skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks fantastic. I just have a question for the author (+ Mozilla). Since this is a hosted service, I'm a bit reluctant to integrate it, because I'm not sure what we should expect from Mozilla on this project. Is this a cool open source project that will get support for a little and then fade away? Is this something that a team is really behind and is going to continue to support and extend? Is it expected that most people will just host their own version? (doesnt seem that hard to do, but there is a lot of appeal in not managing the server for this at all)

If this was from a startup I would expect a free trial and then a pricing page that told me what happened if I had X # of users or Y # of requests, but without that info, it seems there is a lot of missing information. Does Mozilla just plan to keep it hosted indefinitely? Or how do you plan to handle users of different sizes? Our use case now is small, but in choosing to go with this tool (vs. Firebase or something else), the switching costs down the road are relevant.

I'm planning to try it out in a small test either way, I'm just curious about more details on the mozilla-hosted version.
Again, the disorders I was talking about are not imaginary. They are diagnosed diseases like Bipolar disorder, OCD etc.
Conan Doyle estate seeks US copyright of Sherlock Holmes's 'complex personality'
Just started using it. looking good. nice work!
They will probably also want to support things like iMovie, iPhoto, Garage Band and give us new features etc. I don't imagine those kind of apps working well on a Chromebook.
I wonder how that conversation went?...

"Like anyone else, submit a patch subject to the review of the community... If your backdoor passes scrutiny, it gets in..."
One can only hope :)
Sunil Tripathi had no clue that an unrelated incident would turn a hoard of rabid redditians on his scent.
Buckle up: Two Silicon Valley IPOs could go off like rockets Friday morning
After going through a few of those examples, the performance really isn't that good. For example, in Chrome my computer struggles to run "The Isle of Yosemite" in 1650x1050 at 30fps when looking at a fair bit of geometry. Yet I can easily play Battlefield 3 or Natural Selection 2 at 30fps, and the gulf in image quality, how much is in a given scene, and how much game logic there is is enormous.

Thus far, HTML5 games seem more like a replacement for basic 3D flash games more than anything. Whether that will change at some point in the future I don't know, but at this point I have not really been wowed by anything.
The video really is a disservice to the effect. I played the video first and had a very different opinion of it vs. the playground!
We'll have to agree to disagree on how it was meant then. They bought the DLS system which turned them into the dominant player on both sides of the market today by a large margin. They own the market now.
Yes. He's answered a number of questions about it in the reddit thread.
Somehow we've reached a point in society where being spotted in public with a typewriter turns you into a subject of mockery and disdain.

Hell, the author would be better treated if he dressed up as a clown and made balloon animals.
It's more like a fraction of a second, not anywhere near 1-2 seconds in my experience. That said, I agree, even working with iWork-style apps might not be ideal. If they're gonna run iWork on TVs, I'd expect the apps to be executing on an Apple TV.
This surprised me as well. I would speculate it is motivated by networks with SSID broadcast turned off. You'd never find them by parsing the network list.
I felt a little uneasy reading this in the article. I write CS conference papers that are all in the same area, so obviously, some of the background information (which is a pretty small part of the overall paper) is basically copied from paper to paper. And that part is the most polished.

I don't feel uneasy because I'm doing anything remotely unethical---I'm not. I feel uneasy because it sounded a bit like the description in this article was over-broadly defining self-plagarism.
Apple lost the iPod market? I haven't been in the standalone mp3 market for a while: what beat them?
How Can You Miss Us If We Won’t Go Away?
You haven't actually defined what is wrong with it yet...
You used sarcasm! I bow down to your magnificent display of wit.
Here's the likely spot where she died

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=elk+tree+road%2C+Port...
If these are organisms one can sequence DNA from them and things will be pretty clear...
Part of being a scientist is learning how to communicate your results. And anyway, writing is required for good thinking.

