skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have this on pre-order.

Fingers crossed this does something to move the needle on the amount of remote work on offer.
It might not be important to you, but the cinema display also has built in 2.1 speakers and iSight camera. As someone who uses my laptop speakers for most things, this tends to be an upgrade for me.
Seriously. We've got a generation of journalists who grew up reading about Woodward and Bernstein, went to j-school full of idealism and wound up being a bunch of boot-licking cronies, trying to get their access.
Simon, Thanks for the great insight!

We are also targeting SMB sith a SaaS in a different area (sales): http://www.quotty.com.

We haven't still defined a strategy, but your comment caught my attention because
we are facing the same issue. Your application is innovative, how do you announce
it? I figure that hardly somebody will search for an application like yours
that nobody figures exist?

In summary where you get most leads: keyword search, organic search,
partnership, ads placed in industry blog? Did partnership generate results? With
other software? With distributors?

Another issue we found is that many users are too lazy ans inexperienced for the
trial disert. I am conducting the following experiment: instead of immediately
sending a free subscription-trial password, we ask for a phone number that we
will call to make an interactive (remote) demo of the product using real client
data, This has improved results, but elevated cost.

Don't you have the same training problem with new users?
I would be interested to hear why they're "biased against using placebos because [they] consider it unethical"

You quoted part of point 2 from the submitted article, and asked for more details. Point 30,

"30. If CAM makes people feel better, why deny them that? Even if it’s just a placebo, isn’t that a good thing?

"That merits its own post, which will appear as Part 2 next week."

suggests that we will hear more about the answer to your question. The preliminary answer I would give is that most claims of "placebo" medicine greatly overstate the benefits of placebos. I have written about this previously here on HN,[1] with plenty of links to research articles.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491460
The Perils and Possibilities of Content
> Infographics sacrifice accuracy i.e. proportions, colors etc in favor of emotional appeal. Sometimes facts need to be packaged better for a greater impact. That's why they are primarily used for promotional rather than for reporting purposes.

I think you have that backwards; "infographics" aren't really "information" + "graphics" but more like "infomercial" + "graphics", which is why they sacrifice accuracy -- or more generally effective communication of factual information, of which accuracy is a part -- in favor of emotional appeal.

The choices that involve tradeoff of accuracy, etc., don't precede determination of the purpose.
And one other thing - what's the best Doom port for Android? Any recommendations, anyone?
So the site was more popular then Facebook, and therefore, we must take it down to protect the business interests of the RIAA and MPAA? Where are all those "vote with your dollar" people now? It sounds to me like people voted.
What obvious downsides are you referring to? In the past it was performance, but that's not an issue with thunderbolt...
You are assuming that, in a post Cold War world, there is a large and useful set of such "organized activity" that depends on secrecy, without giving one concrete example.

Instead what we have is a proliferation of secrecy that leads to systemic and individual corruption.

Let's go probe the boundaries of transparency. What, exactly, will stop working well? If anything, it is likely to be a tiny and perhaps negligible fraction of what is now secret. That is, we may find the cost of radical transparency, especially in government, is much lower than the cost of a metastatic security state.
SMS costs money and requires a phone. Some people cannot afford texting plans or might not have a cell phone at all (think a teenager). Even if you are capable of receiving SMS, they are destined for a single device: with these alternatives, you get the notification on all of your devices, including your computer (which has a real keyboard and is more convenient for longer conversations). The benefit of iMessage is then to solve these problems in a seamless fashion (assuming you buy Apple hardware, as that's how Apple makes all of their money: hardware): if someone with an iPhone sends a message to someone else with an iPhone, it just notices "oh, hey, this could have been an iMessage", and the result is cheaper and more convenient (as the message goes everywhere, not just to their phone); if the message cannot be sent via iMessage for any reason, it gracefully degrades to SMS.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_worl...

It happens.
I would be interested to read that thread!

Right now I'm on day 2 of promoting the idea. I have 5 bookings. If the idea is doomed I'm trying to fail fast.

Update: 6 bookings
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Bits and Bytes of Python from the Internet
Angularjs rocks. Video tutorials: http://egghead.io. I also recommend integrating Firebasejs: http://firebase.com.
This seems gratuitous to me: Arduino is overdone and this particular implementation does nothing novel. In fact it seems worse than a traditional sticker and felt pen.

How about something new, like using the same hardware to effect an opening/closing hours sign for a small shop whose owner could update it remotely if running late? Or a dynamic version of the advertisement placards in casual restaurants? Why not an assistive device for mute people?

