skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you actually driven one? It isn't as bad as you might think. When you are on the power, having the weight on the rear of the car is an advantage. They aren't nearly as hard to drive as their reputation leads people to believe.

I bet more new drivers struggle with the heaviness of the clutch and lack of power steering before they get anywhere near the limits of the car.
We have a paid VPN account, it no longer works and we can't get a refund. It's like a game of cat and mouse, and I've kind of given up.
When it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it's summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. It's just the case with the Earth than most of the land masses are on the Northern Hemisphere, but would not necessarily be the case with another planet.
Your comparison of Wizard with Refine is misguided. The two products do completely different things. Refine "refines" data into a usable form. Wizard is a stats and visualization tool for understanding an already-clean dataset. Last I checked, Refine actually runs a local web server, even if its client is in the browser, so it's not that different from a native app. Wizard also does incredible amounts of visualization that Refine doesn't do.

(disclaimer: I purchased Wizard a few months ago and have been exceptionally happy with it -- it's a brilliant product)
Of you think the debate has only two major sides, you never understand it.
I know a few people who have switched to Dvorak, and every time I see them using a computer they seem to grapple with one of a few new inefficiencies that stem from using a layout other than the standard:

* Having difficulty finding symbols because the keycaps no longer match (I don't know why they don't memorize them after all these years)

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

* Having to use someone else's machine and being startled by the switch, or someone uses their keyboard and switches it back.

* 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. No idea why it's not a global system setting.
* Have to reset the keymappings in most video games.

I suppose if you were a full-time typist these inefficiencies would be made up for by the increased comfort of the bulk of your day. But for everyone else -- who spend less than 10% of the time typing English sentences -- the standard is probably easier overall.
I would argue that effective communication begins at DH6, not DH3 as pg suggests. It shows you've read the entire post, digested it, thought about it, then finally articulated a response.

DH5 isn't enough. You may have an entertaining back-and-forth where each participant is going through posts line by line, but the sheer volume of discourse indicates that one or both just isn't taking the time to distill and be concise. Without that, true understanding isn't happening.
Well, that would do it. =)
I wonder what the rationale behind not including an LED for the camera was. I can't imagine it was cost or anything. Such a simple addition would have definitely done a long ways in reducing the fear people seem to (rightfully) have with its camera.
So what he gets is closer to what you would get with real cinematography gear than you do with even pro-sumer type camcorders which code to a particular video format.

Unlike others I'm not raging anti-HDR, my eyes tend to see in HDR and so these images can look more "real" to me than images which have more limited dynamic range.

I do however really dislike the motion compensation TVs that make movies look like video. That suggests making an impressionist painting look like a polaroid is a "good" thing when part of the art is the look. Why I don't get the same negativity about HDR I don't know.
Another rule of thumb that's used is that responses within a tenth of a second feel instant, within a second will keep the user focussed, and you can get up to about ten seconds before they'll want to do something else while they wait.

Source: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-l...
Bartle's paper matches up with my memory of playing the original MUD, though it was rather a long time ago.
The only insight I have is that doing so is a balanced, middle road response (left road is accept everything, right road is change everything). The Serenity Prayer captures this attitude:

http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/serenity.html

if you can get over the pronouns.
If you don't want someone spending our money, you just don't give to them. You don't need to hide money to accomplish that goal. Marriage is a joint partnership, and anyone is free to not enter into one.
Sure, your web app might feel instantaneous when your server is sitting across the LAN, but many users have crappy Internet connections, or are downloading a Torrent, or are living in New Zealand...

Yup. New Zealand's internet speeds are just abysmal. On behalf of kiwis everywhere, can I ask that you all stop writing your own wrappers for web based videos? Instead, upload your videos to YouTube and embed that on your site. Their buffering is orders of magnitude better than some of the half baked crap I see from other people, probably because streaming video is YouTube's core business so they've focused a lot of time and attention on getting it right. If you live in urban parts of United States or Asia it's not a problem you'd notice, but for the rest of us it's a daily nuisance.
I've seen many parsers, from ad-hoc regexes to real grammars like this one, that attempt to process natural, human-readable query strings that resemble Google searches. (The example at the top of this writeup, `john city:"new york" last_called < "3 days ago"`, illustrates what I'm talking about.) But there's no standard definition that I know of that could make all these slightly-different implementations interoperate.

Does anyone know of any specification of a colon-style query syntax that other projects could reuse? Even something semi-formal would be better than nothing.
Families around the world photographed with weekly shopping - £3.20 to £320
It's not that bad with non-FTL, about 10 years[1] on board with constant 1.5g acceleration (Kepler-62 is about 1200ly away). You wouldn't even need a real generation ship for that. Relativity would make it a long wait here on earth though. Of course even accomplishing that kind of acceleration would be a fairly major feat for humanity, but at least it wouldn't break any major laws of nature like FTL.