As a PhD student implementor, yes, my theory colleagues get way more publications than I hypothetically could even if I were a better student than I am. That makes it hard to get an academic job, but otherwise doesn't matter too much.
How is this news for hackers?
I can't take it anymore.
Bye.
It's so easy to dismiss considerable amounts of work as trivial when you don't have to do it, isn't it?

Yes doctor, you just hit the "save to SQL database" right here on your plastic clipboard...
It integrates with your existing UI, and not as a separate box like Wave or other plugins. I also like that this is free, open source and _from Mozilla_.
You led me into thinking that slow motion would work very well in the video.
Reinvent the Motorola Atrix, but wireless. iOS would be much more pleasant to use, but I don't their strategy is that simple.
So you stopped reading an article because the guy does not use your preferred operating system then justify your bias from comments that (at the time of your posting at least) have no evidence that the article is "lame".

Well done.
It's easy to read between the lines: The NASA guys think it's likely there will be problems, and that Congress will fail to act quickly when more money is needed.
You can get BT mouse support on a jailbroken device since iOS 2.0 or 3.
OK, maybe it's just me. But I tried it on a second browser - same thing.

Thanks!
That is already supported today.
I'm not claiming it's secret information that they own. But this is like the FOIA. Some smartass comes along, hears about FOIA, and declares "Well they should just digitize the entire archive, make it available in a queriable SQL database, and be done with it". The problem is, while the public has a right to the information, the representation, the storage of that data has issues. Digitizing millions of pages of records is not an afternoon's work (triply so if you want OCR). The reason we don't have such a database is not because John Spook is too lazy to spend thirty minutes doing it.

When you put hundreds of thousands of man-hours into digitizing an archive, there's essentially a cost/value-add. If there wasn't a value-add, why would you want this hypothetical database anyway? The crime information is public, why don't you just go compile it yourself!
A (draggable) picture is worth a thousand words in this case.

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=elk+tree+road%2C+Port...
Such a simple idea - but it does make it easier to follow. The only problem I have is that it's very mac-centric. On my system the focus color is orange and it looks a bit off.

I'd suggest to use the highlight color:

box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px 3px highlight, 0px 0px 2px highlight inset
Write the program several times, alternating languages. Eventually, both the programs in both languages should converge on their respective optimal lengths.

(I say "optimal" rather than "shortest" so we're not tempted to sacrifice clarity for concision.)
penalizing sites (advertise or no traffic)

Surprising, if true. I am interested in knowing more. Do you have some good links?
The iPhone, Android devices, WP8 devices, etc.
I just tested on 30.0.1599.47 beta, OS X 10.9. It worked well.

What doesn’t work, exactly? No visual changes?
The point I was making (somewhat sarcastically) is that the claims of deficiencies in C/C++ family of languages, such as they are, are way overblown. There are lots of problems with the model of course. The author is not the first person to express his utter dismay at the inelegance and crudeness (as they see it) of this model and won't be the last. They have seen the light. How can the others be so blind etc.

Meanwhile in the real world, every single computing device, billions of them, are working non-stop, days and weeks and months on end, on a foundation of millions and millions of lines of imperative code (mostly a combination of C/C++/java/ObjectiveC ). If this programming model was so horribly broken, so inadequate, so crude, how could mere humans have created such an enormously complex technological edifice on top of such shaky foundations?
sounds like a good fairy tale. are you claiming he phased data he had already using the model in the postcard? seems unlikely.
I saw a video demonstrating something like this on YouTube a couple of years ago, but I don't recall any of the key words to search for.
This is a tragedy and I'm sorry for the family. Words are profoundly lamer than can be expressed.

It doesnt mean much that skyline is dangerous as fuck. On a motorcycle or in a car there is a luxury of being able to slow down for blind curves. On a bike, the choices are being one with a car, breaking a collar bone on a redwood or plummeting hundreds of feet. Wiping out or considering leaping over might be options.

