this is a minus for "open information" -- maybe Jack's drunken arrest on disorderly conduct charges doesn't need to show up, but Bill's indictment for securities fraud better serves the public interest, particularly if he's a con artist and runs the same scam again and again...

Thoughts?
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The language name is actually "lisp", it's the enlightened converts' enthusiasm that causes them to shout it from the treetops. One would guess.
I could be wrong, but I always thought it was possible to "hack" the algorithm that the slots use, as in notice how it might not be totally random and exploit that (but not like that story of the poker-machine bug). For example, people are saying it's totally random, and you can't win, but is it really? Slots are programmed, and I believe they are programmed to give the near-misses that the article talks about.

One pattern I noticed once is that after a few plays (5-20), I would often get a small win, sometimes more than what I'd played already. If I stayed on the machine, the next small win would be after I'd played those profits and a few more plays--I was losing money. But if I got up and switched machines after the small win (usually, but not always, with a small profit), I could get another small win on a different machine much quicker. Once I made about $20 on 25cent slots this way. Another time, I lost $5 trying and gave up. These 2 data points happened 5-10 years ago, I don't go to casinos often enough to claim to know anything. I could be just another gambler with a "sure-win" strategy. Or maybe that was a "naïve" algorithm used by the early video slots and it was too easy to figure out and has since been replaced by different ones. We'll never know.
Win+L will lock it, which is what I do when I stand up from my desk.

Or you can add a button to the start screen - http://www.howtogeek.com/77061/how-to-add-shutdown-restart-s...
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And a big pain to build... Nice project otherwise. Though, I would still recommend Qt WebKit as the easiest way to embed a web browser in an app.
There are some truths in this article -- for example, it is generally true that economics PhDs don't have a hard time finding jobs. Don't want or can't get an academic job? No problem, there are plenty of consulting/industry/government jobs to go around for economics PhDs.

I'm an economics PhD dropout (after 2nd year) from a top ~40 program. Unlike the authors school, my former PhD program did not have the prestige of his top 10-20 school. I left my program because I didn't have a research match with my professors. Now I'm a computer programmer at a top ~1-5 ranked school and I'm infinitely happier than I was in graduate school. I may eventually go back for a PhD, but it will most likely be in a business school rather than an economics department because I enjoy applied work more than theory.

The main ridiculousness in the current coursework taught in most economics PhD programs is the macro course (e.g. freshwater/Minnesota macro). DSGE (Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium) is just stupid. For the uninitiated, here is why DSGE exists and what it means: A while back there was this thing called the Lucas critique, which was the observation that the models used in microeconomics and macroeconomics are very dissimilar -- that is, micro models say 1 agent will make a certain decision, so why isn't it that all agents will make that decision? Macro theorists took this criticism way too seriously and decided that their models needed to have micro foundations, hence giving rise to the macro modeling technique known as DSGE. How does the typical/introductory DSGE model work? It goes something like this: at the beginning of time, everyone in the world meets in a parking lot. At the meeting, they decide on the price of all K goods in the economy at all T periods of time by assigning a present value to each good at each period of time. Once all the prices have been decided, the world starts. That is the gist of this model, but if you want to read more about how silly it is, look up the idea of a representative agent DSGE model.

Anyways, my point here is that depending on what you want to do with an economics PhD, it may or may not be a waste of time. For example, if you study micro and econometrics and emphasize in industrial organization + game theory + experimental, you will make a great candidate for a cushy research scientist job at one of the big tech companies. If you study macro, well, you'll make a good candidate for a job.... doing macroeconomics?

TL;DR If you're going to do economics, don't do macro.
1) I'm not sure what he means by PhDs that work?

2) I don't necessarily disagree with this. I know there used to tons of cushy analyst jobs and world bank/IMF/UN positions that hired Econ PhDs. Not sure if the world has changed in this regard.

3) One of the things that make life easy for Econ PhDs is the lack of a publishing treadmill. In CS, if you don't get 3 [magic number alert!] papers at a decent conference, few respectable advisors let you graduate. In Econ, my understanding is that exceedingly few people publish a journal paper by the time they graduate (please don't argue about Econ grads that write conference papers ... Econ Journal papers are equivalent to CS Conference paper when it comes to metrics like credit). Many people can write a hundred pages that their advisor+committee is happy with. It takes an order of magnitude more effort to get 100 pages that make your advisor+committee happy and also three random reviewers in your field.

An important, ending thought: the reason I didn't pursue a career in Economics was that I didn't get to build stuff. This is how I get my kicks in life. A CS PhD isn't designed to make you a better builder but it often does! Frankly, my biggest problem is that I need to stop building and get into the higher-level business of managing others to build, and higher value algorithmic stuff. The love of building is what holds me back I fear :(
Because it's a top econ program, and he's using it to prove that mid level programs have great job prospects.
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That's why you go to Caltech (no macro).
"One does not simply delete information from the Internet."
I'd recommend instead learning this stuff through Coursera or CFA or actuarial exams instead. Way cheaper and there's no benefit to the classroom for this material.
Thank you very much, this is the best advice I could be given here.
Suppose that our existence depended on a purely random roll of a six-sided die coming up as 1 on the first hundred rolls. It won't happen.
"Be the first to share this on Hacker News"

I'm not sure how this is news worthy- I guess some people feel every entry in their diary of personal accomplishments must grace the pages of Hacker News. I'm glad the author overcame his disorder, but asking people to post it to HN...

I also imagine this will be a great way for a lot more people than the 0.15 to 0.17% of the population that actually has Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder [1] to rationalize their lack of willpower.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder#Pr...
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