skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To provide the other side of that coin, I also think that some of what Fox News, the Tea Party, etc. push is bologna.

Consider the conservative view that we need to secure our border because illegal immigrants take jobs away from Americans.

Jobs aren't taken, they are given. Those jobs are not specifically given to illegals. You could have one, too. If they can live off of those jobs and send money home to their folks, it should be enough to live on. Maybe not enough to send your kids to college, but that isn't a guaranteed right.

Higher taxes and loopholes lead to U.S. companies hiring offshore workers, but that isn't the same for immigrants. We need more of them, like we had in the 1800-1900s, to boost our economy. I have never known a lazy, undedicated person to sneak over the border and work summers to send money home to their families. Those families should instead be in the U.S. and not in Mexico, etc. Then not only would the U.S. have a great labor force, but they would be spending that money on food and goods in the U.S.
...oh snap, moot is on HN?!

For some reason I've placed him in this completely parallel place in my mind to the tech community. He's like a mythical creature of some secret world of my childhood with untold powers.

But now that I'm older and am making a career out of coding websites, I look at 4chan as something that I could feasibly create. I've seen the man behind the curtain o_O
The problem that I see with this statement, from my perspective:

If everyone died at 30, everyone would say the same thing about life extension past 30.

If everyone died at 200, everyone would say the same thing about life extension past 200.

Why does death have to be where it is now? Natural death from aging comes a little longer than a few other causes of death tend to hit, but it's still very, very soon. People's twitch thinking skills start to decline so early (even in the 20s), and while they can more than make up for it through increasing knowledge, we have so little time to build that knowledge before we have to go.
I think that's a moot point.
Who let you out of Higgins' trunk?
Yeesh, sorry.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that when I'm introduced to someone and they say they know of 4chan, my immediate response is "I'm sorry."
Those interactive charts and graphs!! (My first encounter with vudlab and am loving it!)
Not only PC, but I wonder if some people are waiting to see if this hits next gen consoles also.
I don't believe the laws of thermodynamics will ever come into play when talking about the expansion of the human race, at least insofar as we don't start talking about humanity as a universal mainstay for the remainder of the existence of... existence.
WebKit only. Please use -moz prefixes as well; Firefox has supported CSS animations for quite a while now.
The problem is physics. We can't get to higher clock speeds with current materials, due to heat. It's kind of like how fighter jets haven't got any faster (top speed anyway) since the 60's...
Dunno about mobile and perception, but IME, most piano players can tell difference between 20ms and 10ms latency between pressing a key and hearing a sound from a software synth.
I wonder if the developers get a real handle on the platform and squeezing the most out of it by the time it gets to EOL.
>I'm pretty sure "UX" was created as a term in response to the market getting flooded with stylists

UX is an umrbella term[1] for usability related disciplines; it's recent conflation as a buzz-word has led to the misinterpretation of it's original meaning.

>UX won't get similarly watered down?

It already has been seeing as how no one seems to know what it means.

[1] http://www.interaction-design.org/images/encyclopedia/human_...
He should talk to those guys who wrote about advertising their food delivery service on pornsites
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Light has been stuck at c for the last decade, too. When will it break this barrier?
Supply and demand. There's a lot of people who want to work in games, and are willing to work for less pay in order to do so, I imagine.
What does it mean to grow up?
Ubuntu, Opera, any Flash version - fail.

Ubuntu, Firefox, any Flash version - fail.

