skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's gotta be the first useful application of the hardware that I've heard of! I've tried Kinect before and it might be just me, but I find it to be horrible for gaming. Give me physical keys and I'm all happy. But of course that doesn't appeal to the bigger audience of casual gamers. Nintendo got that right with their, now dust-covered, Wiis.
Comparing the Zenbook Prime's battery life to a current-generation Macbook Air doesn't tell you anything about ASUS vs Apple. It just tells you that Haswell is much more power-efficient than Ivy Bridge, which should have been obvious.

ASUS and other manufacturers should be out with their Haswell refreshes soon enough. Then you can make a more meaningful comparison.
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These articles seem like bizarre humble brags to me. You want to get lost? Really? That seems absurd, but you can totally just not use the map feature if you want.

Battery life. My phone lasts all day easily. Is it really hard to plug it in next to the bed at night? Not something I have trouble with.

My dumb phone helps me know myself because I don't have angry birds? What does that even mean? Just don't play angry birds?

Waiting for not yet known notification? Really, you just stop living your life and stare at your phone waiting for it to buzz? Sounds like you have bigger issues than your phone.
Fair - It's helpful to ask around, if you can, re: what to expect ahead of time. I've seen Techcrunch posts cause a bigger spike than a Fox national TV appearance (3000-4000 visits, 1-2000 simultaneous) depending on the time of day, and how much the segment is about your company vs about a trend or a topic that your company is commenting on
I wrote the article (didn't plan on HN traffic, thanks Boyter). I've fixed it with your comment.

Thanks
Is it true that the latest scientific consensus about cancer is that it is the result of random genetic mutations?

Yet there are only about 200 well defined types of cancer that just appear over and over again, millions of times per year?

And then someone suggests that the mechanism and progression path might be embedded into our DNA, and it gets called pseudoscience?
A few years ago to grow profits they forced all Quality scores down. I had keywords cost double and triple after that. I especially like when I add a keyword and initially it has a quality score of say 7 then a few minutes later the quality score is a 3 or 4. Hate to imagine what more they might do now that they "missed" expectations...
I usually clean links of superfluous query parameters before sharing them.
The way the administration threw Star Simpson under the bus within hours of her arrest was despicable.
Well, my advice would kind of be the opposite: don't expect a TV appearance to send your traffic skyrocketing. TV is just not a traffic generator. One major reason: they probably won't give out your URL. Even if you get them to agree to drop the URL in, they will probably forget, or not have time, or they'll get it wrong. Even if they do, it's not going to get you much type-in traffic.

Unless you're going on something like Colbert, just don't expect a boost. And even if you do go on Colbert, most of your traffic will still probably come from /r/colbert.
You should try installing floobits outside of package control: https://floobits.com/help/plugins/#sublime-text

See manual installation.
SnapChat being used for Insider Trading
To, be honest, it is just a strong feeling that I am personally acting on. I am not offering investment advice.
San Jose State suspends online courses
Found a good list of projects http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-...

Going to also find open source projects
That's right, my mistake.
Yes, but it will be a while.
What are the roles and motives of non-profit colleges?
I've been thinking a lot recently about how non-profit colleges fit into society.

Especially because of the current college bubble and MIT's handling of the Aaron Swartz situation (which I thought was handled very badly), I've been thinking about what the roles and motives of non-profit colleges are.

It's hard to generalize, since each college is different, but the naive view I used to hold about non-profit colleges being primarily altruistic institutions seems mistaken.

I'm especially interested in this line from patio11's essay "Quantifying the value of a college degree by major":

"There might still be some Marxists on the faculty but it is all capitalists in the administrations."

Non-profit colleges help with social development, research, and many other areas. But what are some of the other reasons they exist? Are capitalists in the administrations contributing significantly to the college bubble?

I feel like non-profit colleges should be doing a better and more compassionate job of preparing eighteen year olds for adult life, but I don't think they are.

I'm very interested in opinions and insight on this topic.
Right now, tablets may be seen as toys. But, who says they can not be used for work. At first cell phones were just for calls and sms. Then some had browsers, they were seen as unnecessary, at the time...

My Macbook died a few months back, I tried the Surface RT a few days as a replacement. At first, it was strange, and my work flow suffered. But, alas, after a week, I was back to normal productivity.

It has been several months now, of treating the Surface RT as my main machine. I mostly work out of the desktop IE. Sometimes I will snap Netflix or Hulu on the side. I take the device to work, and not need to charge it (awesome). If I need to show the team something, I snap of the keyboard, and pass it around. Microsoft Office is great on the tablet. Since, it is my lady's, skydrive is not useful for me. But, it is for her. Her phone uploads everything to skydrive, and she can access the skydrive files, on the Surface. The Surface treats skydrive, like a normal drive. So, if she wants to upload a picture on Facebook (in the browser). She can select any file on the Surface or the skydrive.