[1] Calculated with this neat tool: http://mysite.verizon.net/res148h4j/javascript/script_starsh...
It's a hypertext document platform that was perverted to be a general-purpose applications platform as well as well as bolting on magazine-like layout requirements.

It is, intrinsically, a hack. The original design and implementation of its scripting language was a two-week rush-job. It embraces XML while using a more YAML-like syntax for styling.

It's gotten better but only by the sheer force of an entire industry dedicated to swimming up-stream.
Unfortunately Hulu is so over-saturated with advertisements you have to be willing to put up with ads throughout the whole presentation, and heaven forbid you try to jump through to see what lies in store.. (79 seconds remaining)
I would take a convertible Cadillac ElDorado.
FL has no income tax because it doesn't want retirees to rip off wage earners. It is clearly not a play to attract portable businessz since it has almost none.
That's one possible solution to the Fermi paradox -- nobody's contacted us yet because they don't feel like trying to have a conversation with something that has the life span of a mayfly.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Wow this looks awesome.

I wish I could search for other repositories not on the graph already to discover other related open source projects.
As someone who is not a "web designer", but occasionally have to knock up a page or two I agree with you all 100%. To me the whole CSS business is just a big hack, and not at all usable or intuitive. YMMV, but I think there's a reason why people come up with [1] type jokes...

[1] http://bethesignal.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/css-is-awe...
yeah absolutely
Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this in his 1952 novel, "Player Piano" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel) which I read as a child.

GB Shaw: "All professions are conspiracies against the laity."

The examples given, lawyer and radiologist, achieve high income largely through artificially induced market scarcity by limiting entrants into these professions.

Abraham Lincoln, one of the nation's greatest lawyers, never went to undergrad school, never went to law school. Today, in the US, to be a lawyer one has to attend 7 years of post-high school education (in Europe and Israel it is 3 years) at a cost of about $500,000 if attending private schools.

For doing image recognition on mammograms, one has to attend 4 years of difficult pre-med, 4 years of difficult med school, 5 years of a hard to get into (eg artificial scarcity) radiology residency, and perhaps 2 years mammogram fellowship. Does it really take 13 or 15 years of post-high school education and training to be able to do image recognition of mammograms?

In addition, there is a great deal of variation in results of radiology readings which machines will help to make more uniform.
> It has been theorized that a self-replicating starship utilizing relatively conventional theoretical methods of interstellar travel (i.e., no exotic faster-than-light propulsion such as "warp drive", and speeds limited to an "average cruising speed" of 0.1c.) could spread throughout a galaxy the size of the Milky Way in as little as half a million years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

citing http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/ComparisonReproNov1980.htm
I would argue that the current institution of work is what causes laziness. When people day in and day out go to work for 8 or more hours a day to a job they hate. When they come home, there is nothing left but wanting to be "lazy". I suspect that this trait is learned in our current environment.
Perl 5 has no spec, just a bunch of features that seem helpful. It has a philosophy, not a design.
In the sentence you quoted I'm referring to SVG, not canvas, and the "in this case" refers to mapping apps, not games. I never made any claims with regards to games.

In the test you quoted the goal is to stress it until it could only handle 30fps (it says so on the page), so you necessarily must see 30fps for the test to go on to the next one. That is why your median score on the Mac is 29fps, because it degrades smoothly on the desktop compared to a mobile device.

If you want to see many devices peg 60fps on the canvas (the rate imposed by requestAnimationFrame), you can use a demo like MS' Fish one.[1] Your Mac ought to get 60fps for 1000 fish on a 1920 x 1075 canvas with no sweat. This is not a very interesting test, and I don't know what it will look like on an iPad, but it more than enough accounts for any animation you might see in a mapping application.

[1] http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/performance/fishietank/
I don't get why everyone is freaking out about trying to predefine the social rules for this thing. Rather, to be more literal, I should say I do get it but don't agree with it.

Wearable computing and ubiquitous photography are going to be things as the cost of hardware falls. This is already true compared even to the world of the late nineties. Google glass is just the first attempt, but there will be others. WSJ opinion pieces are not going to define how people use it.

