skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention how easy it is to forget the historical track record of science being overturned by better science: http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/
Silence really doesn't imply anything except that the responsible parties are busy fixing things and that there may not be hands free/allocated to communicate with the outside world.

IMO not communicating with the outside world is a fail, but I've seen delays in this when small teams suddenly get swamped.
Pretty well done game. Challenge mode is an interesting new gameplay mode where you try to guess the location in the least amount of tries. I wonder what the breakdown is between people who play Classic vs. Challenge mode.
1) Dead.

2) Alive.

3) Somewhere in between.
Didn't mean to offend you guy.

As a rule, whenever I accidentally up or down vote someone, I leave a message explaining the mistake and my reasoning. Doesn't happen often... but I always thought of it as a courtesy. Again... no offense was intended.

On the question of math topics not adding anything to the discussion. Well, we'll need to agree to disagree. The point was that Calculus... is NOT an easy subject to learn. And you get a sense of how esoteric it seems to an initiate by looking at the topics it encompasses.

Finally, try to relax a little man... no need to get snippy on HN. We should be able to have a discussion on a, relatively uncontroversial topic, without getting emotional.
I will open this issue and solve ASAP. thanks for reporting.
I find it curious no apple rep is here, commenting on this post.
Did you read the article to the end? It addresses this point.
>XBox 360 at least had a GPU that was 2x stronger than the PS3 GPU

Eh? Where are you getting that? The Xbox 360 Xenos GPU was based on ATI's R520 and the PS3's RSX was based on Nvidia's G70 architecture. They were roughly equivalent to each company's flagship Radeon X1800 and GeForce 7800 lines at the time.

The real design win for the 360 was a shared memory pool instead of a split CPU/GPU memory architecture, but I've never seen anything to suggest that the 360 had a GPU anywhere near "2x stronger."
Much of the value of Tumblr was its huge stash of amateur porn (and Yahoo overpaid for even that). And the first thing they do is gut it? Oh wow, Marissa could not have failed harder on this decision.
Sometimes I think Microsoft has an even bigger reality distortion field than Apple.
I simply have to disagree. I've only met two teachers I didn't think were dipshits and that's over the course of a B.S. in bioengineering, a masters in CS, and a trip through an MD/PhD program. These are all at top ranked schools, too. These people may have been smart, but they certainly weren't quality instructors. In my opinion, teaching should be something people do when they retire for fun. The two non-dipshits were doing exactly that.

Students should absolutely be able to pick it up on their own, but most classes use crappy textbooks and the teachers recite from the crappy textbooks. Stewart's Calculus is used by a ton of schools and that book is utter garbage. The guy is using it as a way to print money, which is fine, but you'd think after 10 versions, he'd eventually get things right.
Yes I have a roadmap for new apps.

Poll, Recipes, Feedcrawling, Social messages and Google Analytics integration. Job posting is also a good idea.
I think it has to do with culture: They don't spend it exactly for the sake of it but because rooms with shiny iMacs that get featured on blogposts like this one are usually the validation of one's investment.

One trend I have noticed a lot in Berlin is money being spend in all sorts of things that are in no way related to the product or service the startup was trying to create - and the few times I dared asked I got the same "they are investing a lot of money on us man, that party should better show it!".
They would lose, you can get vitamin C just fine from either a plant only diet or a meat only diet. Organ meat is a good source of vitamin C, especially liver.
It was an asshole way to put it and I didn't read the comment correctly.

I read it as "I don't feel like looking for a payment provider/method" not "A payment method does not exist." Admittedly, I'm pretty ignorant as to adult site payment methods but it would seem that, for such a massive industry, someone out there is accepting payments, is it really each individual site handling CC info?
That's hilarious. However, my question involves impacting the optical imaging system of Cassini which is many, many orders of magnitude easier than overcoming direct illumination from the Sun. The real issue is the matter of beam dispersion rather than having insufficient power, as an astronaut 10 meters away could easily blind Cassini's optical imaging system using a laser pointer.
What an amazing thing. Google is likely to fail in making Glass successful for a variety of reasons, not the least of which it is a new product in a new space with limited customer experience and high creepiness. So these folks decide to "compete" with that concept?

Technologically heads up micro-displays are a disaster. There has been billions of dollars spent in this space and only millions in revenue. Its a space I've been pretty interested in, (even has a couple of pairs of lame versions) but the problem is so large that even the sub-problems are multi-hundred thousand dollar projects.

I completely understand the desire to run at the problem, but use of indiegogo here? My fear is that crowd funding is this generation of entrepreneurs "dot com bubble."
"An image of a Pandoravirus particle, created using an electron microscope."

An image without a scale it worthless..
581,000,000 for me.
I've always admired Newegg's efforts on that. I should patronize their business more often.
Win32 should be in a nursing home right now awaiting death.