For anyone not familiar with Skyline, it's a ridge country road that hugs the mountain range btw the pacific and the valley. It also gets hairier towards Los Gatos IIRC. Random fog and clouds can turn visibility to near zero in an instant. For most of it south of San Mateo county is gentle road with more/less some visibility apart from over-the-horizon hills. In San Mateo, it starts to become twistier and more/less switchbacks up to 92 (crosses skyline). Elk Tree and Skyline decline would be easy to get going faster than that maneuverability would allow.

A guy I used to work with at Stanford bikes San Mateo to campus and back on Skyline. It's the options leading to/from 192 that are most concerning.

Damn important: Quick turn maneuver for cyclists, wouldn't have helped here but it might save your ass one day:

http://www.bamacyclist.com/articles/QuickTurn.htm
People no longer carry dedicated media-player-only devices, since their phones do that and a bunch of other stuff.

Same reason why people argue that standalone pocket cameras are dead or doomed.
Often the best ideas are those that make you wonder, "why hasn't anyone done this before?" and in retrospect seem completely obvious and intuitive. Like this!
It's another bit of the UI that has been shoved into being "flat", but the metaphor is just lost. If you hadn't seen the iOS6 one it makes absolutely no sense now. For more of this, see the Clock app with it's ridiculous circle buttons and half a blank screen.
Why the Polite Term for “Trolls” is Also a Misnomer
This is the kind of clever and insightful commentary that makes me really love HN. The ability to capture a subtle and complex argument in four words is a rare gift. Some may feel you have no grasp of any of the issues at hand, and are just throwing out words in a vain effort to participate. Don't listen to those people. Treasure your sardonic wit as you would your depth of understanding of social issues and peoples' needs. If you take the time to build on your already formidable persuasive ability, you'll turn employers and investors to your way of thinking in no time.
Looks like apps can only support arbitrary Bluetooth devices if they're the Bluetooth Low Energy type: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11892685. Conventional Bluetooth devices would have to go through the MFi program to be supported by App Store apps.
Unfortunately, this will make colors look off on OS X. "highlight" color is different from the focus color on OS X.

Hardcoding colors for different OS-s might be more reliable.
Weirdly this is exactly what Microsoft is doing with their tablets.

iOS is much more hampered in terms of doing 'real PC things' at this point so Microsoft has a good head start, even though Windows 8 isn't exactly the epitome of polish yet.
Article is hidden in Firefox+Ghostery unless Disqus is enabled.
Are any YouTube videos more than 30fps?
AllThingsD founders in talks to value new venture at up to $40 million
Yes, I’m thinking of a way to turn it on only when the keyboard is used.
How To Win Friends and Influence People really changed how I interact with people, for the better.
What if you do not want to use your cellular connection when wifi is enabled. Will you have to start disabling cellular?
IFixit's iPhone 5s teardown
What you're saying, basically, is that it's not an opinion because you're right. That's...not a very good point.

Pointing out that most parallel systems are written in imperative languages doesn't help. Most systems in general are written in imperative languages, so it's unclear what you're even comparing it to. Imagine standing on a street corner in 19th century England saying, "What do you mean that open sewers aren't as nice as closed ones? Look at all these sewers; they're all open!" Similarly, "but dude, Google!" just isn't responsive to the argument at hand. An easier-to-grapple-with framing might be: if FP languages continue to grow in popularity, will it become much easier to build parallel software?

I don't actually know, and I'm not even claiming you're wrong. And it's a predictive claim, so you could argue the semantics of whether it's an opinion or not. But your argument sucks and your pretense that your view is some sort of law of nature is lame. It's completely reasonable for someone to disagree with you on how good C++ is for parallelism.
Not to mention when your deja vu is of deja vu.
I think OP is trying to see something when there is nothing to see. This seems to be common pattern with lot of Apple fanboys. Apple might be still innovative as they want to believe and I wouldn't argue with that because it's waste of time. OP's core argument is flawed due to many reasons:

1. iOS is not good at multi-tasking which is bread and butter for desktop. Look what happened to Windows 8 which tried to forced full screen apps on 24" monitors all the time.

