skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought curved or arced monitors (http://www.desktopreview.com/default.asp?newsID=868) would be a really good way of innovating desktop displays, but the price tag is extremely steep right now.
As tablet hardware and software becomes more capable, I would expect to see PC hardware sales drop. There may never be a perfect convergence where, for example, it's possible to develop tablet software on a tablet. But as the use cases increase particularly for content creation, less people need the capability of a full PC.
But, but ... censorship!

Seriously, I have to wonder who is actually enraged by this. If you want to browse for NSFW content, check the box and get on with it. If you want your NSFW posts to be displayed to unsuspecting people... I guess you're out of luck.
I majored in math and had pretty good ACT and SAT scores but I still find Calculus and related math very difficult.

My unscientific observation is that some people find the analytical/continuous parts of math difficult but can still do really well with stuff like abstract algebra, combinatorics, linear algebra, and so forth. Other people (i.e. physics & engineering majors) are the exact opposite.

Then of course there are a select few who are good at both.

My brother is a math teacher and was more of a physics guy and his claim is that people who struggle with calc generally had poor instruction in trigonometry in their youth. I'm not sure how true this could be but I definitely hated my trig instructor the most out of any teacher I've ever had.
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Crazy. Why would they prevent Adult-flagged Tumblrs from being indexed by 3rd-party search engines?

http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/nsfw
Those are now symlinks :)
What's the difference between NSFW and adult?
Except there are 3 categories of blogs: normal, NSFW and Adult. Even if you turn safe mode off, Adult blogs will no longer show up.
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On OSX, CarbonCopyCloner works really well :)
Might be a niche usage, that's true. I don't care about MS Office either, except for OneNote which is great for taking notes with a stylus. I don't do much word processing beyond that, so it's not much use to me. It's certainly your right to be suspicious of anonymous comments, but perhaps your disbelief of any positive coverage for a Microsoft product is more telling of yourself. I use the best solution out there for me, right now that happens to be a Surface Pro. If Apple comes out with an equivalent device not based on iOS, so that I can do real work on it, then I'd consider switching.
Where theres spy theres always counter spy. If ticket giving drones get more widespread it will make economic sense to launch a drone service to monitor the ticket giving drones.
Not really, it's one of the problems (so i've read) Google's automated car is still struggling to handle.

Road, Bicycle part of the road, road marks, ...
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I believe there are 2 different flags: 1) NSFW; 2) Adult. NSFW tags will show when safe mode is off. Adult will never show. That was my take from the article at least.
The problem with a site explicitly being for NSFW content is users avoiding it in case it accidentally shows in history/logs. With tumblr they can claim to have been looking at/for something else entirely.
Kind of funny when you think about it. We all love to complain about how inefficient the government is... and then we love to complain about how efficient they try to be.
Notice I said a similar thing. Gini coefficient correlates with lower life expectancy, more tensions, etc. I think it is a better predictor of peace and overall quality value, than growing economies.

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
This faintly reminded me of the opening few chapter(s) of Gladwell's Outliers that I'd read a few years ago.
As a technical writer who has a long history of digging into the code alongside the engineers, let me just say this: good architecture and design docs for software can save a ton of time writing doc as the development ensues and completes.

Whether it's a whiteboarding session or scribbles on a napkin, don't throw anything out or let it go forgotten. Get an internal wiki or use Google docs and save everything! Your tech writer will thank you.
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I would say those are two different examples though - children in cultish societies are removed from society at large while the cult remains embedded in and aware of it; the islanders on the other hand have deliberately chosen isolation rather than having isolation forced upon them by any external agent. I would say it's really up to them to head into the outside world rather than for us to do anything, if they want to see what's out here. And clearly they don't.

The only hint of 'oppression' I see here is the idea of pushing our way of thinking onto a group of people who aren't interested and, to my mind, would derive questionable benefit from it. They must surely have sufficient 'science' to have survived there for this long and unless they intend to venture away from their island, what useful things could we teach them? I can't picture them building a particle accelerator or sitting around all day puzzling over integrals.
I don't agree. This is an opportunity for both parties to check each other out, a top dev might want to check the employers claims, too. Too often they are just lying, especially if the market is drained.
I'm sure you could link us to dozens more examples that match this one exactly in every relevant detail.

However, this example is completely innocuous. He doesn't say anyone is a piece of shit, rather he identifies a particular piece-of-shit patch as being a piece of shit. Which, if Linus says it, is probably true.
I'd like something like this, but I think I'd appreciate it more if all the data lived locally / in a place that I control. I don't think I'd share personal details in a journal on a service not under my control.
Right. 4 shots. A man will never do that. He would have kicked the dog slightly and tell the owner to put him back in the car...but 4 shots. The governments security are merciless.
There are two ways the NSA can collect your email: fiber taps sucking up unencrypted SMTP connections, and "direct" collection from servers/FISA orders etc. Ironically if your email provider is in another country it's much more likely that emails to and from the US will be captured.