Most recently, I updated it to the 8.1 Preview. Now that I have outlook, its been even better! The Surface has had constant updates from Microsoft. The first month we had the tablet, it was sluggish and IE, was not ideal. But, it did act as a full fledge browser.

This might sound like a glowing review, and it is, but the device is definitely first gen. Besides a few hiccups here and there I am still amazed at how much the RT can handle. At home, I hook it up to a monitor and work of both screens. The type keyboard is great. And, my lady and I will often watch a movie in bed or play some Wordament.

Microsoft did a terrible job of communicating what the Surface tablets do.

This is coming from a person who grew up using Mac OS. I only used PC's in my last few years of high school, then went back to Macs.
I love the fact that physicists are looking at this problem. I really love the way they think--that there are underlying elegant solutions to inherently messy problems. I think it speaks to how much you think the universe makes sense underneath everything, and they see it on a daily basis. Hence, the success and reknown of an Einstein for example: someone who takes the currently-best-known-answers and makes them simpler, more elegant.

I think this sort of thinking needs to be applied in many more fields than it is, and it's very encouraging to see some people from outside the traditional medicine groups even looking at this supremely important problem. We don't need more drug studies, we need more root cause analysis.
+1 for wineskin. Works great for me.
Snowden, as of now, is not with his family, does not have a job, can't see his girlfriend, any number of things - so to argue he is doing something Google can't, namely to keep living his life from a Russian airport, makes no sense

If people can give up their lives or parts of it to do the right thing, why can't a company? (I would add that if you have a good reason for it, that's also a reason to re-think companies, and not to simply accept that they can't do the right thing because that's how they are)

I could see a CEO not wanting to see his employees out of a job, or being afraid of his shareholders caring more about the share value than what they see when they look in the mirror; but that doesn't automatically justify anything. Especially since even if Google "died", just for refusing and resisting a little (which I doubt, but I'm willing to assume it and argue from there anyway), something else would have to replace at least parts of it, and former Googlers would be the first hired for any and all of that.

But considering Erich Schmidt says stuff like "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.", it kinda seems like the issue sits deeper. It's not (just) cowardice, it's lack of awareness.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/collaborative-ene... shows a research app that may help you debug your problem.
1. Go wifi-only. (Turn on airplane mode and also wifi). This doubled my battery life.

2. Text-editor app (I like TED) and Dropbox/Drobo/Async to sync it.

3. Who still uses paper? That's such an edge-case :p
Probably because you stop looking after you've found the solution.
>People are not going to stop going to MIT.

Well, actually... Let me provide a little insight. My daughter, a future engineer, has dropped MIT from her top choice to off the list. There are many schools that are nearly as good, and despite rankings, better than MIT.

Here's another cool little anecdote:
I was in a meeting with director from NIST, along with another researcher and our director. He was in town to give a lecture as part of a regular lecture series we conduct through the school year, and I was meeting with him one-on-one to ask questions about the intersection of IT and power grid operations. He was relaying a story about some engineering project that they had asked MIT researchers for help on.

Suddenly our director burst out laughing. Said he couldn't contain it anymore. He says, "Yeah, we know about that project. We're the people MIT called when they couldn't figure it out."

The moral of the story: MIT is marketing machine. As a rule, they are over-ranked in nearly every category, and rely on a historical perspective rather than a current one.
Myers visits the Davies/Lineweaver speculations three times, in April 2011 [0], November 2012[1], and December that year. PZ is quite scornful in all three posts, but after all, he is a biologist specializing in developmental biology -- so he can be assumed to know the literature, and the details of cell biology, which he claims they very clearly do not.

[0]http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/04/26/aaargh-physici...
[1]http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/11/20/aaargh-phy...
[2]http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/12/19/aaargh-go-...
Audio is crucially important. Video is nice when discussing code.
A relevant stackoverflow thread for the same,which addresses some common misconceptions

http://superuser.com/questions/367490/can-a-32-bit-os-machin...
Flask powered CMS - Quokka
We just compiled a FAQ and pushed it. https://floobits.com/help/faq/

Sadly, we didn't use any anchors so you'll have to scroll to "How does Floobits work under the hood?" If you have further questions, let me know.
The RT was released very slightly cheaper than the iPad but the hardware specs were miles behind the iPad.

It's not a bad device, there's just no real reason to own one over the competition at that price.

