skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood why anyone feels they have a right to say these sorts of things to anyone.

Why should I listen to an old Dean of Admissions speak condescendingly about what I deserve or not? He lost all respect from me, and reverberated the silly "us older generations are wise and have made a beautiful fairy-tale world for you. We look at you youths and think you're incapable idiots who are going to destroy the world, who don't know how to work".

STFU older generations! We are more capable and morally idealistic than any generation before. We work fucking hard for what's right, and will make the world a better place for our kids. I know when I'm old I'm not going to tell my kids they're worrisome morons who deserve nothing. They will work hard, they will be more capable than me, I will inevitable worry, but I will support them unlike these occasional airheads of my parents generation.
Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government

If you need to brush up on the history of new york and san francisco as 'financial capitals'.
I'm thinking that looking at this Constitutional conflict is a lot like when you know you're about to execute latent untested paths in your production codebase. Except that, of course, you're not just crashing a webserver in this case...
And they won't get it. Not a hope in hell.

But this has been a spectacularly well played (and lucky) marketing campaign for their regular textbook sales business...
Go find some old films and see where Japan and Germany were just 5-10 years after being all but flattened in WWII. They didn't reconstruct in isolation obviously, but it's pretty amazing what humans can do.
Hmm, that last part about SMS Backup/Restore only working if you're the default SMS app seems a bit annoying.

The workaround they suggest - setting yourself as the default SMS app, then unsetting it - seems a bit hacky. I suppose you'll also need to handle the case where a SMS arrives whilst you are doing a restore/backup, and your app is set as the default SMS app.

I wonder if this is a permanent thing from Google, or if it's just a temporary thing until there's a proper SMS backup/restore permission.
What exactly is an external monitor? Is a laptop monitor "internal"? Or are we talking about "monitors" in a different sense, like listeners hooking into various application APIs?
The amazing thing about using a bike messenger for textbook delivery is they could actually go inside buildings like dorms or leave packages at reception desks. They can also carry 30+ pounds of textbooks.
You can get a phone case for carrying your license and credit cards. One less separate item.
World War II German 'Enigma' coding machine up for sale
what, no solvolysis of the norbornyl cation??
> We are more capable and morally idealistic than any generation before.

I hope you're speaking for yourself because I don't believe that's true for me one bit.
Have you ever considered that in the last 15 years more people have died as a result of the actions of the US government than are prevented from starving to death by the US government?
Don't make the really vapid errors in logic of trying to dismiss something by name-calling it "poetic", followed by the really vapid claim that IQ "strongly impacted by genetics", followed by failing to link to a single fucking legitimate study showing that "strong impact".
How much of the science in Breaking Bad is real?
I am the only one who read this article and immediately thought "Did he really have to worry that someone would try to make copies of his keys from a photo"??

Makes you kind of sad that people have to fear other people's cruel intentions so much
3. Are we alone in the universe?

With regards to this question, I highly recommend http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-well-never-meet-ali...

He makes a compelling argument.
Hate to be negative, but not really all that impressed. JARVIS implies AI and conversational/contextual UI, this just appears to be a thin voice action skin which has been done for decades, not sure it was worthy of a Forbes article.
I do have XCode, but I am wondering if I could have just installed gcc with macports since they seem to have it.
http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/ is helpful here.
That website is REALLY slow... and why is the admin reviewing each submission manually before releasing to the website. I just don't understand it.
Facebook is bringing the Internet to the rest of the world
That weighs 800 grams, the TT21 Mode S transponder is 440 grams: http://www.trig-avionics.com/press081127.html
By Noon, These Two Will Have Brought In Another Half a Million More Dollars
I do know that I felt less intelligent when I was more worried about money, as though some fixed cognitive reserve were depleted by worrying about uncertain near-term survival, leaving fewer intellectual resources for long-term planning and development.
If you believe that the unit of life is the gene and not the individual, then rich children are deserving of their privilege.

Their genes, in their previous incarnations, were able not only to survive (through the survival and reproduction of their ancestors) but also to accumulate, preserve, and pass down wealth.

Money and social status is the only form of evolution that's left in a society where (almost) everyone is capable of surviving and reproducing.
I started watching the video. By 2:30, I had seen a voice recognition Google search, and what appeared to be a voice recognition "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google search.

Bored with this, I started skipping around looking for the really whiz-bang AI. I saw some home automation stuff that didn't seem to be much more than something OS X Automator could do by kicking off a script.

If you roll enough dumb voice activated services together, that can still be a useful tool, but I didn't see anything that was at Siri's level. Maybe it's hidden in the video somewhere. If it is, it should have been showcased right away.
ISRO's budget is 950 million usd. Roughly about 0.33% of the total Indian budget for 13-14. While there are other pressing issues, it does not mean that you don't do anything else.