They should have just made a clean break from it. I can't understand why anyone would want to deal with that abomination in this day and age.

And given that it's ARM, you wouldn't be able to run any of your existing apps anyway, without the vendors recompiling (and quite possibly having to update their code in the process).
Love the original web GeoGuessr. Biggest complain about this version - I am stuck in one point and cannot get closer to signs or any landmarks. I might recognize Lombard Street without any additional info, but a random wall in the middle of Mexico has no chance.
You're setting me up for a trap with the list thing - if I linked somewhere you'd simply say it was
racist data and question the validity of the sources.

Instead I'll go for the route of scientific analogy. If dogs have races, why wouldn't humans? After all, humans are not biologically above or separate from animals. Why would basic evolution stop applying with humans?

Mind you, the existence of races doesn't have to imply inferiority or superiority between them. People seem to be afraid that would happen, so they throw the baby out with the bathwater by denying the whole concept of race altogether. Much like the article says.
I remember being confused about what was the difference between fractions and negative numbers. I knew they were both "advanced concepts" but I didn't know if they were the same or how they were related. I asked the teacher, and she said I'd learn later.
Messing with the HSV Hue Spectrum
I am creating a color wheel for a color picker. I am using Hue (as in hue, saturation, value), mapping to angle of pixel, then converting to RGB. Pretty standard so far. I notice secondary and tertiary colors get a lot less real estate than the primaries. I wish I had time to build an algorithm to give these other colors more real estate, but I don't. Does anyone know if an algorithm like this already exists?
I don't really care either -- it's a free service that I'm able to access on pretty much any web-accessible device on the planet. Sometimes maintaining a service like that requires a way to pay the bills (FastMail is a paid service.)

Why would I be 'uncomfortable' with ads? Sometimes I feel like the issue with ads in Google/other services falls victim to the 'Nickelback Effect', where a few other very vocal people hate the subject at hand and it spreads virally to the point where people can't describe why they hated the subject in the first place.
Yes, I'm sure some of your best friends are gay people. [rolls eyes]
If the definition of marriage had never changed from biblical times, polygamy would still be legal.

If the definition of marriage had never changed from the 19th century, married women owning separate property wouldn't be legal.

If the definition of marriage hadn't changed from what is one in any particular time and place in the past leading up to modern marriage laws, either much broader or much narrower restrictions on consanguinity would exist.

Marriage laws change all the time, and understanding of the relationships underlying marriage on which those laws are based also change all the time. Sure, same-sex marriage is a change -- but lots of other things that we consider fairly firmly entrenched in our idea of marriages were themselves changes, some fairly recent, to pre-existing models of marriage. The whole idea that there is some single "traditional" model of marriage that has been static for an extended period of time and which is now threatened by same-sex marriage is ludicrous.
How one girl hunted down Matt Damon
Culled from a friend's posting. A "great and funny story about how you get things done overseas, but also highlights the crazy things that happen at an Embassy."
This is a bit meta, but the "fractions" thing cracks me up. There should be a Godwin's law for it... The probability of a story about public education mentioning "fractions" approaches 1.

Why are fractions a thing? Sure, the rationals are distinct from the integers and reals, but... Does everyone except me have PTSD from learning fractions or something? Why are they more important than any other math topic, subject, or aspect of education? By golly, if we could just figure out how to teach fractions, we'd have a bona fide education system.

I think I started noticing it after this Onion piece (NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btw1eh4mitQ
Well, the market and the customers don't seem to agree on all of this:

The market share of Windows Phone 8 is extremely small and doesn't seem to pick up.

The PC market is shrinking extremely and many analysts now point to Windows 8 as one of the reasons behind that. You can point to a 10 minute learning curve and while I agree that the new Windows interface is not hard to learn I still think it's an extremely bad user experience. The standard apps are just so incredibly bad (e.g. the mail app, the photo app, the video app, even the store itself) that I'm not using them at all. I spend 99.9% of my time on the old Windows desktop.

The market share of the Surface again is extremely small and I don't see any indications of it growing.

I totally agree that competition is good for the customer (and might potentially be bad for competitors), but so far that doesn't help Microsoft.
NASA's ANTS: a swarm of 1000 tiny spacecraft to explore asteroid belt
Why was this idea apparently abandoned?
http://attic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ants/pam.html
Thank you! I wasn't aware of this.