It would be interesting to setup a mail service with numerous SMTP relays around the world and attempt to connect the "closest" (least likely to be eavesdropped) relay to 3rd party SMTP servers. Communication between the relays and the main service (which stores your email in a friendly jurisdiction) would be strongly encrypted.
OP's point was that one of IMAP's weakenesses is that it provides no clean way to represent what gmail does.
This isn't particularly relevant to the article here, but does anyone else feel like the "outing" of J.K. Rowling as Robert Galbraith just stinks of clever PR and misdirection?

If she really wanted to stay anonymous, she would have chosen a different publisher, publicist, agent, etc.
And Python and other OSS conventions and projects are adopting Codes of Conduct and working through these pains.

Linus might want to consider that Intel is playing the salaries of professionals that are dealing with some tough
hardware driver challenges. If he feels that unpaid volunteers can commit the same level of quality while enduring four letter words, more power to him.

Linux may be OSS, but pull the corporate support and see what happens over time. Corporations are currently willing to deal with these small issues of personality because they are mostly isolated from them and having Linux around is good for business.
Think by drones they meant a quadcopter camera
Still it's nice to know that at least people in extreme poverty are having their numbers decreased so drastically.
Any freedom that you feel you enjoy based on solely on scale and cost is a tentative one at best.
> The promotions tab is NOT where you go to actively look for deals. You do that on Groupon.

Is that a joke?
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I think 5 year olds should begin with graphical 'programming' environments like Klik or The Games Factory (those are old now, but I'm sure there are modern replacements). They offer simple event based programming and the children don't need to bother with syntax errors etc. They also have a built-in graphical edition so it's a bit more fun than just playing with a terminal.

After a few years it's easy to continue with basic-like languages.
Thank you for this. It was part of a flash sale a few days ago and I missed it. Picking it up now. I used the trial a few months back and I LOVED it. It's a lot more work than using something like Mint, but you feel much more in control of your budget than just letting Mint do the work while blasting you with constant ads and offers.
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The subdomain would already show up in history and logs. It's hard to explain away e.g. fuckyeahboobies.tumblr.com
SurfaceRT is a $900-million mistake right now.

There are so many ways to make SurfaceRT a compelling product. If it supported Win32 API, IF it had domain-joining support, if it wasn't completely locked down to the Windows Store... maybe it'd be a compelling buy. But as it is, it has all of the disadvantages of tablets (locked down, proprietary API), with few of the advantages of Windows.

Then you've got XBox One mistake. So much wasted potential there...

Windows 8 has to happen though, the computing industry is evolving towards touch controls, and as primitive as Windows8 is with touch... its a step in the right direction for Microsoft. But they need to be more sensitive to their business partners.
> Write [cherry is a circle] below

I don't know pedagogy, but I like that objects have names and properties, which is concrete and comes from the physical world (and our language). However, I find some things about the language, environment, and also tutorials rather confusing.

In the shapes tutorial, for example, we name an object that doesn't exist yet. We also name the object "cherry", which is also a word for an object in English. We write [melon color is 'yellow'] when the object named "melon" is actually red. I also wonder why there is no visual indication of which object is which (why not label the objects with their name?).

More fundamentally, in Isla each text block is a command. Why are there no actions words (at least in these initial commands)? Just like objects, names, and properties are first class syntactic citizens, so should actions. I think this would clear up some of the weirdness above.

# make circle named bob
# set bob color RED
# print bob color
... RED
# print bob
... circle
# move bob RIGHT
# make square named alice
# trash bob
# copy alice named chris
# make circle named alice
... oops, alice already exists!
# print dan
... oops, dan doesn't exist!
Some of the best team players are those who would do anything, for anyone, at the drop of a hat. They are the people who show up early, bust their ass, never complain, and wouldn't think twice about lending a hand whenever you ask. I have no idea how to determine that from an interview.
I'd also recommend SysRescueCD that has these types of tools ready to be used as a bootable USB/CDrom image.

http://www.sysresccd.org/System-tools

I've used the imaging tools on the boot cd a few times to clone/restore hosts a few times without any issues. Very handy.
>Seems like all this technology is making us go _backwards_ in society, not forwards.

It's never the technology. Technology is amoral. It's the people. Technology may have enabled the people, but people are responsible.
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> "gonvaled shared his interpretation of the context and his opinion whilst you are engaging in the personal attack."

umm, what? I didn't use any insults, I just talked about why the user's behaviour/arguments were bad. It's criticism, yes, but it's not ad hominem, it's on the behaviour and the ideas.

