skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I didn't say I was angry. I said a new language that repeats past mistakes again is sad.

You do realize that these so-called language design mistakes seem to have no correlation on how successful a language will become?

>when we could all have benefited from these resources being poured into a good one is sad.

A language that nobody wants to learn is not a good language.
I'm impressed. I have been thinking about doing the same thing, mainly just for myself to search job..lol

How long did it take you do build this?
Apparently the breach was in their HTML code? Shouldn't this logic be server-size? If I were a MOZ user, I'd be very concerned. Per their comments at http://devblog.moz.com/2013/06/how-we-fixed-a-password-expos...
"Yes, we are talking about the HTML source code."
I initially thought this was a DOZ lawsuit related retribution.
Loved this article. There's so much doom and gloom out there, and yeah, there's plenty more we could be doing and need to fix. That said, it's nice to stop every now and then and realize what's really going on here: we're living in the god damn golden age.
Essentially yes. As with the shuffle-and-cut example the server can constrain the possible choices.

However this seems to be an impractical as this requires an astronomical amount of effort - the server would need to run through all 2^32 shuffles from the deck they pick just to see if that deck was favourable. This would be exceedingly rare, so a vast number of shuffles must be tested in this manner.
Yet another job post with zero information when "Whoishiring" clearly states "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO."
The rest of the food world would call this a 'recipe', rather than 'open source food'.
If my face was more concerned about the media I attached my work to than my work itself, I would definitely cut off my nose to spite it. FUCK YOU, FACE!
Despite the commonly-held belief that eating eggs is an ethical alternative to meat, nothing could be farther from the truth. The stress of being treated as egg-laying machines causes hens to peck at themselves and others, ripping out feathers and eyes, a behavior that is unheard of in chickens raised outside of captivity. To prevent injury, most hens have their beaks are sliced off by a hot blade and without anesthetic. After laying about 300 eggs, her bones leached of calcium and often unable to walk, an egg-laying hen is killed for her flesh just a year after she is born.

For the more than 100 million male chicks every year, the day they hatch will be the last day of their lives. Unable to lay eggs and too small be sold as broiler chickens, male chicks have no commercial value and are gassed or ground alive at just one day old. Tragically this is a reality across all egg production; cage free or “humane” eggs are no different. The killing of male chicks and eventual slaughter of “spent” hens are standard industry practice and can only be avoided by rejecting eggs entirely.
In no way is GPA the only dimension on which we evaluate candidates. The discussion arose when we asked if it was useful at all. And I agree with my colleague, it is indeed useful in predicting self control and persistance.

I do however agree with you about the last comment. If there were not already replies, I would edit it to make the point in another way. But the intention is still the same. The time not being spent on homework, in the case of the article, is being spent on entertainment.
Accident? C did exactly what it was designed to do; allow UNIX to spread to other architectures.
> I was merely disagreeing with the parent's assertion that Singapore has some form of enlightened government that doesn't trample on personal freedoms, and treats its citizens with respect.

I made no such assertion. But perhaps you should enlighten yourself on exactly what personal freedoms are being trampled upon here, and how exactly Singapore's citizens are being disrespected. You just made a bullshit statement that you can get caned for littering in Singapore. What else of your opinion of Singapore is based on similar ignorance?

Next you are going to tell me chewing gum is banned in Singapore (gasp!). And I'm going to quote you something random from http://itthing.com/100-weird-laws-from-around-the-world (let's go with "In Indiana, it’s against the law to dress ‘Barbie’ in ‘Ken’s’ clothes" this time)
What do you mean by a "large state"? Measured in government expenditure as part of GDP there are big variations between countries. (Incidentally, Singapore has one of the smallest states around.)
I always like Tim on the show, but he did seem so much more reckless than many of the other "Chasers"
Strange moods are dangerous. I hope nobody's life was taken during the process...
Cyrano de Bergerac for furries?
A lot of ethicists draw the line at either sentience (not sapience) or the ability to suffer, usually defined as the presence of a central nervous system. Bacteria fails to pass these tests.
> They've managed to leave more trees intact than central Istanbul too. :)

Last time I was in Turkey, they had a huge greenery programme going on in Anatolia (i.e. I saw it in Ankara and surroundings). Interesting, that Istanbul had its tree cover reduced.
> At least attempt some research

And did your research tell you that you can get caned in Singapore for littering?
yes synergy is great. I use it between my windows/Mac setup.
I find it funny how the starting assumption is that one of the smartest technology companies in history is clueless.