Ubuntu, Chrome, any Flash version - fail.
Pandora on Android looks better than iPhone
Dotc: c module system with #require and #export, node-style
With current materials in the CMOS manufacturing process; to be a little nitpicky.
I have worked in an open office plan and simply can't work with people around me talking. I had to wear my headphones all day every day. I would never accept a job in an open office again.
By this logic, why just Berkeley then? Sounds like you don't plan to go into SF often. Why not somewhere beautiful like Yosemite? It's probably cheaper, too. :)
Partitions don't do much to cut down on noise unfortunately.
Well, I personally love the open plan and would never go back. I like the social atmosphere and I'm surprised so many people don't like it. Wasn't it trendy to take your laptop to Starbucks just for that kind of environment to work in?
A lot of the engineers making games don't want to do anything else. They're willing to accept a lower rate of pay to stay in the industry. When they look for other opportunities, they're usually just moving from one games company to another. Since there a lot less games companies than there are companies that employee engineers in general, there is less competition and less pressure to pay the same rates as engineers may make at companies like Google or Apple.
Zotonic has the best intro video ever
Consultant offers discount in return for putting smartphones away
My money would be on Minecraft.
Primary exports are not owned by the government, that is mostly private. Primary imports in natural resources domestic oriented businesses might be state owned, as are companies that produce primarily for the domestic market (like SOE JV car manufacturers). All those little factories that produce for export are very private.

The communist party doesn't really follow any tenants of Marxism at all. Most are only concerned with propping up their families and embezzling enough money to send their kids to a nice school abroad that doesn't suck.
The real point is that it gives people who have money reason and excuse to pay for a tool they find useful and enjoyable. It doesn't really matter if the cat pictures in themselves are actually useful.
The parent comment was referring to the development budget, not the marketing one.
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The commodore 64 rocks as an educational tool about computers!
Here are some interesting things that we did besides games:

- Sprites. You had to use pencil and paper to calculate the bit values on a bit map and convert these in to DATA statement in BASIC

- Modifying bytes directly on the disk to change some ASCII text to whatever you like.

- Going to K-Mart and program the demo machine with some prank program and let it run.

- SAM Text-to-speech. We hooked it up to the phone mic and used it to do prank call our friends.

- Peek and Poke any part of memory, sometimes get funny results

- Typing out programs from magazines and watch them do funny things, flip text or other effects

- Connecting to a BBS

Fun times!
Dare to say android is the new apple of design?
Agreed. I got access to a C64 when I was in primary school, and was absolutely wrapped in creating my own text-based adventure games, and extremely simple sprite-engine games. I also played Archon and Ghost & Goblins, but I wasn't put out that I couldn't create them.
I agree, a lot of the times though iOS is utilizing the flat design better.
The comment about 10% of CS graduates in Australia being female rings true and I think it's a highball. I'm typing this as I sit in a systems programming lecture at UQ and the attendance is hardly 5% female.

Of course that's a sample size of 1 but it's still worrying.
Dare to agree with you. I don't think it is quite yet in my opinion though.
One could argue that the 'WTFs' themselves are a bit of a (completely unscientific) marker of just such anti-patterns etc...
Advanced Tetris Maneuvers
Oh that's great, I didn't know Khan was doing that!
you think women don't objectify just as much as men do?

If you do, then you are very naive. Yet you don't hear men whining about about a gender imbalance because women get up to just as much objectification. There are other reasons why there's an imbalance, if you look at other factors, ethnicity, for example, you'll find the same imbalance, and for the same reasons.
"Vacuum tube", aside from being a complete misnomer that's more usually applied to 'pneumatic tube', betrays the concept in one particular area:

It's a battery-powered hovercraft inside of a soft vacuum tube (soft vacuum being within reasonable reach of cheap pumps), with boost segments to get it up to speed.

