skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, that's your definition of Link Bait but as far as I can see it's not the generally accepted definition of Link Bait

I've seen the term "linkbait" (never two words, and never capitalized) used lots of places besides HN, and always with that meaning.

> I would contend, however, that in the case of this article it's neither.

Neither what? Only one thing was addressed in your post, so "neither" doesn't make any sense.

> It's just a strong headline attached to a well written article about the Super Game Boy.

A strong headline does two things: provides a clear idea of the thesis of the article and draws attention. At best, the one here does the second without doing the first, making it a weak headline. At worst, it creates a misleading impression as to the general thrust of the article.

"Linkbait" seems a pretty fair description, though its probably not the worst instance in the world.
I agree with everything you said and I also think that it cannot be automated and/or self-regulated.

At some point a conscious decision will have to be made to either strongly moderate political topics or to let HN slide to a different land.
Flatstrap for Bootstrap 3 Released
That's not my argument, it costs money to transport goods to the market; in this case cars and trucks from Japan, Korea, and to a lesser extent US and Europe, to Australia. These goods have a mark up above and beyond the cost of manufacture (i.e. the profit), typically at a percentage. So the cost of shipping mined bauxite and iron ore to Japan, Korea, China, then manufacture, then shipping it back with the concomitant margins for all the players in between. Why not go back to manufacturing steel, aluminium, the parts then cars? In the end the cost of rebuilding that institutional knowledge will be so high that Australia is forever locked out of manufacturing; even if capital costs aside it would be profitable to do so.
I agree that it can bloat, and often customizing components takes as long as simply starting from scratch. However, I really like LESS, and bootstrap is full of some great less utilities. Customizing bootstraps less is a perfect example of why I love it, and how it saves me time
Why Steve Kovach sold his iPad
You're absolutely right! This was a learning experience. I made it open source so that the community can help improve on things I may have done wrong.
It just plugs straight into the HDMI port, so I don't see why not. Before the presentation started you'd need to set it up on the local wi-fi however.
Just the other day I had a non-technical friend ask me if upgrading his 50Mb connection to 75 as suggested by Verizon would get rid of his YouTube buffering problems.

I wonder how prevalent and successful such fraudulent upselling is?
>Congressmen on select committees have clearance, but cannot tell you what they know.

This isn't exactly true. Congressmen have an explicit Constitutional protection for anything they say in the House. This was most famauslly used by Senator Mike Gravel to leak the Pentagon Papers, and set the precedent of Gravel v. United States that doing so is legal.

In reality, attempting to do so would cost significant political capitol, and will likely make it difficult for the Congressmen to get onto such committees in the future.
I will add this:

I generally don't mind the news, but the discussion at these submissions are generally pretty retarded; and what is more scary to me, a lot of nonsence gets upvoted and a lot of voices of reason get downvoted.

But I guess we are just becoming new digg/reddit/(take your pick) and this is inevitable.
This is... very conflicting. On one hand, it sucks to lose your property and it feels worse when 5 fingers are involved. On the other, he's just an ordinary guy. That's really who we struggle against daily don't we? Other people.
K fits APL functionality into ASCII by selecting a smaller (but empirically, better suited) "base". It's not a transliteration of APL into ASCII.

e.g., the first element operator is unary asterisk e.g. "x", which is like C's pointer dereference (which gets the first element ..). There is no symbol for "last element" - instead you use "|x" meaning "first of reverse of x". Similarly, there are no compress/expand operators; Instead, there's a "replicate" operator which unifies and simplifies both (and has other uses to boot).

In fact, it looks like Arthur used the number of ascii symbols as a constraint for the number of primitives - which are all single characters. (They can be postfixed with a colon to force monadic comprehension, but that's not part of the operator). As a result, K is as much notation as APL is. The domain is "writing real world programs" instead of "expressing algorithms", and it shows, but it's still notation that -- once acquired -- reads like math or APL.

> One of the reasons I abandoned languages such as APL, Forth and Lisp, languages that I used extensively for many, many years is that they became less and less practical and relevant.

I suspecting it's going to make a come-back. The APL / J / K computation model is much easier to apply to GPUs. But prediction of trends is very hard -- doubly so when it is about the future :)
Using PhantomJS WebServer
Thanks for the interest! I agree, and I do intend to put something up on my github user page. I want to do some custom styling first (since the project is just a template) and also port my old blog from Wordpress.
Please do get in touch via the website. We're super flexible on chapters running themselves largely as they'd like (quite similar to Barcamp), but we'd like to officially have you in the loop to be able to provide you with resources and connections to the rest of us.