Technically the idea sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Wireless networking has the smallest equipment and capital footprint of all networking so it's by far the easiest to deploy in areas that don't have much existing infrastructure. Using free-floating blimps or aerostats seems like one of the simpler ways to put transmitters at sufficient altitude to increase coverage.

Additionally, from a business standpoint it may not seem like there's a lot of money in Africa but that's a very prejudiced sentiment, I think. Many parts of Africa are developing quickly, there is already money to be had there. Moreover, over the coming decades even more of Africa will develop. And by then Google will have the brand recognition, the connections, the good-will, and the operational experience to dominate the market providing services to a market of over a billion people.

Over the next several decades the economies of Africa will grow by trillions of dollars of GDP. With a comparatively modest initial investment Google can gain a foothold into providing services to those economies. This is a very smart strategic move, in my view.
I would hazard a guess that learning might be a practical benefit. Otherwise, as sbierwagen pointed out, no, not really.
Commercially they're used as neutron generators for when you need longer lifetimes than ion-beam neutron generators: http://www.nsd-fusion.com/

A modified version (accelerating electrons instead of fuel ions, using magnetically shielded and actively cooled superconducting accelerator grids) shows some promise for actual power production: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
So I have seen these done multiple times for different MMOs, so what seems to be so special about this one from GTA4? I have played GTA4 and I enjoyed it, just trying to get a gauge about why this seems to be so amazing to some? (I admit, certainly could legitimately be just something I am missing, is there something about the game that makes this complicated?).
Try VMware Fusion instead of Virtualbox, for me it runs way better and is easily worth the premium.
I love all this cool stuff coming out. The gap between what Web Apps and actual Applications can deliver to users is shrinking every few months...
Oh, I know it's eminently playable, because I played it like a fiddle. I did extremely well, while investing the minimum effort required.

My only secret for excelling at school was that my natural interests happened to coincide with the things school expects you to do. So I was intrinsically motivated to do most of them, and whenever intrinsically motivated people compete with extrinsically motivated people, it's hardly a competition at all.

Motivation dominates all other factors in learning. Nothing else comes close. People who want to learn something learn it orders of magnitude faster and more reliably than people who don't really care. Piles of psychological research back this up.

For example, if you actually wait to teach a child arithmetic until he or she expresses a genuine interest, a typical child can master all of elementary school math in about 20 hours of instruction. Reading is similar -- once the fire is lit, with a little phonetic guidance, a typical kid can become a fluent reader in weeks, not months.

So the real art of education becomes inspiring the desire, and then being ready to strike when the iron is hot. School actively thwarts this pattern.

> Second, the point of learning how to play the school system isn't to be good at school. It's to be good at handling systems in general. Different systems, different constraints, but there are meta-lessons to be learned in dealing with any of them.

That kind of general experience is something you get no matter what you're doing, so long as you're interacting with other human beings. The real question is whether school teaches better meta-lessons than other kinds of experience.

In school, all work is simulated. The worst and best possible outcomes are both abstract letters on a piece of paper. Contrast this with something as simple as putting a child in charge of planning a camping trip, and the variety of outcomes they'll experience and learn from. Nothing teaches responsibility like having to explain to your friends that you forgot to pack breakfast.
There's the problem. You're focused on selling skills, rather than works. Selling your labor is going to ensure you stay a wage slave.
Caning doesn't seem worse than prison. Especially not American prisons.
Do you ask people if you can record it before hand? How do they take it, if you do?
Recently the "everyone must be a speaker" drum-roll is getting too loud. Does being a non-speaker at conferences and workshops reduce my technical ability? I think not.

The problem with insisting that "everyone must be a speaker" - all the shy-introverted-yet-technically-good-developers get the short end of the stick and you are left with spin doctors who can promote themselves very well. Sad.
I'm not saying that the effort was wasted. I just wanted to understand if this type of reactor had any direct practical benefits.
So how can we / could we have stopped this patent. Is there an easy online way to submit prior art for patents under consideration? That way all the reviewer has to do is accept the prior art and nuke the application
Display Maid is an awesome tool for automatically rearranging your applications' windows when you move from one display setup to another.
Yes: Winning science fairs.

On a more serious note, I suppose one of these devices could be used as part of an apparatus for doing a novel experiment.
That would look amazing with iCEnhancer on it.
> I'm far more interested in conversations regarding where we are headed, rather than from whence we've came [1].

