skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not emotional about this at all and I'm sorry if I've come across as such! I'm genuinely trying to understand and empathize with people that have a problem with Google connecting ads with reviews, but I'm sincerely struggling to put myself in your shoes. So I'm debating with people that disagree with me!

> Are we so lost that we need constant reassurance from others on how to live, what opinions to have, what things to buy?

Well, yes. We're social creatures and we look to what the rest of the tribe is doing. It's really been quite well studied and it seems humans (and other social animals) behave this way naturally. This tendency can be beneficial (if the rest of the tribe is staying away from those berries, we ought not to eat them lest we get sick) and detrimental (e.g. the bystander effect). This social behavior is also something that's exhibited in the marketplace in many forms. That empty restaurant is probably no good, but the one with the line out of the door is probably doing something right -- at least to our tribal brain.

I'm not really sure what argument you're making. Are you making an argument against materialism, or against the centralization of services? (Perhaps this is a false dichotomy and you're making both arguments!)

If you're arguing against the centralization of common information services, well, this I can partly agree with. Such centralization makes it easier for data to be leaked, snooped, etc and in an ideal world we'd all be running FOSS on our own hardware. In the real world though, it's next to impossible to make money from FOSS and software developers gotta pay their bills too. (Just as a side note, I use FOSS as much as possible and think that it's made the world a better place.)

If you're arguing against materialism, I'm not sure where to go from there. You're free to be as unmaterialistic as you wish but I (and a lot of people) love doing things that are entertaining and incidentally cost money. I accept that not everybody is like me, but I've been very unhappy when my life has been bare bones and just-the-basics. I want to do stuff, go places, sky dive, and experience new things -- usually with other people too. I enjoy buying new technology and other tangible stuff, but mostly experiences that I suppose could be considered a luxury in terms of survival and only serve as entertainment. All this costs money, but these things bring me pleasure that a tofu lifestyle doesn't.

> You either draw the line somewhere or eventually you end up with cranial implants produced and owned by Apple sharing your every emotion and opinion with the rest of the world -- while they make money from it.

That was a good South Park episode!

If at any stage it becomes involuntary I'm going to be right there with you saying it's a problem, but I don't care if someone's making money from me so long as I'm receiving value in return.

The only thing that makes all of this okay is the fact I have a choice not to +1 something. Larry Page doesn't come to my house every day at 5am to make me endorse businesses against my will.

> Just wanted to make sure you understood me. Thanks for the chat!

Likewise!
On NPR the other day they said solidly red Kentucky is running their own site, and is doing really well. It sounded like they were more specific in what they wanted, and perhaps had reduced functionality thus complexity. Either way, kudos!

I would have thought California (note: I live in CA) would have had a good healthcare site, considering all the techies, but I guess in this case that didn't work out.

map of state/fed/joint-run sites:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/03/1243855/-Kentucky-s...
Are you a Font Awesome Pro?
May be worth running this: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget-... and seeing if any software you use is pegging it to maximum unnecessarily. I find that Microsoft Silverlight on MacOS tends to do that; Flash also does occasionally, though not always.
It's not that simple.
Facebook has two classes of shares.
While Zuckerberg only kept 28% of the shares, he kept 57% of the voting rights. So it's still entirely his decisions.
this is more IOS7 related, AFAIK ,some apps designed for older IOS versions might crash with the new os. Seems it is up to the developpers to fix this.
In regards to:

> It's his company, and he can do what he wants.

In any country, this is of course only true to the extent that he follows the applicable laws. In Europe, these laws are increasingly including provisions about data privacy. Therefore Facebook's attitude towards data privacy is not solely up to him, but also restrained by the democratic process.

How effective this will be remains to be seen, admittedly.
It may just be more aggressively sleeping, as opposed to just turning the screen off. You can change this in power management settings.
Could you perhaps cite one case in the hundreds of years of case law that supports the argument that privacy concerns override the right of the courts to every man's evidence?
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Indeed, disk transfer speed mattered a great deal in the early days. People used to save all their data to floppy disks, and use their hard disks only to load programs.

Say you had a large document of 600 KB size. Floppy drives wrote at 45 KB/second. Imagine waiting 13 seconds for your file to save out. You might save less often -- which means that you ran a correspondingly higher risk of losing data.

The .DOC file is a binary format so that it could contain document "sections," with pointers between the sections. This is what made "Fast Save" possible. If you only made a small change to an enormous document, Word would simply append the changes, and then change the pointers in the rest of the document.