It would be good if they went further and pardoned people.
I believe that one shouldn't try to debate an idea until you can understand why a reasonable person might come to the opposing conclusion. Solves the empathy problem and "what if I'm wrong" problem in one stroke. Many people are incorrect, but few are actually crazy (and it is mostly pointless to debate those who are).
Even in this position, or maybe especially in this position, I think it is downright harmful to suggest that there are books every student should read, like there is some canonical set of books that will make a great researcher of you and the world would become a better place if everyone would read the same set. I shared this view for a good while and I deeply regret it, you should instead focus on your problem domain and on problem solving, choose your lectures independently, don't get too bound or too concerned about books in general, and stay deeply critical of anything you read - e.g. you should deliberately look for holes even in the most praised works instead of admiring them blindly. That's the way you can progress and not just keep copying what others have done. And it is very good that not everyone has to and not everyone does read the same books.

In the end it is not about the fucking books anyway.
Persecution complex, much?
Correct. The entire cloud, aka internet, is down. The only reason you can access Google and Amazon is because of the latent electricity in their data centers' cabling. It's just a matter of time before they go dark too. Good luck.
Whenever I read about findings like this, I'm reminded of just how much our requirement that microbes need to grow on a piece of glass distorts our view of them. If we could observe them as easily as animals in the wild, that would open whole new avenues of research.
Lately my group of friends have been discussing the most underhanded ways to get PAE's to bugger off. Nothing serious, but it's interesting to think about how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to.

It kinda surprises me that none of these extortion cases have escalated to that sort of thing. When someone puts 5-10 years of sweat, blood and tears into a company, it would surprise me if there wasn't a single example in the country where one of those entrepreneurs reacted violently to this kind of extortion racket.
>You are the one who is glad that I'm a "dying breed", so I would say you're the bigot.

Ah, the old "tolerance means accepting intolerance" card. Nope, totally haven't heard that tired old fallacy from the far right ever before.

>Also, if you want to talk about literally being a dying breed, I would think homosexuals who do not have children fit that definition better.

Irrelevant. If your grounds for opposing marriage equality are on purely biological grounds, you must also oppose all forms of birth control and support compulsory reproduction for married couples.

I had a more conciliatory message here a moment ago. I'm just now noticing that you're not even bothering to respond to the messages that completely disprove your points (i.e. "traditional marriage" is a nebulous term that means whatever its speaker is advocating for), so it is my full belief that you are just a troll.
My Grandma Can Code Circles Around Your Dudebro
Pickpockets rely on being able to slip things out of your pocket without being detected. The rubber band makes a slick leather wallet stickier and won't slide out easily.

A determined pick can probably still get it, but it will make the removal of the wallet slightly more noticeable.
>How can you possibly say it's 'not scientific' when it's entirely scientific. The responses to climate change are political, but the topic itself is minimally political.

The topic becomes political the moment it has political ramifications. The bigger those ramifications are, the more of a political topic it is.

The parent knows it is a scientific topic, but when it's brought up, it's likely not. When it's argued, it's likely being argued by people who arn't looking at evidence, but looking at effect.
The changes are why I left, mainly the realisation that the adverts matched things I was typing (duh..), but also the hard sell attempts to get more data - phone number, location, Google+. Interface changes compounded my dislike.
Edit for typo.
A straight person has the same rights as a homosexual person. They can both get married. That's equal protection under the law. What you want to do is change the definition of marriage, which I think is like missing a soccer goal but arguing to move the goal posts to make you win. Make a new word for gay marriage if you want - but leave the definition of marriage alone as changing it would break a lot of legacy code.
Well, apply the standard Apple social introversion: it's down, they're telling you it's down and will be for a while, it will be back up as soon as they can fix it, what exactly is wrong isn't your problem, when it's back up you'll know and it won't matter what happened so long as it gets up and stays up.
Yup, it was adapted from geoguessr.com, and I'm trying to extend the concept by adding different game modes and in-game hints

In reply to your questions:
1. What do you mean by similarity measure? Currently, the scoring is just done on a tiered basis on geographic distance, though that scale might be worth adjusting

2. Currently, it uses a webview to show the street view, and moving around is disabled because that tended to crash the app. However, now that Google just added street view to its iOS maps api, I'm planning to integrate that

3. Yes, all of those things you listed can help determine where a landscape is. I haven't thought about formally classifying those features, though it could be something worth exploring

Thanks for the feedback! Will reach out to you if I figure out a way you can help with this!
Bringing Minority Girl Voices To Silicon Valley
I'm not sure if it's my imagination, but the shading seems to have gotten a lot lighter. It used to be quite clear what was a search ad and what was a result, but now you have to look closely.
Very relevant xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/1217/
Given that Lee Cheng is looking for additional cases perhaps he could step in for these guys? (Lee I know you're reading :-) is there any legal mechanism to do this?)
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Also: Corporate customers don't like backdoors in their software. Expect more sinking.
> Whenever someone is phenomenally successful, whether it’s Rowling as an author, Bob Dylan as a musician or Steve Jobs as an innovator, we can’t help but conclude that there is something uniquely qualifying about them, something akin to “genius,” that makes their successes all but inevitable.

