skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a few years I got to watch a lot of novices and young programmers come to grips with various topics/programs together while I was helping out with a CS summer camp for prospective students at university. One year I was involved we used Pascal, another year we used JavaScript, but for a number of years, we used... Prolog!

This was done partly because prospective CS students often already knew Pascal, JS, or both -- putting the curriculum in a lesser-known language provided some extra incentive for those looking to stretch themselves.

The other thing, though, is that it seemed to put our smart but novice students on more equal footing with our students who already knew how to program. That is, though Prolog was arguably "harder", our novices seemed to keep up.

I suspect that Prolog isn't really harder, it just requires some thinking on an orthogonal axis to more common languages. Most of us don't get much practice on that axis, so writing programs in it is difficult.

The same thing may well be true of Haskell and Lisp.
And to think, the Apple ][ shipped with a manual that included schematics for the p/s, keyboard, and motherboard. As a 10 year old geek this manual was gold.

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/misc/a2_reference_manual_alt.pdf
> What you are arguing against is called zoning and the legality of that is very well settled.

Indeed. I am seriously arguing against zoning, or rather, against the necessity and wisdom of government (i.e. violent, compulsory) action to solve this problem.
University of Texas Austin
You're all missing the point, if you look a little further down I clarify what I mean by the internet in Ender's Game.

But maybe we could have two levels one where all the spam and hate can happen and no one will care... and the other where only people who can show they have a track record of adding meaningfully to the discussion are allowed to post, while everyone can view.

Or some other thing... but don't you guys understand that the way things are moving now is untenable? Even you guys just bashed my idea and offered nothing constructive, what's the point of that? I can completely understand that the first few ideas that we have over this aren't gonna be the best, but we have to have more and open the lines to discussion if we wanna keep the community from going to the dogs, no?
Boots on the ground are important. Tools are important. Ancillary tools are important. I've worked with doctors, researchers and software developers. We're all important.

Doctors solve problems that are occurring right now. They save lives right now. They're assisted by nurses, and the guy who resets the sheets on the beds. They're all important.

Tool builders are like nurses, or the guy who resets the sheets. They enable the boots on the ground to do their job better. They're important. I used to build healthcare software. It was focused around making Doctors spend less time filling out forms, so they can spend more time with patients. I have never saved any lives with software, but I've helped other people save lives with software. And in turn, the fine people at Atlassian (JIRA) helped us manage our bug reports, which helped us focus on building better software.

My girlfriend does biomedical research. She has also never saved a life with her work. She probably won't have anything remotely useful out of what she does for decades. But, decades later, she might be a small part in something that makes people slightly more likely to survive cancer. What she does is important.

Are any of these things more important than each other? I don't think so. Doctors and nurses save lives now. Hospital workers and people who build hospital software help make them more efficient. Researchers create understanding that allows whole new avenues of live saving to occur.

It's all important.
Texas A&M College Station
I found this page that somewhat related to spoofing the source address:
https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5136-troubleshooting...

Two interesting bits:

"I sent money to the wrong email address.
If the recipient has not yet redeemed their money, you may cancel the payment. If the payment has been redeemed, please contact the recipient and request a refund, or let us know if you're unable to resolve the issue.

I didn't make that payment.
Let us know if you'd like to dispute a charge that you don't recognize."
Mind that that's "only" 50x. Still not bad though.
In 30 Years:

Son: Mum, my Food toner is empty!
Mum: I'm sorry we can't afford a new one, share with your sister!
Imperator: Let's invent chips for food-toners that force stupid consumers to buy new ones before their toner is actually empty!
Ministers: Yes, Oh Lord! Can we also throw out a new toner model every quarter that is incompatible to the last one.
Imperator: I agree my followers! Keep the technology the same, renovating our fabrics is out of question.
Ministers: Oh great Imperator this is a great idea, we order it to be done by this month.
Dad: Oh world, why did our Grandads trust the Sci-Fi paroles of the United Companies Associations and didn't see the slavery it brought us coming..
Grandpa: Dear son, it looked so promising and fascinating when the foundations of this technology were born. We were simply confirmed in our dreams by reality, this feeling was too strong to become aware of it's implications.

I don't want to sound too skeptic, because I actually hope that they invent the universal replicator, tricorder, warp-drive, universal-translator, deflectors, AI, Isolinear-Chips, etc. but we all know it is very important when an invention is born and who is belongs to. Remember E=mc²
Power law, big wins. This paid for the entire fund, and more.
some vocal gamers hate them, the overwhelming number of gamers who don't moan on kotaku or neogaf probably don't care at all.
GPG is the FSF's implementation of the OpenPGP spec. PGP was the original implementation upon which the spec is based, and is now the name of a company, owned by Symantec, that makes a commercial version of the software, and some related tools.
LCHF. http://www.kostdoktorn.se or http://www.dietdoctor.com

Eat till you are full. Normalise your weight.
> Also your git commit email needs to be added to your GitHub account for it to link to your GitHub account. And then it can be used to reset your passwords. So you'd better make sure you pick one that you're in control of.

