skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As noted at the bottom of the article this seems another case(see the ms fiasco) of employees not realising they always represent their employer.

These two scenarios do a lot more damage to the public reputation of the companies. I don't think they can respond in anyway without taking more flak.

This sort of commentary seems to belong in private places to me, what a strange world.
I feel like you are arguing with me. I am saying this because a some people are commenting here about what the ramifications of this discovery is; others, asking "serious" questions about the quality of the research, as if they should have taken certain things into account. I am pointing out that this isn't the right context for that analysis.

Also, that education is not news to post here in the first place. This is not a website where children are learning about science. There are tons of "discoveries" made as school experiments: I don't expect to see them on the front page of Hacker News (unless, like, there is some kind of serious interest in the larger science community). ;P
It seems unlikely that artists have a unique future-perceiving faculty. There are some science fiction authors who are fairly decent, but if you're trying to sell classical art as a thing you need something more than some hand waving about us all, other than artists, being trapped in the present.

Maybe some people want things they've seen in startrek or in comics or sci-fi stories and the like, get inspired by great engineering feats that they see in their day to day - that kind of thing. But decent sci-fi has a fair bit of research behind it and most of the science-fiction related art would seem to be fairly well endorsed by those who enjoy it anyway. Not really a venture into the world of art and support artists kind of thing.

I find it very hard to believe that art in a 'involve yourself with art' and 'support the artists you owe more than you know' kind of sense has anything to do with inspiring people with regards to the future. I don't see the relationship between the sort of stuff that's generally passed off as art and anything to which one could aspire.
Switched to Linux a few years ago. For some strange, almost unexplainable reason I've never felt comfortable with any of the desktop environments. None of them felt right to me. It was only when I switched to a window manager that I started to feel at home with Linux. Took about a year of experimenting before settling on DWM.
With or without consent, they're still butchers.

There's an implicit trust that exists between patient and physician. Namely, that said physician actually knows what they're doing in the first place.

When patients consent, they're essentially placing trust in their physician's expertise.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"
Very, very interesting. Evolution has been trying things for billions of years, and chances are it exploits all kinds of very subtile properties of matter. It's probably found all kinds of uses for quantum effects too.

It would be a rather bad thing if this were the case, though what I'd want to know is: what's the required dose? Radiation diminishes with the square of the distance, so do you have to be right next to the emitter? Or will just having WiFi within, say, 10ft do it?

That being said, there is a solution: use lower frequencies. The frequencies used by WiFi are very high largely because all the lower frequencies are being squatted on. In particular, many devices uses the 2.4ghz band because this is the wide-open "water absorption band" that is only lightly regulated by the FCC. This band also turns out to be the band most likely to be biologically active, as it resonates with the hydrogen bonds in water.
It's the HN equivalent of a cat picture. It's superficially interesting, easy to agree with, and takes no effort to digest. For all of the successes reddit's voting system has had, its key vulnerability is a tendency to regress to the LCD. On reddit, it's image macros and cat pictures. On HN, it's tangential criticisms in the guise of an actual counterargument.
Last I checked, and it's been a few years, the entire wind power industry exists only because of tax credits - their financial structure is designed pretty much entirely around them. Take them away, and there are no new wind farms, which is interesting, because part of the reason that costs are high for wind farms is the scarcity of turbines. The turbines are scarce because the GE's of the world do not want to invest long term capital in an industry propped up by government subsidies... and round and round it goes.
Hello,
I love reverse engineering and programming a lot.
I'd love to work as a "maintenance coder / reverse-engineer / re-implementor", but I've still no idea in which domain it is really needed. I do it for my own pleasure on some games / softwares at the moment.

Could you tell me what is the best way to become a "a maintenance coder / reverse-engineer / re-implementor" ?

Thank you.
A new programming school breaks old rules
Sloth, apathy, and procrastination.
Given the recent merging of the console and handheld divisions it wouldn't surprise me to see the next handheld become the controller for the console.
WORLD WAR 3 gets closer each day
A lot of Zen and Buddhism would agree with programmers laziness, methinks. A Zen monk would probably point out that, by definition, if you're working harder than you need to then you're wasting action and effort that could be put elsewhere, or simply not done.

One of the 'jokes' of Zen is that people will spend so much time attempting to reach enlightenment, only to realize there wasn't anything in particular to realize.

Case in point, Mu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)
What do you think is the best way to present your programming portfolio?
San Fransisco :|
I interviewed for a job with them (Nintendo of America), and also did some freelance work over the past couple of years, and I got the feeling whatever they may have been in the past, they currently run on a fairly bureaucratic model, and are not the kind of place that inspires or rewards innovation and creativity.

