skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear about your app failing. However, a link to the app on iTunes in your post might help a bit :)

I would love to hear/read what your thoughts on your user acquisition strategy. Did you get it reviewed by sites? Was there anything built in to share the game (not multi-playing features, but a way to get others/friends to play)?
I can't imagine any form of sacrifice-worship more severe than Christianity, which has generally ruled the west for 1700 years.

That said, many Westerners are much better than the central theme of their religion. I can't really speak for eastern cultures. You may be right.
We have a culture that glorifies sacrifice because sacrifice deserves a good reputation in general. The source may be religious. To quote a religious source, "Great love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Whether it's a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to protect his fellow men in service, my poor immigrant aunt forgoing university to work right away so that all of her poor immigrant younger siblings would be able to afford to go to university, or a kid using his allowance to donate to charities that help kids in wartorn nations instead of buying himself a new toy, sacrifice is laudable.

And sacrifice does not necessitate misery. That's a false definition of what sacrifice entails. Yes, sacrifice can involve misery, but it does not necessitate misery. Many who sacrifice do it because it is meaningful and they have no bitterness from doing it. My aunt regrets never going to university. But she would make the same decision again in a heartbeat.

Sacrifice is glorified for a reason. In the example of the soldier, it is because of bravery and courage. In the case of my aunt, it is because of responsibility. In the case of the kid, it is because of warmheartedness. In all three cases, you could say it traces all back to a deep sense of love and wanting to do what's right. And there is nothing wrong with that at all.
Representational art was valuable in those days, worth spending time on, because they didn't have Internet, TV, movies, photography, magazines, etc. 3D representation of objects on a 2D surface was still a new, challenging concept. Those Renaissance painters aimed to reach Joe Sixpack who was illiterate. Representational art wasn't meant to be that challenging. No surprise Average Joe still nods his head in approval: "No way my 6-year-old could do that." Most people today when they see art they think two things: "How much time did that take?" and "Could my six-year-old do that?" That's the sad reality. There's still hope for humanity but I'm just putting this into perspective for you ;-) Some of those Renaissance artists snuck in advanced shape science, carefully modulated colors, but most people could care less, besides the few artists who reached that level too. If Rubens painted Crucifixions today, they'd be dismissed as simplistic, unchallenging, old-fashioned, trivial. As far as the future of art, in my opinion it isn't so literal--it's more imaginative, not limited by the laws of physics, instead pushes the limits of comprehension. All the language we have now had to be invented at some point. The drug of the artist is that invention, to be in the creative moment of discovery. Doing something new. Knowledge keeps expanding regardless what museum goers think. Just the concept of "perspective" was challenging at some point. Today's art viewer just has different, more advanced challenges. That said, I wouldn't defend most modern/contemporary art.
I completely agree. The, by far, most useful course I took in high school was English literature. Far more useful than any math or science class, despite going on to study physics and getting a degree in maths.
Wow, if he likes the corn tasting steaks from usa... I'm sorry for the cows in Europe.
Yes -- people these days can live more or less indefinitely with HIV, given a good antiretroviral regiment. Not so with leukaemia. As horrible as it is to say, that's a trade I'd make in a second, if it were me.

(Days ago, my friends lost their six-year-old daughter -- who looked very much like Emma in the video -- to leukaemia. So I'm very much in one of those "fuck cancer" rages right now...)
Ghost Producing: What the EDM Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
You can't cancel something (using sound) that has origins in a deeper area of the hearing system (usually the nerves or the brain)
What advice would you give Tech Entrepreneurs in Iraq?
There may be something to that, but it's kind of unrelated to the article. The article claims to be about sacrifice, but it's actually about pursuing happiness.

And his lesson in pursuing happiness is pretty universal: Be willing to make very big life changes in the pursuit of happiness, and supposed "obligations" to others are never significant enough to sacrifice your happiness to.

