skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if something like this might be useful if added to Wikipedia's Simple English version of the Theory of Relativity page? That page seems a bit underdone right now.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity
I also couldn't figure out how to register and gave up. :/
Google research chief: 'Emergent artificial intelligence? Hogwash'
> Technically, when an AdSense client targets their ads only to North American users who expressed an interest in <certain medication>, Google didn’t “sell that user’s personal information,” but… whomever is on the other side of that ad, once clicked — and their partners — have just paid Google to find a user who likely has <medical problem>.

> Isn’t that selling personal information? Actually, if not legally?

No. Its selling the service of advertising to people for whom some fact holds.

The rest is assumption on the part of the party purchasing the advertising based on the fact of that purchase and behavior in response to the advertising. The response to the advertising is what provides personal information, just as it is in the case of nontargetted advertising in offline media where the advertising includes a call to action which is directed (through the content of the add rather than user-specific targeting) to people for whom certain facts hold.

Unless you are going to argue that everyone who sells advertising space to people who include a call to action that involves a response to the party purchasing the advertising is "selling personal information" since they are selling advertisers a mechanism by which a message to can be sent to which the response can be used to deduce personal information, then, no, what Google is doing isn't selling personal information.
Two things about Star Trek -

1. Other characters can and do ask for locations. This is apparently considered non-private information.

2. As open and utopian as the Federation may be portrayed to be, Picard is still the commander of a military vessel, so I wouldn't be surprised if in other contexts, computers give out less personal information and grant less power to administrators.
I think the reason is that people like to consider being able to move around environments that you don't have memorized without tripping on things. Do I have to step out of my virtual office to go get a beer from the fridge, or can I get the real-life obstacles that are in the way projected into my virtual office?

Imagine a virtual office with a thousand monitors that is your apartment that has been plopped down in the middle of a forest with the walls knocked out.
Kinda nice to give people jobs, actually
oh gawd, transformers has started...
The sibling comment said it better than I would have -- I wrote that with warmth and a little wistfulness. :-) Of course, this is print/internet, where we don't have the benefit of audio and facial cues.

All I'm saying is that humans, as social creatures, like to feel connected to people. Different people feel comfortable with different manners of connectedness. Volunteering or traveling are not the only ways of connecting to people or broadening your mind on how the human experience can be. But to me, they represent the most direct forms.

Or inversely, you know, it's not the same to be Facebook friends with someone as it is to actually regularly spend / talk with that person. It is different to experience a place by reading about it, by visiting on a tour, and by living there for 2 months. (Which is probably why I especially think about the environmental problems of food production and food packaging -- all my time spent in Tamil Nadu / S. India over the years especially heightens my awareness of the potential to solve that problem that I wouldn't experience otherwise.)

"Growing" as a person was referring to collecting more / varied experiences... you know, the whole broaden horizons & learn-new-things thing. I don't think, however, that if I say that learning and education are inherently good things, that it would somehow imply that more educated people are 'better' than less educated people. All it means is, with all things being equal, taking advantage of an opportunity to learn is good, and the more you learn, the better.
I suppose that explains why the whole interface looks made for mobile...
I don't know if that's what rimantas meant though.
Oh c'mon, like men haven't been insulted or attacked. Like men haven't met women who are complete dicks. Just because you're the weaker gender does not give you the right to assume that we are all shit and you are some cherry on top of a cake. No.

This women-in-tech-is-hard stuff is so overplayed to the point of it being just plain stupid. What if every man who get's insulted by a woman who's a complete dick starts writing about the stuff you, women, do? But we don't. Why? Because we aren't that much of dicks as you, women, are.

And go on, think that what I say is pure hatrid or sexism or whatever. It's not. You're statements may validate, but you're no innocent in this "war".
Why not use something like the occulus rift?

While the occulus rift is cool, I think you're missing the point. VR has been around for quite some time, and while it has it's applications, AR, IMHO, is more immediately applicable today. Even if you are selectively reproducing pieces of reality in your VR, that's going to take extra processing power and not going to be quite realistic (or real-time) for a long time. AR, on the other hand, is just rife with applications that we can use now. The classic one I always think of is helping someone with Alzheimer's get home by "painting" a path of footsteps on the ground. Try that with an occulus rift, or any other VR setup. Almost guaranteed to be cumbersome and dangerous, if it can even be used outside of a lab at all.
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I donated.
It's possible to enter the amount you want to donate, unclick "Be an EFF Member", skip all the "Donor Information" fields, click "donate to EFF" and you are presented with a bitcoin payment address.
I wish they would just list an address that I could send a payment to rather than go through that rigmarole. But good to see that EFF are accepting bitcoin again.
I donate directly to a student group I founded for the same reason. Doing it through the University results in the University taking a cut.

