skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, but will wait till something cool comes out of it, or when they shut it down. Right now that's all I can say with the info given.

But yeah, Google has managed to suck the oxygen out of others with every new announcement (self-driving cars are one example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#History )
Octopress, Planet.rb and the Nilenso Blog
The issue I had with EE was that their "spammy marketing" took more value than their answers added.
Might not be free software, but: https://enterprise.github.com/
You're not leveraging your competitive advantages, there. I bet you don't even brainstorm blue-sky thinking for an innovation agenda. Tsk tsk.
When is the best time to post on Facebook?
That's awesome. Thank you! Will strive to be more sleep-hygienic.
And why couldn't they switch to an advertising-based revenue stream (like pretty much everyone else in Web 2.0 and beyond).
That’s far from the worst atrocity that EE committed. What sent me over the edge with Expert’s Exchange is the fact that to sign up for a “free trial”, you had to enter in credit card information. That kept me away from the site for a long time, until one day when I was desperate for an answer and it appeared that EE might have one. I bit the bullet and quickly signed up, not reading over the fine print. Next month, lo and behold, I see a charge on my credit card for a full membership rate at EE.

Shame on me for not assuming this would happen when I signed up, but shame on EE for implementing this scammy business practice in the first place. What percent of EE’s revenue model came from unwitting free trial memberships that rolled over into “VIP” memberships?
Two points:

1. If your "default face" is being super pissed off all the time, it means you're probably having larger problems on top of social anxiety. Apart from genetics (some people are just less/more cheerful than others), there must be factors in your life which make you like that - try to identify them.

2. There are people who prefer interacting with others' "natural face", even if it is to some extent not attractive (not everything needs to be TV-show attractive! quirkiness can make you interesting to others), to interacting with a "happy drone". Talking to "happy drones" feel like watching a commercial.
Ok, I'll bite: what is the over/under on when this will be shut down like so many other Google projects?

(Question is only half-serious)
For me it's the removal of textures like wood and leather. And the fact that almost all the icons are more futuristic rather than illustrations of real life objects, see Game Center, Photos, Reminders.
> By "Apple's competition", I assume he is referring to Android.

Apple didn't start out making phones. Their computing business is still a fortune 100 company in it's own right.
There are a number of things:

- You wouldn't expect Apple to change core apps like Phone dramatically. It's a very mature feature that isn't going anywhere and is practically identical on every smartphone. You get a numpad, you get your contacts list, your voicemail, etc. All of which has been given a new coat of paint, but fundamentally hasn't changed much.

- You see deeper changes in the built-in apps that aren't quite as mature/core. There is for example a large change in UX in iOS to move away from hard, distracting transitions towards more subtle transitions that imply information hierarchy. For example if you tap on a date in a calendar, instead of hard-wiping you to another piece of UI altogether to show you appointments, it dynamically expands the day-view from the date itself. If you tap on an album in Photos it will dynamically expand that album to fill the screen with additional photos. All of this goes towards better educating the user on information hierarchy and is much, much less jarring than before. As a third party dev that's been working with Apple on iOS7 prep, I know for a fact that they're pushing this new UX hard - you will see more 3rd party apps go towards this model in the coming months. You see some uses of this in first-party apps, but users will notice most when 3rd parties start adopting this.

- Many of the most substantial changes are under the hood and aren't being (visibly or ostentatiously) used in the stock apps, mostly because there really isn't a place for them. They will, however, power a new generation of apps in the coming months - things like a new backgrounding model will let apps do more while not in use, and also in some types of apps greatly reduce the loading/refresh time when you return to them. Or even more subtle things like dynamics, which will make scrolling feel very different in apps.

In short, users will feel some of these changes immediately, but ultimately the deep changes in iOS won't be felt until third party dev adoption is there.
An Unusual Case of Case (/switch)
Any suggestions or feedback appreciated! This was my first major foray into doing the design and CSS work, so things may be a little rough there.
I'm an extreme introvert by nature, and overcoming this is a constant, daily, exhausting struggle. I love interacting with one or two people who I know very well. But I'm driven to the edge of an irrational panic attack when I meet new people.

In high pressure situations, like sales or fund raising, it can be excruciating. The elevated pulse, the sweat, blurred vision -- it's fight or flight response the entire way.

I was talking with a friend of mine about living in cities, and we both mentioned our distaste for living in an environment where we have to deal with lots of people. But while her response was to try and move out to the country, mine was to try and move to bigger and bigger cities. Turns out I love the anonymity of big crowded cities like New York, but just like my friend, can't stand the kind of semi-dense low-rise urbanity like you find in LA. The density just isn't right.