P.S. In anticipation of a potential criticism of this, no, having children is not a "sacrifice." Do it because it makes you happy to do it. If it's a sacrifice, you're doing it wrong.
Excellent post, but:

> This according to him offers a solid indication that life originated in water.

Huh? Why assume that eye designs should have evolved underwater then remained unchanged for the hundreds of millions of years that life has been on land? Eyes have actually re-evolved independently several times (IIRC).
Slavery - full sail on!
>> Everybody talks to everybody, people are very friendly to each other...

> Dont get me wrong I like NYC but you cant spend much time in Manhattan and continue to hold this belief.

Eh?! I think people in Manhattan are very friendly, probably more so than any other American city I've been to.

They're also often extremely blunt, of course, and won't hesitate to tell you if they think you're full of it, and if they're busy, well, they'll tell you that too, but in general New Yorkers seem quite outgoing and social. I've never talked to so many strangers in so many settings in such a short time as I have when visiting Manhattan. This was true everywhere, on the street, in cafes, in restaurants, on the phone (receptionist offers her opinion), waiting for the subway, on the subway, ...

I found the combination of bluntness and sociability pretty refreshing, especially compared to the constant "plastic smile" one finds in many other cities.

[A favorite incident: walking down the street in Manhattan on a hot summer's night, talking with my GF about a book I read. She reacts strongly (it was a scary scene)... two girls walking the other way jump in out of the blue: "Yo, what's up, what's wrong?!" ... "It's this book I read, she got scared" ... "What happened in it?" ... <describe scene> ... [girl 1:] "is that it?" [girl 2:] "No, no, actually that was kinda scary... what was that author's name? Have you read <other book>??" <etc etc>]
Is $150 considered cheap in the US? I only ask as I had my iPhone4S screen repaired for just under £30 here in the UK by a local electronics shop and the quality was outstanding.
It seems like he might have solved his problem twice. I have a friend who's a serious dog person, and having a significant other who gets home several hours before he does has helped his dog to be happy. Perhaps Lisa also has an easier schedule than dsowers would have if he continued being a chemist.
Ooh, thanks. I didn't know about this one.
> There's also Bittorrent Sync, but it's completely locked down.

This really surprised me; for some reason, I assumed it was open source. Since the storage is entirely peer-to-peer, I wonder what their business model is?
Apparently an English Major enables you to fill an entire page without providing any arguments at all. That's definitely a useful skill.
As a network engineer, I always knew when skype was misbehaving because those users always came up to me and complained. They complained because our corporate firewalls blocked them for using thousands and thousands of TCP connections when they became supernodes.

They asked "how do we fix this" and sadly the answer was generally (if you were on a mac), you don't, just shutdown your client when you're not using it and it won't become a supernode. It wouldn't really have been a big deal if it was 5-10 connections, but it wasn't so it became a problem.

I assume eliminating the crypto has to do with eliminating overhead, but it could have to do with DPI and making it more firewall friendly.
Facebook, With a Focus on Mobile, Works on Project for News Via Users
Creating HN was just an excuse to prototype a web app in Arc. It's really an effort towards http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html.
Can't apple just add some more DRM into the screen, which would then allow apple to simply take over the market that Forsythe have built up?
Don't want your mug shot online? Then pay up, say site operators
> Open the window and hold your hands on the wheel and dashboard?

Yeah, they teach you to do that, and if you don't, normally the cop will tell you to do something like that next time you get pulled over.

I think it's a good system. The cop doesn't know if you have a gun. The chance is probably 1 in 1,000 or less, but still kinda scary.

As a sidenote, America is in many ways more like a 3rd world country than most of Europe. The bad guys will have guns no matter what [1], and it's much safer for us all if the good guys have guns, too.

