skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An understated story of Nazi superiority maybe:

Orson Scott Card Has Always Been an Asshat (2005): http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

ender and hitler: sympathy for the superman (20 years later) (2007): http://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html

Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality (2004): http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
Would be interesting to see the actual contents (playable videos, etc.) too.
Animal Pharm: What Can We Learn From Nature’s Self-Medicators?
- The most elusive skill seemed to be knowing what to invent and what to steal

- Everyone’s problem is money until it’s hiring

Two I liked, highlighting subtle but critical pain/points.
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Our current support satisfaction rating is 97%, which is significantly above industry averages. Nevertheless, we aim to provide great support in all cases so I'm sorry that this wasn't your experience.
new accounts with 0 karma can't upvote either... you can test it by upvoting a submission and refreshing the page.
It can be true, but Russia also has the largest land area in the world, and a population less than half that of the US. Fixing it is not a challenge I would take on lightly.
Delivering an Excellent Customer Experience via Live Chat
yes, still nothing
It amuses me how the answer to "is Bitcoin a currency?" changes depending on which answer is good or bad.
Why Programmers Need To Learn To Code
Not a book, but a good addition:

http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php
That's the only one in mine too. The problem with Newsstand isn't the folder. It's that there are no good publications for it. Publishers just export their PDF into the app. If they designed an experience like the NYT or The Magazine I'd be using Newsstand a lot more. I wouldn't mind Apple forcing them to do it either (i.e. new 'guideline' preventing apps which only sell PDF's).
Actually Amir's company is still operating. But even if it weren't, you'd be mistaken. People who fail have some of the most valuable insights. I learned YC's motto "Make something people want" from failing to do it myself.
Readymag is ready for public
Absolutely! As you can see in the responses for youtube, vimeo, etc -- I do include the responsive HTML.

I will make a better inspector so you can interactively see what is being sent, and what you are getting back :)
What does patriotism have to do with this? Does NASA conduct research to promote American pride? The thinking is that development of space technology will spawn new techniques/materials that could lead to new areas of research, find use in day to day life and overall, spur the economy. Every country in the world has poverty. You don't see them stopping all work to help them out.
Stanford's not so great. I've
seen a good fraction of some of
their best work, and it's not
too difficult. E.g., to me, Ng
is out in la-la land. Diaconis
is not too difficult but much,
much better than Ng. Then some
of the best
are Royden, Luenberger, and Chung,
but none of their books should be
regarded as needing some super
human effort -- they are all very
clear writers.

For Stanford 'computer science',
mostly f'get about that; maybe
in 50 years it will have some
significant content.

The speech was insulting BS.

A lot of HS students work their
tails off trying to get into
places such as Stanford; sad
situation. E.g., they take AP
calculus. Total bummer. F'get
about AP calculus because the
people who wrote that material
didn't understand calculus very
well. Instead, just get a good
college calculus book and dig in,
that is, study the material and
examples and then work the exercises
until understand them and the
material well. Work from more than
one famous book. There are highly
polished college calculus texts
going back at least 50 years and
no shortages. Working through
a good college calculus book is
not difficult and great fun. All
the angst over AP calculus is just
make-work, junk-think, busy-work
sadism to hurt high school students
by trying to make difficult something that
should be fun.

High schools and that Stanford
admissions guy just like to beat up
on HS students. Bummer.