The actual social drawbacks combined with the benefits will be the determining factor in how people use it. I imagine (from actually watching people's reaction to the device in person) that in real scenarios most people will not care that you are wearing a Glass/iSee/Windows Goggle 8. And likewise, the relative infrequency of surreptitious recording being useful will limit how often the devices will be used that way.
You tried to make a too-strong statement and then backed down when honesty got the best of you. Perl has a philosophy, not a design.
I think I wish the camera had some sort of tiny shutter that opened or closed if it was recording or not. LEDs can be hacked to not light up; a physical barrier is even more fear-reducing.
Did you create that gesture joystick control yourself? It reminds me of the virtual joysticks some ported games use (Doom, Sonic, etc).
If anyone is interested in comparing Colemak, Dvorak, and Qwerty for themselves, here's a small executable I wrote: https://github.com/bak/keyboard_battle. `gem install keyboard_battle`, then `keyboard_battle anytext.txt` or `keyboard_battle --bundled`. I believe it will work with Ruby 1.8, definitely on 1.9.

It compares both alternation (more is better) and reach (less is better). The main flaw is that it only counts ASCII characters, so may not help much for non-English texts.
Lenticular Photo Used To Secretly Convey Hot Line Number To Abused Kids
When I'm driving and I need directions a heads up display would be immensely useful.
I am trying to become a web designer/developer after years of working mostly in the backend. And the inelegance of solutions, the spider weblike creep of the code is a big bother. But it is a nice challenge too. To write an elegant, readable, maintainable code for a beautiful and pleasing UI/UX. There might be compromises that would have to be made in the UI/UX end in order to maintain sanity of the code. Finding the optimum balance could be an enjoyable challenge.
It is insane to claim that R is a language of repeatable science.

Python is barely better.

None of these languages come anywhere near a reliable verifiable formal model of what they claim to compute.
Unfortunately I have not. But I have seen several accelerating from a stoplight and almost not making the corner on a perfectly dry road.

Granted, the car I drive also understeers madly ... but all cheap front-wheel cars do that. (yes, I like having fun with cars even when they're cheap and have no business being driven like that)

As for the car's limits, you don't buy a car like this to not hit the limits. If you do, then you make me sad.
I've gone back and looked for the paper I read on BI and have yet to find it sadly. It was published in the late 90's and and I believe it came out of Harvard but I'm less confident about that origin. Basically my in-laws were big fans of South America and were thinking about emigrating to Argentina [1] in 92 - 93 and had mentioned they were experimenting with BI as a way of mitigating crime in the slums. That lead me to look into whether or not it worked and I found the article which basically confirmed my suspicions. Sadly Google Scholar doesn't have nearly as many pre-1999 journal articles as it does post 1999. Scholar did turn up this article [2] which I've downloaded to my iPad to read.

[1] They eventually moved to Brazil instead.

[2] http://esp.sagepub.com/content/12/4/307.short
That was maybe what confused me. For some reason I thought they were all still shots but then there was motion. Thanks, I wasn't even considering things like exposure time.
Actually, Steve Mann was doing this fifteen years ago. There are web pages describing his wearables that literally haven't been updated for a decade. Think about that for a second. Bill Clinton was president when this was cutting edge stuff. And the Glass hardware looks just as stupid and dorky as the hardware Mann built himself.
>you shouldn't call yourself a physicist until you can understand the same physics using multiple models
This applies to pretty much any field. Feynman was a great physicist from this point of view.
"Proper" MVC fashion.
Many individual US states are larger than individual European countries. People can immigrate within the EU, can they not? So why defend the UK or Denmark having its own system?

On the other hand, it could easily be argued that interstate commerce restrictions are a big part of the problem in the US. Suppose some company in Delaware comes up with a really cheap health insurance plan that meets my exact needs - I can't sign up for it, because I don't live in Delaware. For a company to offer health insurance or health care nationwide it has to have offices in 50 states and navigate regulatory restrictions in 50 states.

If McDonald's wants to expand to serve people in other states, they can just DO it, but Kaiser or Blue Cross can't do the same. That situation is ridiculous and needs to be fixed somehow, but I don't hold out much hope for it changing any time soon.
> if an economy is fully automated, there is no money - at least not in the way we currently understand it. No human is working and gets paid so there is no money to spend on goods.

Not true. Labor is one way to earn money. But not the only way.

People also earn money from capital investments, and spend money on capital investments. The robotic car factory still pays the robotic smelter who pays the robotic miner. None of their prices are quite zero, because there are real capital costs in building and maintaining their own infrastructure.

Why else would anyone build an automated economy in the first place, if not in pursuit of capital returns? The first person to build a fully automatic widget factory gets to sell widgets at the prevailing price, but with much lower costs, giving him fat profit margins. As his competitors also automate, the prices eventually fall and his margin goes away.

We can expect to see this cycle repeat many, many times. It has already been happening for a long time. "Fully automated" is just one end of a long continuum we've already been travelling.
Entrepreneurs in America: Who creates jobs?
What good is the LED on someone's Glass if you don't keep an eye on it at all times? You see it blinked, you know you were photographed. Too late.

A physical lens cover is the way to go.