> "I just wonder what would be Sarah's reply to your style above"

If two (almost certainly) male people on the internet can't address one another as dude, I don't know what the world is coming to[1]. Some people might object, yes (I remember a particularly pompous twitter politico who balked at me calling him "dude" on twitter in an argument) - but this is how I talk out loud, and it's not obscene it's just informal. I don't believe it conflicts in any way with what I've said about being politely robust and emphatic.

> "Are you Sarah's colleague, by the way?"

no, never heard of her before this incident. I find it kind of sad that you thought I might be some kind of stooge. Feminist boys do exist, you know.

[1] I do occasionally use "dude" as an exclamation when talking to girls too, but it is usually in person and quite obviously sarcastic (I am British, and I say "dude" in a vaguely Californian accent, a result of listening to too much Blink 182 as a teenager I think.)
RT is a joke but what's wrong with XBox One?
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tl;dr - The Apollo 11 computer ran at 0.001GHz with 0.000002GB memory and 0.000032GB of storage (read-only at that). The display amounted to a few dozen 1-bit pixels.

And it took them to the Moon.
Thefreepornguide.com has a list of all nsfw tumblrs.
Great comment. Strategic ambiguity is important.

Most sites, including community sites, built explicitly around NSFW content are, for lack of a better word, gross. I want little to do with them and most women I know want even less to do with them. It's hard or impossible for them to have any taste.

One key to the success of NSFW communities on Reddit (like GoneWild) and Tumblr may be their "dual use" purpose; they tend not to be completely gross (though there are obviously exceptions) and consequently they also attract women.
While I agree with the central premise of the cumulative advantage, I think comparing literary success to commercial success is kind of tricky, especially given the niche position of modern crime novels. The audience for crime novels is much smaller than the audience for young adult fantasy novels; I'm relatively sure A Cuckoo's Calling was selling very well for its genre before Rowlinggate.
No, for a pretty simple reason. She wouldn't have bothered with all the effort to try and stay hidden if she didn't mean it. She doesn't need the money.

At least one editor has already admitted to passing on the book, not knowing Rowling wrote it, so she went through the "normal" means of querying under the pen name, not saying "I'm JK Rowling, and I want to publish under a pseudonym"

I will say though, it will look fishier if the Lawyer who leaked the information isn't reprimanded or fired, since he broke client confidentiality.
What this reiterated was mostly what I've been telling other self-publishers: marketing marketing marketing. Here's a book that gets good reviews and is supposedly (since I haven't read it) written well, yet only sells 1500 copies. Of course, 1500 copies in a very very short while is triple what most books sell in their lifetime, but it's still a very small number when it's by an author whose sold millions and has at times been credited with getting America's youth reading again - even if it was only for a while.

If J.K. Rowling can't sell more than a couple thousand copies of a new book based on it's quality alone, what makes you think you're going to sell any more by going the traditional publisher route under an also-unknown name.

It all comes down to marketing your book. You'll have to do your own marketing with traditional publishing as well, except now you also are in a contract. If your book does badly, your advance will make up for it. If it does well, then you're limited by paying back the advance prior to royalties, and you lose a touch of control.

Anyways, it gives me faith in our self-publishing business and our answers to clients who wonder why they haven't sold 3,000 copies yet. Although our last one is over 10k sales, mostly because they had been marketing the book months in advance of even writing it, and it was the written form of the advice they had been giving for years and building a platform with.

That's what we can learn from this. Build a platform based on you, market the book before it's even been written, build anticipation, and then market even more. I've really enjoyed this "revelation" about J.K., even if I'm not a reader. True, it does have a slightly sour taste due to it being a somewhat PR move, but then again... even Issac Asimov was Paul French when he wanted to write something my 8-year old sister would (and has!) read.
The "cumulative advantage" study mentioned in the article is very interesting, and relevant to HN. Basically they built a music sharing site where people could download and rate music, and they'd see which songs became popular. The cool part is they randomly split the users into 8 subgroups, each with independent song voting and ranking. The top hits in one subgroup were very different from the top hits in a different subgroup, showing there's a huge random factor due to the feedback loop of people liking what's popular.

The obvious connection to HN is that people read and upvote the popular articles, so there's (probably) a lot more randomness and a lot less meritocracy in what makes it to the front page than people suspect. This matches my experience, where one of my blog posts will sink without a trace on HN, and then be hugely popular after someone resubmits it later.

It would be very interesting to do a "cumulative advantage" study on HN: split the users into sub-groups, and see if there's any correlation between the popular articles across sites.

