skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, the labels they use are a little imprecise.

"Implicit" is a two-way, automatic binding: updates from the server will show up in your app and updates your app makes will be sent to the server automatically.

"Explicit" is a one-way, manual binding: updates from the server will show up in your app automatically but you have to sync back to the server manually using the add, remove, and update methods.

Is that what you mean?
I wonder if there's some way to combine schema, core.typed and clj-schema in some way that is better than the sum of its parts. (https://github.com/runa-dev/clj-schema)

I regrettably haven't had much time to see where the cross-section between these libraries is exactly, being very occupied at work. But I'd rather work on one grand thing, than end up with disparate libraries that aren't as fully-featured.
Is there a better way to build software than the MVP?
Tried little league and it was 60 page rulebook and forms and spending an hour sitting in car to play away games and parent drama (there's always two parents who can't stand each other, I stayed out of it and laughed at them). Parents trash talking other teams kids performance, BS like that. Rules-lawyer parents. Crying kids when they let the team down.

Organized sports is for parent's entertainment, makes parents smile. Pick up game at city park a block away from home is for kids, makes kids smile. Little league baseball diamond = lots of yelling. City park baseball diamond = lots of laughing.

Perhaps there's organized sports that doesn't suck, somewhere. Must be fun, for them.
Yeah, but that's not actually true.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/07/26/samsung-dethrones-app....

The supposed "failure" Samsung seem to be doing pretty well.
Akamai provides the CDN for almost all of Apple's binary releases, so this makes sense
So a prediction exists, with some evidence towards it, that it's possible to do computation that doesn't consume negentropy?

Well, I'll grant you one thing: not quite sure what it is you're computing, but assuming your plan works, that was a surprisingly short path to conserving the universe's resources until your computational substrate suffers proton decay.

I still have only hunches of what computation has to do with actual lives. Please, explain your Evil Plan out loud.
"In short: I had respect of everyone bigger than me, and everyone else too. The situation in USA currently is that the first time you open your mouth against some kid to scorn him, and you might end up in prison."

If it hasn't changed yet, it will soon change in Bulgaria too. Maybe not go in jail but the kid will you to "go f yourself," or throw rocks at you.
Medical history is a double-edged sword in the US. Why do you think people are so reluctant to share it when they are being judged, charged more, charged less, etc. depending on it?

If this weren't the case, some Americans wouldn't have a problem with 'divulging' their medical history.

Health care is based on science, you're right, but there are factors that influence what is researched and where funds go. Plus, putting it in practice or implementing it according to the right policy; this is another issue.[1]

Also, I think you're undermining the magnitude of lobbying.

But Google is a huge company, with a lot of power and capital. So, like I said in response to someone else, I am very interested in the details of Calico.

[1] http://billmoyers.com/2013/05/18/blinding-us-from-science/
No they don't. Ideas don't replace energy. Once we run out of fossil fuel inputs to the system it's highly unlikely we can run things as we are doing.
No sure really - thinking off the top of my head something along the lines of the Tilt FireFox extension could be cool.

Not sure how this would work in practise, or even if it'd be useful to be honest...
The thing is, none of these problems happen the instant we solve death (and "solving death" is not itself going to be instant). Life expectancy will increase, population will gradually increase with it, and we'll be able to see the problems we have to deal with as a result a very long way off.

It's similar to an argument people sometimes give me when I tell them I'm vegan, which goes along the lines of "If everyone suddenly became vegan, imagine what that would do to the world economy! How would we feed all of these people when our food producing infrastructure is animal based?"

And the reason I don't worry about that is that I know that scenario isn't going to happen. When people stop using animal products, which I think will happen - not for ethical reasons, but for economic reasons as cheaper, more authentic substitutes arise, and the sustainability of animal farming dwindles - it will not be an overnight process, and the world will have plenty of time to adjust.

It's basically the same with extreme longevity. We don't have to solve these problems with the tools we have today, because we don't even know when they will be problems that need solving. And we have no idea what tools will be available to us once we actually do have to solve those problems.

But if you flip the scenario around, and imagine that everyone already lives forever, and these problems start to show up, do you really think that anyone would even think to suggest "Let's have everyone die after around 70 years or so"? That idea would be grimly hilarious in a very Modest Proposal sort of way.
http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...

There have been a few discussions as well. From my single data point: don't post on a Friday night :)
Facebook “Like” button just as protected as written speech, court rules
You can roll your own Gapps quite easy (before flashing a custom ROM) if at some point Google starts going after anyone and everyone distributing it (which is what they would potentially target if they did). I've done it before when compiling the AOSP source and there's nothing out yet because it's a new AOSP version.
Actually the root of all chronic illness is being born. You can't age without that happening first.
I am not suggesting we don't do this. Just highlighting that radical life extension poses unique problems which are an order of magnitude more serious to think through than regular medicine advances.
Attention management in the 140 character economy
No. But I had a look at it a year or two ago.