I just tested it and successfully reset my password without ever verifying the new email address - so it's an open invitation for someone to hijack your account if you don't control the fake one.

Beats me what the purpose of the verification is.
Yes, if they have these:

1. Awesome webmail and IMAP

2. Calendar

3. Task

4. Chat with logs

5. Privacy without any ifs/buts

6. Speed

7. Easy data takeout
Google for "Dave Winer" returns a lot of stories that are similar. Before accepting Daves view on this, I wish people would do some research into Dave Winer.

Why? What Dave Winer does elsewhere is irrelevant to the point at hand, which is about HN commenters making personal attacks on people, being rude, and posting low quality comments.
Same, in for $65.

As a type one diabetic if 80% of meals were the exact same, my long term health prospects would be brighter.

Here's to hoping!
I think it would be more useful if it printed the key as QR code(s). This way you would not have to type in the key or rely on OCR.
Adland Gets a Good Look Through Google Glass
runjake was impolitic, but correct. The Google GMS app suite is distinct from the OS image and can be updated independently via the Play Store. It's no different in practice from what you see on Windows Phone -- a core OS image must be updated (rarely, and with hardware OEM and carrier approval) via firmware, but almost everything user-facing is an app from the market.
Ask HN: Why did Yahoo acquire Tumblr?
There’s a new tool in the toolbox: The Network Monitor. It’s a classic waterfall timeline view of network activity on a site. This data’s been available since Firefox 4 via the Web Console, albeit in a less visually pleasing way.
I would buy two PS4 if they actually announced a real shipping date for The Last Guardian. As it stands, my PS3 will be the last console I buy.
I wouldn't want to go back to programming PHP due to its many issues[1]. I especially wouldn't want to work somewhere that spends development energy on BobX[2] to make PHP easier to work with. That means I have to use two technologies that won't give me any way to advance in the industry, and will most likely hinder me at this point.

[1] http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...
[2] http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We-Use-BobX.aspx
On a policy level that may be true, however I would guess that many members of the conservative party are ideologically more right wing than the average democrat and would prefer to see the party move to the right. They have to maintain a more centrist position to be electable.
How in the world did this get on the front page of Hacker News?
The article is incorrect: there is no free tier but there is a 2 month free trial. https://www.fastmail.fm/action/signup/?type=personal&acc...

In terms of additional features:

- Support for Sieve scripts - LOVE this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)

- Way faster loading time, snapper interface

- Lots more customizability (look at the display settings for an individual folder: https://files.app.net/1/79748/aXTHb4q16UPxgBvF2RCedd9jMSV2u4...)

- Some different interface features that I really like (your mileage may vary), like always showing starred messages on top for specific folders

There's lots more in terms of customizability and different weird configurations they allow you to do. They've done a pretty good job of hiding the complexity for non-power users, but it's still really accessible if you're willing to read through lots of preference screens.

There are some features FastMail does not have that Gmail does. The two big ones for me are undo send and composing in a new window (although you can just open the whole FastMail interface in a new tab and it only takes a second to load; opening Gmail in a new tab could take 10+ seconds in my experience). I use the FastMail web interface full time and am just as efficient, if not more, than I am with Gmail. The keyboard shortcuts are pretty much the same, so there wasn't even a learning curve.
Do you mind explaining why Soylent is the solution for metabolically disadvantaged people as opposed to a "traditionally balanced diet"?
I don't understand how it ever can be cheaper than making food from raw ingredients. This powder they are selling are a mixture of processed ingredients, that must have originally been extracted from something from something harvested, right? It is a more complicated process to make it, compared with letting things grow in the sun mostly by themselves, and then harvesting.
Not get caught up in the hate/arguing, but if they're raising money for this, and will be apparently working within the FDA guidelines, wouldn't they have strenuous testing before they release this to market?
There is more than one to solve social problems. Centralized, violent, compulsory action (government) is one way, but there are others. Opposing "the government solution" is not the same thing as denying the problem or refusing to fix it.
That assumes that the hotel room and the AirBnB room were comparable in terms of amenities and services, which they probably weren't. (Room service? Daily cleaning? Gym? Doormen/porters?) You can get a pretty nice hotel in NY for $350 a night -- the W hotel downtown has rooms for $359 this weekend.