They had video games in the lobby, but the recruiter warned me "Don't play them!" She told me a previous candidate she took there got a job, but was later fired for playing a video game on company time.
Because many would see it as government meddling with private industry and go completely nuts over it.
Why would Cloudfront cause the player to stop buffering the video? Does it happen with a HTTP Download distribution, or the RTMP streaming distribution? I've used both CloudFront and Akamai for serving video, and I don't remember running into those issues. I have only tested it with normal HTTP Download distributions, however.
One non-NLP route might be to track the rates of votes on the posts in question. Flamewars probably elicit more downvotes than normal against all the comments in that subtree.
Perl 5.18 is now released. are we moving too fast?
I wasn't really following it, but I see they had to strike for six weeks to get a 9.8% pay raise to keep up with inflation. I believe they probably did need it just for that reason, Hong Kong is a crazy expensive place to live.

I feel bad for longshoremen in Asia, they have more dangerous conditions and weaker unions, so it's much harder for them to get reasonable pay and benefits. And the rate of inflation/cost of living is getting crazy in China and Hong Kong.
SWAG: demoting the entire thread is the best way to snuff out the flame war. My personal observation is that part of the motivation for trolling/flame wars is attention seeking ... i.e. you don't have a flame war without an audience.
I think of this as conversational intimacy. If too many people are involved, the intimacy is lost.

It's still possible, even on the HN of today. Focused technical articles, which are not conventionally controversial, often produce the most valuable discussions to me. They may only have on the order of 30 comments, but those commenters are either interested in learning about the topic, or knowledgable of the topic.
Time will tell. They do have quite a robust first party catalog, but I don't see nintendo being a major player in the console market for this generation. Outside a few loyal first party gamers, not many will buy the wii u. Everyone I know that bought a wii doesn't plan to get a wiiu.
1.5% coupon for 5 years.

Note that these are convertible bonds, not regular bonds. The interest rate is reduced by the implied price of the warrant.
Same, except I recently switched to xterm.
If procrastination was that easy to beat, we probably wouldn't have a laziness problem in the first place. I mean in general, not just for "spiritual" practices.

As for spiritual enlightenment, my best bet right now is mind uploading, which should make introspection and subsequent ascension much easier. (I know it's still a long shot, since we may not have that possibility before my body fails me —if ever. But it is my best bet.)
It was mostly in /opt, although there were also some things in /var.
After Gnome2 I really ate any Linux Desktop environment and the fragmentation.

This is my "Desktop Environment":
http://grigio.org/cairo-de.png

- Cairo Dock Session

- Openbox

- Nautilus

Stop. I've eye effect gratifications :) and I save 120mb of ram compared to Unity/Gnome3 and on a 1gb netbook is important otherwise you see gray windows everywhere.
tl;dr
flamers > "PHP Sucks!"
php developers > no. really. trust us. it doesn't.
If you put a link to your email in your profile, then someone on this forum might message you personally. Disclaimer: I also attend UCSC.
In my case, I use simple, quick code a lot for landing pages for clients and advertising in general, as well as for websites that are mostly static but occasionally need dynamic elements - most of my web series web pages end up either like this or built in Wordpress.

Anything that's either focused on content or sales and either doesn't have a programmatic backend or hands off to another site will probably fall into the "not a full-fledged webapp" category.

If I'm running an A/B test on a landing page, for example, I just need logging code and a conditional to choose what variants to display on-page.

There's a lot of conditionals based on input conditions, too - "Hello, Hacker News reader!", redirects depending on country of origin, that sort of thing.

I'll also use simple snippets of PHP or Javascript on sites that are already using Wordpress, but there you're locked into PHP from the outset, of course.
> kickass support for multi-monitor setups

...until you try placing a vertical panel on an a desktop edge adiacent to another monitor ...an trying to find wtf is happening, you discover the developers will never fix it because they don;t consider it a bug, it's just the standard behavior of some component down the wm stack ...freakin awesome
xfce 4.10 + fedora.

switched from gnome2. honestly, now that thunar has tabs xfce is just as nice as gnome imo. e17 looks interesting but the support for fedora is horrible.
> "The antidote to the first kind of laziness— only wanting to eat and sleep— is to reflect on death and the impermanent nature of everything."

No, the antidote is boredom. Only eating and sleeping is boring.
Who said s3 is a CDN at the first place!?
It seems like vim+(screen|tmux) would be a more apt comparison than just vim by itself. You get copy/paste across multiple shells, into your editor, etc. If you take term output and just paste it into vim, manipulate it, then source the file, you pretty much get the only thing I felt was missing by using Vim instead of Emacs.
Canada comes to SV to poach high-tech workers with immigration problems
I'm using Titanium for my app. Some things are still a little buggy, but it's a lot better now. It is open source, so I am modding the SDK to fix the bugs I have.
HN is becoming my main tech related hub recently. Almost any article worth reading from the big tech sites will find its place here and comments are noting short of amazing sometimes. The depth on some technical topics surpasses even stackexchange.

