skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"I disagree - I believe people have an intimate enough relationship with certain meetup groups that they work as a micro-social network. To that end, it would make logical sense to have an independent application for those groups."

But what does that do for meetup.com, except cut themselves off completely from the very communities they're trying to foster?

>"to leverage the additional app store SEO boost from having thousands of unique titles."

You only get the "SEO boost" if people are actually looking for terms on a search engine. You're still assuming that people are actually looking for local interest group on the app store. I really don't think so.

If anyone were serious about it, one could run a quick survey and ask where users would search if they wanted to find a local group to talk about shared interests. I'd be surprised if more than 1 in 500 said anything like "app store".

>" still don't doubt that it will greatly increase raw traffic numbers"

I feel like a jerk, now, and I don't mean to be, but I also have to disagree here. I don't see how cutting Meetup out of the equation amounts to more traffic for Meetup.com.
I'm not entirely sure I'd be quoting the wisdom of a guy who sets up sockpuppets to agree with himself of discussion forums, since it would appear he has a hard time with delusions himself.
GC Alex Macgillivray leaves Twitter
Seriously.

> A check showed that, in fact, Daniel had been arrested for fighting in a park that night at about 6:45 p.m., and jail records showed he was released about 10 p.m. and the murders occurred at 8:43 p.m.

That should've been the end of it. The. End. How did NO ONE involved in the mechanics of this case (the judge, lawyers, etc.) note this fact and immediately release him? Were they relying on the fallibility of police records? Did they say "oh, well, it says he was in jail but maybe the clock was off"? Is there a counter-fact being withheld here?

I just seriously don't understand how something this clear-cut could've escaped everyone's attention. It hurts my brain.
thanks for the input. So I can install this text / HTML editor built in into my website (admin) so when admin login, he can use it to modify my website content?

I need something similar to BlogSpot.com when user login, he can modify the webpage content like About Us without having to install a program on the desktop, PC

thanks.
Because more than 30 posts can be getting upvotes at one time. If that wasn't what you meant, then you should put more specific detail.
The rewards on these quests, suck. I'm going to skip them and just go power level through some dungeons.
When learning English, the easiness with which one learns also depends on your native language. For example, speakers of latin languages learn English much easier than speakers of slavic languages.

Also, many languages leave their mark on their native speakers in many cases being very hard to get rid of your native accent.

I was lucky to have Romanian as my native language, as it doesn't leave such a big scar on your pronunciation. I almost speak American English correctly, in spite of not living in an English-speaking country and I've got friends that speak perfect British English, French or Spanish (giving these as examples, as these have thick accents). True story - Microsoft has a support center in Bucharest, with one reason being our linguistic abilities.
Of course memorizing not sensible. That's why we have cheat sheets and/or standardized reference booklets. Practical, and more importantly fair to all students because they all have the same material available.
Yes you can - but you need the outer volume to have fat style file system where the OS won't write randomly (not sure which of the *nix ones is suitable for that) at the higher addresses. You basically say - from this address on is a hidden volume and there is new volume header with new master key that needs to be mounted separately.
Meetup already integrates with Facebook, and it shows the name of the Meetup rather than the product. Meetup wouldn't gain any additional advantage from breaking their app down into a million pieces.
>PG could turn Microsoft into a giant startup factory

Has that ever been Microsoft's goal?
Sorry. Let me try to make it relevant:

(1) I think it’s great to give kids general-purpose tools for unstructured hacking. There’s enormous pedagogical value for every person in learning to think procedurally, break things down into parts, debug algorithms, and explore mathematical systems. Every teacher should read Mindstorms.

(2) General purpose computers are nowadays really great for this, if the proper programming environments get set up on them. They have awesome screens for displaying neat graphics. They have reasonable keyboards for quickly typing in code and numbers and symbols. They have amazing CPUs and GPUs which can crunch numbers like nobody’s business.