[1] Well, we could change this in a few decades if we ended the drug war and eradicated endemic poverty. But the government is too busy spying on us and planning to invade Syria, to think about making other changes.
Just for checking: git-annex doesn't actually check the files into the git repository, so whether the file is small or large is irrelevant to it. Git is only used to keep track of the filenames and their locations.
Who knows. It's completely opaque to me. I just don't want to be left high-and-dry if the maintainers decide to abandon the project. Plus, I want to be able to tinker, of course. :-)

[EDIT] This was all I could find.[1] Which isn't much.

[1] - http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/8816-will-syncapp-be-open-...
> Would you like fries with that?

This was a snide remark about education as emotional entertainment, a bourgeois pleasure if there ever was one.

Alternatively, it was about some claim that English majors are likely to be employed at fast food establishments.

Alternatively alternatively, it was about the fast food nature of the life experience gained in an English course.

Any other interpretations?
I don't have to look back very far. I can be disgusted in the afternoon by code I wrote in the morning.
The bit about having to overcome feelings of guilt about disappointing your advisor in order to live the right life for you really resonated with me. Taking the long-term view to make the right short-term life choices is something that many of my unhappy colleagues still toiling on their doctorates would benefit from. We PhD dropouts have decades of experience meeting and exceeding the expectations of others by the time we reach graduate school, so it feels like a radical step to finally place our own needs and desires above the need for validation from others in our lives.
No, it would be like the field forcing sheep to leave at a constant rate during the night so that it was very close to empty by (but not before) morning.
HTML5 2FA pin pad UI eradicates usr/pswd
*...support the idea that a large proportion of STEM students become rather self-satisfied in their fields' relative importance, while more-or-less mocking the humanities as useless fluff. I've not observed the converse to be true--at least not up until the Ph.D. levels..."

Regarding the attitudes of STEM students, you seem to take for granted that they're wrong about the relative importance of those fields. That isn't at all obvious to me.
Makes sense. Facebook's leadership publicized belief is that privacy is outdated. NSA's position is the same, only they have more tools to make it so.
"most of my time I had spent in California, therefore I will relate all my conclusions to it."
Many houses in the Bay Area are about as well insulated as a wooden shed, frankly. People seem comfortable to let it get 50° inside.
Not a hidden feature - but what confuses some of my family members is that if they install an app in OS X, they click on a downloaded dmg (or it auto-opens), and they get this Finder window opening, without "Applications" visible.

Initially they just ran the application like this, as if it was installed.

However, I've explained that it needs to be moved to "Applications". This is difficult, seeing that if one clicks on Finder again, it doesn't bring up a new window.

I tell them to do File->New Finder Window, but I wish there was a more elegant solution to this.
Paysey - The BitCoin Debit Card as Kim Dotcom wanted to make
It's even more important to reflect on how bad your code _is_.
"100-level English classes were about punctuation and grammar"

They are--which is, luckily, one of many reasons I placed out of them.

"A good professor wants to teach you that Frankenstein is an allegory for the Industrial Revolution, or the creation of Man; a great professor knows the conversation that Shelley had with Chaucer and Milton and everyone in between..."

Or they could write a book and you could read it for free at the library, or online. Why limit knowledge to people who have $50,000/year to blow on college? Not everyone is rich and upper class. Can only people from well off families become "properly" educated? I've met a lot of educated people from all walks of life, and all levels of education. To me, at least, intelligence and a drive to learn are far greater indicators of someone's likely degree of sophistication than how much their parents spent on their four year vacation to some over priced campus.

Well taught classes are a nice idea, but most people will never have access to a good teacher, much less a good classroom environment. I've had good teachers but a ruined class experiment by sufficiently unprepared or even just unintelligent classmates.

There's nothing magical about college. You can do just as well with finding informed and (likely more enthused, even) peers at a open access book club, if not the often maligned internet forums dedicated to literature.

I've seen too many english and other writing intensive liberal arts majors graduate without knowing the difference between your and you're, its and it's, to really have any respect for the degree. Oddly, my scientist friends have few problems with attention to detail and understanding basic syntax, despite not spending four years on mastering the subject. I suspect this is because they already mastered it in high school, if not earlier, much like myself.