Also if there is downwards slope in the quality it is very mild - for the two years I have been here it is quite consistent.
Can't disagree the Wii has been pretty successful for Nintendo, and their handheld business has always been immensely profitable. I'm not very optimistic about the future of the Wii U though, IMO they are really to far behind with their hardware this generation. Nintendo consoles have never been about the best specs, but the Wii U is just barely matching 6 year old consoles at the end of their life cycle. Not a problem for many games and a large part of Nintendo's target audience, but with tablets and mobile hardware/software based devices getting more powerful each year, in 2 years or so we could have an Ouya 2 or an Apple TV with app store that will take care of the 'lighter gaming' segment that Nintendo pretty much depends on. If Nintendo fails to attract serious games and serious gamers because the hardware is too weak, and loses the light/casual segment to other players, they will have a hard time staying relevant in the console hardware business.
> So far Crunchbang Waldorf is everything a developer would ever want.

+1
I too have noticed pg's growing frustration with HN a little bit. I joined HN almost 6 years ago -- then I was a naive teenager with a scattered view of the world, though with a ferocious appetite for intelligent debate. I used to do light design work then and usually shied away from hardcore backend programming. I have HN to thank for getting me to take the jump. I also have HN to thank for keeping me informed on various fronts so I could make right decisions that were key in seeing my first 'startup' project surviving (thanks patio11 for your instructive thoughts on a/b testing; grellas for legal stuff; potatolicious for thoughts on design, etc. etc. :)).

One thing I want to say is: I think it's okay to be ... well, a little bit mean sometimes. My favorite commenter on this site is rayiner -- one of the reasons I like him is he's never afraid to say what he really believes (sometimes in a slightly mean diction), even if it's going against HN userbase consensus. He's not out to get karma (as some other opportunist high-karma users here are sometimes... complete with amazon affiliate links in their comments, indeed, that is singularly the only thing that annoys me about HN). There's inevitably going to be disagreement when we're discussing important things we have strong feelings on. As long as the discussion doesn't devolve into corrosive name-calling and ad hominems it's fine, and I don't think we go that low very much. I think HN will be fine going forward -- there's a strong identity that is enforced by all users. Thanks pg et al. for keeping this hangout alive and rocking.
well, it doesn't entirely suck...
It would go a long way to partly explaining why Apple stories get buried so quickly while ones related to Google get to the top and stay there. For whatever reasons Apple engenders strong emotions, positive and negative, while Google does not, at least to that degree.
Cloudfront serves an invalid HTTP response, thus Chrome/Firefox refuse to cache the data. The theory is, it is better to not risk caching bad data. Chrome will still play the video served from Cloudfront, but it wont write any of the data to the media cache. Thus when you pause and buffer, it will only buffer a few seconds of video in the current playback window. It never writes to the cache so buffering must stop.

To see this in action, play a video with chrome://media-internals/ open.

A video served from S3 will get saved to the media cache, and the full video can buffer when paused. A video served from cloudfront will only buffer a few seconds of video.

Update:

It is probably just easier to see for yourself:

Here is a video served from S3. Pause the video in chrome, and you will see the whole video gets buffered:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/jctest20080526/test/test.mp4

Here is the same video served from Cloudfront. Start the video, and pause it, and notice how it doesn't buffer more than a few seconds:

http://d3oocspv43fsel.cloudfront.net/test/test.mp4
No. Tesla needs lots of money and will continue to need lots of money. They can get that from debt or equity (or maybe the government, but leave that aside).

It is a signal that they believe that their stock is highly valued (or even over valued, but they would never say that) if they are raising equity - otherwise debt might be a more attractive offer. In the end, it's all a balancing act between taxes, cash flow, dilution, and market demand for securities.

Any time you raise money, you dilute ownership (or lower cash flow in the case of debt), which has the direct effect of devaluing the stock. But you wouldn't do that unless you thought you could increase the value of the stock by investing that cash and increasing future cash flows. (Incidentally, this is why everyone is so pissed at Apple, who has way too much cash to invest properly - they should be giving it back to shareholders to invest themselves if they can't figure out what to do with it).

The cynic in me says, "beware - this stock is overvalued and they're just taking advantage of that with this offering." The optimist says, "great then- they can raise money at a low cost and increase their chances of making it big". On this one, I'm siding with the cynic. This is highly speculative. Besides, do you want to be the one who is permitting them to raise money so attractively? (That's an open question - akin to paying a stupid valuation for a hot startup because it will not matter one day when it sells for 100x.)

I'm reminded of the time when AOL bought Time Warner with it's insanely overvalued stock. Didn't turn out to well for Time Warner shareholders.
E17 missing here :(

Recently switched from Gnome Shell to E17 after many years again, happy so far..

