skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good link. I would be interested in suggestions for books that help design good apis.
should be back up
Obviously your 30-minute interview/conversation had an impact on your life that will last a lifetime. That's awesome. Thank you for sharing that memory with us. :)
Awesome game. Cannot wait I get my hand on a box and play with my 6yo nephew.

Question for OP: the game introduces kids to the imperative paradigm. As somebody who's been exposed to Logo at the age of 6, I can tell I had an awesome time moving the turtle around.
But: do you, Dan, think that one can build an equally compelling game based on the functional paradigm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming , where you have no "side effects" and all you can do is create and compose functions?

Stated otherwise: Turing Machines seems just fine to play with. Any idea on how to make Lambda Calculus just as sexy for kids?
A Google Drive document.
Coal plants standard operation affects the entire globe. If a country cannot regulate the pollution of coal, then no coal plants should be built there.
Every time I look to use C++ for something, I come away with the knowledge that I will never know the right way to do it in C++. At least with C I know where I stand.
Pin something, get a couple of repins, then repin that to
a very popular community board (it takes work to get
invites to those with followings of 150,000+).

I'm not intentionally being dismissive, but isn't this a little like saying "Pin something, get a couple of repins, [magic happens]"?

I would imagine that if you can get content posted regularly to any platform with 150,000+ followers/readers/subscribers, the traffic rolls right in.

Is there something particular to pinterest that makes it easier to get content posted to these community boards, vs. getting content posted on a popular blog or retweeted by a popular account?
What if the hard drive goes on the fritz?
Unfortunately, the formatting of the possibly most interesting paragraph "LESSONS LEARNED" is broken. Here's a reformatted version: https://gist.github.com/lluchs/bd12ab2e17491c8c4b50
Non-US banks, countries, and individuals choose to do banking with the US and form a "marketplace."

Non-Japanese have no say whatsoever in Japan's nuclear industry. They only suffer the "externalities."
R.I.P. I will miss u, thanks for leaving such a great legacy.
I suppose there is a kind of self-contradiction is trying to be "fashionably unfashionable" which seems ripe for mockery.

But, in practice, the mockery boils down to an exercise in More Authentic Than Thou based on guesses from superficial details. Isn't making judgements about authenticity based on a few superficial details an even more loathsome exercise in hypocrisy?

I do like EvanKelly's point here: "What is there to be genuine to."?

What the heck is someone supposed to wear that is neither an overt exercise in conformity or a contrived exercise in non-conformity? What would in between or opting out of the pretense look like?

In fact, it might look a lot like Mr. Hermelin, whose clothes look functional and cheap, without any visible labels, without any apparent in-factory distressing of the fabric.
they may not even love the results that science is giving, they may love showing off that they "like" science as a status symbol or social signifier.
Nope ... it was just so much fun watching the laws of physics being applied!
Yeah but... puts on tinfoil hat What if the NSA and stuff?! :-P

Seriously though, Control Center is probably a good stop-gap, though the bigger question is probably how quickly Apple will try to patch this.
Good points. I think they're all pretty awful (relatively speaking, if one is doing more than getting plastered), but somehow only the one gets the negative connotation. Though, I will admit my early college years I did drink them all at some point regrettably, even at least one PBR that I know of offhand.
so, government science spending?
I strongly disagree. Perhaps if you use your computer all alone in your private office, that makes sense.

That's now how I use the computer, that's not how all my friends use their computers and that seriously now how the next generation is using their computer.

When I am on youtube, I have up to 5 friends behind me. I don't want them to see my youtube password. When I log into steam, I most likely have someone behind me. When I log into my Evernote account, it's most likely to show a quote or some information to a friend. I don't want them to see the password.

To make it short, I believe that most young people use the computer as a social activity. Showing the password by default makes NO SENSE.

I wouldn't want a client to see my password when I screenshare during a presentation. Nor my coworker to see it on the big screen in the conference room.