Me? I never took freshman calculus!
Instead, the college where I did my
freshman year was not very good and
forced me into a math course beneath
what I'd done in my relatively good
HS. So, a girl in the class told
me when the tests were; I showed up
for those; and meanwhile I got a good
calculus book and dug in. For my
sophomore year I went to a much
better college, started on their
relatively good sophomore calculus
(same text then used at Harvard),
did well, got "Honors in Mathematics"
and 800 on my Math GRE. Yup,
never took freshman calculus. Well,
HS students can do the same: Just
get a good, standard, popular,
recognized calculus book and dig in.
Then f'get about AP calculus and
either just skip calculus in college
or just show up for the tests and
move on to, say, linear algebra
(say, one of Noble, Nearing, Hoffman and Kunze, or
Strang, and, finally,
Halmos), theoretical advanced
calculus, applied advanced calculus,
ordinary differential equations,
elementary probability and statistics
(race through it and don't take it
seriously since will see it all
again with much higher quality),
measure theory and functional
analysis, probability and stochastic
processes, mathematical statistics,
etc. Pick a real problem, do some
research, get a Ph.D. in engineering,
then write software for a startup!
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Build SB Nation, the Verge, Polygon
> Too many MOOCs out there in my opinion that just transfer offline education to online.

This is very true. And the hourly estimates required are underrated in my experience. I am taking a coursera course that claimed 5-8 hours of investment per week; in reality I am spending 12-18 hours per week (skipping optional assignments).
I think this may be relevant for the people who may want to attend. Why the down-vote?
The unsung women of technology
Actually, just exporting a PDF would be a huge improvement on most of the periodicals I've tried. Instead they do stuff like exporting enormous bitmaps of text pages, making for bigger downloads, uglier text, and inability to search.
Having been on the technical advisory group for the implementation of Oracle's identity management system at a large public university, I am not surprised to hear that they are having problems. Eventually they got it up and running, but way way way behind schedule, and without a lot of the promised features.
Why Free Plans Don’t Work [2010]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613852 [114 comments]

A lot of lifestyle entrepreneurs have recommended getting the card for a long time.
Damn. I was thinking of building something like this! (More specifically, I imagined the UI flow would involve getting the person to take a photo of themselves.)

Seriously, this is a great idea.
invent: create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of.

So invent and design are near synonyms. There are subtle differences, of course. For example, I don't think it would be right to accuse you of designing the distinction you're making here. ;)
A onesie has a completely different meaning in England (it's like an all in one pyjamas) - I was expecting something like this :
http://c84e75a0be4d36ae45af-2d30e5c80739923c8e8ade725c23fc90...

But your site seems to be suggesting something slightly different? Either way, it's a cool idea!
Discuss: Companies with expert version management tracks
This question keeps coming up lately in the multinational I work for (>150,000 employees). I would love to hear some experience from others on this.

I definitely sit in the expert category, and it is increasingly looking obvious to me (34) that I should take, although maybe a technical downgrade, any position that gives me a possibility to get some management experience.
FBI's Facial Recognition Software Could Fail 20 Percent of the Time
Really helpful comments. Thanks.
> The entire economy can run just fine with 1 infinitely divisible bitcoin in circulation.

That's a strong empirical statement made without evidence.

> Any bitcoins held can only have an effect if they are spent.

Kind of. But bitcoins (or fractions thereof) being removed from circulation has an effect. And the expectation that that will happen has an effect.
Ha! This has been a source of much debate, actually. Most female entrepreneur-friends I spoke with said they'd feel left out, and I hate that. But I had to start with one product, so I figured I'd go for the larger market first, and then expand. I definitely want to give credit where it's due :-)
then have them put it in the website. Customers shouldn't have to google that at all. But thanks.
As an Irishman who studied seven years ago, it's doubtful he paid a penny for his degree.
I am a fervent proponent for modern constructionistic learning environments, but affecting change in the current system is almost impossible. Some teachers are enthusiastic and willing to spend their own time to develop and implement these modern* ideas about learning, but in the end, one way or another, they have to conform to the traditional educational system. If it isn't for management that presses for better test results, parents that want good grades, children that cannot take to the new way (for whatever reason) it is the seemingly incommensurability of these ideas with the traditional norm for education that leads to a watering down of the ideas and a feeling of hopelessness about it all.