2. Phone/pads still don't have necessary RAM to run desktop class applications. Can you imagine running full strength Photoshop on iPad yet?

3. Phone/Pads are still far behind in providing large cheap storage compared to similarly priced devices.

I'm not saying that convergence is not possible. It's just too early for its time still. I can imagine iPhone 7 to be able to replace today's laptops. But arguing that Apple has this genius secret idea that no one is able to see it bit too much of fanboyism.
The thing is that recognizing something as premature optimization isn't the same as disregarding it. Developers that spend all of their resources optimizing for minimal battery life impact or other minutia are just as bad as developers who refuse to publish their SaaS app until they're confident that the infrastructure will support one million concurrent users.

Release early, release often. If users love your app after release, focus on fixing the littler things like battery usage. If users hate it, try to fix the things that make them hate it, and then focus on the battery life.

Caveat: As in all optimization discussions, there are reasonable minimum thresholds for acceptability even in the "unoptimized" state. Desktop software can't take thirty minutes to boot no matter what stage of life it's in, and mobile software can't kill your battery in an hour or crash the nearby cellular network at any point either.

Don't make your software egregiously bad; just make it good enough.
It's funny that self-plagiarism is the offense he cites most. One of the things that drives me crazy about the current system is how much time is wasted in that largish section called the Introduction. On the one hand, it's my favorite section to write since it provides the most leeway for prose over the dry, wanky obfuscation that are the remainders of most papers… but still, every time I write one, I wish I could just include a damn link to any one of the N review papers out there, or even a wikipedia page.
The iPhone could replace desktop PCs that are only used for basic tasks like word processing and web browsing. However, advanced uses of desktops like hardcore gaming, a/v editing, software development, etc require much more advanced applications and underlying OS support that won't realistically be available on the iPhone in the near future.

That being said, I do think the idea of Apple selling MacBook Air like cases and displays with a slot for adding the iPhone has potential.
I don't understand your definitions of sincerity, pretentious or vain. I attempted to, by asking you a sequence of questions. They only confuse me further. My only intuition is that you think _vain_, _sincere_ or _pretentious_ are absolute. I think they are relative. E.g. you spending time not working in a cotton field 20 hours of a day to feed your family might be seen as the vain games of the rich by a farmer in third world.
Well thank you, but that's not useful. Would you mind pointing out some examples of wrong statements? Otherwise I'm none the wiser :(
I'm surprised that Conan Doyle was publishing Sherlock Holmes stories as late as 1927. I thought he had stopped long before that, since he hated the character.
Here is a different source, very different numbers, but GoDaddy is just many times bigger than anyone else. They are also growing (in absolute terms) faster than anyone else.

http://www.registrarowl.com/report_registrar_total_domains.p...
Actually, I found it to be one of the best links that has come up in the last few days on HN. It, to me, is a critical look at what ways these amazing tools created by the tech community are used for.

For example, reading the comments about him before his reply show a case of the fundamental attribution error on most of the commentators parts, ie assuming he is a 'hipster' and 'stand out for standing-out's sake'. As soon as he revealed the financial reasons for his dress and actions a lot of the stereotyping/prejudicial comments were stopped as well. That to me is interesting and worthy of studying. Perhaps the use of a typewriter set off the tech community, it seems quite a few both here and in the original article declare it a novelty and inferior to more technical means.

To answer your question, sure anonymity enables the hate to flow out but why was it present in the first place? How are the tools we are building to give people such power being used and what can we do to make sure people such as himself have a way to be understood? At least the article brings such topics up :)
This has been done before and not taken off, but who knows with apple. The slot could be where the trackpad is with the phone functioning as the trackpad.
Quantitative easing causes inflation.