(3) I think we should start kids programming at age 5-8 with a tool like Scratch or Logo or I dunno what, but something designed and tested on children, with good sets of materials and curricula set up to teach them to do exploratory programming.

(4) I think at some point students should be given tools which give them low-level access to hardware, like I dunno an Arduino or something. These things are getting to be $20-30 now, and it’s possible to use them for all sorts of nifty stuff and learn how to operate on constrained systems and twiddle bits in memory and whatever supposed advantage a TI calculator would offer, if that’s the goal.

(5) Many people don’t use tablet computers (or other computers) in math courses in school in a very pedagogically sound way, and a lot of software used in schools is terrible. (Giving access to open-ended exploratory systems is much better than giving access to one-purpose constrained tools.) This is too bad, because big color multitouch displays are really nice input/output devices for many purposes.

(6) It’s all well and good that the original author and many other people had a nice experience programming a TI calculator as a way to stave off boredom in math class, or whatever. But TI graphing calculators were overpriced and outdated and frankly pretty crappy relative to other devices people used 10 years ago, as long as we get the right software on those devices. By now it’s just ridiculous. Making people type BASIC into a calculator using tiny buttons and a little monochrome screen is not the right way to introduce mathematics, or programming, or anything else.
Looks like this can't do email. Is there such a thing as an otherwise dumb phone that can just do email (specifically Gmail)? I can live without all the other smartphone features, but email would be nice to have.
Appalachian.
It would be a bandaid that could be circumvented by the same exploit using not 1970-01-01 but the date of latest OS/binary update release - that date would be >= compilation date, and <= today, so would work.
They're not that very well built. My retired anti-tech, luddite, menu-fearing dad had plenty of trouble using the older, more squarish model.
This article made me think about David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) system / methodology.

One of the ideas in GTD is that by getting organized and using a trusted reminder system, you free up some subconscious processing capacity.

I have found GTD to be helpful.
No. You will lose the 100m, 200m and 400m events, and then you will keep running for another 1000m+ for no reason.
I played similar type games on my TI-86 calc and modded them some as well when I was in high school. They were basically stock buying/selling games, only with the stocks renamed as drugs to better appeal to teens.
I'd much rather have Bill Gates continue trying to save the world.
I suspect browser doesn’t matter much here. Console yields a TypeError until Flash is enabled (whitelisted) for the page.
MOOC: Data Mining with Weka
I kind of figured the tools were out there and selected the word stumbling carefully. Even so, those look pretty awesome.
I legitimately can't tell if this is serious or not
What's wrong with Carl Bildt?
Plenty of Singaporeans or Indians are, in fact, native speakers with accent and dialect differences that can stymie other English speakers. I've had people complain New Zealanders speak too quickly for foreigners to understand (as well as our flattened vowels). And get back to me after watching Taggert.

(The most incomprehensible language I've ever heard from a native speaker personally wasn't Glasgwegian, but rather two 60+ folks demonstrating Black Country English.)
I was interested until I saw that it starts at €7,250.00!
i wonder how much of those are due to rebooking fees...
Hacker News patriotism is out of place here.

There's nothing in the guidelines about what constitutes legitimate top comments. Hacker News uses a democratic system, where those who choose to vote dictate what the most visible comment is.

Your expectation is narrow and doesn't reflect what the vocal majority want to see, evidently. It would appear most people appreciated his comment, in which case, who are you to dictate that should and should not be the top comment?

If you want to read salient points about the article, make an excellent comment so it will be upvoted, or scroll down and read them. They're there.

EDIT: I'd ask that if you downvote me, you at least comment on why you disagree. It's not like my opinion is just going to go away, guys.
Keep It Simple, Stupid: Math Doesn’t Have to Be “Complex”
I have used the F3 for a few years now and love it. Only issue I have is that it takes a while to access my phonebook after turning the phone on, but with two week battery life, why turn it off?