What many don't understand is the enormous difference between the learning of the one child (your child) and the education of a nation. Try institutionalizing these "almost logical" ideas about learning for nation-wide implementation for a reasonable price and see what happens. I think it is possible to implement these ideas, but that means that we as a nation have to make hard choices. At the moment, we choose to fund education for all and learning for all be damned.

*: Every couple of decades these ideas or similar ideas seem to be reïnvented by a new generation ...
I believe embedly exposes a list of regular expressions for matching URLs -- if you would share your regexes that be very helpful to library developers.
Pope remains Catholic
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Bear shits in wood
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thank you for update

>> I still believe that using PFS, even with this limitation, is safer ...

I definitely agree, the problem is that usually there is more than 1 web server :-)

>> The standard is still to point clients to a single termination endpoint, and do active/passive cluster, so that there's no need to share the session tickets.

Sorry, I did not understand (esp. the active/passive cluster thing) - could you please may be add some pointers (blog post, etc) with more details?
Appreciate you sharing your experience. Never even thought about it.
As an intellectual exercise this is Exactly how your lathe was originally created, minus the zombie apocalypse.

Even if you abstract out segments (I'll just buy screws from a screwmaker) that doesn't mean the screwmaker doesn't avoid doing the work. Someone got to make the machine that made the screws. Or the machine that made the machine that made the screws.

Eventually you start thinking about mining engineering problems which is also fun, in conventional definition and DF.

More importantly this is exactly how a design engineer thinks. Exactly. I want a IC fabrication thingy. Well that would need X, Y, and Z, each of which need... and you quit designing small parts when mass production makes it impractical to make your own SHCS to assemble the parts. And if the math shows you're better off bolting a COTS subassembly on, you do it instead of making the parts, or you're better off making your own leadscrew threads you do that. But fundamentally for the first steps its the same.

The other thing is supply chains rarely fail completely but partially fail every day. You may need to replace the ball bearing in the headstock of your lathe and the replacement may no longer be COTS. Turn out bodging a different bearing might be a wise idea. You just never know in advance if you'll be rigging up your own babbit bearing or creating your own half-nut, so what not think about the whole thing.

As an OCD fixation it could get annoying, but for bored daydreams it beats watching Oprah reruns on TV.
Triggerly Postmortem - Lessons Learned
Funny enough, I not have 10x more karma points than I did before I posted this and I STILL CANT UPVOTE!!!
It's an easy replacement for overweight etherpad or another cloud-hosted solutions. This is a one-file-tool which you can host on your own server to keep your secret notes with you, but still have the ability to collaborate.
Nobels and National Greatness
I'm familiar with the RFC. The (sad?) thing is, I'm being serious. If you use autonomous drones they could drop the drive into a receptacle for upload, and scootch over to pick up a drive going the other way (if needed). Whenever the drone needs to recharge, it drinks power from a landing area.

This is no a widely applicable data transmission method, but for the people that need it, they would really need it. Data sizes grow larger, but running fiber through cities is time-consuming and expensive. This would be a reasonable alternative.

There are limits, of course, on the kind of data you'd want to transmit in this way, since it would be fairly easy to intercept. OTOH it is more secure since interception is trivially detectable. So "vast amounts of data, relatively short distances, where detecting interception is more important than preventing it". Sounds like a viable niche to me!
> liberalish

As a native, I do not know Nashville as a liberal city, but I guess perspectives are all relative.
What about mobile versions? Spotify's shady business tactics is why I gravitated towards Rdio and covered the gaps with Grooveshark.
Absolutely! Thanks for this! I will get a nice and neat list together for everyone.

Again, if you need it short term -- don't hesitate to reach out!
Mars has basically no magnetosphere. It still has an atmosphere, and thin as it is it'll still protect you from a lot of cosmic and solar radiation. (Not as much as Earth's atmosphere does, though.)

I agree it's definitely way easier to colonize Mars than the Moon.
>but zombie ants whose brains are hijacked by an infectious fungus.