Instead of waiting 13 seconds, you'd get the save in under a second.
Why You Should Grow Your Startup on the East Coast
Does anyone happen to know whether Mavericks installs or can run Apple Java 6? For a variety of reasons, I don't want to go to 7 just yet (and Oracle doesn't ship a 6 JDK for MacOS).
Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes - video animation
What makes you think you need a file system or partition table for a block device? Please tell me, because I know, you don't need any.
Yes a faster clock will do that, but as mentioned by quellhorst, you won't always be running at the fastest speed. There's also another important trick Clock Gating[1] that will reduce the power even more. That's one of the places that Intel has been working on in order to get the power usage down as much as possible to make the CPU have to dissipate less heat too. With a multi-core system it's just about absolutely necessary in order to be able to avoid overheating the die.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_gating
It may be worth explicitly restricting the tether connection to IPv4 only; have seen similar things where an ISP has something that looks like a working IPv6 setup but isn't.
Machine gun-toting robots may soon back up U.S. soldiers
Show HN: simple website to play Go (board game) - what do you think?
Nope. :) You are imagining it.
The way I answer people that say this is: It's not good enough.

Yes, you can come up with all the explanation whatsoever you want to how this is a ~local maxima~ of happiness, but the fact is that we live on a much higher one with tons of disposable income and benefit from their work... so it
s not a ~global maxima~ (not even close) so we should do better.

What can I say? I'm definitely more to the left than most people in this website but any quietly upvoted defense of child labor sounds like "the slaves had it better than in _x_" or "women were spared _y_" jobs to me when it comes to defending poor social policy.
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Grown-ass white men getting paid to develop digital toys justifying to themselves why the situation for 9 year old sweatshop workers is good enough. JFC.

edit: in fact, every single reply amongst the first 20 in some ways works to justify the completely bubbled-in mentality of the startup crowd. just running down the topic I see (caricaturized for effect) "social justice types don't understand how rough it is out there, this is good for her!", "ugh, this journalist is endangering the girl!", and "this really puts in perspective all those pesky cultural issues that women, gay people, and minorities keep complaining about".

what the hell is wrong with you all, seriously.
Was that person British? In that case 'neat idea' could literally mean 'This idea sucks.'. British English is known for its euphemisms.
Assange should do a Reddit AMA promoting this movie, seeing as Cumberbatch just got done promoting The Fifth Estate yesterday on Reddit. The Cumberbatch AMA was very disappointing, because all upvoted questions were just fawning compliments from Cumberbatch fans.
Ahh very cool! Thank you for the insight. I could see where that would be applicable then. Using comments as features is a very neat concept.

News is the most broadly applicable use for this so leveraging that isn't a bad thing. There's always a trade off of broad applicability vs overfitting for a particular case to get better results.

Thanks for the insight! Again great work.
Isn't this the least of their problems? They already experience a different legal and education system.
I'm at 53 MB used of 1 GB total swap after three days of uptime, while on 10.8 I would go far over that within minutes of startup (usually topping out at ~10 GB total after a day or two), so something does appear to have changed.
How about a Watsi for children (and their families) that have to work in sweatshops to make ends meet? Anyone interested in exploring this further?

Some challenges:

- Verifying the children that you support through the Watsi-type program already work in this environment (or will soon have to) as a necessity to economically support their families.

- Ensuring that, once you donate money, the children are no longer working in this environment and instead are enrolled in school.

- Other potential pitfalls?
For what it's worth, he did address a question regarding his portrayal of Mr Assange with more than a few words: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o8l5f/i_am_benedict_c...
Video Of The Week: Paul Graham in 2005
If the phone were to simply reboot rather than show a blue screen, and then reboot, no one would care about this issue. It would just be another bug in iOS 7. The media just seems to enjoy any sensational twist to the story.

iOS 7 is buggy, get over it [I'm a developer, I've been on iOS 7 since the Betas, it's still buggy]. Hopefully 7.1 (and please, Apple, 7.2 and 7.3) will fix a lot of these issues.
Why doesn't he just release this as a video file?
The SEED startup accelerator, and an opportunity for foreign startups in Brazil
Imagine looking for a style every time you needed to italicize a letter. Body text, italicized. Header, italicized. Subtitle, italicized.

Why not let the user italicize, and then let Word itself find the style? Because that's what happens behind the scenes. If you italicize some Header 2 text, Word will create a new style "Header 2 + Italics." If you italicize some more Header 2 text, Word will reuse the existing style.

You can actually open the styles palette and decide to change all "Header 2 + Italics" to be boldface instead of italicized.

Word is a styles-based word processor internally. All the ad-hoc formatting you do gets turned into an anonymous style.
There you go:

https://text-analysis.googlecode.com/files/luhn58.pdf‎
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1662360
I work in the industry. Chip and pin is not statistically safer (fraud rates in Spain, UK, and US are all the same despite having very different payment landscapes). The fundamental problem is that in traditional chip-and-pin setups you also type the pin into the same machine... so adding a skimmer + video camera OR adding a skimmer that records pin is marginally possible and not that hard.