I just write a check directly to the organization... Or send pizza!
This isn't in the same universe as that.

Unless it is an app making light of the holocaust then you aren't really comparing like with like.
Ask HN: Geographic job market poll (May 17, 2013)
I'm trying to gather some data, which I think would be useful for a lot of people to have in the open, on trends in top-tier technology. Please, if you will, state:

1. Your city or location (e.g. New York, Bay Area, Austin, London, etc.)

2. Whether you perceive salaries as increasing, steady, or decreasing over the past 12 months.

3. Observed trends in job quality (i.e. is there more interesting work now than before) over the past 12 months.

4. Perceived trends in job availability over the past 12 months. Is it getting harder or easier to find good jobs?

5. Perceived 12-month trends in ability to raise investment.

6. Anything else you find interesting in your geographic location that you'd like other HN readers to know about.

7. How your region compares to other places in which you've lived (if applicable).

(If you have real data, that's obviously better than perception; but aggregate perception already has a lot of value.)
Yeah, okay. Yet another hardware Kickstarter with egregious claims? No, thanks.
Thanks, I just launched it officially yesterday.
sighs Look, I would not want to work somewhere if there was even the slightest chance that I got the job on account of my gender. I do not want to be some progressive nice guy's feel-good story, I want to be good at what I do. So while I do appreciate this enthusiasm for helping women succeed in tech, I respectfully would ask that the best way to help is to mentor, teach, and advise -- not to make us feel like we've become someone's pet diversity project. I mean, I want to be a great coder someday, not a great woman coder, y'know?

In short: help us tap into resources and conferences and classes and seminars where we can hone our skills, and we can take it from there. (Etsy's recent program to develop more female engineers is probably the gold standard to emulate in this regard: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3005681/how-hack-broken-gender-dyn... ) Help us network and hack and build shit. Submit pull requests to our lonely little open source projects. Call other guys out publicly if they act like jerks to us at conferences. Just...please don't blog about how you wish we would come keep you company at your start-up, as if we were elusive butterflies you want to pin to your wall.

Also? Every time the "women in tech" conversation happens, the elephant in the living room that no one likes to mention is that women tend to be the primary caregivers for their kids (or later, for their elderly parents, or disabled siblings, etc.). This is true of techie women too, and it totally has an effect on the kinds of jobs we take, and when. Most techie women I know have young kids at home or are planning to have them within the next few years before our biological clocks run out. (I'm 34 and I have two, ages 5 and 2.) Does a start-up like Dwolla offer childcare credits or benefits? Onsite daycare? Emergency nanny services? Because a lot of big companies do this, but a lot of startups have no idea that these benefits even exist, much less offer them to their employees.

If I know I'm going to be going back to work full-time after having children, what kind of a company do you think I'm going to look at first, a traditional big company or a start-up? Which one is going to likely offer me better hours and more stability, at a time when my income (and health benefits) are really crucial to other people who are depending upon it? And that's to say nothing of the culture at the company. Do I want to work at some start-up that advertises beer nights and paid company dinners as if they're obvious perks, when I honestly look at them and think that ugh, this is yet more time I would have to spend away from my kids.

In short, our priorities may not mesh perfectly with your priorities. :-)
I could be wrong here, but I don't think you get inbound posts in your G+ stream (or email) from +1s, unlike FB "Likes" which give the owner the ability to post to your New Feed. On G+ you have to go and explicitly "Circle" a business / web site to see their posts.
"It’s a game of cat-and-mouse that we didn’t ask to play, but we can hunt when we need to."

As an ESP, isn't that pretty much the game you chose to play, both as the cat and the mouse?
Another thing that bothers me is no mention of license for software. I'm not about to fund a kickstarter for closed source software. I'd login and post a question, but I'm kind of busy with code of my own right now.
We haven't passed through the digital renaissance yet. Shouldn't be too long (10 years? - right now it's just a party) but until then lines will be gray and rules will be befuddled. You need to have the visionaries to get us through it, though. There aren't many.
Maybe name it 'Nikola' or 'Nikola Chat'.
I'm leaving that up to the coder and you to decide how to handle long term work/maintenance. Ideally, there will be other coders who can pick up where the other left off. That's why we are having people add skills.
It wasn't noticed live, the moon was recorded with the help of a telescope and the explosion was noticed later by an analyst.
I also doubt anyone could see that explosion without a telescope as the moon itself is quite bright.
I think that's true for most things that don't follow the Unix philosophy and try to do too much. "Everything just works all the time, unless this and except for that sometimes depending on this but you can that."
Your comment gives me the impression that you have misread the article (or not read at all) or that you were replying to another comment.