If you have to go to college to learn, you're doing it wrong. (And these days--also very expensively.)
DataNitro - automating sales reports
Evidence shows the solar panels are important: He doubled the number of solar panels in November after the initial panels weren't enough to power the RPi in the winter. http://pi.qcontinuum.com/failure2.html (The graph also shows the voltage dip below 10V in Nov, probably representing that failure, though it's hard to see the details in the "last year" graph.)

Maybe they could be pointed towards the sun more efficiently, or been a more expensive & efficient model - but the story says why he chose his porch and cheap solar panels.
Contempt of court is a potentially infinite jail sentence; hardly trivial
I love that little feature. The bad thing about it is that it doesn't work where I want it the most: The darkest backlight level is still the same. (It lets you set it to 1/4, but it's still the same as 1)
Thanks for the reply. On a side note: Most Europeans are (tough to be) very afraid of guns. They're not allowed to own guns (except for very heavily regulated guns for hunting and sports). Even carrying a pocket-knife downtown is against the law, as is defending yourself with something like a baseball bat against burglars at night in your own house. ('Excessive force').
That's the wonderful and horrible thing about the US. There are a myriad of high risk high reward options like credit cards and student debt. For some people they pay off, for others they end up drowning in debt. There are some wonderful success stories and some terrifying stories of lives reduced to abject poverty.
I have the exact same thing which started about half a year ago in a moment of panic. Since then i have seen countless doctors and nobody found anything. But it still impacting my vision and i had some anxiety issues from it in the beginning because in some moments where its worse (in the dark) i was getting some kind of panic from it. It was really freaking me out but i have learned to life with it like my tinnitus as nobody seems to have an explanation other than psychological issues.

For me its like constant tv-like static that is mostly transparent but makes the outlines of everything slightly blurry. Ranges from almost not visible in good natural lighting conditions to very visible flicker in dark enviroments or places with lots of artifical light sources.

Never did any illegal drugs, dont smoke, dont drink alot of alcohol and workout regularly. Brain scan and everything was OK.

It started after 2 years of psychologically very taxing situations like a failed startup, failed long-term relationship etc. Dont know if its related to that, but it could...i am fine now and its still there though.

Another reminder to not constanly overwork/overstress yourself, many people dont realize in what ways your soul and body might react that you might not be able to reverse.
Steak is great in Europe it's just expensive.
Australian Tax Office targets Bitcoin
Old art is all popular because the unpopular old art wasn't kept around. Modern art looks unpopular because it hasn't yet been filtered.
@coldarchon - you are hell-banned.
>
> these devices are a lot different: they're running on battery, sometimes on WiFi
> but often on expensive (both in money and battery) 2G or 3G data networks,
> and essentially "off" most of the time.
> On iOS devices, applications are killed and evicted from memory when they attempt
> to do too much background processing or use too much memory.
> On Windows RT and Windows 8 Modern applications, when the application is not in
> the foreground we only get a few seconds of CPU execution time every 15 minutes
> and again, strict memory limitations if we want to stay loaded.
> And when the Skype application is unloaded, it can no longer receive incoming
> calls or IMs, rendering it a lot less useful.
>

This is pretty much why/how all IM clients for iphone/ipad/android work as well.

( i work on verbs.im, we're a team of 4 now, here's a link to our privacy policy http://includetech.co/privacy/verbs)

The server becomes a proxy for your account, and being able to send push notifications.

Your apps become thinner clients needing lesser battery, bandwidth.

Infact we've got a step further, and replaced XMPP/HTTP with MQTT to save even more battery.