Many years ago I took a job doing tech support and phone sales. It was probably the worst kind of job for me, but I persevered and found that over time I learned how to deal with people. Every month or two I had a difficult interaction and realized that I dealt with it more successfully than I would have a few months before. I still hated it, that kind of interaction, but it trained me. I was never going to be a natural at that kind of interaction, but I would never naturally get up and run a marathon either. I realized that if I could train myself, I could not only tolerate, but be successful in these kinds of interactions.

I also remember being moved by the Gom Jabbar scene in Dune. The purpose of which was to filter out humans who could discipline their mind against instinct, and animals who were slaves to instinct. I realized reacting to fear is reacting to instinct, like an animal, and if I were a human I could overcome this. This is reenforced by the Litany Against Fear used during that scene.

Now, many years later, before I go into a meeting with strangers, I tell myself this, I've trained myself to overcome my instincts, to be fully human. I tell myself "fear is the mind killer" and I enter the room.
But they are essentially garbage are they not? Adding java-style static typing is not helpful at all. The benefits of static typing are very much tied to the power of the type system in question.
Can a lefty safely use a modern fountain pen? I've always stuck to the higher end "mass-market" pens since I end up wearing/smearing the ink of better pens.
I've read about this before. My primary question, however, is wouldn't this put some big dings in your credit rating? The average age of accounts would go way down, the credit checks would go up, and your allowed debt to income ratio would be all over the place. Or does none of that happen?
Frankly, that is impossible to do humanly. How old is he now, and how many years did he live in luxury? You'd need to be waterboarding him or something to strive for some sort of "eye for an eye" equilibrium.
It's that "only" in "... only in the sense that ..." upon which the whole thing hangs. Presupposing unitarity (and locality) and constraining models to conform to that presupposition may be that complication, that blinder, that prevents discovery of the simpler underlying rule from which either or both emerge. And either or both may be necessary consequences of the much simpler, underlying rule (if there is one to be found), at least on the observable side of any predicted phenomena, but that can't be determined unless one is willing to first throw away the constraints that keep you from finding it. (In effect, it's analogous to simply adding two natural numbers directly rather than using Peano arithmetic and checking at each iteration that an increment occurs. Either way you will arrive at the same answer, but the unconstrained rules for addition allows for negative numbers and fractions.)
The way this story is retold on this particular site is horrible.

I've read another account that was written far better and with far more detail.

In fact this article just seems like a summary of the first article, skipping over details like he didn't first go with the pudding.
If you can't trust that I am a decent human being, without the crutch of a the law to protect you, don't use my software.
There is something very weird about people routinely speaking of immortality as something that is actually a thing. For all we know, stars die eventually, the sun will burn out eventually, the universe as we know most likely comes to an end and so forth, you can not cheat basic physics. To me this is the same kind of refusal that makes some people believe in god, and that shows how hopelessly biased we get on topics we are emotionally involved in. On any other topic with the information available everyone sane would asses the likelihood of success as maybe less than 0.001%, but if you ask about this specific thing, it's more like 50%...

(Speaking in advance: I understand this is in fact about life extension)
>As far as changes, you're right, but the changes are true with any product.

This is true, but only with proprietary software are they unfixable.
Experts Exchange sells access to content - that's my whole point. That's literally all they do. Their crime was ranking highly in Google, while Google said what they were doing was OK. Comparing that to assassinating babies is kinda silly, don't you think?
They wasted more of my time than they ever saved, with their pollution. To hell with 'em!
You can now update to iOS 7 on your iPhone, ipad and iPod Touch
The site's code absolutely is part of those milliseconds. Often times it can even be tbe bulk of them, particularly in cases of PHP noobs writing the code.
Ask HN: Undergraduate thesis topic in Machine Learning?
I'm an undergrad Applied Math student who's interested in doing a thesis in Machine Learning. I'm currently taking a Machine Learning class offered at my school, and have some prior experience in the field, although not a ton.

As a beginner, its hard for me to recognize specific areas where I could possibly make some contribution, or do research of some "novel" approach. For example some areas of Machine Learning, such as Collaborative Filtering, have already had large bodies of research done on them, which would make it hard to improve upon the preexisting techniques.

What recommendations do you have for some sources, papers, where I could get some inspiration, or suggest areas/specific problems/specific techniques?
I guess we disagree on terminology but don't actually disagree in practice. I think that punishment is okay only so far as fines are punishment, while you think that fines are not punishment, but that fines are okay and punishment is not. Basically the same thing. :)
I have an email for the form firstname.lastname at gmail -- and apparently many people with my name can't remember that that is not their account (I can tell from the geolocation info on some of the emails, England, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, etc). I've been signed up for countless services without verification, and have received DishNetwork bills (enough info to change their subs), gas receipts, Kmart crap, dating website stuff, etc. I have received confidential business deal emails from more than two of them. It is ridiculous that people can't recall their own email address.