Inflation does not require quantitative easing.
I wonder what Apple is using on the server side that supports MPTCP?
Add builtin inductive charging, with in-monitor charging stations (so you can literally keep your phone in your pocket) and the entire puzzle is complete. Although one might only want to do this after one has their personal optimum number of kids ;)

For me, I'll miss third-party non-gate-kept software. But I'm pretty sure that I'm the minority... iff Apple can get Microsoft's business apps on board.
I thought the same thing.

I had a simple and obvious idea to make the browser history a timeline, rather than a list of links that changes when you revisit something. Then I looked at the Chrome history and I saw that it already worked this way. It was only not obvious to Firefox, I suppose.
Andrew Ng named to the Fortune 40 under 40 list.
This reminds me of the moving brackets between form elements in OpenLaszlo—anyone remember that from circa 2008?

(Can't find a live demo, but looks like this: http://cl.ly/image/3Q2g0a182M46)
Good read. It seems everything will be a module of a system. Users will only need to carry the necessary part with them. And since the mobile device now can have such a powerful calculation capability and wireless connectivity, users will be able to just switch the physical interface they operate on and use the small bar as the core device. This isn't the first time someone tries to do this. But it seems quite viable with what Apple currently have.
Preliminary BusinessPlan from Sun Microsystems
> 2. Phone/pads still don't have necessary RAM to run desktop class applications. Can you imagine running full strength Photoshop on iPad yet?

Even if the hardware could handle an enterprise app like photoshop, I don't see companies wanting to spend the resources necessary to develop an iOS version in the first place.
Video available online as well.
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/linux-...
Makes sense, but I've never ever used such a network and so would gladly turn off this feature. :(

It looks like the iPhone is (or was, as of 2012) uniquely bad because it leaks recently used MAC addresses, while it's common for devices to leak names but not MAC addresses:

http://seclists.org/dailydave/2012/q1/59
So Apple's plan is to do what Ubuntu and Windows are already heading in the direction of? Except when Apple do it is new and revolutionary.

Why would any enterprise IT department choose the iOS device, which is going to be more expensive, less open, and probably play less well with all the Microsoft back end products they have?

I cant see a single advantage Apple have in this space over Google and Microsoft, other than a lot of senior management tend to like the shiny Apple product.
7 Reasons why any mobile game needs a backend
That's not the issue, the issue is putting the complexity in the right place. There is immense value in having a simple, unambiguous measure of absolute time and date but because a few powerful scientists and engineers decided that very silly anal retentive issues were more important than fundamental ones we can't have that. Creating a map between absolute time and local dates and relative times is much easier than scattering the diffs relative to local time through every part of the system.
+1 for Taleb. I only wish that his books were written with more humility.
Sure, I didn't say you shouldn't write. There are plenty of people who write great code and then write about it. The author of Redis author has a great blog, where he explains various design and implementation issues. That kind of work may not qualify for most academic journals. But it is a lot more valuable than a lot of academic research and should be a valid way to get a Ph.D.
I just tried opening the story's link in Chrome/OSX and also Chrome/OSX incognito (in case extensions were interfering) and the page loaded but none of the videos played until I manually clicked Play.
Sure you can. Plenty of 16 year olds have written say windows managers that thousands of people use -- that's production quality code.

Your second argument is circular -- I'm saying a valid research goal should be to write solid and useful code, and then explain it.

For example, you could write an OS kernel or kernel subsystem to fill some particular part of the design space. A great but rare example is what the authors of Lua have done.
For some reason I assumed that the experiment was to measure development time rather than program length. Obviously that wasn't specified, since you assumed the opposite.
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By the time leap minutes will be a serious issue many humans will be living on planets other than Earth. Leap seconds are absolutely the wrong solution to the problem of trying to translate between some sort of absolute time and local time.
Why does this sound exactly like the Ubuntu Edge?
Serious question: which business apps? From where I'm standing it looks like Office is dying. Not dead yet, but dying. So it can't just be that. Exchange?
also you will need #include <algorithm>