( here's a nice article profiling power consumption of MQTT vs HTTP here across wifi/3g: http://stephendnicholas.com/archives/1217 )

That being said, the recent iOS 7 have introduced API's for longer running background apps

~B
unlike the Americans who just drink flavoured water

Or beer that is hopped to up to crazy levels without any consideration for things like flavor balance and finesse.
2FA with an authenticated key agreement interesting. This looks like an open source community to get involved with.
Looking through Project Euler solutions sounds like a great way to learn Mathematica!
I wouldn't worry about people carrying guns in bars... not something I've ever seen happen. I've spent a good deal of time in Oz and the bar brawling culture there is just not something we have here. It happens sometimes, but usually when it looks like something's going to break out a half dozen people spring up and try to diffuse the situation. 98% of the time it never gets past the shouting-of-threats stage. In Oz it always went from zero to bloodspray in short order.
Given how supernodes worked, the NSA might have had as many supernodes as it wanted, with your traffic going through them and you none the wiser. Hence, your argument doesn't stand, really.
Angular was released in 2009, Ember in 2011 (SproutCore in 2010)
Anyone tried this out? Looks intriguing... as does the price
My roommates told me that when I went home to visit family for vacation, my cat apparently sat at the door every day as if she was waiting for me to come back. What am I supposed to say when I hear that? She demonstrates her affection in other ways too. Dang, you get attached so easily. Definitely be prepared to be committed before you get a pet.
Eyeglossa "AR" - Urban personal navigator for Iphone/iPod
Their authentication server seems to work but I wonder how much stronger their crypto is. Has anyone used ECC before for anything different than ssh ?
Very appetizing course notes.

However, I wonder if it isn't too painful in the long run to teach OS programming on a target where you have to flip SD cards every time you compile (as opposed to one of those with a hardware debugger included, like Launchpad or ST Discovery).

When I took Operating Systems (INF242 at Oslo) ten years ago, we wrote an operating system for PCs that booted from floppies, and debugging was largely a matter of poking bytes to 0xB800:0000, which made this course somewhat unpopular with students with little low-level programming experience.
I wonder how strong the elliptic curve crypto implementation is?
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I don't have my oldest code, probably it was in C. a simple calculator. God I am so embarrassed :-)
Thank you for this very interesting explanation. I've tried to get into Mathematica a couple years ago, but struggled. Can you suggest a good way to scale the learning curve?
LOL. That bothered me too. I don't think art is limited, or should be limited, by our humanity. Just because we're physical beings, doesn't mean we're limited by the physical world. I'd argue many artists find the physical world boring, which is why they're drawn to art.
Google Now for Desktop is here?
I turned on my computer this morning and got a desktop notification asking me if I wanted to turn on google now cards. I clicked yes but I'm not sure how to use it. No change on the blank tab or the google.com page.

I use Version 27.0.1453.116 m

I have a background Extension on Chrome so it runs on startup.

Anyone else seeing the same?
Are you kidding? This was an open hearing. He was obligated to lie about issues of national security. Wyden set him up with that question so he could dump this on him later. Wyden already knew the answer since he was on the Senate Intelligence Committee and had long been briefed on these issues.
Europe is pretty diverse too: look at how many languages are spoken there, and how many different cultures there are. Thinking about the US, in some ways, it's pretty strange to consider that people across such a large swath of land speak the same language. Even the regional accents are quite a bit less varied than Italy's dialects and languages.
Same here, this happens every time I open my code.
This is exactly it. Wyden purposely put him in an impossible situation so he could hang him with it later. If Clapper has done his job well in other respects then this incident is irrelevant.
It's an interview with Jon 'maddog' Hall, and the title quote is mangled: it's "where the next Albert Einstein of computer science could come from." Smartphones are a good market for Linux.
Having had several android phones, I can definitely say the gorilla glass 2 on my nexus 4 works and feels a LOT better than any other phone I've used regularly. (I don't like the slick back so much, have a rubber case for that reason)... I've only dropped it once (in a parking lot) and lucky it didn't break.

I have seen plenty of plastic phones break too. I'd rather have something that works better in my hand.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/

is that site.

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