I am not even going into numerous benefits from ISRO, something demonstrated just a couple of days back with Phalin cyclone.
It's true, but sadly only for a subset of the generation.
>there is political will behind the idea of actually putting plans into practice

It's well beyond a contingency plan, like plans for war with Canada is.

"“the Air-Sea Battle concept has prompted Navy officials to make significant shifts in the service's FY2014-FY2018 budget plan” towards exactly the sorts of electronic, cyber, and anti-submarine weapons systems that the war plan for China calls for.”"

http://thediplomat.com/2013/09/03/air-sea-battle-a-dangerous...

"ASB Concept, coordinated
through the ASB office, is designed to develop the force over the long-term, and will continue to inform institutional, conceptual, and programmatic changes for the Services for years to come."

http://www.defense.gov/pubs/ASB-ConceptImplementation-Summar...
When I was in Japan, I had to shower at least twice a day but in England I don't sweat quite as profusely.

I think there's a distinction between hygiene and social/cultural 'etiquette'. I will always make sure I am very clean before meeting someone, casual or otherwise.
How do you know dogs don't have repressed desires?
Would you pay $6 million for an easier way to settle up at a restaurant?
That is my biggest concern too.

Let's say they somehow manage to perfect street landing, so that drones won't come crashing down on people, parked cars, construction sites etc, independent of weather conditions (snow, ice) - what happens then? Does the drone wait until you go down and pick up your pizza? What would prevent people from stealing a (rather expensive, I imagine) landed drone?

Does it just drop the deliverable from a safe distance? So what about "oh hey, there's a hovering drone, let's go pick up some free pizza".
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This is too true, while I love where I live for certain reasons, its undeniably true that San Francisco has quite a larger talent pool and chances for things to occur due to the increase in talented people.
People like you are outright hindrance to science and progress. We do not need to do serial problem solving, it can go on parallely. But please let Indian students relish good science. They deserve it. Good, you are not deciding any budget for these matters. Let's see the disparity:

NREGA (Solving indian poverty) budget: Rs. 4, 000 Billion

ISRO budget : Rs. 56 Billion (0.3% of Indian Budget)

Indian Budget: Rs. 17, 000 Billion

India has lot of other problems to solve. Yes. But this news is about Indian science, and let's keep it so. Let's not take away from the scientists who are delivering good value on budget. There are platforms to vent your opinions, but this one is not the one.

If it was not for ISRO who launched INSAT 3D, cyclone phailin would have had a devastating effect. How will this help India? Indian science is progressing. Indian scientists are taking ambitious missions. It will help propel more people into these fields. Technologies do not exist in vacuum and have derivative uses.
That data is available for cheap few thousand dollars from whatever other countries have already put up there. However, I do agree that science should be kept on the front burner. Mission to mars doesn't seem a very useful one for climate study though.
Delivery by drone world first? What about the beer drone in south africa: http://smaakit.co.za/oppikoppi-beer-drone-video/
Alright, if you want to use the term metaphorically, that's ok.

SF may be a financial capital to some degree, but your comment about VC is still off: they're not based in the city, and they didn't take much interest in companies in the city at all until recently.
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Every generation has their successes and their masses of lackies, their good-doers and their wrong-doers, but every generation will be more powerful than the one before. If my experience with all living generations tells me anything, it's that the world is becoming a better and more accepting place. Media may grow by showing idiotic things, but the people themselves are only getting smarter and more capable, and are doing a great job of working for good things in the world and supporting good people.
> humanity on Earth has always been deep in shit.

Agreed, but at this point welfare, direction, basic education, tactical advantage, military advantage, logical thinking, karma and pretty much everything else is _exclusively_ ignored. Even in 'mericah it is now the private players doing the rocket rounds. Kind of like NASA, the big daddy, making way for the young and restless to come in and take over. Where would the strategy of having 'exclusive ISRO' stand in the near term?
Unfortunately the industry adapted to the financial aid, and and by now the price of tuition has completely gobbled up any discount the aid may have provided. Sure, people who couldn't have gone to school in the past are able to do so, but many of them are getting saddled with a crippling amount of debt.

I know that the price of tuition should increase naturally, as all prices do, but its been doubling the rate of inflation and that's fucked up.

There are good aspects to the education system, but there's also a lot of good reasons to be cynical.
Thank you, I stand corrected! Thanks to the other commenter with the study link too.
You know what that is?

That's Pentagon code for "fighting terrorists doesn't let us buy aircraft carriers and F22s. We need a bigger enemy to show we need more money"
Seems like finding(and making it habitable) a new place for sending some of our population might be a good idea in long run.
This is a poor application of the principle. You don't have to make this choice repeatedly so the effects are negligible. Sure, it might apply to constant tinkerers but they are a tiny fraction of the actual users.