Actually to be totally honest it's dwindled down to like 3-day battery life. I should get a new battery. But the phone is tough. One of my friends dropped it on the sidewalk and it's fine. I keep the phone with my keys and it's all scratched up but still fine.

I've got it on a prepaid plan I can refill via a phone call. Seriously I feel free with this thing. Might be nice to have maps on it or Lyft, but whatever...I just call a cab for god's sake.
Hah - Romanian also doesn't have "th" and so beginners tend to replace it with "z".
Agreed, but I can access Facebook and Twitter over SMS. What does a "Modern" enable me to do? Type long emails with my thumbs, play Angry Birds, and eat up the battery by having a huge screen and GPS powered on all day.

I bought a smartphone because it lets me check email when I'm sitting in lectures at university and I'm bored. I haven't really used my smartphone as a phone as much as its price would have you expect.
There's absolutely no incentive MS can offer any of the named people to work for them. So I'm not sure if you're joking, or...?
The DX is back (or was?) in stock @ Amazon, in case you were not aware.
How can we get iPads accepted as legit devices to use while taking tests?

Remove the ability to communicate, boot it to a standard image that doesn't allow cheats.
> no reduction in financing (taxation)

If you look at the GDP to national debt map on wikipedia you will notice, that most (if not all) first world countries, the beacons of human rights and democracy, owe more that they can produce in the foreseeable future. It is not the tax money they are spending.
I don't know about the current state of the cooling mechanism, and I don't want to doubt there has been major spills of nuclear water in the past, but why are they so sure that this mist over the sea is caused directly by heat release from nuclear material in the water?

I'd suppose it's warmer-than-normal water that has been through some sort of multi-stage cooling circuit, just like in any other nuclear plant.
The Visual 6502 group enjoys dissolving old chips in acid, photographing the die, and reverse-engineering them.

Unfortunately (or not, depending on your perspective) it's not just the Visual 6502 group that enjoys that. Any leading chip in the marketplace these days is almost immediately reverse engineered in this way. I haven't been in the chip business for a few years but I recall a company which offered this as a complete service - they'd send you detailed circuit schematics and so forth.
That is all going to change as the world becomes more data driven. As a sales person, relationships are important, but still without a deep understanding of my data, I would be incredibly inefficient. Talk like that also sounds like what the Equities traders were saying up until 2007 or 2008. I don't need to know tech, I don't need to know algos, until they were replaced by trading tech and those same guys who were making 1.5-2 MM/yr couldn't get 150K jobs. Automation and electronification are happening. Only people at Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein's level can truly afford to be luddites. As the old guard dies, the youth will start changing everything. Technocrats vs Plutocrats will rule.
TI-86 can be programmed in asm without hacks (I had both 85 until it broke down and 86).
There's a pretty good IDE that runs directly on Android[1], though I still find programming much too painful to do on anything other than a PC (screen size, etc). For a kid that's just getting interested in stuff, something like that might be useful (or for anyone else doing small modifications). Might be a bit more difficult to find something equivalent for native development on iOS though.

I guess the difference is that one has to seek out the tools versus them coming preloaded on graphing calculators.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui&hl...
Partway through college I bought an old HP-48 and suddenly had this realization. The TI system encourages you to enter exactly what you see on the page, plus a whole bunch of parentheses because calculators are dumb and everyone's paranoid about order of operations. With RPN, you just do the math.
That new policy won't take effect until 2 years from now, unfortunately. Hopefully it will serve its purpose.
Frankly, I've got the worst of both worlds -- I bought my Android phone upfront, and I still pay extra for the data plan.

In theory I do this so I can change my plan and/or switch providers willy-nilly, but I never do because I don't want to lose a phone number that's not really "mine" to begin with.
> cp bothers me because they shortened a four-letter word, the same with ls and list. Despite the original terminal constraints, they couldn't spare two characters?

Really, I think that with an OS designed in the late 1960s, brutally reducing commonly-used commands to the shortest recognizable form was a very good idea.