A camera-free version is an even better option.
Commodification would also mean drug companies wouldn't put half of their spending into sales and marketing. Combined with what you quoted about a large portion of their research solving a problem that is already solved in order to work around patents, the whole operation starts to look worse than a sadistic government bureaucratic hell.

All the "capitalist dynamism" gets directed at phony/zero-sum games.
> You've gone from observing a fact to speculating on its causes, and the answer you've arrived at is "because they're lazier"

I think you're both taking my initial comment which meant to refer to a specific subset of immigrants and interpreting it as if I meant to apply it to all immigrants.

> Yours is not the first time I've heard a European utter the notion as if it's the most natural conclusion in the world.

We indeed consider it self evident that a welfare system like ours is fragile and prone to abuse by people who intend not to contribute. That's just about acknowledging that lazy people exist everywhere and that to maintain stability of our system we need to make sure not to disproportionately attract them.

My original comment also referred to a recent public policy issue relating to a specific immigration policy (family reunion) being abused to bring large groups of people into the country who were not looking for jobs, not learning Dutch and forming insular foreign communities that structurally lived off of the welfare system.

We're talking about only a couple hundred or thousand people at most and as stated I actually believed even that was still a net-positive overall, but that is the only thing I would truly classify a parasitic class.

P.S. There is indeed plenty of racism to go around in Europe as well. Racists, like lazy people, are everywhere.
Actually, before WW2 started we really did not care about Nazis a lot and what they were doing. Hey, we also rejected to accept thousands of Jews from MS St. Louis fleeing persecution in Germany.
I tried switching to Dvorak, and encountered exactly those problems. Perhaps if every keyboard instantly switched to Dvorak layout the moment I touched it, then it might have been worth it.

Having to think about which keyboard layout I was using added more time and stress than was ever going to be repaid by the supposed benefits of using Dvorak.

I gave up after about 3 months, reverting purely to using Qwerty.
Adore the first one about Mt Teide!
Just as soon as yesterday, I read about a guy on Something Awful who had a stroke and no employer-provided healthcare.

Maybe if you only assume the audience to be a very narrow demographic, you could be right statistically, but this is an issue that extends far beyond just the Valley, Alley, etc.
More like going on 30 years, actually.
Video games have taught us that fire extinguishers blow up so it cancels out.
You are nuts if you think Glass looks as dorky as Mann's stuff. Be serious, please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wearcompevolution2.jpg
Heh, yeah those front end folk are insane for the crap they have to put into a page to get things to look pretty and work.

I think for those starting out it feels a lot like hacking and kludging, until you get your preferred libraries and methods worked out then you forget about how hacked up and kludged the process is. :-D
Yeah, static linking could explain the code size difference. On my machine where I have gccgo 4.8 built and installed the Gccgo produced executable is way smaller than go 1.1 rc1 built. Go builds static executables whereas installed gccgo with just -O3 builds a dynamic one.
In OpenGL you can use CoreGraphics to render into a context and convert that data to a texture. This could be done for each string, but doing so you loose the power of the underlying implementation. If there are libraries that make this easier I am yet to come across them.

Wolfire have written a very good blog post about the issues with text rendering and OpenGL.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2013/03/High-quality-text-rendering
That is a lie. Some of the arguments are provided as global variables like $_, (no need to remember its name, since its value will be implicitly used whenever you omit a necessary argument) whose value is decided by something akin to Clippy choosing what seems most handy.
I feel like knowledge of a desktop QWERTY keyboard has little affect on your mobile usages, aside from knowing which direction your thumb should move towards. Given the fact that (most?) people use only their thumbs when using their cellphone keyboards, I would argue that's reason enough to design a new keyboard based around this type of usage. Right now I think QWERTY is just a crutch for mobile keyboards until someone really makes something stellar.
Calling Haskell an academic trap ignores tons of wisdom its researchers shared with the world and other languages including Go already incorporated into its philosophy.
"the" language is then more of a loosely couples family of languages.
thanks for explaining

full disclosure, i live in germany and can't arrive at an essential characterisation of the people here
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John Pavlus, writing for the MIT Technology Review, made an outstanding point about wearable computing, and the basic problem with treating the body (which needs interfaces) as an interface itself.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514136/your-body-does-n...
Do you have any screenshots? Your clients sounds innovative (going off the other comments in this thread), but I don't have any iDevices and don't plan on getting any.

On the server side, I made a lua-scripted server to use as a barebones base for a new MUD. Lua's threading model worked really well. It's at http://github.com/endgame/MudCore , but I never did get around to building a game on it.
http://vimeo.com/40234826

For me, this is by far the most awe-inspiring.
Because private institutions (atleast all that I am aware of) avoid getting involved in non-school matters. What schools do you know of that would get involved?