I very, very strongly disagree with that article.
You mean bash.org? http://www.bash.org/?244321
From Phil's annoucement on the mail list, it seems PyQt5 does have full Qt 5.1 support (except for QtSerialPort and QtSensors)

(and the latest installer tagged Qt5.1.0 contains a QtQuick.pyd)
That guy is a complete idiot.
No, it's really not. This is what consoles are trying to become, but they're also a long way off. They're also expensive, dedicated machines.

Even assuming this IS what console are for, why in the world are you going to complain about more competition in the market for a good way to distribute games?
>under-appreciated and undervalued

that's your opinion... I respectfully disagree.
How much slower would someone drive if they knew they had a good shot at 2000 healthy years ahead of them? Would the airline industry be able to survive and still use jumbo jets? Perhaps the long-lifers would pay to ride in pods with parachutes which that can be ejected from the plane.
Yes, it seems widespread enough that whatever it has to teach cannot be wasted. Thanks!
When work is a game, who wins?
Ask HN: Could convertible royalties be an alternative to the VC model?
My wife and I co-founded the Voice123 brand ten years ago. Today, it’s a successful business with 30 employees. Its success didn’t depend on angels, accelerators, or venture capitalists (VCs). In fact, had we listened to any of them, Voice123 would not exist today. There are thousands, maybe millions, of entrepreneurs like us out there. The current model made popular by Silicon Valley is suffocating many of them and killing startups that could also become successful. I wrote an article that explains how and offers an alternative: http://torrenegra.com/post/61674830952/convertible-royalties-an-alternative-to-the-vc-model - Do you think that convertible royalties could be an alternative to the VC model?
I real like the idea of a game-mode for browsers, or a dedicated game browser. It could disable all hotkeys, have extremely minimal chrome, and be optimized for the gaming environment.
Wave power would be a good alternative to explore.
Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" - linked lists, state machines.

Carlos Castenada's Don Juan series (yes, I know it was fiction) - "one has no choice but to believe. What matters is what you believe".

John C. Lilly's "Center of the Cyclone".

These three, all around early-mid 70's, ended up moving me from the UK to Los Angeles. Strangely, each adds a different understanding to the others. Together, I guess it just makes me a bit strange. But it works.
The problem is that it looked like a very poor design decision rather than a beta version quirk even back then...
Except, those 0.001% of users are responsible for very big chunk of DropBox's revenue.
These Tiny Wooden Houses Are The College Dorm Of The Future
Backpressure and Unbounded Concurrency in Node.js
Porn, Novelty and the Coolidge Effect‏
Is it faster to cycle or take public transport in London?
Modern phone batteries last a fraction of the time they used to - you could get phones with 2 weeks life in the days before smartphones. We've got used to short lives but devs should aim to keep power demands down.

Radio power consumption is very significant. It could well be more than the screen takes - it's not just the RF amplification, but also the computation required to generate the modulated RF in the first place.
The author has an extreme imagination deficiency if he can't picture the common scenarios where someone might see you entering your password. There are many, many times when I'm working with another person sitting at my desk. It's amazing that his whole article is predicated on his inability to look beyond his own circumstance.
...and cars, and guns, and a brand of whiskey...
Finally!

The only consequence would be a very, very slow drift between the "wall clock" time and the time of sunrise/midday/sunset. Given that people living at +/- 30 minutes off from the sun-time (borders of current time zones) experience no problems at all, then we should have ~2000 years before the difference is significant - and by that time, hopefully, we'll be living on more than one planet and won't care that much about synchronising everything with the rotation a single large rock.
I think this is why, for instance, the Linux kernel is written in C and not in C++. And this leads to discussions on the Internet which are definitely funny! :D

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/520068/why-is-the-linux-k...
This post is extremely helpful and the game looks awesome, I wonder if the tactile experience of an actual board game may be more of an effective teaching aid for young children. It will be interesting to see how kids take to it when it is released.

My buddies and I have a project in the same space and are considering Kickstarting too.