Usually, vacuum concepts rely purely magnetic levitation & propulsion. The fact that it's an air cushion vehicle in a soft vacuum IS the novel concept here.
There's a better symmetry of colors in the Vine app for Android than the iOS variant.
I think the actual statistic is 1 out of every 12, so closer to 8%.
Blackberry has 2 major problems. One, they're just not flashy enough to compete with Apple. Two, roll your own OS pretty much dooms you in computers. The network effect for compatibility is just too strong. Blackberry was fine before phones were really thought of as computing platforms.
Communism is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless and stateless social order [...]
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What are good ways to get large number of feedback on startup idea?
My startup has created an alpha version of mobile app. Before investing more time and effort, we created a demo video of our idea to get feedbacks and to make sure we are not building something that no one wants. How do we get large number of people to watch the demo at http://www.scribbleeverywhere.com so we can get statistically relevant feedback? We tried adwords but trailing search has too low of a volume, we tried digg/reddit/stumbleupon/youtube/quora but it has not been discovered by the masses. Facebook/social media got us the same unsatisfactory result. It felt like we are standing on an empty street trying to give out free samples for people to try and give feedback but can't find enough people. Any ideas? I know hacker news is one of the great place, so if you have any feedback on our idea ( http://www.scribbleeverywhere.com ), it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Indeed, AMD announced their first 5ghz CPU in June at E3.

http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-unleashes-201...

It is for sale now at Newegg for $699. 4.7ghz with 5ghz turbo.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113...
One of my earliest programming gaffs was on a C64, typing in some code from a magazine, which didn't work.

When my dad got back from work, I showed him what I'd painstakingly typed in over the course of what seemed like hours to an 8 year old, and that's when I learned what pseudocode was. >_<
I have seen very similar diagrams. except the circle in that diagram labeled "UX" is usually labelled "Design".

And incidentally what on earth is HCI, Human Factors, and Industrial design doing all disjoint? they should all overlap.
Wife nothing, try doing it to the exact same mentor who felt entitled to do it to you.

If my experience / observation is any guide, the result is utterly epic shitfit.
This documentary tells that story: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/
We have two problems:

1. Forced activities (sports, music, dance, etc.) and having to drive and fly all over with kids for these activities. These activities do not let kids imagine or have long amounts of free-play, though the arts aren't terrible in that regard, and they do foster relationships which might help your kids make friends to go play and have free time. So it is a trade off.

2. Too much homework. When homework is 3-4 hours a night in elementary school, something is wrong. If you are a strict homeschooler that has the kids working 24/7 or have kids in a private school where they spend 3 hours doing homework too often, talk to the teachers, and if that doesn't help, consider public school.
this is a stupid comparison, you're not comparing ios vs android, but rather apps that were likely designed to be similar for consistent ux. Obviously ebay is going to make their ios app in much the same way, reusing assets even, as their android app, ditto the others. for a fair comparison, bring up the apple apps and compare to the google apps, like Mail vs Gmail, and unsurprisingly those look nothing alike.
The capitalist acts of desperation to increase company profit... First motivate the employees to write the İOS and Android app, they will be working their asses off, hoping the company will survive. Then fire them. Voila!
Turn on any modern PC/device. Then look at the hoops you have to jump through to run the equivalent of:

10 print "my sibling smells"
20 goto 10

Computers of that era booted up straight into BASIC and you could easily enter the above. It was obvious to anyone watching exactly what was going on and they could have a try.

You can conceptually do the same thing now, but have to jump through hoops first. Download the right dev environment, work out how to start an editor, work out what code to write, work out how to run it and finally see the results. Devices are very personal now, so no one is likely to watch you do this, and trying to mimic it is far harder than turning your own device on.

Hopefully we'll end up with single function devices that can do this. The RPi is a good step in that direction, but still requires a lot to get going (look at all the cables and other bits and pieces you have to connect first.)
All your points can be boiled down to a single point:

They didn't take competition seriously until it was too late. Same can be said about Nokia and probably in the not too distant future it will be Microsoft.
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This is why I find the concept of brainwashing/deprogramming fascinating from an epistemic perspective; you're essentially substituting one set of axioms for another. And it's often hard to determine who occupies the epistemic higher ground, since all camps will claim to do so. For example, liberals think Fox News is brainwashing people, and conservatives think academics at liberal schools are brainwashing people. Sometimes the only thing you can use to figure out what's true is secondhand knowledge (via a network of cognitive authorities that you've chosen to trust) plus your own judgment, which itself has inevitably been influenced by some set of chosen axioms.