Storage capacity (both RAM and persistent), processor speeds, and bandwidth for internal and network transfers were all many orders of magnitude less than today's systems. Extra bytes had a real cost.
Network Effects are Magical
What is your use model? I find the smaller Kindles are perfectly suited to novels etc.

Really, it isn't surprising how different use models benefit from different e-reader profiles. Ever notice how textbooks are monstrous 12x16 beasts while novels are often 3x6 or somesuch?
I'm guessing that you (like me) come from one of exactly 7 countries whose citizens have the privilege of being able to apply for a work visa from within Germany while here on a tourist visa (or, more commonly, a visa-waiver). I can assure you that Syria is most definitely not on that list, and that almost everyone in the world is actually required to obtain a work visa in their home country.
Ask HN: Business Card Printing Recommendations?
Can anyone recommend a good place to have good quality business cards and other items (i.e. notepads, magnets, etc.) printed?
The Chinese ransomware attacks Windows user accounts
Why Declarative Programming Matters
Totally serious. Much of Apple's meteoric rise in the 2000s was because of the Steve Jobs brand, and Apple 2000s is the success you want to copy.

All the above listed are the biggest names in tech today. There are others, Gates, Ellison, Zuckerburg, but I don't consider them as talented as the ones I listed.
> This allowed the police to read at least some of the files he was carrying. These included some 58,000 "highly classified UK intelligence documents".

So apparently there was cause to detain him, it appears.
Google Wants to Be Inside Your Head. Really
No, I'm just saying that HN traffic is a rare opportunity, and I know Questhub onboarding experience sucks, so most of these visitors will be lost.

With that being said, of course there are lots of plans for improvements (most of them listed in Meta realm), but people, mostly from Perl community, used it successfully for a few months.
Why does Perl get its own category?
everyday im husslin
Yes we could definitely improve the way you interact with the tree.

For one thing, the looping back when holding the arrow key is annoying to me too, and a simple fix we will get to.

As for the branch jumping, we tried other approaches, but haven't found one that works well in all cases.

The core of Gingko, navigating tree structures, is something we are constantly trying to improve.

Thanks for your feedback!
RSA is asymmetrical algorithm. They rely on mathematical problems being hard.

TrueCrypt use symmetrical - AES Twofish and Serpent and you can even cascade them. RSA and AES have nothing in common. So a mathematical breakthrough in RSA will not help at all with making AES insecure.
It wasn't clear, until the trillions part.
I'm curious about this. Is it just because the text and buttons are bigger on the Note II? Or is it because their granddaughter/grandson only responds on Facebook, so an over-sized touch device is the only way to stay in touch with them?
I want to add an interesting personal experience. My native language is a Northeastern dialect in China. The dialect doesn't distinguish well the sounds between /z/ and /zh/, between /c/ and /ch/, and between /s/ and /sh/.

I went to Beijing for college, started speaking Mandarin, and picked it up quickly. But until now, I still regularly make the mistake between /z/ and /zh/, and the other two pair. I am able to easily tell the differences between the sounds themselves. If the sounds are included in a sentence, however, I simply can't tell which is which.

Here is the interesting part. I have no difficulty in distinguishing these sounds in English. I can clearly hear the differences between words like 'sip' or 'ship', no matter if they are spoken as single words or are part of a sentence. My ears will immediately catch the difference. But if it is Mandarin, i will get lost between words like 'ziji' and 'zhiji'.
Dude, from my perspective, its the only sub field that is even halfway right in statistics. I have read so very many psychology papers in top-ranked journals that commit basic, stupid statistical mistakes all the time. And no-one seems to learn.

If you use a linear regression rather than ANOVA, you will often be asked to change it to an ANOVA.

I am well aware of the breadth and depth that is psychology, and most of it is poorly conducted and irritatingly bad. I actually think it has a lot to do with applying a particular experimental model of science developed for non-reflexive systems to reflexive systems, with predictably hilarious results.