I'm not saying there aren't great deals out there on AirBnB; right now it's a market of people basically selling unused inventory at very low prices. I'm saying that if they had to incur more normal requirements (safety, taxes, insurance), the pricing would rise and the inventory would decline. If that same AirBnB room cost $250, it might not as interesting to you.
Until they upgrade to hangouts from GTalk, federation will continue to work.
Agreed! And I actually have an idea on how this can be done, but no time to implement it...
Perhaps Samsung will do the ultimate stupid and leave Android behind. This would make Google's job much easier.
Cause the web isn't ritzy enough.
Love the pricing part of the page (http://www.newsblur.com/):

Feed poor Shiloh -

Free Account: She goes hungry

Premium Account: Home cooked meals of green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and brown rice
Depends if you're primary concerned with transit, vs local storage.
If I had no further need for money (e.g. if I could provide for my family at a middle-class level permanently), I'd landscape full-time.
Oh...well...

Thanks. :)
As the OP, let me respond.

I'm not suggesting that Google is evil. What I am saying is, these products don't work for me and the reason they don't work is that they aren't interoperable with my own desktop software, or the rest of the Internet. I actually do use desktop calendaring software which will stop working this summer. I communicate with people via XMPP who are not on Talk. I used to use Listen and Reader. I'm only looking to migrate off Voice because it's not going to be available. I was pretty perturbed when all of a sudden, anyone I ever emailed appeared as a pre-approved contact on Talk.

So, it isn't about Google being evil or not. Google has a responsibility to its shareholders to make money, and I trust that they're trying to fulfill that mandate as well as possible. In doing so, they've shifted their portfolio of properties into a closed ecosystem that does not appeal to me as a consumer.

At this point, I imagine most alternatives suck because there's really no point in going up against free and awesome. Case in point: Reader. Reader really was awesome, and it had no competitors because no one would bother competing with it.

I imagine that as Google does offend more of its users, some competition might heat up, but I'm well aware that for most people, none of this matters in the slightest. It's a narrow cross section of geeks who notice or understand any of this.
That's charitable but Google really has been behaving as an evil actor lately. Just because they have essentially unlimited resources doesn't mean that they should be immune to critique.
It's true =\
How to Retinafy Your Websites
I didn't like the insults and the tone of the comment. I think that it could have been written in a more polite way.

Anyway, I agree that it's advertised as a too good to be true product, and it was created by people without the needed background. In the last update they added sulfur!!! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609546 ). It's one of most common elements in the human body, not a very strange unexpected thing.

Most of the vitamins were discovered because some people aet a very restrictive diet. Usually because more diverse food were not available (in the middle of the sea), or because they didn't have money to buy more diverse food (semi slavery). A diverse diet of complex food protect you form not eating the thing that you don't know you should eat. Eat only this at your own risk.
VC Vintage For The Ages
Do Ruby's "Open Classes" break encapsulation?
I think zoho has a similar Calendar.
People should probably use operating systems written by people who care about backwards compatibility. Ideally ones that are developed in the open.
Fishing guide.
Dave's writing was all about him.

So what?

I generally respect and understand what you're saying, but this is a unique case.

I don't see anything unique about this, that justifies personal attacks on anybody (Dave Winer or otherwise). I mean, I get that you see Dave's post as constituting an attack of sorts on Marissa, and that you think playing the vengeance card here is supported. But not everybody saw what he wrote as particularly negative towards Marissa, and many (most) of us got that the real point he was making was contained at the very end of the original post, and were quite content to argue that point.

There's just no need for using HN comments to launch some sort of personal vendetta against Dave Winer (or anybody else) over something in a blog post.

If you have some sort of personal grudge against the man, email him and challenge him to a pistol duel at high-noon, or something. But calling him names, insulting him, mocking his name, etc. on here isn't a positive for anybody.
I was also looking at Zimbra some time back. But threads like this made me stay with Gmail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662348
Talk about cynicism. As I wrote, it is possible that Yahoo could be amused and supportive of this project, no? Corps react in various ways, and Yahoo could go either way. So unless you're representing Yahoo, why go about bitching at people for a clever remix that technically doesn't violate the TOS and doesn't exploit any vulnerabilities, when Yahoo hasn't even made an official statement.

Second ... you're characterizing it as an "attack"... really? The people who'll try to use it would be people who just want some cheap cloud-storage. And as I said before, they should use at their own risk, else they may wake-up one day and find their account is banned, and the terabyte of data they uploaded (which takes a non-trivial amount of time) will be gone, along with their yahoo mail and anything else yahoo was hosting for them.

Seriously, why the stick up your ass?
The reason for the stoves and kerosene lighting is that there is little other energy available. And its not cheap. There are startups working on funding solar panels which can provide electricity cleanly by funding the capital costs.

Rather more worthwhile than some bullshit diet for Americans who can't cook.
This is poorly motivated:

1. I can make a Hot Pocket in about 3 minutes. While the microwave is running I can browse my email on my cellphone etc...