This is the fungus that causes ant zombification:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
Yeah, try googling "startup onesie" - it's a bunch of grown-ups. The U.S. Would be my market focus, and I thought this was the main term used here...

Another lesson learned in "know your market well".
Zero To Traction (Slides)
True. But it is VERY hard to encourage the enthusiasm of a 4 year old who asks "Why?" 600 times a day. :-)
The End of "The End of Libraries"
Is there any online discussion place that isn't to some degree an echo chamber?
I'd like to see Music and Videos go the same way. These apps are useless. Opening them up, one is greeted with "Store". But I don't want to purchase anything, I just want a place to store my files. And I know for fact I am not the only one.

Most people I know use other, free apps to transfer files to/from the device and to listen/watch audio/video.

For those who lived through the PC era, these tactics by Apple are perhaps reminiscent of Microsoft/OEM "crapware" that came installed on every PC (and no doubt still does). Even though the PC was "new", it was unclean. The first thing one had to do after purchase was to remove all the crapware.

In its ongoing homage to human intelligence, Apple has made sure one cannot remove these garbage items without having to jailbreak. Brilliant.
1 point per upvote
Notice how no one ever deserves negative consequences, only positive consequences. That's what bothers me. If people deserve success from working hard, why don't people deserve failure if they don't work hard?
Show HN: An app that sends you weekly recipes matching your nutrition targets
Quiz game. Put up a picture of the person, and see if I can get their name.
For me, Newsstand is annoying because it takes extra clicks to get in and out of apps, the latter of which is more frustrating. iOS7 made this frustration worse because now you need to explicitly click the home button twice to exit (once for the app and then again for Newsstand) whereas with <iOS7 you could click the home button once to exit the app and then tap on the lower half of the screen OR click the home button to exit Newsstand. I know this sounds picky, but in practice it has been an annoyance.

That being said it does seem to be working betteron iOS7 and the NYTimes, WSJ and New Yorker apps all have fresh content ready when I open them.
Nice work.

My first reaction was, "Huh? Why not just use your phone's built-in Contacts?"

But then thinking about it for a minute and watching the very helpful video demo on the homepage...

I like how you can open the app and start entering info. Much better than fiddling through Phone or Contacts app. Really nice touch on including the location.

Seriously -- good job, Tommy!
This is not new, Chomsky was educated the same way.
Just to be clear: I submitted this but I'm not related to the OP. I just found it on http://sidebar.io/ earlier today and liked both the open license and the fact that the author seems open to suggestions.
Big Data problem in Genomics
If you think Newsstand is bad, you should definitely avoid the Kindle version.
Flamewars != disagreements. Discouraging flamewars (namecalling, counterproductive arguing that devolves into ad hominem and unrelated attacks) doesn't mean it kills stories that generate disagreement and discussion. I've had many a disagreement in HN threads, been convinced that my original stance was wrong, and (I believe) convinced others that their original stance was wrong (or incomplete, or to change something about it). I've also learned a lot from simply posting what my understanding of an issue is and letting those more familiar add to it. The fact that HN does not want to go the way of Usenet/Reddit/4chan/name a forum doesn't make it an echo chamber.

I hope people disagree with me in this thread and prove my point.
1729 is ramanujams number
A D, only because there was in fact effort put into placing coherent verbiage on the page. Replace "Ender" with "protagonist", and "Ender's Game" with "Title", and a raving fan of the book wouldn't have the slightest notion of the subject of the review. The author revels in not being told what to think, and unnecessary details being left out; he says nothing about the development of young siblings thrust into positions of leadership regarding an interstellar war, the juxtaposition of petty childhood rivalries pressed against planetary survival, society-bending consequences of relativistic travel (yay hard sci-fi!), the emergence of brilliant military thinking in immense scale & dimension, and the achievement & suffering of a boy far beyond what childhood should endure ... and how all this prepares him for an even greater purpose detailed in the massive tomes which follow.
Also I find it funny that they think their personal information isn't being collected and potentially sold.
I'm the original author. You can direct your flames and mockery here. :)
You can change the id in the reply link from another comment. It works for me.
Ah I see! Sorry I thought I was going to be able to order a onesie (all in one pyjama) with my startup logo/text on it! Congrats on building the site and getting it done though - always good to actually do it rather than just talk about doing it.
Of course 'health care' is a good thing, that's a fairly meaningless platitude. This particular implementation being good or bad has yet to be determined. I personally don't find the ACA to be a 'good' system, but I wish they would just shut up and let it succeed or fail in production.