More people should read "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman; it really breaks down how this and many similar biases work and gives suggestions on how to overcome them (althought he's brutally honest in saying that we'll probably keep being tricked by them anyway).
I think you are right. The founder thinks: "If I don't spend all their money, they will think I raised more money that I needed, which is probably true, but they don't have to know."

While the investors think: "If they don't spend all our money I will think they are lowing the chances that this investment will pay back, so they better spend it all".
Why we don't believe in science?

Besides the illegitimate reasons, also because science is not some magic oracle but a process.

A process that can be (and HAS been) falsified for profit, fame, ideology or current fads.

A process which one can selectively take parts from, to push further agendas.

A process which lots of times, even in it's purest and well-intended form, arrives at bullshit conclusions (like lobotomy, the cures for homosexuality, thalidomide, etc).

And it gets worse: a lot of things that are political and ideological in nature are also considered sciences (History, Sociology, Economics, etc). Things which are not even close to "black/white" as hard sciences are.

One should not "believe" in science. One should EXAMINE and VERIFY science, with the scientific method (which in itself is mostly: systematic experimentation).

Merely "believing" or "trusting" science is no better than mediaval people trusting the priests of yore.
Though multitasking and VMs on the AGC were a feat, that's not what amazes me. The IBM 360 demonstrated that both were possible at the time, and the AGC impressively did it on less hardware. What does amaze me is how long it took such things to come to the personal computer, and arguably how much DOS/early Windows held things back. Unix, with its multitasking, ran on PCs and Macs in the 80s, so we only waited 20 years after the 360 (and 15 after the AGC) for multitasking. But usable VMs didn't come (or at least weren't commonplace) until, what, mid-90s? 30 years after the 360, and 25 after the minimal AGC? What the heck took so long?
So here's the secret you should learn by your 20s, but some people never do: human beings are wonderful at rationalizing. Most of the time they do not know they are doing this.

There is a bedrock falsehood that somehow wrapping the word "science" around something prevents it from this problem. It does not. Science history has taught us that for the most part, the social part of science works just like the social part of any other industry: there are cool people, there are weirdos, there's folks who have amazing ideas, there are fads, there are things the group feels strongly about, and so on. In other words, scientists, like all of us, operate in clans and herds. (Their herds just have much better names!)

Pay attention: I am not trying to trash the entire field of science. Far from it. Science is the light we have in the darkness. It's mankind's only hope. But what I'm trying to show is that reading articles like "the science of why we don't believe in science" is bullshit. In it, the writer will just put his own misconceptions, or popular opinion, in the place of what is right and show the various ways people do not agree with him and how they are broken. The subtext is clear: we, the cognoscenti, know the truth. It's those poor other rubes that aren't getting it.

I've long said I do not know what the climate is going to do. Looking at some of the models' performance and the lack of any other planet-sized biological systems to study, I have my doubts that others do either, but that's just my own bias. What I can say is that the discussion around climate science is full of horse shit so deep that you'd need an excavator working 24/7 for a year to dig your way out. It has become politicized, and scientists have crossed the line between telling us what is and telling us what we should do.

This politicization of science is not good for politics or for science, because Average Joe Sixpack is going to start lumping in all information he receives under the rubric "science" as being suspect. He doesn't have the time nor inclination to sort out the different types of proofs we have for Newtonian physics versus evolutionary psychology. To him, it's all just "science". And when one of these sciences promotes something that later on turns out to be highly-opinionated BS, it hurts the entire field. It's bad enough when journalists do this with poor science stories, but when scientists themselves start playing the game of "who's right and who's wrong" in the world, it destroys the very thing they're supposed to be promoting. Very bad.

So when I read articles about how one political party has differently-organized brains than the other one, or about various forms of cognitive bias influencing politics, or how denialism and being a crank has a scientific basis, I wince. This is not helpful. Please stop. You are not the scientific, reasonable-minded judge of rationality you think you are. None of us are. If you absolutely must say something, make the general point and move on. Otherwise you are creating the very problem that you say you are just trying to point out.
You know, there's something I've been thinking about in relation to people like you. As part of my job, from time to time I'm asked to look at resumes of people fresh out of college (for software engineering jobs), and sometimes they'll list extra-cirricular activities like band or whatever, and I've lately seen resumes where the candidate explicitly and proudly lists gay-and-lesbian related advocacy groups.

I've never seen a resume where the candidate listed anti-gay or anti-gay marriage advocacy groups.

So I wonder, if you were involved in such a group, say, the Prop 8 group in California, would you advertise that fact?

If not, why not?
By the same idiotic line of reasoning, there should hardly be any infertile people alive at all! Oh, wait...
I agree completely. But this is a tactic mainly used by the other side of the debate. Homosexual groups often fly under the banner of tolerance (literally, their flag is an inclusive rainbow of colors).