IOW, it seems you're reacting to something that's not there.
I think he's underestimating the time he invested in this project. He says he scratched 100 tickets in 15 minutes. That's a pace of 9 seconds per ticket. I've bought a sizable number of lottery tickets, and that's a blazingly fast pace to scratch off (or otherwise remove) the latex, read the revealed numbers, determine if you have a winner, tear the ticket at the perforation, and sort the ticket into the appropriate pile.
The Go Circuit will be presented at Strange Loop 2013
Ruby does awk for the most part. I can't comment on strength since awk has a small footprint compared to both ruby and perl clocking in just under 96k. Also both emacs and ed are descendants of TECO =)

The editors have had major impact on our languages mainly because regular expressions, called regular sets at the time, where implemented in Thompson's ed which was based on an earlier line editor implementation called qed used on ctss and multics.

One can follow the evolution almost in dialect fairly well.

ed -> grep -> sed -> awk

ed -> em -> ex -> vi

awk -> perl -> ruby

so

ed -> grep -> sed -> awk -> perl -> ruby

The right tool for the right job when all you know is a chainsaw everything looks like a hammer unix process are cheap and all that yada yada philosophical paradigmy finite state automata pipelines vs pointers vs classes vs recursive enumeration iterative parenthesis backtick mind expansions expression logic =P
Why a new chat service?
How is this better than Skype, Campfire etc?
But without an atmosphere the shockwave from that 100 kiloton explosion should be pretty minimal (through the ground only), and any debris flung into the atmosphere would fall right back down on parabolic trajectories (or go into orbit), not linger in the sky for months/years.

The danger posed by such an explosion, off the top of my head, would be getting hit by the object itself, getting hit by falling debris ejected by the explosion, structural damage from the shockwave that traveled through the ground... I'm not sure what else.

Of course without an atmosphere everyone would be dead anyway, so I suppose this is kind of a silly thing to think about.
Can you provide a source on the mafia connection?
I like how the spammers always explode in anger at the end.
I avoid associating my real identity with anything on the internet, even if it's a private account. I only do it where I have to, like for banking. I don't take many steps to be untraceable (just Ghostery and a variety of usernames), but my reasons are twofold: I have read too many stories about people getting screwed for something they did or said online. Jobs losts, relationships destroyed, and often due to misunderstandings. I sometimes forget that The Internet is Serious Business, and say things that I would normally only say around close friends, things I might not want everyone to know. Secondly, I am a private person and I don't take much pleasure in being congratulated or showered with attention, so in cases where I do make valuable contributions, I am happy to do so pseudonymously or anonymously.

Then again, I've met people from the internet in real life, in both friendly and professional contexts, with no issues thus far. When I want to chat with someone, I send them an email or IM username, which both have my actual name and location on. I'm much more comfortable with it 1-on-1 than in the open crowd of 3 billion internet users.
I don't know if there's a way around it but my first thought is that if you're hardcore enough to be needing to run code that's signed with a blacklisted ID, you're way more than hardcore enough to be able to easily make an unsigned (so can't be blacklisted) version of the binary. So if I were Apple I wouldn't waste much time or UI space on it.
This is less an issue with "very small examples" and more an issue of people throwing the practices out when they build more complex software.

Highly performant JS ends up looking a lot like C, and most of the off-the-shelf JS libraries that people use to build software are littered with '.call', '.apply', 'arguments', null/undefined/true/false usage, implicit type conversions, unnecessary closures, etc. All of these are cases that V8 doesn't optimize well, and because the libraries are built to be highly abstract and useful by using these, performance drops off precipitously. It's completely possible to write a large JS application that's competitive with Java in performance -- but nobody does it.

V8 hasn't even really begun optimizing these things, and they're going to be incredibly hard to optimize well. So perhaps a more apt question is: when JS VMs have as much time in the oven as the JVM has had, what will the performance look like?
I could build them myself and then watch them break over time, or I could pay someone else to do it, and have more time to build things that I really want to build. That's the point of SaaS.
We've always wanted to build a programmatic email server for developers. To be fair we were a bit naive when started and had no idea what was ahead of us. We knew that sending was hard, but we've no idea how hard and messy it actually is.
Drupal, phpBB, Symfony, Joomla complexity improving over time, but not Wordpress
To be fair, it looks like all the demos that show a person actually wearing the glasses have slightly translucent objects. While it is technically impossible to occlude an object 100% with this technology, I believe the percieved opacity of the augmented reality object is based on the difference between the intensity of the projected image and the real world background.

Theoretically, it should be possible to overpower the background light and have an object appear to be totally opaque, which is similar to the principle behind one-way mirrors. That amount of light might be blinding in certain circumstances, though.
Discussing God as a reference frame seems to naturally evoke the question if he exists. And I am definitely more comfortable discussing whether God exists or not than if he may be a (preferred) (inertial) reference frame; probably one of the strangest things I have ever thought about.