Making an excuse to literally pin Arduino to your body to show to other people like you is not very interesting.
Disenfranchised means not allowed to vote. Your reply doesn't make any sense at all, unless you're using a different definition.
because it uses mobile internet (gprs, edge, 3G, HSDPA, LTE, etc.) , you can share photos, also you can have chat groups and more stuff, also it's linked to your phone number, instead of a device(BBM) or an email account(iMessage). In some countries that's 10x cheaper than SMS or MMS.
But what co-workers will I drink beers with until midnight after work then?! ;)
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Windows app packaging basics & FAQ
The people with the most dollars voted with them -- for a government that protect their interests over the people with smaller numbers of dollars.
Even if SMS/MMS were free, the way it operates targets a single device that must have cell service: it is highly convenient to be able to have someone send me a message and have it arrive both on my phone and on my laptop, and have it arrive at my phone even if I am on a plane with a WiFi connection and have no cellular service.
They make it hard to upgrade because they want you to bring it in and get it done = added revenue.
I'm not a big fan of infographics because I keep thinking of Mark Twain saying, "There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." I'm always thinking, "What are they trying to pull over on me, and how should I be arguing against it?" The infographic usually hides more than it reveals.

I like data visualization when I'm doing it for myself, or when a trusted colleague is using it to share information. Certainly there is much that can be seen more readily from a graphic than a number. But infographics are propaganda.

p.s. For those so inclined, this book is 40 years old but still Gold. http://archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics
Great stuff. When I taught intro programming to people with no programming background, I made a habit of doing live programming, in front of them. I let them see my mistakes, so they could see my debugging process, and of course, I tried to make it interactive, asking the class along the way how I should accomplish something.

I had to upload source code to a course webpage, which wasn't that onerous, but it also meant that I was only really going to upload one source file per lesson. I see this method of using IPython Notebook and Github as a great way of using technology to reduce to reduce friction to the point that the amount that is likely to be shared is much, much larger than when it all had to be done manually.
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People doing things like this is so cool. One guy a few months back made a MC world map, of the world. This one includes roads which takes things up a notch.
5 is encouraging!
Am I missing something or does this post have a really poor title? The article is a very brief and high-level overview of some of the main topic headings related to writing debuggers. You are barely any closer to writing your own debugger after reading this article.
The bad analogy can be extended to mechanical devices, such as a lock. The lock is also an automated system, and it is a system that will also perfectly do what it is told with even higher fidelity than a computer due to its relative simplicity.

I with my lockpick tell pin 1 to move up so many millimeters, I tell pin 2 to move up so many millimeters, and so on, and suddenly the lock opens. Suddenly I'm in, and it should be legal because the lock wasn't designed as well as it could have been and because all I did was follow a legal protocol with the lock.

Bad analogies like this are so common here when discussing technology issues, and it is a never ending irritating game of come up with the least-worst (but still bad) analogy. People here also often confuse their understanding of technology with legal/ethical sagacity, which is laughable.
Mo' Big Data, Mo' Big Problems
Better data on the issue you bring up:

"How vaccination saves lives"

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/pages/vaccination-...

"How vaccines saved millions of lives"

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vacci...

"Vaccines bring 7 diseases under control"

http://www.unicef.org/pon96/hevaccin.htm

"Gates Foundation Annual Letter 2011"

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/who-we-are/resources-and-medi...
Actually, two things are new:

1) The ability to store/process data on the scale to monitor an entire population.

2) The US government's assertion that it has the right to do this. It's not new under the sun, but it's new in the US.
In a traditional war, legality has already been met via law (either through a formal declaration of war or through the limited war powers given to the executive). There is no need to justify in front of a judge, because the rights have already been granted. But again, you can only kill certain people, also defined by law. You can't just start carpet bombing cities anymore, otherwise, yes, you may very well find yourself in front of a judge (and presumably these cities would consist of foreigners, so yes, there would be a requirement).

US courts may not have jurisdiction abroad, but the executor of actions is presumably or will presumably be on American soil at some point.
There is no One True Way to do a presentation. One message per slide is good for a slideshow, but taking this article to their logical extreme, they don't like prose, because you should only transfer one message per page. Infographics aren't meant to be slideshows - and slideshows suck when there isn't someone talking to them. Infographics aren't meant to have someone talking to them.