The rest of us might feel less happy setting it up than if we hadn't been allowed to set it up, because of the mental effort of making a large number of small choices.

But then you get to use a phone for a long long time that is suited to your needs and will be more happy because that small bit of one time unhappiness has increased your happiness during day to day use.

It's why, I assume, I keep hearing about a solution to the paradox of choice in the canonical example, food shopping, that consists of picking your favourites and then just buying those all the time instead of scanning the shelves making a new decision every time.

You don't avoid the paradox of choice problem by allowing other people to arbitrarily pick things for you, that's a pretty ridiculous overreaction to an issue that is concerned with long term repeated making of choices.
I've discussed it with my friends. This is their reaction, not my read on on their reaction...

Also, all of these folks are 40+ years old, which I think makes a difference.
Just to be clear, I posted this link to HN, but I didn't write the blog post. Nothing to do with me at all other than the fact I found it interesting. I can understand why you might not have found it interesting, but I did, and that's why I posted it.
Banksy sells his art for practically nothing to unsuspecting public
True, although I can rarely hear cars while in my backyard. Hundreds of drones flying overhead may not be so quiet.
even the most finely pedigreed animals need to be positively reinforced with more treats.

private schools are an exercise in toadyism and pedigree, despite some truly intelligent people attending them.

is that a bell i hear ringing? i'm already salivating...
Only one thing on a man's mind during that first date...
Anyone know the story behind the engraving on the side of his Leatherman Squirt? It must be significant, because he also added it to his updated Squirt.
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Love to see a fellow UCLA CS student on HN.

I've been using http://www.geckoboard.com/ for a while. Their integration with AWS is what's kept me with them.
The author of this article quotes two bits from the speech:

>We have made no mistakes about your admission.

and

>You all deserve to be here!

The first statement is the more important part. Incoming freshmen meet an extremely talented group of people when they arrive on campus. It's easy to be intimidated by what others have accomplished before even getting to college. The point of this speech isn't to comment on the service undertaken by students, but rather to reassure them that they are capable of performing at the level of the peers they're so impressed by.
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there is also the choice in android to say no. I use a pretty stripped down android, only have one app for basically any given tasks. My intents screen never comes up with more than two choices for a task... It is possible to live a very full life on android without being drowned in options.
Yeah and you know what those countries predicted? They were way off [1]. Developing indigenous capability in scientific community means future progress, and produces fruit rather than simple outright outsourcing.

[1] - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ocz33/a_pleasant...
Why is that it's fine for major western media establishment to paint unsettling picture of east.

- Of course west is doing better

- But that does not mean they can point communities that are worse off

- I'am sick of BBC covering negative stories on China & India (i'am one)

- Why don't NY Times and the like, point to their own troubles where they left ordinary people troubles and spend all the recourses in covering the powerful { Politicians, Actors, Musicians, Sports Personale}

- Just like the way BBC sucks up to monarchy
Exactly. No reason progress on both ends can't be parallelized. Also most of the time progress in science and technology leads to alleviation of poverty. It is seldom the other way around.
США за МКАДом?
My guess was a Pulp Fiction reference.
Maybe it just goes with the wallet[1].

[1] http://www.bmfwallets.com/
> Ruby's smalltalk influence is pretty clear, and I guess smalltalk says it's lisp-influenced.

Smalltalk was surely influenced by Lisp.

You can read about Smalltalk's history as described by Alan Kay here

http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html
This is a truly impressive investigation work. Excellent and very usefull work. Regarding the tone, I would be alarmed too.
But "power users" who want to host small data centers on their $30/month residential plan, or are seeding terrabytes of Torrent data each month, or are trying to resell that connection -- it can't happen today._

Thanks for your full disclosure; good to hear from the horse's mouth, so to say.

But I still don't get it. If you are going to provide X amount of bandwidth to your users then you should factor that they will use that bandwidth! How they use the bandwidth should be entirely up to them. If it doesn't work out for you then, stop providing that service at that price point. (That is, if you do actually care about net neturality).
Looks good! I'm not looking for a new job, but I can understand the value for someone who is. Some of my friends who have no idea of their career would love this. Do you have more jobs on the way?
Web host took the MaverickBlogging.com site offline due to all the traffic; it's back up now.

Time to switch web hosts.
Education was uneven. Some branches of science were top of the art; others less so, and some far behind.
Thanks for the feedback, yes we're looking to build up our platform with a lot more companies that are fantastic to work at.

Let me know if you have any more thoughts or questions!
Yes, this really is what the title says. Quote from the article after the scientist discovered the worm in his mouth:
"Wow, this is really interesting,” thought Allen. And then 1) I hope it’s not fatal and 2) I hope it’s publishable"

Not your typical reaction... this is another article that also adds some imagery: http://www.wm.edu/research/ideation/notes-and-curiosities/ti...
They say it every year. They very explicitly state that its to combat impostor syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Would you leave a password or IP address unscrambled in a blog post? It doesn't seem unreasonable to obfuscate that which can be used against you, whether or not anyone actually will.