Please do not take out the rest of the commentators opinions on me, it upsets me also when people bash psychology from ignorance, but I come from a place of love when I bash it, as I do really adore the subject, but feel that much of it is so very, very awfully done.

A/B testing - psychology degrees teach pretty good experimental design, but you wouldn't know it to see a lot of published research. Additionally, rigorous experimental design owes a lot more to statistics than psychology.

UX Testing: This is definitely a good area, but again I think we don't control enough for the impact of the researcher(s) - see Rosenthal, 1969 for the problem, and note the complete lack of care regarding these effects in modern psychology.

Grief management? Seriously? I don't really think psychology has added much here, but would be delighted to read some good papers that prove me wrong.

Ameliorating sexism and racism? Good intentions, but given that I read a lot of this stuff I would have to say that they are perhaps the worst for statistical sins and errors (with the notable exception of Brian Nosek).

I know very little about perception research in HUD's, do you have some good papers?

I'm not entirely certain why you felt the need to correct me, when if you look at my comments in the overall thread it can be seen that I am pretty much on the same side as you.

It is possible that I am so sick of people who commit statistical sins for career advancement purposes (something I could never do) that I may be taking it out on the field.

Incidentally, what is psychology? I would be interested to hear your definition (as long as its not waffle like the scientific study of the human mind and behaviour, which merely begs far more questions).
1)Events are difficult to organize and attendees are expecting a more interactive experience at the events they attend. We're trying to provide interactive event experiences that anyone can create, regardless of how small or large the event is.

2)Event organizers feel the pain in every event they organize. We provide a way to solve these pain points and they're willing to pay for it.

3)We believe there are significant opportunities in a) creating a more social, connected experience b) developing an organizer solution that complements their workflow rather than add onto it and c) creating an event experience that constantly engages attendees whether they are on their mobile device or not.
Regarding your 3), I think Python would be really good for this. Then they could graduate to C and lisp.

Also, I strongly agree with your 6). A small, monochrome screen was very painful to look at on my TI-83 when I was in school. I hated it (I also programmed it, but didn't have nearly as much fun as the author..I didn't think it was that cool).
Someone will find a way if given the will and the time. Finding a way around imposed restrictions is much more for fun and the challenge than the actual cheating (mainly because the amount of effort involved in doing it means you know or end up learning the material in the process). 5th graders may not be as much of a worry, but students approaching and in high school would be. It might detour some, but not those with a more "hacker mentality."

Just for comparison, all of my Computer Science Exams were given on paper and this was all within the last 5-6 years. Why? Because given the ability to use a computer, someone would have found a way to get an advantage, probably more for the challenge than the actual cheating. This was at one of the top 5 largest universities in the United States as well, so there was no shortage of money or brainpower.
So it's like my current phone, but with a touch screen and a decent camera? Sounds good. I could leave my 16MP pocket camera in the car and only have one device in my pockets.

Smartphones never appealed to me. They're just bad enough at all the things I want to do with a mobile device to make it a poor value proposition. I'd rather have a nice tablet. Something like the Surface (non-RT) with a few more iterations.
you've got a perfectly understandable accent,

i still remember one of your rehearsal presentations for demo day,

it was something along the lines of

"this graph is bad"

"this graph is good"

i even thought you were playing up your accent for added comedic value.

(for context, he was showing a performance graph of rethinkDB vs. mySQL, and the graphs were practically inverted. rethinkDB was performing so much better it was comical how much throughput it was doing)
Well. This is consistent with pg's policy on ascii-only in Arc.
Is pg actually a tech talent? No offense to pg, but my understanding of the man is he is a good investor, not necessarily a technical genius or a kickass CEO.
The best and dumbest phone

http://www.johnsphones.com/store/johns-phone-business/item45

Just a dial pad with a paper(!) phonebook that fits inside. Yum, it tickles my inner hipster.
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Encouraging citation of software: introducing the CITATION file