2. Some instant food is unhealthy, perhaps healthy instant food is market for disruption?

3. Are we living in a society where people can't stop for 3 minutes to grab a bite to eat!?
We're talking about life and death now? That's quite the extreme you've just jumped to. After reading through the ingredients being used in Soylent none of them seem particularly life threatening (Cached version, site seems to be slammed: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f487PaT...).

I admit they need a warning of some sort on the campaign, and they should probably link to his blog posts about everything that goes into this, but the "life and death" argument is a bit extreme.
Actually, it's not a distinction at all, because the fear is unwarranted. There is no realistic impact that such a bridezilla can have on a photographer.
I'm gonna be that guy - I prefer the appearance of the blue version. Things stand out more, it's seems easier to parse. The grey looks all washed out and nothing really sticks outs. The layout of the right-hand panel is an improvement though, definitely.
I appreciate what you're saying, but to be fair to those criticizing, this isn't the problem Solyent is advertised as solving. The stated problem that Soylent is advertised as solving is "food is a hassle", and it is also alleged to provide benefits for health and the environment. It's also being advertised as "perfectly balanced", "automatically [putting] you at an optimal weight", and "[improving] your focus and cognition". These are the claims that people are criticizing, not it's suitability as a last resort. If Soylent's message was "here's a better option for those who are desperate", I'm confident the responses would be less critical.
Just generate a QR code from the output ("programs should do one thing and do it well")
Froze meal companies don't need to sell particularly healthy meals, in fact I don't most of their customers care much about healthiness.
Stop Hiring By Titles
Not everyone you hire for your startup is a VP. A guide about how to define the roles you really.
All of the Google-branded services - Gmail, Google+, Maps, Play {Store|Books|Magazines}, Music, Talk (Hangouts) and Chrome - are indeed "apps" that can be updated separately from the OS through the Play Store like you'd update any other app (except the Store itself, it updates automagically with no notification).

However, all the unbranded parts - Messaging, Dailer, Gallery, Camera, Browser, etc. - don't register as user apps (they also live on /system which is mounted read-only except during OS updates) and need a proper system update to be updated.
Of course not, but when you need surgery where do you go, to the hospital or to "the guy at the corner of the street that seems to know a lot about how stuff in your body works"?
Google's chat client drops Jabber compatibility
I suspect Austin is better for your career and I haven't regretted any of the theoretical stuff I learned in undergrad.
I second that.. I used to play lot of games on PC.. I bought xbox and some games , but mostly I will be playing youtube videos thru my android youtube app remotely or play a movie in netflix :)
lavabit isn't accepting new users right now.
> I love cutting a bell pepper and catching a whiff of its fresh smell in my nostrils. I love sometimes adding different sauces, spices or ingredients in my meals to give them a distinct and unique taste.

Can I come over for dinner? :D

> My main gripe with Soylent (ever since I first saw it here on HN a month ago) is that they are making cooking seem like a horrible chore that nobody wants to do.

Some people really do hate cooking. Either they don't enjoy the act of it, or do not have a lot of time for it. I know... one could say that you could make time for it. The fast food industry works not because the food is good (It generally isn't...) but because it's so easy. I think people are a lot better off eating Soylent then MCD :)
It is a bit disappointing, but they have taken the pragmatic view, that it is better to have what they have delivered than nothing at all.

I would really like to see what the full capabilities of the chip are. The GPU seems to implement almost the full GLES driver itself. As I recall, it iss compiling the shaders GPU side. That's some considerable general purpose computing hidden behind the wall.
Traits, talents and annotations for NodeJS with CocktailJS
No one has enough interest to simply leave a pretty compelling ecosystem, so you have to couch it in a way to makes it sound like an ethical imperative. You know, for blog views.
Well, there's Valve who are supposedly developing their 'Steambox'. Hopefully they'll reveal more about that soon given the Sony and MS announcements.
Wirelessly connect all the things with Sapphire
Great job, I tried newsblur months ago and it didn't click for me. The redesign feels much more natural and snappy. It's a testament to how much features can flourish or suffer from minor performance tweaks and careful design decisions.

For instance before, the bottom bar felt much more cluttered and difficult to understand. It created a sense of claustrophobia, with some subtle design tweaks it now feels like a helpful and compelling navigation feature.
I just think his writing is self-aggrandizing to the detriment of his argument. What's the point of comments on his stories if we can't talk about that?
I went back and forth between both for a couple months and I can assure you that the new design is much better. It looks overly subtle now, but after your eyes and brain get used to it, you'll think the blue one was hideous.
Lots of cities have a 1-4% millionaire density. By The Economist's definitions, Frankfurt is over 7%. NYC has 400,000 millionaires (5%).

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-c...