I suspect there's also a "cumulative advantage" effect on comments, with popular members getting way more upvotes. Some high-karma member could quantify this by posting half their comments from a new account and A/B testing.

link to more on the music experiment: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15wwlnidealab.t.h...
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I will admit that I've stopped using it, but I really enjoyed http://penzu.com/
She wanted to see how the book would be received without the burden of her reputation, which she did.
I second the Clonezilla recommendation. Clonezilla is a monumental set of bash scripts that act as a "wizard" to drive a number of other programs. The most important one is probably partclone. You don't have to use Clonezilla to use partclone (it's packaged in linux distributions like Debian), but Clonezilla makes it easier.

http://partclone.org/
Netflix has some of the best recommendation algorithms, but what do you want to watch right now?

We built Televisor to help you discover new shows based on an existing show you like.

E.g. find me something to watch like The Wire!

Tech: using an item-to-item collaborative filtering approach, whereas most sites like netflix use a user-to-user approach.

Two advantages of item-to-item are that it can start making recommendations right away without you having to input a lot of ratings, and it enables us to give focused recommendations. You might well like Downton Abbey, but perhaps you don't care to watch something like that right now?
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I'm lucky enough to work at a place that is building Math games for K-6.

I watched the curriculum experts and content design teams white-boarding the many ways to conceptualize and visualize fractions for several weeks. It's not the simple domain you might think.
Linus uses a Macbook Air, but he runs Linux on it: http://meta.slashdot.org/story/12/10/11/0030249/linus-torval...
Suggestion: An IDE for children which only allows valid sentences to be inserted. E.g. they could click "create variable" or "create function call" button which would be a form/wizard/dialog to create it. This could be combined with "switch to advanced mode" button which would allow normal typing.
Nearly ever top grossing app in the Apple App Store is a game. Few of them are services or "remotes." Among the games, only about 1/6 are sequels (e.g., Angry Birds Space) or based on other intellectual property (e.g., Iron Man games).

That means nearly all the money in the Apple App Store is earned by social games you've never heard of.

Barry is right that at least part of the charting comes from how payments are recorded. Many services don't sell subscriptions through App Store IAP, both because subscriptions are newly permitted[0] and because a 30% revenue share is a lot to ask from a low-margin business like Pandora.

But he is very wrong about the trend of software and services sales in general. Games have and always will dominate consumer software and service sales. He seems to describe himself as a remote-control app "whale," or someone who makes an extraordinary number of purchases.

There are very many more gaming whales with smartphones than there are "remote control" whales with smartphones.

But generally, "remote control" apps—which again, seem to just be non-gaming services apps, by Barry's definition—don't have very many profitable things to sell. How can you compete with the margins of virtual coins? Even music and movie services pay margin-eating licenses on their content, especially when, like Pandora, it is distributed for free. And all those other services—travel or whatever—need to pay a lot of physical people for a lot of physical things.

Non-gaming services are hardly profitable. A trend of adoption of "remote control" apps should not be conflated with a trend of profit. The composition of the top grossing charts of any software platform are unlikely to change away from games.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/appstore/in-app-purchase/subscri...
What if I want to browse for Adult content?
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Aside from being extraordinarily late (PHP has been available on App Engine for quite some time, so its quite late for any story about that support with the claim that Google is only just acknowledging the existence of PHP), the article seems premised on the idea that the reason PHP was not on App Engine earlier than it was is that Google was somehow in denial about it existing.

I think its a lot more likely that App Engine was initially Google making internal infrastructure available external users and that the launch languages were set by what Google was using, not what Google was acknowledging existing in the external marketplace. The inclusion of PHP was one of many signs of the App Engine maturing as a product, but its prior exclusion wasn't Google denying that it exists.
Thanks for both the recommendation and admission. I'll very happily give it a try.
SMTP isn't always encrypted...
On a related note, get their free 123D Catch: an app which lets you take a series of photos and generate 3D models. I'm sure ReCap does a better job, but Catch puts it in your pocket.
In California, it doesn't matter, since it's already illegal to give speeding tickets from a manned airplane (even though they still have plenty of signs to warn you that they might do just that.)
um.. http://www.hiteksoftware.com/mize/task-scheduler.htm is quite amusing..
DDos-proof, just not idiot-proof

And we employee such creative idiots

:-)
Maybe you're rude too so you can't tell how the waiter should be treated. /joke

I've never eaten with someone who was rude to a waiter, but there are some things that you can learn from a person by looking at how he behaves with other people.

For example, if someone is putting food on your table, try to not be in his way and maybe tone down the conversation a little bit. Saying thanks is also a nice thing to do... looking at you, study team member.