I wasn't very impressed precisely because it does not have flexible types and typechecking.
I'd be interested to know how they are collecting their data. Rent prices are very hard track, short of asking tenants how much they pay.

You can monitor Craigslist, but then you are tracking rental advertisements instead of what tenants are actually paying.
We aggregate data across tons of our customers (anonymously, of course) - Mixpanel.com
What if I imagine an object that i've never seen before? No stored image there. Or just watch the ambient closed-eye-visuals that seem to run constantly in the background like a screen saver?

What if what, science doesn't deny imagination.

Those and many other examples of different ways that people use their brains will require just as many rebuttles which I'm sure you'd provide but that gets us nowhere.

They don't require any rebuttals because once again, science/materialism does not deny that people have mental experiences. You seem to be trying to make a point but I can't see what it is.

Then why do we look at images on the computer monitor? Why not just watch the electrons flow? Why do we imagine in images at all then?

I see no point in this line of questioning. You can't see electrons flow, and that we use monitors to reproduce images or use imagination to create new ones in no way says anything about scientific materialism.

You say the latter above quote that the apple image can be boiled down to its electrons and it is still an apple on that level.

I said no such thing. An apple is composed of atoms and at the atomic level is not an apple, it's just atoms. An apple is a macro object, a name we assign to a particular collection of atoms. Again, still have no clue what point you're attempting to make.

But in fact your position changes from reductionist materialism to non-reductionist twice in one post.

I did no such thing.

Neuroscience has pretty well established that consciousness is an illusion Followed by That's merely a subjective mental experience of reality, something completely accepted by materialists and science.

All mental experience is an illusion, those statements are in no way contradictory nor are they flip flops between opposing world views. They are all well accepted by scientific materialists.

At this point I'm no longer convinced you have an actual point to make. You jumped into this conversation claiming the absolutist mindset of the scientific materialist was somehow flawed and haven't provided a single argument to demonstrate your point that wasn't simply a straw-man tear-down of your own misunderstanding of the scientific point of view. You seem to think scientific materialists deny mental experiences, but they don't, so the very basis of your objection is flawed.

You engaged me, not I you, so again I ask, what is your point, what are you trying to get at?
And every time it shows up on here or reddit, I say "THIS time I'm going to read it..."
For background info, read the art of computer programming, chapter 3.

For practical help, see http://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/ (linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests)
I'm a designer on Dribbble. The work I present on Dribbble and the "actual" work I do for my clients are quite different most of the time. You can think of Dribbble as the "runway" of graphic/UI design - most of the stuff there are for showing off the designers' ability and/or are conceptual. They are fun and beautiful to look at, but not always designed for practical use, just like most people won't wear runway fashion everyday.
The Conclusion of My Standing Desk Experiment
This is a nice article. I think this longform format provides a lot more substantial and stimulating topics/content than any other online websites or digital magazines. This (Aeon) and Nautilus (http://nautil.us) are probably the only two online magazines that are worthwhile to read.
I've spent the past 8 years (just finished 6 years at university), trying to convince others to hop on grided paper. Probably the single most important part of my note taking strategy.

Still can't get myself to move to pens though.
Kernel::Native
Your snark is unnecessary and very misplaced.

This will result in a significant thought paradigm shift in all things health-related, and it's a great thing that a company with as many resources and as high of a profile as Google is looking into this. Google is a company that is making self-driving cars, providing incredibly fast internet to consumers, providing Internet to suffering areas with a new idea (the Loon), exploring definitively new ideas for hardware (Google Glass) -- and now they're looking into aging.

I'd say Google guys are sufficiently more respectable than the political chameleon who's lobbying DC today [1], and just recently directed considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes [2].

[1]: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/mark-zuckerberg-dc-969...

[2]: http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/04/26/1925921/mark...
My sincere condolences to the family of Margaret Mary Vojtko.

Regarding the subtext of adjunct professor / student tuition abuse and exploitation for the keepers of the 'trademark and databases.'

We are almost facing the event horizon of a black-hole; sub-star level lecturers are facing obsolescence. Mega-corp is trying to establish a stranglehold on what may be the 'database.' The database will determine your personal 'trademark' status in society and its integrity is something worth fighting for.
Can this startup steal Node from Joyent? VCs bet $8M on it
It's not just the day or time of day - it also has to do with what tech news is going on at the time, who happens to be browsing /new at the time you submitted, etc.
Ask HN: Good monitoring tools as service
Hi, I would like to ask you guys if you know good online monitoring tools. The thing is that my friend and I are starting a linux server support company but we don't want to spend time setting up a zabbix server, so we want to pay for a good service. You guys can point me to some good services for monitoring servers online?