Interesting, I can think of a number of issues:

1) Rising inequality in the Western World. And the article you pointed out really shows the end result -- robots replacing people. That has been happening with industrialization for a while now. But now robots can build robots and the ones who will have the power will be the ones who will control the robots that build the robot factories. Kind of like meta robotics (I am sure there is a more defined term or concept that I am just not familiar with here). What happens to all the masses then. Robots make us food, do our work for us, and what do the average number of people do? State sponsored welfare? Just get a check every month enough to buy food and shelter and then play video games. There is thought that it actually wouldn't be that bad to have a direct subsidy like that but it would be a complete anathema according to certain other political and economic principles. Resources will be become the final bottleneck? Maybe even with robots we can't grow enough corn.

2) Related to the above there is some notion of "trickle-down" effect. Not related to wealth necessarily but related to technology, where countries can jump from agrarian or tribal life straight to using cell phones. That's pretty interesting. Idealistic perhaps, as I doubt that in an of itself will make a dramatic difference in their quality of life but it is good to keep an eye on that. What happens if even the most poor eventually have access to smart phones? Does it help them put food on the table in the evening?

3) Related to 2) -- information becomes unchained. The real globalization happens when groups of citizens can communicate with each other directly rather than goings through official propaganda and power control channels. Sort of stuff we saw with Arab Spring, now Turkey. This is kind of stuff is really interesting. Apparent stability to a large state of revolt in <24hrs is pretty impressive.

4) Back-pressure starts building from entrenched interests (countries, governments, traditional gatekeepers). The idea that there is citizenship and you can't just move from one part of the world to another unless you are a large multinational corporation, is here now, does it make sense, who does it benefit? The desire to de-anonymize sharing of information. I can see cryptography becoming illegal in many contexts. DRM being shoved into more devices -- on one side yay, more people have access to information!", on another, "oh but they only get locked down controlled, filtered and monitored information coming from a few distribution channel monopolies". Religious, nationalism, fear was/is a very good mass control lever. Maybe that won't work as well going forward? But what will?
The Enterprise Startup Chasm
Pretty barebones, just a wireless mouse (Logitech Performance MX) and headphones. I alternate between sitting at a desk, reclining in a chair, lying on a couch, and standing.
The scanner app for Android is sitting between 50M and 100M installs:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi...

I'm not sure about the experience on other platforms, but that particular app scans so well and easily, it'll often grab the code before you even really begin to purposefully line up the camera. Scanning the little guys has become second nature to me, at least. It is only a pity they aren't used in more novel ways, because seriously, we can do better than having one right next to a 10-character URL that I could type just as easily.

Also, I recall seeing them displayed and used far more often on my last trip to Japan. I'm guessing that many of the phones there must have the scanner installed by default, or the hands-off, self-serve approach is somehow appealing to the 倭-way.
Um, I never look at the cart handle.

However the inside of the back of the cart is flat and in 100% visual range.
loaning (which i think has been retracted?) and selling are against the ToS. Friendly borrowing might not be, as Scoble has shown
I really hope your daughter causes you massive problems when she goes through puberty and rebels. You sir, are an ass.
Hi Hackernewspeople,

This is a blog post for the startup I work for. I'd appreciate any feedback you have on it. Thank you.
No, I think this looks vacuous as well.

I also wonder why claims 14 and 15 appear to repeat claims 12 and 13 verbatim, except for one comma. Does that change the meaning somehow?
I wish I'd figured out earlier that for me taking notes in class is completely useless. Actually, it's worse than that, it's counterproductive. I spent two years of college scrambling to copy down what professors had written on the board 45 seconds before, hoping that some day I'd look at it again and it would make sense. I never did. Finally, I stopped taking notes and started just paying attention to what the professor was saying right then. What a difference. I always knew what was going on and remembered almost all of it. I realize that different people have different learning styles so this doesn't apply to everyone, but good god do I wish I hadn't wasted so much time on note-taking – and even more, I wish I'd just been watching the professors and listening those first two years.
As someone who has used a setup like this for a long period of time (years): don't do it. The chair looks relaxing but it's really a prison, preventing you from stretching or moving your body naturally, making you feel like a paraplegic. Deep vein thrombosis is a risk. Your neck will get stiff. You may develop thoracic outlet syndrome from the imbalance between back and chest muscles (though, to be fair, this can occur with almost any traditional keyboard setup). You will get extremely antsy. And, by always resting your arms on something, you may damage the ulnar nerve at its most exposed point, behind the elbow.

If not medically necessary to use a recliner workstation, I recommend a standing desk, preferably with a split keyboard which allows you to type with your hands at your sides.
I don't know what a pure continuation is so I'll have to do a bit of studying to find out what I have. I'll let you know when I have an answer. You've really gotten my curiosity up now.