We are building a platform game that teaches programming through gameplay by incorporating a terminal-like language we created called codePop.

If your interested check it out at www.betathegame.com
Stop masking passwords for nonsense usages like WiFi networks. Keep them for things that actually matter.
You should watch their kickstarter video. It's actually really entertaining.
Most wifi password entry fields on various platforms now offer the sensible approach: mask the password by default while offering the option to toggle the masking in that field.
How big is the market for printed photos? How is taking a revenue cut from products really that different from advertising? It is non transparent affiliate marketing which is worse than transparent advertising.
That's a good suggestion, thanks! But I wandered in the realms of cryptography before and that kind of math turned me off a bit.
Well, glad I wasn't one of the 9 people who donated $10,000.

I tend to judge these projects by funding level. When I first saw CLANG with the goal of $500,000 but no publisher lined up, I decided to pass. $500,000 is not enough to develop something like this on a full-time basis.
And occasionally their fuck toys (aka women, usually)...
How about what was received?

Police protection, employee education, etc. If the 1% dislike contributing to society - they should leave.... But then who will:

* shampoo their hair,
* fix their airplanes,
* build their 60th house,
* worship at their feet
Twitter M&A Trends: 31 Acquisitions To-Date with the Pace of Accelerating
You want the FDA to sit around and decide when a box of crackers is too stale to be tasty?
Reddit - collection of mainly unemployed young left wing anti-government, anti-corporation, anti-mainstream types who have far too much time on their hands to look at memes and commenting.
Not labeling the start node in their diagram, and having overlapping circles so you can't see the arrows, should be illegal.
So what exactly does writing tests for your tests look like...? Keeping this in a Cucumber realm, of course.
ActionScript programming (2004?). My first programming book. Why ActionScript? I can't remember. But being introduced to OOP in my early teen years was fuuun.
Very important resource, but what a terrible interface for the questionnaire. Sliding and bouncing balls don't add any real value over just showing the flow chart along the side of the questions.
What is it with these militaristic company names? Artillery, Firebase, etc. Or is it just my European mindset?
Both CLang and GCC have "C++11 compatibility" switch, so it's a matter of a compiler parameter if they accept or not the new standard.

I would introduce a "backward compatibility" switch that has to be turned ON per source file to accept old constructs. All the new code from now own would be nice and shiny. There's an (easy) way to still keep around old code.

Would that work?
These are not special reddit features, you can make generalizations about any group of people that isn't randomly chosen.

That doesn't mean that "the group of people in your office building" or "the group of people in your neighborhood / town / state / country" or "the group of people that you bowl with" or "the group of people in your extended family" are "hiveminds" though. That is like accusing this piece of granite (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Granite_Y...) of being gray.

In my experience, "hivemind" is just bullshit people talk about when they want a way of saying that they are better than other people, but can't bring themselves to commit such a crime against modesty forthright. You'll notice that it is never "reddit is a hivemind, and oh yeah, I totally agree with it." It is always "reddit is a hivemind, and I disagree with it"
Pinterest's users are mostly women.

In the US, this is true. In the UK, it's more of a 50/50 split. (I can't remember where I read that; otherwise, I'd provide a source link.)
I would rather live next door to a nuclear plant in an earthquake and tsunami that to live next door to a coal plant during the same catastrophe.

The ash is more radioactive than most nuclear waste is and there's a whole lot more of it to contain.
Buy a book, follow its tutorials, and make your own app.
"The reaction, then, had nothing to do with hipsters. It was a hatred of people that need to stand out for standing-out's sake."

Isn't this close to the most common understanding of the word "hipster"? People that are middle-class, want to stand out, and also come off as a bit arty.
Replace "change a password" with "change all your passwords" and it's a lot less fun.
Good point!