The real security would come with a second factor that the user controls, either by approving on your phone or by using one-time-numbers for each transaction. The reason why these do not exist yet is because they would impede transaction flow, and the basic math with these companies is if fraud rate > rate loss of transaction volume from security feature then use security feature. Otherwise, don't.
For readability, it's nice to have the base case at the top. For performance (if performance is an issue) it's nice to have the base case at the bottom since all function heads are evaluated in order.

If you're looping over a million element list and your base case is first, it'll be checked a million times. If your base case is last, it'll only be checked once when your normal cases no longer match.

And to clear up your confusion, the writeup is wrong about empty lists matching on [H|T]:

Eshell V5.10.1 (abort with ^G)
1> [H|T] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
[1,2,3,4,5]
2> [H2|T2] = [].
** exception error: no match of right hand side value []
There have been many occurrences of states rights being used for good, for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850#Null...

Or more recently medical marijuana, and in general drug legalization efforts rely on states rights argumentation.
I ordered a part at the local franchise of a major auto parts place (I forget which one). The guy acted a little embarrassed as we stood there listening to the dial-up modem connect to place the order with the corporate system. That was in 2012 when even the small corner bookstore down the road had free wifi.
This

It's ridiculous how such an important infrastructure is so vulnerable. Magnetic stripes are easily copiable and without any other "authentication method" it's a done deal.
If contractor is IBM or Kumaran, then yes, their only goal is to extract profit. They are not concerned about product they make it look like they are building. If contractor is Joe Blow Perl coder, then most likely his goal will be to deliver a good system he can take pride in.
Early on in the movement, one of the big names who also had some fairly close corporate associations came to speak at a user group meeting hosted at my then BigCo location. I even passed news of the event around so that interested parties in our local shop could head down after hours and have a listen.

I felt rather bad afterwards for having done so. One of the more useless talks I've attended. Very superficially prescriptive (you should do X; Y has seen benefit Z), with no meat to the description (or prescription, as it were).

Agile may well have its place. But its intersection with BigCo life, as anecdotally exemplified in this fellow, seemed to be just more of the "same old same old". New words, same shit.
I get the feeling some of the design for Pages came from Pages by Pages for NeXTSTEP. It was a style-based editor and quite nice.
I actually had a BSOD in the first few minutes of my 5S arriving. It's been rock solid since apart from the usual iOS7 issues.
I can not think of any scenario where svn would be preferable over a distributed vcs such as git or mercurial. They can both be used exactly the same way as svn if you feel for it but come with tons of other benefits. I even think there's less friction to start with for non techincal people because you are always working in "everything always checked out"-mode and there is no need for a common server. Just let them edit in peace and when you want to merge then pull from their local repo.

I don't know the state of visual tools for git but tortoisehg for mercurial is quite easy to get started with.
Sorry but you're talking out of your ass. People who are living off the land in Alaska are doing it because that's what they do, when they get their PFD check they spend it on extra things. Regardlesss, nobody's sole source of income is the PFD except for some of the homeless in Anchorage—but they'd be homeless with or without the PFD check.
Don't worry, we're on well on our way to a society with haves an don't have. Surprisingly enough, the wealth is much more evenly spread in Bangladesh now compared to before. Mainly thanks to the garments industry.
When I first heard the principles of, lower taxes and fuck the poor by removing safety nets(aka "entitlements"), I thought to myself, sounds like Bangladesh. Taxes are unheard of there, as long as you can put out a little bribe to the tax collector.
Over the years, America is starting to look more and more like Bangladesh (yes, I know, it's a bit hyperbolic). If you don't believe me, you should see some of the homeless families that I've come across.

I recall watching people starve to death in Bangladesh when I was very young. Those memories haunt me till this day. It is a form of despair that this 4-day journalist knows nothing about. Aspirations go out the window when faced with hunger. The alternative view is that it's pretty freekin' awesome that this little girl has aspirations at all, beyond being fed (as was the case not very long ago in Bangladesh)
Our "first world problems" aren't lame. We have more and more people falling into poverty and a society where social mobility is fast disappearing. Well worth paying attention to if we indeed are a beacon for the world to aspire to.
In that regard, Objective C is unlike the others because it uses SmallTalk style message passing.

I think Andrei is being clever more than anything. They're all different in many ways.
I've had that too, I think around 2 or 3 times, however the restart after that only takes a couple of seconds, so it doesn't bother me too much. I hope this will be fixed with the next software update.
I assume they weren't able to get any additional funding, and were at the point where they needed to wind down the company. Another company comes along and says "we'll give you good jobs, and make your investors whole." So they take it. It's not like there was a Plan B.
It's a side effect of being an inconsiderate person.
I don't doubt that socializing not only makes you a more rounded person, but is necessary as well.