If they'd thrown in the keyboard case AND Office for the price they launched at, I think they'd have got a lot of traction. Maybe also fixing VPN so it's useful for business users.
The difference is that nuclear weapons are indiscriminate, whereas robotic soldiers can theoretically limit targets only to evildoers (or dissidents, undesirables, etc).
Thank you for writing this so that I didn't have to.
There was a discussion on "How Google is Killing Organic Search" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971560 by essentially having all ads on the first page. I wonder for how long can Google keep doing that, before users and site owners revolt and leave /promote another engine?

Looking at their press release, ad clicks increased by 23% over the last year and 4% over the last quarter. What are they going to do for the next quarter when search already looks like this http://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/1... and https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/28762... ? Add even more ads?

Google, as a company, desperately needs new sources of revenue, Google Search is already over-monetized. I wouldn't touch Google at current stock prices.

Edit: Turns out that most people do not even realize that they clicked on ads, given how similarly they are displayed. FTC warned them and others to distinguish results from ads http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-26/ftc-tells-google-le...
His opinion is just that, an opinion, whether or not they are correct.
The fact of the matter is that no one else except the VLC team can initiate legal proceedings and Bradley Kuhn has no right to do so, unless he makes a contribution.
Can do! :)
Correct, the iPad apparently does not make her feel stupid. Hence my following comment about how she'll probably be keeping her iPad. It would seem my wording made the answer obvious, but I'm open to suggestions on how it could have been more clear.
Well it's either broken hardware or severely misbehaving software. There's a free app called Carat that you can use to monitor apps for battery hogs.
XP actually has /PAE but apparently it doesn't work like this does per application, just extends 4GB once and that's it.
if you're karma motivated users have no incentive to look for a duplicate. if you're not karma motivated, then submitting bare URLs is usually enough for dupe detection (IMO).

I'm admittedly somewhat karma motivated but I think I'm pretty clean with respect to my submissions since I dislike when people try to game the submission system and i don't want to be one of them.
Just to make sure we are on the same page: You don't think that increased levels of melanin means that an individual is more likely to be a criminal?

With that out of the way. The conversation went like this:

dsuth: "I thought that [the link between skin colour and crime in the US] was a fairly massive social issue over there, well-deserving of a wikipedia page."

me: "If there was a connection between skin color and crime in the US why would this genetic predisposition stop at the border?"

you: "Does it? http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/01/police-routinely-sup... "

I am not sure where we got our signals crossed.

* What were you questioning when you asked "does it?"

* What did you expect I was going to get out of the article you linked to?

* You do not think that a person's race is a matter of genetics?
Okay, you're right about deriving a relationship from their conclusions. At least mostly. There's certainly an interesting set of possibilities to be pursued where the idea is concerned with evolutionary processes and thinking outside the box of seeing cancer as purely a random mutation, and the problematic questions Davies and Lineweaver pose from that standing perspective.

Yes, they are speculating on a potential new direction of study based on being outside observers who specialize in physical systems and recognizing orchestrated, systemic actions.

However, let's dial down the disdain slightly, can we? These aren't physicists arbitrarily and whimsically "poking their noses into fields they know absolutely nothing about and making grand pronouncements". These are physicists who have been asked to poke their noses into something they know absolutely nothing about and help existing specialists uncover potentially new avenues of research. Davies makes this very clear in his opening statements of the article. He admits he knew nothing about cancer, and started asking questions that were not typically the questions asked by standing specialists--who show a pattern of questioning and investigating cancer from that perspective of a random genetic mutation that occurs in humans, and not investigating the possibilities that might be found in questioning cancer as a feature of multi-cellular life as a whole.

Davies and Lineweaver are not saying this is the fundamental theory of what cancer is. They are suggesting it as a possibility of future research and investigation and, given their work in their own fields, I strongly suspect they'll be willing to update their notions based on evidence.

Who knows where we can get if more respected scientists joined cross-disciplinary programs that were aimed at collaborating on investigating and understanding various human concerns. It's not like the physicists who've joined these programs (of which Davies and Lineweaver are but two) are going to set back cancer research and treatment.
There are a few projects around the web, but Floobits doesn't do this right now. We plan on implementing more social features once we've ironed out some usability issues.
Are there any plans to make the Play Store beta available to North American users?