It has many of the same problems as wind and solar, though. They're great as a significant part of the energy input, but you still need something else for times when there's no wind/waves/sun.
The difference between DCH (the full-on high power state) and PCH (the lowest power, waiting-for-paging state) is about 2-orders of magnitude. Last time I measured, it was about ~100mA vs ~1mA (at ~3.7V) used by the radio. So, it's not couple of minutes of battery life, but rather _many_ hours of standby life instead. People usually aren't very happy when a fully charged phone dies overnight.

I've seen apps do some crazy things and it really has a significant effect in over-all battery life. A popular Android weather clock widget woke the phone up every minute to update the minute number on the graphics and updated the weather information every ~15 minutes (gps + radio!) which single handily crushed the standby battery life from multiple days to less than 8 hours.

Yes, I don't think _every_ decision should be based on minimizing the wake ups... but on the other hand, all developers should at least try to have as much understanding of the platforms that they're working on so that they know what trade-offs they're making with each feature they're adding.

I'm glad that Google has these videos available and that they're being picked up in places like HN.
This is really a nice tool. I can use it to find my favorite meetups easily. Thanks for providing so nice a tool!
It's interesting how in one sentence you identify a slight against 'hipsters', and then fall into slighting another group in the same comment...
It's done as an a animation, but here's a similar video from the point-of-view of a kiwi bird:

http://cliffpavlovic.com/2007/04/kiwi-an-animated-short/

Animation or not, it may be the most poignant short film that I've ever seen.
"profit focused company" lol nice.
good point. I forgot about the 1/2 base pay part, despite it's what my dad is doing.
Minecraft isn't exactly a very demanding game.

Also 10 years ago Java was nowhere near as fast as it is now. If you are saying that Javascript might be an option 10 years from now, I am not disagreeing with you.
That's a pretty grim future.
I also agree. It's like a developer obsessing about good code and best practices.

Sure the developer cares but the client does not care whatsoever.

Similarly the designer cares about sticking to product design and making the problem easier. However the manager wants something that looks pretty, something that looks expensive and nice to use.

EDIT: I would also like to add I agree with this sentiment. We want pretty apps. I think the time for functional apps was when the iOS and Android markets first came out and touching things on your screen to do something was foreign. Now just like iOS7, it's time to take the steering wheels off.

This is akin to the web during the '90s and early 2000 era.
yeah, I worked at a startup that hired six contractors to do phone surveys all day long, and they put them right in the middle of the big open room.

They thought it was a good idea because what else are they gonna do, we only have one big room.
Yes, you are correct that is how it works. I’m still in development and have about three major bugs I still need to work out, plan on doing that this weekend. And performance is bit slow due to I have not minified the JavaScript yet, also a weekend project. The goal of “I Am Near” is to associate content and services to specific geographic locations. Currently content and services can take the form of full blown applications, embeddable widgets, or SOAP/RESTful web services. The basic premise is that a user’s experience should change depending on where they are. For example if a user goes to http://www.mcdonalds.com in their home they would be presented with general information about McDonalds and listings of the closest locations. If a user is in the same shopping mall at lunch time they would be presented with specials and deals to help entice them to go to the McDonalds 50 yards away. If they are in an actual McDonalds they would have the ability to order their lunch and even pay for it using their smart phone/mobile device. The HTML5 geolocation API gives you the latitude and longitude but often that is meaningless. As a developer I would much rather be given information such as “user is in Old Town Scottsdale” or “user is in Store #2345” than “user is at 33.26552, -111.89116”. Fundamentally that is the problem “I Am Near” is trying to solve. If you get chance please play with it. Right now it’s just me so any additional developer input is greatly appreciated.
This is garbage. If I disabled password masking on my workstation the only thing it would accomplish would be me eventually getting fired.
I went to Nature's Classroom (the camp mentioned in the article) sometime around 2001. I remember the slavery re-enactment, but don't remember any use of the n-word or threats of whipping. We mostly just ran around in the woods one evening and hid from "slave owners" behind buildings. I imagine there was some education going on but I don't really remember.