However, I'd bet you anything I'm in a different league compared to you when you were 29, because I spent most of my 20's learning and coding (about 50K LOC/year on average across 20 languages.)

There's no substitute for putting in the time. However, who I was permitted me to make those choices while most of my peers made choices more similar to yours. So in a sense, there is a very real effect that's out of your control and probably goes back to your childhood.
Given that he's pretty anti-Manning (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/14/benedict-cumberb...) I strongly doubt that's a genuine response. Most likely it was written by a PR manager.

A Redditor made a very discerning comment about possible motives behind the movie here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o8l5f/i_am_benedict_c...
You don't mention buying an apartment, so I will assume you meant "rent a house or buy a house" rather than "rent an apartment or buy a house". I know that in some places, choosing whether to rent or buy also means choosing between an apartment and a house.

Aside from the financial considerations (mortgage interest income tax deduction, homeowner property tax deduction), there are some problems with renting that are magnified with a house rather than an apartment. There is maintenence (mowing the lawn, cleaning up graffiti, removing weeds/garbage from the front sidewalk, properly insulating the house) that is normally performed by the resident owner, which both the nonresident owner and the nonowner resident have a lower incentive to perform. For the nonresident owner, it's because they don't care about the quality of life for the resident, and for the nonowner resident, it's because they don't care about improving the property value for the owner. This is one big reason why "bad" neighborhoods are so poorly maintained: most people are renting. In "good" neighborhoods, usually most residents own their home.

On the other hand, it's popular just to see homeownership as a good way to engage in leveraged property speculation, but that really depends on whether you're living in a prosperous city or not. Buying a house in San Francisco is probably a good investment; buying a house in Detroit is probably not.
They will throw their sabots into the machine and cry 'liberté, egalité, fraternité!'

I don't claim to have any answers, but looking at western history you start to see some similarities.
because the damage so far has been very manageable, or a tiny cost of doing business. I am sure they have plans to replace them when /if...
It's amusing and tragic how the big money people figured out how to subvert the stock = ownership = voting rights equation. It feels technically legal, but actually wrong on a couple levels.

Their entire premise is "We're smarter than the rest of the world and you poor people can't be trusted with the big important decisions of us billionaires." This is social media on the internet after all—the most important advancement in humanity's collective history.
"fraud rates in Spain, UK," for what? Credit cards? Debit? There's always going to be fraud one way or another.

"you also type the pin into the same machine... so adding a skimmer..."

There's no copying of SIM Cards.

Yes, you can still copy the magnetic stripe that's there for backwards compatibility. So, yes, it's not going to be safer while there's support for old technology.

My (European) bank issued me a chip-and-pin card without the mag stripe, good for travels, where I won't risk getting my card skimmed again.
Check Richard Lynn's Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations

The top countries on that list are Japan(110),Hong Kong(107) and Taiwan(104).Germany and Singapore are tied at 103.
It's free this weekend for people in the UK, everyone else can rent it online for just one pound (about $1.50) from Journeyman Pictures.

If you prefer to do things differently, a magnet link is available here: http://pastebin.com/6RVSpTAa
Right. Also I am just happy the brightest tech minds in the world occupy themselves with this kind of BS.
Zoo Labs uses startup tools to incubate musicians
Approaching the Limit of Predictability in Human Mobility
Sounds like a UI problem then, rather than a core logic problem.
I know, I think he misread the C++ code.
Cool, i remember these days as well. Indeed it very much looked like StudiVZ just used FBs css filed and changed some colors.. It was a typical german clone success story. Dariani did a lot of questionable things but sold in the right time before the downfall of VZ.

I didnt really like it, they basically did nothing in terms of innovation that FB did, it had the same features for years. Later they had a half-assed app platform that never really took off. It was just a blatant rip-off like so many german startups, sadly.
"In this study we analyze the travel patterns of 500,000 individuals in Cote d'Ivoire using mobile phone call data records. By measuring the uncertainties of movements using entropy, considering both the frequencies and temporal correlations of individual trajectories, we find that the theoretical maximum predictability is as high as 88%. To verify whether such a theoretical limit can be approached, we implement a series of Markov chain (MC) based models to predict the actual locations visited by each user. Results show that MC models can produce a prediction accuracy of 87% for stationary trajectories and 95% for non-stationary trajectories. Our findings indicate that human mobility is highly dependent on historical behaviors, and that the maximum predictability is not only a fundamental theoretical limit for potential predictive power, but also an approachable target for actual prediction accuracy."
On your second link, that's a quite old (almost two years, if I'm not wrong) benchmark. Unigine is now supposed to run on the free drivers, see http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=752