I don't know how long discussions work on old HN items. If we get cut off I'll continue the discussion on the FJS github issues page.
guy I hate to say it - but is is either school or other talents. you can't half ass both and get away with it. it is either C student and entrepreneur-facilitating, marketable outside talents or A student and no-little outside talents. B student and mediocre outside talents will lead to mediocracy and failure. so decide which you want to encourage. i would go for outside talents but you better make damn sure your son has the right tutor, influences, and environment to hone his natural inclinations outside the traditional academic system.
How hard is it to put a flat surface on the shopping cart? Why is the cart handle the best place to put the QR code? I am pretty sure the method will come in handy, and the way the solution is presented is awesome though.
Yep, that's asinine.
I actually don't like using extra monitors, keyboards, or a mouse. I just use my 13" Macbook Air with basic headphones. I find that I'm most comfortable when I'm mobile and minimalist.
Because that takes time and effort and this is relatively new.
Is the "poverty" line not a moving target? i.e.: isn't $1.25 and abitrary snapshot in time? As any nation starts up the curve of development, people will make more, as the line simultaneously moves up. To put it another way - more people may make more than $x.x dollars per d/m/y --- but are they individually any better off? And is the society any better off for all of its "development?"
It's an excellent platform for learning about high voltage components, deep vacuums, particle physics, and monitoring and control systems.
2013 Darwin Awards nominee?
Does canada have the equivalent of H1B/Green card for work sponsorship? What do you think of that?
What other games do this? I didn't know there are others that have interactive maps.
Newsy Social Networks
Do we have evidence of that? At the moment it seems like we are still very early in the process of understanding non-human language.
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I live very near the path of this tornado. This was the first time in several years that I've actually sought shelter underground.

This tornado, while not as severe as the one that struck Moore on May 20, took a rare "left-hand" turn and caught several media vehicles by surprise.
Emacs has been ported(I run it normally and haven't witnessed any issues) to GNU Guile. I assume that you could extend emacs with scheme, javascript, and soon lua.

Go have fun.
I have a 15 inch Macbook Pro mounted on a BookArc stand [1]. I use an Ergotron LX monitor mount [2] for a cheap 27 inch Iiyama monitor, though I do want to upgrade to a Thunderbold cinema display.

I use an Apple wireless keyboard, wireless trackpad and a Microsoft mouse. The desk is a generic 150 cm (width) by 50cm (depth) that I picked up online. I like to keep my work surface clutter and cable free. The Ergotron desk mount has been my best investment.

I use a Herman Miller SAYL chair. I think it is overpriced for what it is, but it is very very comfortable.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-South-12-1105-BookArc-MacBook/d...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Ergotron-Desk-Mount-Tall-45-295-026/dp...
Loaning is permitted: https://support.google.com/glass/answer/3064131?hl=en&re...
For my 2012 MBA I use a BookArc[1] as my stand, Thunderbolt Display as my external monitor, and Apple wireless keyboard + trackpad for input.

[1] http://twelvesouth.com/products/BookArc_for_Air/
> the basic you should memorize, because you will use them over and over again

But that's a self-solving problem. Anything you truly use over and over again will become readily memorized. And people are demonstrably good at memorizing that kind of information.

My issue is with memorizing things that the learner has no intrinsic motivation to memorize.
Recklessness disguised as infotainment.
Show HN: UniBurb - Application to help international students
These days many users of vim tend to use many plugins making it in some ways a lot like emacs. Also emacs isn't particularly inefficient on modern machines other then problems with the ui and single threading which I believe vim shares.
Missed:

* recessed bike pedals for bio-track daily workouts - with Elon/Tesla Model S door handles' silent smoothie pop-out excellence, heels proxemic toggle activation

* Apache served not evil Microsoft and their horrible `8' debacle

* fully gimbled dynamically leveling as pilot station on bot 45 ft aero-rig sailing sloop

* Spherical silent sliding anechoic `Dome of Silence'

* evac fans venting Cavendish fumes to window/chimney

* smart coffee maker, fridge, microwave, etc.. reachable within sphere's radius

* AI-bot to design and construct sentimental Cornell boxes to amuse in hitting-the-wall coding lulls

* a dangling propane e-switch torch to fire filled and packed Custombilt(tm) briar bowls

* coffee cup hot-plate

* Organically grown like that giant alien's observatory chair/bed in the first Aliens film
Hm, I saw the opposite. Mainly every time there was poor reception it was due to overloaded cells.

TurkCell installed mobile repeaters in Taksim square yesterday. Even in the most heated of confrontions I still had cell, data and voice reception.
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