If only they would ALL send verification emails!!!!
That U curve makes sense. It aligns with when people usually work.
Children are suffering a severe deficit of play
Here's Gruber saying awesome things about Maps:

Who Benefits From iOS 6’s Crappy Maps?

Seems pretty clear the new Maps is going to be the biggest problem with iOS 6...

Could well just be arrogance on Apple’s part, too...

What if Google doesn’t ever release a Google Maps app, to paint iOS as the platform with crappy maps?

... the maps experience in iOS 6 is a downgrade. Users shouldn’t (and won’t) give a rip about behind the scenes negotiations.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/19/ios-6-maps-dash
I will add a sixth: Put yourself in a position where a phone interview is not necessary...
http://sideprojectors.com

Just a couple more characters, not as creepy.
CoffeeScript was inspired by Python, Ruby, and Haskell.
Personally I felt they made it difficult to find an answer. I get that they wanted to make money, but I felt like they could have done a better job on that end. But they were constantly filling up the first page of my search results. They were also the first (and one of few) domains I've blocked. When I did that, it made it easier to find an answer to my question. Do they deserve another look? Not really, they made a bad first impression and I've taken my business elsewhere. Those other businesses have suited my needs, so I've never needed to take a second look. I made up my mind, as did many other people, long before stackoverflow came along.
How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches
Webhook - cms for deploying static html pages
Ok first of all, holy crap, I can't believe this actually hit the front page, definitely wasn't expecting that. Thanks again for all the input, I couldn't have asked for more.

Ultimately, I'm still not 100% sure, but after going through all the comments a couple of times, I think I've finally made up my mind. For the next month / couple of months, I'm going to slowly get back into freelancing while giving PHP a serious go. Although PHP may not be my first choice, I realise now this is actually the right one since WP development is going to be my main source of income for the next 6-12 months, so I need to get really good at it. Aside from that, I plan on sharpening my front-end skills and trying out a couple of other stuff as well such as SASS and Git.

After I feel I'm comfortable enough with PHP, I plan on trying out the Laravel framework, and see if I actually like it as much as Rails. Either way, I'm definitely going to learn Ruby as well ( I've already finished "Learn to Program" by Chris Pine some time ago ), and eventually spend less time on WP in order to finally master Rails. In the end, I'm hoping to give up WP entirely and work only on RoR projects ( either my own or by freelancing ).

I know a couple of you guys were suggesting that I should focus on things which are not related to web development at all, and I see your point, but honestly I simply can't get excited about that stuff at all. Maybe later on I'm going to feel different about it, but for now I'm focusing solely on web development.

Also, regarding SQL, that's something I may've left out in my original post, but fortunately I am pretty familiar with MySQL, I even studied it in school.
> And when I open some C-based project's code the first thing I usually expect and see is some homegrown linked list and/or map implementations (of SIGSEGV fame). I know, there are tons of libraries that offer them, but in my experience of "hey, that server crashed, could you figure out what went wrong"-type tasks, they're very rarely used.

Fortunately, C++ developers just always use the STL because it is considered the bastion of all that is good in collection classes:

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/avoiding-game-crashes-relate...
http://engineering.adap.tv/2012/03/29/why-we-use-c-without-u...

Don't get me wrong. I love C++ and use the STL by default, but it's all too rare that I look at a decent sized C++ project and see anything different from what you'd expect if the project were written in C.
I was a little unimpressed with Moleskine paper when I bought one of their notebooks a few years ago. Now I use artists' sketch books (Rowney, Daler, Bright White of Brighton in the UK). Paper around 100 g/m^2 is a good balance between taking any form of ink/pencil and getting a reasonable number of pages in a book.

I'm not very systematic though...
Maybe he has team members who would try to use stickers as obnoxiously as possible?
Navy Yard: Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene
This is a good example of a good inbound marketing type blog post: short, clear, genuinely useful for some, with a clickable title (numbered lists are low risk of taking up too much time) and with a clear link back to what you're trying to sell at the end.
Introducing Autoparts for Nitrous.io
It is a pretty easy distinction for users to make. Google can easily add a disclaimer that Google won't support or guarantee performance on non-Android devices. If they want to keep CM users happy about that they can offer trial versions so that users can test, or maybe even offer a money-back guarantee for an app.
My hand is cramping just watching this video.

I think the sped-up version of this video masks how much time this takes to get this thing up and running, and how error prone it is.

Also, if you have terribly messy, atrophied handwriting skills like me, you are going to have a bad time.
"I thought I had escaped the service industry for the ‘freedom’ of freelance work. But — I never left the service industry."