Infographics are fine, and like anything, can be abused. Their example of 'look at this infographic for 10 seconds' was just stupid. It was too small to see any of the text, and infographics aren't intended to be viewed for only ten seconds. Not to mention that if I actually strain to read the writing they're obfuscating, the graphic actually makes plenty of sense and is very clear. They're stacking the deck for their favourite argument.
I swapped my HD for an SSD. Took 10 minutes with right tools (suction cups, etc) from OWC. There's a hundred YouTube instructional vids to help you along the way.
A horror game within an Oculus Rift game
Dropbox asks government to let it publish surveillance requests
It is not trivial for my girlfriend. It took her long enough just to work out SMS. To her that settings icon is a scarey place where all kinds of complex life threatening buttons and switches lurk..
> Hope I'm not referencing Godwin's law so soon in the discussion, but this quote makes me think about the deference most of the German intellectuals had for "Der Staat", starting with Hegel.

There is a lot more to take away from the history of Germany than "respect for the state allowed the Nazis to rise."

For hundreds of years, "Germany" was composed of bickering territories that were kept divided by the continual intervention of the major European powers. Unification and the rise of the German state brought tremendous prosperity and economic progress to Germans. Modern Germany still draws tremendous benefit from that unification.
They're dev website is unavailable which makes me question the stability of this... HA
Grenades sometimes hit their targets, flowers never miss.
The United States is a unique country in the sense that it was carefully designed from the ground up, in accordance with the latest scientific and philosophical theories of the time, in opposition to the political systems of the old world, and most importantly with a healthy dose of skepticism about all those romantic ideals of the state. See Thomas Paine's Common Sense [1] for a good example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5964665

Sadly, much of it has been forgotten.
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The Github Oval Office
Asking how to quantify the good and bad that resulted from a thing is something we can ask about literally anything. It's especially hard in this case, because the potential harm was immediate and personal (people being murdered, etc) while the good was broad long-term (a public with greater insight into what its government is doing, etc). But there are plenty of areas with similar tradeoffs; if raising a speed limit lowers commutes for millions of people but raises fatalities by some amount, then that's equally hard to compare.
This will sound pedantic, but...

It isn't hard to replace them. You pull out your iPhone, use the Apple Store App to schedule an appointment, drop off your iMac at the store, go have lunch at Sbarro and then pick it up and go home.

If you are buying an iMac, you are buying a sealed solution.

If you are the kind of user who wants to replace HDD or upgrade components, the iMac is not the computer you should buy. Bad buyer!

A lot has been made of Steve Jobs comments about cars and trucks and the future of computers. I think that is very much how Apple views what they do.

The iMac is a family-friendly, automatic sedan or wagon for the kind of person who gets his oil changes done at the dealership because they have a nice waiting room there.
Very interesting! I got a timeout when trying to find sharers, but I suspect that's due to the fact that you've hit the front page of HN. ;)
Is there a solution to Quis custodiet ...?

Yes. It is oversight by the public at large.
couldn't agree more

seeing responses like "the debt i got from college is killing me, totally not worth it" just previews their time in college - oh i'm sure they worked hard, but they probably didn't take advantage to all that was available (clubs, TAing, working with professors, etc). There are many opportunities available throughout just about every university to explore interests and 'make the degree worth it'
Uh.. what? Github is probably the place to put your code nowadays.
Why WP App Store Failed
What he probably meant is that public institutions are the nest of most heinous file sharing that go unpunished, while individual owners and small business suffer the brunt of these laws.
He doesnt identify as atheist per se and his statements on religion are ambiguous. He says, for example, that he prayed to God during attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
It has a really poor harddrive (32GB) - I realize it's not meant to be used offline, but the world is not yet fully online.

Also, what system is it running? For me, one of the main advantages of owning a mac is the OS - nice, slick, fast, *NIX (hence good for developers), without all the configuration hassle of Linux.
Anyone who says this probably doesn't even go to parties. Really tired of seeing it.
I really like how easy it is to upgrade the RAM. They should make updating harddrives just as easy.
Never heard of him before, but looks like my kind of novelist. I'm a big fan of speculative fiction, and I also like a slightly cynical voice. Thanks, I'll put him on my reading list.
True, but the number of people who want an all-in-one desktop is also very small, and probably intersects with the people who want to replace stuff more than the general population of computer users does.
Changing your Apple ID password should be enough.

Better yet, unregister your device through https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
These are nice, but I was under the impression that the weak spot was not quite enough ram given the large number of pixels, and the impossibility of upgrading the memory.

EDIT: Yes, I am referring to the Pixel here.
The GFW isn't as big a problem as the shitty broadband in China. $50,000 USD/month buys the equivalent of a $99/month Time Warner business connection. The GFW is a problem because every router in the country is doing filtering and dropping connections, causing high latency and making broadband very expensive.