- David Fisher (AF-trustee & co-founder)
Nginx was built with 'single server' architecture in mind while Google generally operates on a 'distributed everything' architecture. This involves stuff like distributed file systems/data stores. My guess is it's not compatible with the single file system interfaces of Nginx. Also note that dl.google.com serves stuff on a massively bigger scale than the majority of the rest of the internet. On that scale I'd guess they face some rather uncommon challenges and bottlenecks that can only be addressed by custom software.
I watch http://www.internethealthreport.com out of interest - it shows just how clearly the peering is skewed for US tier 1s.
You are correct, look at the post by riahi.

The hospital may charge $106K, but Medicare only reimburses them for $15-25K.
I'm not entirely sure. I think there's a contact form on the site somewhere, and I know they reply on Twitter.
Perhaps we should ship all our resident-ready medical students off to third world countries where the needs are great so they can become proficient very quickly. Perhaps our system has become too soft.

The problem is they would become proficient at treating the wrong things. Medical conditions vary greatly by geography.
Polio is still alive in the third world, Russia is fighting drug resistant TB, and up thread there is a mention of a surgery performed at a 1000x rate in India compared to the US(Once a decade vs once a day). All the while what affects Americans would be glossed over because it doesn't infect the rest of the world at the same rates.
It also works with smartphones, which most people have and use regularly. Not to mention the fact that the kind of person who would buy a Chromecast is probably an above-average user anyway.
Sorry, I can't follow suite. Could you explain the thing with the political narrative again? Who has which political views?
> Gnome 2

IMHO Xfce4 has reached the level that now it does the Gnome 2 thing better than Gnome 2 did. (Just needs some tweaking, if you don't like the default blue theme.)
This is fine ... but what he ought to do as well is to tell you that going through the program is still beneficial to you even if you don't thread the needle and land that academic job ... and that the Dept or University has resources that will help you find a non-academic job where you can make the most of your skills
1990s UI at It's Finest UI Kit
"I am on holiday, I am drunk and partially nude in a strange land. I am totally safe here. And my belongings can live where ever they please and I wont have to worry about them."
> If you like Gnome, great. If you don't like Gnome, you should use something else. Arguing this old subject hasn't yet accomplished anything, and there are plenty of alternatives available now. (I really like KDE4.)

The problem is that a lot of people liked Gnome2 but dislike Gnome3. They feel betrayed because the Gnome team killed their favorite desktop environment on a whim, and that sort of thing isn't supposed to happen with open source.

Due to Gnome 2 / 3 name conflicts maintaining Gnome 2 is fairly difficult.

Basically the Gnome devs wanted to go in a new direction and are abusing their powers to kill off the old product. Users have legitimate reason to to upset.
They would? He could have bought it from the thief, unknowingly.
He doesn't own the phone. What part of theft don't you understand? its not his phone.

The prick stole it, and is using her personal data to stalk her friends and use the phone for himself. He probably stole her other goods also. He's a common thief!
I don't think that Godel's theorem says that math is necessarily inconsistent.

My understanding is that it says math is either inconsistent or incomplete. So if you construct a mathematical system that is consistent (allowing proofs by contradiction), there will be some set of statements that are true, but cannot be proved true by that mathematics.
The Two Most Important Qualities You Need To Succeed At A Startup
I know you're very well intentioned, but I don't think your methods support this. You aren't going to get people making companies in engineering simply by putting them in a room with a few arduinos and macs. And things like "3 day startup" completely miss the complexity that goes along with actual engineering projects and is heavily biased towards generic internet based ideas. You needs something more fundamental to get across what you are trying to do, and I think there are things on campus which are aiding in that. RoboJackets, for instance, has been rather influential in this regards. 2 of our old officers that are still in the Atlanta area are both involved in very successful startups, one of our electrical guys was at YCombinator last year working on a hardware startup, and we regularly have startup job postings go out on our email headers. I'm aiming for this to grow more, and things are slowly being put into action. I think the most fundamental thing you can do to get people to take these kinds of risks is to show them that it's possible to succeed. I'll be posting some stuff on the CS facebook group in the next few weeks dealing with one of our initiatives. If you'd like to talk about this at some point, I'm the treasurer of RJ and my name shouldn't be too hard to find with a bit of googling.
Nonsense! They create social pressure to not make a web page that looks like hot trash.
I always felt that "My rights end where yours begin" was the perfect center of pragmatism vs righteousness.
if this is truly in Dubai, I suggest you get in touch with Dubai Police, they are very responsive and respond even to people's tweets ..
I can hardly understand anything in that doc. I'm a decent-enough iOS programmer from a LAMP and design background. It makes me wonder if in 20 years people like me will look back at the iOS programming guide and be equally confused. As programming gets abstracted out, put into frameworks and simplified at the user-level it's sure to go even more visual.
I think the creepy skype call to the guy's friend ups the probability that the guy is less than innocent. But it's not totally impossible.
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Why don't you get him arrested ? He isn't going to loose a hand, in UAE, he will just do some jail.
In general I have the same reaction as you, but in this specific case I think there's a connection. Both the cummings-esque lack of capitals and the general GNOME decision-making process seem to have their roots in a mindset that values "style" over respect for others - users, quoted authors, whoever is deemed "outside" with respect to the post author's own small circle. While comments that focus only on the unfortunate orthography without making that connection might be a waste of time, I think using the visual representation as a symbol of the underlying problem has some validity. Maybe if we all talked about gNOme (as in "NO" to every user request) it would make the point more clearly.
Sorry, I'm going to be "that guy"

OK, so it does exactly what the chinese players are doing since 2011?