And often each system of beliefs has epistemic protection against debunking... for example, religious believers may view debunkers as agents of evil/Satan, while conspiracy theorists may view debunkers as agents working on behalf of the conspirators. In both cases, one has a "rational" reason to be skeptical of (or even outright disregard) any arguments that attempt to undermine one's axiomatic system.
I'll share an even better approach that works across all devices, allows better todo management and allows you to preserve the original email context.

The first thing you need to know is that an email sent to username+anything@gmail.com is the same as sending it to username@gmail.com. Knowing that you can send all your notes to username+todo@gmail.com and then create a filter to attach a Yellow "TODO" label for any such emails received. You can send yourself reminders from anywhere. You may want to add your "todo" in your address book for convenience.

You can also reply to any email that needs attention and change the recipient to username+todo@gmail.com. If you add a short summary in the first line of the body, it will show in your inbox preview. That email will sit in your inbox vying for your attention and when you open it, you can always refer to the original thread. It's also possible to expand this idea further. For example, you can reply to an existing todo email and add more details. You can also keep a draft email within the same thread where you have rough notes. I have drafts that are a year old attached to todo items. You can mark items complete fairly easily as well. You should have GMail keyboard shortcuts enabled if you don't already.

On a related note, you can also sync your iPhone notes to keep them on GMail. That works out nicely as you always have them backed up online and you can have read-only access to them from anywhere through your GMail account.

I haven't needed anything more for my todo management.
DivX Now Installs Malware
Their Twitter is being flooded with complaints but DivX does not appear to care. In there latest update on Mac when clicking Ok the last page of the setup briefly shows a message about Bing but them immediately finishes the installation without allowing user interaction. After that your Chrome, Safari and Firefox will be flooded with Bing. From 404s, homepage, default search and conduit plugins. The link above shows the numerous steps to undo all of it. The one step they forget to mention is to uninstall DivX and never use them again. Even Google Chrome is marking DivX as Malware which DivX is saying is a false positive to ignore. Please everyone uninstall DivX and let them know malware is never acceptable.
No problem. I'm in my 50's. I didn't see my first porno until I was 19 at a drive-in. I didn't see my first super-gore picture until I was in my 30's. It seems very weird to me that kids see all this at a very young age. Now Hentai is another weird thing to me. I do know humans are adaptable, but don't know in what way kids have adapted to it. My poor father, he heard Jimmy Fallon mention 2 girls 1 cup so he looked it up. He was visibly shaken when he told me about it. I have managed to avoid that one.
Completely agree, and I think the problem I'm trying to solve is making sure every kid has the chance to find out whether they want to know more by showing them at a young age that it's actually an option that's open to them.
Imagine the type of machine learning we could do on low power 384GHz quantum multi-cores with plasma exhaust relays and phase lock inverters.
It's "fun". Working for sports teams is the same way. I just had an NBA team looking for someone capable of doing very nontrivial development in areas that border on computer vision and machine learning for $40K a year. (They ended up hiring a--as in, one--fresh college grad for the position. I look forward to seeing what they can come up with.)
Imagine the type of machine learning we could do on 384 low power 1GHz cores.
This is the most awesome comment in this post.
I think a good start is to go to meetup.com and searching for hackathons. You can also follow Mattan Griffel's advice in his "How to Teach Yourself Code" video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qAjgQFR4c&feature=player_de...
"I realised that those six young women in my university class, who had managed to make their way into a lecture theatre filled with other hopeful engineers, were probably the most remarkable of all of us. The guys had it easy: we were actively encouraged by society into these pursuits, and nobody blinked an eye when we walked into that lecture theatre."

This sort of generalization is totally fallacious and completely ignores the fact that various groups of men too, (for example, those belonging to certain minority groups) are also seen as outsiders in technology. This pervasive attitude of "oh yeah, you're a guy, you probably have it very easy" can be extremely damaging towards their development and self-esteem.