Also, a large part of why you have cheap healthcare and access to lots of drugs because we paid the cost to research and make them. With the ACA, a lot of that (potentially) goes away, though from the look of the early prices it seems the cost of healthcare has gone up for most, and near free for some, meaning the healthcare industry still gets massive profits. I'm wondering if it was good for the rest of the world to have our healthcare system be so expensive.

Hopefully not, I'm pretty tired of being terrified of becoming sick enough to need medical care.
I like Newsstand a lot too. Another really great example is Sound on Sound magazine (http://www.soundonsound.com/). It really captures what an iOS-magazine experience should look and feel like (dynamic content, interactive diagrams/pictures, easy navigation, etc).

I guess it would work just as well as a stand-alone app, but there's something nice about all my magazine content being located in a single location.
Banksy hits New York City, but the city hits back
Stories that discuss the difficulties faced by minorities in our field are summarily disappeared.

Really?

I've tended to notice the opposite: new ones are constantly appearing, they get lots of comments, inspire heated debates and most sentiments are sympathetic, sometimes to an almost unhealthy and postmodern degree.
I've just moved to London, so I'm equalising Bibi and Andy or Tarquin and Pandora at least.
The pressure at this place (and it's the same at any top-tier place) has been almost too much for me to handle sometimes, and that's without foolish words from foolish people designed to increase it.

MIT alum here. I know what you mean; the pressure can be tough. But also, they've got a lot of resources on campus to help.

I'm going to be on campus tomorrow and Thursday if you're interested in meeting up and talking about the stress. My email address is in my profile.
This tutorial assumes you already familiar with the basics of Angular's directives and focuses on the actual design of directives you wish to write.
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Pretty sad article. The fact that they live in Palo Alto is the only thing that makes them eligible for the quality education that school district offers. For many of these (primarily low-income Latino) residents, a PA education is probably their best and only shot at breaking out of the cycle of poverty. And the landlord is going to end that so he can have $30MM instead of $15MM, and so that yet another developer can build yet another luxury apartment complex. Hey, it's their right as property owners--but I hope they can sleep at night.

The broader problem is how, at least in California (and probably the whole USA), access to adequate education depends on a family's ability to afford to live in a wealthy/expensive city. This is the real social injustice here--a quality K-12 education shouldn't be a luxury that only the few can afford.
Huge Software Piracy Group Calls it Quits After 30,000 Cracked Titles
> What he should have said was that nothing has to change for people who already have insurance plans that meet the minimum standard (which is a lot of us).

Nah, that wouldn't have been true either. All insurance plans got more expensive to maintain under the hood due to things like the 3:1 pricing restriction. As a result, some people whose plans "met the minimum" in terms of what they covered are losing coverage because their employers can't afford it any more. Employers are dropping domestic partner coverage and forcing part-timers who would have been covered to drop their hours so they aren't anymore - that stuff would even affect people who had plans that "meet the minimum" in terms of benefits.

> Waschura's case would seem to be an outlier.

The 3:1 restriction makes healthcare plans significantly more expensive for pretty much anybody under 50. If you're under 50, relatively healthy, and making enough that the subsidies don't seriously kick in, you're probably in the same boat as Waschura (though the specific numbers will vary). Which is a hell of a lot of people, not just a few "outliers".