I agree that this means little for Facebook or Twitter, but it likely means that in a few years multi-nationals will actually have usable video-conferencing and internet connectivity that works and doesn't cost a significant fraction of each employee's salary.
Since OP is dead:

jwblackwell 48 minutes ago | link [dead]

We built a search engine that shows you the most engaging stories/topics being shared across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. We crawled over 15 million articles the past 3 months, retrieved the total number of Facebook likes, tweets, Google+’s etc and built a search index around it.
Here's what our infrastructure looks like:
Rails/Redis: We use the Sidekiq gem as a message queue. We have hundreds of workers that do the crawling, data mining, and number crunching.
ElasticSearch: We built the search index using ElasticSearch, with the data imported from our Postgres database.
AngularJS: Front-end is built using AngularJS and Laravel 4 (PHP), which sends the requests to our Rails server in the backend.
This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Spain has been trying to crack down on piracy since the 16th century.
Statistically speaking, people have reasons to distrust the competence of doctors. From the article here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732342380457902..., for instance:

"Both studies also found that about 25% of the time antibiotics were being prescribed for conditions in which they have no use, such as viral infections."

Anybody who's studied even high school level microbiology (or spent a minute on the Wikipedia article on antibiotics) knows that antibiotics only work on bacteria, not viruses. I imagine it's hard for people to trust doctors when they make basic mistakes like that. Even the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/pdf/ar-...) has stated that:

"Up to half of antibiotic use in humans and much of antibiotic use in animals is unnecessary and inappropriate and makes everyone less safe".

So if doctors can't even be trusted to not prescribe antibiotics as treatment for viral infections, why would people trust them regarding other more complex matters?
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It's ironic that an article fundamentalising on the ideal way to get your point across is so hard to read, on a page with so much visual noise.
The new screens are glued.
same thought. Another year I guess.
I've always done the live coding as well. It is so nice to not lose that live coding, and to be able to annotate it in a clean format.
Not so, because as others in this thread have stated, the key is intent.
You need the driver before the chip is out so that your favorite distro already supports it when you buy that new GPU card.
This seems like a potentially clever way to grow their customer base.
Assange's manifesto specifically endorses revealing all secrets. I owe this deeper thought before endorsing it myself, but I have to admit the idea is appealing.
Although I do like addressing critics, I don't like this recent trend where critics of a particular science are treated with complete disdain. Is calling someone "batshit crazy", in so many words, supposed to open a dialogue?

For instance, the recent IPCC's attempt to make their position unchallengeable, with Tony Blair claiming No 'serious person' should doubt man behind climate change, says Tony Blair.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

So if you have any doubts or skepticism you are not a serious person.

Another example is the constant attack on anyone that claims GMO foods should probably be labeled and that they could lead to disaster if not treated with the proper scientific respect it deserves.

Here is an article from SciAm that claims basically that anything other than the status quo on GMOs is "hysteria": http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction...

I could go on and on listing public criticisms of science and their rebuttals, but my point is this - science is about challenge. We need to take a very careful approach when we're trying to convince hearts and minds of the public and address their skepticism not with disdain but with empathy and understanding. Instead of saying, in a very eloquent way, "oh well, that's because you're stupid", we should stick to our scientific guns and beat down ignorance with facts. Going down any other path leads into the realm of philosophy, where science has no teeth. We can't simply wave our hand and say "trust us". Trust is earned. Let's earn it with science.
This was exactly the rap Apple got when they released a touchscreen phone. Then, when it was released, people grudgingly attributed its superior responsiveness to the fact that it used a capacitative touch screen. 4 years later, their major competitor is still introducing improvements (Project Butter) to get their OS/devices in the ballpark of the responsiveness of years old devices. And their touchscreen latency is still markedly superior as shown in benchmarks.

I use fewer and fewer of their products, but to me it's shocking how much of Apple's success is still attributed to brand and marketing - I don't know how you could argue that anyone else is the gold standard for hardware/software integration in consumer devices. If anything, their marketing glosses over the exacting level of fit and finish that obviously go into these things.
I really like this!

A small question regarding the tech stack: how is the relationship AngularJS-Laravel-Rails working? What are you using Laravel for?
Then, it seems, a good solution to solve the problem is to have server owner to declare in advance what are intended use and what's not. Accessing information without providing the correct password is certainly unintended use, so is guessing passwords. And accessing knowing the password is definitely the intended mode of operation.

A logical step is to make that machine readable. Oh, wait, suddenly this is getting to the server software and configuration, that server developer/administrator had screwed up.

My question is - why we don't make that logical step and simplify things instead of relying on some "should be common sense" and "you should've known you wasn't supposed to do so" completely-gray-area?
Few things on the web MUST be preserved and I think this is one of them. Kudos to CERN for doing whatever they can to make this happen.