[Anecdotally, during college in the US, the women I knew in engineering were there because they liked it, and so were the men. I don't recall anyone expressing surprise that there were women in the class, it was more surprise that there were so few of them. So I would actually argue that the reform needs to happen mainly outside the classroom -- in society as a whole.]

If you want to be inclusive in tech, (which is a good thing), be completely inclusive -- men, women, and transgender people of all communities are welcome. Some of them have had it easy, others have had it hard. This can be due to a variety of socio-economic factors. Telling one group "you are special and remarkable" and saying that "the others had it easy" are over-simplifying the situation and trivialising the problems faced by other groups.
I don't know what you thought you read but I did not at any point edit the post you replied to. If that's what you're getting worked up over then you can calm down now because it was just a mistake and I'm not trying to manipulate the discussion to make you look bad.
Clock speed is an unfortunate marketing gimmick anymore. I dare compare it to peak horsepower. A 3ghz chip from today will run circles around a chip from 2002, and with less power to boot. AMD is ahead in the clock speed race, but gets beat handily by "slower" Intel processors, while using twice the power.
The focus going forward is going to be on power efficiency and using more cores, not clock speed.
Pumps can overcome a small amount of leakage - from tiny cracks between bolt threads, etc - places that an un-reactive gas can make it through a huge pressure differential. In shallow water, one has the viscosity of water to work with, which makes this much easier in liquid phase.

What I don't know is how pumps, and cracks, would react to gaseous H2O versus gaseous N2; Or if perhaps a liquid with low offgassing potential could be used as a boundary layer to seal cracks instead of water (which, while much higher viscosity than a gas, remains lower than most liquids).

One big advantage of any submersed liquid approach: Earthquake resistance.
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Good headphones are comfortable. I actually prefer them sometimes to no headphones, 'cause they keep my ears warm.
You're simply incorrect in every point you made.
And today's 9 year old can now hop in the internet and learn everything there is to know about programming. Ditto for making electronic music, robotics... I am so jealous of the opportunities kids have now.

Back in the Olde Dayes, if you weren't geographically close to a mentor, you were pooched. I had to chip away at all my knowledge bit by bit. My only consolation is that I learned the Hard Way, so I feel I have a more fundamental understanding and appreciation of the subject matter.

Going on the internet to fill out those old topics though... all the little pieces suddenly combine, the blockages removed... it all suddenly becomes clear, it's like having an extra sense or gaining 100 IQ points.
So how about this: embed an RPi into a kids keyboard, and have it boot straight into a Python interpreter with libraries loaded so you can immediately start writing programs that draw stuff on screen and play sounds. Encourage tech-minded parents to run labs at their local schools that use these devices, and encourage local IT companies / universities / government to subsidise the cost of providing every student with one.
> more about project cost

And freedom. If you commute with a hyperloop, can you stop by the grocery store on the way home? Not easily.

But beyond cost and freedom, there is practicality. For a while I wanted to take the bus to work, but it would take 4 hours to get there (including 10 miles walking) and only 30-40 minutes in a car. They would provide a bus to make it only 30-40 minutes if there were enough people like me to take the bus, but how do they know? They never asked.

Here are the directions the government-sponsored online tool gave me for how to commute to work (miles rounded up):

03:04AM - start walk 8 miles from home address,
05:59AM - arrive at bus stop,
06:01AM - start first leg of bus trip,
06:15AM - stop first leg of bus trip,
06:17AM - start second leg of bus trip,
06:38AM - stop first leg of bus trip,
06:38AM - start walk 2 miles from stop,
07:09AM - arrive at work

I could do that if I had a collapsible bike and could shower and change at work, but I can't (and won't).
I want to see an iOS vs Android vs WP8 comparison for apps that exist on all 3 ecosystems.