Thanks!
I did, yes, and so did my brother who was my partner.

We scraped by. I lived on what would not be enough for most people, mostly tip money.

The bar is still open (we opened March 2010), my brother runs it, and I'm off doing other things.
The reason? Like, higher diagnosis rate? Also, autism can be diagnosed by the age of 2, and practically a significant portion of cases gets identified by the age of 5-7. So, um, no, it's not video games.
Wonderful news. I've used three different major versions of CM on my antique wheezy Nook Color, and it's made all the difference. Salud!
Those prices are merely a proxy for the complexity and resources necessary to go and mine off-world resources. We need a highly complex economic and manufacturing system to remain in place for a long period despite increased pressures of resource depletion and overpopulation and the commensurate rise in instability; we need to use huge amounts of resources to create a space program - materials and energy; energy - all of the above requires huge petrochemical inputs which are finite and depleting rapidly. There was only 1 cubic mile of oil in the world and we're half way through it and what's left is being sucked out faster than ever before and is harder to get to (EROEI).
CyanogenMod goes from hobby Android to business Android
I was going to tell that the website didn't work but I figured I had to tell Ghostery to whitelist Mixpanel on mixpanel.com
Thanks for the link, especially since my reply probably really only deserved a http://lmgtfy.com
You share Microsoft's opinion.
PHP programmers are psychopaths. Who is surprised? :-)
The Leuchtturm1917 is a very quality book. I switched from Moleskine myself and can't go back. The pre-numbered pages and table of contents is a life-saver. And the paper quality is somewhere in the realm of where Moleskine likely started at (I remember them being quite good at one point).

The way I use note-taking on pen-and-paper is not so much to stay organized as it is to train my thinking. I tend to be a lateral thinker and taking notes is a way of capturing thoughts as they come to me so that I can refine them and learn to organize them. I have found that in the >5-6 years I've been following the practice that I tend to collect my thoughts in streams now compared to when I started when my thoughts were much more sporadic.
Watch iOS 7 adoption in realtime (through Mixpanel)
And what is your solution to not getting hit by a truck over an infinite period of time?
How is that news? In the 70s car drivers in Japan were found to be drunk although they had not have a beer or alike. Thats how they found out some Asian people are missing a gene to disintegrate alcohol. They had an infection in their gut that produced alcohol which accumulated because of their incapability to disintegrate and therefor were found DUI ..
I think this is more tied to reproductive practices.... I wonder if there is historical data correlating for example mental problems with monogamy.
This piece seems to me to inject just the right amount of formalism into this process. That is, I've seen other efforts in this direction build prodigious piles of abstraction, rules, and theory around this mission/vision device and around the equivalents of these four-layer and "jobs" models. Whereas, I can imagine any small group of decision-makers responding productively to this material.
No, I took a different approach. Any normal cron job that wants to be run only once (per cluster) grabs a zookeeper lock. Those that fail to acquire the lock exit and try again during the next interval. This is implemented with a wrapper around the cron job that takes care of locking: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Ops/blob/master/tools/get_z.... More details here: http://blog.parse.com/2013/03/11/implementing-failover-for-r...
Aubrey's reaction piece is listed on the front page of Time's website, and can be seen here: http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/18/finally-the-war-on-aging-ha...
The data is collected from a project of 6 developers of a period of 3 months. An Eclipse plugin where used to log scrolling and editing events. Every software project is different. Much more data is needed to make evidence. It turned to be a file in this project that took an in proportionate time of the projects resources.
Ask HN: why don't startups/high growth companies raise debt rather than equity?
For the earliest stage companies, it's pretty obvious why they don't: they can't. But it seems like a lot of companies with great traction (~$1 MM in revenue), recurring revenue (subscription to content, products or software) and need are out there raising VC money in what amounts to equity (I'm counting convertible debt here, too). Why don't they try to use forward receivables to raise debt either between or in place of an equity round, which even at a high interest rate, is cheaper than equity?
Hanging out on the floor at Twiliocon, Josh - you should come!

Great questions - as you can imagine there's not a whole lot I can share about the relationships with our carrier partners. Working with them was essential to bringing this product to market, and we sincerely appreciate all the hours they put with us on getting Picture Messaging out the door.

A few details to the questions I can share:

1) The signaling, the SMIL generation and whole lot of other headaches from the MM* protocols are completely behind the API. We tried to keep this new feature as close to the SMS API you already know and love as possible - for inbound there are just four new params (NumMedia, MediaUrln, MediaContentType and the new unique identifier MessageSid) and for outbound just one new param MediaUrl.