From what I recall, the issue was not having NA devices to test against. It seems like the gaps in chipsets and devices have narrowed (e.g. Qualcomm chipsets used more widely as LTE spreads, US Note 2 using Exynos 4 like the international versions, etc.) so I was wondering if anything had changed on that front.
On top of that, there are probably several hundred consumer devices with Lithium ion batteries on board the average flight, none of which are avionics grade, and more than a few probably stowed out of sight in the overhead lockers. It's surprising there haven't been more fires; or it's evidence that these spontaneous battery fires really are quite rare.
I did some research into V++ and I believe it will be doable, but this is a long ways off.
For me, It violates the principle of least surprise to encounter a sentence like "all birds do not fly". I have to do a double take and reinterpret the sentence to realise its intended meaning.
Did you get into YC?
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Moreover, he sidestepped misuse of the tech by claiming that the Laws were "hard-wired" into the design of the positronic brain. Not only could be the Laws not be over-written, it was literally impossible in Asimov's universe to create a robot that was without them.

In real life, we know how trivial it would be to completely overwrite the operating system with arbritary software.
Then just set Bid adjustment to -100% for mobile devices and tablets with full browsers.
The Geoff Chappell article is great. Seems like he examined it in detail:

"The 32-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 all contain code for using physical memory above 4GB. Microsoft just doesn’t license you to use that code."

A huge pity he no longer blogs.
Sure, the same people who think flouride is a communist mind control plot.
Bug in OS X/BSD split command
Startups, here are few tips to seek reader’s attention via emails
That's cute, but my point is not about Haskell, but about the new grounds computer scientists are breaking using Haskell as a tool. Those are seriously hard problems. Making a phone app is not hard.
What would be the likely result if Larry Page made a blog post detailing all the information they are petitioning the government to allow revealing, and then went directly to the media with the same information? It would be a bold act of civil disobedience, but obviously none of the CEOs of any of these companies have had the balls to do it.

I'm thinking that the US Government would have a much harder time prosecuting a high-profile, wealthy CEO over a systems administrator no one had heard of until a month ago. And the media attention would be harder to derail.
There's a lot less demand for Mac OS specific applications on Linux than there is for Windows. A lot more people start with Windows and try to move to Linux (bringing their windows applications in wine with them) than start with Mac OS and try to switch.
Not to mention the Wine project goes way way back, whereas Mac OS really only started to get popular (again) with Mac OS X.
Warren Buffett says stock prices are like a crazy guy knocking on your door everyday and throwing out a random number which "supposedly" represents your stock's price for the day.

That's how much stock prices represent reality and the worth of a company.
They are hardly "spinning yarns". Did you miss the part where they were asked to be part of a cross-disciplinary program, along with other physicists, to bring fresh ideas to the field of cancer research? They are doing what they were asked to do, and wrote an article on it. It's hardly a setup for clinical trials in which human lives are at stake, so I think we can, while holding out for evidence that increases the probabilities of certainty in this theory, allow them to do what they've been asked to do.
MrQuincle, it's not because you're Dutch - it's because we're both not pretentious. :)
I find it interesting that when you wrote the blog post in October you were a self-described love of textmate and in the past few months you've already made the switch over to sublime. Seems like alot of people are going that way. I'm afraid if I don't move I may be one of the last holdouts to leave textmate lol
What about pushing them to your pocket via text message?
A bit ridiculous, define 'by force' please. If they really think a letter is the right thing to do, why don't they write it earlier? Is that means they are not forced now? It's been years for god sake. And how do I know if this is the first program and the only one exists? The letter is only a part of rebuilding their public relations, nothing to do with "right direction", just like an animal hiding from it's enemy, that's how an animal react when it realizes danger. What these company can and will do is to stop PRISM and start another one with a brand new name, because the profile of current one is too high now. "There won't be another whistleblower in the future, at least for a few years, every user will consider that we are defending them and they will trust us again, so let's blow up this program with a letter and start a new one for the sake of our big data."

I'm sure the number of people like Snowden is much less than the number of programs like PRISM. I ask myself frequently, why did I trust these company in the first place, why did I trust them again and again. I guess Snowden is just a flag for "it's time for a change", but when I see your comment, I see no hope, 'cause guys like you, the potential whistleblowers, need these companies to be trusted. I wonder if you've known anything about these before Snowden reveals, if you have, why were you being quiet, if you haven't, how the hell can you trust your employer now?

I see the future, people are willing to sell themselves for a 'better life' based on their privacy. Why? Because some of us are selling it already. But I don't want to be one of them, even I ended up with starving to death.
There have been a few other interesting applications, such as use by surgeons where physically using a computer would be unhygienic (e.g. see http://www.zdnet.com/blog/health/xbox-kinect-helps-surgeons-...).
>>>>Google, as a company, desperately needs new sources of revenue

It seems like every time they try and branch out from search and monatize some of their products, they fail miserably and then the pundits jump on them and tell them they should just stick with what makes them money - search.

It's a nasty cycle they're in.