Yes, the analogy with building a house is not really strong but on the other hand the whole question if God - if he exists - exists inside or outside the universe (read spacetime) is difficult to say the least. What is outside of space? What is outside of time? Out of what is God made? And how does this affect his possibility to interact with the universe? Is he even able to interact?

Now that I got your point with being something and building the same thing, self-organizing systems come to mind - that's probably as close as you can get to being something and building the same thing. This does not address where the matter for the system come from so it is more self-shaping than self-building but ad hoc that's the best I can think of.
Firefox gives this:

The certificate is only valid for the following names:
ieonline.microsoft.com , *.bing.com , *.windowssearch.com

and https://www.bing.com has a different problem:

The certificate is only valid for the following names:
a248.e.akamai.net , *.akamaihd.net , *.akamaihd-staging.net

The second is one I've seen a lot (https://npr.com/ for example) but that first one is odd. Does *.bing.com not cover bing.com?
Show HN: Introducing CircleUp - group photo sharing made simple
In the video, the narrator says that someone looking at the moon would have seen it, even without a telescope.
I honestly didn't even want to read any further than "We feel the overwhelming majority of men we have to deal with". I mean, "men we have to DEAL with"?
I read through the page, but nothing popped out to me as saving memory. Am I missing something obvious? They both look like they cost 1 static counter, plus sizeof(class instance with no member variables) per translation unit the header is included in.
It wouldn't be fair if I didn't do this.

1. Your city or location (e.g. New York, Bay Area, Austin, London, etc.)

New York, NY.

2. Whether you perceive salaries as increasing, steady, or decreasing over the past 12 months.

Seems steady, possibly a slow downward curve but that's largely with the upper end coming down (finance quants dropping from "trader bucks" to software engineer +50%). Software engineer compensation seems to be holding flat.

3. Observed trends in job quality (i.e. is there more interesting work now than before) over the past 12 months.

Dismal but steady. There's a lot of talk about "data science" but few actual ML jobs even now.

4. Perceived trends in job availability over the past 12 months. Is it getting harder or easier to find and get jobs?

Seems to be getting slightly harder, but firms are still hiring. It doesn't feel like 2008, so that's good.

Some NYC companies are moving toward the prima donna stuff (3 phone screens + NDAs + full-day code tests before you even get on-site) and that's mildly annoying.

5. Perceived 12-month trends in ability to raise investment.

Seems harder ("series A crunch") but I'm not personally on that front of the war.

6. Anything else you find interesting in your geographic location that you'd like other HN readers to know about.

N/A. Still expensive. Great place to live except rent kills your savings. Nothing you haven't heard a million times before about this place.

7. How your region compares to other places in which you've lived (if applicable).

I spent a year in Madison, which I liked a lot, but I doubt anyone could raise money out there. That's my only comparable.
Supporting evidence from @ircmaxell, on Twitter: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKf6m3cCEAEKDCK.png

Not 100% sure his methodology, but it looks like this research is in preparation for this presentation next week: http://portland2013.drupal.org/session/development-numbers
He really just asked for applications, which were lacking. Not a whiff of any 'quota' or special consideration - just wanting applications.

Why do you think they are missing? Women have degrees; women don't apply to program computers. Can you add something to the conversation?
> infinitely large workspace.

I've never considered this. As many terminals as the eye can fit, with a living rainforest as a backdrop. If it doesn't seriously hurt the eyes to do it for programming-session durations, then I'd gladly pay good money for that.

And yes, the ARI comparisons are not lost on me.
Web Framework Benchmarks Round 5
I saw this once. It was quite a few years back, through my 8" dob in my front yard. I saw a flash and couldn't imagine what it could have been except an impact.

After some research online that night I began to doubt myself, most people concluded it was too rare and would not be visible.

The next day I saw someone asking in a newsgroup about the mysterious flash he had seen the night before while observing the moon through his telescope. Again, the general consensus was that he couldn't have seen an impact, it was too rare and would not be visible.

I checked with him and we both saw the flash at the same time.

I also saw a satellite transit the moon once with that same telescope, it was so cool.

And to think I don't even pull it out anymore. Sad....
Given that they went with Node.js and talked about scalability, I assume they wanted the async nature of Node.js to maintain a large number of connections. I'm surprised they didn't try out Netty since they are a Java shop. The last time I investigated Node.js for async connection support in a project, the benchmarks I did showed that Netty could scale substantially better than Node.js in term of number of connections, memory usage, thread utilization, and raw performance on the same hardware. That was a year and half ago. Things might be different now, but I doubt some of fundamentals have changed much.

Anyway, it's good to try out new things. Kudos to them for doing something out of their mold.