Examples (with beefy hardware and way more capabilities):
http://dx.com/p/android-4-1-mini-google-tv-player-w-512mb-ra...

http://dx.com/p/reko-mk802-android-4-0-mini-pc-w-wi-fi-hdmi-...

They can login into pandora, netflix without extra hardware (yeah, only 36 bucks and youre done!) and you don't need to bother using another device to start playing stuff.

Plus, you can play your own files, access your network resources...

OH, HYPE
And hope no-one in the audience has videos of their own that they want to share.
I'm not very familiar with the Gnome team, but isn't this just a resource problem?

They're trying to build a better product, and they're only a bunch of part-time volunteers.

At some point they had a bunch of features, but to keep up with the other desktops (Aero, Quartz) they had to focus on rearchitecting and, being a small team, there haven't enough manpower to keep all the features.

I also don't think language (api's) are not at all comparable to desktop environments. There's just so much going on in a desktop environment.
This is sad. There is no proof that this person was the one who stole the phone (Of course, there is no proof that he wasn't). I wont tell you what to do, but I would never do something like this unless I'm confident that I have the right person.

Scrubbing the phone isn't as common as some make it out to be, and the result is victims becoming victims twice.
He's not an "ordinary guy". He's a dirty, low-down thief that uses some else's property for his own gain and stalks the owner and her friends.
I have to admit I missed this aspect. I've only delivered projects where the main folder was not web accessible until now.

I agree that this is an issue, I'll have to see if I can find a clever way to get around this.
Why would the 'thief' keep the phone? In the article it says that this happens regulary.
Well but he BOUGHT a stolen phone. Yes but did he know it?

Years ago I bought some used hardware from one of my neighbours. It did not pay the full price but it was still far from cheap.

About 2 weeks later he wanted it all back because he had been cought on camera stealing it at work and his boss would not press charges if he brought it back.
Not to mention he might have just bought the stolen phone from some junkie or something...
He logged into her Facebook and stalked her friends!
Real classy. Yes, you lost your property, and that's unfortunate, indeed iritating.

Making psudeo homophobic comments about the guy? Really mature.
Junk white isn't $4. Mass-produced 'artisan' bread is.
Pro tip: setting up an auto-responder on your regular email account pointing people to your surveillance-free account is not generally regarded as best practices.

Inaccurate headline aside (the author is candid about the limitations of what he's doing), it's a good illustration of how hard it is to cut down your profile significantly, and the kind of trade offs you have to think about.
I'm currently trying to learn functional programming through Haskell. Glad to have found another resource, plus this cheat sheet linked from the page looks handy: http://cheatsheet.codeslower.com/
here is a downside: more electromagnetic radiation in your dwellings. Amazing how no one even bothers to look at all these devices from the health point of view.
If you're buying phones from junkies, you should either expect it to be stolen (in which case, you aren't helping by buying stolen goods and you're just as bad as the thief) or wipe the whole thing.
I'm not a heavy C++ developer and only use it to augment other languages when performance demands it, but not having to deal with memory management and the problems it can create when binding to another language is a nice benefit. The only drawback with Go though for my usage is when using on Android, since it has to be compiled statically when used with the NDK.
Wow... We are finally back at the medieval pillory? This so much (including the story how the phone got stolen) tells so much about the ex-owner. His character and all.

Instead of outing the thief, he just might ask himself, if swimming that drunk might just count of his share of the blame for the iPhone-situation he found himself in.

Aren't we (as human beings) a tad more civilized, nowadays? Or shouldn't we be?
Oh, that makes it totally ok to steal.
I thought this at first too, but that video shows he's called someone from the phone. This means he had to have known the phone had a previous owner, making the unknowing purchase unlikely.

You know what's strange? After seeing some of the pics, I hoped he did purchase it unknowingly. It would have felt easier.
I think the he is a she, if that matters at all.
This looks worse for the loser (of the phone) as s/he's comprehensively shown us that s/he's enjoying being a twat, whereas the user may or may not have actually stolen it. Innocent until proven guilty? All the new user of the phone has shown is that he's clueless and a bit creepy, mostly ignorant. I imagine someone who steals stuff while wearing night vision goggles might have a tad more brains than the guy now in possession of the phone.