You send / receive your photos - we make it work for whomever is sending or receiving. If you're at Twiliocon this week, two of our messaging leads Thomas Wilsher and Kelvin Law are dropping a killer talk on some of the technical details around this abstraction. It's probably my favorite of our talks at Twiliocon right now.

2) This was the combined effort of a whole lot of talent inside and outside Twilio for a very long time. Very proud of what they've been able to accomplish working together and so stoked to see first hand how excited developers are to use it.

3) This is real MMS sending and receiving pictures. We rolled out Picture Messaging first as we wanted to get it in developers hands as quickly as possible.

Got to head back out and join the Doers at the Design Concourse in San Francisco - Twiliocon only comes once a year, so I don't want to miss more time with all the hackers that came out to hang.

Always great to hear from you Josh. You should swing by if you're in town.
You're getting downvoted because your comment is just complaining about hivemind, followed by a typical proof-by-downvotes addendum.
Social-first: The new way to live
Take, for example, Avalon streaming interfaces: http://www.altera.com/literature/manual/mnl_avalon_spec.pdf

Yes, it is a bunch of flip-flops and gates, but in the end the interface with "empty" signal is different from interface without it. The same is for error signal.

To connect those sinks and sources properly you have to match types. E.g., you have to deal with the absence of "empty" on one end.

Otherwise you will surely make some obvious mistake.

And, finally, Avalon streaming interface is a tuple:
type ASI a = (SOP, EOP, a)
data SOP = NoSOP | SOP -- SOP and EOP equivalent to boolean
data EOP = NoEOP | EOP

And parameter "a" can be anything - raw value without empty or error, tuple of value and empty, tuple of value and error, triple of value, empty and error. They all are different. Even if their connection is no-op, like inventing "always good" value for error field, this no-op should be specified.

Otherwise, you make discovery of the error very distant.
the quote is "maybe speeding up your development a little"
He's making fun of the buzzwords, not the message itself. Frankly, if you think "catalyzing paradigms" is a good way to say something, I'd recommend taking an English literature class.
I wonder if it would be possible to, for a price, purposely induce this this in alcoholics who are anticipating a prolonged prison sentence.

Probably the most unethical idea I've had all week...
We are working very hard to bring this service to US phone numbers - we want it as badly as you.

For now, we have it on US short codes and Canadian phone numbers.
The closest one to me, which is still way too far away to actually join and use, is "famous" for inventing the idea of putting giant electric motors in kids car toys and then driving them around ridiculously fast until they break or hurt themselves. Bunch of people hanging out socially and mostly screwing around accomplishing nothing but having fun, sounds like "play". I suppose it depends a lot on which hacker space you hang out at, there probably are boring ones.
The problem of population growth exists regardless of life extension technology. The solution we are headed for already is that a lot of people will simply starve to death.
btw - Thanks! We worked really hard on it.
Thinking that death is a problem or 'a bad thing that happens' is incredibly short-sighted. Improving the well-being of humanity in general is a great goal; life extension can be a different topic entirely.
I've added an action item to our sync up.
I definitely hear you. We want it as badly as you do - can't wait to get them in your hands.
A certain fellow working down the hall from me is quirky enough to match that description :-)
Biometric ATMs unlock aid dollars for Syrian civil war refugees
This is what I had trouble with grasping as well.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1697
It took me a moment to realize that the data defaulted to 0%, and I thought that something drastic had happened in the last hour.
I'll expand on this and add on: Before 'civilization' how much time did ADULTS spend playing?
Of course we can. 90% of food production is based on fossil fuel inputs. Fossil fuels flow rates have plateaued and will move to decline. Because of the increased demand of population that decline will be rapid and increase quickly. When that happens massive amounts of people will starve. This will create huge social dislocations which make the maintenance of a complex system capable of space exploration unlikely.

But more basically you can add up energy consumption necessary to sustain any basic average standard of living sufficient to also maintain a functioning global economy, multiply it by population and compare it to the NOT proven reserves but net recoverable energy taking into account EROEI and it's not a good number. Google is your friend.

Further, this ignores other essentials such as topsoil depletion, fresh water and NPK inputs - NPK inputs are very limited in quantity, depleting rapidly and incredibly energy intensive to recover.

Exponential growth can't continue forever in nature.
We wanted very badly to get this to you as well - it'll be released as soon as we can.
CFPB Releases Massive Amount of Mortgage Data & Web Tool
Congrats Strongloop!
It's not a complaint, it is an observation, I quite like most of the HN hivemind. It was meant to warn the OP who seemed to think his post, being in an agreeable tone, in general, would be well received.