I never considered at the time if re-enacting slavery was appropriate for a 5th grader, and hadn't really thought about the re-enactment until reading about it now.
Android IVI system ships in 15 Renault cars
I don't think so. Meetup will ask them and provide a mailing list so reaching them is possible while still maintaining their privacy.

You can, of course, ask them for anything and see if they offer.
Haskell functors versus "real" functors
I plan on putting the sfjslib.js in Github in about a week, but not the source code for "I Am Near".
It's in the title: "Will Roll Out Over The Next Few Weeks"
I absolutely agree that there should be a "show typing" override. Ideally, it should be built into the entry widget as a clickable or touchable area. There should also be a key chord to toggle masking. There are lots of times when there is absolutely no danger of shoulder surfing, and showing the typing would have the advantages the author describes.

I note that PGP Desktop has a checkbox to disable masking. I always tick it. It helps me to get the pass phrase right and to burn it into memory.

But the default should be mask!! (OK, maybe the default should be configurable. But the default default should still be to mask.) In public situations, it would be too much to have to remember to turn on masking.
RIDESHARE SERVICES LIKE LYFT, SIDECAR, AND UBERX ARE OFFICIALLY LEGAL IN CA
Bell Labs and PARC both are from a long-gone era where high tax rates meant the government would tax away high dividends or executive pay, which made empire building more appealing:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/07/24/xerox_parc_an...
An Unusual Case for Cucumber
I guess it comes down to whether or not we should be patrolling how other people think of themselves.

NO HIPSTER NO! You may think that bringing an Olivetti typewriter into a coffee shop is twee and wonderfully anachronistic, but you just look silly! Know your place Hipster!

I'm generally, genuinely jealous of people who can go through their lives adhering to their own sense of appropriateness and style.
That's a great summary. I remember having the first WTF of my life at around age 4 or 5, sitting in the ofuro in Tokyo (giant wooden bathtub) when a very minor temblor hit.

I used to keep up with research in the area, mostly from a friend who did time at the Lamont-Doherty lab in upstate New York. For people who like to dig into academic papers, some slightly watered down for general consumption but most not, their website is great

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/research/topics/earthquakes
Beware the Bitcoin Scams
DeVry Lures Medical School Rejects As Taxpayers Fund Debt
There's no secret there, there's just a gatekeeper you have to get past, and it's a little bit different for every one. Some will let you right on through, but usually you get to know the board owner really well, interact with them a bunch on Pinterest, and ask for an invite. You can also create generic Pinterest accounts and use a bot to load them up with very similar content to what they're looking for with a couple search functions, but that's probably not worth explaining on this forum.

Also, getting on the community boards is only the beginning of the battle.
I was not even able to get a health hacker email list going. Maybe you could try that instead? It would be a lower burden of entry and could be open to a larger audience.
If you're chasing long-tail, it might be better to do something like Pandora. Let people fill in aspects they like (or figure it out from their pins), then find products that fit the criteria. "We see you like sky-blue and polka dots. Here's a purse from a designer you've never heard of, all the people who like it, all the pinboards it appears on, and an exclusive 5% discount if you buy through this affiliate link."
I agree with the sentiment 100%, but to be fair, most of the ones s/he labeled "science" (as opposed to the "not science" ones) are clearly product placements for lab equipment thinly veiled as "webinars". But yeah, there's not much science on that Facebook page based on what I saw there.
Not all countries are equally endowed in terms of natural riches. This does not mean that everyone should get themselves on equal footing with everyone else by any means necessary. I hope that we will gently steer towards sincere and meaningful global cooperation, where "national security" will be a non-issue. I know this is an unrealistic view given the current state of world politics, but I can't help but dream out loud sometimes.
All the same, I'd rather have a more distributed, private, independent basic science effort. But then again, I'm biased, as that's what my nonprofit is trying to do.
@fwonkas: OK, thanks for clarifying this!
Sorry about my english! i dont find bad being corrected since thats the only way i can learn with my mistakes?
so no problem! thanks