TLDR: Loser: you've proved nothing more than that you're a twat. Don't leave your stuff unguarded while drunk in place you don't know.
>He doesn't own the phone. What part of theft don't you understand? its not his phone.

It's seems to be you not understanding that thousands of stolen items get normally sold every day, most of the time as "second hand"...
Bootstrap 3 doesn't support Linux?
Maybe Foundation would suit you better. I heard it's a bit more lightweight than BS.
I'd love to chat. I have no doubt you know more about how to engage the hardware community than me, and I'd absolutely love your thoughts on how we can further encourage engineering startups. Will shoot you an email soon :)
if the same logic were true, cars would cost 1/60 of labor + reduced price on parts locally made + same price and import duty on imported parts. However cars typically cost twice in India.
No, it makes totally BS to complain about it.

A little street smarts goes a long way...
They said "allowed", organ sale is very illegal everywhere in the world except Iran.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Current_Restriction...
I see people here making this story about pervasive surveillance. I think that you don't realize that this device was set up by the owner with this feature with the intent of backing up his (hers?) own pictures.

The thief is using that phone without disabling that feature. The original owner didn't ask for his phone to be stolen, and most definitely didn't ask to get his thief's pictures sent to him. This is not about pervasive surveillance, it's about a thief being an idiot (which if the pictures have anything to say, travels quite a bit).
That "get" will quickly become a "got", as they've finally moved away from github.com/twitter to their own independent github.com/twbs repository, as was the plan for a long time:
http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/09/29/onward/
I used it at my startup, but there's absolutely no reason for me to upgrade to BS3. I think bootstrap is great for giving people a quick framework to build off of, when writing up a grid system doesn't make sense. For our next major release, I think we're going to migrate away from BS entirely. I'd rather control it all in house than play catchup with their releases. For me, it's not even the UI but the ability to control exactly what we're doing.
Don't forget her Skype too to try and sleaze on her friends.
When I was at Georgia Tech, I didn't care about startups per se—I just wanted to learn and build stuff. I was very disappointed to learn that, as a mechanical engineering major, I could NOT sign up for a computer science course I wanted to take because it wasn't in my college or curriculum. I also couldn't have access to a machine shop (even with proper training) unless I got a job in one of the labs. I truly had much more freedom in high school, where I had a master machinist helping me with all my side projects on weekends.

So, bravo for going after the administration. They need to let kids actually learn and build shit!
Putting Your Customers First Is A Big Mistake
Modeling complex cause & effect with Bayesian Networks
These days, we don't blame the victim. While not exactly smart, the owner was in no way responsible for the theft. The thief did the stealing, whilst the owner merely didn't keep her belongings secured. She didn't force the man into stealing her belongings.
In most cases an ambulance is required much more urgently than a tow truck. The cops can call the towing company they prefer, once they're at the scene. There's no need to complicate the 911 system with towing, unless it's important that kickbacks from towing companies be paid at a high level rather than directly to individual cops.
Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand
Agree. The last time I bought health insurance in India, it cost me Rs 2600 ~ $50 for a year for $10000 worth of coverage.
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I'm surprised that people here are sympathizing with the criminal. Have you ever been robbed before?
Take the heartbreaking story about a phone getting stolen away

That part is pretty integral to the story.

You might as well say "Take away the part about the pictures and you're just left with a story of a stolen phone."
Flagged - very possibly this guy is not even the thief... I understand why you'd want revenge on whomever stole your precious phone, but this is not the way to go about it.
It looks like the mortality rates mentioned are for the entire chain of hospitals, not just Dr. Shetty.
There is an image gallery plugin that I use that secretly downloads its own latest version of bootstrap, which can conflict with the one you have loaded, breaking everything :(
I checked it out for that reason. Then I found a number of social images and began wondering why a lightweight CSS framework needed images for facebook, twitter, etc...
What Software Developers Can Learn From Weiner
Australia has a price level 144% of that of the USA.

Which was traditionally hand-waved away because goods had a much longer shipping route to get here, plus the minimum wage was higher (meaning higher staff costs). Neither of these things have any meaning to digital downloads.

No market participant has a moral obligation to keep their price down.

No market participant has a moral obligation not to ask a vendor to justify a higher price, nor to question a vendor's protectionist activities.

I find it really weird that you seem to be so strongly in favour of the free market, yet also like the idea vendors can prevent third-parties reselling things through different channels, or using similar blocks to artificially constrain supply.
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: A Common Misconception About Designing With Data
also: http://www.hypepotamus.com/
Back in my home island - where she lost her phone - we have a saying for being careful and not acting impulsively without thinking, which translates literally to: "you need to know how to swim and keep your clothes safe"