So true. I don't care what business you're in. You're still in the service business. And the people who do the best (for the most part) are those who actually care about their customers. Period.
You can still do this, but the mint imposed limits on the number of coins they'll sell you per week, effectively making this scheme not worth it anymore.

However, to me it is still the best way of getting all those bonus miles when you sign up for a new credit card, without actually spending any money.
I think it's somewhat amusing that there are more posts about how to handle interviews as a prospective employee than there are posts about how to handle interviews as an employer. This is despite the fact that in today's hot market I hear "We're having a hard time finding people" from companies more than I hear "I'm having a hard time finding work" from individuals.
The most intriguing thing from the new iOS is the same thing I can't find detailed info anywhere - iBeacon.
> So, people can't hardly write safe web apps in PHP without...

I've said it before, but it bares repeating:

PHP is C for people who shouldn't write in C... or PHP.
Virgin's Blinkwashing Campaign
I have found that for me, Workflowy provides an excellent platform for taking notes and is great for organization. Its simplicity is actually a key feature. I find I miss having certain features sometimes such as being able to link between different lists but really, it starts to get complicated once you include these features.

Workflowy just works.
Parsing S-Expressions in Scala
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut
Huge costs for a scarcity based economy. I guess that will be changing soon enough.
I don't know too much about Emacs' org-mode, but it looks like this is org-mode on paper. :)
Picadilly notebooks are about half the price of Moleskines, and none of my friends can tell the difference: http://www.amazon.com/Piccadilly-Essential-Notebook-Medium-B...
Could someone take up a collection for the funds, and bypass the Congress?
So you're running pre-release iOS, and expect it to work flawlessly?

I made the same mistake with iOS5beta and it was a nightmare. Power usage was the least of my issues. WHen iOS5 finally came out, I noticed most of my issues had disappeared (the rest got resolved by 5.1).

tl;dr: The use of iOS betas for your daily driver are inadvisable.
>This is one of those rare times that powerful people make bold choices that catalyze a shift in the world's thought paradigm.

Let's just go ahead and pump the brakes here before we start clapping each other on the back and talking about shifted paradigms. I'll gladly join in the happy-clappy fest once some actual results come through. But saying we've catalyzed a shift in the world's thought paradigm (that is a really pretentious way of saying "this might make people think differently", by the way) at the announcement of a new product might be just a wee bit premature.
2 years of people clamoring for better labels, and instead they go with these useless, tacky stickers?
So what about Server 2012 R1?
Bummer. The phone looks great and I just got a Q10 (also a great phone).
SO succeeded because it was in every way better than EE, and because everyone hated EE. It had nothing whatsoever to do with them calling you names.
Are you sure? Because people use 'their' as a singular all the time when talking about someone of an unspecified gender, and the dictionary seems to agree with that:

"belonging to or associated with a person of unspecified sex:
she heard someone blow their nose loudly"

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/their?q=the...
What does making the society part of the conversation mean exactly? If a private company develops a technology for immortality and then chooses to charge $1million/year for it thus excluding 99.999% people what does the society has to say about that? Should it force the company to lower the price? Should it bar the technology?
Medical tourism partially solves this. If someone develops an amazing treatment I need, I wouldn't mind traveling to another country to get it.
BBM Available for Android and iPhone from September 21
Generally you could find the answer elsewhere. They made it more difficult to find the answer's elsewhere, as they were generally in the top of any query. If it happened occasionally, it would be no big deal. But when it happened every single time, it gets frustrating. You have a deadline, and you have a problem that is already frustrating. Now you have to wade through EE results trying to find another site that has an answer.
Right now GApps, which includes things like Play Store, Chromium, Calendar, GMail, etc., doesn't ship with cyanogen because some of the apps are closed source. You can install it separately after the install if desired, and for most folks I assume it makes that phone a lot more useful.

I wonder if cyanogen started to make enough inroads on android's market share if Google would try to make it more difficult to install GApps.
Those stickers are literally spaceships and puppies, how can they be used for any serious work? There is nothing more obvious than a label, a colored rectangle with text denoting its meaning, instead you get this -> ;)
Generational warfare would definitely be something to consider. Imagine if immortality had been discovered 400 years ago. Are the ethics and morality of the leaders from 400 years ago something you, a person born in the late 20th century, would want to live under?

Generations eventually dying off keeps the human race moving forward in many ways.
Most of the world suffers from the health problem of never even reaching a ripe old age, and much of the rest from the problem of not being able to afford it, and increasingly so.

This is not about making the world a better place. This about allowing the elite that can afford it to live forever.
Desire _everyone_ to live forever.

What kind of monster are you that you don't think thats a laudable goal?
It does say that, now.

What was the original headline?