I did wonder why not just take the keys out of the photo, but my guess is that it serves to show how bulky/not-bulky the stuff is.
Investors Look First At The Founder, Then The Idea
I initially thought the same thing. However, after reading both articles, I saw that there is some information provided in the Forbes article not present in the San Francisco Magazine article.

Did you spot it?

Be careful about jumping to conclusions that other people are stupid, especially when you didn't even take the time to verify that you understood what you're talking about.
The world's most famous physicist tells his own story
The paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.1137v1.pdf

Its thesis: "We introduce GOTCHAs (Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) as a way of preventing automated offline dictionary attacks against user selected passwords."

It cites http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/276.pdf which it is an improvement upon.

As far as I can tell from reading the papers, though it does not state this, the purpose is to make offline dictionary attacks harder by helping the users create/remember a higher amount of entropy than they do with a password.[1] Given ten images to be matched up with phrases, there are 10! matchings, providing at most log2(10!) = 21.8 bits of entropy (fewer bits if computers can make even a really bad guess at which phrases go with which pictures). That is about as much entropy as in four randomly-generated lowercase-letter-or-digit characters (log2(36^4) = 20.7): a great improvement for bad passwords, but modest for good passwords. The authors are hoping that its easiness-to-remember per bit of entropy is significantly greater than that of passwords (randomly generated and human chosen passwords).

[1] Once the attacker has gained all server data, there's no stopping brute-forcing. Even with SRP ( http://srp.stanford.edu/ ) in which the server never sees the plaintext password, if the attacker gains a password's verifier that's stored on the server then they can offline-brute-force it. In this case, a brute-forcer would brute-force {password + which picture goes with which phrase}.
Yahoo Is Removing Email Addresses From People’s Contacts
until there are competing services and they crash into each other at 500m altitude. or municipality adds tax by selling height corridors to the highest bidder
Does the paradox of choice really apply?

The vast majority of users run most of their stuff stock, and are fine with that, thus they are not affected by the Paradox of choice (remember that the crux of the problem is having to chose, stock is not typically a choice but a non-choice).

I think the important distinction for choice vs tinker is how you find the option to choose. Going in order of preference: optional choice > no choice >>> forced choice. Having no choice is a lot better than being forced to choose, but being able to choose has its advantages.

I personally frame the android thing as "If I don't like it I can change it". I have found that helps even with problems I can't solve, by being able to look at alternatives I actually consider the value of what I am annoyed about, and sometimes decide the downsides are a logical compromise.
How a Math Professor Predicted the Government Shutdown
My mother bought an Anroid phone and it was a disaster. I used to be an idiot loser who pushed all the nerdy ideologically sound products and solutions on friends and family...when I was 16. When I found out that's what she got I bought her an iPhone and it's been smooth sailing ever since.
You fandroids are just ridiculous. The author is an Android developer who blogs an awful lot about how much better Android is than just about anything else. He criticises one aspect and you lot (usual suspects) come out and ardently defend the fail with the typical snarks and passive-agressiveness. They irony of this is that you project this behaviour onto 'Apple nuts', derogatorily describing the author as such. Seriously. It really needs to stop. There are a lot of things wrong with Android, and the sooner the community talks about them, the greater the chance Android has of becoming what you all want it to be.
Absolutely not. It's a problem of our civilization's survival. How this civilization treats it will ultimately decide if it deserves to survive.

The contributions like "engineering problem at best" make me sure that we can't expect much.
Are you aware of how many homophobes there are in the older generations compared to the millennials? Or ignorance in general? It doesn't even compare.
Running Arch. I started my Linux Journey with Arch, and despite the rep, it really isn't that hard to use. Sure, you have to put forth a bit of effort to set it up, but the payoff is well worth it.

Pacman (package manager) is simply amazing and easy to use. Unlike other Linuxes, you know exactly what you are getting when you run the install script.

Lightweight. Nothing gets in your way. There is nothing to uninstall and there are no hidden spywares to opt out of.

I'm sure there's many other benefits. I tried Ubuntu and hated it. It would take me far more time to get Ubuntu to a level I liked (mostly stripping out the gunk) than it did to install Arch the first time.

The documentation is simply incredible. Not only is the documentation excellent for the OS, it is excellent for all of the things I've used out of the package repository and AUR.

I'm not a hardliner, but it would be hard for me to consider using any other distro at this point.
for me choice , Intents is one reason to love android.
this is future of delivering illegal substances
The maths that saw the US shutdown coming