Also, those comments show what is so great about Linux: Freedom of choice. There is everything present from the heavier Unity/KDE/Gnome users to the more minimalistic ones..
I also switched from WindowMaker to DWM only this year, after having used it for a very, very long time. My only complaint about WindowMaker is it doesn't handle Chromium very well. (Never looked into that, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's Chromium's fault.)

It doesn't matter that WindowMaker is "past its prime", it achieved perfection in 1998. :-)

I always thought that people who run tiled WMs must be crazy, ever since trying out ion in the early 2000s. But now I'm one of them. It's honestly pretty good.
Do all introduction texts need to be in cheat sheet format? Or is there room for an introduction that is a few pages long, but follows a different format than most other few-page-long introductions?
I was using S3 to deliver secure signed downloads to customers. It worked well enough for a long time but eventually customers started having major connectivity issues and dead slow downloads.

I switched to CliudFront and, of course, downloads improved dramatically. I had to go with CF because we needed signed downloads. Would be nice to have alternatives but I'm happy with CF.
Talking of scanning machines, this is pretty cool:

http://youtu.be/W1-2DmDmZgI
Do you know of any tutorials that follow this "deep dive first" approach? That's exactly how I like to learn.
Draft App and Content Creation
From the article:

>Users with high karma points tend to flag these stories, he adds, and they can then be taken down.

So it could be that reason too, and it's hard to tell which one it is. Displaying the number of flags a story gets can help.

The problem with the flamebait detector is that if people want to bring down a post, they can turn it into a flamebait purposefully.
One thing I've realized as we've gone from a group of friends to a company is that my 'to-do' list is constantly edited with items simply removed at the beginning or end of a day. I put things on there all the time thinking they're important, but once a day, I will re-assess and take certain things off so that the list does not bury itself/become meaningless. Productivity in my life seems to be a function of pragmatism and de-cluttering (both physical and mental).
The full talk which goes with these slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU
For example this : http://zardoz.es/wp-content/uploads/20121010_155519.jpg
When the graphics driver is not making troubles, it's the best multi-monitor setup that I try.
Oh, I see you only read half my comment before responding. Try the other half now.
Golang documentation of "net/url" lib contains a Microsoft reference
http://clicky.com/

http://clicky.com/help/pricing#/compare/
I find this pretty unlikely, for the same reason that nanobots have difficulty communicating: it's hard to make an antenna at those size scales that can receive a signal, much less contribute to chemical-level energy changes.

At the point where the wavelength of the EM radiation is small enough to get detected by DNA-scale antennas, it's probably already classified as ionizing radiation.
The perks of being a game developer: having the "I'm doing research" excuse along the venerable "my code's compiling"
The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow
I would usually hesitate to make a cartoon reference on Hacker News, but I really feel it's called for at this time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73GOfY0Ab9g
They aren't 501(c)3 and will only work with accredited research institutes.
I was very much ready to give Hg a shot until....Mercurial cannot commit empty directories? See this is the kind of thing that makes me scared of a VCS. Some people have different workflows...but that's one of the most common ones. How many innumerable scripts would this break? Is this the only SERIOUS gotcha? Unlikely. If your VCS doesn't treat directories as another kind of file, I am gonna take a pass.
Braids, Weaves and the Complecting Problem
How Herbert Dow (Founder DOW chemical) busted German Cartels
Hey! At least QT based desktops can run over a not accelerated or buggier graphics driver and I t will work without slugines or graphical artefacts. The last time that I try Gnome 3(on Debian 7), it keeps eating 90% of the characters in the screen !
I wish I could tell everyone I wasn't wasting time I was researching.

I am sure if I made games the last thing I'd want to do is play them in my spare time.
For all the shit it gets, it is nice to see GNOME 3 at #3. No doubt XFCE benefited from the people disappointed with it.

I personally use GNOME 3, but the latest 3.8 has had some features taken off that pissed me off a bit. Nothing critically wrong yet.
Ad hominem. Further the comment is repeated only because it confirms something widely believed.

The Wii was in a similar situation but got a reprieve via novel controls, but of that generation while countless 360s and PS3 units are still in heavy service, the Nintendo devices gather dust (mine never got unpacked after moving. Non-HD just destroys it in an HD world). The WiiU novelty seems to be a nonstarter. The device has the stench of a serious failure.
My series, "Let's Code: Test-Driven JavaScript" covers Node.js, along with a lot of other material. It's intended for professional developers.

http://www.letscodejavascript.com
It is a matter of perspective ... WII U seems to be having problems, and most of the Wii-s I know about seem to be used only as a dust gathering devices.

I didn't even know it existed up to a month or two ago. Add into the mix the fact that Japan is no longer the gaming manufacturing powerhouse it once was and I won't be much surprised if they have rough time ahead of them.

How open are nintendo to indies? Most of the fun stuff happens there and it seems like a natural fit to me.